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Front-Line Tommies
Hope for Gifts of
Woolen Clothing
Murder Thrillers and
Games Also on List
Of Wants
By SIR PHILIP GIBBS,
Noted British War Correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
IN FRANCE, Nov. 22 (By Wireless).
—Up in the line, I asked some
friends of mine in one of the bat
talions what the men wanted most
from the people at home when they
are thinking of sending out gifts for
the men’s comfort. The answer did
not surprise me, for the weather
has turned colder, and in these wet
fields there is a wet mist that chills
to the bone.
“Anything for warmth,” said one
of the young officers, “especially
vests, socks, scarves, pullovers, mit
tens and woolen gloves.”
Thus far none of our troops in
the field has, as far as I can make
out, any vests to wear under then
shirts. though these may be pro
vided later. This new army of ours
is lightly clad, compared with their
predecessors in the last war, who, in
the Somme trenches and other
places and even on the march, put
on any old thing they could be*
neath their mackintosh caps to keep
out the rain and wind. Thus far,
the weather has been fairly mild,
but when a cold snap comes our
men will need a lot of extra cloth
ing beneath their tunics.
3 Pairs of Socks Not Enough.
The three pairs of socks they are
allowed are hardly enough for men
digging and draining trenches and
tank traps in sodden ground where
their boots are filled with water.
Handkerchiefs also are scarce and
they could do with many more. Any
knitted scarf is a boon, though not
in such fancy colors as worn by
certain cavalry officers I know, who
disregard army conventions in this
respect.
Inquiries made along the line and
In billets behind it bring forth re
quests for razor blades, mouth
organs, packs of cards, dominoes,
checkers and any other games.
But in the mess where I went yes
terday. the most urgent desire of
the battalion was for 12 false
beards. This was not for espionage
purposes or other business of war.
but for a Christmas pantomime now
in an active state of preparation.
A fairy godfather who arrived in the
nick of time has already dealt with
this matter. And the beards will
arrive in due course.
For intellectual needs, the British
expeditionary force is calling out
for books. No poetry, by request.
There is a prejudice, I am told,
against love stories and romances.
They do not W’ant to know if Jack
married Jill. They are not inter
ested in the emotional affairs of
young men and women in Blooms
. bury or Belgravia. What they like
to read, said one of the officers, is
a jolly good detective story with a
murder in every chapter. Never
having written anything of ttiat
kind, copies of my own books are
unacceptable, but millions of six
penny thrillers would be deeply
absorbed.
«■ raicn onops vaier 10 meeds.
A good many of the little things
wanted by the men are bought by
them in French shops if they hap
pen to be billeted in small towns
behind the line, where the shop
keepers already are catering to theii
British customers. But those are
the lucky ones.
The men in the line are far re
moved from the amenities of civili
zation. The villages nearby consist
mainly of an old farmhouse, some
cow sheds, a barn, a church, an
estaminet and a row of brick cot
tages with stone floors. Transport
being difficult, they are out of reach
of one of those stores called by the
mysterious name of naafi. where a
British soldier is able to buy ciga
rettes. if any are left when he
arrives; chocolate, pickles, razor
blades and biscuits.
In that grim, remote countryside,
guarded by blockhouses, machine
gun posts, tanks and tank traps,
thousands of men are cut off from
the rest of the world. I think the
most desolate of all must be our
gunners, planted with their cam
ouflaged guns in odd places, very
solitary, with dugouts nearby in
boggy fields that are ankle deep in
mud. Each battery is very much
by itself. They are like ship
wrecked mariners on a desert island.
Those vests, socks, pullovers and
woolen gloves are badly needed, and
a few mouth organs for their de
light on a winter's night.
(Copyright, 1939. by the McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.)
Press Club Legion Post
Elects Nathan Golder
The National Press Club Post,
American Legion, last night elected
Nathan D. Golden, chief of the
motion pictures division of the Bu
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, commander to succeed Ed
ward Kelly of the National Park
Service.
Other officers named were E. John
Long, Stephen M. Walter and Paul
J. McGahan, first, second and third
vice commanders, respectively; Hil
mar R. Baukhage, chaplain; Roy
S. lewis, adjutant, and Harry E.
.Radcliffe, finance officer.
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Colombian Scouts Hike 5,000
Miles With Presidential Gift
—n^— hi ' i — I ■i 'I
Gabriel Londono (left) and Higlnlo Acevedo, Colombian Boy
Scouts, shown as they examined the Pan-American Union’s
“peace tree” yesterday with George C. Freeman, assistant Boy
Scout executive of the District. —Star Staff Photo.
Their plans to present a Colom
bian flag to President Roosevelt
balked by the Chief Executive’s ab
sence from Washington, two Boy
Scouts from the South American
country were sight-seeing in the
Capital today, relaxing after an 11
month, 5,000-mile journey on foot
from Medellin, Colombia.
The youths, Gabriel Londono, 24,
and Higii.io Acevedo, 20, arrived
Monday night and were greeted at
the Pan-Amtrican Union yesterday
by George C. Freeman, assistant
Boy Scout executive for the Dis
trict, and Jose Coronado, assistant
editor of the Spanish Bulletin and
only Colombian member of the un
ion’s staff. Dr. L. S. Rowe, director
general, had intended to greet the
visiting scouts but was prevented by
a State Department conference.
Combining a good-will trip with
adventure, the boys traversed the
proposed route of the pan-Ameri
can highway through Central Amer
ica. wearing knapsacks and carry
ing machetes, the long knives which
can serve both for slashing through
jungle foliage and as weapons.
The Colombian Scouts speak very
little English, but they were able
to express their pleasure at visiting
Washington yesterday with only an
occasional boost from an interpreter.
Although they experienced hard
ships on the trip, they appeared in
excellent health.
The youths did not travel together
throughout the journey, parting
ways for a stretch in Costa Rica.
The carefully protected Colombian
flag will be left at the executive
offices for President Roosevelt as a
memento of the long trip on foot
and as a symbol of the “good neigh
bor” attitude of the boys' native
land.
Imperialism Aim
Of War by Allies, Says
Indian Nationalist
Youth Council Speaker
Urges American Support
For Freedom Move
The British Ambassador to the
United States, Lord Lothian, was
characterized as “merely a mouth
piece of British imperialism here”
by Rajni Patel, member of the In
dian National Congress, in a talk
last night arranged by the Wash
ington Youth Council.
The Hindu nationalist classed
Lord Lothian with Prime Minister
Chamberlain and Premier Daladier
of France as leaders in a struggle to
“consolidate imperialism in the
world.” He challenged contentions
of French and British leaders that
their aim in the current European
conflict is defense of democracy and
declared they could not claim sup
port of the Indian peoples for the
allies' cause.
Mr. Patel said dispatch of Indian
troops to key defense points in the
empire and to the theater of war
in Europe was contrary to the will
of India’s citizens.
Claims Broken Promises.
The speaker charged British
claims of seeking preservation of
democratic principles were refuted
by failure to grant self-determina
tion to India, as promised when aid
was sought during the World War.
He said alleged “unrest” was merely
an expression by the people of their
strong will for freedom and self
government.
Mr. Patel declared Indian na
tionalists, members of the congress,
regarded maharajahs and nabobs
as “relics of barbarism” maintained
by Britain in the interest of con
tinued imperialist domination.
The visitor, a graduate of Cam
bridge University and barrister of
law at Middle Temple, London,
urged American support for the
cause of Indian freedom and for
Chinese independence, as well. Ac
tive in affairs of the congress for
10 years, he said he “had the privi
lege at the age of 14 of going to
jail for two terms of six months”
for nationalist efforts.
Calls for Education.
Mr. Patel pointed out Britain
spends large sums in India for po
lice, jails and “armies of occupa
tion” and said these funds could be
used to better advantage in increas
ing the literacy rate through
schools. He added policing was di
rected particularly against evidences
of nationalist sentiment.
The native of Bombay spoke un
der joint auspices of the council, the
American Student Union, National
Negro Congress, American League
for Peace and Democracy and the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
F. C. A. Deputy Named
Appointment of Roy M. Green as
deputy governor of the Farm Cred
it Administration was announced
today by Gov. F. F. Hill. Mr. Green
has been general agent of the F.
C. A. in Wichita, Kans.
Representation Asked
In D. C. Reorganization
The Citizens’ Forum of Columbia
Heights last night indorsed United
States Attorney David A. Pine for
the judgeship on the District Court
bench.
The forum also approved a reso
lution favoring the enlargement of
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal’s
recommendation for reorganization
of the District of Columbia so as to
cover national representation and
local suffrage and to include the
establishment of an independent
board of tax appeals.
Officers elected were Sparrel
Wood, president; L. T. Walter, first
vice president; Mrs. C. J. Fernald,
second' vice president; Thomas M.
Raysor, secretary; J. W. Cranford,
treaSsafer, and Dr. L, F. Kebler,
chaplain. Delegates to the Federa
tion of Citizens’ Associations are W.
W. Coulliette and Burd Payne.
Four new members were admitted.
They are Mrs. I. G. Prlsk, J. N. Dot
son, J. O. Nash and F. A. Dawson.
The forum met in Powell Junior
High School.
Parole From Prison
Is Refused Pendergasf
By the Associated Press.
The Federal Parole Board re
fused yesterday to grant a parole
to Tom Pendergast, erstwhile Dem
ocratic boss of Kansas City, who is
serving a 15-month term in Leaven
worth Prison for evading the in
come tax law.
The decision meant that Pender
gast probably will stay in the peni
tentiary until May 30, 1940, which
would be a year and a day from
his entry. Good behavior would cut
his sentence to that length despite
the board's decision.
“The board,” a stataement said,
"is constrained by the conviction
that parole issuance in the case of
Thomas J. Pendergast would be un
justifiable and1 incompatible with
the public interest.”
It reached this decision, the board
said, “after a most thorough inves
tigation” in which it took into con
sideration Pendergast’s age, health,
previous clear record and his plea
of guilty.
Pendergast is 67 and some time
ago was reported to be seriously ill.
After 28 years of activity in poli
tics he was indicted April 7 on
charges of failing to pay taxes on
$315,000 received in connection with
a $9,500,000 settlement of a Mis
souri fire rate insurance dispute in
which policyholders received only 20
per cent.
Pine Will Address
Oldest Inhabitants
David A. Pine, United States at
torney, will deliver the principal ad
dress at the annual banquet of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
of the. District of Columbia Decem
ber 7 at the Raleigh Hotel, it was
announced today.
Mr. Pine, who is a native of the
District, has been favored by many
local organizations for the vacancy
in District Court caused by the
death of Justice Joseph W. Cox.
Mr. Pine was urged for this place
by the Association of Oldest In
habitants at a recent meeting and
also has been indorsed by the So
ciety of Natives and many citizens’
associations.
The banquet will be in celebra
tion of the association’s 74th anni
versary- There will be reception at
7 pm., to be followed by the din
ner at 7:30.
Among the features will be old
songs by Mrs. Marie C. Deal and an
original poem by John Clagett Proc
tor, vice president of the associa
tion.
Racing Results
Bowid
FOIST RACK—Purse. SI.000; claiming;
maiden 2-year-olds; 6 furlongs.
Golden Rapier (Leyl’d) 24.50 7.30 5.10
Allmar (Meade) 3.90 3.40
Synergist (Balaskl) 8.60
Time. 1:15%.
Also ran—Colored Child. Petesar. St.
Tryster, a 8ting Pal. Pyrexin, War Noise,
Cannon Blast, a Donna s Pal. d Sparking.
d Sparking won. but was disqualified.
A i. A. Dueler-MJas S. M. Haman entry.
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Byrd's Ship, Bear,
Awaits Wind to Sail
For Antarctica
Vessel at Boston,
Holds Jammed With
Food and Supplies
Br the Auoeieted Frees.
BOSTON. Nov. 22.—The United
States Navy faced today its longest
cruise in a sailing ship since the
advent of steam as the old barken
tine Bear poised her trim, white
sails for a spanking wind to start
her on a 12,OOQ-mile voyage to the
Antarctic.
Sister craft to the departed North
Star in the Government’s first Ant
arctic expedition in 100 years, the
Bear last sailed for the Navy in
1884, when called upon to claw
through Arctic ice packs to help
rescue survivors of the luckless ex
pedition of Lt. A. W. Greely near
Cape Sabine.
In 1933 Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd bought her a modern Diesel
engine replaced her auxiliary steam
power, and new sails were provided.
Now her holds are Jammed with
supplies for the two bases which
the expedition will set up on the
Antarctic Continent. Besides her
bluejacket crew of 35 she bears 35
members of the expedition’s force
of 62 men who will remain about
13 months on the ice.
Bound for Panama, the Bear then
will turn southward for the Bay
of Whales in the Ross Sea, where
around New Year Day she Intends
to rendezvous with the North Star.
xvceu xiuuuiiu rucnara e. isyra
was in Washington today making
last-minute arrangements for the
Government’s Antarctic Expedition,
while the old barkentine Bear
awaited a favorable wind in Boston
Harbor to follow the North Star
South.
Admiral Byrd plans to leave to
morrow, his wife said, and expects
to join one of the ships in Norfolk
dr Panama.
The names of 48 officers and men
of the Navy and four of the Marine
Corps who will accompany Admiral
Byrd as members of the ice party or
ship’s crew of the Bear of Oakland
were announced today by the Navy
Department.
The list includes only one
Washingtonian, Chief Photographer
Arthur James Carroll of Cipitol
Heights, Md.
Officers designated to serve under
Admiral Byrd are Lt. Comdrs. Rich
ard H. Cruzen of Coronado, Calif.,
and Peter J. Neimo of San Diego,
Calif., and Lts. George J. Dufek,
Rockford. 111.; W. N. Croflord, Chic
kasha, Okla., and Lewis S. Sims, jr.:
Waynesboro. Ga.; Comdr. Ladislaus
L. Adamkiewicz. Medical Corps, Mil
waukee, and Chief Boatswain Wil
liam H. Daly, Springvale, Maine.
The Marines selected are Tech
nical Sergt. Sadik Collier, aviation
machinist, Naval Aircraft Factory,
Philadelphia; Technical Sergt. Theo
dore A. Petras, a naval aviation pilot,
on duty at the Naval Aircraft Fac
tory; Staff Sergt. Walter R. Giles,
naval aviation pilot, on duty at the
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and Sergt.
Felix L. Ferranto, radio operator.
Race Costs $2.42
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 22 OP).—
Miss Lillian L. Malley, first woman
elected to Hartford’s Board of Al
dermen, listed only cigarettes and
nuts in her campaign expenditures
report—$1.55 for cigarettes and 87
cents for nuts.
Church Drive to Push
Character-Building
Agencies' Work
300 to Open Campaign
Among 56,000 Southeast
Residents Sunday
A drive to bring to the attention
of 56,000 residents of the Southeast
section the services offered by the
community’s character-building
agencies will begin for 300 church
workers Sunday.
At a meeting at the Trinity Meth
odist Church, Fifth street and
Seward Square S.E., last night, the
workers heard Dr. J. Lowrey Fend
rich, pastor of the Metropolitan
Presbyterian Church, say the drive
is an “opportunity to work together
in placing the church at the service
of all people whether they believe in
its aims or not.”
The workers, in their door-to-door
canvass, will question the residents
on whether members of their fami
lies are availing themselves of op
portunities offered in the Boy Scouts,
the Y. W. C. A., Friendship House
or the Southeast Boys’ Club.
They also will ask whether resi
de»ts are members of a church and
whether their children attend Sun
day school. The campaign, partici
pated in by 12 churches, is expected
to last a week.
Other speakers at the meeting
were the Rev. Edward H. Oabler,
rector of Christ Episcopal Church,
and the Rev. E. B. Wilcox, pastor of
Trinity Church. The Rev. George
H. Bennett, pastor of Wilson Memo
rial Methodist Church, presided.
Besides those mentioned, the
churches co-operating are Wash
ington City Church of the Brethren,
Fifteenth Street Christian, Reforma
tion Lutheran, First Methodist and
North Carolina Avenue Methodist.
Three colored churches partici
pating are the Ebenezer Methodist
Episcopal. Mount Jezreel and Enos
Baptist Churches. The prayer was
offered last night by the Rev. F. F.
King, pastor of the Ebenezer Church.
Artist Curry Speaks
Tonight at Corcoran
John Steuart Curry, American
artist noted for his paintings of life
in the Middle West, will speak at
8:15 o'clock tonight in the audi
torium of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
Gallery officials said Mr. Curry is
in Washington “for just a few days—
placing in the new Interior Build
ing two murals of the Oklahoma
land rush.”
“My talk will be very personal,”
the artist announced. “I'll show
some slides of my work, explain
them and then we'll discuss any
thing we care to.” Mr. Curry is at
present artist in residence at the
University of Wisconsin.
All Fascist Inspectors
Ousted by Mussolini
By the Associated Press.
ROME, Nov. 22.—Premier Mus
solini today carried his recent gov
ernmental housecleaning a step
further by dropping all Fascist
party inspectors and assuming per
sonally the task of appointing new
ones.
The ousted officers were those
whose duties were to check various
party activities.
Smartly Dressed Crowd Attends
'Preview' of New Morgue
Speakers Stress Absence of Glum
Horror in Modern Structure
A “first-night” audience in dinner
jackets and silver foxes roamed last
night through the flower-banked
halls of the building which tomorrow
will open as the city’s house of death.
But like the building itself, which
was designed to “take the horror
away from those who must come
here,” the housewarming at the new
District Morgue suffered from no
hint of gloominess.
Instead, it was taken as an oc
casion by representatives of the Po
lice Department, the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation and the legal
and medical professions to pay
tribute to Dr. A. Magruder Mac
Donald, for whom the new building
has been a “lifetime ambition.”
It was likewise an occasion for
comparison. One speaker after an
other contrasted the supermodern
fireproof building on the Gallinger
Hospital grounds with its predeces
sor. the ramshackle, churchlike
structure on the water front.
Pine and Darr Speak.
United States Attorney David A.
Pine called the old morgue an "out
moded. obsolete disgrace, melan
choly beyond the requirements of a
morgue.” Sefton Darr, president of
the District Bar Association, said
the glumness of the old building was
partly responsible for “the most hor
rible emotions” he felt when he had
to accompany a friend to the old
morgue to identify the friend’s son,
an 8-year-old boy killed in an au
tomobile accident.
Dr John Lyon, president of the
District Medical Society, summed
up the subject by stating that “the
contrast between this building and
the old morgue can only be appre
ciated by one who has had associa
tion with the old morgue.”
Before the guests settled down in
the hearing room for the official
dedication ceremonies, they wan
dered through the building, opening
the “refrigeration” chambers, peer
ing through microscopes in the
laboratory and examining the effi
cient equipment in the autopsy
room.
Although a few of the more
squeamish ones turned away from
the death masks, photographs and
crime exhibits, most of them looked
with Interest on such relics of homi
cide cases as the meat cleaver that
split a man’s skull.
Also on display in the room which
will be taken over by Dr. MacDonald
and Deputy Coroners Christopher J.
Murphy and Richard Rosenberg as
a laboratory were the weapons used
by a youth in committing suicide. In
the card of explanation accompany
ing the exhibit, it was pointed out
that the youth, having no revolver,
had first attempted suicide by plac
ing a candle behind a cartridge held
by a pair of pliers. The heat ex
ploded the shell but only a glancing
wound resulted. Then the youth
tried poison, and, where this failed,
hanged himself with his necktie.
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With the aplomb of a theater
usher, a morgue attache summoned
the guests to the hearing room by
going through the laboratory calling
"Proceedings have started down
stairs.
The guests, most of them doctors,
lawyers and police officials, with
their wives, filled the hearing room
where inquests will be held into the
causes of death. Facing them from
the coroner’s bench was a vast basket
of chrysanthemums sent by an un
dertaker with “compliments and
best wishes.’’
Capt. John L. Persons, represent
ing the District Commissioners,
presented the key of the building to
Dr. MacDonald, adding, “I hope
none of us here ever uses any of its
facilities.”
Dr. MacDonald, seated behind the
desk he will occupy when witnesses,
relatives, law enforcement agents
and the press fill the hearing room,
told the history of the new building.
"We conferred with architects all
during last winter to build a build
ing that would take the horror away
from those who have to come to the
Morgue,” he said.
“We wanted to create the impres
sion of an administrative building
with a dignified courtroom and to
make the place where we have to
do our work simulate a hospital
where the best of techniques is
used.”
Cites Gain in Cases.
He pointed to charts on the wall
behind him showing how deaths
handled by the coroner’s office
have increased from 507 in 1868,
the earliest records, to 2,557 in the
past year.
Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin
tendent of police, termed the build
ing a monument to Dr. MacDonald
and his deputy coroners and ex
pressed a wish that the Police De
partment might have a building
equally in keeping with its needs.
He also suggested that the name
of the Morgue be Changed to one
more appropriate to its new honde.
"Morgue,” he said, “is a gruesome
name It casts a gloomy feeling.”
Hugh Klegg, assistant director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
spoke of the coroner’s office as the
dynamo which generates electricity
to stimulate the work of law-en
forcement agencies. He paid tribute
to Dr. MacDonald’s "skill and in
telligence” and delivered personal
greetings from F. B. I. Director J.
Edgar Hoover.
Others who were introduced to
the audience included Assistant
Corporation Counsel J. Francis
Reilly, Waldron Faulker, architect
of the building; Dr. J. H. Scherer,
coroner of Richmond, Va.; Dr.
Charles I. Boyd, medical examiner
of Prince Georges County; Dr. W.
C. Welbum, coroner of Arlington
County; Dr. C. E. Hawks, medical
examiner of Montgomery County,
and Dr. Howard J. Maldeis, chief
medical examiner of Maryland.
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Europe's War—Day by Day
Recent Developments Indicate Sea Warfare
May Decide Outcome of Conflict
By DEWITT MACKENZIE.
Associated Prese Porelan Aflalrs Writer.
The Anglo-German argument over
whether the Nazis In violation of in
ternational law have set mines adrift
in the crowded shipping lanes off the
east coast of England is of small
moment as compared wit hthe real
significance of this whole situation.
Armchair disputes over points of
law don’t get very far, anyway, when
great nations are gripping each
other’s throats.
The importance of the position Is
that with the was less than three
months old the British blockade al
ready has produced a crisis.
Germany not only finds herself cut
off from vital food and military sup
plies by water, but recently has
made the disconcerting discovery
that she cannot draw on the Balkans
for what she had expected.
The World War ghost of privation
is beginning to rattle Its chains a
bit as a grim warning.
Smashing Hole Only Solution.
Hitler’s only solution thus far has
been to smash a hole through that
blockade. And so, as the garrote of
warships has tightened about the
neck of the Reich, the Fuehrer has
struc kback fiercely with the double
purpose of freeing his country and
turning the tables by cutting off
supplies from England.
The disastrous plague of mines is
new in this war. Germany has de
nied laying unanchored mines, but
hasn’t denied laying anchored mine
fields in vulnerable spots on the
British coast, as the fatherland did
throughout the World War.
In the last conflict mines were
laid in fields of hundreds along the
English Channel, where both al
lied and neutral shipping passed.
After 1915 almost all German mine
laying was carried out by subma
rines.
The total number of German
mines laid in all parts of the world
is set down as 43,636 in British
records.
Naturally Britain Is worried at the
wholesale sinkings of the past few
days. She is far more dependent
on the outside world for supplies
than is Germany. Her safety lies in
absolute control of the seas.
Hence British Premier Chamber
lain’s grim announcement of what
amounts to. an unrestricted blockade
of Germany by the allied fleet.
This extreme measure, which means
seizure of Nazi exports as well as
imports, is in retaliation for “many
violations of International law and
the ruthless brutality of German
methods.”
These latest sensational events
strengthen the likelihood that the
outcome of this war will be deter
mined by the struggle on the sea—
by strangulation which will crack
civilian morale somewhere.
Many observers and economic ex
perts say that, barring some unex
pected development, the allies will
win because of their admitted su
perior resources. These prophets
have been joined by Dr. C. K. Leith,
chairman of the Minerals and
Metals Advisory Committee to the
United States Assistant Secretary of
War. Dr. Leith has summed the
matter up thus:
“Unless ‘there is a social or po
litical break in the allied front which
will impair the blockade, the ulti
mate defeat of Germany by the in
exorable pressure of raw material
sanctions seems inevitable. It is a
question of sheer weight of metal.”
Balkan Position Altered.
Germany’s altered position in the
fruitful Balkans must make the
Nazis mighty sorry for themselves.
Prior to the outbreak of the war
Herr Hitler dominated these states
upon which the Reich depended so
much for foodstuffs and other sup
plies. This control was due to the
fact that Germany had a monopoly
on some 50 per cent of their trade,
for which they had no alternative
markets. Naturally, this economic
control gave him great political
power as well.
Now, however, both Italy and the
allies have jumped in and are taking
trade which the Balkans are only
too glad to give them in order to
get from under the German thumb.
Herr Hitler, being short of ready
cash and lacking manufactured
goods for barter trade, cannot com
pete.
Missionary Forces
In Orient Cut a Third,
Baptist Women Told
Secretary Expects
War's End to Bring Quick
Conversions, However
Missionary forces in the Orient
are now depleted by nearly a third,
but at the end of the Sino-Japanese
war a quick conversion of Oriental
populations to Christianity is to be
expected. Dr. Charles E. Maddry of
Richmond, executive secretary of the
Southern Baptist Foreign Missionary
Board, Richmond, Va, declared
today.
Speaking before the Women’s Bap
tist Missionary Association at the
three-day annual of the District of
Columbia Baptist Convention. Dr.
Maddry reported that hardly a week
passes when he does not receive a
message from China that one of his
staff has collapsed from the strain
of working under bombardment.
“But I feel that in both Japan and
China every heart hungers for a
gospel of love. We should have sent
Christianity into Japan in 1854,
when Perry forced that island to
accept our sewing machines and
Kentucky whisky,” he asserted.
Nireria Gets Citrns Industry.
America’s “great debt” to Nigeria
for robbing it of a large part of its
population in the days of the slave
trade is now being paid back by
Baptist missionaries. Dr. Maddry
said. "In 1912 we introduced grape
fruit and orange growing into that
African colony,' and the citrus in
dustry is now proving a great boon
there,” he declared.
A valuable technique for introduc
ing Christianity among the Assam
tribes in the Garo hills, in Northeast
India, was described by Miss Verna
Blakely, just returned from 19 years
of service there.
“When I arrived I found that the
Indians killed all infants whose
mothers died, by leaving them un
protected in the jungle. I set up a
hospital and cared for them during
the nursing period and then re
turned them to. the happy tribes
men,” she reported.
“These people did not wish to
slay the children but were simply
incapable of caring for them and
are glad to adopt them when older.
They are slightly hesitant, however,
to adopt boys, since according to
custom the womenfolk inherit all
DroDerty.”
Many Converted.
When Miss Blakely first arrived in
the jungle the natives retained a
portion of old headhunting habits,
made blood sacrifices, worshiped
evil spirits and kept rice beer jars
by every doorway. At the time she
left for her American furlough, she
said, large numbers worshiped in
thatched bamboo churches, had
given her their rice beer jars to be
destroyed and claimed as their fa
vorite song ‘‘Halleluliah, Thine the
Glory.” They put garlands of na
tive wreaths upon her as she left,
she said.
Mrs. George A. Ross, president of
the Missionary Association, and Mrs.
J. M. Rissler, treasurer, made an
nual reports in the morning session.
This afternoon a report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, election of
officers and changes in by-laws were
scheduled in a business session.
The sessions of the three*day
meeting are to close tonight with a
session on “Men and Missions.”
Speakers will include Dr. L. R. Scar
borough of Seminary Hill, Tex.;
Charles E. Hassrick, president of the
National Council of Baptist Men of
Philadephia, and Dr. E. Pitt Beers,
executive secretary of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society, New
York City. A Thanksgiving service
at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow will follow
the annual meeting, held at the
First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and
O streets N.W.
Handiwork Backfires
OWOSSO, Mich., Nov. 22 (JP).—
Kenneth Rose, 23, spent a day in the
Grand Trunk Railway carshops at
Durand repairing a locomotive.
His car was struck by the same
engine on an Owosso crossing last
night.
Rose was Injured slightly, his car
wrecked.
I
City Bank Employes
Will Receive Bonus
Extra compensation to all em
ployes of the City Bank, equivalent
to a half month's salary, to be paid
during December, has been voted by
the Board of Directors. President
Clarence F. Burton announced to
day.
This is the first Christmas bonus
declared by any Washington bank
this year. In 1938 a majority of
the city's banking institutions add
ed to the Yuletide happiness of em
ployes by voting bonuses in vary
ing amounts.
Action by the City Bank's board
is in line with reports of steady
expansion in loans and an impor
tant uptrend in other bank earn
ings in recent months.
Mrs. Schaefer Wins
Large Alimony Award
One of the largest alimony awards
made in District Court recently came
today, when Justice James M. Proc
tor in Motions Court made a tempor
ary award of $450 per month, during
the pendency of the divorce litiga
tion.
The award was made to Mrs.
Grace K. Schaefer, 2519 Pennsyl
vania avenue N.W., against William
Nelson Schaefer. 5431 Dexter street
N.W., president of the R. P. Andrews
Paper Co. The jurist took this ac
tion on motion of Attorney William
W. Stickney.
The court was advised that Mr.
Schaefer’ salary is $18,000 annually;
that he has income from investments
approximately $386 annually; that
his home is valued at $17,500. but,
that due to obligations, his net an
nual income is $10,512. The Schaef
ers, the court was told, were married
here November 24. 1915, and that
one child was bom of the marriage,
the parties separating November 7,
this year.
Glass Describes
Neutrality Law
As 'Disgraceful'
Senator Predicts Repeal;
Thinks U. S. Will Stay
Out of War
By the Associated Press.
Senator Carter Glass said yester
day the new neutrality law “is dis
graceful” and should be repealed
when Congress convenes In Jan
uary.
The Virginia Democrat declared
no neutrality legislation was neces
sary because, in the absence of a
statute, the executive branch would
direct foreign policy within the
framework of international law.
“I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if
Congress repeals the act,” Senator
Gldss declared. “It certainly ought
to. The United States is saying,
‘Please, Mr. Hitler, where do you
want our ships to go and where
shouldn’t they go?’ ”
The 81-year-old Senator said he
believed the people and the Congress
would be convinced of the imprac
ticability of the act after they had
observed its operation fully.
Ship Transfer Plan Assailed.
Senator Glass declared he saw
no chance of American participa
tion in the European war “unless
Germany sinks our ships in contra
vention of International law.”
The recently-proposed transfer of
American ships to Panamanian
registry “would have been a dis
graceful evasion of the Neutrality
Act.” the Senator asserted.
Discussing other issues, he said
in response to questions that ex
penses of the Army “are high enough
now,” but that “we ought to have a
Navy that can’t be licked.”
"I think it is well for a nation
of this magnitude to have a strong
Navy,” the Senator said. “I dont
think there is any danger of any
body coming over here and whipping
the Army we’ve already got.”
May Launch Economy Fight.
The Virginian said the mounting
public debt is bringing on a day
“when we must repudiate our in
debtedness, inflate—which would be
a form of repudiation and would be
worse—or have unendurable taxes.”
If the Democratic party is to win
in 1940, Senator Glass said, the
administration should stop the pres
ent deficit spending. He added that
he might make a fight for curtailed
expenditures at the next session if
it appeared possible he could suc
ceed.
Police Probe Slabbing
Of Washington Girl
Prince Georges County (Md.)
police today were investigating the
stabbing early this morning of an
18-year-old Washington girl who
was taken to Casualty Hospital
from the Homestretch inn on the
Marlboro pike suffering from two
knife wounds in the chest.
Hospital attaches said the girl.
Mrs. Betty Barry of 3006 Thirteenth
street N.W., was in favorable con
dition. Mrs. Barry was taken to
the hospital at 3 a.m. by the Bla
densbug rescue squad.
Emory Miller and Myrtle Miller,
both of 916 Delafield place N.W..
who accompanied Mrs. Barry to the
hospital, said, according to hospital
records, that the girl had stabbed
herself.
Prince Georges County Policeman
Wilson Purdy and Mrs. Barry s
father, who refused to disclose nis
name, both talked with Mrs. Barry
at the hospital this morning and
said she would not discuss the stab
bing, nor the motive.
The father said, however, that
Mrs. Barry, separated from her hus
band for some time, was working as
a waitress, but recently has been
unemployed and Was worried be
cause of her inability to find work.
Mrs. Barry, he said, has a 3-year
old daughter, Beverly Barry, with
whom she lives at the Thirteenth
street address.
Mice and Sanity Tests
Cuba is planning to buy hundreds
of white mice to make an exhaus
tive scientific 'study of child in
sanity.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.)
District of Columbia—Light snow this afternoon; mostly cloudv and
continued cold, with lowest temperature about 35 degrees tonigiv
tomorrow fair with rising temperature; light, variable winds becoming
gentle to moderate northwest tonight.
Maryland—Cloudy with light snow in west and north portions this
afternoon ending early tonight; tomorrow generally fair with Elowly
rising temperature in east portion. y
Virginia-Mostly cloudy with light snow in west and north portions
tnis afternoon and in extreme northwest portion early tonight; tomorrow
fair with slowly rising temperature.
West Virginia-Mostly cloudy and slightly colder with light rain or
snow in northeast portion tonight; tomorrow fair with slowly risinj
temperature in west portion.
Tha i4i.»urh.n.. __j, .
east of C&Dt Hatteras Tuesday morning is
a£^arent.ly centered this morning about
250 miles east-southeast of Nantucket.
Mass., moving slowly north-northeastward
with lowest pressure near 1000 millibars
<29.53 Inches) This disturbance has been
attended by strong northeast winds and
gales along the middle Atlantic and South
ern New England Coast. A minor disturb
ance is moving very slowly northward over
i.,?t_and In<Jiana. Fort Wayne. Ind.. 10lfi.fi
millibars <30.02 inches). Pressure remains
™ °ver Alaska. Kodiak. 997.fi millibars
<29.46 inches), and it is relatively low and
Dakotas. Pressure is high
*NoiJw p*ciflc States east-south
!Viw*?.rd 10 the Southern Plains 8tates
and thence northeastward to the Northern
re,vLon from there eastward to
,CaLlbo,u' ,1128.1 millibars
JLim£al: 8?,u„City. Utah.
10,7.8 millibars (30.35 inches), and La
(nrhS«i ,.10737 millibars (30.23
TrMta r»« Precioi ta tion has occurred from
DJu?hUnK-«I^UCky and the Southern Ad
5a. glon 'aatw»rd to the Atlantic
nn?Mtnn.T5e.K,eaoha.ruhas hecomc colder in
P^'ou’of ‘he Southern States, while the
iM.5,(haLr ”n ln Dortlon!> of the
Atlantic States and from the North
Pacific Coast eastward to the Dakotas.
*»t>ort far Last 24 Room.
Ve.t.rH.a Temperature. Barometer
*Lst*rday— Deeres. Inches.
2 5'2- - 40 30.12
n p.m. _____ 39 30i*i
^Midnight . .38 30.1*1
4 a.m.- 38 30.08
8 a m. - 35 30.08
Noon - 30 29.94
Record far Last 24 Honrs,
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
^Highest. 41. 3:50 p.m. yesterday. Year
Lowest. 36. 5 a.m. today. Year ago. 47.
Record Tern aerators This Year.
Highest. 100. on September 8.
Lowest. 17. on February 23.
Humidity for Last 24 Honrs.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 05 per cent, at 10 a.m. today.
Lowest. 82 per cent, at 7:16 P.m. yes
terday.
TiderTahles.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Oeodetlc Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High - 4:18 a.m. 5:02 a.m.
Low -11:07a.m. 11:55a.m.
High.-. 4:48 p.m. 5:32 p.m.
Low _11:48 p.m. _
The Boa and Moan.
„ Rises. 8eta.
Bun, today -.J... 8:57 4:51
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:58 4:50
moon, today_ 2:25 p.m. 2:35 a.m.
Automobile lights must bg turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
*
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River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
Fal§atoday Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In the
Capital (current month to date);
Month. 1939. Average. Record.
January _ 3.41 3.55 7.83 '37
February-6.71 3.27 8.84 '84
March- 2.89 3.75 8.84 '91
April _ 3.78 3.27 9.13 '89
May- .41 3.70 10.69 '89
June- 4.45 4.13 10.94 *00
Julv -2.01 4.71 10.63 '86
August - 3.22 4.01 14 41 '28
September_6.on 3.24 17 45 '34
October - 4.06 2.84 8.81 '37
November _ 1.35 2.37 8 69 '89
December__ 3.32 7.66 '01
Weather In Variou Cities.
Temp'ture. Raln
Barom. High. Low. tail. Weather.
Abilene_ 30.15 72 36 _ Clear
Albany ... 30.15 35 30 ... Cloudy
Atlanta .. 30.03 46 42 0.05 Cloudy
Atian. City 39.03 45 36 0.12 Cloudy
Baltimore. 30.09 41 36 Cloudy
Birm'gham 30.16 46 30 Clear
Bismarck . 30.00 52 20 Clear
Boston 30.06 41 32 O'.Ol Snow
Buffalo... 3009 36 26 Cloudy
Charleston 30.03 61 46 Cloudy
Chicago 3 th09 40 38 Cloudy
Cincinnati 30.06 40 34 0.06 Cloudy
Cleveland. 30.03 36 35 0.25 Rain
Columbia. 30.06 46 42 _ Cloudy
Denver... 30.15 62 31 ... clear
Detroit- 30.06 41 34 0 02 Rain
El Paso... 30 12 67 39 dear
Galveston. 30.12 65 51 Cloudy
Helena. 30.09 48 32 doudy
Huron.. 30.12 55 20 ... doudy
Ind napolls 30.06 34 32 0.17 Rain
Jacks nvtlle 30.03 73 51 ... Cloudy
{Cans, city 30.21 47 29 _ Foggy
L. Angeles 30.00 84 57 ... clear
Diuisvllle. .3006 38 35 doudy
Miami 29.97 78 57 Clear
MDls^St. P. 30.18 44 23 ... Clear
N. Orleans 30.12 64 48 dear
York. 30.03 41 35 ... Cloudy
30.03 47 41 0.07 doudy
Okla City 30.16 63 33 ... dear
Omaha... 30.18 51 23 ... Foggy
Phil*- 30.06 39 34 0.08 doudy
Phoenix 30.00 79 44 ... dear
Pittsburgh 30.03 41 33 0.05 Rain
P land. Me. 30.15 34 32 ... doudy
P'l'nd. Org. 30.21 55 47 0.17 Cloudy
Raleigh ._ 3n,09 4 0 37 0.10 Rain
St. Louis. 30.18 38 27 dear
S. Lake C. 30.36 53 23 ... dear
8 Antonio 30.15 71 45 doudy
3an Diego 30.00 77 53 dear
3. Fr'ciseo 30.09 70 53 ... cloudy
8eattle_ 30 18 55 50 0.45 Clear
Spokane._ 3018 44 36 0.01 Clear
Tampa_ 30.00 70 54 Clear
WABH..D.C. 30,09. 41 35 Snow