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Finland Issue
Puts U. S.
On Spot
Defeat May Cause
America Eventually
To Aid Allies
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Finland’s fate has put the Amer
ican Government on the spot. Full
of sympathy for the heroic fight
being made by a free nation against
the aggression
of a aiciator
ship state, the
Congress and
the President
want to do
something to
manifest Amer
ica ’ s interest.
But how?
To extendi
financial aid for |
arms is consid- |
ered unneutral |
or active partic- |
lpation in the |
war. 10 leuu
money to let David Lawrence.
Finland buy food is a sort of subter
fuge. because Finland needs air
planes and not food. To ask Fin
land to exchange her food credits
given by the United States for war
supplies bought or bartered abroad
is to connive with Finland to vio
late the spirit though not the letter
Of American neutrality.
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States loaned $25,000,000 to China
In the midst of her war with Japan,
and that technically Finland and
Russia are not at war so that it is
not a violation of international law
for the Washington Government to
lend to Finland money for food or
airplanes.
But the whole problem revolves
around a fundamental issue. Of
ficial Washington realizes that Fin
land is making a desperate stand
1 against the onrush of Communism,
and that it is important for Fin
land to be helped because, if the
allies cannot hold back Communism,
then it may spread ’round the
tvorld.
Want Victory Without Risk.
The real difficulty is that neither
the Republican nor Democratic
leadership here wants to face that
fundamental. They want Com
munism beaten back, but they do
not want the American Government
involved in the accomplishment of
that purpose.
The isolationists are thoroughly
consistent. They, too, are sympa
thetic with Finland, but they insist
America must not send any money
through the Government here, and
that any aid extended should be by
private citizens who shall give or
loan funds. The Finns, on the
other hand, think this is imprac
ticable from the point of view of
time. They must have financial
aid before the snow is off the
ground so that material assistance
can be forthcoming.
The fundamental issue really isn't
any different from that which faced
• the Congress last September. If
the allies are beaten and the Brit
ish fleet destroyed, America is held
to be in danger oi oeing tumirencu
to defend herself against a Fascist
violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
The defeat of Finland is, therefore,
a vital part of the whole picture.
80 long as Russia and Germany are
allied, some method of helping Fin
land halt the Russians is a part
of the allied war strategy.
It is, therefore, asked here on
all sides why Britain and France
do not put credits at the disposal
of Finland as they did for Poland
and as they have done in the Near
East. A few million dollars more or
less out of the billions being spent
by Britain and France can hardly
be a consequential item.
Can Give Planes and Materials.
The British and French do not
heed to donate or loan money—
they can give airplanes and materi
als to the Finns. It is 10 times
more important for the British and
French that Finland should succeed
than it is for America to assure
such a result.
In the final analysis, the big
fundamental issue may have to be
faced—whether the United States
will come to the aid of Britain and
France with money either raised by
private subscription or by direct
appropriation from the United
States Treasury. To create a prece
dent at this time of helping Fin
land may in itself furnish the jus
tification for subsequent requests
for aid for Britain and France.
As public opinion stands today,
there is no desire to enter the Euro
pean war even with financial aid.
The leadership in Congress soon
may reflect that desire by letting
Finland's plea go unanswered,
though there is a rising public
sentiment which evidently believes
that lending money to Finland is
not active participation in the war
or an indirect involvement.
Could Earmark Money.
If the administration were to
permit tne pending proposal to in
crease the funds that can be
loaned by the Export-Import Bank
to be earmarked so that new money
would go to Finland only, it might
have a chance of passage. The
possibility that Latin American na
tions will ask for loans if there is
no earmarking is in the back of
the minds of Senators, who answer
that Finland is in danger and Latin
America isn’t—at least not yet.
Finland is the unhappy victim of
circumstances. Everybody here
wants to help and yet stay out of
the war. If Finland is beaten, the
cause of democracy suffers a set
back. But even larger in the back
ground is the possibility that if
England and France find them
selves with their backs to the wall,
America may be asked to send, not
man power, but money and mate
rials. It's this contingency which
really gives concern here, for it
The Capital Parade
U. S. Policy of Holding Japanese
At Bay Not Agreeable to Britain
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
In the general confusion about the Par Eastern situation, the real
objective of the administration's Far Eastern policy somehow has escaped
attention. It is, quite simply, to hold the Japanese at bay in China
until the English and French are free to Join in co-operative disciplinary
action.
This policy was originated by the American State Department.
Indeed, while it has been grudg
ingly accepted, it is far from -!CW1 DO^T
agreeable to the English. Preoccu- AGREEMENT
pied by their own terrible diffl- with JAPAN YET
culties in Europe, the English have
wanted to make some sort of deal
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ognition of their interests in China
for relief from pressure on English
interests It is understood that
Anglo-Japanese negotiations actu- ,
ally were started, but sharp ob
jections voiced here caused the English to withdraw. Presumably this
incident was the source of the extraordinary rumors about a secret
Anglo-Japanese agreement.
If the State Department policy rejects anything resembling Far
Eastern appeasement, it also rejects, for the present at least, resort to
any such strong measures as the much-talked-of anti-Japanese embargo.
Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
is acting entirely independently in pushing an embargo in the Senate.
Although he now has weakened his embargo resolution, so that it only
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he is unlikely to obtain support from the department or the White House.
[ The object of the administration policy is to keep the embargo as a
future possibility, rather than to use it as an immediate threat.
The Tariff Threat
Rejection of appeasement on the one hqnd and the embargo on the
other establish the limits of the administration policy. The policy is
founded in the fact that Japan is dependent on this country for all
sorts of raw materials and supplies required to prosecute her invasion
of China.
The policy had its beginning long ago, when Secretary of State
Cordell Hull requested the airplane manufacturers not to sell military
planes to Japan. Last spring, by the termination of the commercial
treaty with Japan, the way was cleared tor further action. The six
month waiting period had expired, and the treaty is no longer effective.
About a week ago, Assistant Secretary of State Adolph A. Berle, jr„ acting
for Secretary Hull, informed the Japanese Ambassador that there was
no hope of patching up a substitute for the treaty.
With the treaty out of the way, Japanese goods may be placed on
the tariff blacklist, and countervailing duties and retaliatory duties may
be imposed. Each of these three forms of action is highly technical, but
the net effect of each would be to raise the duties on Japanese goods.
With all three in force, Japanese exports to the United States would
dwindle to a trickle, and Japan's ability to get supplies and commodities
here would decrease proportionately.
Plane Gas, Steel Alloys •
The so-called China incident provides the legal grounds for tariff
action agamst the Japanese, since there is unquestionable discrimination
me state uepartmem is grandly
demanding a return to the old Chi
nese open door. The Japanese are
busily making conciliatory gestures,
but they cannot grant the State De
partment’s demands. The China in
cident has already created vast
Japanese vested interests which
temporarily require a closed door.
Moreover, the open-door de
mands are chiefly intended to re
mind the Japanese that retribution
awaits the moment they go too far.
Concurrently steps are actually being taken to make Japanese dependence
on this country still greater. For example, the Japanese recently at
tempted to buy in this country the apparatus and processes for making
airplane gasoline. They were frustrated by the State Department’s
intervention.
A list has already been compiled of strategic materials, such as
certain steel alloys and the high octane gas, which the Japanese are
forced to buy here. Even before tariff action is taken, any one of these
materials may be cut off from the Japanese by a War Department order |
or by arrangements between the State Department and the manufac- i
turers. In truth, the administration policy is a pretty safe one, only
requiring wise execution.
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contains the fundamental issue that
Is being evaded on all sides by the
politicians because they think isola
tionist opinion is at the moment
stronger than co-operationlst opin
ion.
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Habeas Corpus Writ
Seeks to Free Blacksmith
In a habeas corpus writ filed by
a woman lawyer. Nita S. Hinman,
a 50-year-old W.'P. A. blacksmith
yesterday sought freedom from the
Occoquan (Va.) Workhouse, where
he has been held for seven months.
The petitioner. Richard H. Cady,
was arresteo under a Juvenile Court
order and held in contempt for al
leged failure to support his 16-year
old daughter. Miss Hinman con
tended that Mr. Cady is illegally
detained because his daughter re
sides in Maryland and Juvenile
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the case.
Justice F. Dickinson Letts In issu
ing the writ made it returnable at
1:30 p.m. Monday before one of the
justices sitting in Criminal Court.
Film on Postal Service
Will Be Given Premiere
“Men and Mail,” a sound motion
picture depicting the history and
present-day operation of the postal
service, will receive its premiere
showing tomorrow night, beginning
at 8 o’clock, in the Willard Hotel.
The film has been produced and
will be shown throughout the United
States by the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks.
Be sure the way is clear before
you attempt to pass.
1). of Wisconsin Alumni
To Hear Davies at Dinner
Washington alumni of the Uni- !
versify of Wisconsin will celebrate i
founder's day of the university Feb
ruary 7 at 7:30 p.m. with a dinner
at the Dodge Hotel.
Former Ambassador to Belgium
Joseph E. Davies and Senator Alex
ander Wiley of Wisconsin will speak.
The program, one of many all
over the Nation, will be broadcast
over a coast-to-coast hookup, be
ginning at 9:30 p.m., E. S. T., it!
w'as announced. Mr. Davies will
speak on ''Intimate Glimpses of the
European Scene." Senator Wiley
will discuss the place of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in the State
and Nation.
There are said to be some 800
alumni of the institution in Wash
ington, including 15 members of
Congress. George E. Worthington,
president of the local alumni, will
preside.
The university will be 91 years
old February 7. President Clarence
A. Dykestra will also speak on the
radio broadcast.
Capital U. Glee Club
Will Sing Here Tonight
The Glee Club of the Conservatory
of Music of Capital University of.
Columbus, Ohio, will give a concert
in the auditorium of Wilson Teach
er's College, Eleventh and Harvard
streets N.W., at 8:15 o’clock tonight.
Prof. Wilbur C. Christ is director
of the club. The concert is being
sponsored by the Capital University
Alumni Association of Washington,
assisted by the Luther Leagues of
the American Lutheran Churches of
Washington.
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
1 necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The
Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Washington Observations
Effective N. L. R. B. Inquiry Foreshadows
Broad Changes in Setup and Personnel
By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
By general consent, the House
committee Investigation of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board has
proved to be one of the most ef
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ever instituted
by Congress.
Although the
probe is still in
midstream, the
opinion is freely
held that it has
already dealt a
death blow to
the N. L. R. B.
as at present
constituted,
having unques
tionably estab
lished that it is
a "mess and
must be recon- Frfderic William Wile,
structed, lock, stock and barrel, if
it is to serve the purposes contem
plated by the Wagner Act. The
best guess is that Congress will be
asked to dis-establish the existing
three-man board and substitute a
five or seven-man body, whose wings
will be clipped of the arbitrary non
administrative authority the present
agency “wields. The betting is that
a reorganized board will not include
present tiiiummu viaucn iviau
den or Member Edwin S. Smith, and
will in all probability be chairmaned
by Dr. William M. Leiserson. That
Secretary Nathan Witt would survive
the revamping is highly problemati
cal. Board General Counsel Charles
Fahy is considered a far more likely
survivor, but other personnel casual
ties will be heavy.
* * * *
House and Senate May Differ.
Expectation is wide, too, that
while the House will sustain the
Smith Committee's anticipated rec
ommendations for a revised N. L.
R. B., opposition is certain in the
Senate. The Wagner Act after all
is a Senate baby and popular Bob
Wagner of New York is its father.
The Ives Commission of the New
York State Legislature has just
commended “tlv little Wagner Act"
enacted at Albany on the model of
the Federal statute. The Smith
Committee has done an efficient job
in taking the N. L. R. B. apart
and showing the country why it
hasn't ticked. It’s demonstrated
that the board, not the act, is
mainly to blame. Chief credit for
that achievement goes to Committee
Counsel Edmund M. Toland of the
District of Columbia bar.
That" militant young lawyer, by
dint of his surefooted exploratory
work in laying the foundations for
the inquiry, reminds Capitol Hill
veterans of the acumen whth which
Samuel Untermyer 30-odd years ago
conducted the famous Pujo money
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Banking and Currency Committee.
The Black Senate Committee inves
tigations of lobbies and shipping and
latterly some of the Dies Committee's
methods brought congressional in
quiries into popular disrepute, to
say nothing of their average ineffec
tiveness. The N. L. R. B. inquiry,
thanks to a well-prepared and skill
fully conducted case, has been a
shining exception to the witch
hunting, fishing expedition rule. So
far. some 55 witnesses have been
heard re N. L. R. B. Another 75 to
125 are yet to take the stand. Chair
man Smith hopes to submit a pre
liminary report in February.
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Bergdoll Case Still in Courts.
While the Grover Cleveland Berg
doll deserter case already has 20
years' growth of whiskers on it. and
the scion of the Philadelphia brew
ing dynasty is now' doing time at
Governors Island, legal battles still
rage around his tangled affairs.
Bergdoll's mother and brother are
said recently to have filed suit to
recover money allegedly due from
the deserter. It's also reported that
Harry Weinberger, Who has repre
sented Bergdoll off and on since 1920.
is suing for some $50,000 as an alleged
balance of counsel fees. At his
recent trial at Army headquarters in
New York, the prisoner's counsel
numbered seven, including a Wash
ington firm now representing him
in his petition for certiorari by the
Supreme Court. Bergdoll’s relief on
habeas corpus was denied by the
District Court at New York, whose
action was sustained by the Circuit
Court of Appeals. The request for
certiorari seeks reviews of the action
of the two last-named courts.
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Washington Goes Los Angeles.
Finland and infantile paralysis,
after all, are worthy causes, and
that covers a multitude of whims.
All the same, the National Capital
for the past week has gone Los
Angeles with a vengeance, with its
moronic mass adulation of movie
stars. Every one who ever visited
the Southern California metropolis
remembers how that community of
blasted hopes goes in for golden-calf
worship of everybody and everything
that comes out of Hollywood, Culver
City, Burbank and Beverly Hills.
Well, Washington was like that while
the recent orgy of "world premieres”
and Birthday Balls had the place
upside down. As Mr. Will Hays’
Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America and their
over-salaried mummers are, after
all, the chief beneficiaries of this
organized box-office ballyhoo, why
wouldn't it be good sense to save
the fuss and flummery, simply tax
the screen industry, say, a round
$1,000,000, and let it charge the
money up to advertising. When all's
said and done, that's about what it is.
* * * *
For Small Business.
Latest under the high-pressure
Washington sun is the “National
Small Business Research Bureau,”
which has just swung into action
for the purpose of promoting the
interests of that forgotten atom of
the American economic community,
the small business man. Its direc
tor is Charles G. Daughters, who
was research and technical adviser
to Representative Wrieht Patman.
Democrat, of Texas, in connection
with the Robinson-Patman Act,
which was designed to cramp the
style of chain stores. Chairman of
the board of the Small Business
Bureau is the Rev. Dr. John F. B.
Carruthers of California, well known
in Washington as a clergyman and
publicist. The bureau plans during
1940 to establish "business policy
boards" in each of the country's 435
congressional districts, which sounds
as if plenty of heat will be turned
on at Washington from time to time.
* * * *
Preparedness.
Assistant Secretary of War Louis
Johnson is clothed with the statu
tory duty of seeing that in the next
war the United States is adequately
equipped with the actual sinews of
battle and means of its own to
produce them. His current annual
report shows that he’s valiantly on
the job. Few Americans realize
how unready even our vast industrial
system was in 1917-18 to supply the
equipment needs of the A. E. F.
Except for four 14-inch naval guns,
the First Army in France at no time
fired a single cannon or shell made
in America. No tank of American
manufacture was ever used on the
western front. We had to buy ar
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We, the People
President Plays 'Campaign Game'
Eagerly as Any Citizen
By JAY FRANKLIN.
The fact that the White House has given the green light to the 1940
aspirations of Senator Burton K. Wheeler—accompanied by a helpful,
though qualified, indorsement from Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska
—illustrates President Roosevelt’s strategy for the coming election.
The third-term advocates have never pretended that F. D. R. could
or would force himself upon the party or the country by political pressure
or patronage. The Hatch “Pure
7 ZZLf^t Politics” law was passed and signed
UM ^ last summer to prevent exactly this
sort of thing and is heartily in
dorsed by the administration.
Mr. Roosevelt has no intention
of running again unless there is a
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mistakable public demand for his
services. Therefore, instead of using
the powers of his great office to
choke off or discourage rival candi
dacies for the majority party’s nomination, the President has given the
"Go-Go” to all comers, including those who advocate his own re-election.
Still Cordial With Garner
He has not allowed the Gamer boom and its challenge to the New
Deal reforms to cast even a slight cloud across the cordial and warm
mutual friendship which exists between himself and “Cactus Jack.” Few
New Dealers believe that F. D. R. will support or indorse Gamer or a
Gamer-backed candidate but there is no disposition to take umbrage
at the existence of the Garner faction in the Democratic party.
Last July, he gave Paul V. McNutt the key position for personal
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did this knowing that McNutt was an admitted candidate for the presi
dency and that, furthermore, Postmaster General Farley could not take
the Hoosier in any shape, form or manner.
The President was equally generous to Mr. Farley. He allowed "Big
Jim” to convert the Democratic National Committee into a personal
appanage lor the support of Farley’s sizable merits and availability as
presidential timber. Mr. Roosevelt permitted this to happen at a time
when he and the party needed the full support of the National Com
mittee in order to uphold the administration’s program and to unite the
administration’s supporters.
Towards the candidacy promoted by the friends of Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, Mr. Roosevelt showed equal generosity. He staked
the power and prestige of the administration on the renewal of the
Trade Agreements Act—Mr. Hull’s pet policy and one which lends itself
to Republican attack and public misunderstanding.
Wheeler Is Latest
Senator Wheeler is only the latest of the Democratic aspirants' to
receive a smile and a slap on the back. If he is what the American
people want, Mr. Roosevelt is too wise a politician to stand in the
way of their decision.
From the White House comes word of still other combinations,
"mentions” of Attorney General "Bob” Jackson, of Mayor Fiorello H.
La Guardia of New York City, of Rooseveltian talk of various tickets
and possibilities. The President is playing the great American campaign
game as eagerly as any other
citizen.
If, out of the welter of men,
issues and events, a combination
and a program emerges with a roar
of real approval and applause,
F. D. R. can say his “Nunc
DimittLs" and retire to Hyde Park
! for the next four years. If, on
i the other hand, the inadequacy of
: other candidates and the pressure
of the foreign war crisis lead to a
; deep and imperious popular demand that Mr. Roosevelt run again, he
: will do so—and do so willingly, knowing that he has done his best to find
an acceptable successor and has failed to convince his supporters that
any one else will do.
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As evidence of a better temper in the whole presidential picture,
there is now the Anti-Fourth Term League of America which distrib
utes membership cards. The by-laws of this organization provides that
“no member may be admitted to the league without pledging himself
not to vote for any President of the United States for a fourth term
(except in a most extreme emergency which cannot now be foreseen) I”
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; tillery, howitzers, machine guns,
automatic rifles and bombs in enor
mous quantities in both France and
Britain. Johnson's task is to see
this doesn't happen again.
Engineer Will Lecture
R. E. Birch, research engineer for
1 the Harbison-Walker Refractories
Co. of Pittsburgh, will give an illus
trated lecture on “The Present Day
Art of Manufacturing Refractories’’
tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the Commerce
Department auditorium. The lec
ture will be sponsored by the Edu
cation Committee of the Patent
Office.
Third-Term
Drive Helps ‘
Cautious Boys
Band-Wagon Riders
Have Chance to
Look Over Field
By CHARLES G. ROSS.
If the third-term movement Is a
headache to the Democrats who
aspire to succeed Mr. Roosevelt, it
Is a godsend to the practical politl
tious wuo want
to see how the
wind is blowing
before they line
up for a candi
date.
That the
movement is for
midable there
can be no doubt.
Only the most
positive decli
nation of the
President to run
again can damp
en it out of
cbarifs g. Boss, hind it are two
groups—one with a strong bread
and-butter motive for keeping the
President in power, the other actu
ated by the sincere belief that the
cause of liberalism 'as liberalism is
interpreted by this group) can best
be served by a third term. Together
they make up a powerful backing;
together they are exerting a pressure
thnt yys o IT Tsrrtl 1 yociiH tVsrt (i J r f
I ing'’ of the President.
Some of this pressure, however, is
I more apparent than real. Some of
it comes from political bosses, big
and little, who see the third-term
drive primarily as the perfect screen
behind which to shelter when con
fronted with the conflicting claims
of other aspirants.
Want to Ride on Bandwagon.
It is axiomatic in politics that the
practical fellows, the boys who get
out the vote, want to ride with the
winner. They can always rise above
principle. It isn't a case with them,
as it is with the idealists in politics,
of hitching a wagon to a star, but
of catching a ride on the bandwagon.
A good many of those who made a
wrong calculation at the Democratic
convention in 1832 have never ceased
to be regretful; some of them have
been doing penance ever since. For
conspicuous example there was Boss
Frank Hague of New Jersey. He
was among the bitterest of the
Roosevelt opponents in 1932. From
his headquarters flowed a stream of
! statements, oral and written, about
j what a terrible calamity it would
be if the party nominated Roose
velt. the “weakest” candidate who
could be chosen.
Any one unversed in the ways of
politics might have thought it im
: possible for Hague, after what he
j said in 1932, to support Roosevelt.
But he did. His act of contrition
was outstanding among many such
acts by politicians of high and low
degree. Some of the mourners came
gradually back into the royal favor,
some of them never did. For a long
time, at any rate, there were lean
j pickings at Jim Farley’s table for
j those who had committed the almost
unpardonable sin of not having been
for Roosevelt B.C.
Paul V. McNutt may conceivably
wish today that he had not been so
slow in delivering the Indiana votes
that Jim Farley wanted in ’32.
Right Vehicle Was Plain.
There wasn’t any chance for the
boys to go wrong in 1936. There was
one big gilded vehicle, plainly the
right one. and they all turned hand
springs to get aboard. Those were
happy days.
Things are vastly different now,
more like what they were back in
the days of indecision in 1932.
- Nobody can tell what is going to
happen. The boys are puzzled. A
wrong guess may land the guesser
in a political Siberia. »
Maybe it's the Wheeler wagon
they should clamber aboard. Maybe
it's McNutt's, or Garner’s, or Hull's,
or Farley's, or somebody elses.
Nobody knows. It may even turn
out to be the same star-spangled
I wagon that had nc competition in
1936.
So the boys are waiting—not only
the men who run the big city ma
chines but the little fellows back in
the county court houses. The third
term movement plays into their
hand. They can move along with it
I and still keep on good terms with
! all the candidates. If the movement
: succeeds, they get the credit of
having been with it from the start:
if it collapses, they will have had
time and opportunity to size up
the prospects of all the candidates
without commitment to any.
The set-up is ideal for the politi
cians who want to take a good long
look before they leap.
Grand Jury Returns
40 Indictments
The grand jury returned 40 In
dictments to Justice Peyton Gordon
in Criminal Court yesterday.
One indictment charged Ernest
Stafford Lee, 32, colored, with steal
ing a parcel post package contain
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carrier shortly before Christinas.
Others indicted and the charges
against them included:
Inez ■ Minnie Thomas, robbery
(four charges), assault with intent
to commit robbery and grand lar
ceny; Henry Stevens, assault with
a dangerous weapon; Carl W. Tuck
er, non-support of wife; Charles E.
Leapley, John Byrd. Charlie Mills,
James McCray, Clyde Williams and
William Taylor, housebreaking and
larceny; John R. Nesbitt, joyriding;
Samuel J. Hanna, Richard S. Wat
son, Harry A. Suit, joyriding and
grand larceny; James Bolden, War
ren Baylor, Gilbert Moates, Ayor A.
Reeves, Ralph V. Beale, Calvin S.
Brodis, Ernest Lovelace, Charles A.
Bush, Le Roy E- Anderson and
Marjory A. Calan, robbery; Wyman
H. Warren, Tom Pane, John H.
Howie and Nathaniel Fletcher, as
sault with a dangerous weapon.
Reports 13,038 Youths
Placed in Private Jobs
A total of 13,038 young persons
were placed in jobs in private busi
ness last month by the National
Youth Administration, Administra
tor Aubrey Williams has announced.
Mr. Williams said positions ob
tained by the N. Y. A. junior place- ,
ment services, which operate In co
operation with State employment
offices, during December represented
an Increase of more than 2,000 over
the previous month. Temporary
jobs created by Christmas sales rush
were responsible In part for the in
crease.
DRIVE PAIN FROM
STIFF MUSCLES
VVhy let aching, sore, muscles. back
ache. or rheumatic pain lay you up
when there's speedy, heaven-sent re
lief in Omega Oil—the grand liniment
■—just rub it In—let it penetrate where
It does most good—and In no time the
pain letB up. Breaks up misery of
chest-cold tightness, too! Thousands
Of grateful people have sworn by It for
two generations. 35< all drug stores.
Tour money back if not delighted!
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i-^THOMPSON BROS.^-i
-I ANACOSTI A, 0. C. -_
V-.. r„, i! i mi ' y m
FINAL CLEARANCE I
OF STOVES ■
Cold weather is still with us ^B
so let us take care of your Hi
needs while you can take ad- H|
vantage of low prices in this |R
final clearance of heating fl|
stoves. mm
We can give you wood, coal or oil burn
ing stoves of popular sizes and makes. ^B
No charge for setting up or pipe on stoves ^B
over $10. ■
I* Furniture • ■
f 220-26 Said Map* Rotd SJE. UkWMI
Free Parking In Iteer of BnUdlng ■
I ^T. Jr
HOSPITALIZATION
| Policies issued by on old line Stock Company
CHOICE OF HOSPITAL
You select any licensed hospital In the United States or Canada.
PATS UP TO $5.00 PER DAY FOR 30 DAYS IN ANY
POLICY YEAR FOR HOSPITAL ROOM.
OPERATING ROOM $10
ANESTHETIC $10, X-RAY $5
Pays Surgeon’s Bill for Operations as Listed from |
$5 to $100.00 for a Small Additional Cost
Policies sre Issued to Men and Women Between the Ases of 16 and 6S
LONG & CURRY
Barr Building, 910 Seventeenth St. N.W.
Telephone NAtional 3610-11-12-13-14-15
J. Stanley Lons. Pres. Spencer B. Curry. Sec.-Tress.
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NEW STYLE
SAUCE PANS
INTRODUCTORY PRICE
oT, *1.69 ffi
3 COVERS TO FIT, 59c
The very latest idea in sauce pans,
a slanting rim that's easy to clean,
j Alto easy-clean corners. Thick alum
‘ lnum lor last cooking, long wear.
TRUE-FLAVOR
PERCOLATORS
SPECIAL PRICES
$1.89 $1.98
I 8-Cup I 8-Cup
2-cup,ft.89 12-cup,82.19
4-cup, $1.79 18-cup,$3.75
Never misses. Always
makes good coffee. Heat
resisting, bakelite han
dles and glass Indicator.
LARGE SIZE
SAUCE POTS
NEW LOWER PRICES
$9-29 $9-69
rn 8-qt. rn JO-qt.
For cooking bulky veg
etables and large cuts of
meat. Steam-seal keeps
In natural goodness and
flavor,
BAKELITE HANDLE
SAUCE PANS
INTRODUCTORY PRICE 1
$ 1.49 3-Quart With
| Cover
2-Ot.. $1.20; 4-at., 91.79
Styled for modern kitch
ens. Bakelite handle
stars cool. Cup mark
ings save time.
BEAUTIFUL
TEA KETTLES
SPECIAL PRICES
$9-69 3-Quart
£ Siu
2-at.. *2.29; 4-at.. 92.991
5-at.. 93.29
Styled tor modern ranges
and kitchens. Stationary
handle tor easy pouring.
Non-slip Bakelite grip.
NEW FANCY
RING MOLDS
INTRODUCTORY PRICE
1 'U -auart
I DC »i«
Round with beautiful
swirl design on top.
Molds tempting desserts,
salads. Same shape also
In small molds.
FRY PANS
SPECIAL PRICES
$1.19 8-Ineh
| Site
7-In., 7Be; 9-in.. fl.SOt
10-In.. tl.BS
Pried foods are done to
a turn In this deep, thick
Aluminum pan. Bakellte
handle stars cool.
THIS HANDY
SAUCE POT SET
SPECIAL PRICE
SET OF 4 WITH COVERS
2. 3, 4
and S
i Quart
Matched set for stewing, boiling,
soup making. Sixes meet needs of
ever; family. Dome shaped covers.
*
PEOPLES HARDWARE
FOR DELIVERY—Lincoln 10430*4044; WOodloy 5311; Adorno 1641
. 4
EISEMAN’S
F STREET
AT 7th
FINAL ]
\ CLOSE OUT
SALE
[ $22.50 and $25
SUITS
/ TOPCOATS I
*15
Greatest values of the
season ... our regular
stock all-wool garments 1
\ drastically reduced for I
\ clearance. All sizes. J