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Evening star., 1930-12-17
FRENCH STORE BOMBED
BY MYSTERIOUS COUPLE
None Hurt by Explosion Which
Awakens Lyon Inhabitants.
witness Gives Glue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AsBOclabeu FIeNB.
LYON, France, December IA
bomb placed on the sidewalk In front
of a big department store here exploded
at 500 am. today, creating tremen-
dous conLussion which awoke the in
habitafits OF this city.
Windows of the store and of adjoining
buildings were shattered. Nobody was
injured.
A witness to the explosion said that
just prior to the blast he saw a man
carrying package walk to the store,
leave his package on the sidewalk and
reJoin mysterious woman in black.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
IKE BLOOM DIES AT 65

CHICAGO, December II R.-Isaac
Gitelson, better known as Ike Bloom
the best known figure in Chicago's
night life for many years-died Mon
day night.
Bloom, once power in Democratic
politics, operated Frieberg's cafe, the
brightest spot Of the Twenty-second
street district. two decades ago. he
was 65 years old.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
EMERGENCY PAY ROLL
WILL EXCEED MILLION
New York Committee Reports De-
mand for Jobs Continues.
$4,000, 900 Fund Sought.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
Emergency Employment Committee Of
New York City, today reported that by
the enc of this week the total nav roll
already expended will exceed 1000, 600.
Funds raised by the committee are
pelng used to pay the wages Of 81 ,3SE
heads of families, who have been r,ro-
v1ded with work In the city departments
and in -profit-making institutions,
The demand for jobs, the committee re-
ported, continues without abatement,
The committee is seeking an $4,000, 600
employment fund.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
MRS. FAHY'S RECOVERY
REGARDED DOUBTFUL
Los Angeles Flyer Has Been Un-
conscious since Crash Monday
at Tonopah, New.
by the Assoclated Press.

ToNOPAIi, New, December 17.-Hos-
pital attendants today said chances
were slight for the recovery OF Mrs.
Claire Fahy, Los Angeles flyer, who suf-
fered q fractured skull when her air.
plane crashed here Monday. She has
remained unconscious since the acct.
dent.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
PRESIDENT TO RECEIVE
REPORT ON PROHIBITION
Commission Expected to File It's
Conclusions on Law Enforcement
at an Early Date.

BY the Associated Press.
The Law Enforcement Commission
now Is expected at the White House to
report It's conclusions on prohibition to
President Hoover in two or three weeks.
White House offleials said today the
report would be transmitted to Con-
gress as soon as 1t has been received
and studied by the President.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
SENATE DROUGHT
RELIEF BILL is CUT
AND FOOD LOAN HIT

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1930-12-17
Fair Tax Burden Hard to Fix.

"Tne difference between the fair tan
the people OF the District pay ana the
amount Congress believes to be neces-
sary to maintain the Capital City,"
Donovan replied He explained, how
ever, that he thought the committee
would find it dificult to establish a
fair tax burden for the District in COM
psrlson with that in comparable cities.
The committee did not complete Its
examination of Maj Donovan and he
will be recalled the latter part OF the
week. Chairman Mapes announced
that tomorrow the committee had ar
ranged TO hear Representatives Of the
Citizens Joint Committee on Fiscal Re-
lations. Maj. Donovan likely will be
called backed to the witness stand en-
Friday.
Evening star., 1930-12-17


I'VE are encouraged to find that this
same impetience appears also in the
writings of those whose study Of the
Constitution has been infinitely more
thorough and able than our own. So
Prof Burgess in his Political Science
and Constitutional Law
There is q growing feeling among
our jurists and pub'icists that. In the
Interpretation Of the Constitution, we
are not to be strictly held b. the In.
t-rtions Of the frar1Ars. especially since
the whole fabric CT ouf rta.e ilrs-baen
so change1 by the re-ults CT -e5ell!ou
End civil war. They are bs..nflins 60
feel, and rightly, too, that pre-cnt COR
diticflr, relations end reauitemnnts
should be the chief consif eretion, snd
that when the language of the Consti-
tuition will psAf It, these should de-
termine the Interpretation Vol. /, Do.
lb3-l54."
"And viscount Bryce, IN his Studies
In History and Jlirisprudance':
TO this the Australians replied that
Smyrna times., 1930-04-02

The Williamson bill divides the
United States into ten official ad-
ministration districts, with the
same boundaries as those now al
located to the Federal judicial cir
cults. One of the Pennsylvania
administrators, under the pending
program, will be put in charge OF
prohibition enforcement for the
Department of Justice in the third
judicial circuit area, which lnclud-
es all of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware, while the other will
be employed by the Treasury to
have charge of its permissive al
cohol distribution and Withdrawals
throughout the third judicial cir
cult division, it was learned. Al
though the Department of Justice
Job is the more important of the
two and despite the fact that there
were rumors that it would go to
Colonel Wynne, Government oftic-
iaIs declared privately that 1T is a
toss-up" as to whether Wynne OF
Pennington will get the chief ad-
ministrative job. Under the scheme
being worked out, administration
of prohibition enforcement and the
alcohol control throughout the
third circuit will be handled from
headquarters in Philadelphia, while
deputies viii be sent to a sub-head-
quarters at Pittsburgh.
Smyrna times., 1930-04-02
AT MIDDLETOWN THEATRE
All Talking Pictures Now Being
Shown at the Everett Theatre

Monday and Tuesday the
theotrical magnificence that the
name Florenz Ziegfeld implies will
be seen and heard when "Glorify-
ing the American Girl opens. In
"Glorifying the American Girl,
Ziegfeld truly out-Ziegfelds him
self in spectacular production. The
great maestro of magnificence has
put every bit Of his marvellous
genius into the supervision Of this
glamorous masterpiece.
/ Wednesday and Thursday There
are few persons who have not
heard Of Rudy Vallee, orchestra
leader. .crooner of songs. radio
idol of millions. This opportunity
viii be afforded to see and hear
Rudy in an entirely different role
that of an actor He is featured
in Radio Pictures all-talking, sing
ing, dancing comedy-drama THE
4 Vagabond Lover" his first feature
length screen play. Playing oppo-
site him is Sally Blame.
Friday-Radio Pictures power
full all-talking drama, Girl of the
Port" adapted from John Rus
sell short story The photoplay
features Sally O'Neil, popular Irish
beauty, and Reginald Sharland,
English leading man, in the two
leading roles Mitchell Lewis plays
the heavy" role.
Saturday-At exactly the same
time when the new queen of the
seas, the liner Bremen, was max
ing new records ploughing across
the mighty Atlantic, the pictures
que stern paddle-wheels of fifty
wears ago were making another
Smyrna times., 1930-04-02
STATE IN NEW DRY AREA
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Also
in District Under Williamson Bill

in District Under Williamson Bill
Colonel Samuel Q. Wynee, Fed
eral Prohibition Administrator for
the Eastern District of Pennsyl-
vania, or Commander John D. Pen
nington, Administrator for the
Western District of Pennsylvania,
will be placed in charge of a new
prohibition enforcement area, en-
bracing Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware, under a Federal re-
organization scheme being mapped
out in the Treasury Department
and Department of Justice confer
ences. The shifting Of executives
/ is dependent on passage of the
Williamson bill by the Senate, and
! is expected to take place month
after enactment. The Williamson
bill, carrying the recommendations
of President Hoover's Commission
on Law Enforcement, which were
approved by the President, Secre-
tary of the Treasury Andrew w
Mellon and Attorney General Viii
liam Dew. Mitchell, has been pass
ed by the House of Representa-
tives and is awaiting the disposi.
ton of the Tariff Bill before being
considered by the Senate. Under
the bill, a nationwide reorganiza-
tion of prohibition enforcement
forces is required, with the De.
partment of Justice being giver
charge of enforcement activities
and the Treasury being put il
charge of official permissive distri
button of alcohol and other liquors
Smyrna times., 1930-04-02

It is reported that the State
Highway Department will start
condemnation proceedings against
the erection of an oil station in
the triangle made by the intersec-
ton of the Milford cutoff and the
Rehoboth boulevard on the south
side of the new draw bridge.
Smyrna times., 1930-04-02

sort of a record at the Universal
Studio during the filming of '"The
Mississippi Gambler"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
NeurOtics Prove Best
In College Classes

There is no relation between neurotic
personality and either intelligence or
scholarship, personality tests of nearly
TOO freshmen at the University Of Chi
cago indicate. Those freshmen CLASH
fed as neurotic on the basis Of their
answers to personality QUESTIONABLE
proved to be on the average better
students than their well-adjusted class
mates. An explanation advanced for
this superiority Is that the neurotic
student has few social distractions and
therefore concentrates more on scholas-
tic attainments.
The study, made under direction Of
l.. L. Thurstone, professor Of psychology,
also suggests that the fundamental
characteristic of the neurotic personality
is an imagination which fails to express
itself effectively on external social
reality. Neurotic students betrayed an
extreme dif1dence and feeling Of social
tnferiority. I'm the more serious forms
OF emotional maladjustn1ent the In
dividual either gives up his attempt to
adjust or he makes erratic and con.
spicuously ineffective attempts to gain
his social ends" DR.. Thurstone s
report says.
A much larger percentage of the
neurotic students came from homes
with unhappy family life than did the
well adjusted group. The investiRa-
tors believe that the explanation Is that
neurotic personality Is inherited. and
that the child Of unhappily married
neurotic parents cannot overcome the
double handicap of an unstable con-
stttution and unfavorable home en-
Vironment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Saharan Possibilities
Are Stressed at Meeting

A congress Of 1.-THE Rose and Orange"
was held recently at the enchanting
oasis of Eel Golea," in the heart of the
Sahara. Among the distinguished
guests Of the meet included M. NAL
larme, undersecretary Of public works;
M. Picard, former minister Of agricul-
ture: Owen Dawson, representative OF
the Department of Agriculture OF the
United States; Sir Harvey Mason of
the Royal Society of Agriculture Of
London, and many prominent persons
from both Russia and Germany.
The aim of the congress was to show
to the world the possibilities lying in
the Saharan oasis for the creation OF
beautiful gardens md orchards like
those of Eel Golea," where, owi..g to the
ideal Winter temperature and the ex-
ceptional quality of its subterranean
water, every fruit, flower and vegetable
of the Old and the New World grow
easily, including oranges and dates. 1t
IS really a sight which can never be
forgotten, when after motor drive
started at 5 in the morning along the
lifeless and dreary sandhills. and across
rocky plateaux. one glances at sunset
on the first well-waterec palm groves
encircling the small half-Arab, half
Negro city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Japanese Inaugurate
''Buy at Home" Policy

The ministry of railways has publicly
announced that 1t will give preference
TO Japanese owned and managed firms
in the purchase Of railway equipment,
thus putting in concrete form what has
heretofore been a purely theoretical, but
none the less accepted, proposition.
Some CONSERVATION resulted when
Vice Minister of Railways Aoki said
without mincing matters that when
other things were equal the foreign
trading companies here would have to
give way to the japanese. Interviewed
by foreign newspaper men, however, he
pointed out that this was only natural
and had happened in any country which
had gradually developed its industry to
a place where it could supply local
needs. The gradual lessening Of the
activity of foreign business men in
Japan has been the subject Of many
discussions.
The recent decision Of the railway
authorities to buy whenever possible
from Japanese firms, virtually shows
how the place of the foreign trader
has been taken by the Japanese.
Foreigners, who have place in the
business world here now are those who
are trained in special lines and find an
opportunity to serve as technical adj
visers to large Japanese concerns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Marking Given Aspect
Of Nine O'Clock Town

Marking, new China's newest capital,
may well be described today as a 9
o'clock town ruled by Puritanical vtr-
tues. but with history behind it de-
scribing it as formerly one of the gayest
spots of Old Cathay. After o'clock
hardly a soul is to be found on its
streets. and few foreigners living there
residing at the one and only foreign no.
tel. are in bed by That hour, II not
sooner. Markings purity Of spirit Is
the result of the Nationalist govern
nents determination to make the city
a model capital, harboring all OF the
virtues and none of the "ices OF MOD
ern civilizations. The minister OF the
interior. or social affairs, has done MS
work SO thoroughly that thousands, OF
small resorts along the once familiar
lakeside Broadway" have been forced
to close. Government Office hours are
from 8 am. to 8 pm. and then comes
supper and bed. AS result week END
trains to Shanghai are packed and &C
commodations are booked days IN ad-
vance, for though Marking Is IN fact the
capital of China flve and half days q
week Shanghai becomes the capital
from Saturday noon to Monday morn
ing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
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are, and that, too. is as much as any
one should expect.
"They say women don't stand to-
pected to stand together, and they
would not be intelligent If they did.
They got over being sheep when they
worked for the vote. An example OF
how impossible 1t Is to expect women
to stand together or to vote for an
other woman just because she Is q
woman Is evidenced In the campaign
Of Mrs. Medill Mccormick for the Re-
publican nomination for Senator in Il
linois. Mrs. Mccormick is as clever as
any woman in political life, but she Is
running on a platform Of opposition to
the World Court, while the leader OF
her party, the Republican President Of
the United States, favors the World
Court. Now, then, women who believe
in the World Court and women who
want to be loyal to their President and
party find themselves unable to vote
for Mrs. Mccormick, much as they
would like to If her personality alone
were concerned.
II never expected we would get many
women in Congress. In the organiza.-
of Congress carry party patronage, and
no party has yet reached the point
where 1t can quite trust women To
hand out patronage which has SO
marked an effect on elections.
"I do find women much more intelli-
gent on political problems. Put it this
way. In any given community you
could undoubtedly find few who were
experts on difficult political problems,
such as the World Court, tariff. farm
relief and control Of public utilities,
but I believe that in that community
YOU would find more women than men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Women Taking Advantage of Suffrage;
Hold Offices and Places of Party Power

who were able to carry on an intelli-
gent conversation about those topics
and who had the hardihood and mental
energy to study them. Problems Of ma
tional finance might be an exception,
for women as a rule are not in bust
ness and they do not take easily to the
study Of financial problems.
Women are more interested In local
problems than they are in national
ones, and so are men. All over the
country there have been instances Of
local 'clean-ups' since women got the
vote, and the direct influence OF women
on their small community politics has
been very great, although, Of course, 1t
Is difficult to measure this in Nation
wide terms.
Another way of measuring the eff
feet of woman suffrage is to recall that
when the amendment was first ratified
many men politicians who had not ap-
proved of 1t threatened to repeal the
law and put women back In their
homes. Nobody talks Of such a thing
now, and I cannot imagine any poll
tician proposing to attempt to take the
vote away from women. II he did, ell
those women who seem Indifferent to-
day and more interested In their own
affairs than the Nations, would rise
up in arms.
mo, there is nothing to be discour-
aged about. I always believe that there
is some great omnipotent law of evo-
luton which has got its strong hands
under us and around, and is constantly
rushing us forward, so that we are
never going to stop. Now and then we
let ourselves get involved in war or
something contrary to the forward
moving processes. we have a setback,
IL -
moving forward again, but believe we
always shall. and that little by little
we areSlearning how to avoid some Of
those set-backs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Rome Purse Snatcher
Slaps Face of Victim

In Italy there is no unwritten law
exempting women from corporal pun
ishment and if mans mistress hap
pens to be unfaithful it is more or
less in order for him to resort to cave
man methods. Thus it happens that a
Roman purse snatcher with a yen for
the original has been able to defy the
local police successfully for many weeks.
The method of attack which he follows
is to approach a goodlooking woman
(who might reasonably be supposed to
have a lover) on the street and, no
matter how many people happen to be
standing about, to begin calling her
names and slapping her face. Onlookers
generally take it for granted that the
man is simply administering wen-earned
punishment to his unfaithful lover and
view the proceedings with interest, If
not with sympathy. Eventually the
man stops beating his victim and walks
away before she is able to explain that
she doesn't know him and that-what is
more to the point-her purse is missing.
So far the number of purses snatched
in this manner has reached three and
the police have no clue to the identity
of the crook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06

and more particularly by a covered
wagon pilgrimage taken by Boy Scouts
to independence Rock, wyoming. In
August there will be presentations OF
pioneer pageant, prepared by the Play.
grounds and Recreation Association OF
America.
Date to Be Celebrated.
On October 10 the hundredth ami
versary of the return of the first COW
cred wagon train to st. Louis will be
celebrated, and on December 20, the
birthday of Ezra Meeker and closing
date of the Covered Wagon Ceptennial,
final appropriate programs VIII De
given.
And all through the period concerted
efforts will be made to collect letters,
diaries, photographs and other histor1-
cal material relating to the, greatest OF
all emigration movements, which will be
enshrined In libraries and State nu-
seurns.
So through this centennial celebra-
ton America will learn long since for
gotten bits of tragedy, drama, romance
and eventual triumph, which, when
fitted together, may tell for the first
time the complete story Of our epoch
making trek TO the Northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Increase in Suicides
Appalling to Toxic

Suicides in Greater Toxic are increas-
ing in number at q rate alarming to Of
ficials. Of the metropolitan police board,
who have been investigating the situa-
ton. In 1918 the total number of those
who took their lives was 1,164, while in
1928 it exceeded the 1000 mark. Up to
September suicides in Toxic had totaled
1900 this year. Suicide is by-product
Of modern civilization" declared DR.. Ka-
neko Of the health section of the police
board. I'm older Japan suicides were
almost unheard Of, but with the advent
Of western customs and the resulting
economic, social and industrial up
heaval the number began to increase
rapidly" Unemployment Is held to be
principally responsible. Other causes
cited by the police authorities are the
clash Of individual ideas with the ira
ditional ideas and doctrines Of society;
the inability to satisfy ones wants and
a consequent determination to end all
suffering by death, and the appearance
Of innumerable new agencies for COM
hitting suicide, such as tall buildings
railway crossings, drugs and revolvers
These last have caused marked de-
cline in the number Of suicides by hang.
ing, 1t is revealed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions to the Public Lii
brary and lists of recommended read
ing will appear in this column every
Sunday.
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Ashbee. G. R. Caricature. wMv-As3.
Bowles, Mrs. E. S. About Antiques.
WYz-B68.
Busch, Mrs B. NJ, and Maxwell, Mrs.
L. r. The Red Fog. JI-B96r.
Dilnot, George. Great Detectives and
Their Methods. 1928. IE-D5S.
Gallishaw, John. Twenty Problems of
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Gardner, Percy. The Principles of
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KrCxs; A. -o e. Playwriting for Profit.
Lambert, A. W., jr. Modern Archery.
Vel I'm.
Mackenzie. J. G. Souls In the Making.
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Macmillen, r. D. Black Horse of the
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Mallory, Sir Thomas. The Symbolic
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Waterman, P. F. The Story of Super
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Chapman, L. H. Using English. zB-
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Jones, G. M, and Yates, Arthur. Prac-
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Barton, Bruce. On the Up and Up
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La Roux, Maxim. A Complete Guide
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Bear, F. e. Theory and Practice in the
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Burr, Walter. Small Towns. RGC.
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his country was not even an
swered by the War Department.
The Army was full of more
brilliant men. Halleck, for in
stance, knew all about tactics.
In any crisis he could tell Just
what Napoleon would have
done. Mcclellan had a touch
of genius. What did Grant
have?
He had a superstition. When
he started out on anything he
hated to turn back. 1t applied
even to small things. If, when
he left the house in the morn
ing, he found he had forgotten
something he never retraced
his steps. Always he went for
ward. And when he came to
command armies he did the
!. 1901