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Trio of Cermons
 Extremists United
 in Ne,U Movement
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the circle and lands in the com- munists' ranks, they assert.
 Thaelmann ran a bad third in the presidential race of 1925 when ven Hindenburgh was elected, but no doubt will try again when the Field Marshals term ends next May. He received 1,931 900 votes as against 14,655,oOO for von Hin denburg and l3,751 900 for Wilhelm Marx, Roman Catholic centrist can didate.
 But since then the communists in the reighstag have increased from 45 to 77 and the party has made hig gains in the industrial centers of the Rhineland, West phalia, T'huringia, Saxony and Si- lesia.
 Thaelmann as youth toiled on the waterfront of Hamburg, his na- tive city, and is still listed as a transport worker" He started as a Social Democrat but went With the left wing when that party split in world war days.
 Thaelmann was called to Moscow two years ago to explain why a general workers revolution had not taken place May 1, 1929. There was lot of street fighting, but the republican authorities had not been caught mapping and the movement was squelched.
 Thaelmann's explanation was so convincing that the Moscow party organization made him an honor ary member and gave him a vote of confidence.
 Thaelmann is a quiet, husky man of 45 with square head and calm eyes. He bides his time with the calm conviction that conditions are working for communism, that Hit lerism is but a passing phase and must in due course give way to a dictatorship of the proletariat.
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HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Oct. 28. city has instituted a one hour session of police court at II pm. each Saturday as an economic and humane measure. The city will be saved the cost of boarding minor offenders over Sunday, while the prisoners whose cases are cleared up in the late session can be with their families instead of in jail.
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Automotive engineers are predict ing that seventy-five miles an hour will be the normal speed of pass enger automobiles within the next five or ten years. s'
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ELKS' ROLL CALL TONIGHT
 At 8 o'clock. Visiting brothers welcome. All members requested to be present. adv. M. H. SIDES, Secretary.
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BRIDGE PARTY

Misses Alberta Gallwas and Ger trude Waltonen entertained at three tables of bridge last night at the Gallwas home. First prize went to Mrs. Elton Engs tr om for high score; second to Miss Elizabeth Sey, and consolation to Miss Belva Williams After cards, the hostesses served delicious refreshments.
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himself under complete control once more. The madness had gone. I'll admit, though, that had hoped the change in you was due to- something else"1
 Sam'S eyes wandered from his. You mean that you hoped I'd come to care more about you. Well, l have come to care more about you-a lot more"
 He did not move. But you can't say that you love me? Is that it?
 She was silent.
 You kissed me, Sam" he re- minded her gently. Tt wasn't just an ordinary kiss. It meant some thing What did it mean?"
 TT don't know"
 Don't you want to love me, Sam?'
 "Yes, I want to love you. want to love you-terribly! But"
 But, what?"
 But I don't see how I can" Her eyes were wide. Its impossible, Peak" she said in a small tired voice.
 He ins t antly knew what she meant. She meant that it was inn possible for her to love him because of Freddy Munson. Freddy Munson stccd in the way Freddy's presence suddenly filled the entire summer house, and Peak resented it. He resented it SO deeply. that he said something he was bitterly to regret.
 s'Impossible?" The words were cold. Why is it impossible, unless there is somebody else. There isn't anybody else, is there, Sam?"
 6am said nothing. Her wide eyes merely became wider and wider and then suddenly filled with tears. After an interval of silence Peak shuddered and shook his head as thosigl1 emerging from a bad dream. IIhen he said roughly: Don't pay
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SYNOPSIS: Loved by two mCl, Sam Shcrrill refuses Fred dy Munson, whom she loves, and accepts Peak Abbott, pop ular young millionaire, because of her family's need for money. Her stcpfathcr, Fourth Alder cea, suddenly becomes wealthy through the mysterious sale of worthless invention, and Sam turns from work to play.
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FIRE ALARM CALLS

1-3 Third and Franklin. l-4 Frcnt and Franklin, Is Front. near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front. near Oross. AptA IT Front, opp. City Wharf. 1-8 Front. near saw Niil. 1-9 Front at A. J. Office. 2-1 willoughby at Totem oro-
 cery. 2-3 Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole's
 Barn.
 2-4 Front and Seward. 2-5 Front and Main. 2-6 Second and Main. 2-7 Fifth and Seward. 2-9 Fire Hall.
 s-2 dastineau and Rawn Way. S-4 Second and Gold. 3-b Fourth and Harris. S-6 Fifth and Gold, s-7 Fifth and East. s-8 Seventh and oola. 3-s Fifth and Kennstiy. Fl Ninth. back of power house 4-2 Calhoun. opp. esayiew An 4-3 Dstin Ave. and Indian eta 4-5 Ninth and CAlhbun. 4-e seventh and MAin. 4-7 Twelfth, B. P. R. earaea t-e HooAs ofoces3. s-l Scatter Tract.
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LANDMARK OF
 PARIS MOVES

PARIS, Oct. 28- The famous Cafe de la Paix on the Place de lOpera, where the world has eaten and drunk since 1870, has been busted from it's corner by a new bank building. The cafes new loca- tion is a few hundred feet away on the Boulevard des Capucines.
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JOHN LAURIE HAS
 SERIOUS ILLNESS

John Laurie, well-known resident of Juneau, is seriously ill at the home of MT. and Mrs. L. J. Jewett. Mrs. Jewett is a daughter and John w. Laurie and Allen Laurie, of this city, are sons of John Laurie.
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The prescription filling capacity of American drug stores has been estimated by department of con- merce expert to be more than 10 '.imes as great as the demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
The Recalcitrant Witness.

The Commissioners committee OF
lawyers investigating the late lamented
grand jury's special report attacking
the Police Department has chosen to
conduct its inquiry in secret. 1t has
examined witnesses and documents be-
hind closed doors and has declined to
discuss what progress, If any, has been
made toward discovery of the nugget
of truth that lies buried somewhere
beneath the maze Of charges and vague
accusations. The report of its find-
ings will be made in due time.
The alternative procedure would have
been to conduct another three-rms
circus, witis the flve respected and self
respecting lawyers, jealous of their own
professional regulations and their own
good names, holding the hoops and
cracking the whip for a parade Of ir-
responsible publicity seskers through
the headlines.
1t is believed the lawyers chose the
right method. They are interested only
in getting at the truth. They are serv-
ing the interests of the community and
not the accusers or the defendant Po-
lice Department Any talk of their be-
ing Influenced by sinister motives is
silly md shallow, and nobody Ktth three
grains Of sense will take it seriously.
Fer the moment, they have run UP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
The Race for Priority.

Americans are regarded the world
over as hustling people, enterprising,
active, eager for opportunities. This
reputation has been earned by several
generations of intensive activity in in
dustry and in business. George Wash
ingsor's standard of being ''first in war
and first in peace ana first in the hearts
of his countryn en-" has been adopted
by millions of his fellow Anerioans, who
have tried always to he first in line in
any gathering or endeavor. Just now
this eagerness to be up in front is mani
Testing itself in a characteristic man
ner with the sacrifices of time that
are made by aspirants for the honors
of being first to get into the base ball
parks in st. Louis and Philadelphia
for the world series games. A Sedalia,
No. man won that distinction in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
Frsrca-Am sr:c:n Unity.

That YES a fitting curtain which
was raised al Paris yesterday to tbs
months Franco-Emcrican amenit cs in
Washing on, when President Doumer
end Araba 3sador Edge dedicated PERISH
ing Hail, the American Legion's perma-
nent memorial building in the French
capital Addressing not only visible
rarisian audience. but the people Of ell
France ana the United States as we'll,
by means of radio, the President of the
Republic made an eloquent plea for a
Franco-Ar.eric entente, NJ. Dou-
rler called for cooperation b3tween
the two countries as the urgent need
Of the hcur in e world whore self-con-
f;Gence, es well as It's mater Il we'll be-
ing, has bce:l shaken to lis formations
IT, Ame.iccn and French peoples,
along with f. cir neighbors il both
hemisrheres, will hear much Of the
same kind OF sentiments this October,
because the United States is about to
welcome an extraordinarily Cistin-
guishcd company OF Frenchmen to its
shores. They will be headed by Mar
shall Petsin, soldier-hero, and group
OF descendants of Lafayette, Rocham-
beau and De erase, who are coming to
participate in the 150th anniversary
Of the surrender of CORVALLIS at York
town. No sooner will this memorable
celebration have passed into the an
nais than Pierre Laval, prime minister
of r ance, viii become the guest OF
President Hoover and the American
Nation.
Al any time such meeting of French
and American minds would be note
worthy. Amid Mother Earths pres
ent-hour tribulations, it is an event
of far more than ephemeral interest
when the s.atezmen Of the two coun-
tries holding between them the balance
of the worlds money power come to-
gether to consider ways and means of
re-establishing international equilibrium
in economics and correlated fields.
Senator Borah, who, as chairman OF
the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relation naturally VIII inquire con-
spicuously in the combinations with
NJ. Laval, bespeaks for the premier "a
cordial welcome" Mr.. Borah is riIht.
too, in suggesting that European power
wlelders of NJ. Laval's caliber cannot
be blind to certain "inhibit.onS" which
exist in the United States toward issues
weighing heavily upon the Old Worlds
distracted soul But that nothing except
good, goodwill and good progress
toward a better world, can eventuate
from the forthcoming FTanco-American
interchanges is not to be doubted for a
moment.
Pershing Hall takes its place among
the historic edifices of beautiful Paris
at a psychological moment. Historians
may have to record that the date of
its 'unveiling" conceded with a new
and far-reaching orientation in the
relations of those old friends and COM
rades in arms, the republics Of France
and the United States.
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Mound City by holding his place at
the head Of the queue for eighty hours
while waiting for the gates to open for
the first game OF this base ball classic.
He persisted to the end, and not only
gained first choice Of the bleacher seats,
but wen wager Of 5000. Even as the
crowd was gathering at ct. Louis be-
hind this pioneer two men took places
ct the bleacher gate at Shibe Park, in
Philadelphia. ON Wednesday night
Trey took their Seats. determined to
stay at their posts until Monday. If
they succeed Inc this enterprise they
will haze broken the St. Louis record of
eighty hours by having waited at the
gate for at least one hundred and thirty
hours. Relays Of associates will keep
them In food and drink and attend to
their comfort.
This is perhaps reflection Of the
condition OF unemployment that pre-
walls. Maybs these men in St. Louis
and in Philadelphia have rotaing else
to do. Winning wegers of 5000 each will
Z perhaps constitute employment, prob
, ably better than any pay they could
get from the casual jobs they might
find with more commendable form of
enterprise. 1t does not, however, set a
very praiseworthy example to their
/ fellows.
The desire to be first manifested
itself recently in New York, where q
new hotel was opened in substitution
for famous hosiery destroyed a year
or so ago to make room for q giant
business skyseraper. Applications for
| the FIRST registration were filed weeks
before the structure was completed.
There was veritable race for the
privilege Of holding the first receipted
bill for entertainment, to be preserved
as a priceless souvenir. just what sat-
isfaction is gained from such distinc-
! ton passes understanding. 1t may be
/ that the tradition of American hustle
inspires these competitions that yield
no advantage and entail sacrifices of
time and energy and money. Analysts
OF the American psychology will find
these manifestations interesting and
| perhaps instructive
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81 Pct. of City Noise
Laid to Street Cars
40 the Editor OF The star:

To the Editor of The Star:
was interested IN Mr.. H. c. Aliens
remarks on the street railway system
and habits, and also in Mr.. p. D. Ga
ble's answer thereto, which sounds like
that of a railroad employe from its ar
gument. I must say that an expert
ence of so years in Washington and
some travel elsewhere makes my views
largely coincide with those of Mr.. Allen
rather than MIR Gable. A little travel
will show Mr. Gable what he fails to
find in the railway journals. In the
suburbs of Boston, not the city proper,
he will find just as noisy cars and
worse streets and a scent fare. For
an example one is enough. II lot
of the financial and statistical efforts
were transferred to providing service,
would be gained If the Utilities Com
mission could cause a lessening of the
81 per cent of city noise caused by
street cars, by making them adjust
their gearing, tighten their structures
and operate with less abandon. There
is no fair excuse for a utility which
carries but a small percentage OF clti-
zens occupying the attention of every
body on the streets. to the exclusion OF
conversation, by noises which can be
cut out.
AS to loops and cutbacks, it is known
that riders come In from all directions
and 1t is just as easy and preferable to
run cars through the city as to tie up
traffic to cut back for another load. The
car company might get more business
If it stuck to schedules as regularly as
1t did years ago when Mr.. Gable used
to get his car regularly, instead Of
altering runs just as patrons get used
to them. While many employees work
from am. to 4:30 pm, the rush
extends from Z to 10 am. and to pm,
or longer, or would if the companies
furnished the service. Just now the
early bird necSs an auto to get to work.
A rush" hour j. one which requires a
lot of straphangiag, and no more, as
patrons can no longer hang on cars
like bees on twiE.
Lastly, we are using the taxiS be-
cause of the jerking, jolting and other
discomforts of street cars and many
consider the BUSES worse than the
cars. Get that? And three in taxi
cost 90 cents as against 5 tokens or
80 cents in street car. w. E. ALLEN.
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against a recalcitrant witness In the
rer-on Of Frederick A. Schenck, a former
policeman now serving a penitentiary
sentence for robbery. Mr.. Schenck will
not talk to the lawyers. He does not
trust them He wants witnesses to be
present, either newspaper reporters or
G. United STATES Ee>ator. He fears he
VIII BE- "irsmeS." lie has framing on
the brain
If fIr. Sohenek is setuated by those
s.hl!raeiy noSle sentiments that he
claims moved him to break his silence
in the first place to appear before the
grand jury, he will be willing to tell
his story. simply end truthfully, so
that justice will be done. If not, there
is nothing to be gained By seeking tc
humor him. The quicker he is sent
bcc'I to the Jail where he belorg1, the
better It will be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
Sympathy for JObless
Needed, Saws Observer

To the Editor OF The star.
Saturday nights Star publishes a
provocative communique from Mr.. G.
w. Irving. who voices his objections to
those urging a reduction of ''one-sixth
in the salaries of Government clerks,
TO be used to provide employment for
those out of work"
Although ] am not Government
clerk, nor yet a member of the unem-
ployed, and heartily indorse Mr.. Irving S
high opinion of the generosity of these
clerks. I nevertheless deplore his i'll
advised insinuation that the tobless are
jobless largely because Of their tenn
peramental aversion for certain kinds
of work While that may be true OF
a negligible proportion, to intimate that
such Incidence is generally char
acteristic of the appalling millions
without Job is an aspersion as I'M
warranted as it is uncharitable. His
sensible and humane defense OF Gov
eminent clerks does not. unfortunately,
prevent him from adding the insult of
lazinesS to the already desperate plight
Of the myriads genuinely seeking work.
In the columns of The Star we fire.
quently read of the drastic wage cuts
recently inaugurated in our major in
dustries Yet there is no dearth of
applicants seeking these jobs. For, re-
gardless of their previous station in
life, the unemployed with kith and
kin dependent upon them have had
it sternly borne in on them that an
empty stomach is no chooser. More
over your correspondent seems obliVious
Of the commonplace fact that the AK
OF unemployment falls first and fore
most upon the unskilled. and these
have never cultivated a taste for genteel
Jobs or comfortable compensation.
AHr Yr1an oh uiuoT hnffnr
evidence of his humanity had he eX-
tended his sympathy to all classes of
labor whose standard of living is being
constantly menaced by the threat of
wage reductions.
JULIUS DAVIDSON.
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Law Cited as TO South.
west Farmers Market

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial in The Sunday Star
gives rise to the following thought:
This market was authorized in an act
of March Q, 1929 LAS Stat, l487), the
first paragraph of which reads
That the Commissioners OF the Dis
trict of Columbia be, and they are
hereby, authorized and directed to &C
Quire by purchase or By condemnation
or partly by purchase and partly by
condemnation, as they may deem best,
the whole of squares numbered 354 and
3E5, as shown on the plat books in the
office of the surveyor of the District OF
Columbia and when same shall have
been acquired to close to public occu-
patton and use as a street all OF F
street southwest within the adjacent
curb lines Of Tenth and Eleventh streets
southwest, the area Of said squares ana
the portion of F street southwest, when
same shall have been acquired and
closed, to be used and occupied by the
District of Columbia as and for the
purpose of a wholesale farmers produce
market"
An act of July 8, 1880 (46 Stat,
952), carried the appropriation OF $3Oo,-
600 for the acquisition of said squares,
their leveling and grading and the de-
yelopment of the said market; out notn-
ing therein contained revoked or mool-
ned any provision Of the said act OF
March 2, 1929.
The language Of the above-quoted
paragraph seems to be clear and DEN
mite. 1t contemplates the acquisition
Ito secure fee simple title) OF the whole
of both squares and by two methods
only-namely, purchase or condemna-
ton. Then follows language making
such acquisition a condition precedent
to the closing of a part OF street
southwest, for the statute recites when
same Cthe said squares) shall have been
acquired" the portion Of F street south
west is to be closed. Further along IN
the same paragraph both the acQuisi-
ton of said squares tin the manner
prescribed in the act) and the closing
of F street southwest between Tenth
and Eleventh streets southwest are
made conditions precedent to the use
and occupancy of the area for a whole
sale farmers produce market.
An acquisition. of any part OF either
of those squares by any free use, rental
or leasing arrangement would not only
not be sanctioned by the law. but would
be violative of the clearly expressed In
tent of the legislation.
Had the market in question been
made the subject of referendum. II
would have been defeated overwhelm-
ingly by District of Columbia taxpay-
ers as a project that they neither
needed nor desired, and that they were
averse to paying for. To resort to any
unlawful thing to accomplish its de
velopment would not increase its PAL
liability. E. S. HEGE.
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Cat License Law Urged
As Health PrecautiOn

TO the Eoltor OF Inc star:
In your issue Of September Is I no.
ticed a letter from Eleanor w. Hite
relating to cats.
She complains first that persons in
Washington were poisoning cats. This,
of course, Is grossly inhumane.
The lady then goes on to tell about
the value of cats as catchers of mice
and rats.
Our organization was formed for the
purpose Of investigating the depreda-
tionS of stray cats on our bird and
small game life in the woods and as
carriers Of disease in the cities. Ex-
pertS say there are 10000 900 cats in
the United States, 60 per cent of which
are strays, heartlessly abandoned by
human beings. In the country districts
these eats become hunters and are the
worst enemies we have Of bird and
made on the authority Of the late John
Burroughs, the late DR.. Edward Howe
Forbush in his pamphlet, 1.-The Do
nestle Cat" and DR.. w. T. Hornaoay,
trustee of the Permanent Wild Life
Protection Fund, who now lives in
Stamford, Conn.
All wild animals put together do not
destroy as many birds as do these
killer" cats in the woods.
What about cur cities? In the City
of New York there are 100000 cats
IS per cent of them strays. These also
have been abandoned by human beings
who took them in as pets. They live on
the bounty of storekeeperS or In garbage
cans and sleep where they may. Exist
ing amidst Nth, weakened by starvation
they naturally pick up disease just
as human derelictS would. Medical
authorities have proven that cats are
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Related Awards.

If the War Department does not
speed up its work in regard to the
award of honors for outstanding bravery
during the Great War its list Of heroes
will probably either be depleted by the
onslaughtS of the Grim Reaper or the
heroes will have forgotten just what
they did to attain the medals. For in
stance, stick full of type today an
nounces that Lucius G. Hughes Of
Monroe, La, sergeant in the 151st
Division, has just been given sill
YER star citation by the War Depart
ment for locating group of his COM
rades who were lost in No Mans Land
in the early part of 1918.
Sergt. Hughes is undoubtedly de-
lighted at this honor, belated though it
is, but how much more delighted he
would have been if his achievement
had been recognized before thirteen
years had passed. The United States
Government can claim no laurels for
its work in prompt recognition of its
soldiers, sailors and marines. 1t took
Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, Americas
outstanding ace of the air, who downed
twenty-six Germans in desperate COM
bat, something over ten years to get
his Congressional Medal of Honor, and
the presentation ceremonies for that
reason took on a somewhat farcical
aspect.
So, If the department wants to re-
ward its heroes while they are still
alive and can remember the stirring
feats that brought them the applause
Of a grateful nation, 1t would be well
to add a few more clerks to the staff
which is now peering into the almost
musty files of war days, to single out
those to whom honors are due. If 1t
does not the country will probably be
treated to the spectacle of white-haired
old gentlemen in wheel chairs receiving
their just dues for deeds performed
twenty or thirty or forty years ago.