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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

vantage Of presenting Jack Holt In
a role which. though somewhat Sub
dued, does not fail to give him an
opportunity to display those effer-
vescent qualities customarily asso-
ciated with his name.
This play was welcomed in the
original form because of the remark
able contact with the audience that
was provided by q crowded stage,
representing, q busy train in the
metropolis. On rare occasions such
contacts are provided and give force
to stage productions. This particu-
lar feature is lacking in the sp.:a~c
Of the cameraman, and the prod.G-
ton is relegated to the class where
the plot and the individual acting
must win the audience. It has much
interest, without doubt, to those who
saw the original play and to those
whose desire to view it had been
aroused by public comment on a
stage novelty. As a motion picture
1t becomes an ordinary film, and its
appeal comes up to the general
average.
Besides the good acting Of Jack
Holt, there is excellent support from
Aileen Pringle, and Fred Kelsey. as
Kearney, the of1cious police officer,
loses no opportunity to put burlesuue
into the action. AS in the original,
there Is an outstanding bit Of acting
IN the role Of Stevens, whose life is
taken as a penalty for too much
knowledge OF the original crime. In
this character there is emotional
work by Sidney Bracy, which is es-
pecially commendable. A very large
cast is employed.
The Keith program also includes
a neWsreel, a Grantland Rice film
dealing with the leaders in base
ball, organ selections, a comedy nv
Louise Fazenda and an original
Mickey Mouse cartoon, called THE
Castaway." d r r
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MAN JAILED FOR FRAUD
ON WARDEN WINS PRIZE

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1910 prisoner
No. 53,368 on Harris Island Reforma-
tory. Commissioner of Corrections Pat
terson Yesterday awarded $50 for sub
uniting the best practical suggestion on
Improving prison conditions.
Warden Mccain. pleased at the
erudition in his penal colony, looked
up the number and calculated, I'm glad
he won it. It's William Dittler."
Dittler, it seems, once got the warden
to give him cash for worthless $50
check.
Differs suggestions were more and
better food and more money on being
released. He has spent 10 Of his "a
years in prison.
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PAPER TO BE REVIVED
BY HALDEMAN- JULIUS
@y the Associated Press.

10y Lnb AbbOtIaLeh FTt6S.
GIRARD, Kans., May Ice. Haldi-
tman-JuliuS, publisher, has announced
yhe will resume within three weeks pub
slication of the Appeal to Reason, ma
itionally known Socialist journal, which
was disconti53ed in 1918.
: Haldiman-Julius said the paper would
be edited by Fred B. Warren, its for
inner editor, who, according to a tele-
igram received here, has been Endorsed
4by Clarence Senior, national secretary
tof the Socialist party.
Among the prominent writers con-
Injected with the Appeal to Reason were
Eugene v. Dehs, Kate Richards O'Hare
land Upton Sinclair
The Appeal to Reason got into diff
equities for its fortnight utterances dur
k1ng the World War. Its eclipse started
s1n 1914.
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INSURANCE DIRECTOR
NOW, WANTS TO BE TOLD COSTS
ExPresident StumPs Board by Question in Same Laconc
Way He Queried Governor at White House.

have a figure on what the cost would
be. We told him so, and he said
About how much?'
I'VE just made a guess and let It
go at that"
The former President, Mr.. Buckner
said. never uses useless words, and this
reminded him of another Coolidge story.
The Governor of Hawaii was visit
ing him at the White House" Buckner
related. He was celebrating on the
beauties of the islands and told how
year.
How many to the crate?' Mr.. Cool
idge asked.
THE Governor, like us at the board
meeting, was caught without an answer.
He later investigated and wrote letter
back to Mr.. Coolidge"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
GOV. MURRAY ACTS
TO GUST UTILITIES
Files Suit Against Ten Com
panies, Charging Restraint
of Trade and Commerce.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 16.-Gov
w. H. CAlfalfa Bill') Murray has
started custer proceedings with unex.
pected celebrity against 10 public utility
companies of the State.
Leon S. Hirsh, special attorney fol
Murray. late yesterday filed suit in
State Supreme Court asking forfeiture
of the companies holdings in Okla
homa, confiscation of their properties
and an injunction to prevent their con-
tinued operation.
Speedy Action Necessary.
Speedy action was necessary, Hirsh
said, to foreStall possible removal of
properties to veil alleged law violations.
A meeting for transfer of the properties
was scheduled for this morning in New
York. Hirsh asserted.
I'VE have rushed the filing Of the
petition" he said, Ito give full notice
of the nature of the proceedings"
Gov. Murray was listed as plaintiff in
the suit, directed against the Oklahoma
Natural Gas Corporation, the South
western Natural Gas Co., Quinton Nat
ural Gas Co. Muskogee Natural Gas
Co, Inc: Texokan Oil Co, Oklahoma
Natural Building Co.. OZard Public
Service Co., Ozark Holding Co. Ameri-
can Natural Gas Corporation and Tri-
Utilities Corporation.
Restraint CT Trade Charged.
The Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., the
Tri-Utilities Corporation and the Amer
lean Natural Gas Corporation, the suit
alleges, since May l, 1880, rave sought
Ito acquire a complete monopoly upon
the production, transportation and mar
keting of gas in Oklahoma to restrain
trade and commerce.
The Oklahoma Natural GsV Corpora
ton Is accused of having made false
and fictitious" reports for rate-fixing
and taxation purposes
Alleging interlocking ownership, the
suit charges operation of the defend
ant companies, under the conditions set
forth, is public nuisance"
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BY the Associated Press.

ST, LOUIS. May t6.-when a new
business policy is being discussed by
the board Of the New York Life Insur-
ance Co. the question usually asked
by Director Calvin Coolidge is What
would this cost us2"
Thomas A. Buckner, president, here
today for a meeting Of district repre-
sentatives of the company, chuckled as
he related in an interview several Cool
idge anecdotes.
I'VE were having a meeting not long
ago." he said, and the matter of waiv-
ing certain Of our requirements for the
benefit of our more elderly agents came
UP. There was a pause and Mr.. Cool
idge said:
"'What would this cost us?'
"Well, he had us stumped. We didn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR ARTHUR H. GILES
Former Chief Examiner of Patent
Office Is Given Private Burial
in Washington.

Funeral services for Arthur H. Giles
"a. former chief examiner of the Patent
ONCE, who died in Emergency Hospital
yesterday, were to be held at 3 O'Clock
this afternoon in Gawler's chapel, 1854
Pennsylvania avenue. Interment was
to be private.
Mr.. Giles, who retired from the Gov
eminent service last December, waS
widely known in this city. He was a
member of the University Club and
the local Alumni Association of Syra.
cuse University and a former member
Of the Columbia Country Club.
He Is survived by daughter, Mrs
Raymond Bettys of Rochester, N. Y.
and five grandchildren.
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Mother.in-Law Jokes "Out."

Don't make fun Of mothers-in-law. It
may be dangerous. That IS the word
being passed among actors of Europe
following the report of the fate of one
comedian. He was recently attacked as
he emerged from the stage door after a
performance in which he had tried to
trip up a mother n-law with a banana
skin. His assailant told him she would
teach him to make fun of mothers-in-
law Then she taught" him not to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
KAYE DON FAILS ON SPEED
Briton Travels 90 Miles Per Hour
Less Than Own Boat Mark.

GARDONE, Italy, May 16 LP).-Kaye
Don, British holder Of the world motor
boat speed record, reached a speed of
80 500 miles per hour on a mile run in
his Miss England II today, but he failed
TO break his own world record of 10373
miles per hour.
On second attempt he fell to S67l
miles per hour and abandoned any fur
ther attempt until tomorrow Today's
average was s3.ls miles per hour.
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WOMAN RIGS HOSE LINE
TO GAS SON AND SELF
Mother of Child, 10, Both Killed,
Wrote to Mate Regretting He
Still Lives.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Mrs. Theresa
Artinger. wife of an apartment house
superintendent in the Bronx, piped a
flow of gas through q 50-foot garden
hose from the kitchen range into her
bed room and asphyxiated herself and
her 10-year-old son. Roy.
In a letter to her husband she said
We are sorry we can't take you with
U.S. but the room isn't big enough"
Mrs. Artinger and her son had both
been i'll.
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Deaths Reported.

Emma B. Ankenny, ee. gao Rittenhouse st.
vernon OTndon. 81. 3206 18th St
Ida Josephine Fellinger, 81. 512S Nebraska
ave.
Lydia C.. Pulaski. So. sibley Hospital.
James Tiches, IS. 1889 II St.
Felix Martelino. ~, GallinRer Hospital:
pital.
Lucille sheEogue. month. Providence Hos
William Smith (alias Perry. 81. Gallinger
Lila Henrietta Young. so, 1910 10th st.
Inez Crowder, IS, GallingeT Hospital
Bernard Powell, months, Childrens Hos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
LURID JOURNALS FOUND
POOR MEDIUM FOR ADS

Sensation-Loving Readers Are
Called Liability to Paper at
Canada Advertising Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, May
ia message to wash your news
papers face, neck and behind the ears
to aid advertising" was before North
west advertising executives today.
v. c. Irons of Vancouver made the
recommendation at conference of the
Pacific Northwest Newspaper Adver-
Using Executives Association yesterday
IF your paper has group of read
ers that respond only to scare head
lines" Irons said. get rid of your
circulation manager. Those readers
are no coed to advertising customers
and it Is the advertising that keeps the
paper going"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16

A real Prince of Japan will visit
Los Angeles tomorrow. but he picked
a bad time to come, for on the same
day Aimee gets in here from one of
her pilgrimages and any time Aimee
returns home from anywhere, even
If It's just from the desert, why this
town goes practically ga-ga
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16

anCe IN CIle
talkies, Dorothy
Jordan making
better -than-p
feet love before
a raging Ad-
irondacls fire, a
gin soak e d
weakling turn
ing into a husky
man of the
world, and love
t r III m p ha n t
over a society
plot, all this Is
at least anus
ing, If light,
sustenallce for a
warm evening,
and may be
viewed without
froniflafiOn
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LEvIATHAN SETS RECORD
Liner Makes Turn Around In 90
Hours.

SOUTHAMPTON. England, May l6
P)-The United States liner Levia-
than cleared for New York today in
what was probably record turn around
for transatlantic shipping.
Sixty thousand pieces of linen were
washed, ironed and returned during the
% hours she was in port, the last batch
coming aboard a few minutes before
the gangplanks were lifted. She took
on 1880 tons of oil and q million gall
Ions of water in the same period.
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guages and we
d / d n t under
stand a one of
EN-, but the
minute he hn-
Lshed and the
! local stations
got back to SELL
ing corn salve
a n d pyorrhea
tooth paste we
were right up
our intellectual
alley again,
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Columbia Players,
Hell Bent on Heaven"

THE Columbia Players presented
Il their second performance of
Hell Bent fer Heaven" at the VIII
son Auditorium last evening and
with this thrilling play of the Blue
Ridge Mountains closed their regu-
lar season.
For smoothness Of action and slls-
tanned interest it was, perhaps, the
best thing the organization has pro-
duced.
Robert Chase, as RUFF, is thought
to have surpassed his work in
When the Ship Goes Down" last
year, which won him selection as
the seasons best actor in the Drama
Guild contest Orris Holland
brought the touch that might be
expected from the former star of
the London company of Friendly
Enemies" in directing the play as
well as in the Interpretation of
Dkvid the old mountaineer; Robert
Barnett was a genuine and friendly
Sid, and Aurora Poston handled her
role of Meg, the mother, with her
usual skill. Willard Miller, as Mat;
Phillip Cole, a newcomer, as the
father, and Wilma Wright, as Jude,
also gave effective support.
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Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-I guess
our country holds the record for
dumbness, the Pope spoke to the
world this morning In three Ian.
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young Sinners"
With Good Stage

~ = DUNG SINNERS" the 3
- screen version Of the
stage success which was
Il repeatedly promised to
Washington, but got mis-
laid somewhere, will probably be the
most popular of the weeks cinema
output. With Thomas 'Meighan re-
warded by applause as he walked
onto the screen for his first appear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
Subway Express"
Up to the General Average.

MURDER mystery which defies
logic and develops and is sus-
tanned in closed and crowded car
makes Subway Express" one Of the
dramatic curiosities of recent months.
And In the film version as presented
at R-K-O Keith's it has a grip on
the public interest such as was de-
veloped on the legitimate stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16

REGULAR weekly service Tor part loads 70
and from Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
pbia and New York
UNITED STATES STORAGE CO: INC,
ala 10th st NV Met. 1915
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
DE LUXE PRINTING

No question about the quality Of
National Capital Printing. Dis
tinetiYe work only a. this Million
Dollar plant.
The National Capital Press
12i0-l2l2 d St NV Phone National O65n
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ROOF WORK

of any nature promptly and capably looked
efter by practical roofeTA Call US up
KOONS Roohn: li9 3rd 81. s;w
4N\OANo Company District 0933
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D. C. STUDENT SCORES
Floyd wilIett rs One of Winners in
Radio Essay Contest.

Floyd A. willett Of Washington and
Helen K. Gibler, Topeka, Kans., yes
terday were declared winners of the
high school essay contest Of the Ma
tional Youth Radio Conference over a
coast-to-coast broadcast
John A: Morris, Charleston, s. c., and
Eleanor Gray Adams, La Grange, Ca,
won prizes in the college division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
REDS SCORN TEXAS
PROTECTION OFFER
Dallas Grand Jury Awaits Re-
turn of Pair Reported Kid
mapped and Beaten.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, March 16.-A Dallas
County grand jury today awaited the
appearance of Charles j. Coder and
Lewis Hurst, Communist organizers,
who charged they were kidnapped at the
City Jail here March and flogged into
Inconsistencies.
Promises of official protection were
ignored by the Communists in Kansas
City yesterday. They said they would
return to Dallas today or tomorrow as
sured only of the backing of Com
munist comrades there"
Ranger Capt Tom Hickman was
here to provide protection offered by
Gov. Ross Sterling otter William NC
Graw, district attorney, was unable to
persuade the organizers to return from
kansas City with him in an airplane.
Advocated Racial Equality.
The Communists we're arrested for
staging a street demonstration, IN Wnlch
they advocated racial equality, including
intermarriage of Negroes and whites.
They charged they were beaten by CELL
mates before their release and subse-
uuent kidnapping by an armed band,
which. they said, included prominent
Dallas business men and members OF
the Ku Klux Klan.
George Clifton Edwards, Dallas at
torney who represented the Communists,
was expected to relate his version OF
the flogging today. He asserted he also
was abducted from the Dallas City Hail
steps by am armed band which kidnapped
Hurst and Cooler, but was released.
Edwards, who first reported the kid
naping and fogging to newspapers
week ago. was out of town when the
grand Jury inquiry began last week and
did not return until Saturday. Police
authorities here denied knowledge OF
the abductions.
Hitch liked Out of State.
The organizers appeared at Com
munist headquarters in Kansas City
Saturday, saying they were found by
Negro farmers, who cared for them sew
eral DAYS and afterward they hitch
hiked out of Texas.
District Attorney McCraw, accom-
panied by E. K. Mead, Dallas, news
paper man, returned late yesterday
! from a round trip by airplane to
Kansas City to interview Hurst and
Coder.
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ToDAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

NatiOnaI-"Trader Horn" at 2:3o
and $3.50 pm.
Gayety-"Belles of Beauty Row." at
ais and S:15 pm.
COlumbia-"Reach for the Moon
Second week., at IL am, /, $40, Sis,
7:20 and $3.50 pm.
PaIace-"Scandal Sheet" at 1850
am, 2:10, 4:36, 1923 and 9:55 pm.
Fox-"Three Rogues," at 1910, 2:35,
4:45, 7:51 and 1901 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Ten Cents Dance"
at 1:39 am, 1879, 3:39, 5:39, 1888 and
9:39 pm.
EarIe-"The Hot Heiress," at 1922
am, 1859, 4:44, 7;45 and 1910 pm.
RiaIto-"Stolen Heaven" at 11:45
am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and GAS
pm.
Metropolitan-"My Past" at 1853
am, 1851, 3:49, Sat, 7:45 and 9:43 pm.
TivOli-"sit Tight" at 1880, AIS, 6,
7:50 and $40 pm.
CentraI-"Seas Beneath" IL am. to
IL pm.
AmbassadOr-"Th Hot Heiress," at
6:15. 8 and $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16

The only portion of the United States
Army uniform Of today that dates back
to the Revolutionary War is the stripe
on the left sleeve denoting length Of
service.
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EXTENSION OF 10 DAYS
GIVEN POSTER CONTEST
Girl Scout Festival of Nations En-
tries Must Be in Headquarters
by March IS.

Announcement of an extension of
10 days in the Nation wide poster con-
test inaugurated two weeks ago in
connection with the Festival of Ma
tions, was made today, with the ex-
PLANTATION that many posters are ex-
pected from a number of groups OF
artists and art students cut Of the
city, in competition for the prizes Of
fered by the Poster Committee.
The festival, to be staged under the
auspices of the Girl Scouts of the Dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16

trict of Columbia, April ~ to May 2,
In Constitution Hall, is planned for
cherry blossom time in the Capital.
All posters, according to the chair
man of that committee Eben F. Comins,
must be in the headquarters, 1925 H
street, on or before March Is.
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BURNS FATAL TO CHILD

Three-year-old Margaret Ferguson,
colored, 1922 street, who was severely
burned about week ago, died at Emer-
gency Hospital yesterday morning. Mrs.
Ruth Ferguson, the child's mother, was
at work when the child was burned.
It is believed the fire resulted from
one of the children playing with
matches. Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt
gave a certificate Of accidental death.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
but on the success or failure of the
lowly, unpublicized cargo carriers.
Learning to Drive

The most hazardous age for auto
mobile drivers, according to an analy-
sis just conducted by an insurance
company, is youth-the period before
20. A study of the records of 400O,-
900 licensed drivers shows that the
percentage of drivers under 20 who
are involved in personal injury acci-
dents is nearly 40 per cent above the
average for the whole group.
In fact, the survey indicates that
the automobile driver does not really
reach an "age of discretion" until
he is 30. The older the driver, ac-
cording to these figures, the more
careful he is; the safety factor rises
steadily through the various age
groups, without interruption.
All of this indicates that licensing
boards might do we'll to consider the
age question more carefully than they
now do. The old suspicion that a
chap in his teens is out of place back
Of steering wheel seems to be rather
we'll established.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
Daily Health Service
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE NOW
USES VACCINATION, SERUMS
Disnfection, Fumgation Free Environment of Germs

eryone should be vaccinated against
smallpox. Children particularly
should receive toxoid or toxin-anti-
toxin against diphtheria. There are
also available vaccines and serums
for various other diseases, which are
discussed under these headlines.
Another example of preventive
medicine is the giving of small doses
Of iodine for the prevention of sim
pie goiter, particularly in areas such
as the Great Lakes area where the
water and the soil does not contain
enough Of this important element,
The prevention of exhaustion and the
control Of fatigue must be included
also under preventive medicine, since
physical breakdown and particularly
nerve exhaustion constitute our main
sources Of illness.
Cancer nowadays is prevented in
many instances from spreading to the
point Of fatality by the use Of early
diagnosis and prompt surgical re-
moval Of the cancer while It is still
localized In sonne one small point In
the human body.
Infection Of the skin frequently fol-
lows wounds, bruises or similar expo-
sureS and irritations. The use of an
tiseptic substances to destroy the
germs with which they may be in
contact is q step In preventive medi-
cine.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12

meeting in Bismarck. Miss Iweu
taught Thursday and dismissed school
Friday to attend the meeting.
Miss Helen Doehle, who teaches
near Medina, spent the weekend at
her home in Moffit. She also visited
with her sister, Mrs. Leslie Clark,
Saturday.
Miss Grace Miller is working at
the hotel while Mrs. Hoeft is absent.
Mrs. Burt Johnson, Mrs. c. E. Moi
tit and daughters, Harriet, Gladys
and Wilhelmina, and Fred Doehle
motored to Bismarck Sunday to see
Mr.. Johnson at the hospital.
John Benz. Eddie Olson. Mrs. Ed
Olson, Sr., Misses Evelyn Olson, Max
Inc and Pauline Hoeft motored to
Bismarck Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Olson and
sons visited with Mrs. v. Benz Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Reid called on
friends Monday in Moffit, while en-
route to Temvk. Mrs. Reid formerly
was Miss Nellie Marvel.
The Misses Helen and Edna Doehle
and Gladys Moffit were Bismarck
shoppers Saturday. They returned
home by way OF the Leslie Clark farm
and Miss Helen Doehle remained to
visit with her sister, Mrs. Clark.
The Northern Pacific train was de-
rallied Wednesday night near Hazel
ton and the wrecker and section men
were called out.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-12
COmpetitiOn at Sea

Executives OF the recently merged
American ocean steamship lines are
said to be ready, when the time Is
ripe, to build giant liners as huge as
those now under construction in Eur
opean shtpyards. The competition
for transatlantic passenger traffic !,
keen. and the public seems to be de-
manding larger and faster steamers:
such steamers, we are assured, will
presently be seen under the American
flag.
All Of this Is more or less comfort
ing to national pride. Yet It is per-
missible to wonder just why it needs
to be done. An American merchant
marine Is needed. undeniably; but
the freight steamer i the baekhon4
Of any merchant marine system. and
the super liner" is just part Of the
window dressing.
Those who like to see the American
flag flying on all Of the seven seas
should remember that their hopes
will stand or fall, not on the cou-
etruction Of gigantic floating palaces,