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Evening star., 1932-07-03

! watched Mary cut up 400 yards of
/ bunting to make a battle flag to fly
| above the defenses Of the city for the
| British fleet to see. A few days after
| the flag was finished the dormer win
/ dows of that little brick house at so
| Albemarle street were rafting under
| the conclusions of British shells BURST
| ing around the homemade colors. And
! two days later Baltimore was singing
| the song that Francis Scott Key had
written about that same flag. Mary,
who had been born a daughter of the
/ flag, had become the mother of the
| original Star Spangled Banner.
The story Of Mary and Rebecca has
| the rumble of drums in it, and the
! thunder of hostile guns shaking their
homes. Both of them saw the panic of
defeat and flight before they heard the
noisy celebration of victory. Mary was
18 months old when the invading Brit
iSh army marched on Philadelphia and
the British warships came up the river
Rebecca Young fled from Philadelphia
in an OK cart, With her baby daughter
and her other children, chest Of silver
and the family Bible.
Bible Lost on Road.
Somewhere along the road the Bible
was lost. The silver chest, hidden, was
plundered, and British marauders got
| the blame. But Rebecca and the chill
/ dren found shelter in Lebanon, Pa, and
when the British army marched out of
Philadelphia again she took her brood
back home and went back to work as a
maker of colors for the ragged Army
and the embryo Navy.
When the Revolution ended Rebecca
Young was a widow. When the War of
/ N, 50 - 4
had daughter of her own. The three
| of them were living together in a red
/ brick house down by the water front in
Baltimore, and it was Mary who now
was the fagmaker. The flags she made
| played their parts in American history;
many of them went out to sea on scores
of ships that sailed from her own front
yard, for the wharveS of Baltimore Har-
Dor were right across from the house at
| 60 Albemarle street. And many of the
flags she made were hauled down,
somewhere at sea, in obedience to orders
| from British warShipS whose officers
boarded American vessels at will,
picked out the best American seamen
and dragged them of on the pretext
that they we're British subjects. From
! her doorway Mary could not help hear
ing the angry voices of returning sailors
as they came storming off those hlimili-
ated ships. railing at British arrogance
and American helplessness.
Carroll Town House.
Just around the corner from so
Albemarle street was the town house
| of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the
signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence who gave the document a touch
OF personal defiance to the King by
setting down his address as well as his
signature. Mary's mother, rs years old
by now, must have wondered Just how
much good the Declaration of Independ-
ence had done. There were plenty of
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TOMORROW millions Of flags will
fly in honor of the Nations
birthday anniversary. Bands
4 will play THE Star Spangled
Banner" In crowded city
streets in country villages, in for
eign capitals and on the decks of
ships in far-away harbors, Americans
will stand a little Straighter as the flag
whips out and the music goes prickllng
along their spines.
Some will remember, casually, that
the sight of that flag, flying above
battered fort that would not surrender,
inspired the national anthem. Some
may remember that Betsy Ross made
the first American flag.
These last few will be wrong.
One of the least known and most
dramatic stories of our flag is that Of
the mother and daughter who became,
literally, grandmother and mother OF
the Star Spangled Banner.
The first was Rebecca Young, who
made the first American flag for
WaSlington-the Grand Union flag,
under which he led the army besieging
the British in Boston. The other was
her daughter, Mary Young Pickersgill.
who made the battle flag that inspired
Key to write THE Star Spangled Ban
ner." (Although other historical au
thorities accept the story Of Rebecca
Young and the Grand Union flag only
as a legend, the Flag Association of
Baltimore accepts it as fact)
Flag to Do Honor.
One of the flags that fly tomorrow
will wave over the home where this
mother and daughter lived together in
Baltimore and where Mary Pickersgill
made the original Star Spangled Ban
ner-the huge 36-foot garrison flag Of
Fort McHenry. Across the harbor
another flag will fly above the ram
parts that Key watched on that fate
full night in 1914 when our national
anthem was born. And in few
months, If a proposal now under con-
sideration is carried out, the mother
of the flag he saw streaming through
"the rockets red glare" will be hon
ored there in the park that is grad
ually being developed around the red
brick walls that fought back the Brit
ish fleet I18 years ago this Summer.
Her mother also may be honored in
memorial there. Evergreens are being
planted around the old bastions and
named for those who distinguished
themselves in the battle. It has been
proposed to include Mary and Re-
becca IN the honor, little late, per-
hapS-118 years is a long time for
nation to honor the woman whose flag
inspired its anthem.
In the Philadelphia Advertiser in
the days of the Revolution, appeared
this paid notice:
Colours
For the Army and Navy made and
sold on the most reasonable terms.
REBECCA YOUNG.
In Walnut Street, near Third Street,
and next door but one to Mr..
Samuel McLane's.
N. B.-Any person having Bunting
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! OF the special committee of the House
of Representatives appointed to inves-
tigate Communist activities in the
United States, I reported that one of
the subsidiary Communist organiza-
tions was the workers Ex-Service-
mems League" The fact that it is a
Communist organization was not made
known by its organizers to the veterans
who were asked to become members
and to march upon Washington. Con-
slider how cleverly the organization
works. On May 81 it widely distributed
letter bearing at the top the name
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League.
telling of the planned march upon
Washington and holding out this
promise:
During our stay in Washington we
are looking forward to making arrange
ments with the proper committees both
in the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatives so that Congress will vote for
the immediate cash payment Of the
bonus before it adjourns."
What words of hope those were to
thousands of men-'immediate cash
payment of the bonuS"l
Next day the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League" sent out another letter,
cleverly using the names of other and
reputable veterans organizations, with
which 1t had absolutely no connection,
to further its own ends. In this letter
it announced that "our delegation of
more than 1000 war veterans will leave
New York City on June for Washing
ton. We demand the immediate cash
payment of the bonus. Veterans are
being elected at mass meetings through
out the city. These include all war
veterans, members of the American Le-
gion posts, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Disabled American War Veterans, etc. "
Not word about the Communist party
yet the letter was signed by Joint
Committee, Workers Ex-Servicemen's IS
League, National Provisional Bonus
March Committee" and the names E.
Levin, Joseph Singer, Harold Nelson.
Michael McTeague, James Ford and
Samuel j. Stember.
No Way to Identify Sponsors.
How were veterans generally to know
that e. Levin is editor of THE Daily
Worker" published in New York as
the central organ OF the Communist
party of the United States, a section of
the Communist International? How
were they to know that James Ford is
the official colored nominee of the
Communist party for vice president of
The United States? Most of the vete-
rams had never heard of. much less
read. The Daily Worker" They had
no way of identifying sponsors of the
march with the Communist organiza-
ton. They were led to believe, by the
deceptive phrasing Of the letters, that
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activity. Under Communism as it ex-
lists today in Soviet Russia there is no
free press. there is no freedom of speech
and opinion, and there are no rights
of liberty" of the individual. Instead
there is a vast and absolute despotism,
unparalleled and unprecedented.
And working with the discomfort,
misery and unhappineSs produced by
subnormal business and employment
the agents of world revolution are striv-
ing as never before to destroy our re-
publican form of government.
I repeat that there is no danger in
the near future of a Communist-in-
spired revolution in the United States.
The forces of loyalty in this country
are sufficient quickly to ''liquidate" any
seditious force. But there are more
ways of undermining the national
structure thar. merely armed revolt.
There is the method Of economic un-
dermining, long practiced by Commun-
ism. Already the United States has
suffered severe losses through Soviet
trade warfare. And while those losses
may be most easily measured In terms
Evening star., 1932-07-03

of hundreds of millions of dollars, they
should be seen and understood in terms
Of thousands Of American citizens de-
priyed of needed work in our factories
and additional thousands of American
farmers deprived of markets for their
products. OF that phase of the attack
upon us / shall say more later.
Let us revert for the moment to the
encampment of veterans in Washing
ton. I have said that they were the
unknowing dupes of Communists. Ger
tainly / would not question the loyalty
of the overwhelming majority Of the
men of the Bonus Expeditionary
Force" I served in France with some
of these men. ] know that love Of their
country still fills their hearts, despite
anxiety and misfortune, hunger and
want But they were the unwilling
victims Of an organization that, operat-
ing on American soil, has its roots in
Moscow.
Consider how the march was organ
lied. how the groups had their incep-
tion In various parts of the country.
More than a year ago, as chairman
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n there has lain encamped
wv almost at the doors of the
National Capital in Wash
tngton an army of thousands
Of men drawn from all parts Of the
country. 1t has been an army among
which men, and women, too, moved and
sought to foment a spirit that ulti-
mately would result in overthrow of
the American Government.
Yet probably 95 per cent of the men
in this army were loyal to the United
States and had proved their loyalty
and devotion by placing their lives at
the disposal Of their country in time OF
war. Most Of them had been duped by
Communist agltators-Who did not re-
veal themselves as such-to come to
Washington with the promise of i'm
mediate cash payment of the remainder
OF adjusted service compensation, the
bonus"
Back Of the camp, in shadowy out
line that few could glimpse, was sin
lister red figure revolutionary Com
munism. The men in the camp were
but It's paWns in a desperate game
whose moves encompass the world and
are directed from the executive cham
bers OF the Soviet in Moscow. The
loyal American veterans encamped in
washington were unknoWingly the
oupes OF few men in far-away Russia
who seek TO extend their dominion over
the entire world, as they have already
eStaollShed 1t over a Supine body OF
100000 people in their own land.
am not an alarmist / do not an
tlclpate or predict any Communist
revolution" in the United States at
dawn tomorrow, or a month, or year,
or many years hence. But today and
every day thousands of men and women
are WORKING as agents of an information
al organization to bring about the ulti-
mate overthrow of our Government.
Ihat statement is based on incontro-
Veruple facts. It can be sustained by
exact, absolute proof.
II Is easy for those who pride them
serves on their liberalism" and who
pirate about the unquestionable need OF
preserving free speech and a free press
TO dismiss the facts with the careless,
caretree statement, "Oh, this is just
another Red scarel" But the real facts
OF real situation refuse to be so dis
missed, and sooner or later force them
selves upon public attention when ugly
ana dangerous potentialities for harm
become menacing.
No Danger in Near Future.
These very people who are most in
terested as liberals" in preserving the
great guarantees Of liberty contained in
our Constitution should be most con-
cerneo with the growth Of Communist
Evening star., 1932-07-03
Husbands Talk i'm Sleep
Wins Divorce in China

Because he talked in
his sleep, Tsau Ting-fong will have to
pay his wife 500 month alimony and
maintain her and their three children
separately in the style to which they
have been accustomed, according to a
recent divorce decree granted by a
Shanghai Chinese court
Mrs. Tsau's charge was that her hus-
band rarely slept at home, and when he
did so nearly always talked in his sleep.
1t was the subject of his conversations
which proved his undoing for he spoke
cooingly of other women, calling them
by pet names and addressing endearing
remarks to them. He also bought other
females hchee nuts, mangoeS and
almonds.
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star., 1932-07-03
Holy Places Suffer
By Lack of Visitors

Economic stress extends
its consequences TO all activities of man
kind, not excepting pilgrimages. Mecca,
the great holy place of Islam. for in
stance, reports an unprecedented small
number of pilgrims last year. The holy
places Of Irak-Najef, Karbala and
adhimain-received so few that local
traders saw their revenue fall by 80 per
cent.
Barriers are being raised even in con-
nection with pilgrimages The Persian
government, for one, has resorted to
policy Of religious protection" and has
been carrying on very active propa-
ganda in favor of native sanctuaries.
The result is that Persian worshipers
are remaining at home.
(Copyright, lps2)
Evening star., 1932-07-03

So, next door but one to Mr. Samuel
McLane's." Rebecca Young made Amer
icas first battle flag And under it
George Washington led the first truly
American Army. On January /, 1776,
the troops of the United Colonies hoisted
the Union flag and l3 cannon shots
saluted it. Seven weeks later, on Feb
ruary H. Rebecca Young became the
mother Of daughter and called her
Mary.
And 38 years after that, when Amer
lea was again at war with England, Re
becca sat in "the second front room" at
so Albemarle street, in Baltimore, and
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for sale may hear Of purchaser
by applying as above.
1t was to this Rebecca Young, ac-
cording to the story, that the order
went to make a flag for the American
Army beSieging Boston. 1t was to have
13 stripes Of red and white, one for
each of the embattled colonies. But
in the corner, instead Of the blue field
with 13 white stars, there was to be
the grand union" Of the old British
hag-a blue field with the red and
white crosses of st. Andrew and St.
George
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BY ]. HAMILTON FISH, Jr..

Chairman Of the Special Committee ]
pointed TO Investigate Communist
Activities Annrica
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America Still Solvent.

OF course the point has nothing to
do with balancing the national budget.
The United States has just passed
through great uproar on this question,
but whether the national budget were
balanced or not, America as business
would still be solvent, because she Is
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NO Danger in Near Future.
Ihese very people who are most in
terested as liberals" in preserving the
great guarantees OF liberty contained in
our Constitution should be most con-
cerned with the growth Of Communist
Evening star., 1932-07-03

Continued on Third Page.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
CANDY LA CHANCE, EX-BIC LEACUER,
 DIES AT, VILE
COlOrful First Baseman Passes on After Years Illness

Waterville, Conn, Aug 19.-(UP) George Candy" Lachance, one of baseballs most colorful first basemen, was dead today.
 Lachance, whose professional career started with the Portland, Me, club of the old New England league and carried him to fame when the Boston Red Sox captured the worlds championship in 1903, succumbed last night after an ill., ness of more than a year. He re- tired in 1908.
 Originally. a catcher, Lachance was developed into 8 sensational first sacker under the tutelage of the late Charles Ebbets. who pur- chased him from the Wilkes-Barre club in 1893. He found his way to the Red Sox in 1902 and was a leading factor in bringing the championship to the Hub city the following year.
 During the 1904 season he led the first basemen of his circuit in fielding with an average of .991 for 157 games, and in 567 times at bat was credited with 160 total bases, 131 of which were singles and scored 55 runs.
 In 1905 he was sold to Montreal and later to Providence, Waterbury and New Haven. In later years he devoted much of his time instruct ing youngsters in the arts of the national game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
CATHOLIC LOOP
 PLANS PAIR OF BENEFIT GAMES
League Contests Shifted to Hamilton Park, Aug 27-May Have Series With Bridgeport

Exhibition baseball and benefit games being all the rage, locally, officials of the Catholic Parish league have gone in for them too, and this morning had two Iproposi- tions lined up to help the circuit financially. Last night, at a meet ing of league managers, itswas de- cided to stage only three games in place of the regular five contests next Wednesday evening.
 However, one week from Satur- day, four of the leagues best teams, practically equal in ability, according to their league games to date, will play at Hamilton park in order to help raise a few dollars to keep the Catholic Parish league going well enough to finish the season. St Francis Xavier and St Joseph's leaders of the first and second rounds will hook up with the two Italian entries Lourdes and Mt Carmel in the other clash. A small admission contri- button will be asked, the players on the teams having tickets for sale.
 More Later
 Pending the finish of the Holy Name league in Bridgeport, plans for series between the Park City and Waterbury winners are temporarily suspended, but have reached a point where the series is almost assured. Some of the out standing Bridgeport high school players will show here if the series goes through, while either St Fran cis or St Josephs will represent Waterbury in the play.
 The Hamilton park games are regular league contests postponed from next Wednesday night, and shifted to the Hamilton park dias monds to draw more spectators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
GAMER, FELDMAN
 BOUT CANCELLED


 Bridgeport, Aug 19- Horatio Dilha, hard punching Gloucester, Mass, welterweight who sent Eddie Moore down to defeat by a knock out in Westerly, R. T., two weeks ago, will make his initial appear ance in this section tomorrow night when he features the weekly box ing card at Walnut Beach under the direction of Al Caroly.
 Lilha will oppose Tony Travers, New Haven battler, in an eight round match which should equal in popularity and fighting any of the previous star engagements at the beach stadium this summer. Another fine crowd will in all prob- ability make its way to Caroly's arena to watch the heavy hitting Bay State fighter in action.
 Matchmaker Caroly, held up in arranging the card by the sudden dropping of the Gainer-Feldman fight under orders from Commis- sioner Tom Donahue because of Gamers previous responsibilities to New Haven promoters, is busy today lining up his undercard. Tn one of the prelims. Joey IzZo, Hart ford battler will meet Phil Bawer of Norwalk. Georgie Russo of this city and Eddie Conley of Danbury are also slated for places on the program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
TWO THOMASTON
 GIRLS OPPONENTS
 TONIGHT ATPARK
Lucia Dewell and Helen BOuley in Feature Senii- final Match of WOmen's Play-J. Francis Smith Victor

The simi- finals of the women's division of the municipal tennis tournament now in progress under the supervision of Tom Carney at Hamilton Bark will be staged on the Idylwood courts tonight at 6 o'clock.
 Tn the upper bracket one of Thomaston's fair representatives Is Lucia Dewell, defending champion, and Miss Helen Bouley, both resi- dents of the Clock Town, will meet on Court z. On Court Miss Anna Moran and Miss Margaret Dubiel will stage an all-Waterbury match. Miss Dewell and Miss Moran are heavy favorites to survive the semi-finl round.
 Mems Earrings Today
 This afternoon at 3:30 o'clock two matches will be played in the mems division. Pat Quilter will take on Johnny Lawley while Walt Newberry will oppose Cor don Whitaker.
 Tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock Hennie Cieslewski of Nau- gatuck will stack up against N. w.. Mltcneil, Wnue Leaman ddrVey will encounter Fred Strong. In the afternoon at o'clock George Flanagan will be the opponent of Carl Dillon.
 All second round matches must be played by tomorrow night and all the park courts have been placed at the disposal of the sur- viving contestants.
 Smith Opens Strong
 J. Francis Smith, city singles championship on and off for over a decade of years, and defending champion in the city singles elim- ination tournament, captured his first round match yesterday after noon, easily defeating Ivan Coul- ter in straight sets, so and 6-1. Last year Smith was crowned kfng after an absence in tourney play of three summers.
 Jim Lockwood defeated Ken Blanchard, 6-1 and 6-2. while George Ostrofsky' of Torrington set back W. P. Stone, 6-1 and 6-2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-19
CHASE OLD-TIMERS
 BOOK TWO GAMES
Meet Thomaston Monday and Post Office Nine Tuesday in Twilight TiltS

The Chase Co old Timers, cham pions of the city in their class, VIII defend their honors both Monday and Tuesday nights next week. On Monday night they will. travel to Thomaston to play Harry Lynch's Thomaston Old Timers in a game which will no doubt draw the larg- est crowd of Thomastonites out to witness. The Boys Club band will parade through the principle streets of the town previous to the starting of the game, and the Reveleers" will enter tain the crowd between innings as well as before the game starts. Mgr, Lynch expects to have his star twirler, Synder on hand 10 toss them over while Dayton Will do the receiving. Paddy Winston will be on the mound for the Chase Go with Summa, catching.
 On Tuesday night at Fulton Park, Freddy Delaney's Post Office team will play the Chase Old Timers the last time these two teams met they played a tie game 9 to g, and both teams are out to gain the victory. The Postal boys have a good club and are made up of some City Amateur players, Walter Budd will pitch and Cor den catch, while the Chase team will have their old reliable Fran kie Delaney tossing them over with Summa catching. Both games will get underway at 5:30 sharp.
 With the Chase team sporting six victories and one tie game in seven starts, the>boys will no doubt play, championship ball to keep Tn inc winning column.