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Evening star., 1932-04-18
MRS. WORRELL HITS
LEAVE FORFEITURE
Declares Proposal Would
Wipe Out Morale of En-
pIoyes in Federal Service.

Proposal that Civil Service employees
forfeit their customary vacation In ad-
dition to an enforced furlough was at
tackled today in a statement issued by
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, presi-
dent Of the League of the American
Civil Service.
straight pay slash Of II per cent
on all salaries except those in the ex
treme bottom of the list would be pref
cradle as a means of cutting Govern
ment pay roll expenditures Mrs. Wor-
rell said. She declared that the saw
ing effected on the double furlough
basis would operate to lower the morale
of Federal workers.
Statement Quoted.
Mrs. Worrell's statement follows:
The plan outlined in the admins
tration measure eliminating all leave
with pay compels the employe to give
all and get nothing. His salary is low;
he must pay taxes, doctors and dentist
bills; his rent is high and he must
work overtime on account of the non
filling of vacancies through death and
retirement, and to deprive him OF his
granted leave would cause great dis
content and Encouragement through
out the service.
Provided there was to be no for
feiture of annual or other leave to
which employees are now entitled. ard
that a straightforward bill without
limitation. or technicalities, or posi-
bilitv of favorirism. could be enacted
such as the following
Each and every Federal employe
shall be furloughed for 80 days. no more
and no less, at some time during the
fiscal year 1898. Said furlough shall be
without pay. and may be taken in days
weeks or entire time as best suited 10
the employe and the work OF his of11ce.
Would Ruin Morale.
Government employees would have
accepted it with good feeling in their
hearts and would have redoubled their
efforts to keep up the work, but to force
them to give up all leave with pay and
take a month without pay is undouot-
edly the surest way to wipe out what re-
mains of the morale in the service.
Rather than forfeit the leave with
pay now granted employees they would
much prefer an II per cent cut In their
salaries for one year. as proposed by the
Economy Committee of the House, but
we hope that neither will be required.
THE following table shows that the
average sick leave taken by employees is
only 7.05 days per annum. while the
average annual leave taken is only 24T
days:
Evening star., 1932-04-18
CURTIS LEAVES NORFOLK.

NORFOLK, Va, April 18 tP).-John
Hughes Curtis left Norfolk today on an
other trip believed to be in the inter-
est Of his negotiations for the return
Of the kidnapped son Of Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Mrs. Curtis, several hours after the
absence Of Mfr Curtis was noted, ad-
mitted that her husband had left the
city, but declined to say where he had
gone or whether his trip was in con-
nection with the negotiations being car
ried on by him and his associates. Rear
Admiral Guy II. 'Burrage, retired, and
the Very Rev. H. Dobson- Peacock.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Pilsudski Suffers From Cold.

KISHINEv, Runania, April 18 P.-
Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish statesman,
who stopped here on the way home from
Egypt where he went for his health,
stayed at his hotel today because of a
heavy cold. His doctors said the illness
was not serious, but festivities arranged
in his honor we're called of
Evening star., 1932-04-18
MARINES GUARD TOWNS

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 18 (Hl.
The newspaper La Noticia said yester-
day that passenger trains on the gov
ernment- owned railway would carry a
United States Marine guard. armed
with hand grenades and machine guns,
in view Of the possibility that rebels
around Leon and Chinandega might at
tack the line.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
PEACEMAKER SLAIN
Farmer Killed While Interceding
in Plantation Fight.

HARTSVILLE, S. c., April l8 CP.-
A Sunday night fight on plantation
near here ended in the shooting to
death of Lige Biddle, a farmer, who had
essayed the role OF peacemaker.
Biddle was shot and killed by Clyde
Lowrey, farmer, after Biddle had in
terceded in a fight between Lowrey and
Dewey Grantham, a neighbor. The
fight occurred OIL the plantation of Miss
Rosa Lee, near Hartsville.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
MASSIE SHIELDING
SLAYER OF NATIVE,
SAYS PROSECUTOR

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after Kahahawai, saying, "Yes, we done
It," admitted that he and four others
attacked Mrs Massie.
Kelley said Massie has not put forth
any insanity case yet, not from his
story. The lapse of memory he tells
about is not insanity, he asserted.
He says he is convinced Kahahawai
attacked his wife. According to the
testimony, the only thing Kahahawai
told him was, Yes, we done IT. Massie
already knew that
1T Is not Ike you got kicked on the
head and had an Immediate response.
There was nothing that occurred in the
Fortescue house to make Massie insane"
Plea to Be Fought.
Kelley disclosed that he would use
both local and mainland alienist wit
nesses TO attack the insanity plea The
local alientsts he named as Drs. Robert
Faus, city and county physician, and
Stanley Porteus, professor of psychology
at the University Of Hawaii. They have
been in court each day observing Mas
sic. Kelley declined to disclose the
names of the mainland alienistS
Besides attacking the insanity plea
and the lieutenant's assumption Of re-
sponsibility, Kelley also assailed the
contention that the staying was not pre-
meditated.
If the defendants did not plan TO
tjll Kanahawai when they took him to
fne Fortescue home, they made all
preparations to do it," he asserted.
Defendants with Massie are his
mother -in-law, Mrs Granville Fortescue,
and Jones Ind E. j. Lord, Navy en-
listed men. The second-degree murder
with which they are charged carries a
minimum penalty of 20 years and
maximum Of life Imprisonment.
Today was Darrows 18th birthday
anniversary, but the skill and vigoI
with which he has fought for his
clients belle his years.
Il still think he said, the most
welcome presentSwill be acquittal. But
I guess 1t won't be so soon. suppose
IL will have to be sort Of a post
birthday present"
Mrs. Fortescue to Testify.
Mrs. Fortescue probably will be the
next witness. Massie implied that she
was the only other person in the room
with the lieutenant and Kahahawa
when the fatal shot was fired
Jones, he said, was outside in a car
watching to see that no unexpected
visitor intruded. Lord had gone TO cal
''the boys" presumably sailors, with
whom Massie threatened Kahahawai.
II was Mrs Fortescue who, according
10 Massie, grew impatient Of the ma
tive's protestations of innocence ant
demanded Lets do what we planned
to do" plan which, Massie testified
was no more than an empty threat,
The trial, now two weeks old. is be
ginning to leave its mark on thi
patrician-featured woman and he
youthful son-in-law. A month ago sh
was vivacious and high-spirited. Nov
her face Is drawn and her eyes ar
seldom still Massie, 81 years old.
beginning to appear old and haggar,
and bit Of gray streaks his hair.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
TWO MAINE FLYERS DIE.
Small Plane Crashes on River
Bank and Catches Fire.

LIvERMORE, Maine April 1s Dr.
Two men were killed today when their
small airplane cracked up on the bank
Of the Androsccggin River and burst
into flames. !. @
The dead are James Malloy Of Ber-
lin, N. H, the pilot and owner of the
plane and Fred Maxwell Of Livermore.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Archduke Otto Operated On.

BRUSSELS, April 18 (P).-The con-
dition of Archduke Otto of Hapsburg,
pretender to the Austrian throne. who
was operated on at Steenockerzeel Cas-
tie yesterday for appendicitis. was said
to be most satisfactory" today.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
POLICE CHIEF SLAIN

Oklahoma Officer Fired Upon by
Man Who Escapes.
TECUMSEH, Okla, April 1S CP-
Grover Butler. chief of police, was shot
and killed while patrolling a Tecumseh
street early today His assailant, hidden
behind a platform at the rear of the
post offlce, was said to have opened fire
without warning
Offlcers we're seeking Joe Smith who
was seen later at Shawnee, Okla, but
eluded arrest.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Graf Over France on Brazil T

Graf Over France on Brazil Trip.
LOUDUN, France. April Is PD.-
The Graf Zeppelin, German dirigible
which took off early this morning from
Friederichshafen, Germany, on another
norStop flight to Pernambuco, Brazil,
was sighted here at 739 this morning,
flying in the direction of Nantes,
Evening star., 1932-04-18

The Government employees look TO
Congress for justice and it is up to
them to see that it is done"
Evening star., 1932-04-18
First Freighter Docks.

MONTREAL, Quebec, April 18 (P).-
The freighter Beaverburn arrived today
from London, the first vessel from over
seas to dock here this season.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
WHITNEY DENIES =
SHORT SALES ARE
BEARISH FACTORS

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Evening star., 1932-04-18
WITHDRAWN AT SHANGHAI
Two italian Warships Called
Home by Mussolini Order.

ROME. April 18 CP.-Premier Musso-
lini today ordered the cruiser Trento
and the destroyer Espero home from
Shanghai. This would leave only the
normal Italian garrison in the Inter.
national Settlement,
Evening star., 1932-04-18
ECONOMY PROGRAM
PLANS ADVANCED
Committee 0verrides Chair
man to Adopt Proposal
of President.

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Evening star., 1932-04-18
PHONE CALL GIVES
KIDNAPPING HOPE
Mysterious Speaker Says
Baby viii BE Returned
This Week.

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Evening star., 1932-04-18
AUTOMOBILE MEN
PROTEST SALES TAX
AS DiSCRIMI

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Evening star., 1932-04-18

Interior Department supply bill. reduce
ing 1t from $4,000 900 to S45. 600. 900.
Garner said. mo one can 20 too far
for economy to suit me"
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California Primaries

California Republicans on Tuesday defeated theil
straddling senator, Samuel M Shortridge and noni.
mated young state senator, Tallant Tubbs, wiring
ing wet.
On the same day the Democrats nominated strad-
ding William Gibbs McAdoo for senator, instead
their wet candidate, Justus warden.
shortrdge's defeat significant. Not only was
this the first test of Hoover strength and repuda-
tion in Hoovers state, of of the administration
rubber stamps. 1t rebuke to the sort of Repub-
licanism that this country has suffered for the last
twelve years.
shortridge typif1ed this Republicanism. He walked
untroubled through the Harding oil scandals He
kept cool with Coolidge He followed the Hoover path
faithfully as Mary's lamb
He voted to seat Newberry Frank Smith, Judge
Parker. Until he smelled the moisture in the vino
he was dry; then he came out for halfway result
mission and against repeal
The Anti-saloon League Endorsed another candi-
date, the vets focked to Tubbs Shortridge was de-
feated by the dry vote of southern California that
always had seen him through
On other things also he wobbled. He was for ahd
against the world court for and against the bonus
Only on the high tariff was he consistent Always he
optimistic.
1t was, under the benign G. O. P sun, the best Of
all possible worlds Even optimistic California couldn't
accept such political philosophy.
McAdoos nomination such victory for can
dor. While supported by some liberal elements Nc.
Adoo weasled on prohibition and the tariff
McAdoo may defeat young Tubbs, with the help Of
the dry votes of shorridges two southern opponents
and California in 1882 may repeat the history of 1916
At any rate, it has given the G. O. P something tc
think about.
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What Are Essentials?

In the making of budgets for the coming year,
pressure is being put on the various officials to limit
the expenditures OF taxes to so-called essentials.
OF course interest and bond payments at the
top Of the list Interest goes on whether wages
cut to the bone and public facilities reduced to Iow-
est levels.
officials who have to do with the protection of
property next There would be a very general
protest from the big taxpayers, who are now very
much interested in tax reductions, if there was any
limitation of forces that would leave property TO
the menace Of either fire or plumber
The same taxpayers particular danger in
reducing the cost of maintaining the morale of a
people already rather desperate and many of whom
have lost their capacity to obtain either entertain
ment or amusement.
The thoughtless are asking that library facilities
be reduced. The more thoughtless are asking that
all expense Of public recreation be cut out Men
without jobs should not expect anything but the
basket of food that is given by the township trustee
AS matter of fact the most essential of all pub
lie enterprises this year is some method and plan of
permitting people to play and play in groups.
Thousands of men, women and children, who
formerly bought amusement are now finding it i'm
possible to pay the price of movies, dances, even
cards for games
Play is the one method of escape from the realities
of life, and life is very real these times to an in
creasing number of people.
The real leader this year will not be the politician
who formuates doctrine, but the woman
with enough imagination to get every in this
munity into group devoted to amusement that will
cost nothing but will occupy minds and take thoughts
away from troubles of the present and fear for the
future
Budget makers will be lacking in wisdom if they
try to white expenses to the lowest point by refusing
10 consider plans for community play
1t may not cost money 1t may take only an idea
plus the of public buildings for community gather
ings.
The big essential this year is not food and clothing.
1t is something that will take the minds of and
women away from their worries.
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Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE silent vote is said to be a powerful political
factor. But is not the silent candidate even more
potent?
Quiet, modest Mrs. Hattie Caraway in Arkansas
upset all the prophets and against six men won the
denomination to the United States senate mainly I
think, by keeping still.
She made no speeches in the senate chamber but
always on hand to vote. She did not clutter up
the Congressional Record with rve but never failed
to reply to a letter She did more than she said
Therefore she is not only credit to her SEX but
to the congress of the United States which is respon
sible for loose and futile talk than any other
body on earth
Most astounding of ALL Mrs. Caraway defeated a.
gentleman Of the old school, champion Spellbnder,
Ex-Governor Charles Brough whose career has been
one long record of grandoquence and whose oratory
for years has echoed the Ozark hills and rever-
berated across the plains of the southwest.
DOES this perchsnce, signify that the candidate
II armed only with a speech is to be doomed at last
to oblivion? hope so. For we aSSuredly have SUI
fered enough from philippines and there is something
vastly ironic in silent woman defeating noisy man
at the polls.
Yet, though the sound of their voices may have
diverted attention from the fact the truth is that
the great mouthpieces generally have lost high offices
to less voluble Review the list if you please Clay
Webster, Calhoun, Blaine. and Bryan-au deprived of
their greatest desire it may be, because they talked
too often and too well.
1t also is significant that the most silent this
country ever knew Calvin Coolidge, had the opportu
nifty to refuse third term in the White House-an
unprecedented honor.
The lesson is plain. Let him who yuns take heed
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Electrical Death Rate High in u. S.

The first two accidents definitely
recorded in England occurred in
1879, when a stage carpenter was
killed by an alternating current of
$50 volts, and in 1880, when mem
Der of an orchestra in a theater
in Birmingham was killed by a
short circuit.
Dr.. Macdonald Critchley finds
that there are 1000 injuries annual
ly from electricity in each of the
big countries of Europe except Ger
many, in which the average num-
Der is about 400.
In the United States the aver
age death rate is one to 100000 or
1900 per year.
In Germany it is only 0.6 per
100000, and in England and Wales
it is only or per 100000.
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Questions and
Answers

Was Amelia Earhart Putnam born
and educated in the United States?
Did she serve in the Red Cross dur
ing the World war?
She was born in Atchison, Kan,
in 1898, and was graduated from
Hyde Park school, Chicago, and
Ogontz School for Girls in Phila-
delphia. She entered the Canadian
Red Cross and served as nurses aid
from 1917 to 1918.
How large is the organ in the
Chicago stadium?
1t has six consoles, the pipes and
trappings represent the equivalent
of twenty-five brass bands of 100
instruments each. A 100-horse
power blower furnishes the air to
operate it.
Who is the American vice-consuI
at Riga, Latvia?
Bernard Cutler.
What is the name for the study
of ants?
Hymenopterology.
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knowledge Is Hope

DURING the last fifty or seven
~ ty-f1ve years, we Americans
virtually have quit studying politics
and allied subjects. We won't even
Ske the trouble to vote. No ma
tional election yet has found two
thirds of those eligible at the polls
Whether as off1ce-seekers or citi-
zens, our chief interest in politics
turns on what we think we can get
out of it. Suppose astronomers had
worked on the same motive, would
we know as much as we do about
eclipseS?
Our one hope lies in knowledge
and still more knowledge. We can
not get it except through honest
unselfish study, through a type of
ambition which seeks something
higher than profit, or fat pay.
When our politicians do what as
tronomerS, doctors, engineers and
chemists have done, when they are
inspired by the idea of discovering
causes and providing remedies, even
if they don't make quite such a
Splurge in the spotlight, many OF
our present-day worries and fears
will begin to diSSipate.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-May I remind M
w. Pershing that there are some
others of us who remember the
period between 1893 and 1898; but
instead of remembering it, however,
as ten times worse than now, we
remember it only about one-tenth
as demonstrating all our boosted
progress and higher standard of
living.
If Mr.. PerShing does not believe
there are any bread lines and soup
kitchens now, he would better look
about him. The press, for the most
part is Republican (for reasons best
known to it and to that party, else
the distressing conditions of today
would be blazoned in great head
lines on the front pages of the
newspapers. Then perhaps Mr..
Pershing would know better how to
make comparisons.
In reminiscing about 1893, I Won
der if he has forgotten why Benja-
min Harrison was not reelected in
1892; if he has forgotten the deluge
that was everted only by political
became President and then burst in
all its fury, for which he (Cleveland)
had unjustly to bear the blame and
for which his party has suffered
ever since; if he has forgotten the
empty treasury that Cleveland in
herited.
Today you can go to any city of
any size in these United States, and
you will find the suburban Hoover
vile" where men (not the ordinary
tramp and hobo, but good ambi-
tiouS men, are living with their
wives and children like rats in caves,
tents, unbelievable shacks and sub
sisting on refuse from the garbage
can.
And this in a land of abundance
and waste! And in spite of all the
charity organizations that are taxed
to the limit and most of which
were unknown in 1893. If it were
not for these organizations, the
bread line of America would en-
circle the globe.
The splendid attitude and for
bearance of the people" is due to
encouragement. low morale, the
broken spirit from the many re-
Bluffs in their search for work. All
this has made them Indifferent
and apathetic.
Nothing is so demoralizing as to
give up. When our red-blooded
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Some Investigators are inclined
to attribute the low death rate in
England to the backwardness. of the
electrical industry in that country.
The exact mode of death in cases
of fatal electrical accidents is not
clear. Many feel that it is due to
paralysis of that portion of the
brain which is responsible for
breathing and certainly it is posi-
BILE to demonstrate changes in the
brain after electrical shock.
The nervous system is poor
conductor of electricity and there
fore often severely is injured by
passing of electric currents.
Sometimes electrical injury to
the central nervous system may not
produce immediate serious effects,
but be followed later by progress
Sive disorders that are serious.
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M TO-DAY SO
N IS THE HF
WORLD WAR !
ANNIVERSARY
~ 0fAAN
PERONNE is TAKEN
Sent. /

ON Sept. l, 1918, Australian
~ troops stormed the important
town Of Peronne, taking more than
1000 prisoners and valuable sup
plies.
British forces took Bullecourt,
where they had been repulsed the
day before, at the point of the
bayonet.
They also occupied Hendecourt
and several villages north Of Ba-
paume.
Americans, fighting on Belgian
soil for the first time, took Voor-
mezeele and nearby villages in a
day of hard fighting and swift adj
vance.
North of Juvigny, American
troops advanced more than two
miles, taking many strong posi-
tons and continuing the pressure
on German forces on that sector.
An official allied report said that
324 German planes were brought
down in August.
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Wherever Hu m unity Has
Made Real Progress 1t Has
Been Led by Students.
Says

NEW YORK. Sept. Birds
huddled when the light grew
dim, huddled and twittered just as
they do at twilight People would
have acted much the same way 900
years ago, except that they would
have been vastly more afraid.
They would have known just
enough to realize that something
was wrong, that night was coming
on too early, and that some strange,
mysterious force apparently was in
terfering with the usual course of
events.
A little knowledge is not only
dangerous, but the source of I'M
necessary fear. Now that We know
what causes eclipses, we no longer
are scared. The same kind of en-
lightenment would afford us the
same kind of relief with regard to
other phenomena.
Why are we so scared of depres-
sion, cancer, or social unrest? The
answer is obvious. We do not know
the cause.
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Sun Spots Indicate Change

Sun Spots Indicate Change
TT is pointed out by DR.. Nicholson
i that the sun spots in themselves
cannot produce any great change in
the amount of solar radiation.
But they are important because
they are indications of changes in
solar radiation and are more easily
observed than the changes in rad
iation.
"Correlations of solar activity with
terrestrial variables of many kinds
have been made for many years"
Dr. Nicholson continues. THE earli-
est which has come to my attention
was made by Sir William HerscheI
in 1901.
HE lamented the lack of good OBJ
servations of weather conditions and
decided that the market price of
wheat was probably a better index
of weather than any direct observa-
tons that the meteorologists could
furnish.
He came to the conclusion that
the price of wheat was highest
when there were no spots. We safe
ly may predict that q minimum of
sun spots now is approaching; but
those who wish to make their
fortunes in the wheat market should
heed the warning with which Her
schel closed his paper: This predic-
ton ought not to be relied on by
any one with more confidence than
the arguments which have been
brought forward in this paper may
appear to deserve"