davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-22
NEW WOOD SPEED BOAT

Detroit Man Building Racer for
Harmsworth Trophy Defense.
NEW YORK, March % P).-Gar
Wood. Detroit speed boat king, has an
n1urccd that he is constructing new
craft Miss America 10. to defend the
Hsrnnsworthy trophy in the interna-
tional classic on the Detroit River this
Summer.
He predicted the new boat would be
capable Of 100 miles an hour, maybe
more"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-22
Season Records.

High individual average-Dykes. iee-s7
High individual game-Harbin. $50.
High individual Set-Dykes. 383.
Highest number spares-Dykes, 49,
Highest number strikes-E. Frey, 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-22

A CKNOWLEDGED as the leading
n city in duckpin bowling, the Cap
ital has compiled wonderful
record in the four previous national
tournaments, OF the SO events (mixed
doubles was included last year, Wash
ington bowlers have won 81. Balti-
Evening star., 1932-05-04
Consider the Children i'm
Cutting Family Incomes

To the Editor Of The Star:
Is the National budget to be balanced
at the expense of family budgets? Is
Congress going to cut salaries or so cut
appropriations as to abolish Jobs with
out even finding out how many chill
oren depend on these salaries and icb5
for maintenance? The childrens char
ter proclairnS the right of every child
to grow up in family with an ade-
quate standard Of living and the Sc
curity Of stable income" Business in
general has not recognized this right
But that is no reason why the United
States Government should ignore it. 1t
would not require very expensive sur
vey to find out before final action on
economy" measures, how many chill
dren will be hit by them and how hard
they will be hit.
Among an employees dependents,
children are entitled to first considera-
tion, because temporary privation causes
them permanent harm. Protecting
small salaries will not protect small
children whose daily living depends on
the somewhat larger salaries, which
may not now be dollar too large. One
mans earnings form a small and pre-
cariouS base for the support Of the
helpless young, but that is the base
sanctioned by law and custom One
would suppose that the men and women
in Congress would not tamper with
these earnings without due considera-
tion, without exact knowledge OF what
they are doing without counting the
children and allowing for their support.
KATHARINE WARD FISHER.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
The Senate's Opportunity.

Six weeks from today the Repubh-
can National Convention in Chicago will
be in full swing. The goal for which.
both Republican and Democratic lead
ers in Congress are striving is to wind
up the necessary legislative business
SO that an adjournment may be had
several days before the G. o. P. con-
vention gets under way. The Demo-
cratic National Convention opens In
Chicago also on June 81. Just when
it will close no one can now prophesy
with exactness. Barring completion of
its business by Congress in advance of
the opening CT these national conven-
tions Of the two major political parties,
Q recess Of the Congress will be taken,
probably for a month. At the close
OF such a recess Congress would be
compelled some time in July, to re-
turn to Washington and carry on until
necessary legislation is disposed Of.
The task of completing action on
necessary legislation before the first
national convention opens may be difh-
cult, but it is by no means impossible.
The brunt of the burden falls on the
Senate, with a reputation for delibera-
ton which does not inspire hope for
quick action. Here is an opportunity
for the Senate to prove to the country
that 1t has been maligned, that in an
emergency the Upper House is capable
of sound work and does not lose itself
in the mazes Of irresponsible debate.
The House, dealing with legislation
designed to balance the budget Of the
Government and maintain the sound
credit Of the Nation, has virtually
thrown up its hands and turned the
task over to the Senate, although un-
der the Constitution the House is the
body which should lead in such mat
tiers. The duty Of framing revenue
bill and also an economy program lay
before the House In an exhibition OF
Srevolt against the leadership Of the
House never before equaled. that body
A%iecliNsd TO accept the revenue bill re-
Evening star., 1932-05-04
The Whimpering Gangster.

The spectacle of Al Capone whimper-
ing and sniveling in his cell in Chicago
when told that the Supreme Court had
refused to review his conviction for
evasion Of the income tax laws and his
sentence to eleven years imprisonment
puts the hard-boiled gangster, promoter
of murder manipulation of police,
organizer of vice and crime, and all
around outlaw, in q rather ridiculous
light. There has never been any SYM
pathy for him, although many have
thought that getting him" on the in
come tax evasion charge was an un-
worthny roundabout method Of dealing
with this public enemy number one"
If one-tenth of the criminal charges
against him are justified. there Is
enough in his record TO have sent him
to the gallows a dozen times and to
prison for many spans Of human lie.
Yet the best the law could do was TO
catch him In a matter Of bookkeeping,
so to speak, and this is somewhat OF
a travesty upon American justice. But
even in this proceeding, Capone's chief
plea for relief by the higher court was
based upon the claim that he had been
double crossed" In the matter OF a
bargain to accept a much milder SEN
tence than that which was given him.
Now Capone is on his way to Atlanta
Penitentiary to serve his term Of eleven
years, which with good behavior" may
be cut to about seven and a half. 1t
was originally planned to send him to
Leavenworth Prison, but at the last
moment decision was made to change to
Atlanta because others of his criminal
gang, notably his former business man.
ager, Guzik. are at Leavenworth. His
brother, Ralph Capone. is held at Nc
Neil Island, Of Seattle. This pretty
widely separates the Capone contingent.
Capone was indicted June 5, 1881,
for evasion Of income tax payments for
Evening star., 1932-05-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

If the f1rebrand from the tall sugar
cane isn't careful, he'll soon be as big
a gallery god as the late Senator from
Alabama.
Charles G. Ross of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch, the Washington press
gallery's latest Pulitzer prize winner,
has another claim TO distinction be-
sides his eminent journalistic abilities
He's double of Will Rogers. Once
upon a time, when President Coolidge
wanted to hold converse with Ross
about story the st. Louis scribe had
submitted for final approval, Cal
couldn't for the moment recall Ross
name. Hes that fellow who loci D.
like Will Rogers" the President sa6
to Secretary Everett Sanders Mr.. Ross
prize winning newspaper article is en-
titled The Country's Plight-What
Can Be Done About It?" 1t was pub
lished last November.
Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's Com
mittee on the Costs of Medical Care
has just compiled the statistics about
the money spent annually on healing
cults" in the United States. The COM
mittee (Which Is purely private and
not an Interior Department affair
estimates that approximately $125, ,000,-
900 a year goes to 36,150 practitioners
who are not doctors Of medicine, or
about IL per cent of the sum that finds
Its way to $4,000 physicians and sur
geons. Christian Science practitioners
number 8,848; osteopaths, 1874, and
chiropractors, 1890.
DR.. William M Mann, director of
the National Geological Park in WASH
ington, confesses he's an ardent circus
fan. He is proud Of the distinction
OF being the only non-p professional
Snowman in the country who holds a
union card in the trade immortalized
by Barnum, Bailey, Forepaugh and the
Ringlings. The Washington Zoos
giant l4-foot cobra, largest in Amer
ican captivity, continues to be a big
drawing card. The Singapore serpent s
arrival in the District of Columbia in
a sleeping car berth gave it national
fame. It'll interest snake fanciers to
know that DR.. Mann's scaly pet lives
on the flesh of other Snakes-and ex-
pensive ones, too, to the despair of the
Zoos economy experts. During his
eight months residence here the cobra
has done away with exactly 108 linear
feet Of other snakes. mostly of costly
South American origin.
~
Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby of the
Board of District Commissioners spoke
recently at a Washington convention
Of parents and teachers. A young
mother, seeing his name on the pro-
gram, exclaimed: "Oh, I wonder If that
is Bing Crosby, and will he sing Good
Night, Sweetheart Gen Crosby got
wind of the thing, and opened his re-
marks half an hour later as follows:
Il regret to say have already disap-
pointed half of my audience by not
being 'Bing' Crosby"
Copyright, 1897
Evening star., 1932-05-04

ported from the Ways and Means
Committee, tore it to shreds and, in a
panic, put through a hodge-podge
measure And now, discarding all lead
ership again, the House has passed its
so-called economy bill, as an amend
ment to the legislative appropriation
bill. in emasculated form. and sent it
to the Senate.
Within the next few days the Senate
Finance Committee will lay before the
Upper House revised revenue bill.
Whether the committee will be able to
preserve this measure in form COM
parable to that in which 1t passes from
its hands remains to be seen. The
Senate Appropriations Committee must
deal with the economy proposal ad-
vanced by the House, carrying salary
and other cuts.
Too much is at stake in the country
for the Senate to permit itself to be
drawn into long, Improbable debates,
debates which rarely, If ever. change
single vote in the Senate itself. The
business interests Of the country and
every individual taxpayer are awaiting
action on the revenue bill. They have
budgets to balance as well as the Fed
eral Government. They must have some
assurance Of what the tax burden is to
be If they are to go ahead with their
business operations.
Should Congress fail to complete this
legislation of vital Importance, and
should a recess be taken for the ma
tional conventions. it may mean that
the country will be compelled to wait
until September for legislation which
should have been on the statute books
by now.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
COrrects Senators
On Use of Language
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Since so many of our statesmen are
careless or Indifferent in their use OF
the English language, may l Suggest
that the American radio companies
follow the example of the Engllsn
companies and establish some sort OF
standard for the guidance OF those who
are permitted to broadcast?
1t is annoying to hear q Unlteo
States Senator speaking Of something
that had been "broadcasted.' instead
of broadcast" and another speaker
of still higher Office saying politics
are" instead of using the verb IN the
singular. All these instances OF very
recent occurrence. And, Oh yes
vehement" three times with the ac-
cent on the second syllable.
The radio is a great medium Tor tne
improvement of our national STANDARDS
of speech and we ought to make the
best use of it. The radio companies
should censor addresses for errors IN
language and make every eHort 10
have the pronunciation on the air
strictly correct.
MARGARET L. VERNON.
Evening star., 1932-05-04

1925, 1925 and 1927, totaling $lS2,o0e.
and was sentenced to eleven years I'M
prisonment, with fines amounting tt
$50, 900. There is no telling what would
have been his fortune If he had at
tended to the detail of letting Uncle
Sam have at least a part Of the tax
usufruct upon his ill-gotten gains. There
is evidence that some of his fellow
workers in the field Of racketeering
warned him of this risk. One of them
is quoted as follows:
He wouldn't watch his step and tE@
big guy got slapped down. Al was
always too stubborn. From the time
Johnny Torrio brought him in mere
to bounce at the Four Deuces, Al was
know-it-all guy. 1t worked all rignt
in the gang for q while because he gave
orders that nobody dared slip up on.
But he was too stubborn when ne was
wrong. Plenty of smart heads in the
gang told him to go in and get straight
with the Government on his tax.
Hell, they can't touch me. l didn't
sign my name to anything" he told
them. But the Government gave him
the works and now look where he Is
Yes, look where he is! But look how
he got there No criminal law
reached him. 1t was only the fiscal law
of the United States that finally got
him. 1t must be said for the Federal
procedure that it worked fairly swiftly
when it was applied to the case Of this
notorious public enemy. 1t is almost
a record that within a year after his
indictment he is about to pass through
the doors Of the Atlanta Penitentiary,
and thus the ponderous mill has ground
its little grist.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
The Senate and the Navy.

y
BY a vote Of 46 to IS yesterday the
Senate decided to consider Immediately
the Hale bill to bring the United States
Navy up to the full strength allowed
by the Washington and London treaties
Of limitation. Proposals to postpone
consideration of the bill pending devel-
opments at the Geneva Conference
were rejected Democrats joined with
Republicans in the demand for prompt
action-a welcome and wholesome in
dication in these partisan times that
national defense is not political issue,
but a patriotic duty.
Senate debate on the treaty Navy
does not, unfortunately. mean, in
itself, that the treaty Navy will be
voted. The fate Of the Hale bill ulti-
mate!y depends, to a large extent.
upon the course of the tex bill and the
even more tortuous course Of so-called
economy measures which are now foot
balls on Capitol Hill. Yesterdays vote,
at any rate, indicates that Senate SEN
timent in favor of safeguarding Amer
ica's needs and rights at sea is strong
and preponderant.
BY accident rather than design, the
Senate vote for the treaty feet syn
chronized with debate at Geneva over
the eternal question Of what cCnsti-
tutes offensive and defensive naval
units. 1t fell to the lot Of United
States Senator. Claude A. Swanson Of
Virginia, Arm exponent Of adequate
American sea power, to espouse the
thesis that both battleships and air
craft carriers are legitimate defensive
weapons The United States geographi-
cal position and our lack of naval bases
throughout the seven seas require us
to maintain the floating fortresses"
which 35000-ton big-gun battleships
constitute The Naval Committee Of
the Geneva Conference, by a heavy
ma jority vote Of small powers, insisted
that battleships should be classed as
offensive and therefore subject to
abolition or internationalization.
Senator Swanson, evidently supported
by spokesmen of Great Britain, France
and Japan, opposed this view, and
bolstered his position with the argu-
ment that the sea strength Of the
principal five naval powers Is fixed by
treaty until 1896, and should not be
altered without their consent. 1t will
not and cannot, OF course, undergo any
change, as far as the United States is
concerned. by fiat of an international
conference. even If the one now wind
ing to an inglorious end at Geneva
were to decree q change.
Meantime the duty of the American
Congress is plain. 1t is as plain as
Geneva's now clearly revealed impo-
tence Secretary stimson sets sail
from Europe today after experiences
with her statesmen which must leave
him both disappointed and disilllu-
stoned. II he could be greeted on his
return to home waters next week by the
news that Congress answer to Geneva
Is an American Treaty Navy, the Sec
retary of States excursion to the
Disarmament" Conference will have
happy and fruitful ending.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
Furlough Plan Held
Unfair to Workers
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Some of the injustice apparent from
close reading Of the so-called Hoover
furlough plan:
1t deprives all Government employees
Of their annual thirty days leave, and
compeB them to pay days wage for
each day of leave that they do take
1t will make many employees, particu-
larry Department of Interior employees,
work four hours on Saturday mornings,
in order to get credit for one-hah days
work. ST. Elizabeth's Hospital employees
will be an outstanding example of
where this rule will be used TO the dis
advantage of the low-salaried employe
1t is broadcast that a five-day week
will be instituted, which means that 26
Of the 80 days furlough that the Gov
ernment employees will be forced to take
will be distributed over a year (half day
each week. where Office superiors have
arbitrary discretion, so that two or
three week vacations will pass out of
the picture.
Policemen and firemen are not to be
affected by the pay cut and furlough.
A lieutenant in the Army, though he
has spent the best part of his youth at
tending school in order to obtain a
higher education, is shown no such
favor. This, Notwithstanding the pay
of the policeman and fireman is higher
than the lieutenant and that the day Of
the two latter classes is much shorter
By all means if We must cut the Gov
eminent workers pay let us have a
straight ii per cent cut, such as the
Democratic leaders are suggesting. The
furlough plan takes away the annual
paid clerks more than IL per cent.
Where Is the economy of q furlough
plan that cuts the pay OF present en-
ployes and then requires the hiring Of
thousands Of other employees 10 do the
existing work2 II. w. PALMER.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
Mockingbird Gives an
All-Night Performance

To the Editor of The Star:
The songs of all the birds OF the
neighborhood came from one tree IN
Tskoma Park last night. Several times
lately residents of the section near tne
Chestnut street railroad crossing nave
heard a mockingbird singing put TINS
was his star performance. FROM II
o'clock until daylight he sang contin--
uously, not even allowing the noise OF
long freight train to disturb his out
pourings. To bird lover 1t was re-
markable performance.
Among the bird notes distinctly mil
tsted were the bluebird. robin. cardinal
titmouse. whip-poor- flicker. cat
niro, Maryland yellow throat cheWinA,
peWee, bluejay and ovenbird, as wen as
crlckets, frogs and tree toadS
1t Is not uncommon to hear a mock
ingbird sing on a moonlight night IN
Midsummer. Perhaps this fellow mis-
look the bright light at the crossing Ior
the full moon.
HARRIET NJ. BUGBEE.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Any reader of this newspaper is vel
come to make use at any time Of the
free information service Of this de-
partment. Address your inquiry to The
Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash
ingtcn. D. c., and you will receive a
personal letter in reply. Inclose cents
for return postage. Be sure to state
your question clearly. and to write your
name and address plainly.
@. Is there any State that has no
speed limit for automobiles touring? p
S. D. F
A. Tennessee has no speed limit for
driving in the country and a number
of States provide that a "reasonab ble'
speed shall not be exceeded.
@. How many foul balls can a bat
ter hit after two strikes have been
called?-E H
A. There is no limit to the number.
Q. At contract bridge, does a double
increase the value Of the premium for
bidding and making a little slam?-
F.. c.
A. The premium for bidding and
making small slam or a grand slam
ID NV oA1tNNNN Ny IAlC uOuDltt UuL IIlSIe
is difference if the bidder is vulner-
able. In that event, the premium for
small slam is $50 instead OF 500 and
for a grand slam, l 500 instead of l 900.
G. How many women can vote in
the Fall electiOn?-W. E c.
A. 1t is estimated that the total
number OF women who might be legally
entitled to vote in 1882 is 100000.
@. How many flags can a United
States destroyer hy?-P. P. E.
A. The Department of the Navy says
that while at anchor in port a de-
stroyer may fly as many flags as it pos
seSSes. At sea, however, only the colors
which are flown from the gaff and the
commission pennant appear. Besides
the regular flag there are pennants
which the ship wins in gunnery prac-
tice, etc. At anchor some of the flags
which may be flown are the ensign,
that is. the colors; commission pennant,
the union jack, other pennants, and
in the case Of flagship the admiral's
flag.
@. What were the sources of in
ternal revenue other than income tax
last year?-R. F. E
spirits. oieomargerine habit drugs, au-
tomato pistols, estates, admissions and
dues.
O. How is Howard University
financed?-G. G.
A. The Federal Government makes
annual appropriations toward its up
keep. In addition, there is also in
come from tuition and other fees, and
the university has several endowment
funds.
@. How many cubic feet are there
in a ton of cement?-N. M ].
A. Cement in casks will measure
46 cubic feet to the ton.
c. When was the postage on letters
more than 3 cents?---L. c.
A. The Post Office Department says
that the postage on first-class mail was
more than 8 cents prior to 1888.
@. How many members we're there Of
the Donner Expedition to California,
which was showed in on the mountain
top in the Sierras, ard how many sur
vived the eXperience?-J. K. o.
A. Eighty persons comprised the ex-
peditson. Starvation and illness reduced
,he company to IS. Capt Donner, the
Evening star., 1932-05-04
One Way to Solve
Unemployment

To the Editor of The Star:
The unemployment situation will be
solved only when employers cease to
hire married women whose husbands
can offer them support and begin to
employ men and unmarried women.
In many instances a man or single
girl is kept out of employment simply
because a married woman wants to buy
clothes or an automobile, etc.
I blame the business men who show
the Mrs" preference when advertis-
ing for help. ETHEL CLICK.