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Evening star., 1932-08-27
GETS JOB AND DIES
Man Idle 8 Months Killed Hour
After Beginning Work.

MAGEE, Miss, August 81 (E9-E. c.
Layton, 80, idle for eight months, yes
terday found employment and an hour
later was dead. He was killed instantly
when ramps supporting lumber which
he was loading on truck gave way.
He is survived by his widow and two
small children
Evening star., 1932-08-27
BANKS FAVOR DELAY.
Chairman Fort Gets Pledges Of Co
Operation.

FRANKFORT, KY, August 81 (P).-
James r. Dorman, State banking COM
missioner, announced yesterday he
would comply except in emergency
cases with the request of Chairman
Franklin W. Fort of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board that receivers Of
closed State banks be ordered to sus-
pend foreclosure proceedings for 80
days.
Evening star., 1932-08-27
SPAIN DEPORTS CONSUL

Cuban Reported to Have Sided
With Monarchy.
MADRID, August 81 LP).-The Spanish
government today allowed Jose Car
ballal, the Cuban consul, "a Hours to
leave Spain persona non grata.
It was learned the order had been
issued because Carballal and his daugh-
ters we're reported to have expressed
sympathy with the monarchy.
Evening star., 1932-08-27
WEATHER.

o. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow
with risk of local thunder showers this
afternoon or tonight; not much change
in temperature; moderate winds. Tenn
peratures: Highest, 80, at 1880 pm. yes
terday; lowest, II, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page IL.
Evening star., 1932-07-03
Beetle Quarantine

CO strict has been the quarantine set up by
- the Federal Government against the jap
anese green beetle, SO energetic its officials y
enforcing the regulations, the spread of this
insect pest has been kept remarkably well un-
der control in the Is years since the beetle was
first discovered. During the time intervening
from the first outbreak of the beetle in New
Jersey up until the present. the spread has been
but 300 miles. The beetle itself does not 90
very far afeld, for its first concern, naturahy
is to preserve its life through eating. The
beetle will feed upon most anything growing,
from grass to weeds and from trees to shrubs.
Because of this it does not have to go far to
find all the food it needs 1t has been esti-
mated that beetle might of itself move five
miles in the course of a season.
The danger, however, lays in the carrying OF
the grubs wide area through the trans-
portation of plants and plant products. For
this reason the quarantine has been main
tanned.
Evening star., 1932-07-03


that darken the sky and rain
down dreadful poison gases that Will Kill the
civil population of, down to the last infant
in the cradle. When the soldiers return from
the front, they say. there will be no one to
welcome them home
ALI this is very fine for providing shuddery
thrill: but are these direful things really going
to happen If another great breaks out?
mol declare soldiers and chemists. emphati-
cally and Indignantly. No enemy Is going TO
depopulate New York San Francisco, no
matter how great his malice. Nor could the
United States infiict such woe on any foreign
metropolis.
Gen H L. Gilchrist, chief OF the Chemical
Warfare Service and DR.. H Z. Howe, editor Of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. lead
ing professional journal. have turned . little
cold scientific attention on the great gas bogey
hat hangs over the cities 1t has vanished!
In the irst place, 1t is pointed out, there Is
no war gas 80 deadly that the least Whit Of 1t
will kill YOU There is no gas suitable for
military use that will penetrate any gas mask
or find its way into any gas-tight room or
dugout There Is gas cheap enough to be
used for wiping out whole cities without frst
viping out the whole treasury Of the warring
nation that might resort to such strategy.
IL this talk about new and secret" gases
MS Just lot of bunk Gen. Gilchrist will
tell you bluntly The gases that figure in all
chemical combat plans of the present day are
the same gases that were In the hands of the
combatants at the close of the World War
phosgene, mustard gas and lewiste.
While they were all of high military effec-
tiveness in their several ways, none Of them
Evening star., 1932-07-03
curb Corn B0rer

FARMERS in New York, where the growing
| season will permit, have found way to
curb the European corn borer. They fool it.
The damage is done by the larvae which hatch
from the eggs laid by the moth in the growing
corn. If however, the corn is planted later,
say around the middle of May. it is too small to
attract attention during laying times and the
result is the corn escapes infestation.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

of a possibly threatened city by its mountain
Gus skyline To plant a row Of gas bombs
accurately along q street, plane must fy very
low. 1t Is a poor metropolis that does not
provide many high buildings making low
flights dangerous or impossible, and further
more providing beautiful vantage points for
the planting Of machine guns and pom-pom
cannon.
A ND that brings up the final obstacle TO pro-
\ miscuous air raiding over cities, aiming at
the annihilation OF civil populations in general.
Up to this point the assumption has been made
that the raiding planes are wholly unopposed.
and able TO fly where they please and TO release
the poisonous eggs ut will.
But IN actual wartime they wouldn't have
things easy. There would be wasp like
"interceptor" planes darting up TO oppose them.
to break up their formations, TO make them
drop their loads and run, perhaps to bring
them down in flames. %
And though many aviators still profess to
despise the anti aircraft cannon, the "archies,"
it is still to be noted that bombing target prac-
tice Is carried on from elevations at respeccs
ful number Of thousands Of feet. Admittedly.
archie can't hit q looping dodging. twisting,
Immelman- turning combat or pursuit plane,
but he can spit uncomfortably close to O big
bomber that has TO ny straighter. more pre-
dictable course.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

But 20 feet Is an inconsiderable height in a
modern city. II a plane raid should begin
showering city with gas the alarm cry might
well be. ITO the skyscrapersi" Get few stories
above the ground and you're safe, even with
the windows OPEN
Again, these same tall buildings greatly re-
duce the chances of gas bombs falling in the
streets, where they must fall to have any
appreciable effect. At a liberal estimate, only
one-fourth of q downtown business district Is
used for streets and alleys; the rest Is under
roofs.
DOMBS scattering their contents on roofs
- would of course, be largely wasted. The
heavy gas would flow down the eavespouts or
over the edges like water or would simply be
caught behind the breast walls until the wind
blew it away.
Moreover bombs dropped from planes do
not plunge straight downward; they follow an
oblque course, influenced by the forward speed
of the plane at the moment Of launching
Therefore many Of them would dash them
seleves against the sides Of the buildings where
again they would have much diminished effect.
The bricks themselves would soak up much Of
the contents. Gen. Gilchrist says.
To be sure If bomb thus driving down
aslant should chance to hit window, 1t would
be just too bad for the people in that particular
room, but by the same token the effects would
be prevented from reaching anybody else.
The explosive force of the bombs themselves
must be discounted. The purpose Of gas pro-
jectile is to deliver the gas; so, as a rule. only
enough explosive is included to break the
casing and scatter the contents. If you want
to put in enough TINT to blow down the neigh
boring walls, even to shatter the windows,
you have that much less room for gas. And
your prospective victims can strengthen their
lower-story windows against you In various
ways-for one, by installing shatterproof
glass like that used in windshelds
DUT most effective of all the city's inherent
- gas defenses is its irregular skyline. A tall
town like Manhattan Is artificial mountain
range-a range with some right respectable
peaks in it. when you come to think of it. And
like every mountain range intersected with
maze of narrow canyons, it is the scene of
constantly swirling air currents.
You have only to remember what the news
pictures of confetti and ticker tape showered
on a visiting celebrity look like to know what
would happen to cloud of gas released into
those same canyons. In normal weather the
wind would sweep it out in very short order.
But what of gases that might settle to the
bottoms of these canyons, and lurk at street
level waiting for the people to come out? The
vescicants, or blistering chemicals like mustard
gas and lewiSte are just such ground-huggers.
Well, here again the city has an advantage.
Its hard even, paved streets would not offer
these gases the same hospitality that they find
on the uneven vegetation covered, porous soil
of the battle front. And the street-fushing
machines and firehoses with which even small
cities are equipped are gas-rdders such as line
officers dream of and long for, but cannot have
Another service is rendered to the people
Evening star., 1932-07-03

will pass through the soda lime and charcoal
of a gas mask indeed none of them will come
in through the cracks around reasonably tight
window The well-fitted windows Of an
ordinary house or Office building offer consider
able protection against them.
But suppose a large part Of the population
should be caught in the open, unprovided with
gas masks Suppose an air feet should put
down a blanket of phosgene or mustard gas
and lay them out in windrows Would the
rescue parties find them all corpSes with the
life gone out of them beyond retrieving?
For answer, Gen. Gilchrst points to the
casualty record of the A. e. F. in the World
War OF the 25s.338 wounded in battle. 34,-
24s died on the battlefield. OF this number,
only 200 deaths were due to gas; the rest
suffered from gunshot shell fire or other
causes.
NF the 224, ,Oes who were taken 10 hospitals,
~ 70552 were suffering from gas, 153,5S7
from weapons other than gas. OF the gas
sufferers, 1 ,22I died; of the other casualties
12,47o died. The percentage OF deaths among
the hospitahsed gas casualties was 1.7S: among
the wounded from other causes the death
rate was slightly over per cent
There Is no sound reason to suppose that the
percentage would be materially different II
civilian population were gassed. So it would
take q simply impossible number of gas
bombing raids over any large city to kill of its
whole population, even assuming you laid
everybody out at every visit and each time
1.73 per cent OF the population died
1t will paradoxical, but the fact Is
that a modern American city is a far better
place in which to face a gas raid from the air
than a comparable area at the front would be-
To be effective, a military gas must be
fairly heavy and hug the ground. II it
forms layer more than 20 feet thick. the gas
from a practicable quantity of shells bombs
is too diffuse to have any effect.
Evening star., 1932-07-03
. You BeHe0ed the
old Scare Stories
Abont Our Great
Population Centers
Being Easy Prey to
AeriaI Gas Bomb
ing, You '0e Been
Needlessly Worry-
ing, SaysArmyS s
Expert.
RY DIR. FRANK THONE.

AR the next war will blot out
whole cities say the prophets
n of doom. These Jeremiahs
AN/ foresee death riding the
" W wings of swarming airplanes,
that darken the sky and rain
Evening star., 1932-04-01
GIRLS SEEKING AID
FOR DOOMED MEN
College Students Call on Sen
ators to Intervene for
Seven In Alabama.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Four girl college students came to
the Capitol today to seek some inter-
vention in behalf Of seven colored men
sentenced to die May 13 for assaulting
two white girls at Scottsboro, Ala.
The girls, VaSSar and Wellesley stu
dents, were sent by the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political Pris-
onerS to urge members of Congress to
assist in obtaining a review of the case
by the Supreme Court. They are Riva
Stocker, Evelyn Rosenthal and Dorothy
Lippincott of VaSsar and Florence Smith
of Wellesley.
Chairman Norris of the Senate Judi
ciary Committee expressed interest in
the matter and asked the girls to fur
nish him written memorandum.
They had a long talk with Senator
Black, Democrat, of Alabama, and re-
ported later that Black had said he was
too much interested in crime in the
North to be diverted to the Alabama
case. They said he referred to the in
fanny of crime in New York and Chi
cago and suggested it might be well for
Congress to investigate such matters.
The girls said Black told them he had
read the evidence in the ScottSboro
case and was convinced the men had
been given a fair trial
The delegation also discussed the
case with Senator Copeland, Democrat,
of New York. and planned to see
number Of other members on both sides
OF the Capitol.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
lob
/. IS ENVY OF BOYS
Sweet Tester hibbIes Away
and Exercises and Diets
for Health.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Ill, April Paid to eat
candy all day long
That Is william H. Beirer's job-the
dream Of every youngster He is ofhcial
candy tester" for national chain of
candy manufacturers
I Beirer estimated that in his work he
rats half pound of candy every day.
In his nine years in that position with
the candy company ne said he con-
sumed well over half ton.
As his daily routine he samples the
Chicago factory's products, those sent
In by his company'S otner factories over
the country, and confections put out by
competitors. In his spare moments he
goes into the store room and bites into
chocolates and bonbons to see how the
quality stands up as time passes.
And If he has any time left. he said
he tries his hand and palate at new
recipes, sampling as he goes along.
One might expect him to have the
proportions of an elephant. On the con-
trary, this man of A years, feet 1912
inches, weighs 1873 pounds. Not long
ago he saw he was putting on weight
and checked this, he said, not by cut
ting down on his food nor Stacking on
his boss, but by increasing his exercise,
Whlch is normally a tWo-mlle odlly
walk
! But his job, so advantageous from the
Juvenile viewpoint, isn't altogether a
bed Of roses, nor is 1t one that person
can undertake all at once.
"One has to grow into it, so to speak"
he said, gradually accustoming the
system to the high intake of sweets"
Further, he has to watch his diet,
eating in the main porteins and lots of
vegetables and foods short on starches
and carbohydrates.
One disadvantage of his profession,
he said, is that he frequently runs into
complications at home. His sense of
taste. paid for as expert, makes it
possible for him to detect instantly
when the home cooking is of and what
the trouble is.
: yes" he said, ''just like the mail man
who goes for walk on his day off. I
frequently make candy for my young
:sters on Sundays"
Evening star., 1932-04-01
METERS FOR TAX|S
FOUGHT BY CELLER
New Yorker Declares Re-
quirement Would Decrease
Earnings of Drivers.

Determination 10 resist every n.
tempt to foist meters on taxicabe tn
Washington" was expressed today BY
Representative Celler, Democrat, New
York, who declared that this attempt is
most regrettable"
Representative Celler pointed out that
nearly 10000 men are directly or in
directly employed on taxicabs in Wash
ington. There are about 1000 drivers,
1000 repair men and 1000 service
men, he said, The advantages that
these drivers and their families bring
to allied trades in Washington are in
calculable. 1t may be true that the
drivers make less than the usual wage,
but everybody is in the same boat.
'The fact that they have employ
ment is sufficient reason in these times.
Saddling the cost of an expensive meter
upon those drivers is difficult enough.
but the change from the fiat rate to
the meter rate would reduce this en-
ployment more than one-half.
Normally, 1000 taxicabs at the taxi
meter rate would be all that Washing
ton would use, since the cost of riding
would be probably three or four times
as great as 1t is today.
Many bricklayers, plumbers. car
penters and other artisans, as well as
lawyers. doctors and professional men,
Evening star., 1932-04-01
CAIRO WARMLY GREETS
DAME SYBIL'S PLAYERS

CAIRO (N.ANAD-The first per-
fOrmance of Dame Sybil Thorndike and
her company of English players at the
Royal Opera House was something in
the nature of a gala night, with King
Fuad and Mohamed Helmy Issa Pasha,
the minister of education, in attend
ance
The opera house is run by the minis
try of education 1t is a fine building
and was erected by the Khedive Ismail
for the first production of Aida" which
he had commissioned Verdi to write in
cCmmemoration of the opening of the
Suez Canal by the Empress Eugene.
Later the company is to tour in
Palestine. and will play Arnold Bennett
and Edward Knoblock's "Milestones" in
Jerusalem. and Tel-Aviv is to be in
cluded in the itinerary.
Tel-Aviv is coming along toward the
sort of Eastern Deauville it wants to
be. Already it has a casino, Lido
bathing beach and many other up-to-
the-minute attractions.
Copyright, 1892, by the North American
NeWSpaDer Alliance. Inc
Evening star., 1932-04-01

BY Cable to The Star.
PARIS, April 1.-The fishing season
was inaugurated along the banks of the
Seine today with more than the Gus
tomary eclat. Paul Doumer, president
Of the French Republic, presided for the
first time at this annual social event,
wearing a shiny silk tile with several
fishhooks in the brin, and surrounded
by the cabinet and members of the
diplomatic corps. Among the latter,
American Ambassador Walter z. Edge
was particularly noticed in an oilskin
coat and rubber boots.
Leaders in French society. headed by
the Duchess of Talleyrand. formerly
Miss Anna Gould; Mr.. and Mrs. Berry
Wall and their chow dog, whose name
could not be learned, made up the rest
Of the brilliant assemblage. A light
cold drizzle hampered the numerous
photographers, but did not otherwise
impair the success of the party.
The band of the Garde Republicaine
played the "Marseillaise" and the
'Bouillabaisse." alternately.
Ambassador Edge won the coveted
Presidents Cup for catching the first
fish. superb mackerel which obviously
had strayed up from the sea, as it was
dry as herring and had. particles of
salt clinging to it. Political significance
was seen in the fact that the mackerel's
stomach contained a celluloid button
inscribed Roosevelt for President" but
closer inspection showed that the in
scription was followed by date, 1904"
More curious still was a tin tag at
tached to the tail, marked Go to Fulton
Fish Market for all kinds of sea food"
A slight contretemps followed when
Ambassador Edge stepped up to Pres
ident Doumer to receive the accolade,
the grand cross of the Legion of Homer
and the coveted fishing trophy. The
of fisheries, whose name could
not be learned at late hour this morn
ng, objected that the fish was obviously
of American origin, and as the Amer
lean fish quota for the current fshcal
year was already full, no license to
import could be granted. These re-
marks were greeted with wild cheering
by the crowd and the minister went on
to add that there was also the posi-
olity that the mackerel was covered with
San Jose scales, which have been caus-
ing great ravages in the French ORCH
ards and newspapers lately. This sally
drove the mob wild with enthusiasm
and they carried the minister shoulder
high in triumph to the Pantheon, where
Evening star., 1932-04-01

are driving cars today IN order to keep
body and soul together and exc out
livelihood for their families. 1t would
be cruel to put them out OF employment.
"Of course, the street car companies
are now suffering They deserve to suf-
fer. A 10-cent fare Is outrageous. In
New York City, from where come, we
can ride in the subway for 20 miles for
5 cents. The public in the District OF
Columbia should resist the greed Of the
traction companies.
Furthermore, these meters are made
by two companies-the Ohlmer Co. and
the Pittsburgh Co, They are In fun
Evening star., 1932-04-01

control. It Is O virtual monopoly A
tremendous lobby was present in Wash
ington to foist these meters at $3.50
apiece on these unwilling drivers and
the unwilling public. The stakes are
large. Almost three-fourths Of q mil
lion dollars In sales is involved with the
sale of parts and repairing.
The 1000 cars, moreover, yield
handsome taxes to the District and the
Government. There is the hackman's
license tax, the gasoline tax and the
automobile tax The District would be
an extreme loser In many ways II the
drivers were forced to use meters"
Evening star., 1932-04-01
EDGE CATCHES FISH FROM SEINE:
PARIS SUSPECTS POLITICAL PLOT
Nevertheless Sporting Season Is Opened With More
Than Customary Eclat.

he will be buried with military honors
late today.
The ceremony was thus permitted to
proceed, and Ambassador Edge, in a
few lengthy but well chosen remarks,
thanked M. Doumer for the honor con-
ferred upon him and related some in
cidents of his boyhood in Fishkill-on-
Hudson. He added that he hoped
France and America would always go
hand in hand. for. he explained with
their hands in each others pockets"
The mackerel was sent later to the
Pathological Institute, where experts de-
clared it was not a mackerel at all. but
a hardy annual known as poisson
d'avril," or, in English, 'whopper."
Copyright. 1892
Evening star., 1932-04-01
CITIZENS TO PROTEST
GAS TANK JOINTLY

Members of the Manor Park Citizens
Association will meet tonight with the
Chillum Heights Citizens Association
to draft a protest against the proposed
erection of a large Illuminating gas
tank near the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road tracks and Riggs road northeast.
The meeting, to be held in the j. r.
Keene School. is the monthly gather
ing of the Chillum Heights citizens
group The latter association invited
the officers and other members Of the
Manor Park group to join them in
drawing up suitable protest.
Citizens in the section declare the
tank would constitute an "eyesore" and
point to 1t as seriously Objectionable,
both because of the many residences
in the vicinity and the Keene School
1t is pointed out by them that the
Budget Bureau has approved recon-
nendauions for erecting a new school
building on the site Of the Keene
School, at a cost Of $115,000
The odor from the gas tank the
citizens say, would be disagreeable and
unhealthful.
A public hearing on the proposed
erection of the tank is to be held be-
fore the Public Utilities Commission
Monday morning.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
Court Goes on Air
To Educate Public
In Traffic Cases
BY the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, April l.
Northside Municipal Court went
on the air yesterday in a series of
daily 15-minute broadcasts of
trials.
They should be educational to
the public and a good influence,
particularly in showing how traf-
f1c violations involve danger and
costly consequences" Judge Tom
Holland said In the broadcasts.
Evening star., 1932-04-01

Home Secretary Samuels of England
says that 18 persons between the ages
of 16 and 81 have been sentenced to
death since 1922, A of them being ex-
ecuted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
Pen Women to
Meet Saturday
at De Paw u.

Miss Lucille Calvert of the speech
department of De Paw university
will present a lecture recital before
members of the Indiana branch of
the League of American Pen Wom-
en-, which will meet at the university
Saturday.
Other entertainments will include
a concert by the university choir
under the direction OF Dear r.
G.. McCutcheon. Dean Katherine
Sprague Alvord will give an ad-
dress of welcome while Miss Eliza
beth Ames, charter member of the
woman'S club, and Mrs. John r. Mil
Ter will extend greetings. to which
Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, retiring
president and national state vice
president. will respond.
Back Home" will be the subject
of an address by Mrs. Felix t. Nc
Whirter.
Mrs. Ethel Arnold Tilden Of the
university has charge of arrange
ments and program.