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HOMEWARD BOUND

FERNANDO, Brazil, Mar 26. (P) The Graf Zeppelin flew over this island this morning on it's return trip to Germany. The dirigible took off from Pernambuco shortly after midnight.
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TO STUDY COAL STRIKE

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Ky, Mar. 26.-A group of young men, repre- senting the Students League, ar rived here to study the coal miners strike. It is alleged the students are actuated by Communistic mo- tives and the local authorities have refused them admittance.
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TELEGRAPH BREvT|ES.
ONLY METHOD

WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 26.- Senator R. M. LaFollette, IT,, of Wisconsin, said that a nationwide public works construction program offers the only effective method of combating the depression.
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GRANT CHILD'S PLEA

COLUMBIA, s. C., Mar. 26.-The plea of his 1O-year-old child has given o. E. Howell of Sumter, s. c., who was to be hung here Friday for a murder, 21 more days to live. The daughter asked that clemency be given her father.
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PROTEST NEW TAX

PARIS, Mar. 26-A national strike by musicians and actors is threat ened in protest of the entertain ment tax Premier Tardeau says the tax must remain as a revenue measure. Theatre owners claim they will close their houses if the new tax is not lifted
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SEIZE TONSUL WASH

STANFORD, Conn, Mar. 26. Dry officers found a liquor cache containing 5000 cases of choice booze It is estimated the liquor is worth, at prevailing prices, $25O,- 900.
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GREAT SINGER ILL

ST. LOUIS, Mar. 26.-A cold con- tracted by Madam Schumann Heink, noted snger, appears to be into pneumonia. Her concert tour has been cancelled.
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FULL-FLEDGED AMERICAN

LOS ANGELES, Mar 26.-Mack Sennett, movie director, Cana dian, became citizen of the Unit ed States yesterday when he was granted citizenship. He came to the U. $. in 1911.
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CONSIDER MEASURES

WASHINGTON, D. o., Mar. 26.- A Judiciary sub-committe in the Senate Friday considered four reso- lutions calling for the amending or repeal of the 18th Amendment. Ten measures calling for modifica- tion of the Volstead Act were also under consideration.
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APPROVE BOND ISSUE

PARIS, Mar. 26.-The Chamber of Deputies passed the $139,0O0,000 public bond issue which will be ex- pended on public works through out France to aid the unemployed.
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CLEVER SMUGGLERS

NEW YORK, Mar. 26.-Federal officers raided a garage and found truck fully equipped with a radio sending and receiving set. Rum runners used the equipment, nov ing from place to place to fool the law, to communicate with vessels SO miles at sea.
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INDUSTRIAL HEAD DIES

DETROIT, Mar. 26. (P) Henry M. Leland, 89, grand old man of the automobile industry and president of the Cadillac company until 1t merged with General Motors, died here Friday.
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Mrs. E. Coke Hill, wife of Judge Hill, arrived from Valdez today on the SS Northwestern.
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WOULD RECALL MAYOR

PORTLAND, Ore, Mar. 26. - A group of 50 citizens have drawn up a petition demanding the recall of Mayor Baker, charging him with laxity in upholding the law.
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TOO MUCH FAME

RENO, Nev., Mar. 26. - Harry Bannister, husband of Ann Hard ing, ,r2ctress, has established a resi- dence here preliminary to securing a divorce.
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ORPHAN FISH FOR BRITISH

BRIGHTON, England, Mar. 26. (P - Herring which have never seen the sea may grace English breakfast tables if an experiment at the local aquarium succeeds. Ex- perts there are trying to hatch her ring from artificially fertilized eggs.
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NEW SWIM RECORD

STANFORD, Calif., Mar. 26. - Austin Clark, University of Stan ford student, set a new worlds 1 1,5O0-foot swim record when he swam the distance in 23.2 seconds.
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BEAVER CENSUS RISES

HARRISBURG, Pa, Mar. 26. (P) A decade ago dozen beavers were brought into Pennsylvania from Canada. Today there are about 10000 beavers in the State and trappers are allowed to take 2,5OO of them this winter
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FRIDAYS BASEBALL

Chicago T, Missions 5. Cincinnati ', Boston 5. Giants 2, Pirates l. Stanford 6, Detroit 4.
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EXPLORER REPORTED DEAD

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 26.-H was reported here, though not con- firmed., that Dr. Arthur Terrence, explorer, died in Tokyo from fever contracted in China.
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TELEGRAPH BREY|T|ES|
STOCK MARKET CLOSED

NEW YORK, Mar. 26. - Because of Good Friday the Stock Exchange was closed yesterday.
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BETTER DAYS ARE COMING

WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 26.- Wet and dry leaders in both houses of Congress have agreed to consider repeal of the Volstead Act April IA.
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SEVENTEEN HUNG

LAREDO, Texas, Mar. 26.-Seven- teen men, convicted of participat- ing in a train holdup, were hung here Friday. Ten more are being rounded up.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
New York Warned of Catastrophe.

Yesterday Charles E. Mitchell the
head of one OF the greatest OF the
worlds banking institutions. represent
ing a group of banking houses upon
which the City of New York depends
for financial sustenance. told the men,
bers of the Board of Estimate that un-
less the city's 1888 budget was slashed
substantially no further credit would
be extended to the municipal govern
ment This was in response to an ap-
plication for a loan of S35, 100000 for
pay rolls and other current expenses.
He warned members of the board that
they were on the edge Of the precipice
regarding the city's credit and that the
investing public would not absorb any
more securities because that credit is
crumbling. Only by cutting the budget
to the bone could the authorities re-
store confidence Spurred by this ad-
montion. the board proceeded to adopt
measures OF economy totaling 7o,UOO.-
01U and changed the basis OF subway
funding in manner to make probable
the abandonment of the five-cent fare
on the city lines Of transportation.
Mr. Mitchell, in his statement before
Evening star., 1932-10-18

opportunity. The dome OF the Capitol.
the peak of the Washington Monu-
ment and the towers and steeples OF
the valley plain-all these, INST en-
wrapped, are subjects for painters OF
natures more sober. less colorful moods.
The difficulty of the theme is readily
appcrcnt Silver. like gold, is hard to
paint. Over the clouds the sun is going
about its accustomed business, and its
influence Is an indefinable. but very
real part of the picture. Its rays, OBJ
scured, detected and restrained as they
may be b. the soggy celestial ceiling.
nevertheless struggle through. family
illuminating the air through which they
pass and that is tie essence of the mist
which is so defiant Of attempted repro
duction on canvas. Mist and mystery
are synonymous phrases. and both are
elusive of brush and paint, Of camera.
even of literary description. The great
impressionists lebored for decades to
catch such moods as Washington saw
.'AStIiday' : uAio largely ioboIVu AL 'oiAi'
Constable approached success in two or
three instances. and Winslow Homer ap-
proximated it several times Any one
may paint a sunny landscape. but few
indeed are they who win victories over
a weeping rain. Not even the poets can
do the work as many feel it might be
done-if only words were the exact SYM
bols of thought and emotion, which,
alas, they are not.
Architectura,ly, Washington lends it
self to the witchery of the mist The
high white hour glass of the flood
lights OF the Capitol is memorable
spectacle. The Monument against
clouds contesting with the pale fall
moon is a composition gracefully musi-
cal in character. The city, quiet and
eery in the haze, as seen from the hill
on the road to Marlboro or from Mount
ST Adams is dreamlike and delicate
as a mirage.
Visitors from ether section. Of the land
and native Washingtonians alike need
not regret the occasional rainy days of
their experience here They have their
function. Those who never have seen
the Capital as it was yesterday have
missed one of its most interesting and
poetical aspects.
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the Board Of Estimate. appealed to the
members to disregard what everybody
knows Ito be going on today in the po-
litical arena ef this city. and to bring
to us a cut that will definitely establish
credit" He said that the investing pub
lie in this country would not be willing
to take cuts that represent bookkeep-
ing" In other words. the banker called
for genuine and not window dressing"
economies which apparently save few
millions here and there while actually
maintaining and even increasing the
eXtravagant scale of expenditure in the
lines of political nourshment.
The scent fare has been a fetish in
New York municipal politics for long
time. Bitter municipal campaigns have
been fought over it. The organization
in control has made it the battle cry,
although the financial basis of the
transportation equipment underground
has never justified that rate Expert
juggling of figures and successive re-
financing operations have permitted the
maintenance of the nickel fare in New
York while in practically all other large
cities the rate of local transportation
has advanced.
The s75,00O000 budget cut would
probably not have been made had 1t not
been fer the ultinatum of the bankers
without whose aid the city would have
actually become insolvent in a few
weeks, with salaries in arrears and with
no assurance of sufficient funds to meet
current expenses. NEW York, in short,
would have been in the position of Chi
cago. though for different reason. In
the Illinois metropolis the financial
troubles arise from taxpayers strike
against an assessment levied some years
ago which has not yet been settled.
New York's stringency comes from
wanton extravaganza and the abuse
of the city's credit for the maintenance
of political machine.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
Walter Johnson,
Idol of Base Ball
From the Pasadena Star-News.

From the Pasadena StarNews.
Walter johnson. once the idol of
every schoolboy in the land and null
titude Of grownups as well. has been
deposed from the managership of the
Washington base ball team. This news
will be received with regret all over
the country. Walter johnson as a
manager may have had-doubtless did
have-his weaknesses. 1t is evident
that the controlling interests of the
club were not satisfied with his man.
agership. Doubtless he can find an
other berth to his liking. And yet
things will not seem just right without
Walter johnson being connected with
the Washington club. 1t was with that
club that he won his great distinction
as one Of the greatest pitchers the base
ball world ever has known.
1t may be said Of Walter johnson.
as it truthfully may be said of many
other outstanding base ball players,
he was honest to the core Never a
shadow of scandal or suspicion crossed
his path in the long years that he was
one of the leading players of the coun-
try. 1t is men like Walter johnson
who command the respect of the
American people for clean and whole
some sport.
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Mist Wrapped Washington.

Yesterday and this morning Wash
1ngton was dressed in drspery Of mist
through which the rain came dripping
down as though it would never cease.
Such weather. naturally, may be criti-
cized as uncomfortable, but the beauty
of the city under the wet gray sky may
be submitted as recompense.
Washington, of course. is beautiful
at all seasons of the year. but the
transient iUyelin@ss of the times when
the seasons are changing has an at
traction all its own. Sucn change
now Is going on, and latter-day Tur-
nefs and Whistlers find in it an esthetic
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H4SKIN.

This is a special department devoted
solely to the handling Of queries. This
paper puts at your disposal the services
Of an extensive organization in Wash
ington to serve you in any capac city that
relates to information This service is
free. Failure 20 make use OF 1t deprives
you OF Dement'S to which you are en-
titled Your obligation is only 8
cents in coin or stamps inclosed with
your inquiry for direct reply. Address
The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J Haskin, Director, Washing
ton, D. c.
@ What causes the highest per cent
OF accidents to airplanes carrying pas
sengers?-B G.
A Weather conditions. Fog is one OF
the greatest menaces to flyers.
@. What is the elevated road which is
being built across the Jersey meadows
outside Of Jersey City?-P. c.
A. 1t is an elevated superb highway
between jersey City and Newark. 1t is
three miles long and leads to the
entrance to the Holland Tunnel. 1t is
estimated that 18 million automobiles
will use this viaduct annually.
O. To what extent did the Red Cross
help families in distress because Of the
depression last Winter?-M M.
A. Two thousand one hundred ard
fifty-nine Red Cross chapters have par
ticipated in Unemployment relief. aiding
$4,000 families with an estimated ex-
penditure of s1600.000 These figures
arc for the period between July /, 1881,
ard May 80, 1882.
@. What are cabinet skins?-T G.
A. The term cabinet skins refers to
any skin or part of a skin that is kept
In a cabinet or drawer for scientific
purposes and is not mounted.
@. Are the Sioux and Iroquois Ian
guaees alike in structure?-J. K.
A There is as much difference be-
tween the grammar of the Sioux and
the IrCquois as there is between English
and Chinese.
@. How much money did George
Eastman leave to promote calendar re-
vision?-C. S. L.
A. According to a report on the estate
Of the late George Eastman, the Unlver-
sity of Rochester is the residuary
egatee and benefits from Mr.. Eastman S
Will in the sum Of s19287,14 In ad-
dition to this the Rochester Dental
Dispensary receives $1028.438. The
university has declared its intention OF
carrying forward the work SO near to
Mr. Eastmans heart, the revision of
the calendar The precise amount
which will be appropriated from time
TO time is not known.
@. Who was the first man sent TO
prison for life under the Baumes law
w. D.
A. Clifford Hanson. 2l-year old
rcbber, who was sentenced for a life
term. was the first man to get the
maximum penalty under the Baumes
law in New York. August 90 1925.
@. How many miles Of coast line has
Denmsrk?-P. N.
A. The coast is deeply indented and
the coast line is 3,400 miles in length.
O. Is there a difference between
liquor and liqueur.?-R. T.
A. LIQUOR is pronounced with the ac-
Evening star., 1932-10-18
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

criticize, slow to praise. If, therefore
you hear nothing about one of your
governors. this may be due to the fact
that he is a nonentity who avoids
blundering or else that ne dces' his
work well and the public has no further
interest in him.
The Governor" of Jerusalem. Mai
Campbell, who lives in charming
house in the vicinity of Bethlehem
comes under the latter category He is
a very glutton for work. His subordi-
mates find him a delightful chief to
work with and to work for. There is
perhaps less personal contact than there
was in the days of Mr.. Keith Roach,
but this is made up for In other direc-
tions.
He performs his work quietly and
efficiently: he is one of the officials
derstands his job and carries it out.
Birds Threatened
BY Collecting Agents.
Irish Independent. Dublin.-The Irish
Society for the Protection of Birds il,
its annual report states that the two
great perils against which the bi; ds of
this country have to be protected are
The increasing efforts of Ens.isn deal
ers to rob our fields of the songbirds
that the British law forbids them to
capture in their own lands: and the
raids that INSCRIPTIONS wholesale COL
lectors and their agents. mainly from
overseas. make on the breeding haunts
of our rarest birds"
The activities of Garda Siochana, the
society believed. successfully protected
the birds against these perils during
the past year
The hope was expressed that teachers
and parents would advise children not
to use air guns for the destruction OF
birds
Evening star., 1932-10-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

SQUIRRELS are very friendly this Fall.
Bushy lied rodents which last year
wonld not speak to you at all TINS
season run UP with an expectant look
on their furry faces.
Does this show a warm or a cold
Winter ahead?
We leave that for the wiseacres, the
confident gentlemen who are forever
protesting to be able to see futurity.
As for us. and no doubt the majority
of people, we can't see much farther
ahead than tomorrow. and not al
WAYS that Prediction is something
most persons can leave to the squirrels.
Maybe Nature actually gives them
foresight.
Perhaps in a cold year these inter-
esting rodents discover that their fur Is
growing at a prodieious rate. and so
put ON fat layers to keep up with their
coats.
1t may be. in the wisdom of Mother
Nature. that her squirrels realize, IN
the dim recesses of their unconscious
minds, that something must be done
about It.
So they grow friendly.
This is on a theory that the human
passerby. being kindly sort Of critter,
will present them with largess of nuts.
Every squirrel We passed recently
seemed to have an appeal in his eye.
II it could speak, it would utter just
one word:
"Nutsl"
Hickory nuts or peanuts. or pecans,
or haZels, OF walnuts-these and all the
other nuts of the trees are quite ac
ceptable.
Unfortunately most passersby are not
provided with the whereWlthal to
please these little bcggars.
So they are forced to watch the ras-
Gals run up to a foot or two of their
feet. then vanish with hirt OF a very
buShy tail.
Squirrels out our way are noticeably
tanner this year.
If four or five of them are scamper-
ing along a parking, they will not run
for the trees at the first approach of a
pedestrian, as they did last year.
Many persons already have noticed
their generally more friendly attitude.
Last Autumn they invariably ran
aloft at the first sound of footsteps
To be able to approach within &c
This Fall. if half a dozen or more
are busily engaged on the ground only
one or two will 60 aloft at the sign OF
danger.
Evidently the rodents do not regaro
two-legged animals as dangerous this
year.
Four out Of six will stay down. per-
mittine the pedestrian to approach as
close as 2 or feet.
Quite evidently they are expecting 6
''handout.
II the pedestrian passes by an ole
rail fence. such as a few wealthy peo-
pie in suburban areas are able to buy
the squirrels will scamper along the
top rail, keeping their bright eyes on
him.
II there is chance for something tc
eat. they are not going to miss it this
season.
Two habits of these animals are ex-
ceptionally interesting.
The first is its trick of keeping itself
on the opposite side Of tree when
ever it takes to one.
1t is the equivalent Of the riding
habit of the American Indians. whereby
they managed to crouch in their saddles
so that they were practically hid bi
the horses body
The tree trunk gives the same or bet
ter protection to the cautious rodent
the fellow which is too wise. it woult
seem For let it be stated again, most
of our modern squirrels have lost much
of their extreme caution of past years
If one may judge from the actions Of
those out our way.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
France Feels the Pinch.

Throughout the first year or two of
depression in the United States, and
elsewhere in Europe. Frances good
fortune in escaping the &c, ,nomic blight
was matter of self-congratulation
there and the cause of honest envy
beyond her prosperous borders. Un-
employment IVES markedly less in
French industry than in Great Britain
Italy and America French export trade
was keeping up. The great cash i'm
p2rts represented by the hundreds Of
millions Of francs left in Paris by the
worlds army Of tourists pleasure seek
ers and buyers of women's finery expe-
rienced no appreciable diminution. The
Gallo goose hung high.
These having been French conditions
while the rest of the world was wallow-
ing in financial distress, it will surprise
most Americans to learn that the state
of the national treasury at Paris is
one of baffiing impoverishment France
is faced with a deficit in 1888 estimated
at s340 900 900, besides a deficit for the
present year Of sl4000OO0o. Abroad
most is heard Of Premier Herriot s diff
culties in the realm of foreign affairs
how to ward off Germany's demand for
arms equality and correlated questions.
1t now appears that the French cab
inet's Growing anxiety is domestic.
how to raise money for maintenance Of
the government The situation is the
graver because, by general admission.
the taxation limit has been almost
reached Frenchmen have a constitu-
tional complex against taxes. Govern
ments think up new ones at their own
peril.
Economy. in the form of retrench-
ment in governmental expenditure, is
about as unpopular in France as addi-
tional tax burdens. There is a gigan-
tic army OF civil servants. Any dras-
tic curtailment of its ranks would
arouse immediate and widespread re-
sentiment Premiers have risked their
political lives in the past by the mere
threat of wholesale national economies.
An Officials federation" exists almost
exclusively to clear for action in emer-
gencies against the members vested in
terest in the government pay roll.
Yet the French treasury is now said
to contain only slo,ooO,O0O in available
funds for indispensable purposes, with
only sl6O 900 900 in view through bond
issues and the recovery of loans to AL
geria and the post office department.
Meantime a sum Of $92, 900 900 for ma
turing bonds, conversion and reim-
bursements requires to be provided. So
far. the only remedial ideas that have
occurred to the distracted financial Off
GERS Of the republic are. an increased
tax on gasoline, already heavily laden,
and s52,oOOOOo saving in ofhcial
salaries.
Much water is likely to flow beneath
the bridges of the adjacent Seine be-
fore the Chamber Of Deputies assents to
treasury reforms of the sort just indi-
Gated. But France is faced by
condition. and not a theory, and the
hour seems at hand when the realities
will have to be confronted. The iron
facts and figures like those now staring
them in the eyes are designed to
make Frenchmen ponder over the wis
dor. of opposing sweeping reduction Of
armaments. the rathole into which most
of the nations financial substance con-
tinues to be poured.