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Evening star., 1933-04-04
BANDITS BLINDFOLD
AND SLUG VICTIMS
E115 Obtained in Three Hold-ups
and $500 Taken in Other
Forms of Thefts.

Slugging or blindfolding their VIC
tins, bandits obtained more than Sis
last night and early today in three
hold-ups, while more than $500 in cash
and materials was reported taken in
housebreakings and other forms OF
thefts.
Vivian Logan, colored, telephone op-
orator at the Lincoln Theater, 1900
block of U street. was robbed of 500
last night by colored bandit who en-
tered the office and struck her over the
head
Morris Greenfield, taxi driver, was hit
over the head and robbed OF $ll by
Va fare he had driven to Twenty-third
and E streets. Greenfield was treated
= at Emergency Hospital for slight head
injury
Carrie Burke, colored, reported two
armed colored men last night entered
her home in the 1900 block of Pomeroy
: court and after holding her up, blind
folded her and took S.
Arthur H Hahn. 2812 Twenty-sev-
enth street. reported he had his pocket
picked Of ST while waiting in line at a
downtown theater.
The sum of S238.60 was reported
taken by robbers who worked the COM
bination on a safe of barbecue shop
in the $500 block of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast. after entering the estab-
1ishment by climbing fire escape.
DR.. Fred w. Baers, 81 K street, re-
ported to police instruments, bandages
and battery. valued at total of 5000,
were taken from hallway outside his
Office.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
GLOVE MAKERS ASK
TARIFF PROTECTION
New York Manufacturers
Make Plea Before u. S.
Tariff Commission.

A strong plea that the glove makers
of Gloversville and Fulton County N.
Y, be protected in their industry from
a flood of foreign-made gloves was
made today to the United States Tariff
Commission by Mayor Gideon G. w.
Green of Gloversville. Mayor Green
accompanied group Of glove manu-
facturers in their appearance before
the commission to protest against low
ering of the tariff duties Under a
resolution adopted by the Senate the
commission is making inquiry into the
tariff rates on a dozen or more COM
modities. Albert Arron of Gloversville,
president of the Glove Manufacturers
Association, headed the delegation of
glove makers.
Mayor Green told the commission
that his community and glove makers
of Fulton County had stuck to the job
of glove making continuously and pro-
gressively since the close of the Ameri-
can Revolution. The glove-making in
duStry, he pointed out. retains to a
considerable degree conditions which
prevailed prior to the industrial revo-
luton" The business. he said. can be
conducted successfully In small units
and that even the workers own home
may be an industrial unit. Therefore
intense competition prevails and there
is no possibility Of any combination for
the regulation of prices or restraint of
trade.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
JEWS TO Celebrate
PASSOVER MONDAY
Week Long Festivity to Mark Lib
Grafton of Race in Nile
Country.

Washington Jewry today began prep
arations for the celebration of the
Passover, which begins Monday and
continues throughout the week, In
honor of the liberation of the Hebrews
from the bondage of the Egyptians,
centuries ago
During the week-long celebration the
Jews must eat only unleavened bread
In memory of the day their liberated
ancestors escaped from the Nile coun-
try in such haste that their bread had
no time to become leavened.
Festivity will accompany the observ-
ance of the Passover, and at the Seder,
or special supper, the first born of the
family will ask about the traditions of
the celebration and the service which
follows, containing wit, humor, pathos
and song.
Symbols of the deliverance of the
Jews-bitter herbs. an egg. parsley and
a roasted shank bone-accompany the
holiday feaStS
Evening star., 1933-04-04
MISS ETA TAGGART
INDORSED FOR COURT
Washington Highlands Citizens
Back Havenner and Clayton
for Commissioners.

Miss Eta Taggart, Georgetown law
yer, was Endorsed for appointment to
the Juvenile Court in the District, and
DR.. George c. Havenner and William
Nick. Clayton were recommended for
appointment to the Board of District
Commissioners at the meeting of the
Washington Highlands Citizens Asso-
citation last night in the Congress
Heights School.
The association voted to draw up a
list of community Improvements for
submission to the proper authorities
when the time is propitious These in
cluded sewerage facilities for the COM
munity, bridge across the Potomac at
South Capitol street, completion Of
First street southeast. resurfacing of
Giesboro road and provision of play
ground facilities for the neighborhood.
The association vigorously opposed the
proposed cut III the Federal contribu-
ton to the District budget for the COM
ing fiscal year
1t was decided that the next meeting
will be held in the community the as
soclation represents, at the home OF the
president, w. Earl Nair, instead OF in
the Congress Heights School. President
Nair named committee to meet Fri
day to make plans for card party to
raise funds for the association.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
ARMSTRONG PICKS
ORATOR|CAL VICTOR
Helen Proctor to Represent
School in Star Finals in
Tenth Contest.

Helen Proctor, 16-year-old fourth
year student, will represent Armstrong
High School in The Star finals of the
Tenth National Oratorical Contest.
Miss Proctor was proclaimed cham
pion of her school late yesterday by a
board of three judges who heard
the orations of the six finalists of tnat
school. BY holding its finals yesterday
Armstrong became the first District
public high school to determine It's
champion. Likewise. because each Dis
trict public high school constitutes a
contest district" the Armstrong girl
is the first contestant in The Star finals
to be chosen.
Charles Carter Second.
Charles Carter, speaking on "Is the
Negro an Asset or a Liability won
second honors and position of official
alternate to the girl
The Armstrong High School champion
won her laurels, and the accompanying
award Of S100, with siX-minute speech
on "The Constitution-An Instrument
of More Perfect Union She spoke
whom she admonished to adhere to the
vigorously and with perfect poise as she
placed the keeping of the Union square
ly UP to the students OF the country
Constitution.
Miss Proctor is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Durley Proctor. 2344 Ala
bama avenue southeast She entered
Armstrong from the Birney (elemen-
tary) School and following her gradua-
ton she plans OF enter Miner Teachers
College to prepare for career in phy-
sical education. She is active in all the
athletic events at her school, although
she excels in basket ball.
The contest finals at Armstrong were
presided over by John Hunter. teacher
of history. Shirley Butler was first con-
testant. with an Grafton on The Con-
stitution and It's Makers Charles
Carter second honors winner, was sec
ond speaker with his original and we'll
presented Grafton on the Negroes place
in the evaluation of the Nation and its
development. Other speakers on the
program, in the order in which they
spoke and their respective orations,
we're: Jessie Hughes, THE Constitution
AS a Guarantee of the Liberty Of the
Individuap';; Jennie Taylor, What the
Constitution Means to Citizen; Ed
ward Fielder, THE Rights and Duties
of American Citizenship" and Miss
Proctor.
Names Of Judges.
The judges were Mrs. Anna j.
Thompson of the Miner Teachers Col
lege; Prof Harold Lewis Of the Howard
University, and Edward P. Lovett, at
torney.
A note of timeLness marked the pre-
sentation of the meeting in the stage
decoration which was executed by the
school personnel itself. A large flag OF
the United States hung un0raped
against a darkened background drop.
On its left was large portrait OF
President Roosevelt, and on its right
was a placard bearing in neat lettering
the following utterance of President
Roosevelt: "Our Constitution is so SIM
pie and practical that it is possible
always to meet our needs by change in
emphasis and arrangement without
loss of essential form"
The program was completed with
solo by Oracle Lee Hawkins. student.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

We sold out in day just little while ago -.
so for those of you who were disappointed here's
another lot Genuine seal. lined with karotol;
roomy Gladstone interior with pockets for shirts,
collars, etc. Black. brown; "A or 20 ms
Palais Royal-Main Floor
Evening star., 1933-04-04
ABANDONED SHIP SEEN
OFF CAROLINA COAST
No Life Visible on Derelict, Ac-
cording to Message From
Steamer Bald Hill.
By the AssociatedPress.

BY the Associated'Press.
NORFOLK, Va. April Am aban-
doned vessel which had been gutted
by fire and with only her bow left pro-
truding out of the water was observed
about IS miles east of Albemarle Sound
off the North Carolina coast yesterday
afternoon by the steamship Bald Hill.
No life was visible on or near the
derelict and her name could not be
seen, according to radio message from
the master of the Bald Hill to Coast
Guard headquarters here
The Bald Hill message said small
fishing vessel was seen in the vicinity
and it was believed this boat had re-
moved crew from the burned vessel, but
nothing definite was available imme-
diately.
Evening star., 1933-04-04

In this advertisement,
you'll find you can buy a
complete feminine outfit
of exceptional quality and
authentic fashion for lust
bit over SIS! 1t would
be worth your while to
SHOP at the PALAIS
ROYAL tomorrow.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
GLEE CLUB TO SING
American U. Mems Group to Ap-
pear Before Rotarians.

pear Before Rotarians.
The American University Mems Glee
Club will sing before the Rotary Club
at its weekly luncheon at the Willard
Hotel tomorrow.
The glee club quartet will sing at
the Oklahoma Alabama Mississippi tri-
State ball at the Shoreham Hotel TO-
morrow night.
Evening star., 1933-04-04
"a BICYCLISTS HURT

Casualty List Includes 20 Women,
6 to 40 Years Old.
SAN FRANCISCO, April P-
Twenty-four San Franciscans had lost
some Of their enthusiasm for bicycling
yesterday as they recovered from in
juries suffered Sunday.
The cyclists casualty list included
20 women. The ages Of the victims
ranged from to 40 years Elmer Shee-
han, 49, was the most seriously hurt,
his skull being fractured. One rider
suffered a fractured elbow,
Evening star., 1933-07-06
EMERGENCY RELIEF
! TOTALS $51,51,731
rs States and D. c. Aided
During First Six Weeks
of Organization.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
As preparations were being completed
for q conference here Sunday and Mon
day between State unemployment re-
lief officials and State representatives
of the United States Employment Serv-
ice, it was announced that the new
Federal Emergency Relief Adninistra-
ton during the first six weeks of its
existence has distributed S51 ,531 .731 of
Federal funds to As States. the District
Of Columbia and Hawaii for unemploy-
ment relief.
Harry l.. Hopkins. the administrator,
announced plans for the conference
yesterday and Is working out pro-
gram for cooperation between the en-
ployment service and the State relief
administrations.
Based on State Work.
The allotment of the $51,531,731 so
far distributed, he said, is based on
expenditures of public moneys within
the States during January, February
and March, the Federal funds being
supplied on the basis Of one dollar of
Federal money for each three dollars
Of public money from any source spent
by the State.
Up to June 80 Delaware, New Hamp-
0lukC, WLoCOllSul, aldohd dllQ uSl W
Rico had not received any grants.
The grants to other States were as
follows:
Alabama. s522.s62; Arizona. s2o8, ,5o4 !;
Arkansas, S760,249: California, S3,444,-
$40: Colorado, S690,178; Connecticut,
$838,528; Florida. S534,457; Georgia,
$98,517; Idaho, $l73,627; Illinois, ST.
434 ,663; Indiana, 1887, 1865: Iowa. $780,
1893; Kansas, S616,634; Kentucky, ST.
080 048: Louisiana, S1.378,922; Maine,
1886 1866; Maryland, S5,798.
Massachusetts,, S2,000000 Michigan,
So .968. .262; Minnesota. $49l oil; Missis-
sippi, $56s ,097; Missouri. s444, ,130; Mon
tana, $213,516; Nebraska, s150,000;
Nevada, $23,199; New Jersey, $685.
181; New Mexico, S94, 800.
Other Distributions.
New York, s6,532,2S2; North Caro-
lima, S1,073,377; North Dakota, S43, ,461 !;
Ohio, $l,9l9,26O; Oklahoma, s810,082;
Oregon, 1868 665; Pennsylvania, S4.-
547,913; Rhode Island, s281,l95; South
Carolina, s813,707
South Dakota, $137,715; Tennessee,
Evening star., 1933-07-06

year were reappointed for another term
at meeting Of the Executive Commit.
tee Of that organization held here last
night.
They include Walter B. Armstrong of
Cabin John Park, Finance Committee;
Miss Estelle T. Moore Of Sandy Spring.
w. Broome Of Rockville, Junior Social
Service League Committee; Frederic p.
Lee OF Bethesda, Legislative Committee.
Evening star., 1933-07-06

finger Hospital, where arrangements are
being made for two sons Of Gen. Pei
ham D. Glassford, for whom the baby
was named, 70 supply blood In trans
fusion operation.
The father, an employe Of the Dis
trict tax collectors office. already has
given blood for two transfusions and is
preparing for third operation. The
Glassford sops volunteered to give their
Evening star., 1933-07-06
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
FOR GOVERNOR TO SPEAK
Trio Will Give Address at Confed.
crate Picnic Near Manassas
July 81.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, July 6.-The
three candidates for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Virginia
will be the principal speakers at the
annual Confederate picnic on historic
Bull Run Battlefield, near Manassas.
July 81, it was announced today by
State Senator John w. Rust, in charge
of the affair.
Those scheduled for addresses include
George C. Peery of Tazewell, w. Worth
Smith Of Louisa and Joseph T. Deal Of
Norfolk.
Evening star., 1933-07-06
Woman Opticians in England.

Woman opticians are appearing IN
England, and are said to be very sue
cessful. Because it is one Of the pro-
fessions which a woman can. keep after
marriage, many other recruits are ex-
pected. The only woman practicing In
Plymouth is a fully-qualified ophthal-
mic optician and a master Of arts Of
Cambridge University. Women prefer
to consult q woman optician. and many
men like the idea of having one gaze
into their eyes.
Evening star., 1933-07-06

1881 ,s7e; Texas, $2,275,52s; Utah, $780,
$40; Vermont, $121, ,657: Virginia, $o13,-
$40; washington, $943.834; West VIZ
ginia, $1,605,86 Wyoming, $44.628;
District Of Columbia, $l40,767; Hawaii,
S44,540.
Evening star., 1933-07-06
BABY, TO GET GLAssFoRD
TRANSMISSION AID, GAINS

Pelham Glassford Sayre, 6-months-
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson H.
Sayre Of 1922 D street northeast, was
in an improved condition today at GAL
Evening star., 1933-07-06

and Mrs. J. Darby Bowman Of Rock
vile, Publicity Committee.
The reappointments were made after
they had been recommended to the
executive group by DR.. J. w. Bird Of
Sandy Spring, president Of the league.
Evening star., 1933-07-06

Food, clothing, shelter, arms and tools
are all obtained by the tribeSmen Of
TERRA del Fuego. an island south Of
South America, from the guanaco. .
wild llama.
Evening star., 1933-07-06
MONTGOMERY LEAGUE
CHAIRMAN REAPPOINTED

By staf1 Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. July 6---Chairmen
who headed the five standing commit
tees of the Montgomery County Social
Service League during the past fiscal
Evening star., 1933-07-06

blood because of q long friendship that
has existed between Sayre and Gen.
Glassford. The infant has been seri-
ously Ill for some weeks.
Evening star., 1933-07-06

The Japanese-owned South Man
churian Railroad plank to build large
aluminium plant In Fushun or Honkelko.
Evening star., 1933-12-17

a tenth Of an inch as it travelled through
the bore.
This is done by having the bore through
which the bullet passes tapered through part
of its length.
The first section forward of the ammunition
chamber is cylindrical and of .35 caliber. Then
comes a section in which the bore tapers from
.35 down to .25 caliber. Finally, there is
third section ending at the muzzle that is
cylindrical and of -25 caiber
This arrangement makes it possible for the
bullet to start with wide area to take the
push of the powder gases, and to leave the the
loss Of velocity from air resistance.
To obtain "compressible" bullet that can
fashioned his projectie of IS caliber, with
two 'faring bands or fangeS Of 35 callber.
These fit into the 35-caliber section of the bore,
and the bullet travels down the tapering
section they are folded down, fitting into chan
neled spaces cut into the body Of the bullet
behind them
The bullet thus leaves the rifle a smooth
cylinder coming to a sharp point at one end
not essentially different from the conventional
rifle bullets in common use.
The terrific velocity of 5000 feet a second
nearly double that of standard Army rifles
gives the new weapon several advantages.
1t will result in giving the soldier a powerful
new weapon.
1t naturally f1attens the line of flight or ira
jectory considerably, that the soldier using
it need not trouble himself so much about hav-
ing the right elevation. 1t shortenS the time OF
fight from rifle to target, a highly important
matter for anti-aircraft machine gunners.
FINALLY, it enables the small-caliber bullet
| to drive straight through tank armor, even
without the advantage of special armor-pierc-
F1.. y, cnf
jectiles have no time to upset" on striking
hard target-they act like the straws that get
driven through boards in tornado.
All these advantages must, of course, be pur-
chased at a price. The rifle barrel, with its
somewhat complicated bore, is more difficult to
Evening star., 1933-12-17

make, and more expensive. The ammunition
is considerably costlier also and its greater bulk
in TRANSFORMATION is something of military
disadvantage. The recof is heavier. Whether
the rife will wear out faster under firing con-
ditions is not yet determined
Nevertheless, if military authorities see sufn-
cient tactical advantages in the new weapon
its final adoption may be expected.
Although the Gerlich rife and ammunition
are the most successful effort so far to solve
the old problem of having large bullet to
take the powder thrust in the gun, and smaA
one to travel through the air outside. they
as 1870 the old Prussian needle gun used
wide wooden plug behind a Sr1allet-callDd
and finally abandoned
In 1904 a German inventor, Carl Puff, pro-
duced rifle with its bore tapered from breech
muzzle, and several types of "collapsible-
bullets. This weapon was really quite success
full but in the absence of tanks and aircraft
there was good military reason for its use.
SO that it was never adopted.
But regardless of whether the new Gerlich
rifle and its radical type OF ammunition are
actually adopted, the United States Army is
already in possession Of weapon that chal-
lenges both tanks and airplanes. This Is the
.50-caliber machine gun big brother OF the
Browning machine gun of World War nativity.
This monster can pour stream of half-inch.
two-ounce armor-piercing slugs at an approach
ing tank, or send its long finger of death
searching the sky for an oncoming airplane.
Army ordnance officers have been experiments
ing with multiple mounts for this gun, putting
four of them side by side that gunnef
can concentrate the fire of four weapons.
It is also possible to connect number 0
such mounts up with a new robot" flre-direct-
ing mechanism so that a single man can n
desired bring 20, 40 or 80 of these big machine
guns to bear on one plane The man on foot
Is really not so helpless many recent writer's
have tried to make out.
These .5O-caliber machine guns, like their
Continued on Fourteenth Page
Evening star., 1933-12-17
Il Ne7O Type cfAmmunitiou May Enable the
Foot Soldier to Stand His Ground against
Charging Tanks, for, z'az'eHng at Ter
rifle Speed, 1t Can Be Terribly Aocurate
and Rip Through the Toughest A'mo':

notwithstanding arplanes. The loot Sololer
will still be there, at least in the opening
phases of the war for several reasons.
Most Importantly, perhaps because the in
born conservatism of staff generals of all
nationalities will insist on keeping the infantry.
Professional officers tn world over usually
resist change. Most revolutionary military in
ventions have been produced by civiIans-who
have often had a difficult time getting them
adopted.
But even suppoSng the staff higher-ups to
be willing and anxious to send all their soldiers
into the first battle boxed up in tanks or riding
on airplanes, they won't be able to do it. There
aren't tanks and airplanes enough to go round,
and no peace-time Congress Parliament is
going to appropriate money enough to build
these engines of destruction in such treasury
Wrecking quantities.
h IOR would the most enthusiastic of
army mechanizers desire it; for the simple
reason that tanks and airplanes, like ships in
the Navy begin to grow obsolete on the day
they are finished Only if nation could tell
in advance exactly when it going to
(Which could be done only by deliberately
planning to be the aggreSsor) would 1t be JUS
titled in pilng up complete equipment of
machines enough for all its soldiers
For these two reasons at least, then men will
fight on foot at the beginning of another war
foot when it ends holding their own against
tanks and even against airplanes, for an en-
tirely different reason
For, though the man foot is still the same
man on foot who fought at Ypres and Cambria
and Chateau Thierry, the rifle in his hand has
been changed into a quite different weapon;
and there further changes impending that
promise to make it as much of an advance
over the rifle Of 1918 as that weapon was over
the cumbersome muzzle-loaders of Civil War
days
Incredible as it may seem, that rifle may
enable him to stand his ground against charg-
ing tanks and the cartridges it uses, fed into
its more wordy brother, the machine gun, may
require strafng airplanes to keep to a more
respectful distance.
barrel to fire it, promises to put into the hands
of the foot soldier the power to drive missile
at his enemy at the terrific velocity of mile a
secondI
A pointed bit of metal going that fast can
do two things; it can hit terribly hard-haTd
enough to penetrate the tough steel plates of a
tank at moderate ranges; and it can fly terribly
straight and fast for long diStance-Stralght
and fast far enough perhaps, to overcome
much of the advantage given by speed and
agility to fighting airplanes
The new bullet and the new rifle barrel that
uses it, are the invention of H. Gerhch, an
American-born German citizen now residing in
England.
THE Gerlich bullet is really something Of a
paradox. It Is of .35 calber when it goes
into the breech OF the rifle and when 1t comes
out OF the muzzle it is only rs caliber. That
means that its diameter has been squeezed down
Evening star., 1933-12-17

This prophecy can be made with perfect con-
fidence in spite of the pictures of the next
war" which imaginative experts and amateurs
alike draw, of terrain crawling with tanks
and sky filled with bombing gaS-Spreading
Evening star., 1933-12-17
BY DIR. FRANK THONE.

kAR. if it comes again in the next
few years to this uneasy planet,
Y n will undoubtedly still find the
wv majority of soldiers still on foot,
" " still armed with individual
rifles.
Evening star., 1933-12-17

One of the nero .5O-caliber machine gun
cartridges beside q standard .3O.caliber
Springfield cartridge, sho1Uing hoso
much larger the nerU cartridge is.