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Evening star., 1934-07-11

CWIFT & co. tossers halted the
> long win streak OF the Soldiers
Home nine, scoring . 1915 victory
over the latter at Riverdale. In l3
appearances this season Soldiers Home
had won II games and tied one.
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

Postmaster General James A.
Farley has indicated that a
man from the Southeast will
get the job.
HGrdee, lDho 1DGS Governor OF
Florida for a tour-yeGr term, is
being touted.
He has had considerable
banking experience and his
friends claim he is the man
for the dictatorship.
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher
is said to be interested and it
may be that those who gaze
into the political future are
correct.
The surge of applicants for
Government jobs is sweet
music to photographers.
Most recent organization to
decree that applicants must sub
init their photos is the Federal
Housing Administration. The
Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton has been following the rule
for some time as have other
agencies.
The number of persons who
have submitted applications with
photograph attached reaches in
to the hundred thousands. Few
of them can hope for a job but
they apply, nevertheless.
At the cost OF Is cents per
photograph from some small
photographer, this business is
a boon to the picture taking
clan.
Regardless of the fact that
few applicants are placed they
must have their pictures.
Many Of the applicants spend
their last quarter or so to secure
the photo. 1t will do no good
but they pay just the same.
The photos help none, cost
money that would pay for a
meal and all because some ex-
ecutive has decreed that pic
lures must be had.
Copyright 1894, The Washington Times.
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
T Human Side of the News - ByEdwin c. Hill

torn from the sides of the noun
tain and hurled to its base.
It was the nearest thing to
Hades, probably, that the eye
of man ever looked upon. Until
May II the eruption went on
without interruption, and then
came the final terrific explosion
which shook the surrounding
country and hurled into the air
huge masses of melted rock and
ashes, so thick in density as to
make the day pitch-dark for
several hours as far away as so
miles from this old monster COM
hitting suicide.
Great loss of animal life re-
suited. It was fawning time with
the reindeer and, when VOL
canic ash covered their feed,
the animals began to migrate,
leaving their helpless young to
perish. Reindeer and caribou
ground their soft teeth to the
gums from the grit in their
food and then starved to death.
Dead swans and geese floated
down the rivers and when they
were cut open their stomachs
were found to be full Of VOL
canic ash. alternating bears,
squirrels and small game were
consumed for miles around.
Father Hubbard reached the
wrecked volcano a few days
after it quoted. Climbing to-
ward the crater rim, he found
himself in a valley of death.
Not a blade of grass or a
bunch of moss showed any,
where in the all-enveloping des-
olation of ash and lava. Black
cinders, still hot, cracked IN
der the feet Of the adventure
GUS priest, but finally, after
great hardship, he reached the
rim of the crater and gazed
down into the dreadful abyss.
So doing, Father Hubbard
gazed into the internal regions,
an abomination of desolation.
Black walls, black floors, black
water, deep black holes and
black vents. No streams coursed
through flower-strewn meadows.
No grassy slopes led upward to
the eternal snow. Lovely lakes
had been wiped out utterly, or
were muddy, ash-filled swamps.
And later Father Hubbard made
his way perilously to still an
other blow-hole of vast size and
again gazed down, like Dante,
into hell.
The sight was terrifying.
Black, ash-covered lava moved
uneasily in the center of a hole
three miles around. It came
out of the tortured earth in the
form Of gas, as did the yellow
sulphur, cooled into huge blocks
weighing a ton or more, all OF
which, by their own weight top
pied back into the pool of fire
and were once more melted and
made incandescent by the in
credible heat.
Copyright: 1884, BY King Features
Syndicate. 1nc:)
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

BY now or nowabout, Bernard
R. Hubbard, S. j., IS back at
CALIFORNIA; Santa Clara Univer-
Sity, getting ready to hold down
the chair of geology in that ex-
cellent institution. AS you prob
ably know, Bernard R. Hubbard,
S. j., is none other than that
adventurous scientist, 1.-THE Gla-
cier Priest" or, as some call him,
'The Padre of the Volcanoes"
He's the long, lean, hard-mus'
cled, dark-complexioned chap
who goes every year into the
mysterious hinterland of Alaska
to expose the secrets of the eter.
nal glaciers and peer down into
the living flame of active vol
canoes. AS a fellow Jesuit, Will
frid Parsons, says of him, he's
an exploring scientist who pays
for his fun with some pretty
hard knocks.
Back he comes again to the
clustered seclusion of his regu-
lar job after another thrilling
time with his chosen students,
and bringing news of a new
glacier near the tip of the
Alaska Peninsula. When Father
Hubbard goes to Alaska, adven-
ture runs to meet him. On his
recent expedition a giant brown
bear nearly got him and was
dropped in it's tracks only a few
feet from it's prey.
He fought his way through
torrential transforms, Is inches
of water in three days; waded
through flooded country,
climbed peaks hitherto regarded
as inaccessible, discovered a
new crater as well as a new
glacier, filled up several note
books and generally had a
grand time.
It is Father Hubbard who
tells us the thrilling tale of one
Of the most terrific volcanic ex-
plosions of all time, the blowing
up of great Aniakchak volcano
which has a base a hundred
miles in circumference in the
central section of the Alaskan
Peninsula. May /, 1881, dawned
clear and bright in the interior
of Alaska. But winter still
maintained its icy grip on the
interior. The trapping season
was over, and the handful Of
hardy men who seek their liveli-
hood from the furS of the cour-
try were preparing their fish.
ing boats for the summer run
on Boring Sea. -,
Among them was Frank Will
son, one of the few white in.
habitants of Meshik. He was
scraping and calking his boat
when an exclamation Of sur
prise called his attention to his
little daughter Mabel playing in
the sand nearby. She was point
ing, in great excitement, at the
snow peak of great Aniakchak,
Is miles away. From the white
cap q dense column of white
steam was shooting miles high
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

the first giraffe ever to be
brought to the United States
was shown first on the Wor-
cester Common. And now is the
first time I ever knew of it!
Now, a giraffe is not an ami
NAL that one sees for the first
time without looking twice. A
giraffe, no matter how you look
at it, is out of the ordinary.
And the first giraffe ever to
be seen in the United States
must have made more OF an
impression on Worcester Com"
mon than just an ordinary four
footed friend pattering along.
Worcester isn't as blase as all
that.
OF course, I was only three
years old at the time, but child
three years old has ears. knew
the words to "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de
ay." I surely could have been
trusted with the information
that there was giraffe down on
the Common. especially when
no one had ever seen a giraffe
before.
I always knew that my father
was a phlegmatic man, but I
didn't realize that he was as
phlegmatic as that. His office
was in the city hall, which
backed right up on the Com
mon, and from his window he
certainly could have seen that
something was up.
I can hardly believe that when
he came home to dinner and
my mother asked him: What
was the news downtown to-
day?" he said: Nothing much.
Oh, yes, there was an animal
out on the Common with neck
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

sharp-shOOt at such gentlemen
as DR.. RexfOrd G. Tugwell,
Undersecretary Of Agriculture,
despite Smiths opposition.
In the customary order of
things, the next man in line will
get the job.
He is Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana.
A Ieft-winger, progressive al
most to the point of radical
ism, Wheeler is no friend Of
the conservative railroads.
Consequently, railroad Of
ficials don't want him to have
that job.
Politically-minded gentlemen
Uho pretend to haze a strange
faculty OF peering into the ill.,
ture are saying that the sue.
ceSSor to Harley Couch, direc-
tor of the r. F. c., tDho has re-
signed, may be a Floridian.
Their selection is Carey Har-
dee, receiver for the Federal
American National Bank and
Trust Company.
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

into the sky. Wilson noted the
time, 10 a. m.
There were none of the pre-
1iminary warnings that go U.s.
ually with volcanic explosions.
No earthquake shook the ground,
nor were any rumbles heard
from the laboring giant. Merely
the vast column of live steam.
Wilson and his family rushed
to their cabin. Panic-stricken
Aleuts fled in all directions, div
ing for shelter into any hole
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
LOST YOUTH
Bv Robert BenchIey

that reached up into the trees,
and all covered over with spots.
A giraffe, I think they said...
What's for dinner tonight?"
Why wasn't I taken down to
see it? I was taken to watch
fireworks on the Fourth of July.
and hated it. 1 was taken to
the circus, and all that the
circus had to offer we're some
old elephants and tigers that
everybody had seen before.
But they held out on me when
a real attraction came to town.
Maybe they thought it would be
over my head, and, so help me-
I didn't mean to write it that
way. (However, you notice that
I'm letting it StandO
1t is very lucky that I didn't
happen to be out for a stroll
by myself and discover that
giraffe without any warning.
Still, I suppose that, at the
age of three, nothing surprises
one. But I'll bet that there
was many a man in Worcester
who went on the wagon for
good in 1898.
The same news story that
broke the news to me that I had
missed the first giraffe in 1893,
stated that the first elephant
was brought to this country IL
1895 by Capt. Jacob Crownin'
shield, of Salem, Massachusetts,,
massachusetts seems to have
gone in for frightening folksO
However little impression the
first giraffe may have on Wor-
cester OR nv father. I wouldn't
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
Now It Can Be Told
And Is

Some powerful thinker at Columbia has recently
peted Survey to how people spend their leisure
time
The inhabitants of Weschester county were selected as
the guinea pigs for this particular experiment.
And now, to public palpitating with expectancy the
results are announced
The average person. it appears, spends II hours day
working and sleeping.
This leaves seven hours unaccounted for From two to
three hours of the seven are used up in eating
The remaining four five consumed in listening
to the radio, going to the movies playing golf visiting,
talking, reading or just plain sitting.
There will be general relief that these mysteries after
long and arduous research have at last been cleared up
and think that suitable recognition ought to be
given to the researchers.
Appointment to the Brain Trust, for instance
But perhaps the Brain Trust knows enough about
leisure time as it is
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

or refuge they could find. The
earth shook and flame and
smoke rose thousands of feet.
Lava bombs h!!rtled through the
clouds and burst like giant sky
rockets. In the clouds light
ming formed and stabbed down.
ward through the murk in saw
age spear-thrusts. hunder
added it's din to the incessant
bombardment of the explosions
and to the crash of falling rocks
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

President Roosevelt may go
down in history as "the Great
Conciliator." For the most part
his talents for this role have
been manifested in adjusting
disputes between Capital and
Labor.
Already the word is passed
out that unless the President
intervenes the country will soon
be face to face with the worst
textile workers strike ever called.
Had the President been on the
mainland he might have been
compelled to intervene in both
the Minneapolis and San Fran
cisco strikes.
But the great task of con-
Citation seems to be still in
the future. And the Presidents
experience in helping to adjust
disputes between wage payers
and wage earners will stand
him in good stead when he
tackles the job of adjusting the
differences that are developing
in the household of the one
time Democratic Party, North,
East, South and West.
Will Party Split?
Whether the Democratic
party is to be supplanted by
the New Deal party or is to
split into two parties or is
to strive to return to the prin-
ciples Of it's founder, Thomas
jefferson, between now and the
presidential election of 1886,
is a question which will begin
to trouble the representatives
of the Democratic party now
in power after the new Congress
convenes.
The results in recent pri-
maries emphasize the strife
that seems to be increasing as
the November elections draw
near. It is hard to imagine
Senator Carter Glass of Vir-
GINA campaigning in Califor-
MIA to elect Upton Sinclair
governor of the Golden State.
It is hard to imagine so up.
standing a Jeffersonian as Wynd-
ham Manning of South Caro-
lima supporting the radical
johnson of that State in case
the latter defeats Blease in the
run-off primary for governor
a fortnight hence. 1t seems
hard to imagine the radical
Bilbo, of Mississippi, running
in the same So-called Demo
cratic primaries soon to be held
there to determine whether he
or the follower of Thomas
jefferson and Andrew Jackson
and Woodrow Wilson-Senator
Stevens-shall be the next Sen
ator from that State.
Governor Lehman will hest
tate to ask Senator Huey Long
of Louisiana to come to the
Empire State to campaign this
autumn for the reelection of a
Democratic governor. and if
"the Kingfish" should appear
in Massachusetts it is doubtful
whether Governor Ely, Senator
Walsh or General Cole, one OF
the two candidates for the
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

D. G.
q. ]. l.L-l-L
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
President Faces Big Task
By lanes T. Williams, r.

Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, would speak from the
same platform with the visitor
from Louisiana.
Meantime, the chairman OF
the Democratic National Com
mittee, Mr.. Farley, who is also
Postmaster General and chair.
man of the Democratic State
Committee of New York, is say
ing very little about the Demo
cratic party. He seems to be
almost exclusively concerned
with the fortunes of the New
Deal, as he prefers to call the
Administration.
What Mr.. Farley does not yet
tell his party correspondents Is
whether the future of New Deal
is to be entrusted to the party
of Jefferson or to the party Of
Sinclair, Long, Bilbo and Co.
Perhaps he does not know and
has no hankering for the role
of prophet.
From the standpoint Of the
Presidents leadership the prom
inence Of Bilbo in Mississippi,
the victory of Sinclair in Cali
fornia comes at an unfortunate
time. Mr.. Roosevelt has been
doing his best ever since he
returned from his Atlantic
Pacific cruise to reaSSure the
country, to revive confidence,
to prime the pump of industry.
BY speeches and conferences
he has worked long hours at
this task. If Senator Stephens
of Mississippi should defeat
Bilbo in the run-off primary
for Senator in that State the
Administration might well dis
avow any responsibility for the
Bilbo policies.
Adjustments Needed
But whatever the September
primaries bring in the way of
Democratic nominations many
adjustments will have to be
made by the time the new
Congress convenes. 1t will tax
the powers of even so success
full a conciliator as the Pres
ident has proved to be in other
disputes. economic and politi-
cal, if the Administration is to
get it's legislative program
through next year without en-
countering the opposition OF
the radical wing of the New
Dealers.
Of course the Republican
party is far from being united.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania
and Senator Borah of Idaho
have many points of difference
as processing Republicans. But
being out of power Republican
unity is not the campaign es-
sential that Democratic unity is
because the Democrats are in
power and the responsibility for
administration and legislation Is
theirs, not only at both ends of
Constitution Avenue, but in
nearly two-thirds of the States.
Their chief cohesion at the mo-
ment is in the common support
that they profess to give to the
leadership of President Roose-
welt, North, East, South and
West.
Cnnyright. 1874 The Mashington Times
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
BY John Snure, Jr.

Railroad men of the country
are perturbed.
They don't like the looks Of
the set-up on the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce.
The refusal of Senator Clar.
ence C. Dill, of Washington, to
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
Budget Estimates
High Tax Dangers

With the approach of the District Commissioners
public hearings the budget estimates for the coming
fiscal year. Of organizations and hundreds OF in
dvduals are preparing ask the city fathers to approve
expenditures for community improvements.
Probably every appeal which will be made to the Com
mssioners has great deal of merit
Most of them will have been under consideration for
years and their presentation will represent studied
thought.
It proper that these requests for expenditure should
be submitted and should be urged.
BUT RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT WHO CON-
TEMPLATE APPEARING AT THE HEARINGS
SHOULD GIVE SERIOUS ADVANCE THOUGHT TO
THE CONDITION OF THE CITY'S FINANCES AND
THE RELATION OF THAT FINANCIAL CONDITION
TO THE APPROPRIATIONS WHICH THEY SEEK.
The total Of the appropriation bill for the current
fiscal year is slightly than thirty million dol
lars That expenditure is being carried by tax rate of
$3.50 on 500 of valuation.
In order to meet those expenditures on that tax rate
the District will have to utilize virtually every penny of
revenue and every penny of surplus coming over from
previous years.
The people of the District as whole will be insistent
and properly that the rate for the coming year be
not in excess Of that which is now being paid
IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THAT TAX RATE IT
WILL BE NECESSARY TO HAVE AN APPRoPR1A-
TON BILL WHICH WILL BE EVEN LOWER THAN
THAT FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
SUCH A BILL CANNOT BE PREPARED AND EN-
ACIEU IF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS OF CITE
ZENS INSIST UPON INCLUSION IN THE ESTI-
MATES OF THE NUMBERLESs IMPROVEMENT
PROJECTS WHICH ARE NOW BEING CONTEM-
PLATED.
Our citizens will be unfair to the District Commission
and to community whole if they go into the
hearings with exorbtant demands for expenditure of
money in their local communities.
During the current year the District for the first time
In long period is mourning expenses which will be left
to future years to pay These expenditures desirable
of them essential but we shall have to pay for
them in the end.
We shall have to start paying on them at once
The fact that these repayments will have to be made
will further curta the amount of projects which
can be paid out of current revenues.
THE CITY WILL HAVE TO PRACTICE SEVERE
ECONOMY FOR SEVERAL YEARS IF THE TAX
PAYERS ARE NOT TO BE FACED WITH TAX BILLS
WHICH CANNOT BE PAID WITHOUT UNDUE SUI
FERING.
THAT IS THE THOUGHT THAT OUR CITIZENS
SHOULD BEAR IN MIND AS THEY PREPARE TO
APPEAR AT THE APPROACHING BUDGET HEAR
ING
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

continue in
office has left
the commit
tee without 8
c h a ir m a n.
Senator Eli
son D. Smith,
of South Car
DINA, is next
in line.
Smith, how
ever, is chair
man of the
Senate Com.
mittee on Ag.
riculture, 9
position from
~hi0h hn O0n
The Washington times., 1934-08-31
MIR. StimSOn'S Discovery
The Latest of a Series

The Latest OF Series
Americans will be amused but scarcely amazed to hear
that Mr. Henry L. Stmson who used to be Secretary of
State has discovered burning desire among people
to join the League of Nations
Mr.. Stimson communicated this news recently to the
London Daily Telegraph.
He admitted that "there has been rather fashion in
some circles to discredit the League to bette its
compshments and to treat its efforts with cynicsm"
But he nevertheless that the United States
still pining for chance to join up.
Well, everyone to his taste.
Mr.. Stimson was also convinced, we believe that
Americans wanted to save Manchura from Japan that
they cared little about collecting foreign debts and that
they would simply insist on rejecting Mr.. Hoover
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

Just to show how things can
go on under ones very nose
without ones being aware OF
them, find that I was in
Worcester, Massachusetts,. when
The Washington times., 1934-08-31

want to have been in Salem
on the night when the first
elephant put in an appearance.
Three years old or not, I'll bet I
should have -nembered that!
Copyright, 1894. by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
Articles By Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS'
day and Friday ~
Evening star., 1934-12-18
Joint RECREATION
CONTROL FAVORED
MId-city Citizens Approve
Plan for School Board.
Parks Supervision.

After discussing the four plans sub
mitted recently by the National Recre-
alton Association, the Midcity Citi-
zens' Association in q resolution
adopted last night approved the plan
under which all recreation service IN
the District would be under the Joint
supervision Of the National Capital
Parks and the Board Of Education.
Under this plan, It was pointed out.
recreation service In the District would
be co-ordtnated by making the Ma
tional Capital Parks Once the basic
recreation agency, closely allied with
the Board Of Education through the
joint employment of an expert. The
plan also provides for expansion Of the
parks ONCE into an operating recrea-
ton agency.
Bus Service Urged.
The resolution was introduced by
Miss Edith Grosveflor and copies will
be sent to the director Of the Com
munity Center Department, the Dis
trict Commissioners, Supt. Of Schools
Frank w. Ba1lou, chairmen of the
House and Senate District Committees
and the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations
A request that the Capital Transit
Co. inaugurste bus services on Thir-
teenth and Fifteenth streets during
the morning and evening rush" hours
to relieve traffic conditions on Four
teenth street was contained In anoth-
er resolution adopted.
In q discussion Of trafnc problems,
members declared very few regula-
tionS are observed by District drivers
and pedestrians" and q resolution
was adopted urging strict enforce
ment by District officials Of all trafhc
rules.
Utilities Body Praised.
The group voted unanimous ap-
proval Of resolution commencing
the Public Utilities Commission for
its action IN bringing to q satisfae-
tory conclusion, without expensive
court procedure, the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. rate case"
whereby subscribers viii receive a
refund and q reduction in future
rates.
Mrs. .Grosvenor was appointed
chairman of special committee to
confer with Chairman King Of the
Senate District Committee and Chair
man Norton of the House District
Committee on the possibility Of re-
establishment Of No. 2 police pre-
ctnct at its former headquarters on
Fifth street, between M and N streets,
where the Womens Bureau now Is
located.
Evening star., 1934-12-18
FUR COATS IDENTIFIED
AS PART OF STORE LOOT
Police Use Airplanes to Aid in
Roundup Of Gang Of
Fur Thieves.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. p, December 18.-
Two Of eight fur coats valued at
10000 seized in q Chicago raid and
brought here last night by Chicago
police in an airplane, were identified
as having been stolen from q Syra-
cuse store.
The fight was one Of the moves
In the roundup of a gang of fur
thieves believed operating throughout
the East.
Syracuse police are attempting TO
link the raid in Chicago with the
theft of a $4,000 Russian mink coat
from Samelsteins sample fur store
a week ago. -Four persons held at
Erie, Pa, will be taken into court
there tomorrow for q hearing on q
writ Of habeas corpus to obtain their
release. Mrs. Althea Burns has been
held in jail here since the theft at
the Samelstein store.