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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-19
Equal Rights Farley

Twenty-four women delegates
and alternateS to be selected by
the National League of Women
Voters, will comprise the United
States representation at the
Congress Of International AL
lance Of Women for Suffrage
and Equal Citizenship, to meet
in Istanbul, Turkey, next April.
The delegation will be announced
early next year.
The National League Of
Women Voters is the only men,
Der organization in the United
States. Auxiliaries in 80 other
other countries will send dele
cations to map out the alliances
worldwide work in behalf Of
suffrage rights, equal moral
standards, equal conditions Of
work, improvement of women's
civil status, and promotion of
world peace.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, Of
New Rochelle, N. Y, honorary
president of the alliance, is
making plans to attend. It will
be the first congress she has at
tended in a number of years.
Miss Josephine schain, New
York city, is a member of the
international board and chair
man Of its peace committee. The
last congress in 1929 was at
tended by a large group Of
American women, headed by
Miss Belle Sherwin, Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, former presi-
dent Of the National League Of
Women Voters.
The formal call issued by Mrs.
Corbett Ashby, Of London, in
ternational president Of the all
lance, states:
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By MARY PADGETT

The cornerstone Of the first
medical center in Palestine will
be laid october IA, simultane-
ously with the opening of the
three-day convention of Ha-
dassah, the Women's Zionist Or
ganization Of America, at the
Wardman Park Hotel here.
Arrangements are being made
to telegraph a description of
the ceremonies to the conven-
ton hall, so the delegates may
celebrate the event at the same
time it is being celebrated in
Palestine.
Linking Washington W 18th
Jerusalem by wireless to tell
the convention of the colorful
ceremonies as they take place
in Jerusalem will be a dramatic
highlight Of the convention.
More than 1000 persons are ex-
pected to. hear the description
Of the ceremonies.
The breaking Of ground for
the RothSchild- Ha dassah. UniVer-
Sity Hospital will be a historic
occasion Of great Importance to
Palestine, inaugurating for that
country vast medical research
possibilities.
To the Women's Zionist Or
ganization Of America the event
will mark the climax of 20 years
Of work in medical development
and public health in Palestine.
This organization and the
American Jewish Physicians
Committee are building the
center.
Participating in the cere-
monies in Palestine will be a
score Of eminent German scien-
fists and physicians, who, exiled
from Germany, are continuing
their research and teaching in
Palestine.
Ceremonies will take place
on Mt. Scopus, near the He
brew University, where the
medical center will be built.
The new institution will be
both a hospital and a grad.
uate school of medicine, with
complete laboratories for re-
search and teaching. DR.. j.
J. Golub, director of the Hos
pital for Joint Diseases, and
DR.. Nathan Ratnoff, director
or Beth Israel Hospital, who
returned from Palestine re-
Gently after choosing the med
1cal center site, will tell the
convention Of the plans for
the institution.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau.
jr., will be guests of honor at a
banquet October Is that will
close the convention. Mrs.
Samuel w. Halprin, national
president of Hadassah, and
Rabbi Milton Steinberg, of the
Park Avenue Synagogue, will
speak at the banquet. Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, of the Free
Synagogue, will address a mass
meeting the first night of the
convention.
A thrift luncheon" will be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-19
H. A. Lepper Heads
Md. Citizens Group

Henry A. Lepper has been elected
president Of the Seven Oaks Manor
(Md.) Citizens Association, it was
announced today.
Other officers elected include
Claude A. Cook, vice president;
Mrs. Ralph A. Wells, secretary: q,
w. Cramer, treasurer. Delegates
to the Montgomery County Civic
Federation Of the group include
Mr.. Lepper, George w. Davis and
Mr.. Cook, and alternates are E. M
Whitcomb, George II. Butler and
Ralph A, Wells.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-19
Winchester Plans
Check-Up on Relief

WINCHESTER. va, Sept. 19
(SpeciaD.-A check.up Of all per
sons on local relief rolls will be
made by the city council and those
not deserving help will be dropped.
Members Of the council last night
stated they knew Of persons who
were buying whisky with the
money granted them.
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THE SUN AND MOON

a Low tide tomorrow 11:49 a. m.
and 1900 p. m.
THE SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today $50 a. m.
and sets 6:12 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow $3.50 a.
m. and sets 6:10 p. m.
The moon rises today 4:08 p. m.
and sets 1923 a. m.
The moon rises tomorrow 4:40
p. m. and sets 2:40 a. m.
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TOMORROW

CIVIC AND SOCIAL
1880 P,M-L.uncheOn, Kiwanis Club. Mayfl0Wer Hotel
$500 PM-Meeing, Vincent B. Costello Post MayOwer Hotel
$3.50 PM-Meeting, Lido Civic Club. MayflOwer Hotel
TRADE BODIES
$500 PM-Meeing, Patent Draftsmans Association Cairo
Hotel.
CONVENTIONS
1000 AM-Confence Paper Bag Industry Mayower Hotel
CODE HEARINGS
$3.50 AM-Commerca and Breeder Hatchery Industry. May
flower Hotel
$3.50 AM-sugar Quota and Allotment MayflOwer Hotel
AM-Xray and Electro Medical Manufacturing Industry
Willard Hotel.
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TIMES TABLE
TODAY

CIVIC AND SOCIAL
$500 PM-NTeeting D. Division, Young Democratic Clubs Of
willard Hotel.
$500 PM-Meeting Disabled American Veterans Interior
partment Auditorium.
TRADE BODIES
1880 PM-eeting American Road Builders Association con.
ference. willard Hotel.
500 PM-eeting Washington Real Estate Mayower
Hotel
CODE HEARINGS
Commercial and Breeder Hatcher Mayflower Hotel.
Sugar Quota and Allotment Mayf1ower Hotel.
Federal Alcohol Control Board. NayflOwer Hotel
Grocery Division, Paper Bag Manufacturing
dustry. MayflOwer Hotel.
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Hodossoh Convention to Hear
Palestine Hospital Rites
Over Radio Hook-Up

served by the washington
Chapter of HadasSah, duplicat-
ing q typical school luncheon
in Palestine prepared and
served by the children there
under the auspices Of the Ha-
dassah School Luncheons De-
partment.
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Weather Report in Detail

District Of Columbia-Fair to-
night and Thursday; somewhat
warmer Thursday; gentle, variable
winds.
Maryland Fair tonight and
Thursday; somewhat warmer
Thursday.
Virginia-Generally fair tonight
and Thursday; not much change
in temperature.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
4 p. m...... 81 "A. m...... SO
8 D. m...... 80 3 q. m..... So
Midnight. =. SIS Noon. 5000. ST
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DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess Of tempera-
lures since January i, 1884, 210;
excess of temperature since Sep
tember /, 1884, IA; accumulated
excess Of precipitation since jan
uary /, 1884, 7.64; excess Of pre-
cipitation since September !,
1884, 11.58.
TIDE TABLE
High tide today 4:07 a. m. and
4:38 p. m.
Low tide today 1903 a. m. and
11:17 p. m.
High tide tomorrow $40 a. m.
and 5:30 D m.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-29

during and after pregnancy. we
are going to try to impress upon
them the Importance of consult
ing a physician as soon as they
become pregnant and then to fol-
low his advice with regard to ex-
crcise. diet and general care until
the baby is born. We are also 60
ing to advise mothers to have
more physicians and fewer mid
wives or 'grannies' attend them at
the birth of their children and
also try to educate them to the
necessity for complete sanitation
and more careful care of babies
after birth. But we know that we
cannot succeed in this without the
whole-hearted cooperation of the
newspapers of the state and other
social agencies"
There are only five states, how
ever, which have a higher mater
nal death rate among white moth
crs than North Carolina. These
are Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana and South Carolina.
There are also only five states
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Mr.. Brisbane says the forehead
should count 60 per cent in
beauty contest. Mr.. Brisbane has
a fine forehead. sn. ..
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Lower DEATH
RATE sought
State Plans Campaign on
Maternity and Infancy
Mortality
By J. c. Baskerville
80. The TimPS-Ncws Bureau
Sir WalInr Ilntcl


RALEIGH, March 29.-Plans
for a statewide tcampaign to re-
duce the high maternity and in
fancy death rate in North Caro-
lima were formulated here in q
meeting yesterday between Off
Gals of the state board of health
and some 20 or more representa-
tive physicians from all sections
of the state, DR.. James M. Par
rott, executive secretary of the
board, said today. After a con-
ference lasting most Of the day,
it was decided that the most eff
fective way to reduce the excess
sive mother-and-baby death rate
in the state. would be an educa-
tional campaign through the
press, parent-teacher associations,
women's clubs and similar organ
izations. For all Of the doctors
and health authorities agreed that
most of the mother-and-baby
deaths result from lack of proper
information on the part of moth
ers and them families as to how
to care for themselves both during
and after pregnancy.
In 1888, total Of sos mothers
died in North Carolina either dur
ing or after the birth of their ba-
bies, while during the same year
1882 babies died before they
reached one year Of age. This
gave a maternal death rate in the
state in 1888 Of CT per l 900 live
births and an infancy death rate
of 65.S per 1000 live births. The
last figures available for the Unit
ed States as a whole are for 1881,
with a maternal death rate Of &C.
per 1000 live births. In 1881 the
North Carolina maternal death
rate was eight deaths per 1000
live births. The infant mortality
rate for the entire country. ac-
cording to the latest figures, is
about "a per 1000, as compared
with the North Carolina rate of
65.8 per 1000 live births.
1T was the concenSus of opin-
ion of all those who participated
in the conference that chief cause
Of this high mortality. of mothers
and babies in the state is lack of
proper knowledge and lack of
proper medical care" DR.. Parrot
said. "There is no doubt, that
many mothers die because they
have not taken proper care of
themselves during pregnancy,
largely because they have not !
known how to take care of them
selves. This same thing is also re-
sponsible for the deaths of many
of the babies. For if the mothers
have not taken proper care of
themselves, their babies are more
likely to be weak and unable to
weather the storms which all ba-
bies must pass through to develop
into healthy, rugged children.
$50 the board of health and this
committee ere working on a def
mite program for the better edu-
cation Of the mothers of the state
as to what they should do both
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-29
MOON PLANTING is
BACKED BY SCIENCE

PHILADELPHIA. (UP).-The
old superstitions about planting
in the full of the moo mare are
being justified by science, accord
ing to Dean Charles H. laval
of the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy.
The idea that the moon in some
mystic way governed the growth
of plants is so old that its origin
is unknown. The spring festival
OF the planting, guided by the
moon, was ancient when Phny
discussed it 1000 years ago. The
idea was born in that misty time
before history began, when men
hunted and scratched the soil by
day, and then, as dusk began to
fall, crept close to the common
fire.
In BabylOnia, in Egypt, in
Greece and in Rome, the custom
of moon planting survived, 1t
lived through the middle ages,
and is followed today by three
quarters of the worlds farmers:
Many farmers in this country still
plant their corn and cabbage and
beet seeds by the moon. "They
grow BETTER" is the only ex-
PLANTATION.
But scientists, experimenting
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that he did not really get behind
the president until the last three
or four days Of the last session OF
congress. Many believe that he did
it then only because he finally re-
allied that the president and his
program were popular with the
people and that he was counting
unpoDularity. if not political sui
eide. by opposing the administra-
ton as he was.
1t is also pointed out that SEN
ator Bailey has at no time been
in sympathy with some of the
presidents "brain trusters" and
has seemed to have special antip-
athy for Prof. ReXford Tugwell,
associated with the department of
agriculture, and for Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace. TO whom
Bailey referred in his speech as
"commissar Of agriculture" Many
believe that Senator Bailey has
been at heart Just as much, oppos-
ed to President Roosevelt's pro-
gram for the specialization and
control Of business and industry
as he appeared TO be opposed to
the control of production in agri-
culture, but did not oppose that
program because of its apparent
nationwide popularity.
These same ones. who are not
SO friendly to Bailey, maintain
inst within the past few weeks
and especially the last few days
he has mistaken the hubub and
TODD in Washington over DR..
Wirt's CHARGES Of communism
among the "brain trust" as being
nationwide in scope and as indi-
eating the beginning of a ebb tide
in the popularity of President
Roosevelt and that the time had
come to pull away from the lead
ership Of The administration. Be-
cause ne wanted to get credit. for
leading the retreat and be the first
fish in the new anti-Roosevelt fish
pond. and because he was, con-
virced that the country as a whole
IS at last turning away from the
Roosevelt program and back to
the capitalistic program Of the
Hoover era, is the real reason
Senator Bailey made the speech
he did. many observers here be-
licye. But in doing so, a good
many fear that he missed the fish
pond he was aiming at entirely
and jumped PUNK into the middle
, OF the reactiOnary Republican
mud puddle in which Senators
Borah and Fess have been the
principal fish for so long. ......
What the outcome Of the rather
startling change of front on the
part of Senator Bailey will be
here in North Carolina, no one
will as yet venture to predict. But
quite a number of observers here
feel that while he got some won
derful publicity and crashed the
headlines throughout the nation,
he may later on see the time when
he will wish he had not made the
speech.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-29
.LIND|BERGHS
INSTRUCTOR Is
Ill, PENslLES
Condition Critical But He
Can Smile at Mention
Of Lone Eagle
BY SAM KNOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent

OhitSu ASSS Juan WIN SSp~>~~-->
CHICAGO, March 29.-CUP)-
A bit of human driftwood in the
Cook County hospital was discov-
cred yesterday,to be Ira O. Biffle,
the man who taught Colonel Chas.
A. Lindber2h how to fly.
Bifffe, As, is almost penniless,
virtually blind and critically i'll Of
heart disease. In a public ward
he lies on acct between a negro
youth and white boy who groans
frequently. -
He was found there by David
Pehnke, president Of the Air Pr
lots association, and showed, when
the name of Lindbergh was men,
toned. that there was smile left
in his system despite his misfor-
tunes. .
That Biffle is the man who gave
Lindbergh his wings is verified in
Lindbergh's own book, eve" in
which the colonel states:
81 arrived at Lincoln on the
first of April. On April 8, 1922,
I had my first flight as a passen-
ger; l received my first instruc-
ton in the same plane a few days
later under |. o. Biffle, who was
known at the Nebraska Aircraft
corporation as the most "hard
boiled" instructor the army had
during the war"
Biffle was an expert pilot be-
fore the war. He was one of the
first airmail filters and is said to
have taught more men how to fly
than any other man now living.
After years of flying. he &C
quired a recreation hall. earned
100000, spent it, and now is viz
tually destitute. Yet he could
smile today when Behnke men,
toned Lindbergh.
81 remember him." he said. 81
met him when | was instructing
in 1922. He brought me a check
for $500 from his mother. He was
a queer looking kid-had only
leather jacket, khaki pants. "a
shirt and cap-Only one suit of
underwear. .~ ..
II got him. so he could solo. He
was a darned good student. He
had nerve, was quick-intelligent
above the average-didn't he
prove it later" .. -.
Biffle, smiling, turned his head
from side to side. His eyes were
open, yet he admitted that he
could not see. His sentences were
chopped to. pieces by his own la
bored breathing and the groans
of the white boy who lay near
him. ,..........
about the time he got so he
could solo, he ran out of funds, ,"
the veteran continued. $50 he
just hung around-jumped out of
planes with parachutes-did other
stunts, Finally he got his dad
guess it was-to buy him an old
army plane. Then he messed
around with exhibition stunts"
81 liked him--he was a good
student" p. .r.si ill.,. .,.,.. ...
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-29
i ! FOR
CUTS ON ALL
TOBACCO TAX.
Would Reduce the Federal
Levy. on Tobaccos
Grown .......
The Timcs-Ncws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, March 29.-Whlle
he is in favor Of reducing the fed
eral tax on cigarettes as much as
possible, he believes that if any
reduction is made il should apply
to- all manufacturers and not only
to the makers of 10 cent cigar
cites, Governor ]. C. B. Ehring-
haus said today. He is following
closely the hearings now being
held in Washington on the pro-
posal made by Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau to
reduce the tax on makers of 10
cent cigarettes 80 cents per thou
sand. or from So per thousand to
$2.70 per thousand. The governor
pointed out that this government
tax on tobacco and tobacco prod
ucts is an excise tax and not an
ad valorem tax, and hence should
be uniform regardless of whether
company makes 10-cent, b.
cent or 20-cent cigarettes.
II do not think any reduction
in the tax should be made, how
ever, unless the law putting the
reduction into effect requires
that the resultant saving shall be
reflected in increased prices paid
to the growers of the tobacco and
in cheaper prices to the consum-
en-" Governor Ehringhaus said.
"Otherwise l would be afraid that
the tobacco companies would con-
tinue to charge the same prices
for their products. pocket the diff
ference in increased profits and
not pay the farmers any more for
their tobacco than they have been
or are now. 1t is possible, however,
that some of the larger cOmpan-
les would reduce their wholesale
prices to retailers in an effort to
expand consumption and thereby
increase demand. In this case, of
course, increased consumption
would tend to create keener COM
petition for leaf tobacco and
should result IN higher prices paid
to farmers" 49, ...
Governor Ehringhaus not only
favors a 30-cent reduction in the
federal tax, but would cut it in
half and reduce it from So per
1000 on cigarettes to $3.50 per
1000, in order to relieve the
farmers, for he believes that the
tobacco farmers pay a larger por-
ton of this tax than do the con-
sumers. He points out that North
Carolina pays about $175,OO0,OOO
year in tobacco taxes to the
federal government and contends
that the tobacco farmers pay the
greater portion of these. He does
not think the tobacco farmers
would need much if any, govern
ment aid of these taxes could be
reduced Or; removed.
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BAILEY STAND.
Is TO COTTON
SlTIRS RALEIGH.
Came Think 1t Points to
General Reaction Against
fhe Administration
Z c. BASKERVILLE
~ The Timcs-TSews Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
n,rruu. March 29.-What

rtrrrrH. March 29.-W nat
..rJ Senator Josiah W.
"'~ .--cr attack upon the
Bare. .,,ton production con-
h'. ....r +: Bailey really sincere
rw. .-srrfon TO the bill and
' zion to the cOnstitu-
r he merely playing poll
''-. ... rrIief that the reaction
enc. u..s.velt administration
P" .- ~ and that from now on
aa hing TO DO is to differ
.r resident?
" ...-.ions have been much
..... .ince Senator Bailey
.. powerful and almost
- -..rch in the senate
.,.... IN opposition to the Bank
.- ." in which he followed
.,~. .. F..ah of Idaho and made
.. move yitvioiic attack upon
...r nam either the Idaho Re
.,r...- ODD, any Of the other Re
p.r.~- members of the senate.
,. w.r.r.r-5on correspondent OF
.' r....uN News and Observer,
.... Story about the speech, said
.... .rr. senator Bailey had de-
.... .. vote against the bill, ne
o.. ,.. decide to make q speech
...r.- 70 until urged to do so
u.s. S.n...r William Z. Borah. Re
..,r..o, of Idaho" Later in the
...,,- Pm. News and Observer cor
...1.r.rnt said that neither
c.r,..r Eorah. Senator FeSS nor
.r.. .. ne numerous Republicans
.$. smoke against the bill in the
s..... denounced it as completely
,.EE Senator Bailey in his speech
r.. -n-s tNunGIy) afternoon
0rsar.u nc.c IS rather sharply
~r.a.l as TO the real motive be-
l.,- Senator Bajlcy'S attack upon
a.. GgI.Ncad bill. His friends
-,.r.rsn that ne was and Is en-
--.rv sincere in his opposition to
.a E,rI because ne thinks it USurps
..a much power and tends to pre-
-..r- .ra farmers from planting
anal marketing as much cotton as
.rar may want 10. They are con-
-r..H he believes it infringeS up
rr the rights of human liberty
rrgran.eed in the constitution and
So believed when ne said:
"U.ar me. senator's. If the fed
.rar government can do what IS
ae.a..ef in this bill. it can do
arv-h.rg and We do not nave a
rraGhre but a tyranny"
Those familiar with the Bank
ta.t hill point out that it would
RESTRICT even the SignerS of cot
TON acreage reduction contracts
-a thar they could not sell more
than so per cent of the average
amount of cotton they have pro-
lu..t durin- the past five years,
yr.r # they should grow more
than thar amount on their re-
,.r..-ed acreage. 1t is agreed that
most Of the cotton growers who
ha.. signed acreage reduction
contracts want the bill passed in
oui.r hat the government will
have some means to ''crack down
% he nDn-SignerS and keep them
from expanding their acreage and
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1t is easy to pick out the boss.
Notice which one doesn't seem
naughty.
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Charleston Pro
Tak:etss'ILead In
Pineh,,,r.st Play

PINEHURST, March 20. (UP)
Ability to sink puts at crucial
moments enabled Henry Picard,
81. Charleston, S. c., flash, to
lead the nations golf stars by two
strokes at the halfway mark of
the North and South open tourna-
ment here Yesterday.
Picard added a 68 to a previous
6S for an aggregate of 1877.
Taking as a model an 80-foot
nutt which he bowled in for birdie
8 on the second hole, Picard mix
ed pars with. brides and an eagle
for 6S to add to the carly lead of
50 held by "Wild Bill" Melhorni
at the end of the first Is holes
Tuesday. ..
Melhorn slumped to 70 today
and was tied at 139 by Mortie
Dutra. Detroit pro, who raced
around No. 2 course in CT, the
best score of the tournament.
Dutra's experience on the wind
swept seashore course of CalHor-
MIA stood him in good stead in his
first tourney play on the Pine
hurst sand green's.
Two strokes behind Dutra came
Tommy Armour, who added ~ to
his Tuesdays 50. and George T.
Dunlap, Jr., national amateur
champion, who pushed forward
with SO, one under par for each
nine. &C.. o.. - ..t 49,.
Witty Cox, who tied Dutra
Tuesday. was one higher Wednes-
day because his long puts failed
to drop.
Johnny Farrell, Mammoroneck,
N. Y, staging a comeback. was
out in "a and hit Al on the last
nine for rs, while Paul Runyan.
White Plains, N. Y, strayed t,
IT.