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The Washington times., 1934-03-03

CAN SHOW THE CADETS HOW THE CONGRESS
HAS ADVANCED COURAGEOUsLY AND FEAR
LESSLY TO DO THE DECENT THING BY THE
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DESPAIRING
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
The patriotism of the cadets will doubt be stirred
if the Representatives make few remarks the loyal
manner in which Congress is striving to iron out the
inequities and the niquties of the socaed Economy
Law.
Should the cadets desire lesson on the consistency
of governmental philosophy they be told by the
Representatives how insisting that every pri
vate employer in the country increase wages and
shorten hours while are doing just the opposite in
our Government offices.
Now if the Representatives find shortcomings in the
Military Academy's tactics they improve
that situation by telling the cadets of the aneuvering
going in regard to the pay cut provision of the nde
pendent Offices Appropriation Bill.
They tell the cadets how this measure has been
shifted back and forth, how it is up and down.
how got back to the defensive sector of the House
Appropriations Committee and how, finally, the Rep
resentatves became fatigued with the tactical dem
onstration that they plan retreat to Broadway and
ultimately to West Point.
Perhaps however, the lessons will be reversed.
POSSIBLY INSTEAD OF THE CONGRESSMEN
LECTURING THE GOVERNMENT WORKERS IN
The Washington times., 1934-03-03

Education will perform the very
same functions that were
assigned to the Department Of
Education which we once had
and which was established in
1867.
It will collect "such statistics
and facts as should show the
condition and progress in educa-
ton in several States and ter
Etories.''
It will diffuse "such informa-
ton respecting the organization
and management o. school syS-
TENS, and methods of teaching,
as shall aid the people Of the
United States in the establish
ment and maintenance Of eff
cient school systems, and will
otherwise promote the cause Of
education throughout the coun-
try"
States Control
The new Department of Edu-
cation for the re-establishment
Of which there is rising tide Of
sentiment North, East, South
and West, will have no legal nor
financial power. It will have no
regulatory or executive author
ity, direct or indirect, explicit
or implied, ''by which it may
control the 2ocial purposes and
specific processes of education"
The control and support Of
public education will remain
with the several States. 1t will
be reinforced and made more
effective by the aid which only
the Federal Government can
provide through a Department
Of Education with a Secretary
of Education at its head, Occu-
pying a seat in the Cabinet OF
the President on an equality
with other members of the
Cabinet.
Congress is swamped with
all sorts of proposals from
States which are suffering ur1-
der the yoke of an obsolete
system of county and local
government to appropriate hun
dreds of millions of dollars to
be distributed among these
States for the relief Of public
education which these States
have failed to provide.
Grants Of this sort would
not strengthen the American
system Of public education.
They would only retard the
modernizing Of our obsolete
system of county and local
government by making the
Federal Government pay the
cost of public schools and
thereky enable a horde Of po-
Itical parasites to remain on
the payroll Of county and local
government in the several
States.
(Copyright. 1884. The Washington
Times Coz
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
The Human Side of the News
A Reporters Story of An Unusual Assignment
By EdUUin C.. Hill

Newspaper owners and man
aging editors are human, in
spite Of the opinion Of many
newspaper reporters. Occa-
donally they weary of the hum
drum run Of news they have
to print, however indispensable
or important that news may
be. They get tired Of the al
most unvarying pattern Of the
daily news. They yearn for the
romantic, the picturesque, the
mysterious. # they can't find
the thrills they want on this
side of the world, they send
their bright young men to the
other side to see what they
can see. y
Strange and Bizarre
James Gordon Bennett, the
younger, had a way of shooting
his reporters south Of the
Equator and east Of Suez
whenever the impulse hit him
hard. When he ran the old
New York Herald he would
fire a cable at a moments
notice ordering men to queer
corners of the earth, expense
no object. The most famous Of
all Benefits assignments was
Henry M. Stanley's invasion Of
Darkest Africa to find Dr..
Livingstone.
Mr.. Hearst has done pretty
much the same thing for the
last thirty years to put color
into his papers, and William
T. Dewart who stands today in
the shoes Of James Gordon
Bennett, keeps Bob Davis on
the run collecting the oddities
Of human nature wherever they
are to be found.
The same yearring for the
strange and the bizarre must
have dominated the manage.
ment of that very excellent
newspaper the Toronto Star
when they called in a breezy
young reporter named Gordon
Sinclair and told him to gallop
around the Equator, equipped
with nothing but his two eyes. a
passport, a tireless curiosity and
Q portable typewriter.
Young Gordon Sinclair, eyes
shining over a newspaper as
Signment such as come to few
reporters, had the time of his
life and snaps it into colorful
English, a little more slangy
than need be, but vital with the
feel of new things. His immedi-
ate goal, jumping off from Sgd
ney, Australia, Was New Guinea,
unknown, uneXplored. where
bone-crushing Savages live as
they lived in the Stone Age.
Wives come by seizure and
conquest and the men are
slaves or cannibals. Tribal war
fare, black magic and sacri-
ficial rites reap a grim harv-
est Of human skulls which are
stuffed and decorated as orna-
ments Of triumph. Black
Magic, devil work, holds all
New Guinea and her primitive
people in its terrifying grip.
The Rev. John Dewhurst
Bodger, Church Of England
missionary, had more than a
touch of this weird business,
The Washington times., 1934-03-03
WORDS OF WISE MEN

If men wish to be held in
esteem, they must associate
with those only who are esti.
mahle.-IA Buyere.
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The Washington times., 1934-03-03

A little stone may upset .
large cart.
Little brooks make great rivers.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
GENERAL STAFF DENIES
AIR ADVICE WAS ASKED
Assistant Quoted as Saying Unit Did
Not Tell President Army Was
Prepared to Act.

Any shortcomings which may exist
in Army Air Corps policies, specifica-
tions for equipment, or training can
not be charged to the Army general
staff, since by law duties of this char
acter have been charged since 1926
to the Assistant Secretary of War, the
Assistant Secretary of War for Air
and the chief of the Army Air Corps,
in the opinion of officers of the gen.
eral staff.
One of the assistant chiefs of staff
stated today that any inference that
might be drawn from press reports
that the general staff was in any way
responsible for advising the President
that the Air Corps was prepared for
such duty as carrying the airmail is
entirely incorrect
While the general staff believes the
Air Corps pilots are second to none,
it has not been in a position to
answer, affirmatively or negatively,
questions involving the details of
Evening star., 1934-03-12
TRANSFERRED WORKERS TO GET
REIMBURSEMENT FOR SICK LEAVE

Government employees suffering pay
deduction for taking accrued annual
or sick leave while they are on tenn
porary appointment basis, due to de-
partmental reorganization, are en-
titled to be reimbursed when the
appointments are made permanent.
That ruling by Controller General
McCarl was made public today. In
it he held, however, that should death
intervene before a permanent appoint
ment is given. the employees estate
Is not entitled to a refund for a leave
deduction.
The question arose as a result OF
the practice that has grown up OF
putting employees on temporary basis
when the organizations for which they
work are involved in the current gov
ernmental reorganization program.
While on such status they are en-
titled to no leave.
In the current instance the issue was
raised by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury with regard to employees brought
in from other groups when the new
Division Of Ddif,usements was created
Evening star., 1934-03-12

equipment and training for purely
civilian missions.
1t is pointed out by officers of the
general staff that under existing law,
the general staff has had no direct
part in controlling the destinies of the
Air Corps during the period from the
creation of the Office Of Assistant Sec
retary Of War for Air in 1926 up to
the time that Office was vacated last
year and that since that time its ef-
forts have been directed solely to
building up the Air Corps, as is wit
messed by the general staff plan for
the creation of a great G. HQ. air
force and new program of Air Corps
expansion.
The destinies Of the Air Corps for
years have been in the hands of the
flying officers In command of the Air
Corps and the Assistant Secretary of
War for Air. which post has been
filled by F. Trubee Dawson: former
military flyer, who was crippled in an
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BANDIT BEATS
|. AND R0BS WOMAN
Poses as Prospective Pur.
chaser OF Her Home on
Cathedral Avenue.

A gray-haired bandit, who posed as
d prospective purchaser of her home,
at 29ll Cathedral avenue, this morn
$3.50 diamond ring and $40 in cash.
after sllgging her on the jaw,
The man then showed Mrs. Rout
into a closet and fed. The closet
door was not securely locked and the
victim escaped a few moments later
to give the alarm. Mrs. Rout told
Headquarters Detective Sergt. Robert
J. Barrett the robber first came to
her residence yesterday. There is a
sign posted on the lawn in front of
the place advertising it for sale. The
man, smooth spoken and neatly
dressed, introduced himself as an aide
brought here by Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau" He said he
planned to stay in Washington some
time and might be interested in the
purchase of home in the fashionable
Cathedral avenue section.
After remaining at the house for al
most an hour, Mrs. Rout said, he left.
saying he would return. Today short
ly before noon, he reappeared. looked
over the home again, sat down and
smoked three or four cigarettes in
leiSurely fashion and then told Mrs.
Rout he would like to examine a room
upstairs. Then when she went with
him to the upper floor. he suddenly
whipped out small gun, and told her
to hand over the ring. With that in
his possession when Mrs Rout made
some outcry. he struck her on the face
with his fist. threw her in the closet,
turned the key and paused a moment
to take $40 in cash from her pocket
book
Police arriving in patrol cars a few
moments after Mrs Rout freed her
self, made a thorough search of the
neighborhood. but were unable to
learn whether the man made his es-
cape on foot or in a car.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
Strikers Fire Kindergarten;
Panic-Stricken Pupils Saued
attack Is One of Several Marking 2
Widespread Strikes of Radical
Workers at Madrid.

Of the strike was the suspension Of
work by Allied Printing Trade workers.
Non-union printers, however. re-
mained at work. Policemen were seen
doubling as newspaper carriers. SELL
ing the official Gazette of the gov
eminent. In some cases the Gazette
was distributed by employees Of the
government printing Office, each en-
ploye accompanied by two stalwart
policemen armed with rifles.
Guards were increased in the labor
districts especially at the traditional
trouble center Of Quatro Caminos-as
crowds Of strikers milled about. Busi-
ness in the city appeared normal. but
truck loads of the famous assault
guards were patrolling the streets and
other detachmentS of the guards were
increased at public buildings.
Rafael Alfonso, minister Of the In
terror, said his ministry would broad
cast news to the people In the ab-
sence of general newspaper ctrcula-
ton. Z
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BUILDINGS IN UTAH
ROCKED BY QUAKE
Adjoining Structures Click.
Plaster CraCked-Idaho
Feels Tremors.
BULLETIN.

SALT LAKE CITY, March IL
Pl.-Another sharp earthquake
shook this city at 1l:19 am,
mountain time, today.
BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY. March 12-An
earth shock that moved Office build
ings. stopped clocks and cracked win
doWs and plaster in this city, was felt
this morning over Northern Utah,
Southwestern Wyoming and Southern
Idaho.
once bound residents stopped in
Salt Lake City streets to watch the
buildings sway Householders reported
swinging chandeliers. rafting furni-
ture and clattering dishes.
A cloud of dust arose as the Ezra
Thompson Building and the Tribune
Building adjoining it. rubbed walls.
In the Continental Bank Building two
windows were cracked, and cracks ap-
peared in the plaster Of the Cliff
Building, another tall Office structure.
Statue Leans.
A statue atop the spire Of the city
and county building was knocked out
of plumb.
The first shock was felt at sos
am. tmountain standard time), fol-
lowed by a much heavier one An
other slight shock was reported at
1892 am.
The seismograph at the University
of Utah, on the bench at the foot of
the Wasatch Mountains, east of this
city, is not in use. but Frederick j.
Pack. head professor of geology there,
said the shocks were felt distinctly.
At Logan, in Northern Utah. the
shock was declared to have been the
heaviest ever felt there. Plaster In
houses racked
Idaho Feels Tremors.
At Pocatello. Idaho. 185 miles north
of Salt Lake City. resident reported
a window in his house broken.
The shocks also we're felt at Black
foot and Idaho Falls, Idaho, the lat
ter about 300 miles north of here, and
at Boise. Idaho, 400 miles to the
northwest.
Reports from Rock Springs. Wyo.
10 the east. and Provo. Utah. to the
south, said the shocks were felt there
Earth shocks were felt here in jan
uary. 1881. and in November and De-
cember, 1882, but no damage was
done.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
j. S.PREPAREST TAX
SUITS AS MELLON
CHARGES POLITICS
Experts Gather Data ON
Score of Other Cases
in Evasion Drive.
BY the Associated Press.

oS tuc ASSOCldLeQ fTeSS.
The Justice Department, cracking
the income tax whip over the heads
OF Andrew w. Mellon. former Mayor
James j. Walker of New York
Thomas S. Lamont of Morgan & Co.
and Thomas Sidlo of Cleveland. Ohio
pushed preparation of a score more
suits today.
More than 40 tax experts are en-
gagged in the special task of preparing
the suits. similar to those naming
Mellon and the others. Among the
material at hand for their study are
reams Of testimony taken in the SEN
ate Banking Committees investigation
Of stock market and financial prac-
tices.
The 78-year -old Mellon. member OF
three Republican cabinets. barked
back yesterday at the Justice Depart
ment with a charge that the depart
ment was playing "crude" politics
He called newspaper men to his
apartment here last night during q
break in his journey from Pittsburgh
to Aiken. S. C.
Please don't add any frills." was
all he said as he handed them a
lengthy statement.
Reviews His Case.
Declaring in the first sentence that
he felt the effort to secure an indict-
ment against him was politics of the
crudest Sort" he reviewed his entire
side nf tho race
He charged the use of "innuendos'
by the Justice Department and tht
employment OF some one, unnamed
of a "character-w campaign
against him. Instead of evading in.
come tax payments. he asserted. h
had always given the Government tht
benefit of every doubt"
Cummings first response, when re-
porters told him of the statement
was:
1T would be manifestly unfair tt
,differentiate between Mr.. Mellon
case and others of similar char
acter."
The Attorney General left a part!
at which he was host to scan Mellon
statement carefully.
Walker Sees Vindication.
The Justice Department chief ais,
was informed of the first response o
Evening star., 1934-03-12
"COUNT" UNMASKED BY TRAFFIC
ERROR after PARADING ON BET

But skeptics arose, as skeptics will
A fraternity president, remembering
that Hitler didn't come into full
power until January, 1888, grew
suspicious. He arranged to have the
count" meet Heinz Puell, a German
exchange scholar.
The count" opened the converse
ton with an observation on America s
peculiar traffic rules. Funny. he said,
that they should drive on the right
side. In Germany they drive on the
left.
idiot" Puell shouted I'm Ger
many we drive on the right. too
The count" broke down and ac-
knowledged he is Henry George Leiby
of Cuyahoga Falls. He said he had
made q bet before leaving home that
he could make himself the talk Of
the town within . week."
He figures that he Yan. %
Evening star., 1934-03-12
CUSTOMERS TO HEAR
SALES TAX PROTEST
New York Stores to Stop Selling
During Mass Demonstration
Against Bill.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 12.-Cus-
toners who drop in at New York
stores at 2 pm. tomorrow will get
an argument
A mass demonstration against a
proposed 2 per cent sales tax in New
York State has been arranged for that
time. Grover A. Whalen, chairman
of the Sales Tax Committee of 1000,
announced the stores would cease
selling for five minutes and present
their customers a 14-point argument
against the sales tax.
The hour, pm. was chosen be-
cause at that time hearing on the
F'earon- -Wadsworth 2 per cent sales
tax bill will open at Albany.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
TR|-PARTY PARLEY
AT ROME TO AID
DANUb|AN LANDS
Musso|ini Says Other Ma.
tiOnS Will Be Asked to
Participate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
ROME, March 12.-Premier Mus
solini's own newspaper said today
the three-power conference called by
II Duce here this week will but lay
the groundwork for an agreement in
which other governments later will
be invited to participate
Whatever agreement may be reached.
said his Milan newspaper, Popolo
dItalia. will be presented later to
all interested nations in the hope
that they will join to assure the &C.
onomic restoration of the Danubian
states.
Premier Julius Goemboes is on his
way here today from Hungary to
join Mussolini and Chancellor Engel-
bert Dollfuss of Austria in confer
ences beginning Wednesday. DOLL
fuss is expected tomorrow.
Opposition Held Weakening.
Realizing the true nature of the
conference. the newspaper said Berlin.
Praha. Bucharest and Paris-which
at first concluded that it would result
in an exclusive agreement-today are
moving from opposition to support
of the three-premier parley.
In support of the conclusion, cor
respondence from a number Of capi-
tails was printed in Popolo d'Italia.
Well informed circles said any
three-power pact arrived at will form
basis for working out Mussolini's
Danubian plan as presented last Au-
tumn.
Economic Gains Sought.
The fundamental point in the
premiers project are bilateral ac-
cords among the Danubian nations,
preferential treatment for agricultural
products of these States and for the
industrial products of Austria, the
lCoptip11o6 m, paUe Q Column a.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BY the Associated Press.

0y tIlc hSSOCldtcu ElCSS.
MADRID, March 12-Radical Ia
borers set fire to Catholic kindergar-
ten full of children today but the
civil guards arrived in time to stop
the attack, save the children and ar
rest two of the mob members.
The children were thrown into
panic. The furnishings Of the school,
in the Conception district, were dam
aged.
The attack on the school was one
of several outbreaks Of violence during
the day in connection with strikes
called by radicals.
Guards went into action several
times when extremists stoned street
cars. They dispersed several groups
in hand-to-hand battles when at
tempts were made to overturn street
cars in the Las Dentas and Diago
Leon districts. Several were arrested.
The street car battles were the first
serious disturbances in the strikes.
In Madrid the most SERIOUS aspect
Evening star., 1934-03-12
in the Treasury by executive order
December 16 last.

in the Treasury by executive order
December Is last.
The Secretary asked two questions:
May employees whose permanent ap-
pointments in the service were termi-
mated when they were transferred to
the division of disbursements, and
given temporary appointments, be
compensated for deductions made in
their pay during their temporary ap-
pointments by reason of absence on
account of accrued annual or sick
leave, after being permanently ap-
pointed in the division of disburse-
ments?" And second: "A permanent
employe of the Treasury Department
who was given q temporary appoint
ment in the division of disbursements
December 16 was sick from January
16 to February Is, when he died. For
this period Of absence he received no
compensation. Is his estate entitled
to receive compensation for that
period, provided the employe had suf-
ficient accrued annual or sick leave
(Continuee1 on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAWRENCE, Kans, March 12.-
Count" Paul Gregory Hershel Won
Leibnitz is going home to Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio. A traffic error spilled his
beans
The count" a personable lad of
81. arrived a week ago. He got job
on the city woodpile and in his leisure
time began to circulate around. In
broken English, he explained that
Hitler's men killed his father and
mother two years ago.
He spoke casually Of studying at
Heidelberg. The fraternity boys Of
the University of Kansas took him
to their bosoms There were dinners;
co-eds taught him to dance American
style; he went to the junior prom in
a borrowed tux: clothier presented
him q topcoat. 4
Evening star., 1934-03-12
MANCHUkUO BANDITS
KILL ID JAPANESE
Two Officers Among Casualties in
Fierce Battle With 500
Outlaws.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC. March 12.-Fourteen jap
anese soldiers, including two officers
were killed Saturday in fierce battle
between Japanese troops and soc
| bandits in Manchukuo, an Official
communique revealed today.
But" the communique added, "the
reglmental flag was saved"
The officers slain were Col. Asakichi
Iizuka and Second Lieut.. Minoru
Suzuki.
Except to say that the battle in
which the men were killed took place
at Tulungshan, east of Han, where a
japanese unit is stationed, the Suthori-
ties gave no further details.
Col. Iizuka was a veteran comman-
der of one of the regiments which
recently participated in an anti-bandit
drive along the Amur River.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
12OBEL|EVED[OST
ON TORPEDO BOAT
New Japanese Warship Re.
ported to Have Capsized
During Maneuvers.
BY the Associated Press.


TOXIC. March 12-Japan's new
est scorpion of the seas, the Tomo-
zuru, a torpedo boat with an arma-
ment greater than most ships twice
her size, was wrecked mysteriously
today, with the probable loss of l2O
men.
The navy declined to describe the
disaster Immediately. but it was al
most certain that the Tomozuru had
capsized of. the Sasebo naval base in
heavy weather.
The ministry announced the ship
had been found. after being missing
since early morning. badly damaged
and drifting. many of her crew be-
lieved drowned"
Carried Heavy Armaments.
The vessel of SGT tons was regard
ed as carrying one of the heaviest
armaments ever conceived for a ship
her size
1t was reported that on her fatal
trip, in connection with maneuvers
officers and men-far above her nor
NAL complement.
The navy Office said rescue efforts
are proceeding" but made no men
tion of any survivors. Contact with
the Tomozuru was lost early today.
Several destroyers joined in a
search for the torpedo boat after she
was reported lost and fears were eX-
pressed she had capsized in the heavy
seas.
The TomoZuru was completed only
February rs. 1t is a new type, out
side the range of the limits of the
London naval treaty. because the
tonnage is less than 600
Eighteen Other Ships Planned.
The Japanese recently completed
three such ships. 1t is understood
Is others are building or projected
each carrying three flve-inch guns
and considered equal in fighting
power to older and smaller destroyers
1t had been reported that vessels OF
the Tomozuru class were fitted with
special apparatus to prevent cap
sizing.
Special study of this problem was
given impetus after the destroyer
Sawarabi capsized December S. 1882,
of the coast of Formosa, with the
loss of los lives.