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Evening star., 1934-08-17
By the Associated Press.


LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica,
August 17.-Rear Admiral Richard
z. Byrd prepared himself for a lonely
death in the Antarctic, yet sent no
appeal for aid, the outside world
learned today-two months later.
A message from the advance weather
base where Byrd spent nearly five
months in isolation told how he re-
signed himself to death and left a
note for a relief party, which he
feared would arrive too late"
DR.. Thomas C. Poulter, head of the
tractor expedition of three which
fought its way to Byrd's side, reported
by radio that the commander became
so i'll in June from fumes from his
stove he thought the end was near.
My observations here and remarks
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Canada Covets U. S. Markets.

NEW MARKET, Ontario, August II
P.-Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn of
Ontario last night urged the Dominion
government take steps toward rec
iprocity to open United States markets
for Canadian products. He told a
Liberal convention here the United
States Government had declared there
would be no trade ,pacts negotiated
with Canada until there is a change
of government in the Dominion"
Evening star., 1934-08-17
K|DNAPERS WARN
WIFE Of MINISTER
Demand Money for Release
of Evangelist Husband
in North Carolina.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GOLDSBORO. N. c., August IL
Mrs. r. H. Askew was reported today
to have received a second communi-
cation from the presumed kidnapers
of her husband, "Four-Square Gospel
Evangelist who has been missing since
Tuesday.
Federal agents assigned to the case
by the Division of Investigation, De-
partment of Justice. and Sheriff Paul
Garrison's Office veiled their investi-
cations and upon their instructions
Mrs. Askew declined to answer any
questions about the hunt for her
missing, 28-year-old husband.
Told to Get Money.
Reports from reliable sources, how
ever, said she received a telegram sent
from washington which said:
Have the money ready Saturday"
Last Wednesday Mrs. Askew re-
ceived through the mails a typed note
which told her:
Get $4,000 at once or you will
never see your husband alive again.
Instructions will follow" 1t was
mailed in Goldsboro and bore no
signature.
Two Federal agents were here
working on the case. They explained
their request that Mrs. Askew refuse
any information about the case by
saying they feared something might
be disclosed which would endanger
the evangelist's life.
"First of all we want to get ASkew
safely home" said one of the agents
who declined to permit use of his
name.
Wife Bearing Up Well.
Mrs. Askew, who is over so years
old, was reported to be bearing up
we'll under the strain of her husband S
absence and the letter and telegram
indicating he had been kidnapped.
Women of her husbands congrega-
ton were constant visitors at the
Askews' little home here.
The youthful evangelist and his
wife for the past three years have
spent much of the time travelling
over the continent conducting serv-
ices. They came to Goldsboro last
october.
Mr.. Askew is a native of Onslow
County, N. c., and his wife was sup
erintendent of schools at Blowing
Rock, N. c., prior to their marriage.
She is sister of Roby Greer, Demo-
cratic leader in Watauga County and
his county's Representative in the
1888 State Legislature.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
BY the Associated Press.

Hugh S. johnson, recovery admin
istrator, made plans today to confer
Sunday with Gov. A. Harry Moore
of New Jersey about the States in
dustrial codes after a plea from a
Jersey City barber that he was being
forced out of business.
N. r. A. officials emphasized it
was the State code and not the
national code against which Richard
Ulran, the barber, was protesting.
President Roosevelt lifted all price
requirements from the service trades,
including barber shops under Federal
codes several weeks ago.
1t was the State code, under which
Jacob Mayed. Jersey City tailor. was
hailed into court a few months ago
for cutting prices on pressing
clothes.
johnson has been planning for
Evening star., 1934-08-17
STRAT0SPHERE FLIGHT
PLANNED BY BELGIAN
Max Cosyns to Make Ascent
Tomorrow to Study Co.'S
mic Ray.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, August 17.-Max Co
syns, Belgian scientist. plans to start
a balloon ascension into the strato-
sphere at dawn tomorrow.
CoSyns is a pioneer Of the strato-
sphere, having made an ascent with
Prof. Auguste Picard. The ascent
tomorrow is to take place on the sec
ond anniversary of the CoSyns-Piccard
fight.
Another ascent into the stratosphere
was planned by Cosyns to learn more
about the cosmic ray.
His balloon. assembled at the village
of Hour -Havenne, is equipped with a
stabilizing devise which Cosyns hopes
will permit him to hold certain alti-
tudes.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
HueyLong's War

A series of stories inter
preting the unusual political
fight in the State, written by
wESTBROoK PEGLER
Begin in The Washington
Star today on Page AS.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Population, 100000

Referring to population,
The Star is read in 10000
more homes in Washington
and suburbs than five years
ago, $4,000 more homes than
seven years ago and 10000
more homes than 10 years
ago. The present circulation
of The Star in midsummer
is over 10000 daily and
10000 Sunday.
Yesterdays Advertising
Local Display.
Lines.
The Evening Star. 1896
I'd newspaper -. :, 22,9e4
Sd newspaper -. 1880
4th newspaper e. ..., 10,1
5th newspaper ...- 7,124
I'll other <n1Og
The best of all classes, rich
and poor, read The Star IN
their homes in ever-increas-
ing numbers. .,..a...x
Evening star., 1934-08-17
NATIONALS BEAT
CLEVELAND, 4T03
Rally in Ninth and Tenth
Innings to Capture
Opener.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

The Nationals defeated the Cleve-
land Indians in the opening game of
today's double header at Grifith Sta
dunn
The game went 10 innings.
Evening star., 1934-08-17

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-08-17

90. q. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and slightly warmer tonight; to-
morrow fair and warmer; gentle winds.
Temperatures-Highe rs, at noon yes
terday lowest, Sc, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1934-08-17

CONTINUED on Page 5, Column u
Evening star., 1934-09-07
EX-ACTRESS DIVORCES
THEATRICAL PRODUCER
Desertion Charged to oliver MO-
rosco in Los Angeles-Prop-
erty Settlement Made.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, September T.
Oliver Morosco, nationally known
theatrical producer, was divorced by
Helen McRurer Morosco, former
actress, who charged desertion.
Mrs. Morosco testified in Superior
Court that mo one person could
Evening star., 1934-09-07
MOVIE OFFICIALS FIND
DAVID COPPERFIELDS"
Five Boys Suited to Role Are
Located Near San Francisco
After Wide Search.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, September T.
Studio executives said yesterday
the search for David Copperheld"
apparently was ended.
After combing many parts Of the
United States, England, Canada, Aus
tralia and New Zealand for a hoy
about 10, with an English accent
and a timid character" among other
qualifications, studio scouts found five
Of them within a radius of 100 miles
of San Francisco.
All five boys were in Hollywood
today, making tests for the role. One
of them, studio executives said, prob
ably will get the part.
The boys are Irving Foss Of Oak
land, James Read of Palo Alto, Temple
Broz of San Francisco, Peter Varnan
of Gilroy and Pallon Tjader of San
Mateo.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

IF TAURUS will drop down this
= week to glance at Miss Francis and
Mr.. Howard of British Agent" and
the stage show billed with them; OBJ
serve Miss Carroll and Mr.. Tone at
their business in THE World Moves
On" or note the new screen magic
applied by Ben Hecht, Charles Nc
Arthur and Lee Garmes to Crime
Without Passion" he surely will be in
better humor with the gentlemen who
booked these bits for his diversion.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
CODE TO CONTROL FILM
SALARIES SUSPENDED
Gen. johnson Issues Order on
Recommendation of Division
Administrator.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N. r. A. has ordered indefinite
suspension of motion picture code
provisions designed to control ex-
cessive salaries to screen stars and
competitive offers of employment be-
tween producers.
The order was issued by Hugh s.
johnson on the recommendation Of
Sol A. Rosenblatt, division administra-
tor, who made an extensive investi-
CATION of the industry. The two pro-
visions were suspended by President
Roosevelt when he approved the code
and Johnson's action now lifts them
indefinitely.
Evening star., 1934-09-07


bowling and hideouS.
These are but few of the delicacies
on the Collier menu. Dickens Great
Expectations" Margaret SULLIVAN in
Molnar's 1.-The Good Fairy" that ex-
cellent Damon Runyan piece called
Million Dollar Ransom" with Edward
Arnold, Joel McCrea and Joan Ben
nett; Thorne Smiths hilarious Night
Life of the Gods" and others enlarge
the happy list. This seventh of the
city's downtown major show houses
obviously is prepared to do its share in
appeasing the wrath Of every Taurus
for miles around.
THE Jewish picture Smiling
Through Tears" will be presented
here September 16 and II at the
Masonic Auditorium at Thirteenth
and New York avenue. Performances
on the film will begin each afternoon
at 3 and continue through the eve
ming. The story was written by Shalon
Aleihom, known as ''the Jewish Mark
Twain" and the film recently COM
pleted a 25-week run in New York.
Vaudeville will be presented in connec-
ton with the cinema.
X x X *
THE press boys at Warner Brothers
struggled drearily last week to get
a "still'' of Joe E. Brown, Maxine Doyle
and baby for use in connection with
the latest Brown vehicle, in which
Maxine appears. 1.-TWO kids we were
using couldn't stop crying, so Maxine
suggested getting Joe's own baby.
They telephoned Mrs. Brown, had her
bring down infant Katherine, aged 18
months, who posed like veteran"
Everybody happy, the Warner studios
in Hollywood were pleased to report to
their local delegates by wire recently.
Maxine, incidentally, is to have q
role in "Babbitt."
r GLAND YOUNG will be featured
~ in Paramount's Here Is MY
Heart" . Herbert Marshall will be
leading man for Margaret SULLIVAN
in THE Good Fairy the cast
OF the Roadside Theater's Drunk
ard production has reserved 10 seats
for the Roof Players performance of
the same play Saturday night
just a friendly gesture and a bit of
curiosity 80. pictures of the George
Washington University foot ball squad
at practice will be shown in the Fox
Theater news reel this week &.
members OF the Junior Board of Com
merce are to sponsor a moonlight
cruise on the City of Washington of
the Wilson Line Monday night at
8:45 -. Eddie Perkins, the Fox
singing usher, featured entertainer
-. proceeds for the benefit of the
Presidents Cup Regatta Association.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Electrocuted for Shaving.

OSSINING, N. Y, September (P).
-Alphonse Brengard, 90, former State
trooper, was electrocuted at Sing Sing
Prison last night for the murder of
Patrolman John Kennedy in Nassau
County July %, 1928.
Evening star., 1934-09-07

hope to hold Mr.. Morosco, because he
has as many facets to his nature as
crystal chandelier"
Lawyers said property settlement
had been effected out of court.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Big Waterfall Found.

Boundary commissioners who dis
covered the great waterfall on the
borders of British Guiana and Brazil
describe it as resembling the Horse
shoe Fall at Niagara.
Evening star., 1934-09-07
Theaters Have Many Fine
Films Scheduled for Fall
Complaint Registered That Washington l.
Behind Other Cities With New Pictures,
and the Managers Explain.

INDIGNANT gentleman who signs himself Taurus"
his thoughts via printed proof sheet addresses the
complaint department of this with high walls against
the prices, vaudevieS booking schedules of local
picture and houses that his hunger
films often to starvation before his home
fill emporia with those spectaces which
balyhoo artists have told Taurus much in advance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27

dists who spread the word that the union
leaders we're crooks. A middlewestern strike
failed after gossip-mongers let it be known
that the plant would be moved to another
city if the strikers were victorious.
Plots Of this kind are impossible to trace.
The victims may work themselves to a fragile
trying to spread the truth, without success.
For there is a perverse streak in human
nature which makes many people believe such
runors tenaciously, no matter how many de-
mails are broadcast.
Yet it is only through refusal to take any
stock in gossip that this vicious kind of propa-
ganda can be checked.
The next time some one conldenhally
tells you that such ~and-such a firm employees
diseased persons to package its goods or uses
poisonous or adultered materials in its prod
uct, or contributes TO Hitler's war chest, or
follows an anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, or anti
Protestant policy-remember that some one,
way of in the background, probably has an
ak to grind.
Some one is trying to play you for a
sucker. Don't let him do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
DEATH RETREATS

THE fell sergeant Death" always will
be victor, but in this country at least, he
Is retreating.
According to the United States census
bureau last years death rate was 1O677 for
each 100000 population. This means that one
American in every 100 died in 1888, the lowest
rate since 1900 when the bureau started col
Letting death data The figure is significant
too in that for the first time it is based upon
mortality reports from all forty-eight states.
Hopeful are the bureaus figures on cancer.
The number of victims Of this No. l public
enemy had been increasing for the last fifteen
years. Last year the rate was held stationary
tuberculosis deaths continue to decline due to
preventive and curative measures. Rejecting
the high pressure tempo Of American business
and worries over insecurity are mounting fig
ures on heart disease. But rejecting the up
turn in business is a decline of suicides from
the 1882 peak.
Slowly science is winning over disease and
premature death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
PROBLEM IN POPULARITY

THE present political campaign is one Of
Il the oldest in our annals. Not the least
odd part about it is that practically every
one comedies that the administration will
suffer no appreciate loss of strength in the
mid-term elections-while, at the same time,
the Literary Digest poll shows a very marked
decline in the popularity of the Presidents
policies.
These Digest polls have been, so far, pretty
accurate refectors Of popular sentiment. The
latest one shows that while the New Deal en-
joyed the support Of nearly 10 per cent of the
electorate last spring, it now gets only $3.50
break.
One would suppose that such shift in
sentiment would find expression in the con-
gressional elections. But no political expert
has predicted that such will be the case. On
the contrary, the administrations strength in
congress is expected to diminish less than is
usual at the mid-term point.
How are you going to solve this contradc-
ton?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
These Questions, LII Arthur, Are For You

curity? What would you do with
the goods manufactured?
Why did you, under Hoover,
vote millions to. the railroads, big
banks and insurance companies,
and forget the little fellows whose
votes you now are begging?
Being so stuck on the Constitu-
ton, why have you remained 81
lent for nine years while the
southern states have disfranchised
the Negro vote, contrary to the
federal Constitution? And while
in the Indiana legislature, why
did you vote appropriations to
state schools, contrary to the
state Constitution?
Did you ever handle a pay roll
or do any practical work that
would enable you to know the
needs of the common man or the
capacity of the taxpayer to pay?
Haven't you always voted for
higher salaries and wages and in
creased pensions and bonuses to
specially favored classes of the
country?
Don't you know that those who
are "Whooping it up" for you are
lot of old barnacles who want to
get back on pay rolls?
Honestly, do you think you fit
into the seat once occupied by
Morton. Hendricks. Harrison and
Fairbanks?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
WATERFOWL IN DANGER

ONE of the consequences of the recent
~ drought is apt to be a disastrous reduc-
ton in the number of American waterfowl.
Arthur Newton Pack, president of the Amer
lean Nature Association, says that the dry
ing up of so many streams and ponds has
brought about an alarming decline in the
numbers of game birds-so much so that
sportsmen in some states are even urging a
closed season.
But, instead of being accorded freedom
from shooting" he adds, "the harassed birds
now face an open season that promises to be
the most disastrous in the history of North
America wild fowling"
Most hunters undoubtedly gladly would
agree to a curtailment Of this falls hunting
season. if they were fully convinced Of its
necessity.
From every standpoint, it would be a
calamity for us to lose any of our present
species of waterfowl. To no one would it
be more of a calamity than to the hunters
themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
CIVILIZATION RESTORED

COCIAL historians Of the future will prob
- ably remember the present moment as
the era in which the United States finally dis
covered how to cope with large-scale crime.
After the wild years following 1920, in
which lawIessness seemed to be utterly be-
You'd control, and underworld leaders were
not so much defiant Of the law as comtemptu-
Gus Of it, society has found way to reaSsert
itself
Capone, Dillinger, Kelly, Sankey, Barrow,
and now Floyd-one after another, the bad
men are cut down.
The old rule that the outlaws path can
lead only to a prison cell or an early grave
is being enforced again in the United States
as in other countries
The bullets which ended the career of
Floyd merely emphasize the fact that the
United States is regaining its right to call
itself a civilized country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
WHY HOOVER FAILED TO
GET COOPERATION
BY Mrs. A. D. Johnson

BY Mrs. A. D. Johnson.
have been an interested. and
some Of the time, amused reader Of
the Message Center for a long time,
but the article by J. w. Hughes in
Tuesdays paper seems to be the
most inconsistent of any I have
read. He notes, If the people would
cooperate with the Republicans as
they are with Roosevelt"
Can he tell why the people did
not cooperate with Republicans?
Was there any plan offered for their
relief to call forth cooperation?
If conditions were as good as he
implies, why the uprising Of 1892?
Democrats did not elect Roosevelt.
1t was done by the people, some Of
whom can be fooled all the time,
all of them some of the time. but
not all Of them all Of the time.
Listening TO Mr.. Hoover'S radio
talks during the campaign OF 1882,
did not hear any constructive plan
for relief from the depression. His
attitude was that Of the man who
borrowed, broke. and failed to re-
turn his neighbours lawn mower,
thus:
There is no depression. 1t was
here when came, and it is all over
now anyway. Also, that he intended
to continue the same program that
he had during the four years past,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27

By Will H. Craig.
A few questions for Senator
Robinson to answer:
During twelve years of public
service, did you ever vote for bill
to reduce taxes?
Did you not vote to override the
vetoeS of Presidents Coolidge,
Hoover and Roosevelt on measures
of economy?
Don't you think you have made
a fool of yourself in fighting the
world court, strictly a Republican
measure?
Don't you believe you are in
class with Norris, La Toilette and
Hiram johnson, who should be
outlawed by the G. o. P?
Don't you know you have and
are catering to the groups and
classes as against the masses?
Why don't your dear" friend,
Jim Watson, come to your relief
in these times Of dire distress?
In shifting your campaign tao
tics, you have found a panacea
for all our ills-loaning govern
ment money to small industries so
that the wheels will go round and
men be employed.
Why should the government
come in competition with private
banks that have oceans of money
to lend to industry on proper Sc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-27
FLYING'S GOAL

QUITTING the flying time from England to
~ Australia by more than one-half of the
previous record merely confirms the inevitable
Given the dependable speed of an airplane,
most any one can foreteu what the travelling
time will eventually be between points.
We know, for instance, that airplanes soon
will be crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
at the rate of approximately 200 miles an hour,
and that if straight hops prove too long for a
reasonable factor of safety, seadromes will be
provided.
We know that a twelve-hour schedule be-
tween New York and San Francisco is well
within the range of probability, and that the
day is not far off when passengers. can girdle
the world in five or six days. The problems
which such achievements involve now rest
chiefly on the questions of capital and organ
ization.
Aviation is not new form Of individually
controlled travel, as many supposed it would
be, but of highly organized transportation.
You can't string garages and service stations
along an air route to take care of amateurs
and ntwits The fiier can not pull up at the
roadside and telephone for help when his
engine stalls. The success of aviation de-
ponds on ground work, on the absolute GER
tainty that a plane is going to reach the
place for which it starts.
1t has taken thirty years for people to
realize that they were not blessed with a new
type of plaything and that air transportation
could only succeed through system, experience
and discipline.
There always will be individual flying, but
it won't mean very much except in the field
Of tests, experiments and discoveries. Insofar
flying becomes a business, an agency of gen.
eraI convenience, it will be managed by large
corporations.
When the time comes for people to fly
from New York to London in a day, as it surely
will, they will fly on a ticket, not in their
own craft. All save the adventurous few have
sense enough to know that the air is one field
which men can not afford TO trif1e with alone
The right of way is plenty wide and there is
little danger Of getting wrecked on rock or
reef. The one thing to guard against is the
likelihood of men and machinery going wrong,
and that can be overcome by caution and
aleIlLeSS.
We are, it appears, at the edge of a great
new era in transportation. an era which dazzles
even the most fertile Imagination and which
presents opportunities that past generations
never conceived as possible. Furthermore, we
look for transportation TO become compare
lively cheap, so that moderately circum-
stanced folks can visit distant parts Of the
world as easily as they now go to nearby lands
or to far parts Of their own country.
Fifty years hence. when people talk about
going abroad, it will really mean going abroad
not Just to Paris. Berlin or London. 1t will
mean seeing places that are now virtually
barred to most of US. such as India, Africa and
the interior of Asia. 1t viii mean the wiping
out of those vast differences which now sepa-
rate the more advanced and the more back
ward countries 1t will mean the spread Of a
common language and common standards Of