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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-19
Shades of Confusion

'Ill have to be more systematic"
said Senator Sorghum.
Bothered by bookkeeping?"
mo. But my secretary has al
lowed my religious ghost writer to
get mixed up with my expert In boss
race dialect"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-19

WNU-4 1873!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-19
Lots of ELM

Does ne always keep his word?"
"Yes-no one will take it !"-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-19
Cutting and Slashing

'Why are you reducing?"
"Oh, to cut down expanses."-Lon-
don Answers.
Evening star., 1935-12-27

Continued From First Page)
broke the ice to provide a place for
ducks to swim. Increased rations OF
cracked corn have been passed out to
wild fowl, which are unable to secure
their natural food from the frozen
river.
Only two traffic nishaps resulting
in injuries were reported. John Mar
shall, 81, Of 1925 Rosedale street
northeast was treated at Emergency
Hospital for a severe leg injury after
an automobile in which he was
passenger collided with street car
at Fourteenth street and New York
avenue. The other victim was N. B.
Clements, 1892 NJ street southeast,
who was cut in a crash with a street
car at Eleventh street and New York
avenue.
Simon Robinson, %, Of 1925 U street
and Charles J. Jones. As, Of 1909 Sixth
street southwest, both colored, were
treated at Emergency Hospital for
frostbite.
A broken foot was suffered by
George w. Keys, 25, when he slipped
on the ice near his home. at 170l B
street southeast, while William p.
Harrison, IS, OF 908 H street received
a head injury in a fall at Ninth and
streets.
Traffic Tied Up Near Bay.
Near-zero temperatures thickened
the ice coating the sheltered waters
of Chesapeake Bay. tying up trafflc.
Residents of Smiths and Tangier
Islands, about IL miles of Chrisf1eld,
Md, in the bay, were virtually ma
rooned by surrounding ice today.
Boats carrying mail, food and fuel
could not get through, 1t was said.
Water men said. however. that the
! were better stocked with food this
year than last, when the islands were
ice locked for more than q week. No
immediate alarm was felt for the
safety of the fishermen and their
families.
The approximately 200 fatalities
blamed on the general cold through
out the country included 86 trafdc
deaths, SIS deaths from exposure, II
| deaths in fires indirectly attributed
to the weather, 7 deaths from car
bon monoxide fumes, drownings
and Is deaths due to miscellaneous
or unreported causes.
Virginia counted a toll of seven
deaths attributed directly or indirectly
| to the cold and snow.
Four colored persons died OF cold
near Norfolk yesterday.
Warmer in Maryland.
Rising temperatures today gave
Marylanders some respite from the
bitter cold brought by the Christmas
night blizzard. Reports from most
points were that the weather was mod
Grating. Roads. in the Easton and
Evening star., 1935-12-27

Centreville sections Of the Eastern
Shore remained blocked.
Easton remained virtually Isolated,
with little improvement in roads
choked with snowdrifts from the
Christmas night blizzard. No busses
we're running and mails were delayed.
Many sections reported the current
cold snap the worst in years. New
England and North Atlantic States
anticipated more cold weather today,
although temperatures were moder-
ating somewhat in the great North
Central Plsins States.
During the last "A hours there have
been light to moderate SHOWS in the
lakes regions. the upper Ohio Valley
and the Middle and North Atlantic
States.
Ferry Service Resumed.
From Annapolis came the report
that ferry service to Matapeake had
been resumed after the highway ap-
proach was freed of deep snow drifts.
Biting winds and shore ice today
kept oystermen in the harbor at An
napolis. The city docks were filled
to capacity with the boats of the
oyster feet.
All main roads into Washington are
open, the Keystone Automobile Club
reported. Motorists were warned to
use caution in selecting their routes,
however, particularly those through
the mountains.
The club answered almost 1000
emergency calls yesterday from motor
lists with dead batteries, frozen radi-
ators or cracked cylinder blocks.
Evening star., 1935-12-27

the Post ONCE Department enumer-
ated such fire hazards as follows:
Agriculture Department, 8; War De-
partment. 80; Commerce, Is; Interior,
6; State Department, Z; Treasury, Is;
General Accounting ONCE, IL: Civil
Service Commission, 2; Farm Credit
Administration, !; N. r. A., /; R. F. c.,
/: Panama Canal Commission, 2, and
Veterans Administration, 8. Several
corridors in the Navy Department
where such files are kept were not
enumerated.
The locations were numbered as
112.
Training Plans Made.
Announcement was made for the
first time that plans have been set up
for laboratory and school for the
training of public building guards to
make further safeguards against the
recurrence of fires. This school will
be placed in operation in two or three
weeks. Peters reported. The services
Of a safety engineer, it was said,
should be invaluable in directing the
work Of the guards.
As q preliminary measure the build
ings branch of the Park Service is at
tempting to eliminate from the force
of guards all men unfit for active
duty.
The Park Service Is cooperating
with the District Fire Department, the
report pointed out. by inviting its Of
ficers to inspect various buildings to
familiarize them with the layouts and
by asking their advice as to unsafe
conditions. Numerous instances were
cited showing inspections made by
District firemen during the past year.
The report pointed out that the
Government has no fire insurance on
the $4,000, 900 invested in public
buildings under the Park Service. At
an expense Of $4,000 per annum,
Peters said, the Government could
obtain the insurance and thus suffer
no property loss from fires.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
DWIGHT CLARK, &C,
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Was Director of Phillips
Properties and Treasurer
of Phillips Gallery.

Dwight Clark, 66, of 1850 Connect.
cut avenue, director of the Phillips
Properties, Inc, and treasurer Of the
Phillips Memorial Gallery here, died
late yesterday in Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia. He had been i'll several
months and left here December to
enter the hospital.
Mr.. Clark was a direseE OF the
Jones g. Laughlin Steel Corp. Of
Pittsburgh and treasurer of the Amer
ican Federation of Arts.
He was the son Of the late John
Spencer Clark and the late Mrs. Mary
Cutting Clark, descendants of Massa-
chusetts Bay colony founders. His
father was Boston publisher and
biographer of John Fiske. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology in 1897. Mr..
Clark had been a resident Of this
city for Is years.
Active in a number of patriotic Or
ganizstions and clubs. he was governor
of the local organization Society Of
Founders and Uatriots; a member Of
the Society of Cincinnati. the Colonial
Wars Society and other patriotic So
cieties He was a member of the
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs
of Washington, the Century Associa-
ton and Union League Club of New
York and the Duquesne Club of Pitts
burgh.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wallace Clark, and two sis
ters, Miss Eleanor S. Clark and Mrs.
Edward NJ. Langley, both of Boston.
Burial will be at Wallingford, Conn.,,
Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-12-27

on the road to recovery. the date was
set for tomorrow but now it has been
pos Z)oned indefinitely.
George A. Cook, secretary of the
National Mediatio Board, announced
the death of Mr.. Hanger here today.
according to the Associated Press. He
had been in the Government service
since 1887, when he began his career
in the Department of Labor and
Commerce. From 1918 to 1918 he was
railroad conciliator, under the Erd-
man and Newlands acts.
Hanger served with the railroad ad-
ministration from 1918 to 1920 and
then became a member of the United
States Railroad Labor Board at Chi
cago, serving there unit! 1926, when
he was appointed to the United States
Board of Mediation. His term there
expired in 1888 and he became a
mediator with the national board
which handles railway labor disputes.
Hanger was a native of Virginia.
and for a time was school teacher
in Mississippi.
His daughter. well known in Wash
ington and New York society. was
graduated from Holton Arms School
here and attended Smith College Her
engagement to Lott was announced
early in the year.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
PLANS TO BE MADE
FOR BIRTHDAY BALL
Commissioner Aliens Committee
to Launch D. c. Move
Next Week.

Plans for Washington's participation
In the third Nation-wide series OF
Roosevelt birthday balls January 80
will get under way next week, when
Commissioner George E. Allen, chair
man of the committee, returns from
the West Indies.
Before leaving for brief vacation,
Commissioner Allen began formation
of a committee to work with him by
addressing letters of invitation to pub
lie officials and business men. Replies
are being received at his office now
and announcement of committee
members will be made soon.
Last year, funds raised were divided
between the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation and local institutions do
ing work for crippled children in the
various communities taking Part in
the ball. The same plan will be fol-
lowed this year.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
TEA EXPERTS NAMED

Reappointment of the following
seven members of the United States
Board of Tea Experts for 1886 was an
nounced yesterday by Secretary Wal
lace:
Edward Bransten, San Francisco:
Walter Hellyer. Chicago; A. P. Irwin,
Philadelphia; Robert A. Lewis, Boston;
j. H. Swenarton, New York City; John
w. Vaux, Seattle, and Charles F..
Hutchinson, New York City.
The board will meet February 3, in
New York to select tea standards
which will go into effect May l, 1886.
The board prepares and submits to the
Secretary standard samples of tea with
which imports are compared as to
purity, quality and fitness for con-
sumption.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
P. w. A. POWER CASE
TEST FACES DELAY
Court of Appeals Remands Four
Suits to District Supreme Body
at Request of U. S. -.

Delaying indefinitely a final test
of the authority of the P. w. A. to
finance municipal power plant con-
struction, the United States Court Of
Appeals today remanded to District
Supreme Court four cases involving
seven Alabama and two Texas towns.
This action had been requested by
Government counsel, who wished to
amend the record with a view to an
ultimate test in the United States
Supreme Court. They argued that the
form of the loan contracts was
changed after the injunction suits
were begun and that the decision Of
the appellate court should be based
on facts as they now stand. The move
was opposed by power company at
torneys, who pressed for an early
ruling.
Companies which had requested
injunctions against the Government
making municipal loans for power
plants were the Alabama Power Co..
the Texas Utilities Co., and the Gulf
States Utility Co.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
THEFT OF GROCERIES,
JEWELRY REPORTED
Three Men Arrested After Liquor
Store Window Is
Smashed.

Theft of $108 worth Of groceries
and jewelry valued at $56 was re-
ported to District police today.
The groceries we're taken from the
Sanitary Grocery Co. store at 311 K
street. The burglars entered by forcing
a rear door, accor Ing to Charles D.
Goodwin. manager.
The jewelry, which included two
watches, a stickpin and pair of cuff
links, was taken from the home of
S. M. Seaton, 3oo3 Adams street
northeast.
A show window at the liquor store
of Clarence j. Kern, 801 Eleventh
street, was smashed early today and
three dozen bottles Of liquor, valued
at $50, taken. The liquor was soon
recovered by Policeman T. D. Bacon
of the first precinct and three men
were arrested and held for investiga-
tion.
The three identified themselves as
Morris Logan Van zant, 23, and
Francis Van Zant, 81, both of the
1000 block of I street, and Acie Coch-
ran, %, of the 900 block Of H street.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
WORK ADVOCATED
ON GARBAGE PLANT
Improvement Instead of Re-
movaI Recommended for
K Street Unit.

Improvement of facilities at the
garbage transfer station at New Jersey
avenue and P street southeast, instead
Of its removal to some other point, was
recommended to the Commissioners
today by committee of three District
government engineers and Health
Officer George C. Rutland.
The Commissioners deferred action
on the report, awaited for some months
by residents of Southeast washington
who have been campaigning for re-
moval of the plant from that section.
The committee made five recon-
mendations. One was that farmers
and other hog feeders be put I'M
mediately on notice that the amount
of garbage they may obtain from the
transfer station would be progressively
cut down and that eventually all the
garbage would be shipped to the
Cherry Hill reduction plant.
One of the principal complaints was
against the nuisance" of farmers
trucks parked near the plant wait
ing their allotments of garbage and
according to residents, helghtenlng
the odors. The committee proposed
that the present station be inclosed
in a "presentable" brick structure;
that all collection trucks be washed
every night in the basement of the
proposed new building instead of in
the open, as at present; that all odors
be eliminated, by scrubbing. from the
transfer station, and that the Com
missioners seek an appropriation of
S125,00 in the next years budget to
carry out the suggestions.
The report was signed by Assistant
Engineer Commissioner Howard F.
Clark, Health Officer Rutland, Sani-
tary Engineer j. B. Gordon and
Harold A. Kemp, an engineer assigned
to the sewage disposal plant.
Evening star., 1935-12-27

clusions made by Charles A. Peters,
jr., director in charge of buildings.
b. G. Gardner, Fl. r. Owen and l..
p. Frick were appointed by Peters to
make a technical investigation of the
Post Once fire and from their report
recommendations were prepared by
Robert A. Galloway and John L. Nagle
Of the engineer branch.
The report did not specifically rec
ommend an allotment of 1907, 400,
but implied that this was the amount
needed ito carry out an extensive pro-
gram in Government buildings for
their protection against fire.
850,000 Square Feet.
Approximately $50, 900 square feet
of floor space are occupied by Govern
ment records stored in open shelvings.
1t was estimated $5,000.000 would cover
the cost to provide inclosed metal cases
for all this material.
An investigation Of Government
buildings where wooden files similar
to those which caused the damage In
Evening star., 1935-12-27
AUTO SERIOUSLY HURTS
RETIRED TEXTILE MAN
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va. December IL
Thomas Williams, retired textile ex-
ecutive, was in a serious condition to-
day in a hospital with leg fracture
and other injuries, sustained when
struck by an automobile in front OF
his home short distance east of town.
He was crossing the Washington road
to pick up his hat, which had blown
OF, when he was hit by machine
allegedly driven by F. L. Dovel,
Stephens City, who said he drove on
the pavement IN an effort to avoid
striking williams,
Evening star., 1935-12-27
This Changing World
France Is Reluctant to Be Drawn Into New Conflict.
Laval Being Maintained in Office by Opponents
of His Foreign Policy.

nations-"Ordre de mobilization gen.
erale."
The British have speeded up consid-
erably their defenseS In the Mediter-
ranean and in East Africa since An
thony Eden has taken over the en-
pire's foreign affairs from Sir Samuel
Hoare.
All the available seaworthy subma-
rines are now in the Mediterranean.
The bigger units are being inter-
changed; those which are OF more
powerful and up-to-date type are be-
ing sent to Haifa and Alexandria to
replace the more antiquated ones
which are being stationed at Gibraltar
and Malta.
Important defensive works are being
constructed in Kenya. the Anglo
Esyptian Sudan and in British So
maitland, these three colonies border
ing either Ethiopia or the Italian Al
rican possessions.
Troops from India and from the
British Isles are being nloDed as
RAPIDLY as transports can conuey
them to these possessions, While
squadrons OF airplanes are being
rushed to East Africa at top speed.
Some of the important British air
stations in Iraq and India are being
depleted of their fighting planes. The
British government having in mind
the likelihood of a conflict with Italy
intends to keep an important part OF
the home aviation at their stations
for any eventuality.
The naval and air race building has
assumed such proportions during the
last 10 months that the editors of the
standard works, James Fighting Ships
and James Fighting Planes, confess
they are no longer in a position to
keep up with the construction plans
of the various powers.
Heretofore, all neu naval or air
construction planned or in course
OF building, tDere published tDtth all
available details by this unique
publication.
This years issue is sadly disappoint-
ing. The German government has
bluntly refused to give out details
about its air force and the types of
the new war vessels.
The majority of other governments
has given such incomplete figures
that they were not considered worth
while publishing.
The reason for this is that most of
the major and minor powers have been
building warships-especially subma-
rines-and large fleets of airplanes on
the quiet and do not care to advertise
either the size or the number of these
new units.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
NOTICE,

wAsHfNGToN H1I AND OLD Dominion
RAILWAY, hereby gives notice that on the
9TH day of December. 1885. he filed with
Washington. D. C.. his application for a
certificate that the present. and future
public cony enience and necessity permit the
Of the Washington and Old Dominion
Railway which extends from Rosslyn to
Bluemont Junction. a distance OF miles
Southern Railway Company which extends
from Alexandria to Bluemont, distance
Of 81 miles. all in Arlington. Fairfax and
Loudoun Counties, Virginia.
G. c. BAGGETT RECEIVER OF
OF THE WASHINGTON AND
OLD DOMINION RAILWAY.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Generally fair
and somewhat colder, lowest tempera-
ture about 10 degrees tonight; tomor-
row increasing cloudiness. with rising
temperature, followed by snow by
night; diminishing westerly winds, be-
coming variable.
Maryland-Fair and slightly colder
tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudi-
ness and somewhat warmer, followed
by snow in west portion.
Virginia-Fair, not quite so cold in
extreme southwest portion tonight;
tomorrow cloudy, with rising tempera-
ture, followed by snow in west and
central portions.
West Virginia-Cloudy tonight. fol-
lowed by SHOW and not so cold to-
morrow. -
Evening star., 1935-12-27
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


TRANCE displays a mule-like at
- titude about being drawn into
| another World War.
Il Laval, being Frances premier
is disliked by the other would-be pre-
miers. Yet, even those who oppose
his foreign policies as being too weak.
are doing their best to keep him in
office and nothing but one of those
accidents" which occur from time
TO time in Frances parliamentary
life can upset him And, Laval is de-
termined to keep France out OF the
next war.
His logic is typically French. The
republic stands 100 per cent by the
League of Nations; it has been IN the
past a stancher supporter of Geneva
than Great Britain. London has been
quibbling about the implications OF
Article 16 of the Covenant ever since
the French began asking the succeed
ing British governments for clear
statement as to their policies towards
that dynamite laden article.
France confeSSes openly that 1t
has only one tear-the rapid de-
Uelopment of Germdnys military
power. Because Germdnys army,
air force and nauy is grotUtng by
leaps and bounds France tDdntS to
maintain its fighting forces intact
for the eventual final Sho,0do,on
With the Reich. France, Ldpdl says,
has no other enemies in the porld
To wdSte the nations fighting and
economic resources in. any other
conflict is, in the opinion of the
French, nothing less than high
treason. - -r,
Hence, while the republic is ready to
lend the power of its prestige and its
economic resources to apply mild
economic sanctions against Mussolini
the French people are rot willing to
shed their blood and weaken their
power of resistance against an event.
ual German attack for the League or
Great Britain and the Little Entente
x *s
If Laval could share the belief OF
his British colleague, Capt. Eden, that
MuSsolini is bluffing, there is not the
slightest doubt that the French forces
would be mobilized at present.
But neither Laval nor his well-in-
formed technical advisers believe In
Mussohni's bluff. Quite the contrary,
they are sure that the Italian dictator
is in dead earnest. And because OF
this conviction it will take more than
an alleged aggression" to induce the
French government to paste on the
walls of all the French cities and vii
lagos the much-sought-by the other
Evening star., 1935-12-27

his daughter, Miss
Harriet Turner
Hanger, scheduled
for tomorrow.
Miss Hanger
had refi'ained for
six months from
setting a date for
her marriage to
Richard Hickey
Lott, son of the
late Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick K'oWn
Lott, of German
town, Pa, because
of the illness of
her father. When
he aDnarpntlv Wa &
Evening star., 1935-12-27
PAPER BY DR.. DOYLE

Dean of G. w. q. to Tell of
Hispano-American Studies.
Henry Grattan Doyle, dean Of
George Washington University. will
present a paper on The Work of the
Harvard Council in Hispano-American
Studies" at the meeting of the Amer
ican Association of Teachers of Span
ish today in New York City.
Dean Doyle is the compiler of three
bibliographies of Spanish-American
literature, which have been published
recently by the Harvard Council.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
Woman Treated for Burns.

Mrs. Cora Evans, 40, of $40 Con-
necticut avenue was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital early today suffering
from burns said to have been received
when her bed was ignited by a Gig
arctic. Her condition is not serious,
physicians said.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
OFFICIAL TO RETIRE
Commissioner Wilson Of Upper
Marlboro Not Candidate.

BY stan Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. Decem-
ber 27.-Fred w. Wilson today an
nounced that he would not be can.
didate to succeed himself as town
commissioner Of Upper Marlboro at
the election January 6.
Mr.. Wilson has served as one OF
the towns three commissioners for
% ysaFs.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
Magazine Robbed.

Police of Sasebo, Japan. are search
ing for bandits who smashed the en-
trance to powder magazine and
stole 200 sticks of dynamite.
Evening star., 1935-12-27
C. v. v. .HANCER,69,.
DIES IN NEW YORK.
Mediation Board Employe
Had Gone to Attend Wed
ding of Daughter.

G. Wallace w. Hanger, SO, mediator
of the National Mediation Board, died
yesterday in New York, where he
had gone to attend the wedding Of
Evening star., 1935-12-27
FREDERICK p. H. sIDDoNS.

SPECIAL RETURN-LoAD RATES ON FULL
and part loads to all points within 1000
local moving also Phone National 1850.
NAT. DEL. ASSOC. NC 1917 N. Y ave.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Lincoln National Bank Of
Washington. D., c.. will be held on Tues
at the Main Once. eth and D Streets
NV. for the. election of directors and
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting. Polls open from IL
o'clock noon to l O'Clock pm. Books for
transfer of stock will be closed from De
cember 20: 1885, to January IA. 1886.
'''A -- JAMES A. soPER. Cashier