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Daily Thought

For nation shall rise against ma
ton, and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places.-St. Matthew, xiv, Z.
NTHEN any calamity has been
w suffered, the first thing to be
remembered, is. how much has been
escaped. Johnson.
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William Powell met Jean Harlow with a
hug and a kiss, just when the Hollywood
correspondents were tearing their hair for
something to write about.
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46-year-old Wisconsin mother has just
had her seventeenth child in e years of
marriage. If Wisconsin is worrying about her
cheese consumption, there's a solution.
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Frazier Hunt has been Listening to
America" but It's surprising he's been able
to hear us for all the cries that have been
coming from Europe
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Prof. Einstein has been working on a
single law to cover all the mysteries Of the
universe. excluding. of course, the operations
Of the Nazis in Germany.
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Chicago museum director predicts America
may become nomad nation living on wheels.
Better that than a mad nation living on relief.
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The trouble with this idea of coming half
cent pieces is that many people will have to
learn fractions all over again.
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Children are growing faster than they used
TO, says Berlin physician-or faster, at least,
than their parents would like to have them.
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Sophie fuckers offer to buy the Boston
Braves has been turned down. The club IS
funny enough without her.
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Germany's billion-dollar debt wouldn't be
so bad, if it were all owed to the United
States.
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WhoHy disapprove Of tUhat you sag and rOiIL
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire
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Well. vacations are more or less
of luxury, anyway.-Senator Will
liam E. Borah.
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You're correct.
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A writer doesn't write for the
moment. He writes for eternity
Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist.
Evening star., 1935-12-10
ROBERTS OFFERS
NEW FISCAL PLAN
Outlines Proposal for Fed
era! Contribution Before
KaIorama Citizens.

A plan whereby the amount of the
Federal payment toward expenses OF
the District would be determined each
year before the Commissioners sub
NIT their estimates to the Federal
Budget Bureau was outlined last
night by Peoples Counsel William A.
Roberts in an address before the
Kalorama Citizens Association.
Under the plan, Roberts said, Con-
gress would be asked to authorize a
group of Federal and District Gov
ernment officials to decide before
July 1 each year just what shall be
the Federal share of District costs in
the next fiscal year. This group
would consist of the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Federal and District
budget directors, the Commissioners
and one other Federal Government
official.
Would Ease Fiscal Trouble.
Declaring the plan would rid the
District of at least part Of its trou-
bling fiscal relations" Roberts pointed
out the Commissioners, knowing the
amount of the Federal payment.
would thus be able to fix the budget
within the National Capitals income
and to determine the amount of
needed additional revenues.
The group of officials which would
decide the Federal apportionment
would take into consideration the
value of Federal untaxable property;
what the District pays toward the
expense of widening avenues, i'm
proving the water front and other
projects which the Federal Govern
Evening star., 1935-12-10

ment requires for Washington as the
Nations Capital; the specific items
of expense of the various branches OF
police, and other questions.
Earlier in the meeting, the asSocia-
ton adopted resolution opposing any
increase in taxes and indorsing the
Commissioners request for an $8,500,-
600 Federal contribution toward ex-
penses for the next fiscal year. The
resolution pointed out the Federal
Government is taking from the Dis
trict many tax-producing areas.
Roberts declared the mathematical
ratio by which the Federal and Dis
trict shares are supposed to be de-
termined is not fair rule. He said
the rule should be more flexible, SO
that fair and equitable" figure can
be set each year.
A charge that the Executive Com
mittee of the Federation of Citizens
Associations was unfair" in its report
Of the desirability of eliminating GER
tain textbooks from the public schools
because of alleged pro-communistic
SAAhA dSOCl "do AluoC Wy 0COASC W.
Hodgkins, Mckinley High teacher
and chairman of the associations
Education Committee.
Hodgkins declared that certain Sec
tions which the committee chose from
Carl L. Becker'S Modern History" as
appearing to favor communism were
Offset by other sections. He said no
teachers or parents have complained
that students using this text have gone
out of the class room with leaningS
toward communism.
Perhaps the text isn't well bal
anced," he said, "and perhaps certain
statements may be misinterpreted, but
the author is certainly not COM
munistic writer as the committee
charged in its report"
Later, the group reiterated the posi-
tion taken last month in expressing
confidence in the "Americanism and
competence of the Board of Education,
officers and teachers of District public
schools" and urging the cessation of
efforts of some persons and organiza-
tions to spread charges that pro-
communistic teaching is carried on or
sanctioned by any authority in the
schools"
Evening star., 1935-12-10

Candidates for membership in the
Brother and Sister Band of the Wild
owed will meet at pm. Friday in
the Y. w. G. A. for the organization
Of a Washington band, 1t was an
nounced today by Rev. Edward Eells,
organizer.
The first band Of the organization
is in Brooklyn, where it was started q
year ago. Since that time Rev. Eells,
retired Congregational minister,
has been active in promoting other
bands.
The band of the widowed Is sort
of lonely hearts club, but does not
advocate marriage of its members
Rev. Eells explained. 1t is not limited
to the widowed, but welcomes any
person over Is years of age.
Those who attend the meeting Fri
day will be struck by the unusualness
Of the proceedings. All offices in the
band are held by pairs, and here are
some of the titles to which officers
can claim distinction: All-around
brother, all-around sister, brother and
sister penmen, business brother, buSi-
ness sister, tuneful sister, tuneful
Evening star., 1935-12-10
Brother and Sister Meeting
To Put Loneliness to ROut

brother, brother playmate, sister play
mate, scout sister, scout brother.
The playmates have charge of any
festivities held by the band, while the
scouts seek out picnic grounds, q IA
vorite recreation of the sisters and
brothers.
Bands are hourishing in i've States
now and Rev. Eells is still working on
organization. He has been on the
radio in several cities and is known as
"the Cheer-up Man"
Each meeting Of the band is opened
by the singing by the membership of
Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" as
they form a circle and clasp hands.
Evening star., 1935-12-10
Handicap Spurs Eater.

CONWAY, S. c. R.-Storekeeper
s. G. Singleterry bet a customer, Free
man Brown, that he couldn't eat a
pound of cheese and a pound Of
crackers in five minutes. Then he
feared he had made a bad bet. He
cut a two-pound slice of cheese and
added half pound Of crackers. Brown
did not detect the added quantity
and won the bet.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
John Dickinson Takes Post
To Defend New Deal LalUs
Former Young La,c Pro-
fessOr Becomes Assist.
ant Attorney General.
Viii Bear Burden of Sue.
cess or Failure of Vol
untdry Codes.
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Into the Governments fight to de-
fend its New Deal laws in the courts.
41-year-old John Dickinson stepped
today.
The former Pennsylvania law pro-
fessor who has served the administra-
uion as Assistant Secretary of Com
merce assumed the post of Assistant
Attorney General, to which he was
named recently.
With court tests coming on several
New Deal programs, Dickinson, a stu
dent Of constitutional law, is slated
to become an important cog in the
Justice Department machine.
Early Decisions Sought.
The Justice Department says it IS
seeking early decisions on the ques-
tions at issue. Attorney General
Cummings, answering a question by
reporter, said:
cit is the policy of the Department
CT Justice to cooperate in an early
disposition before the Supreme Court
of all pending cases involving consti-
tutional questions"
A. A. A., T. v. A. and P. w. AS
slum- clearance program have all been
sent toward the high court by Circuit
Court rulings in the past few days.
Dickinson has strongly advocated
constitutional amendment as the an
ever to national impotence to deal
Evening star., 1935-07-23
TINY COINS ASKED
TO AID TAX PLAN
Treasury Officials Also See
Tidy Profit Chance in
Suggestion.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The midget coins the Government
proposes to mint will save sales tax
payers money, officials said today. and
also will return q tidy profit for the
Treasury.
Secretary Morgenthau announced
last night that within the next day
or so," Congress will be asked to
grant permission for the creation of
half-cent and one-mill pieces. The
purpose. it was said, was to correct
inequities in sales tax systems which
now prevail in % States.
For example, it was said that most
Of these States have a 2 per cent
sales levy. If a person makes a as
cent purchase, the tax would be a
half cent. But at present there is no
half cent coin, and so. in many in
stances, a full cent is collected.
Profit in Seignorage.
The profit to the Government will
be in the form Of seignorage. Last
year coinage Of 1-cent pieces alone
netted the Treasury a profit Of
$3.50, 900. There would be less return
on half-cent and mill (one-tenth of
a cent? pieces, but mints can turn
out even these coins at profit.
Morgenthau denied that the Treas
ury's decision foretold Federal sales
| tax
The new coins may be Of copper,
but Morgenthau was not prepared 70
say this definitely. The mill coin will
be the smallest denomination ever
minted in the United States.
If the plan goes through the mints
will face busy times. Even without
such added work they had one OF
their busiest years in the fiscal H.
month ended June 80.
Minted 60S,414,207 Pieces.
The domestic coin output was sos,
4l4,207 pieces valued at s39,131 ,l27
In addition the mints produced 68,-
| 500, ,401 pieces for several Latin Amer
ican governments.
Morgenthau said President Roose-
velt had approved the plan. In dis
claiming plans for Federal sales tax
the Treasury head was backed by
other administration spokesman, in
cluding Chairman Harrison of the
Senate Finance Committee. 1t was re-
called also that both the Treasury
and Congress have made q special
study of means of avoiding overlap
ping taxes and that sales levies already
are employed widely by the States.
The use of the half-cent pieces was
discontinued in 1857.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
VETERAN FIREMAN
ORDERED RETIRED
Battalion Chief II. F. Mcconnell
to Leave Service July 81 After
80 Years on Duty.

Battalion Chief II. r. Mcconnell, q
veteran Of 80 years service in the
District Fire Department, was ordered
retired today by the Commissioners
His retirement Is effective as Of
July 81.
Chief Mcconnell, who has been in
charge of the first battalion, with
headquarters at No. IL Engine Co., has
been in Ill health for several months
He is 50 years old and resides at 1888
Trinidad avenue northeast.
Three citations for meritorious
service have been given Chief McCon-
nell. He was decorated for work at
the Knickerbocker Theater disaster In
1922, and for services at the Kann
warehouse fire in 1925.
He was appointed to the depart
ment in 1895 and was promoted to O
lieutenancy in 1904. He was made q
captain in 1904 and won the rank
Of battalion chief In 1922.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
COMBINES FORCING
RUBBER PRICES UP
Market Manipulated by Union
of 95 Per Cent of Worlds
Producing Areas.
RY the ASsociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Manipulated by an international
combine OF 95 per cent of the worlds
rubber producing countries and COL
onies, according to the Commerce
Department, the price of the COM
modify continued its steady rise to-
day.
From an average of 1144 cents a
pound in March, the figure today had
reached 12.52 through stringent ex-
port control by nine countries -
eight of them Dutch, French and
British colonies. Siam is the only
Independent nation in the price pool
The other members are British Malay
Dutch East Indies, French Indo-
China, British India, Celon, Burma,
British North Borneo and Sarawak.
The rubber-producin sections out
side the pool, organized as a success
sor to the Stevenson rubber pool plan
are the Philippines and other Far
Eastern lands, Africa, South America
and Mexico.
Commerce officials said that in
operation the plan simply consisted
Of the countries joining together to
regulate rubber prices by the simple
expedient Of refusing to allow it tc
be shipped out.
Evening star., 1935-07-23

with the most pressing problems Of
modern times"
The Federal Trade Commission is
Just beginning to set up codes to re-
place the defunct N. r. A., and the
anti trust division of the Justice De-
partment, under Dickinson, is ex-
pected to bear an important part in
their success or failure.
Charged With Responsibility.
President Roosevelt has charged the
Justice Department with responsibility
for holding the new voluntary codes
within the antitrust statutes.
Under the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, interstate industries are allowed
voluntarily to form codes Of fair prac-
tice, but the codes, once formed, be-
come binding on the industry. Wages
and hours agreements, ruled out by
the Supreme Court, will depend on
cooperation among industrialists.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
Hx the Associated Press.

6y the ASS0C1ebed Hress.
TULSA, Okla, July 23-The inven-
tive genius which enables man to
search 10000 feet underground for
oil also is providing new safeguards
to protect him fron. the forces he
unleashes.
The wild wells and disastrous oil
and gas well fires are becoming ever
more rare.
In the past year at least two
methods of preventing unrestrained
fiow of gas and oil have been per-
fected, and for third development
is claimed the abidry to choke of
wild wells and well fires when they
do occur, before life and property is
destroyed.
With these in use oil men say
there might never nave occurred the
great oil well fire il Rumanla that
killed more than 100 persons and
burned for two years until Myron
M. Kinley Of Tulsa quenched 1t in
1893.
The famous Wild Mary Sudik well
Of the Oklahoma City pool, tnat
spurted out of control and wasted
hundreds of million cubic feet OF
natural gas and thousands of bar
rels of high-grade OH in 1880, may
never have gone astray
Similarly, scores Of other costly fires
In all oil-producing areas might have
been prevented.
While admittedly rot fool proof,
the new methods help
One provides the drilier an accurate
picture Of what Ii taking place In the
hole several thousand feet under
ground as the oit bites into the pro-
ducing horizon BY rejecting gas pres
sure. As pressure risec to the danger
point he increases the weight Of
Evening star., 1935-07-23
PRIVATE POLICE BLAMED.

Miss Perkins Believes Withdrawal
Would End Strike.
BY the Associated Press.
Belief that withdrawal Of imported
private police by the Columbia Enam-
cling Co. would clear up the Terre
Haute, Ind, general strike was ex-
pressed today by Secretary Perkins.
"I believe that If the enameling
company would withdraw these so or
so men brought In from Chicago, the
general strike could be cleared up al
most Immediately" Miss Perkins said
at her regular press conference.
The Labor Department chief con-
ferred by telephone this morning with
Gov. Paul McNutt of Indiana.
Miss Perkins delayed the departure
Of Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec
retary and ace mediator, for the In
diana city until further reports were
obtained from G. L. Richardson and
Harry Scheck, department mediators
already working on the strike.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
WIFE Staying LAID
TO GIRLS REMARK.
17-Year-0Id Told Man to
Go Drown HimseIf-Freed
of Blame.
By the Associated Press.


WORCESTER, Mass, July 23.-
Seventeen-year-o Esther Magill,
designated by authorities as the "un-
conscious reason" for wife murder
and absolved of blame, said she told
Newell P. Sherman, "in polite way"
to go drown himself.
Sherman, q fellow employe in tex
tile machinery factory. who is held
in the death Of his wife, was quoted
as answering:
II won't, but maybe some one else
will"
Drowned Saturday Night.
Sherman's wife, Alice, was drowned
in Lake Singletary at Sutton Saturday
night. Assistant District Attorney AL
fred Cenedella said Sherman con-
fessed killing her.
Several times he asked If I would
marry him if his wife was out of the
way" Miss Magil related. Il told
him last May that I would have moth
ing to do with him, but he kept ask
ing me to meet him at this or that
place.
II have been in his company at
times, but his mother or wife always
was around. When / got to know his
wife she invited me to her home, and
we frequently met at different af-
fairs.
Trouble at Home.
"He told me he was having trouble
at home, but thought 1t was only
family arguments.
II never believed they amounted to
anything until he began asking me il
would marry him if his wife was
out of the way.
Il told him he was foolish and to
forget it,"
Evening star., 1935-07-23
Man Develops Control Means
For Wild Oil Forces He Frees
T,Do Methods of Restraining Flo,U and
One of Choking Off Uncontrolled
Production Are Perfected.

fluids used in drilling, thus holding
the two in equilibrium.
The second, called washing in" to
complete wells, is method of clean
ing foreign matter from the hole,
under equalized pressure, until the
gas and oil are started into CONNER
cial channels.
And now a Tulsa inventor has COM
pleted a giant hydraulic clamp with
which he claims wild wells, If they
do occur, may be pirched in without
permanent damage tc property by a
workman operating simple valves at
a safe distance from the potential
fire demon.
Evening star., 1935-07-23

Miss Perkins Assailed by Camden
Mayor, Addressing Strikers.
CAMDEN, N. J., July % Up.-The
New York Shipbuilding Corp. re-
opened its yards today to admit work.
ers no longer in sympathy with the
strike. Minor clashes occurred, but
no one was hurt.
Estimates Of the number of mer
who returned to work varied, the com
pany placing the figure at $50 and
tie strikers reporting 800. The usua
force is about 1900.
Strikers announced the picket line:
would be maintained.
Mayor Frederick Won Media of Cam.
den told the crowd at the gates thai
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkin!
was two timing" the workers b.
doing nothing until the last min.
ute"
1t was "her business" to settle the
strike, he asserted, but "the trouble
is that we've got shoemakers making
hats"
The secretary last week proposed
that the men return to work under
the old agreement for a year and ar
titrate all disputes. The workers
sgreed to the plan but the company
turned it down.
PRIVATE POLICE BLAMED.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
PLAN Of INITIATION
IN TAX BILL FOUGHT
Borah's Disclosure Draws
Farm and Democrat
Opposition.
Rv the Associated Press.

Senator Borah's disclosure Of ef-
forts to tack $4,000 100000 of infla-
ton legislation onto the administra-
tons tax bill has brought quick no
tice of opposition. not only from DEM
ocratic leaders, but also from some
farm State Senators.
II think it would be a sad mistake
to put either the Patman bonus bill
or the Frazier-L -Lemke farm mortgage
lefinancing measure Chose mentioned
by Borah) on the tax bill because It
would defeat that BILL" said Senator
Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, who
is sympathetic to both the bonus and
farm proposals.
Ignorant of Conferences.
While the Idaho Senator was in
sisting these two issues would have
to be met before an adjournment and
that the strategy had been decided on
as a result Of numerous conversations
recently, Norris said he did not
know of any conferences"
Even Senator Frazier. Republican,
of North Dakota, co-author with Rep
resentative Lemke, Republican, OF
North Dakota. Of the bill to refinance
the farm debt with $4,000. 900 900 Of
new currency, conceded this measure
would have a better chance ION its
own merits" He said, however, that
if the House did not take up the pro-
posal he would offer it as an amend
ment to the tax measure. Only eight
more signatures are needed on a Pc
tition to force q House vote on the
bill.
Session Till November 1 Seen.
Borah's statement, which included
a forecast that Congress would be in
session unit! November / because OF
the imitation issues, drew this state
ment from Senator Robinson Of Ar
kansas, the majority floor leader.
IT do not think these measures
should be attached to any bill as
amendments. If they are to be con-
sidered they should be treated sep
arately and I do not see how they can
be taken up and disposed Of this ses-
sion"
Backing up Borah was Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat, Of Nevada, one OF
the 46 signers Of a petition framed by
Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Okla
homa, for transmission to President
Roosevelt, asking a speeding up OF
silver purchases until the price
reaches $1.29 an ounce.
Evening star., 1935-07-23
MRS. DUCHIN IGNORES
SOCIAL STATUS RUMORS
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, July 23.-Exile from
the social register isn't worth wor-
rying about" Marjorie de LOssey Oel-
richs Duchin, prominent New Yorker,
said yesterday when she arrived with
ber husband, Eddie Duchin, piano
playing orchestra leader.
Mrs. Duchin said she had heard
rumors her name will not be included
In the next edition Of the register.
TITS too bad" she smiled, but ]
much prefer to be happy than be in
the book. Why, I'm even planning to
help Eddie with his music"
Duchin, widely known In popular
music circles, Is the son of a drug
store owner. He married Miss Gel.
sichs several months ago.