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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
Great Air Fleet Reported
Halted by Storm at Ocean
Haven 500 Miles From
Hawaii.
RADIOS ARE SILENCED
ON ALL BATTLESHlPS
Planes, Participating in Gigantic
War Games, Roared Away From
Pearl Harbor Yesterday and
May Later Go to Aleutian
Islands.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, May 10.-In grim
wartime fashion the Navy today
clamped censorship on all COMMUNE
cation sources to hide the whereabouts
of 46 seaplanes-the greatest feet OF
aircraft ever to make long ocean
flight.
The planes. participating in the
gigantic 1895 war games Of the United
States Fleet roared away from their
Pearl Harbor base yesterday for Mid
way Island, 1923 miles west of Homo
lulu.
Then the Navy halted all CONNER
cial communication.
It was believed the aircraft, to avoid
a storm which swept over Midway,
may have alighted at one of two bar
rem little islands this side Of their
destination.
Their exact whereabouts was known
only to the United States Navy Ships
of the feet, which they might have
Joined, silenced their radios.
With wartime precision the planes
took off yesterday, starting at 7:1S
am. l2:48 pm. Eastern standard
time), in the face of reports of "a
mile wind and rain over Midway
Island
Whether they continued in the face
of these conditions or sought shelter
at French Frigate Shoals, 500 miles
from Honolulu. or at Pearl and Hermes
Reef, 100 miles from Midway, was the
Nays secret.
Raining at Midway.
Rain was falling and 24-mile wind
was blowing at Midway when the
airmen began taking off from Pearl
Harbor at 7:18 am. U2:48 pm. East
ern standard time) yesterday, lending
credence to the belief the planes might
have stopped at some intermediate
point.
There is no means of communica-
ton between here and the Shoals or
Pearl and Hermes Reef, and since
radio silence is maintained al Pearl
Harbor. there is no immediate way OF
determining the air fleets where
sbouts
Ten to IL hours had been estims ted
as the time necessary for the flight to
Midway Island.
The take-off was without hitch,
and despite the silence of officials in
revealing whereabouts of the armada,
there was nothing to indicate any
fears were felt for its safety.
Fleet Believed Contacted.
The changing positions of the IS
ships, as they sped over the trackless
Pacific where no other plane ever had
ventured, was believed known to forces
of the United States Navy, now ma
neuvering in a 100000 square mile
triangle of the North Pacific IN their
1885 war games.
Somewhere in the triangle bounded
by Hawaii. the mainland and the
Aleutian Islands, the 1853 ships of the
fleet are carrying out training prob
lens, of which the flight was only one
phase.
Radios on the fighting craft have
been silent since this mighty force put
to ses from Pacific ports a week ago,
and the exact problems undertaken
will remain official naval secrets.
1t was learned the planes will be
away from here about one month, CIV
ing rise to the belief some Of them
may continue northward from Mid
way to the Aleutian Islands. about
1,700 miles farther.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10

MORRISON, III. P).-Mrs. Eliza
beth Simmons of Fulton, who is past
80. came into Divorce Court to COM
plain that her husband, Matthew,
also more than 80, was cruel. Judge
L. e. Telleen granted her a divorce.
They had been married IS years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
E. W. Howe Facing Knife.

ATCHISON, Kans., May 10 R.-E.
w. Howe. noted editor and writer, will
leave here next Tuesday for Baltimore,
Md, where he will enter Johns Hop
kins Hospital for an operation which
he hopes will restore his eyesight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
MOBILIZATION DENIED.
Immediate Fight Is Forecast il Troops
Concentrate.

Adds ABABA, Ethiopia, May 10
R.-A government spokesman said
today Emperor Halle Selassie will
mobilize his troops when and If Italy's
East African forces advance-and not
before.
The mentality Of the Ethiopian
soldier Is such. the official source said.
that if modified he would not re-
main inactive but insist upon fight
ing and war would be inevitable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
WEATHER.

20. q. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair and slightly cooler tonight and TO-
morrow: gentle west, shifting to north or
northwest winds.
emperatures-Highest 10, at AIS pm.
Yesterday: lowest So, at midnight.
Full report on page A-2O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
Wed rs Years, Charges Cruelty.

Continued on Page 9, Column o.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
SHERMAN TAKES
STAND AT TRIAL
State Rests Case After
"Other Woman" Tells
of InfatUati0n.

WORCESTER, Mass. September q
R.-Newell Paige Sherman, burly
scoutmaster charged with drowning
his frail wife that he might pursue
his love for another, took the witness
stand this afternoon to begin his fight
to escape the electric chair.
Defense Counsel william Buckley
summoned the 240-pound choir singer
to the stand as the first defense wit
ness shortly after the afternoon ses-
sion began.
Buckley indicated Sherman would
deny he confessed drowning his wife
and would testify she drowned acci-
dentally after their canoe had over
turned July 20 at Lake Singletary. in
nearby Sutton.
Defense counsel indicated Sher-
mans elderly mother and neighbors
who knew him all his life would be
among the other witnesses.
Esther Magill, 18, who, the State
Evening star., 1935-09-27

charges, was the unwilling motive for
the crime, testified for more than two
hours during the morning session and
admitted numerous clandestine affairs
with Sherman, in which highball
drinking and automobile petting were
prominent.
Throughout the entire questioning
she refused to answer ION the ground
it might incriminate me" whether she
had more intimate relations with
Sherman than hugging and kissing.
An automobile ride, visit to an
inn, "a couple Of highballs," and a
stop in the car at a side road was the
usual itinerary. her testimony indi-
Gated She said Sherman offered to
get a divorce If she would marry him,
but that she told him she would not
Evening star., 1935-09-27

fense, and commended the Govern
ment for It's efforts to collect out
standing war debts without further
extension or reduction"
Murphy Beats Five Candidates.
Murphy won on the second ballot
over five opposing candidates, Harry
w. Colmery of Topeka, Kans.; Maui
rice Devine. Manchester, N. H.; Frank
D. Rash, Louisville, KY; Villas H.
Whaley. Racine. Wis, and Earl U.
Cliff, Ortonville, MinE.
Then the delegates named Ray
mond A. Gates of Willilnantic. Conn; !;
w E. Whitlock of High Springs, Fla;
Whitney F. Goodwin of Suffolk, Va;
Oscar Worthwine of Idaho and Lou
Probst of wyoming as national vice
commanders.
Rev. Thomas D. Kennedy of st.
Louis was elected national chaplain.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
MURPHY NAMED
HEAD OF LEGION
Iowan to Lead Fight for
Immediate Payment OF
z Soldier Bonus.
Nv the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, September 27.-A tu-
multous convention of the American
Legion ended late yesterday with the
election of J. Ray Murphy of Iowa to
lead the World War veterans in re-
newed fight for immediate cash pay
ment of the bonus.
Today special trains speeded In all
directions from st. Louis, and high
ways were crowded with motor cars.
as the tired rear guard Of the thou
sands who attended the seventeenth
national meeting turned homeward.
In a colorful closing session, featured
by booes, cat calls and marching,
standard-waving delegations, the vet
erans called on Congress to consider
the bonus question without reference
to issues of Government finance or
theories of currency with which the
Legion does not intend to become in
volved.''
Patman Bill DisapprOved.
The action, strengthening the de-
mand made by the Legion at its Miami,
Fla, convention last year, was an en-
phatic disapproval of congressional
passage of the later vetoed Patman
bill. which provided for bonus pay
ment through the issuance OF new
currency
The author of the bill, Represent
ative Wright Patman of Texas, a
Iegionnaire. provoked stormy As
minute debate when he appeared on
10 cnnoly oUoinSt tho
luton.
His remarks barely audible in a
chorus of booes and rhythmic hand
clapping, the Representative pleaded
with the delegates to leave the method
of bonus financing to Congress.
The convention was in a frenzy,
its delegates milling on the floor, when
Representative w. M. McFarlane, also
of Texas, arose and launched into
similar argument.
WELDING his gavel so vigorously that
he broke a table, National Comdr
Frank N. Belgrano, jr., was unable to
maintain order as the heated debate
reached its climax with the plea by
Representative Charles Halleck of In
diana I1OG W TIC lIll1dbiOll vi
around the neck of the bonus"
Shout Bonus Approval.
With a deafening roar. the 1907
delegates, Justify aided by non-dele-
gate Legionnaires, who crowded the
3,600-seat hall to its doors, voted ap-
proval of the bonus demand.
The adopted resolution asked for i'm
mediate cash payment of adjusted
compensation on certificates, cancella-
ton of accrued interest and refund
of interest paid. The controversial
section, subpect of the debate, read:
I'VE request the immediate favor
able action of the Congress, and the
approval of the President OF the
United States, upon this clear-cut and
single issue. without having it COM
plicated or confused with other issues
of Government finance or theories OF
currency with which the Legion does
not intend to become involved"
The bonus stand taken completed
q well defined, broad Legion program
for 1886.
In action at previous sessions of the
four-day convention. the organization
voted vigorous opposition to com
munism, including a demand for
withdrawal of United States recogni-
ton of Soviet Russia; asked Congress
to carry forward and extend meas
ures for more adequate national de-
Evening star., 1935-09-27
MRS. GEORGE W. JOY, IL, |
DIES IN LEONARDTOWN
Services Are Held for Wife of
st. Marys Banker at
CT A1ovciuS Church
st. Aloysius Church.

Sb' <AAoy oAaS ShuANhs
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, September
27.-Requiem mass was held this
morning in st. Aloysius Roman Catho-
lie Church here by Rev Father Joseph
Sheridan Knight for Mrs. George w.
Joy, 70. who died early yesterday at
her home. Towns End, after linger-
ing illness.
She Is survived by her husband,
Prof. Joy, president Of the First Ma
tional Bank of st. Marys County, and
two daughters, Mrs. Horace H. Bowling
of Mechanicsville and Miss Ethel Joy,
county demonstration agent, and by
two sons, George and Harold Joy of
this city; also by brother, George
Joy of Hollywood.
She was charter member Of the
Maj. William Thomas Chapter, D. A.
r.. OF st. Marys County and promi-
nent in the social life of the county.
Interment was in the st. AloySius
graveyard.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
MINISTER CANNOT SUE
M. E. Pastors Not Allowed to
Take Action for Back Salary.

MARION, Ill, September q R.-
A minister of the Southern Illinois
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church cannot, under conference
rules, sue his congregation for back
salary.
A resolution making such a move
possible was rejected yesterday at a
meeting of laymen who are in at
tendance at the annual meeting of
the conference
Evening star., 1935-09-27
RETIRED PRINTER DIES

Julius P. Militzer. retired employe
of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, died Of heart attack yes
terday at his home, 4500 South Da-
kota avenue northeast. He was II.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the residence,
followed by burial in Glenwood Gem
etery.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Frank P. CLANCY, and two sisters,
Elizabeth and Katherine Militzer.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
First Stevenson.

Robert Louis Stevenson's first pub
lished tales. the New Arabian Nights. 4"
originally appeared in q quantity ed
tied weekly which very few read.
Evening star., 1935-09-27

"Moko" Is Tattoo.
Tattooing is "moko" in New Zea-
land.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Federation Presents Flag
to District Commissioners.

EIGHTEEN years ago the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations
presented to the Commissioners Of
the District of Columbia a hand
some silk United States flag. to be
always displayed in the board room
at the District Building. Some
years later the flag became badly
damaged through getting caught in
an electric fan. With the consent
of the Commissioners, the fedora
tion had the flag repaired and
cleaned.
Recently evidences Of age and
disintegration caused the fedora
ton to appoint a special commit
tee to procure a new flag, restore
the staff and the surmounting
eagle, and present the new en-
blem to the Commissioners. That
duty was performed in Commis-
sioner Hazen'S Office on Friday
morning. The presentation was
made by President Thomas E.
Lodge in the presence of the other
Commissioner and officers and
executive members.
It was explained to the "City
Fathers" that there is certain
pathetic significance in the presen-
tation of this beautiful national
emblem by the voteless and un-
represented residents of the Dis
trict. This symbol of our country
has neither star nor stripe for the
District. Its 13 stripes stand for
the thirteen original States. The
beautiful blue field is dotted with
stars for each of the 48 States.
The sturdy staff, supporting the
flag and the bird of freedom" J."
stands for the District Of Columbia
always on the job bearing the
national burdens, but deprived of
participating either in the red,
white and blue or part in the
councils of the Nation. The Dis
trict is always a bearer Of ma
tional burdens, but denied the
benefits of national citizenship.
Beneath the silver shield on the
staff, which tells of the original
flag presentation in May, 1917, a
new metal band has been placed,
inscribed Flag Replaced Decen-
ber, 1885,"
The federation has never been
of the hag-waving type of patri-
otism, but has consistently chung
to the idea that the best and the
most practical brand Of patriotism
is that which is exemplified In good
citizenship and civic service
throughout the 365 days Of the
year.
Evening star., 1935-12-08

operate in the section. These were
put into operation last Summer.
Since joining the association, some
IL years ago, Nair has had a part IN
securing the repaving of Atlantic
street southeast. additional fire alarm
boxes, newer street lights and many
smaller improvements that help
toward the general progress Of q
community.
MY biggest job now." he said hope
fully, sis to try and secure the Oxon
Run sewer"
Nair, an electrician by trade, came
to Washington from Pennsylvania
shortly before the War and moved
to the Washington Highlands section
few years later. residing now with
his wife and two daughters, Roberta,
Z, and Betty Jane, IL. at 1919 First
street southeast.
In leaving. the interviewer was
proudly shown by Nair work shop"
located in the rear Of his home and
back of his garage. Everything per-
tanning in the slightest degree to
electricity was banked on the shelves
and strewn on the floor. Radios, am
pIifiers, public address systems, bat
teries, coils, fuses, ETC., were just q
few of the things that occupied the
space in the small room, q workshop
that Nair spends great deal Of his
time In, amusing himself" with his
electrical companions.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
CITIZENS CREDITED
FOR ZONING WORK
A. U. Park Secretary Says Home
Owners Have Caused Develop.
ment of Residential Section.

The development of American Uni
versity Park has been held to a high
standard only by the vigilence and
determination of the home owners
who reside there, L. T. Savage, newly
elected secretary of the citizens asso-
citation, believes.
"The citizens association" Savage
says, was organized nearly 10 years
ago in order to resist an effort to have
certain blocks rezoned to permit erec-
ton of community or row houses, and
the united spirit displayed at that
time won the sympathy and cooper
alton of the zoning Commission. %
This same spirit achieved a victory
hardly a year later, he says, when
there was an attempt to make Mas
sachusetts avenue from Macomb street
west available for apartment houses.
The extension of gas and electric
facilities, as a result of the associa-
tons work, also has resulted in con-
tinuous development of American Uni
versity Park, Savage says. But serv-
ice and street surfacing we're also
secured through the efforts of the civic
group, sometimes with no little effort.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
KEN|L WORTH AREA
POLICE NEED CITED
Fifteen Men at One Time
Held Inadequate for 80
Square Miles.
wednesday, December II.

With about IS men on each shift
the eleventh precinct patrols about
one-third of the District of Columbia,
80 square miles, sometimes leaving the
residents of that section only three
radio cars to protect them.
Enraged by series of robberies in
the Kenilworth area. members of the
Kenilworth Citizens Association will
send a delegation to Maj. Ernest
Brown, superintendent of police, de-
msnding that some additional police
men be placed in the eleventh precinct,
which covers the territory.
Precinct Largest in City.
This precinct, the largest in the city,
has a personnel of SIS privates, 8 SER
geants, lieutenants and Capt. H. H.
Groves. Since each of the men have
one day of each week, annual leave
and sick leave, sometimes the precinct
has only the radio cars to cover the
vast area.
When large functions are going on
In other sections usually some of the
members of the eleventh precincts
limited force receive special details to
these affairs.
Although some Of the area covered
by this precinct is wooded land, the
citizens feel some foot petrolmen are
needed. Since it covers everything
east Of the Anacostia River and the
station house is located on Nicholas
avenue southeast. some Of the points
are nearly miles from the station.
Since, through economy the District
Commissioners have eliminated some
Of the street lights. the citizens want
some foot patrolmen to make them feel
secure when they walk on the streets
of Kenilworth. The civic organization
is not finding fault with the precinct
commander, however, but with the
''higher-ups" for not giving the pre-
ctnct a SUFFICIENT personnel.
Groves Work Praised.
Capt. Groves received much praise
from the citizens for the effort he is
making to properly police such large
territory with a limited personnel.
When questioned, Capt. Groves said
he needed 1S men added to the per-
sonnel to have suficient policemen to
meet the needs of the precinct.
President Kenneth Buker Of the
Kenilworth Citizens Association sp-
pointed W. r. Driggers as spokesman
for the delegation. A number Of the
business men will also be with the
delegation when they call on Maj.
Brown.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
CITIZENS APATHY
DECR|ED BY STULL
7. J. LIeWeIIyn to Talk on
Calvert Street Bridge
Next Thursday.

The greatest problem confronting
the organized citizen movement in
the District is indifference, Harry N.
Stull chairman, Education Committee
of the Federation of Citizens ASsocia-
tions, believes.
"Too many people are willing to
stand idly by, content that upon their
neighbors' shoulders shall fall the en-
tire responsibility of the community
welfare" Stull declared last week in
a radio address over Station WMAL.
He added 1T is this group of people
that we must address ourselves and
to whom we must sell the idea that
in organization there is strength and
that it is impossible for resident OF
the District to perform his civic duties
by proxy"
Value of Organization.
While some of the local citizens
associations have been in existence
for many years, others have been
formed more recently because of the
urgent necessity for aggressive Or
ganization moves in particular locali-
ties They have all learned, he as
serted, that the most potent demand
is the one that comes from the or
ganized group. District officials and
congressional committee have come
to rely more and more upon the ac-
Evening star., 1935-12-08
Fiscal Equity and Taxation
Exceedingly Difficult Problem.

CIVIC leaders who have special
~ lied on taxation and fiscal
matters recognize the difficulties by
which they are confronted in at
tempting to prepare for the Com
missioners' hearing later this
month. The unknown factors ap-
pear to make the undertaking an
impossible one. Just what the
budget will be in total amount or
how it will meet the Districts urg-
ent needs will continue a dark
mystery until after Congress con-
venes. Then there is no way Of
guessing what Congress will do
with it.
The other unknown element,
which always should be the first
known, is what part Of the ex-
penses Of its National Capital Is the
United States going to pay? The
Citizens Joint Committee on FISCAL
Relations has for years insisted
that "since the Nation is in ex-
elusive control of the raising and
spending of all Capital revenue,
including the District tax money,
the United States is the primary
and the District only the incidental
contributor, and not vice versa, as
the lunp-sum payment plan seems
to assume"
One prominent group spent a
good portion of an evening dis
cussing just what representations
could be made before the Commis-
sioners in response to their invi-
tation. The longer the discussion
continued the more they were i'm
pressed with the utter helplessness
and hopelessness of the Districts
position. The general attitude,
which appears to be In harmony
with community sentiment, was
that there should be no new taxes
or increases of old unless definite
urgent needs could be satisfied in
no other way. There was decided
opposition to the introduction Of
any taxation innovations which
could be used as an excuse for q
further reduction in the Federal
share.
Commissioner Hazen's quest for
Evening star., 1935-12-08
The Advisory Referendum
OF Commissioner Allen.

A BsENCE Of any channel for the
official gauging of local SEN
timent has prompted Commissioner
George E. Allen to draft a bill, for
introduction in Congress this Win
ter, providing for the holding Of
referendum elections In the Dis
trict. Aliens attempt to hold a
referendum on the liquor question
in Takoma in September, 1884, was
defeated by court restraining
order when the "wets" got cold
feet"
The Commissioner, from the be-
ginning of his term, has declared
his support of the proposal for ma
tional representation for the Dis
trict. He recognizes the absolute
American justice of the District
residents being represented in
Congress and the electoral college.
As District Commissioner he has
been hearing the discordant and
confusing requests for the estab-
lishment of policies and the ap-
proval or disapproval of all sorts of
proposals. He believes that the
American way to learn what the
people want, who will have to pay
the bills. is through the ballot box.
The outline of the proposed bill,
as published in The Star, appears
to be practicable and reasonable.
There might be one improvement
in a provision which would give the
citizens the right to have a refer
endum ordered on some particular
question or questions or to require
the inclusion Of some item or items
in q referendum originating with
the Commissioners. It is believed
that the omission Of such q pro-
vision was an oversight on the part
of the Commissioner, who is recog-
nized as q Democrat Of both tho
small and the large Id variety.
A modification Of the kind sug-