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Evening star., 1935-07-30
POLICEMAN J. P. DAY
ORDERED DISMISSED
Trial Board Recommendation Up
held by Commissioners; Charged
With Drunkenness.

Policeman James p. Day. formerly
of No. IL precinct, today was ordered
dismissed from the Metropolitan Police
Department by the District Commis-
Sioners.
Day was recently convicted by the
Police Trial Board of appearing in
court under the influence Of liquor
Day had been q member of the force
since September, 1890, and had been
before the Trial Board three or four
times previously on intoxication
charges.
The Trial Board recommended the
dismissal and was upheld by the Com
missioners.
At the same time the Commissioners
concurred IN the dismissal OF Police
man Halla L. Dali, who was charged
with being chronically In debt.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
4|lHOUR POSTAL
BILL CALLED BACK
McKeIIar Moves to Kill
Amendment DisIiked by
Department.
By the AssocIated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Because Of an amendment to which
he said the Post once Department
objected. Senator McKellar, Democrat
OF Tennessee yesterday moved for re-
consideration Of the postal 40-hour-
week bill after 1t had passed the
Senate. The bill has passed the
House, but McKellar's action will delay
its transmittal back for action on
changes made in the Senate.
The amendment to which Mcclellan
objected was offered by Senator
Byrnes, Democrat, OF South Carolina
and Supported by Senator La Toilette,
Progressive. OF Wisconsin. to prevent
discrimination against railroad mail
employees on the new high-speed
trains.
1t would provide an eight-hour day
for 254 days year for such employees,
or annual mileage Of 44,450 miles on
lines up to 35e miles long and annual
mileage up to $4,000 on lines more
than $50 miles long.
In order TO provide a 40-hour week
for postal employees the bill would
authorize giving them compensatory
time of for work performed on Sat-
urdays.
The committee reported 1t would
cost a maximum of $22 900 900 a year
and would permit employment of
about 10000 of the $4,000 substitute
employees, reducing the substitute roll
to about 5000.
The committee reported that the
Postmaster General believes that
there will be ample revenue during
the next fiscal year to pay Of the
change in the reduction Of the work
ing week from A hours to 10 hours. I"
Evening star., 1935-07-30
OLD COUPLE SAVED
IN $1,000 BLAZE
PoolesviIIe Post Office De.
stroyed-BuSineSS Sec
ton Threatened.
By a star Correspondent of The Star.

By stan correspondent OF Inc star.
POOLESVILLE, Nd, July 0.-The
lives Of two persons were saved In O
fire which destroyed q century-old
building housing the local post ofice
early today, and threatened for time
to sweep through the adjoining struc-
lures of Poolesvilleis business section
Three volunteer companies battled
the mysterious blaze and managed to
conf1ne the flames to the building
after q fight of several hours. Damage
was unoficially placed at approx
mately $1,000.
Old Couple Saved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry White, an aged
couple who retired only yesterday
from their Dickerson farm and estab-
lished q residence in the structure.
were asleep at the time but escaped
unharmed after being aroused by a
neighbor who was awakened by the
reflection Of the fire.
Their furniture, clothing and other
possessions were destroyed.
Scores of people who live in the
immediate vicinity Of the post of1ce
fed to the streets In their night
clothes. fearing the blaze might spread
to their homes. after they were noti-
fed BY Mrs. Charles KohlhoSs and
Miss Dora Hall.
Weakened by Flames.
Mrs. Kohlhoss and Miss Hall were
awakened by the roar of the fire and
the flames reflection on their bed
room windows shortly before 2 o'clock,
and telephoned for help and aroused
their neighbors.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Fannie williams,
who lives next door to the Whites, was
aroused in q like manner and ran to
the old couples home and found them
asleep.
Mr.. Kohlhoss and other residents
entered the burning building and
saved a number Of sacks of mail and
post office equipment. A burning
door fell on Kohlhoss, burning his
face.
Firemen from Rockville, Gathers
burg Washington Grove and Silver
Spring responded to the alarm and
poured water into the building from
booster" tanks mounted on their en-
gines, but the fire had gained too
great headway and they concentrated
their efforts in saving adjacent homes
and business establishments.
In addition to the post office and
the Whites home, the fire also de-
stroyed the equipment in barber
shop which Oliver Soper conducted IN
the building until few days ago and
the Whites smoke house In which
more than 1000 pounds Of meat and
many bushels Of potatoes were stored.
Origin Of the fire was undetermined.
White. who has moved with his wife
into the home Of his son, Edward
Luhn, said that $50 which he had In
q trousers pocket and s35 which his
wife had placed under their pillow
likewise was lost.
Evening star., 1935-07-30

MS 1eet on Lne grOund or over MS
head in the frog pond. 1t is quite
possible, as things now shape up, that
he will find himself on the other side
OF the pond and in the backyard of
his neighbor Japan.
Opinion in United States.
Opinion in the United States In
these days Is inclined to wonder why
we ever kept the Philippines after
Spain ceded them in the Treaty Of
Paris, December 10. 1898.
The Filipinos had been fighting for
independence for several years before
Spain and the United States got into
war. dose Rial, the national hero,
had been executed. and Aguinaldo
was a voluntary exile in Hongkong,
but the inevitable freedom was only
temporarily halted. II the United
States had left them alone they would
have had independence, or a sort
satisfactory to them, AZ years earlier
than the date now fixed
Getting colonies still was the style
In those years, and the Orient was
the only place where there was much
to get. The United States never went
into 1t very seriously, just a passing
fad like nah jong, walrus mustaches
and bicycles, but she had the Philip
pines on her hands as a result.
Lesson Taught by Girl.
One evening, about Is years ago,
after walking across the mountain
provinces, with their awe inspiring
rice terraces. I was sitting on the
porch Of the government rest house
In Bontoc. I had heard about the
education Of the Igorotes, though
the Sunday market of edible dogs still
fiourished in Baguio; of the head
hunters son who had been taken to
the United States by an American
Army captain and returned to be a
leading physician in the islands and
to work among his own people, and
Of the better living standards of other
tribes. Reports told only of success.
Inspectors. responsible for making a
mountaineer clean his hut, told of
failure.
A village girl. wearing only the
skirt which is a complete costume
for the mountains, came up silently
and sat in the shadows of the edge
Of the veranda. She spoke English as
good as that spoken by any child of
her age in an American school. proof
of her diligence. for she also spoke
her tribal tongue.
Wants to Go to States.
Are you going back to the United
States?" she asked.
And can you take me with you?"
she continued when I replied that
was.
What for?" I inquired.
"I want to work there"
why don't you work here?"
What can I do?" she wanted to
know. Il went to school, learned all
I could and graduated at the head Of
my class But here there is no work
where can use what I have learned.
All I can do is to marry a native boy
60 out to live in the mountains in a
hut and in a couple of years be dirty.
old and hopeless I've seen SO many
always the same. Why was I taught
to hate the life which I must hve?"
Possibly book learning, fiuency in
English, rules of sanitation and other
essentials Of our civilization do not
suffice to make life useful and con-
tented for people who must live under
other conditions.
(To Be Continued
(Copyright, 1895. by the North American
EeWSpaper Alliance
Evening star., 1935-07-30
MRS. L|DDELL WINS
TO COUNTRY
Husband Fails to Bar
Daughter of Late Lord
ReveISt0ke.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK July 30.-An attempt
by Capt. Guy NJ. Liddell to bar entry
of his wife, the daughter Of the late
Lord Revelstoke. to the United States
fell short today when Q special board
of inquiry at Ellis Island decided she
was within her legal rights in coming
to the United States.
Divorce Suit Pending.
A suit Tor their divorce IS pending
In England. and under English law
1t was stated. the husband has right
to bar entry OF his wife If she leaves
England without his permission.
The wife. Calypso Barring Liddell,
arrived yesterday on the French liner
Normandie and, at the request Of
Capt. Liddell, was taken from the boat
to Ellis Island. With her were her
four children-Peter, 8; Elizabeth. q;
Kuno, S, and Mary, 4.
Lands Under Re-entry Permit.
The inquiry board permitted Mrs.
Liddell, who has an estate at Rumson,
N. j., to land under q re-entry permit
for six months, but the entry of the
children, who hold no permits, was
stipulated as temporary.
She Is the daughter of the former
Marie LOrillard Of Tuxedo Park, N. Y,
who married the late Lord Revelstoke.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
TWO LONG TIME FRIENDS
FIGHT DUEL WHEN DRUNK
Refuse to Believe Story They
Battled With Guns, but
Admit Beer Orgy.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, July 3o.--Two men, long
time friends, awakened in jail yester-
day and refused to believe police who
told them they fought a duel with q
shotgun and rife.
A dozen calls came to headquarters
shortly after midnight that there was
shooting at the home Of Harry Cox.
When patrolmen arrived they said
they found Cox barricaded In the
house firing o rife IN the general di-
rection Of Leonard Fitzgerald. rs,
who had built himself d "fort" OF
trash cans In the alley.
Police said that when the men
awakened in jail they related they
had been on . mountain trip Sunday,
drank some beer and could recall
nothing that occurred aftsr thak
Evening star., 1935-07-30
OKLAHOMA TOWN
ASKS BANKRUPTCY
Once Rich Oil City Owes $442,-
600 on Bond Issue, With
No Resources.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla. July 30-Hope-
lessly in debt-its income vanished
and its population dwindle6 to barely
400-Wynona, once one of Oklahoma s
bustling oil boom towns. filed bank
ruptcy proceedings in Federal Court
yesterday.
The city owes $4,000 on a bond
issue sold Is years ago and has not
paid cent to retire the principal.
There is not dime in the treasury
and not a cent in taxes has been paid
this year.
Wynona's heyday was during the
World War. In the center of oil
soaked Usage County, money flowed
like the black crude from which it
came. The city grew rapidly to a
population Of $500 and bonded itself
for a water and sewerage system.
Then the oil flow was exhausted.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
DISEASE SURVEY
FUNDS ALLOTTED
Chronic Illness Study Is
Granted $3,450, ,0OO-Cash
to Projects Limited.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today allotted
So, $50 900 Of work-relief funds to the
Public Health Service for a survey of
chronic diseases.
Surgeon Gen. Hugh 8. Cumming
estimated the three-fold study would
give a years employment to $500
whitelcollar people now on relief rolls.
His statement said it would include:
/. A house toulouse canvass in Sc
lected urban and rural communities to
determine the prevalence of long
standing illnesses among the rich, the
poor and middle-class families.
2. Physical examinations in a small
number Of instances to check the ac-
curacy Of the canvass reports.
3. survey Of medical facilities, par
ticularly for chronic diseases.
State Funds Limit Set.
Meanwhile a $500, ,00O, 900 limit was
reported clamped by the administra-
ton on work-relief funds available for
State and local public works.
If carried out as disclosed by high
onicials, the program would represent
a S400, ,000, 900 slash in the 5000 900 900
originally contemplated for non-Fed-
eral P. w. A. projects.
The tentative decision conceded with
| an announcement by Secretary Ickes
that $50l, ll4,24s in local applications
had been filed with State p. W. A.
| directors. OF this total, S5s. .262 .672
had been approved and forwarded to
Washington.
At the same time, Harry L. Hopkins,
works progress administrator. an
nounced adult education classes-de-
signed to provide work for needy
teachers as well as an opportunity for
self-improvement to grown-ups-would
be continued under the work relief
program.
Twelve hundred teachers are to at
tend Summer schools in preparation
for classes to be resumed in the Fall.
and Hopkins estimated that 1000 900
adults-not necessarily from relief
rolls-would take advantage of the
academic and vocational training.
2,000,00O Adults Aided.
Hopkins said that at a cost Of S2l.-
0l4,220 during the past. two school
years. work had been provided $4,000
needy teachers who instructed 2,000.-
900 adults and 1000 undergraduates
children Of destitute families.
Although relief funds were advanced
to few States for payment Of rural
teachers, Hopkins said that in general
he avoided use of Federal funds for
the regular public school system Test
local initiative in supporting schools
be broken down, or employed people
thrown out of jobs in order to give re-
lief teachers their places
Under the works program" he
added, "the same policy will be applied
so that the emergency education pro-
gram will supplement and not sup
plant school facilities and personnel"
Five types Of instruction are Of
fered: General education for citizen
ship. classes in reading and writing
English with understanding" voca-
tional education, rehabilitation Of the
physically Handicapped and nursery
schools.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Industrial Upturn Fools
Economists--Autos
Lead in Production.
BY PAUL MALLON.


A CONSPIRACY of nature appears
" to be fooling the economists.
a They thought this was going
a to be an unencouraging Sum-
mer. Their only hope has been for
Fall. But it seems that every time
their pessimism is about to be real
iZed, something unchartable and un-
expected arises to Offset their dreary
calculations.
You can get the best idea about 1t
If you will look behind what has
happened lately in steel. Three weeks
ago every one was expecting a sharp
slump. During the July holiday
week, ingot operations were down to
one third of capacity Nothing en-
couraging was in sight. Then. with
out advance notice, operations began
to pick up until the rate got up to IS
per cent, and remained there. ct
was only 40 per cent in June)
The only explanation of this phe-
nomenon was that fabricators under
estimated their demand. They have
been working very close to their mar
gin on stock Unexpected orders
started them to work unseasonally.
The orders came from automobile
makers, residential construction. ma
chine tools, all somewhat unexpected.
Depression Influence Removed.
The riddle may not be as hard to
solve as economists believe. The fact
is that the depression influence has
been removed from the business mind.
In its place has come an alert con-
servatism, a tendency to underesd-
mate expectations, to keep stocks of
goods to a narrow margin, an eager
ness to go after business actively at
first sign Of demand, instead of re-
naming frozen in fearful restraint.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Taken From Sheriff.

LOUISBURG, N. c., July 80 R).--
Sweat Ward, colored ak slayer Of G. j.
Stokes, Franklin County farmer. was
taken from Sheriff J. T. Moore today
by q mob of rs men who headed with
the man In the direction Of Hayes
vile township, scene Of the Staying.
The sheriff's ofiice was informed the
sheriff and Deputy T. P. Bean. who
were taking the Negro out Of the
country as o precaution against vio-
lence. were halted 10 miles from here
and the Negro taken from them.
The mob was reported to include
both Negroes and white men.
Ward killed stokes and decapitated
him with an AK this morning when
the farmer sought to calm the Negro
who had attacked q Negro woman
and another farmer, Sturgeon Ayscue,
IN what apparently was mad frenzy.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
1925 equals 100.)
Autos Near End Of Run.

Autos are now getting near the end
of their run, but they have been hold
ing up well. All figures from Detroit
show activity and optimism in prepa-
ration for the start of new production
in August. One notable factor is that
this is the biggest year for trucks
since 1929, indicating again that busi-
ness itself is a buyer.
A steel trade publication recently
carried q line that Henry Ford has
sent out an inquiry for 10000 to 140,-
900 tons Of steel. the largest such in
quiry in several years. Incidentally.
Ford will exceed his promise Of mil
lion cars this year,
There Is not much else to brag
about in production. Textiles are
mixed; tobacco strong; machinery
strong.
Evening star., 1935-07-30

Proof that people have money and
are spending it may be found in sales
figures. The department store figures
represent only city buying, but the
rural figures are even better. A Sears
Roebuck statement for the four weeks
ended July Is showed business 40 per
cent above last year. It was the best
business for that period since 1929
Good shopping weather and crop pros
poets were responsible.
The 2 per cent drop In pay rolls
since May and 4 per cent de-
crease In employment may be
blamed partly, but certainly not
entirely, on the breakup of the
N. r. A. codes. In fact, some Co..
ernnrent economists doubt whether
the codes had anything to do uith
it. They base their conclusion large
ly on the fact that figures on hourly
rates OF tDdges haze shoWn no such
decrease. Also the figures on produc-
tton are not collected from the
same industries as the figures on
employment and pay rolls, Uiich
may account for some discrepancy.
In general, the Government author
tiles believe the larger industries have
lived up to their promise to maintain
code standards.
Incidentally. there is no indication
that prices have been affected by
breakdown of the codes. In fact, a
slight increase has been noticed in the
prices Of finished products.
The better building contract figures
are due to accelerated residential
building, which is about double what
it was year ago. All privately
financed residential work has ex-
panded. There is very little p. w. A.
in the figures. All sections Of the
country show this encouraging in
crease.
copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1935-07-30
Congress s1in Brief
- =
TODAY.

Senate:
Continues consideration of miscel-
laneous bills.
Finance Committee begins tax hear
ings.
Lobby Committee inquiries further
into Associated Gas d Electric sys-
TENS activities.
House:
Votes on Mississippi River Levee
setback bill.
Rules Committee continues lobby
inquiry.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will not be In session.
Finance Committee will hear Sec
retary Morgenthau on the tax bill.
House:
Speaker Byrns hopes to get tax
bill up for consideration.
Special committee. headed by Rep
resentative Patman Of Texas, to
continue price.dxing study.
Evening star., 1935-07-30

In other words, a better business
feeling is itself sustaining business,
for no other particular reason.
The figures on industrial production
for the last four months show that
this major index of activity has pre-
cisely followed normal seasonal fiuc-
tuations on a plane about IS per cent
of uormal Q923-25). April, June and
July were exactly IS and May IS.
You can get the long trend from
the following chart of Government
figures. Each figure represents the
percentage Of normal at the times
stated. All figures except prices are
based on ls23-25 averages as 100;
prices are based on 1925.
Evening star., 1935-07-30
BY yUNTUS .. WOOD.

BY JUNIUS d. WOOD.
MANILA, p. I. N.A.N.A).-Before
our ship had tied to the pier. nimble
Filipino reporters from the Manila
newspapers were aboard, asking
the perennial question: What is
your opinion Of Philippine independ-
ence?"
Every person, or people, has the
moral right to independence. though
few agree what independence is" I
replied. "You can govern your coun-
try and maintain its institutions
That is comparatively easy. But a
country of l3,000, 900 inhabitants is
a small nation compared to those of
America. or Europe. or your approach
ing neighbor, Japan. International re-
lations may not be as easy for the
future and their economic aspects al
ready are q pressing problem which
it may be impossible to solve as you
wish"
All Agree With Answer.
That Is not repeated to prove any
uncommon political acumen. but, on
the contrary. to show that the conse-
quences of Philippine independence
are so self-evident that anybody who
gives two minutes thought to the
subject would say the same. Also,
the question shows that the Filipinos
are not too sure of the answer them
selves. The surprising thing. unprece-
dented IN national affairs, is that all
saw here agreed on the answer.
Later / talked with Gov. Gen.
Frank Murphy, who speaks for the
administration in Washington: Sen
ste President Manuel L. Quezon, who,
for two decades has led the vociferous
younger Filipinos" under the banner
of independence; Senator Sergio Os-
menya, the less voluble but equally
known battler for the same cause {;
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. who was
fighting for independence before the
United States ever dreamed that the
Philippines would fall into its hands.
and to a hundred others. both Fill
pinos and foreigners. whose lives are
q part of the Philippines.
Their phraseology and facts varied.
but all summed up to the same thing.
Many were pessimistic, a few were
optimistic, but none expected that
independence would work out without
trials and hardships to the Philip
pines. The Filipinos must overcome
them Other nations are more inter-
ested in the coming changes in the
world map which independence will
bring.
May Land In Japan's Back Yard.
Sometimes smiling. but more often
calling names at the United States,
the Filipino has climbed out farther
and farther on the end of limb.
1t was a good. stout limb, firmly
rooted In the front yard of the big
Nation on the other side OF the Pa
cific, and he was quite safe. Then,
suddenly, the United States, in q year
OF general pruning and grating at
home. handed him a saw with the
order to get busy. He does not know
whether, when he finishes his saving
at the end of 10 years, or even earlier,
If the limb breaks, he will land with
Evening star., 1935-07-30
I PACKERS FILE
PORK LEVY SUITS
Temporary Injunction to Be
Asked Against A. A. A.
Collection.
BY the Associated Press.

1 BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 80 Seventeen
meat packing companies today were
| ALIGNED with many of the Nations
leading -four producers against Fed
eral processing taxes. collected under
the agricultural adjustment act.
The packing firms yesterday began
suit in United States District Court
against the validity of processing taxes
on pork. Today they planned to ask
temporary injunctions against Gov
ernment collection of the levy until
the validity of the act was decided
by the courts.
Many Flour Suits Filed.
Suits against flour processing taxes
primarily based upon the same argu-
ments of constitutionality, have been
filed in many district courts during
recent months. In several cases in
functions have been granted.
The movement of the packers ot
the worlds largest meat-production
center against the taxes included suits
by two of the Nations biggest firms
Swift & Co. and Armour. Altogether
more than 440 injunction suits have
been filed in recent weeks.
The suits here affected current as
sesaments against the II firms eSti-
mated by the plaintiffs at $35, ,000. 900,
the approximate amount the packers
sought to withhold from collection In
the actions.
Six Arguments Used.
Six arguments are set forth against
the validity of the tax of $2.25 hun
dred pounds of pork. The represen-
tations on which the constitutionality
Of the act is attacked were:
Regulation Of production Of agri-
cultural commodities subject to tht
A. A. A. Is in contravention of State
rights; processing taxes were imposed
solely for the benefit of a particular
class, the producers; the act is vio-
lation of the fifth amendment of the
Federal Constitution since the ia,
takes the property Of one class for
payment Of gratuities to another class;
legislative power is delegated to the
Secretary of Agriculture without fix-
ing clear and adequate standards; the
tax is unconstitutional because nc
judicial review Is provided; and the
production of agricultural commodities
is not interstate commerce.
TARIFF is ATTACKED.