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Evening star., 1935-01-13
Pet Bills Clog House Hopper
TOPleaSe ''FOlkS Back HOme''
Tuo Measures Gro,cing Out of Civil
Var Are Among 1890 Filed With
Various Committees.

introduced only one bill-a measure
providing for wild life conservation.
In the present Congress, he says, he
does not propose to drop one bill in
the hopper with his name on it.
Byrns isn't bashful, exactly, but he
does not believe 1t to be the duty OF
a House leader to take credit for
sponsoring legislation.
For that'reason he proposes to ad-
here to a policy of giving all admin
istration bills to the committee
chairmen to sponsor. For instance,
a bill relating to banking and cur
rency would go to Chairman Steagall
for introduction: Chairman Palmisano
of the Education Committee would in
trcduce any educational legislation,
and Chairman Connery would handle
all 30-hour- week bills and other leg
islation relating to labor.
Palmisano's Senatorial Rise.
Speaking of Palmisano, his rise from
bartender to Congress. and thence to
an important committee Craftsmanship
has been nothing short of sensational.
Palmisano was born in Italy Just
about the time he began to talk his
parents brought him to America, and
settled in Baltimore. At the age of
II he went to work in a paper box
factory, and advanced from that point
to bar room, real estate Office and
finally to Congress.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
STOKES IS ELECTED
BY CORRESPONDENTS
Will Head Committee for House
and Senate Press GAL
leries.

Thomas L. Stokes, Washington cor
respondent of the New York World
Telegram. was chosen chairman OF
the standing committee of corre-
spondentS of the House and Senate
press galleries at the semi-annual
election yesterday in the House press
gallery.
The standing committee controls
the congressional press galleries, and
is composed of newspaper men repre-
senting newspapers and press asso-
Citations of the entire country.
Stokes, by virtue Of receiving the
greatest number of votes cast. auto
matically became chairman. Four
other members were elected to the
standing committee out of seven
candidates.
More votes were cast in this years
election than the preceding one two
years ago, which up until that time
was one of the most spirited ever
held. Serving with Stokes on the
committee will be Paul j.. McGahan of
the Philadelphia Inquirer, Harry B
Gauss of the Chicago Daily News, Will
P. Kennedy of the Evening Star and
William K Hutchinson of the Inter-
national News Service.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
McLeod's Win Labors.

Representative Mcleod, the youthful
appearing member of the House from
Michigan. who manages to make the
newspaper headlines despite his Re-
publican faith. has been unwittingly
cheated out of some well-deserveo
publicity
For five days Mcleod struggled
writing bill designed to take ap-
point;nents In the postal service COM
pletely out of politics. Just as he went
to introduce it, the newspapers the
country over emblazored the fact that
Senator Vandenberg. another Michigan
Republican, had introduced a bill in
the Senate to achieve the same pur-
pose.
Mcleod put in his BILL anyhow
But all the newspapers did was to say
that Representative Mcleod has in
troduced a bill patterned after the
Vandenberg measure.
Vandenberg got the glory and Nc
Leod just a paragraph.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Already the House hopper has been
clogged with private billS-bills that
affect only an individual or two but
which mean so much to the folks back
home and especially to the member
who introduces them
In less than two weeks of the new
session 1890 of these so-called private
bills have been introduced, printed
and filed with the various commit
teeS-Some of them never to see the
light of a committee hearing or be
distinguished with place on the
calendar. But that does not stop a
member from trying to please the
folks back home-sometimeS bill
means a vote at election time when ii
is needed, and, sometimes, a whole
family of votes.
At any rate, in this crescendo of
1890 private bills, two have bobbed
up that have some special historical
significance, particularly here in the
East where We take our early history
seriously.
Tobacco Damages Sought.
One of them came from the Office
of Representative Burch of Martins
vile, Va, where the Civil War has
not given way to the depression as
the chief topic of cracker barrel con-
versation.
Mr.. Burch wants Uncle Sam to pay
the heirs of Reuben Ragland of
Petersburg, Va, for a quantity of
tobacco Union soldiers seized at Will
mington, NJ c., in 1865. The sum
asked is S28,588.58. with interest at 6
per cent from April %, 1865, the date
the tobacco was sold at auction in
New York City by order of the Treas
ury Department.
incidentally. all this tobacco was of
the chewing variety, and S28, $685.
was the amount it brought on the
auction block. There were 223 boxes
of Virginia Navy W" cut plug and
316 drums of "R Ragland Twist"
1t seems that Ragland, who owned
all that tobacco. fought for the Con-
federacy, and under special amnesty
order was pardoned by President An
drew Johnson July II, 1865.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
PEOPLES LOBBY HEARS
TALKS ON SPECIALIZATION

Two speakers yesterday at the lunch
con of the Peoples Lobby at the Cos
mos Club discussed Specialization of
National Resources, Banking and
Transportation" The addresses, by
DR.. Lewis l.. Lorwin Of Brookings In
stitution here and Prof. Henry Pratt
Fairchild of New York University,
were broadcast.
Speaking on natural resources, DR..
w. Jett Lauck, consulting economist,
in explaining that industry was unable
to govern itself with due regard to the
public interest, advocated the purchase
and operations by the Government of
coal, timber and oil lands, to eliminate
profteering.
Prof. Fairchild, speaking on trans
portation, declared that all tranSporta-
ton should be a Government subsidy,
while Benjamin C. Marsh, executive
secretary of the Peoples Lobby, as
serted the country's banking system is
inadequate to meet present economic
needs.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
SORORITY WILL INSTALL
Kappa Delta Phi to Establish
New Chapter Thursday.

Kappa Delta Phi Sorority, the ma
tional non-scholastic sorority. will in
stall a new chapter in Washington
during a banquet at pm. Thursday
in the Mayfower Hotel The new
unit will be known as the M Beta
Chapter. with Miss Helen Little as
president and Miss Helen Lewis secre-
tary.
Installation of the chapter will be
under auspices Of the NJ Alpha Chap
ter of Washington, Of which Miss Mary
Emery, the national president, is a
member
Charter members and officers to be
installed are Miss Virginia Fox. Miss
Hilda Eyerman, Miss Eleanor Rob-
inett, Miss Cecilia Keats and Miss
Winifred CorWin, all of Washington.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
JUDGES TO NAME
POSTER WINNERS
Bal Boheme Contest Will Be
Decided at 5 P. NJ. This
Afternoon.

With a larger number Of entries
on hand than ever before, Judges ap-
pointed by the Arts Club were to be
busily engaged today in selecting the
winners of its poster contest for the
annual Bal Boheme to be held at the
Willard Hotel Monday night, February
4. Names of the winning artists will
be made public this afternoon at S
o'clock.
The poster contest closed yesterday.
Entries poured into the Bal Boheme
Office, located in the Arts Club at 2o15
street, all day and several hours be-
fore deadline there were nearly 200
in. The posters were placed and made
ready for the judges last night by
Miss Harriet Garrels, chairman of the
Contest Committee, assisted by Mrs
Susan B. Chase, Clifford K. Bergman,
Robert LIE Fevre and Charles A. r.
Dunn. The judges are Miss Leila
Mechlin, well known Capital art critic;
Louis A. Simon. supervising architect
for the Public Works Administration
and Henry F. Hubbell, portrait painter
Of Miami, Fla.
The judges will name three place
winners. The winning artist will re-
ceive s25, while second and third
prize winners will receive SIS and
two tickets for the Bal Boheme, re-
spectively.
There will be an exhibition of the
posters entered in the contest at the
Arts Club beginning Monday and con-
tinuing a week. The theme for this
years Bal Boheme is ''in the Orient" Z"
and the posters were drawn to best
portray this idea. After the exhibi-
tion, to which the public is invited,
the posters will be placed on display
at the various hotels, shops, clubs and
other places in the city announcing
the Bal Boheme.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Leper Treatment
OF Methylene Blue
Found Successful
Hopes of Cure aroused
by Experiments in
Tahiti Colony.
BY the Associated Press.


PAPEETE, Tahiti, January Ia
Highly beneficial results have been
obtained in the leper colony of Orofara.
Tahiti, with use Of methylene blue
injections says q medical report in
the journal oficial Of the French
establishment in Oceanic"
So encouraging have been the ef-
fects of the treatment for one month
upon ten subjects that all l22 lepers
in the colony have demanded the same
treatment.
DR.. Dias, medical captain in charge,
said that in all cases treated there
had been definite amelioration, dis
appearance Of pain due to degenerat-
ing tissues and subsistence Of leprous
LESSONS with ulcers in process Of cic-
atrisation.
While it is impossible to say yet
that definite and permanent cures
will be effected, Dias stated there Is
possibility of Transforming very rapid
ly a contagious leper into one Of nom
contagious type.
One per cent solution of methylene
blue is injected twice weekly in doses
commencing at 10 cubic centimeters
and increasing gradually to 25 cubic
centimeters, at which figure they are
maintained.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

never interferes in the internal affairs
of any country and the disinterested
friendship His Majesty's government
has extended to the King of Siam
will be extended to whatever form of
government might be set up in Siam.
Sir Josiah Crosby, the British
Minister at Bangkok, does not speak
against the japanese; this would be
a poor policy in the East. He merely
points out to the Siamese what the
Japanese are doing to their friends
and asks them to look into the history
OF the former independent empire Of
Korea. today Japanese province.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Another Civil War Bill.

Representative Lewis of Maryland
put in the other bill, which also has
background of Civil War history.
On November II. 1864 there was
a little naval vessel called the Tulip
on its way up the Potomac from Nor
folk to have her boilers repaired. But
her boilers wouldn't last for the jour-
ney. and exploded off Raggedy Point
in st. Marys County.
There were 81 officers and men
aboard at the time. Only II sur
vived. The bodies of the 40 others,
when recovered, were buried in st.
Marys County, not far from the
scene of the disaster.
In the intervening 70 years the
bodies have been forgotten. The
burial plot is covered with under
brush and trees.
What Mr.. Lewis wants Congress to
do is to appropriate about $4,000 to
clear away the underbrush on the
burial lot, buy it and erect there a
modest monument.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
SPLIT IN UTILITIES
CONTROL LOOMING
Administration May Urge
Legislation to Separate
Gas-EIectric Units.

BY the Associated Press.
Administration officials may urge
the President to recommend leglsla-
ton to separate natural gas from
electric utility companies.
This information yesterday followed
release by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion of a section of its utilities report,
which suggested the necessity of reg
ulating the use of natural gas pipe
lines that independent companies
might not be deprived of these facili-
ties.
The theory behind the proposal to
divorce gas and electric companies is
to encourage the development of nat
ural gas, which some critics hold has
been retarded because of the joint
control of these resources by COM
panies predominantly interested in
electricity. The Presidents Power
Policy Committee has the suggestion
under consideration.
THE commission said recent devel-
opment of interstate gas transmission
lines under the control Of unregulated
holding companies and groups of in
terested companies may we'll raise the
DIS W "iiCCliCL oOSAi
should be classed as common carriers
or public utilities and their use made
available to other interests, as well as
those owning the lines"
"At present." the commission add
ed, "the only way an independent
producer of gas can find an outlet is
to sell it to one of the interests con-
trolling the line. -
This is particularly true where, as
in the case of the Appalachian and
Ohio gas fields. production territory
and ownership of principal interstate
and intrastate pipe lines and dis
tribution systems are in the hands
of some one of very small number
of dominant interests"
Evening star., 1935-01-13
CONFERENCE PLANNED

Miss Alice Sewers, parent educatio
specialist. will conduct a parent edu
cation conference at the Rational Ed
ucation Association Building Tuesday
morning and afternoon. The session
Is being sponsored by the District OF
Columbia Congress Of Parents and
Teachers
The sessions will be held from 10
am. to noon and from l:30 to $3.50
pm The program is being arranged
by Mrs. l.. B. Castell, president, ano
Mrs. B. r. Wood, parent education
chairman.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
ENGINEERS BACK
ROOSEVELT PLAN
Council Will Cooperate in
New Work Program
of President.

The American Engineering Council
yesterday adopted q resolution to 60
hand in hand with President Roose-
velt's work program, as outlined in his
message to Congress, at the final ses-
sion Of the three-day convention held
In the Pan-American room Of the
Mayflower Hotel.
The resolution urges that all plans
for rural electrification be placed in
the hands Of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Engineers to assemble the data
and find out how closely this work can
conform to the Presidents plan.
Three noted authorities on engi-
neering problems spoke yesterday.
They were Col. Donald H. Sawyer,
director Of the Federal Employment
Stabilization office, who discussed
the outlook for private construction;
Capt. r. S. Patton, director Of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, who out
lined the mapping program of the
Federal Government, and DR.. Isador
Lubin, director Of the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics. DR.. Lubin described a sur
vey being made by his department to
find out how many engineers wer
unemployed or forced to abandon
their profession for other work durinf.
the so-called depression.
Another resolution adopted by tn
engineer body advocated further de-
velopments along the George Wash
ington Canal as a scenic route an
as a shrine to George Washington
the engineer.
During the meeting 1t was an
nounced that more than 10000 engi-
neers soon would be put to work in
mapping parts Of the United State.
which the Coast and Geodetic Survey
reports have not been completely and
satisfactorily surveyed.
If the plan to authorize agricul-
tural engineers to do the ground work
in the rural electrifleation project is
approved, it was pointed out by lead
ers in the profession that thousands
Of unemployed engineers would b.
put to work.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
This
Changing
World
Saar Holds Perils for
Europe and Burdens
League.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

|HE fever chart of Europe is
going up again; there is an
other crisis in the ofting as a
i result of the Saar plebiscite.
The tension will not be long
because the League of Nations, which
is counting the votes. will make the
results known before Tuesday morn
ing
In accordance with the Versailles
treaty, it is up to the League to in
terpret the result of the Saar voting.
If the vote is Overwhelmingly in favor
of Germany, of course, there will be
nothing more to be said. The Saar
will be returned to the Reich within
a short time.
IT, on the other hand, the re-
union of that district to Germany
obtains only a doubtful majority, say
60 or IS per cent in favor of the
Reich and the rest against it. the
League will have to interpret that
vote, and either decide that only a
part of the Saar shall join Germany
or that the League shall continue to
rule the province for another period
of years.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
ByrnS Avoids Bills.

Speaker Byrns is one of the few
members of the House who doesn't
like to see his name attached to a
bill. In other words, he doesn't like
to father legislation, particularly since
he has been climbing to the top OF
the House leadership.
In the Seventy-third Congress, when
Byrns was the majority leader, he
Evening star., 1935-01-13
SOCIETY. PLANS DANCE
North Carolina Group to Homo,
Congress Members.

The North Carolina Society will OBJ.
serve Congressional night with a re.
ception and dance in honor of the
North Carolina delegation in Congress
Saturday at 9 pm. at the Shoreham
Hotel.
All North Carolinians in Washing.
ton and vicinity have been invited te
attend.
Senators Josiah w. Bailey and Rob-
ert R. Reynolds and the II Repre-
sentatives from North Carolina will
be present.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

lives in England, refusing to return
to Siam.
The British are playing on the
vanity of the Siamese republicans. !"
having invited their officers to the
very secret combined exercises of the
British army. navy and air force at
Singapore. They are telling the pres
ent government that Great Britain
Evening star., 1935-01-13
One Cent a Day
Brings $100 a Month

Over 900,o00.00 in cash benefits
have already been paid to one-cent-
a-day policyholders by the Nation
al Protective Insurance Co., 420
Pickwick Bldg, Kansas City, Mo-,
the Oldest and largest company of
its kind
Their new accident policy, pay
ing benefits up to 500 each month
or 81, 900 to ST 500 at death, is now
being sold to all men. women and
children between the ages of Z and
80 years. The cost is only $3.65 a
year-just one cent a day.
Send No Money
| For 10 days free inspection of
policy simply send name. age. address.
1 beneflciary's name and relationship.
No application to fill out. no medical
examination; After reading policy.
which will be mailed to you. either
return it or send S3.65. which pays
you up for whole year-365 days
Write National Protective today while
offer is Still Observation-Disclosures
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Hitler Holds AlOOf.

! Unless the Interpretation given by
the League is in favor of an i'm
mediate and unconditional return of
| the Saar to Germany, there is likely
| to be trouble.
Hitler has aStutely refused to send
delegate to participate at the next
| weeks debates at Geneva, although
they are concerned exclusively with
the plebiscite question. If the de-
cision of the Council is even remotely
unfavorable to Germany there will
be a hue and cry in the Reich and
the Council will be accused of parti-
sanship. The German government
| will say that Geneva again has
obeyed instructions from Paris and
London and that Germany again was
Disseminated against.
The consequences of a decision un-
favorable to the Reich may be far
reaching and may throw Europe in
another political turmoil.
II there is a cut-and-dried uote
in taUor of Germany the League
UiH haze to announce the return
of the Saar to the mother country
and another cause of trouble thus
uiH be eradicated.
Davis Statement Criticized.
Ambassador Davis statement few
days ago that there is possibility of
reaching a naval agreement this year,
with Japan's participation on the
basis of a building program instead
of the ratio system, has caused much
adverse comment in official quarters
in Washington.
1t is evident that Mr. Davis, who
is a born optimiSt. intended to eX-
tend this olive branch to Japan, in
| order TO provoke favorable reaction
over there. He was induced to be-
lieve that such reaction was possible,
because of the attitude of the Japa-
nese delegates. in their private con-
versations with him, in London.
Mr.. DaUiS' statement Uas cabled
to Toxic, as he expected But the
reaction 1Das just the opposite from
What he ,Danted. The japanese
government and the press con-
strued his unofficial declaration to
mean that this country Was scared
| OF the consequences OF the de-
nunciation of the Washington
treaty and is prepared noW to re-
trace its steps. The leading jap
anese newspapers, tollotping in
structionS from the government,
Immediately declared that only
absolute parity in naval construc-
tions can satisfy Japan. Mr.. Dauis'
statement, it is feared here, did
nothing but to strengthen the
jingoistic element in Toxic.
Bootlegging in Bread.
Bread bootlegging has become a
lucrative business along the Polish
German border. Hundreds of people
cross the frontier carrying white and
black bread into Germany, where
prices are much higher than in Poland.
Thousands of German people, especi-
| ally in Upper Silesia cross the border,
like thirsty Americans went to Can
ada during the prohibition days, take
the opportunity to have good, cheap
meal and to provide themselves at
comparatively reasonable prices with
meat, soap and clothing.
Siamese W00ed.
There is fierce competition be-
tween the British and the Japanese
| regarding Siam. Both Britain and
Japan want to gain strong f00thold
in that country and bring it within
its zone of influence.
The japanese are playing on the
racial feelings Of the Siamese and on
the fact that heretofore the British
have been upholding the autocratic
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Chief, on Warpath,
FOrbids Preachers
In HOOdOOed Jail
''Escape Proof atlanta
Prison Loses Bad Man
With a SalU.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, January 12.-Mad clean
through by affairs in his new Jail,
Chief of Police T. o. Sturdivant today
banned preachers.
Even before things got as they are,
the chief had his troubles-the key
was lost and it was hours before prison.
ers could be let into the structure.
Then fellow, listed as bold, bad
man from Chicago, sawed his way to
the roof and let himself down to free
dom.
That's when the chief grew irritated.
It was advertised as an escape proof"
jail. and here was a man gone scot
free!
Two on Force Discharged.
The result was the firing of two
mem of the force and the suspension
of three others.
That looked like the end of the
matter.
But today colored trusty didn't
return to his cell at the designated
time, but walked off to freedom.
That settled it.
CllC C1llS1 Sdlu oil VlSllOTS
would be barred tomorrow and if pris-
onerS desired religious service they
could do theiy own preaching and
singing.
That's not all
Rules Being Changed.
New rules and regulations about
getting into the place are being formu-
lated, but until they are visitors must
see the chief personally before they
can get in.
The Police Committee of Council
said there had to be a Tightening up,
and so there will be strict regulations
hereafter.
In the old days when the dilapidated
Jail was being used fellow could see
any one he wished at almost any hour.
Nothing so daring was attempted then
as what = being done now.
And the chief is going to sop it or
else.
Evening star., 1935-01-13

Farm Aid to Continue.
Latvia is expected to continue this
year 1t subsidies to farmers.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-05-10
Extension
News Notes
Brief Items of Special Interest
To the Farm Population Of
Big Horn County.

Delegates from Big Horn county
to the District R%ecreational School
at Billings left Tuesday morning.
The school is held on the cam
pus of the Billings Polytechnic
Institute and is under the direc-
ton and supervision of w. P.
Jackson of the National Recrea-
ton Association of America with
headquarters at New York.
Those attending from Big Horn
county are MRS. Uriel King and
Mrs. Ted Dumler, of Community;
Mrs. Kenneth Sadler. of Two Leg
gins; Mrs. C. P. Davidson, of
Halfway: Mrs. Chas. Bennett, of
st. Xavier: Mrs. Jay Cook. of
Foster, and Geo. W. Gustafson. of
Hardin. county agent.
The instruction given at the
school consists of training in
community singing, games, folk
dances and other recreational &C
Invites suited to the rural group
and communities.
Albert Borton. state compliance
agent of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration will address
some of the community informa-
tional meetings to be held in Big
Horn county. beginning Monday,
May 18th, according to word re-
ceived by Geo. W. Gustafson.
county agent.
These meetings are held for the
purpose of discussing the many
agricultural questions incident to
the referendum vote on May 25th
on the question of whether or not