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Evening star., 1935-07-21
Steam DOOmS Famed Fleet
Sailing Vessels That Follow Salmon
Yield to More Modern Ships.

The ships often raced against each
other on both the voyages North and
South.
In 1928 the Star Of Falkland was
q total loss after she went aground
in Unimak Pass. Other fates have
closed the active careers Of other
Stars" rs steamers faster and big
ger were substituted for them.
Long-Iost Crew Found.
The Star Of Iceland left for the
Orient with Japanese crew late in
June, 1921, and was not heard from
Until November, when the crew was
taken OF suffering from beriberi and
malnutrition after luckleSs voyage
In 1918 the Star Of Lapland, one
Of those now awaiting the trip to the
Junk yard in Japan, made speedy
run to Australia with q training
crew, logging an average of 146 knots
q day for 81 days.
The Star Of Alaska and the Star
of India were sold to become marine
museums. The Star Of England wa
taken over for a South Seas scientific
cruise venture in 1882, but ran intC
legal dtfhculties. The Star Of Green
land became q Swedish training shir
in 1929.
Capt. Charles A. Watts and a crew
Of 70 men will take che Star of Zea-
land to Japan this Summer as soor
as she is loaded with scrap iron. The
veteran Of so years at sea looks for.
ward to the voyage as lust a yacht.
ing trip"
The old ship, built in Bath, Me, II
1901, is still sound, he says.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
ARMS BLAST FATAL
Many Killed Near Istanbu1 in
Munitions Dump Explosion.

Munitions Dump Explosion. :
1STANBUL, July 20 R).-Many
persons were reported dead tonight
in a terrific explosion at munitions
dump near here.
A considerable area around the
dump was badly damaged, and resi-
dents in the vicinity fed In panic.
1t was the second explosion at the
munitions plant within a month.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
CHESTER BANK H0LD-UP
is BLAMED ON KARPIS
Public Enemy No. ! Engineered
Robbery From Detroit, Po-
lice Head Says. : --

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.-Belief
that the 5000 hold-up of Chester,
Pa, bank was engineered by Alvin
Karpis, Americas public enemy
No. l." was expressed today by James
Davenport, chief of Chester police.
Davenport said he based his belief
on the fact that he had traced q
number Of telephone calls from
Chester to Detroit, KarpS home
town, during the last week.
"Karpis probably didn't take part
in the hold-up," the police chief said,
but I firmly believe his mob pulled
the job, aided by Philadelphia con-
federates."
He pointed out that Karpis stole an
automobile in this section to escape
westward after shooting his way out
Of an Atlantic City hotel early this
year.
Federal agents aiding in the search
would not comment on Davenport s
theory.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
Early Movies Rot in Cellar
Priceless Records of Great Industry
Filed Away in Dusty Obscurity.

rolls now stacked in the darkness OF
the Library cellar are probably show
ing in one of the several penny ar
cades operating here in Washington
certainly there is the famous scene
of the faxed knockout Of one Sam
Zip by that pioneer Bowery playboy
Chuck" Connors.
Camera studies and classic poses Of
such one-time stage land often latter
screen) favorites as Neva Aymar
Blanche Brooks and Grace Whiting
lie in untagged bundles on the cellar
shelves. There is that toast Of hei
day, Olga Nethersole. as Sappho
for example, and her much-photo-
graphed form draped in Grecian robes
to portray statues Of the golden age
Norma TaImadge, Too.
There are countless picture series
mostly dated between 1895 and 1908
sent in for copyright and later usec
to illustrate the colored slides fea'
tured when tenors of the time sang
their songs in the airdromes and
store shows of Washington and else
where. (Do you remember Ton
Moore's ballad, ''Dirty Hands? Bott
Norma Talmadge and Mabel Normanc
lent their prettiness to these slide'
once upon time.
In the real graveyard, however, q
hastily constructed, brick-walled vault
within the cellar room are the actua
early films themselves and the paper
and celluloid records of pioneer pro-
ductions.
Hers are strewn packing cases, some
of them lately cleaned and repacked
filed with films sent in from every
corner of the country, their labels
torn, their containers sealed by rust
One large wooden box, with lie
thrown back, reveals dozen bundle!
of stereoscope cards, recognizable a!
views of the Chicago Worlds Fail
period. What age, damp and genera
inclemencies of weather whipping
through a nearby open window have
left of other bundles troop Of ter
mites have eaten into jig-SaW Silhou
cites prohibiting any accurate identi.
fication.
In the vault one may find 9TH
Kingdom of Human Hearts," a film
of early vintage sent for copyright, il
a makeshift tin receptacle now only {
pile of rust. THE Turn In the Road
crumbles to dust in the fingers. 4
Zola masterpiece in celluloid has lail
untouched for quarter Of a century
ArbuckIe Farce Included.
In one corner, ceiling high, ar
stacked Keystone comedies in pape
reels-positive pictures, not negativ
films, the form once used for deposit
ing them. Grimy and somewha
frayed are "Fatty's Tintype Tangle,
an early Arbuckle farce; "The Canno1
Ball." one Of the first films In whicl
any extensive trick photography as W
know it today was attempted, anc
Dirty Work In a Laundry"-comedie
you laughed at long ago.
Somewhere, perhaps, in this pile o
dust covered silence may lie canned
copies of those most shadowy shapes
"Othello,'' made in 1902; Romeo an
Juliet" filmed in 1908, and Shake
speare's first appearance on the screen
or Queen Elizabeth" one Of tn
earliest films starring "a stage actres
of worldwide fame, Sarah Bernhardt
(who had chosen the late Lou Tellegel
as her leading mani. Or, it is possible
there lies the piece responsible for tn
decision in the later copyright law,
one-reel version of "Ben-Hur," mad
in 1907, advertised as positively tn
Evening star., 1935-07-21

the most priceless records OF a great
American industry-moving pictures.
BY law, all motion pictures must be
deposited for copyright in that division
of the Library before their sale or dis
tribution. Before a famous Supreme
Court decision in 1911, the question
of copyrighting photoplays, as such,
had not come up. What had passed as
movies" were copyrighted in some in
stances, but only as photographs"
and filed away with snapshots and
ordinary kodak likenesSeS.
It was the right of the Copyright
Division to keep the pictures II 1t
pleased, or make whatever disposition
of them it saw fit. Not having ade-
quate storage space, the division fell
early into the practice OF returning the
copies of films deposited to their
claimants. Since 1912 this has always
been done. Before that date, however,
many pictures were kept, many never
claimed. Thus, a hodge-podge Of film
dom history has become a permanent
part of the Copyright Division
archives.
New Quarters to Be Taken.
With the completion of the annex
to the Library of Congress the Copy
right Division will move into new
quarters, occupying almost the entire
ground floor. The old graveyard"
will be swept clean, its contents re-
moved to more exhibit-worthy, fully
air-conditioned vaults.
In the meantime, and since the
passage of the ruling which says that
two copies of all publications" sent
in for copyright must be filed with
that division, their particular muSty
cellar storeroom became a sort OF
Noah's Ark. The section wherein were
housed the music, photograph and film
records degenerated into really for
gotten glory hole" of the ark. Much
of the material there dates as far back
as 1884; no date later than 1926 was
noted in this subsurface prowl.
Piled 10 feet high in a gloom
heightened by 35 years of accumulated
siftings of the city's atmosphere are
row upon row of shallow shelves. Min
gled with mangled sheet music OF the
era of Paul Dresser and scores OF the
huge tin pancakes which were the
records" of an older generations
music boxes are literally thousands OF
stills" of the stage and screen stars
of an almost forgotten day.
Earliest Movies in Storage.
On one shelf are rolls Of pictures.
each a square, positive print fastened
securely to a patented collar. These
were the movies Of time just follow
ing the earliest Edison kinetoscope-
the "peep-show" Of the 1905. These
rolls were the loading for mutoscopes,
the machines which exhibited a pack
of cards, or wheel of cards; bearing
pictures, and present a long sequence
of action when one turns crank on
the side of the machine. They were
the first product of the later famous
Biograph company, which brought the
names of Mack Sennett, Mary Pick
ford, the Barrymores, the Gish girls
and D. w. Griffith, among others, into
screen ANIMALS. All the Pickfords-
Lottie, Jack and Mary-once appeared
for the Mutoscope's Pickering film
rolls.
After long oblivion here in the ark
these crude, two minute precursors Of
Hollywood extravaganzas are still IN
excellent, though soiled, condition. AS
a matter of fact, prints of these same
Evening star., 1935-07-21
U. S. BANKER SOUGHT
French Police Hunt Him After
Institution Closes.

MARSEnLE, France, July 20 R.-
Police, armed with q court order, to-
day sought B Coles Neidecker. Amer
lean head of the Travellers Bank in
Paris, which has been closed for
three days without authority.
The police said a yacht left here
yesterday for an unrevealed destina-
ton, but they were unable to learn
whether Neidecker was aboard. Au-
thorities have ordered frontier guards
to have Neidecker return to the
capital for questioning.
Evening star., 1935-07-21

a epicS IN SAL Is petns "iIIVcn
A n at q loading dock in the Oak
land estuary here.
When it is completed, the last OF the
great sailing feet Of The Alaska Pack
ers' Association, which for Some 50
years made annual six-month voyages
for salmon, will be broken up.
One of the ships, the 332-foot steel
bark, Star of Zealand; soon will set sail
for Japan, carrying q load Of scrap
iron, and there will be junked. Three
others of the famous Star boats will
follow her. The Star Of Finland, how
ever, is expected to be preserved as q
maritime museum.
Steam caused the fade-out Of the
feet. which numbered more than q
score Of sail, 1t reached the height OF
its glory in the first IS years Of the
century.
Hundreds Made Trip.
The sailings Of the packers ships
lorth in March or April Of each Spring
and the return in the Fall, their holds
jammed with cased salmon, were
events in San Francisco for many
years.
Hundreds Of men were carried
North each year for the fishing sea
son. The feet, made up Of barks and
full-rigged ships, cruised even into the
Bering Sea. The return was made OF
the end Of the canning season.
Heroic episodes in the vigorous life
now are hidden in the old log books.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
CHINESE RESENTFUL
OF LIN'S MARRIAGE
Foster Father, President, Is Re-
ported Ordered to Take Re.
taliatory Measures.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. July 20.-The vernac-
ulsr press today published with evi-
dence Of extreme displeasure reports
from the United States Of the marriage
Of Miss Viola Brown Of Columbus,
Ohio, and James Lin, foster son Of
President Lin Sen.
There were indications o major
political crisis would be precipitated.
Newspapers stated the government
has virtually ordered the President to
take retaliatory measures against the
youth.
The aged statesman has secluded
himself on Kuling Mountain near Kiu-
Kiang, refusing to discuss the affair.
An uncle, James Lin, at Kuling.
said young Lin was to become head
Of the Lin family, but that his mar
riage in America complicated the
succession.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
TWO SHOT IN BELFAST

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, July
20 [R.-Two persons were wounded
tonight In another outbreak Of reh-
gious disorders that have taken seven
lives during the week.
The city, tense after an unidenti-
fed glnman's shots caused an after
noon stampede, was startled this eve
ming by general firing in the trouble
torn area.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
SHIPYARD STRIKE CHIEFS
GIVE PLEDGE OF PEACE
Camden, N. J.. Leaders Predict
None to Enter Plant Re-
opening Tuesday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. j., July 2o.-Strike
leaders, predicting mot man will
enter the gates Tuesday" when the
New York Shipbuilding Corp. pro-
poses to reopen its plant said today
the workers will be ordered to respect
the unions peace policy.
Thomas j. Gallagher, chairman of
the strikers Negotiations Committee,
said I'VE will make sure to avoid
violence. for we appreciate that would
damage our position"
He said that while a few union
men might want to return to work
under company terms, they are too
yellow to pass through couple Of
thousand pickets"
The men may be asked to decide
Monday night on the proposal Of Sec
retary of Labor Frances Perkins to
end the 10-week-old strike, he added.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
RITCHIE BOOKS BERTH
ON BOAT FOR EUROPE
Will Be Accompanied by Law
Partner on Six-Week Jour-
ney Abroad.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 20.-Former Gov
Albert c. Ritchie has booked passage
for Europe on the Baltimore mail
liner, City of Havre, to sail from here
August 8.
Under present arrangements, off,
cials of the line said, Ritchie will be
accompanied on a vacation trip OF
about six weeks by Stuart S. Janney
his law partner and former chairman
of the State Board of Welfare.
Evening star., 1935-07-21
SEVEN FIRMS HALT \
COLLECTION OF TAX
Cotton and Hog Processing Lev
les Restrained in q. S. Court
Iniunctions.

By the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, July 20.-Three
Georgia cotton textile firms, and one
concern dealing in hogs, today were
granted temporary injunctions re-
straining w. e. Page, collector Of In,
ternal revenue, from collecting proc
Cssing taxes from them. IN.
The three mills were given Temporary
injunction preventing collection Of the
cotton processing tax, and L. Scharf
and Co. Of Augusta, temporary order
against the hog processing tax. -.
The orders will be effective only II
the firms post bonds or arrange Sc
curity to cover past due taxes. and
pay to the court each month an
amount Of money equal to the taxes.
Que for the month, to be held until
final adjudication Of the case. ~
A new suit was filed today while
hearings were in progress. The AL
bany Peanut Co. Of Albany, Ga, at
tackled legality Of the $40 ton tax on
peanuts.
Two other suits against processing
taxes were filed by Atlanta woolen
mills, and by social circle mills. 49,
BOSTON, July 20 CP}.-Three
Massachusetts, textile companies to-
da,' obtained Federal court injunc-
tions to prevent william NJ. welcbs
internal revenue collector here, from
collecting more than half a million
collars in cotton processing taxes un-
til a final decision is reached on the
constitutionality of the tax. 80
Evening star., 1935-07-21

A LAMEDA, Calf. E1.-The last
n chapter in one Of Americas
~ epics in sail is being written
n at q loading dock in the Oak
Evening star., 1935-07-21

N VOW rotting away in dusty OBJ
nj scurity in what is referred to
VI as the graveyard" of the Lii
l. brary Of Congress, lie some Of
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
N EW HOUSING
PLAN BEING
DRAWN UP
international News serrIce

international News Service
A new plan for Federal aid in
Slum.clearance, low.rent housing
is expected to be devel lope d
through legislation in the coming
Congress.
Instead Of the Federal Govern
ment providing all of the funds
for such projects, or making loans
to limited dividend corporations,
legislation to authorize housing
on loan and grant basis is being
worked out.
Senator Wagner CD Of New
York is drafting one measure
along this line, PWA Admins
traitor Harold L. Ickes said today.
Another measure, introduced by
Representative Ellenbogen CD
Of Pennsylvania at the last ses-
sion. but which was "loSt" in the
shuttle of legislation, still is pend
ing, and is expected to be revived
at the coming session.
Backs Wagner Bill
The money that has been put
into housing would have gone
three times as far If the program
could have been conducted on a
loan and grant basis" Ickes said.
''I am very strongly in favor Of the
Wagner bill. 1 understand he has
a revised bill which I have not
yet seen"
The PWA housing program was
first launched on a basis Of max
ing loans to limited-dividend corpo-
rations. Seven such projects were
launched, and all of these are now
occupied. This was found unsatis-
factory, however, and under IckeS,
the housing division of PWA
launched a program of all-Federal
projects.
While none Of these have been
completed. several are nearing
completion; one, lockwood, at
Atlanta. is partly occupied, and
contracts for all have either been
let or bids have been called for.
Would Aid Cities
IF Chicago, New York. Pitts
burgh, or any of the other cities
could come in and ask for a hous-
ing project on a loan and grant
basis" Ickes said, I'VE would be
glad to sit down and work out
plan with them. However, none
were in financial position to do
1t when this program started.
I'VE had to go ahead and use
all Federal funds. If and when
cities can apply on a loan and
grant basis, we will be delighted
to cooperate with them"
A number Of cities have set up
housing authorities. but State
legislation is needed in most States
to authorize housing programs,
according to PWA officials. Many
OF the State legislatures meet
after January l next, however,
and housing legislation is on the
program for several, it is said.
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
AID TO COTTON LAUDED

New York Cotton Exchange, just
issued.
The way has been opened to
the offering Of large supplies Of
American cotton in world markets,
on a price parity with foreign
growths and hope has been re-
vived that the increase in for
eign production will be checked
and foreign markets for American
cotton will be recaptured.
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
Calvert ST. Bridge
Rites 10 Go on Air

Arrangements for a radio broad
cast of the Calvert Street Bridge
dedication exercises were COM
pleted yesterday. The ceremonies
will be picked up by WMAL and
Washingtonians will have an
opportunity to hear THE March
of the Calvert Street Bridge" COM
posed for the occasion by l4-year.
old Marie Gay Owen.
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
N. Y. FLAG LAW IS PASSED

NEW YORK, Dec. II (U.S).
The board OF aldermen Of New
York yesterday unanimously
passed the Strand -Curran ordi.
nance requiring the display of the
American flag at all public meet
ings given over to the discussion Of
political questions.
The ordinance was introduced
as a direct result Of the failure OF
Communists and Socialists to dis
play the flag at a joint meeting
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
Society Of Metals
Invites D. {. Visitors

Visitors are invited to the third
meeting Of the Washington Chap
ter of the American Society Of
Metals at the Garden House Of
Dodge Hotel next Monday eve
ming. Joseph Winlock. research
metallurgist. will talk on Draw,
ing, Stamping and Forming Sheet
SteelS."
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
BuIitt TO Report on
Interpreter Spy

The State Department yesterday
instructed Ambassador Bullitt at
Moscow to investigate the case of
Zakhary S. Mikhailoff, reported
sentenced to be shot on a charge
Of espionage.
Mikhailoff, an interpreter, had
been employed as a secretary in
the Moscow Bureau Of Interna-
tional News Service. He is a Rus
sian.
The department requested Bull
lit to rush his report to this Gov
ernment, which will determine
whether to intercede in Mikhai.
lofts behalf.
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
American 10 Marry
VisCount BorodaIe

LONDON, Dec. II CU.S0.
Mrs. Dorothy sandes, an
American prominent in Lon
don society, and Viscount Boro-
dale, elder son Of Earl Beatty,
will be married shortly, the Lon
don Daily Express today stated.
Earl Beatty was Britain's Sec
ond in command at the World
War naval battle of Jutland.
The Washington times., 1935-12-11

In Madison Square Garden on No
vember 81.
Aroused by reports that com
munistic doctrine was openly
preached in the auditorium Of
Washington Irving High School
on Monday night, DR.. George J.
Ryan, president of the Board Of
Education ordered an investiga-
ton.
The meeting was under auspices
Of an organization called "Ameri-
can Friends Of Soviet Russia"
The Washington times., 1935-12-11

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Modifi'
cations of the Government pro,
gram for assisting the cotton grow
ers, by encouraging the planting
Of a larger acreage and the re-
duction of the loan value, have re-
suited in a definite improvement
in the outlook for the American
cotton trade, according to a re.
view Of the trade contained in the
eighth Cotton Year Book Of the
The Washington times., 1935-12-11

The ideal outfit for the spare bedroom,
comprises Walnut Or Maple Finished Poster
Bed, Spring and Mattress Walnut or
Maple Finished Chest and two Pillows.
The value at this price is hard to Duplicate
The Washington times., 1935-12-11
3l-Piece Kitchen Group

Beat this value if you can! Consists Of
5-piece Breakfast Set with drop-Ieaf Table
and Four Chairs, 25-pc Decorated Set Of
Dishes and four-burner Gas Range with
oven. Worth nearly double this sale price.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-04-12

new transcontinental highways, is
suggested in ten-point program for
handling unemployment work relief
advocated by organized agriculture
and laid before President Roosevelt
by Edward A. O'Niel, head of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
Out of the $4,SSO, 100000 public works
and relief bill fund, the recommends
lions submitted to the President call
for an additional $15O,OO0,000 for a
nationwide rural electrification pro-
ject to be handled jointly by the Blu
reau of Agricultural Engineering, the
Tennessee Valley Authority and the
extension divisions of the state uni
versities.
For rural school facilities and
maintenance in the less favored Sec
tons of the country, together with
more adequate funds for the land
grant colleges and other agencies, the
farm organizations are asking $500, =
100000. The administration of the
fund would be placed with the Bureau
of Education, for general education,
and with the Department of Agricul-
ture, for the land grant institutions.
An additional sum of $150,000,O00 is
being sought for the establishing of
experimental plants to expand indus
trial uses of farm products such as
starches, oils and fats, industrial al
cohol, etc., under the joint supervision
of the Department of Agriculture and
the AAA.
$5O,OO0,O0O is asked for the develop
ment of farmers markets and coopera-
tive processing and distributing plants
This item, Mr.. O'Neil explained, is
being sought as answer to the sharp
increase in distribution costs through
out the country which, he alleges, has
all but wiped out the recent gains to
farmers under the AAA.
A national land policy to remove
marginal lands from production and
to corrolate the same with the Adjust
ment Administration, comes in for an
additional $2OO,OOO,OOO in the Farm
Bureau recommendations and an equal
sum is being sought for nationwide
program of soil erosion control.
Alleging that many of the past