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Evening star., 1935-04-15
FLORIDA PROJECT
TO Be TAKEN UP
President Confers With
Delegation on Canal Un-
der P. W. A. Program.

One of the first of the ma jor projects
under the expanded public works pro-
gram that will be taken up by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his allotment ad-
visers will be the proposed building
of free-to-all canal across Florida
connecting the Atlantic with the
Gulf of Mexico by a channel deep
enough to accommodate large vessels.
Assurance of this early action was
given by the President today to the
Florida delegation headed by Sena-
tors Fletcher and Trammell.
According to the Floridians, this
project will cost about SIPS. 900 900
and give employment to $4,000 men
for several years. Moreover. it was
pointed out to the President that
all Of the preliminary surveys and
calculations have been made and
that work could be started at once.
The plan is to build a canal with a
channel 80 feet deep and the estimate
of the advocates OF this project is
that when built it will be Travelled
over by more vessels than at present
20 through the Panama Canal. 1t
was said that this canal would cut of
about 2la days from the present round
trip voyage between New York and
New Orleans.
Senator Fletcher, who acted as
spokesman for the delegation. said
afterward that President Roosevelt ex-
pressed himself as being in full SYM
pathy with the proposal, but was not
yet ready to give a definite answer.
He said Mr.. Roosevelt was thoroughly
familiar with the proposition, but be-
fore reaching a conclusion wished to
confer with engineers and with those
who will assist him in making allott-
ments under the new work relief
Set-up.
Evening star., 1935-04-15

The members of Congress know in
their own minds that this money will
come out of the workers pay en-
velopes. Most of it Is supposed to
come from tax on employers, but
there are only two places for an en-
ployer to get the money to pay the
tax:
QO From cutting his pay roll costs.
and CD from charging increased
prices. 1t is not hard to guess which
method the employer will favor.
Straight on Moley.
To keep the record straight, it
should be pointed out that Mr.. Roose-
velt's adviser. Prof. Moley, had moth
ing to do with the preparation of that
freed blue book The Endorsements
carried in the front of the book were
from editorials Moley wrote in his
magazine. The use of them was not
authorized.
Moley is supposed to be interesed
in the deferred market idea, but
not necessarily in the freed pro-
gram as Uhole particularly
amendment of the securities act).
There is nothing in the story going
around that Al Smith and Hoover are
planning anything political. Their
recent activities may be attributed
solely to the fact that they are en-
ployed by the same insurance COM
pany, at least partially, for the pur-
poses of advertising. Any one who
knows those two men will realize how
difficult 1t is for them to shake hands,
even to advertise their company In
the papers.
The Roosevelt slogan for next year
has already been coined by an attache
at Democratic headquarters. It is
Save the Country from Radicalism." T"
(Copyright 1850
Evening star., 1935-04-15
j. s. DUST RELIEF
PROGRAM PUSHED
A. A. A., Meanwhile, Denies
McCarI Definitely Banned
Payments.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
While Controller General McCarl
wrote a question mark on A. A. A.
plans to pay farmers for a crop-re-
striction program which has been
abandoned for this year. seven Gov
ernment agencies indicated today
they were linking their efforts to COM
bat dust-Storm damage
1t was the damage from dust and
drought storms which prompted the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra-
tion to lift restrictions on Spring
wheat paintings. Declaring they
wanted to avoid shortages, officials
said the formers would be paid for
the abandoned reductions If they
promised to curtail acreage next year.
McCarl has asked for more infor-
nation on this proposal. but A. A. A.
men denied he had ruled definitely
that such payments could not be
made. They indicated an expectation
that the payment program could be
carried through. though with per-
hsps some changes in the arrange
ments.
Agencies Seek Data.
The seven agencies whose officials
indicated they were organizing their
total knowledge and facilities for the
dust relief emergency are:
The A. A. A., Farm Credit Admin
istration Emergency Relief Admins
tration, Soil Erosion Service. Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils, Bureau Of
Plant Industry and Bureau of Agri-
cultural Engineering.
The efforts. officials said, will in
clude shipping feed. food and water
into the stricken areas of Texas, Okla
homa, New Mexico, Kansas and Colo
RADIO. starting work-relief projects on
roads, private lands and the public
domain, pie nting of fast-growing and
hardy crops as ground cover in areas
where moisture conditions permit, and
listing" operations. This latter work
is an attempt to prevent soil blowing
away by making alternate ridges and
burrows.
May Acquire Land.
Meanwhile other officials Of tho
same bureaus we're beginning to map
cut permanent plans designed, they
said. to prevent a recurrence of dust
storms in dry periods.
Primary among these was pro-
gram with the declared aim of perma-
nently acquiring, through the A. A.
A. and Relief Administration, 15.-
100000 acres of land before July l.
Such land will be retired from farm
production to the public domain for
planting to cover crops and forests
and for use as recreation and wild
life areas. The land is classed as
submarginal by Government experts.
since it is in region of small an
nual rainfall.
Meanwhile the Bureau of Plant In
dustry was at work sorting out from
1900 varieties of plants. brought back
from Siberia and Mongolia by
Department of Agriculture expedition
last year. those species adaptable TO
the hot, dry conditions of the drought
area.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
If 1t Rains 80.
These Three Little Words Rule Life in
Dust Bowl of i. S.

Editors note. This is the first
OF three stories surveying the
situation in the dust sector OF the
SouthweSt-ldrge in itself; but
small in terms OF the whole-which
has been swept by a series OF spec
tdcutdr dust storms. IHeu are
written BY Robert Getger, Ascot
ated Press staff writer. who trdu-
elcd through the greater part OF
the dust boUi." The story ne
tound comingles damage and tortt-
tude reminiscent OF the pioneers.
In fact, many OF the farmers he
talked NTH uere pioneers. Thou
sands of acres haze been hit hard.
but ouer many other thousands the
dust clouds caused only annoyance
and more Spring house-clednino.
Damage to Uhedt proodoty runs
into millions, but uhdt part is due
to wind erosion and Whdt to drought
is beyond separation or calculation.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
INQUEST IS HELD
|NH|T-RUN DEATH
Earle T. Lewis of Internal
Revenue Bureau Dies.
Suspect Jailed.

An inquest was being held today at
the District Morgue into the trafic
death yesterday of Earle T. Lewis, A,
OF 53l5 Thirteenth street. fatally in
jured when struck on Naylor road
northeast by an automobile. whose
alleged driver was captured 800 yards
from the scene Of the accident by a
former Maryland prohibition agent.
Lewis. an income tax conferee for
the Internal Revenue Bureau. was
struck as he stood near the machine
Of a motorist to thank the latter for
aid in getting the Lewis car out of
mud hole. He was pronounced dead
As minutes later in Providence Hos
pital, where he was taken in his own
automobile.
Glenn w. Fasnacht 20, Of the 900
block of Eighth street northeast. was
captured by Joseph r. Brewer of Wal
dorf, Md, the former prohibition
agent, who was a witness Of the acci-
dent. Brewer put Fasnacht in his
machine and started for No. IL station
house. En- route. Brewer said. Fas-
nacht jumped out, but was again cap
tured after chase on foot.
Two Other Youths Freed.
Fasnacht was locked up at the sta
ton house pending his appearance at
the inquest. Two youths police say
were with Fasnacht we're temporarily
detained. but released upon order Of
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald TO
appear at the inquest as witnesses.
With Lewis at the time Of the acci-
dent were his wife. their daughter
Phyllis. IS. and Mrs. Lewis niece, Miss
Helen Poff. %, all of the Thirteenth
street address. He also leaves another
daughter, Miss Margaret Lewis, II.
Lewis for many years was one OF
years ago was a member of the IA
nous Royals. More recently he had
aided in organizing teams in the In
ternal Revenue League.
Others Are Injured.
In another accident last night the
] driver OF an automobile failed to
make known his identity after his
car had struck and injured Miss AL
freda Lundin, 81, of $50 Maryland
avenue northeast, near the Academy
Theater. She was treated at Casualty
Hospital for an arm fracture, brain
conclusion and cuts on the face.
The driver is said to have stopped
offered to put Miss Lundin in q car,
and then left the scene.
Others injured in traffic accidents
in the past "a hours we're:
Lillian White, so, of Hysttsville, Md.
who received head injuries when struck
by an automobile in the 500 block
OF Minnesota avenue northeast and
returned home after being treated
at Casualty Hospital, and Julian B.
Wilkerson. Is, of Chevy Chase, Md,
who was treated at Mount Alto Hos
pital for cuts on the face received
when his machine struck a taxicat
in front of the hospital Later he
was booked by police of No. pre-
cinct on charge of reckless driving
and released on collateral.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
Congress in Brief.
By the Associated Press.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Senate.
Meets with three measures ready for
debate-motor bus regulation. Bank
head bill to create farm loan cor
poration and the A. A. A. amendments
Munitions Committee receives Ber-
nard NJ Baruch statement assailing
John r Flynn plan to restrict profits
to 3 per cent in war.
House.
Debates social security bill (noon).
Interstate Commerce Committee
concludes hearing on holding company
TOMORROW.
House.
Continues general debate on social
security bill.
Public Health Subcommittee of the
District Committee resumes hearings
on smoke control bills, 1890 am.
Tomorrow.
Senate.
On the floor: Probably will debate
motor bus and truck control bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee,
beginning hearings on regulation OF
holding companies.
Commerce Committee, bill to regu-
late comerce and firearms, 1890 am.
Judiciary subcommittee, hearings on
Senator Blacks lobby control bill, IL
am.
Naval Affairs Committee, routine
business. 1890 am.
Finance Committee, further hear
ines on N. R. A.
Munitions Committee, continuing
hearings.
Evening star., 1935-04-15

The other type starts with a blast.
and huge black cloud approaching
across the plains at tremendous speed.
1t strikes all at once along a we'll
defined front It carries sand and
on hands and face feels like the blast
of a chaff from a threshing machine.
When at its height. bright lights
in towns are invisible across the street.
visibility is zero and. within buildings,
lights must be turned on as at night.
Motorists continuously crawl along at
and 10 miles an hour, unable to peer
ahead for more than 10 or IS feet.
Busses are stopped-sometimes trains
The fine silt penetrates motor
blocks and, if motorists are unwary,
grinds out bearings.
Drifts Along Highways
These are the storms which leave
drifts of dust along the highways and
fences-sometimes dust drifts up to
the caves Of farm buildings
1t can't be kept out of house. and
dishes have to be washed-not three
times, but six times, daily-before
and after every meal.
Housewives don't like them, Of
course, but the dust belt grins and
bears it.
Merchants do business as usual.
unless the storm gets too severe. Then
they hunt a fourth hand at bridge.
lock the front door and retire to the
back room to play 1t out.
1t gets into your clothes, literally in
your hair, and sometimes it seems in
your very soul. Certainly it gets
under the skin.
But. despite the hardship and a
generally unencouraging prospect, not
a single one of more than a hundred
farmers interviewed by your corre-
Each one had hope of getting a crop.
Take Charles Hitch, an elderly
rancher farmer. living south Of Guy
mon, who came here in 1885.
For the first time since I have
been on Coldwater Creek-and I was
the first settler-we are thinking of
shipping cattle to greener pastures"
he said.
Drought Worse This Year.
Recent dust storms are not much
more severe than others in former
years" Hitch said, but the drought
is worse.
MY ranges have supported as many
as 10000 head, but I have only 800
head now and they cannot find suf-
ficient feed. We have to feed them
cottonseed cake.
But cattle prices are on the up
grade and I am not discouraged. We
even will get a wheat crop If rain
comes. If there is no rain We will
have to start shipping cattle in few
weeks"
A. L. Thoreson lives over the line
in Texas and is big wheat pro-
ducer. He raised 10000 bushels in
1881, got only IS cents bushel for
it. The best he can hoe for, he
thinks, is half crop.
But we are not suffering acutely,'
he added. THE Government Is pay
ing better than a dollar an acre to
us in wheat benefit payments and,
in addition, we can sell what wheat
we raise. That will keep the farmers
going. The Federal wheat program
is o. K, and If it wasn't for that
the farmers would be in an awful
hole. They can hold on indefinitely
with wheat payments"
And then there is I. r. Bryan,
farmer northwest of Guymon, who
could have left 10 years ago, after
80 years of farming in the Pan
handle. with $35,000 in my pockets"
II made it in row crops and lost
it in wheat.
"I could have left here wealthy
and I'll be damned if I am going
to walk out of here broke now"
Evening star., 1935-04-15

In view of this situation. some of
the House leaders quietly worked out
a plan. They thought Mr.. Roosevelt
might be satisfied If he succeeded in
getting some progress on the bill at
this session. The plan called for
the House to fiddle around and pass
the bill too late for the Senate to act
at this session. 1t may not have been
put up to Mr.. Roosevelt directly. But
it was certainly suggested to him dip
lomatically by his House lieutenants
upon his return from Florida.
His answer was that he wanted the
House to act at once. and that he
also would insist upon Senate action
at this session. This. is the only
reason why the bill now is being
pushed along. The skipper insists
on it.
Squeeze Halts Rebellion.
You may wonder why the doubtful
Democratic members of Congress do
not rebel. If so, you do not know
much about politics
With Huey Long and DR.. Townsend
VI lCSS pOp-
ular solely by promising to give away
money, most every member in his
right mind would consider it political
suicide to vote against any social
security program.
What has happened inside the Re-
publican camp on this same bill Is
proof enough OF that. Twice the Re-
publican House members have been
called into conference to adopt
party plan of opposition to the bill
Twice they have failed to adopt any
agreement for co-ordinated opposi-
ton.
Many Republicans will vote against
the bill. but the wise old heads do
no matter how many doubts they may
have about the plan.
The truth is Mr.. Roosevelt has
Congress in Dhdt is popularity
knoUn as the squeeze" Unless
he relents the bill certainly p,H
become ldU at this session. And
there is little chance that he tDiH
relent. despite stories now current
in the Senate cloak rooms, con-
teung that erroneous impression.
There are good reasons to suspect
Mr.. Roosevelt himself is not very
strong for the machinery Of the BILL
but wants 1t passed so that the prin-
ciple will be adopted. Then changes
can be made later.
At any rate. the New Dealers who
testified before the House committee
seemed to be less proud than usual of
their handiwork. Two Justice De-
partment lawyers were the most fa-
vorable witnesses. They confined
their testimony to suggestions for get
ting around constitutional objections.
ConStitutionality Doubted.
Those who are now championing the
measure in the House do not attempt
to make much of a secret Of the
doubtful constitutionality of some
features. They also have more or
less open doubts about the advisable
ity of creating such a stupendous
Federal fund (s32 ,000, ,000,O by
1870 for the administration of the
measure. This is more than enough
money to pay of the National Gov
ernment debt, which is now so big
that some financial men are bowling
that it will ruin the country.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Social Security Squeeze
Suppresses Rebellion
Against Measure.
BY PAUL MALLON.


THE Roosevelt social security
program is supposed to be
cruising serenely through Con-
L gress. The House leaders have
managed to create the in-
preston that they did not even need
gag rule to keep their sailors from
scuttling the ship this time.
Below deck, you will find the sit
uation is not quite like that. The
unhappy fact is that President
Roosevelt nearly had a mutiny on
his hands. The reason no gag rule
was attempted was simply that the
leaders did not have the votes to do it.
The situation In the fo'castle de-
veloped this way:
The bill was handled by the House
Ways and Means Committee. This
committee is composed largely of
conservative Democrats, many of
them Southerners.
Nearly all OF them taror the gen.
eral principle OF old-age pensions
and unemployment insurance. No
politician ddres to do anything else
openly these days. Yet it is a fact
that no more than OF the 1S
Democrats on that committee tDere
1pholehedrtedly for this particular
bill. The recalcitrant is WiH hare
to deny it nop. but every insider
knows it to haze been fact.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
REICH AND RUSSIANS
BID TO NAVAL TALKS
British Reported to Have Ar
ranged Bilateral Parleys
Soon.
Associated Press Foreign s,aff.

Associated Press FOREIGN Stan.
LONDON. April l5.-Naval quarters
heard today that Germany and Russia
have been invited to participate in
bilateral technical naval conversations
here in the near future.
This move. it was said. would enable
Great Britain to ascertain the techni-
cal programs and aims Of the two
countries.
The report was heard simultaneously
with the return from the Stresa con-
ference of Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald, who looked tired but
happy over the outcome of the con-
versations with French and Italian
leaders.
1t was said the invitations to Ger
many and Russia were extended be-
fore the meeting at Stresa, but that
the move was discussed with the
French and Italians during the con-
ference and met with their approval.
Such conversations would be q pre-
lude to the general naval conference,
which may be held later this year.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
DOHERTY TERMED
HOTEL FINANCIER
AT HOUSE HEARING

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1935-04-15

iury to take into consideration what
Nelson described as overwhelming
evidence of the defendants guilt"
Such q situation, Nelson declared,
is one of the reasons why more Is not
done to break up drunken driving and
spare the lives of the innocent and
helpless victims.
Evening star., 1935-04-15
BY ROBERT GEIGER.
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

GUYMON. Okla, April l5.-Three
little words-achinglv familiar on a
Western farmers tongue-rule life
today in the dust bowl of the conti-
nent-
If 1t rains. =.
Ask any farmer, any merchant, any
banker what the outlook is. and you
hear them-if Il rains.
If it rains some farmers will
get a wheat crop.
If it rains :. fresh row crops may
flourish
If it rains pasture and range
for live stock may be restored.
If it rains fields quickly listed
into wind-resisting clods may stop the
dust.
If it rains :. it always has!
The next three weeks will tell the
story
Black and saffron clouds of dust,
spectacular. menacing, intensely lrrl-
tating to man and beast alike, choking,
blowing out tender crops and lasting
without mercy for days, have darkened
everything but hope and sense OF
humor in the dust sector of the South
west.
War Brought Plow to Area.
The Southwest is big and the dust
area is only a small chunk of 1t.
Roughly it takes in the western thlrd
of Kansas. Southeastern Colorado,
the Oklahoma Panhandle, the north
ern two-thirds of the Texas Panhan-
die and Northeastern New Mexico.
1t always has been region OF
sparse rainfall. The World War, with
it's high wheat prices and urgent
demands, sent the pillow into the sod
and turned this into wheat country.
Before then it was range land, and
the crop was native buffalo grass,
which held the soil firm against in
sistent winds.
The last three years have been
years of droughts, with this Spring S
field -eroding dust storms their sitting
climax. But dust storms are nothing
new in the Southwest. Forty years
ago-decades before the whaet farm
ers came with their combinesLa dust
storm of such violence swept Western
Kansas that it stopped trains, Just as
they were stopped last week.
This is tough. hardy country,
its farmers say. 1T will come back
overnight"
"Dusters" approach the prairie
country IN two ways.
Sometimes they start when a gigan-
tic yellow-snd-red cloud floats across
the country. high in the air, blotting
out the sun.
The wind is gentle. growing in
velocity very slowly. This type of
storm carries a fine, povdery silt that
seems soft and hazy-until you start
breathing in 1t.
Evening star., 1935-11-17
THIS WEEK
She Was Ready to Retire
Continued from page five

young violinist who happened to like
red hair and they were married.
Kristen was the oldest Of the Flag
stads' four children. Ole and Lasse
are both orchestra conductors now;
and Karen Marie. the baby, is a
singer. famed principally for her
singing of light opera roles in Vienna,
where she lives with her husband.
When they were all children Kristen
ran the family when the mother was
on tour. She looked after their table
manners and saw that they took their
baths; made them obey and got them
off to school on time. When she was
eleven she began instructing the
seamstress and tailor and consulting
Evening star., 1935-11-17

Fru Flagstad. Kirsten's mother, is
called the musical mama of Nor
way" For two generations she has
coached and trained the young singers
of her land. A gifted pianist and
orchestral conductor, too, she became
a musician largely because she had
red hair. "You will never get hus-
band with that head" her father, a
farmer as well as violinist. told her.
You had better prepare yourself to
earn your own living, my unfortunate
child" By the time the child was
twelve she was proficient organist,
with state appointment; and in that
way she came to the Oslo Theatre, a
state institution. There she met a
Evening star., 1935-11-17
Beauty Brevities
bv MARTHA LEAVITT

through the ages, from the days of ankincense
and myrrh, perfume has been considered token of
- tribute something mysterious and rather precious.
The tradition persists And about presentday perfumes
there of luxury and excitement few drops
of your favo fragrance helps chase the dodums IF
you truly fastdous you will choose your perfumes with
great warneSs.
Katharine Hepburn claims that of smell exercises
unlimited power the mind - that mental smulant
She matches her perfumes her mood her clothes and her
surroundings When she sophisticated clothes gather
ing of the worldly wise she rich and spicy
Ginger Rogers has decidedly original theory about per-
fumes She says Contrast your personality with For
instance if quiet little whose place be
the home hun dainty perfumes Instead just of
exotic product Ihen while dancing with your favote
escort you will discover that the fine between per-
sonaty and fragrance indicates him that there is something
about you he doesn't quite understand. Men curious
Romance begins when their interest is aroused
If your budget permits you perfumes get light fag
for daytime and heavier richer for evening" Lily
Pons chooses that especially blended for her. One
based ac she for afternoons and the other gardena
essence she wears for evening occasions
Irene Dunno claims that good perfume drifts rather than
clngs She always atomizer for her light and
SPRAYS the back of the neck h achieves the effect of
walking in intangible haze of fragrance Orchid is her
favorite. She likes its keen, pungent odor
Perfume may be touched fingers Experiment
with caution and remember that it's far better use little
than much Thema Todd chooses light oriental odo and
dabs drop the lobe of each
Barbara Sanwyck has novel of keeping her evening
clothes fragrant little golden ball filled with her favore
perfume light floral odor hangs on chain in her
wardrobe