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Evening star., 1935-03-22
DUST FIGHT BEGUN
BY. 7U. S. AGENCIES
Government Seeks Curb Of
Destructive Storms-Pall
Passes Capital.

While the air over Washington was
comparatively clear, remnants OF the
worst dust storm in the country's his
tory drifted over the East, South and
Midwest today as seven Federal
agencies joined hands to study pre-
ventative measures against such costly
disturbances in the future.
Traces of the dust, which reached
the peak of its intensity over Wash
ington late yesterday afternoon, lin
gered in variable winds above the city
today, according to the Weather Bu-
reau station at the airport
+ Large clouds were reported this
morning over Richmond and Southern
Virginia generally North Carolina and
parts of South Carolina, and above
Chicago and other Midwestern cities.
Shifting winds at various levels aloft
had scattered the great dust cloud
after it swept eastward across the Mis-
sissippi River from the drought
parched plains of the West
100000 Tons Lifted.
Experts estimated that at least
800 100000 tons of fine topsoil had
been lifted from fallow fields of the
West and Whirled eastward before a
high gale. The winds then shifted
and left scattered clouds floating over
the eastern half of the United States.
Yesterdays dust cloud here. which
partly obscured an otherwise clear sky
with brown haze, deposited film OF
light mud over Government buildings,
homes and automobiles.
At once Secretary of the Interior
Ickes agreed to turn his soil erosion
service over to the Department Of
Agriculture. where 1t will work in
unison with six other agencies on
a soil conservation program.
Given c. c. c. Workers.
A portion Of the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps now working on soil ero-
sion projects will be put under Sec
retary Wallace's department. and both
these groups will be joined with a
new organization formed of parts Of
the A. A. A., Forest Service. Bureau
of Chemistry and Soils, Bureau Oi
Agricultural Engineering and Bureau
of Plant Industry.
At the same time, DR.. Charles E
Kellogg, acting chief of the Soil Sur
vey of the Chemistry and Soils Bureau
completed a study of planting methods
that is expected TO forestall in some
measure future soil blowing unless
droughtS continue to be more severe.
He urged planting easily blown soil
with pasture and sod crops as he said:
The chief cause of the dust storms
of 1894 and 1885 was the severe
drought, as result of which the soils
which are susceptible to soil blowing
were in loose. dry state. and as a
/ further result of the drought had little
or no protective covering. Continued
severe drought will lead to further
soil-blowing"
Vast Reach of Storm.
Yesterdays dust cloud stretched
from the Gulf of Mexico TO the Great
Lakes as it rolled eastward. 1900
feet high most of the time. When 1t
reached Washington. it carried about
1000 particles of dust to the cubic
centimeter.
Ten tons of dust per hour 10 each
square mile were dropped by this
{ huge bank of dirt.
Evening star., 1935-03-22

The inside explanation is that the
anger of the State Department has
cooled Our diplomats influenced by
our Ambassador to Russia, Bill Bullitt)
have decided that to tear up the
papers would be an unnecessary af-
front after our curtailment of the
Moscow Embassy staff and the deci-
sion not to build new embassy.
That means they have hope.
Informal Talks Held.
There is more to the hope than the
papers. 1t may be denied but certain
informal talks have been held lately
between Russian and American ofii-
cials.
One thing Which has helped to
soften the situation considerably is
the fact that the Sopiets recently
mined $4,000 900 OF new gold and
also received loan from France.
Russia is notD refusing credit from
American firms for that reason.
Furthermore, the January trade
figures ShotUed that she is taking
more goods from us.
OF course, if she wants to buy and
has money-that will be different.
Bonus Battle Dull.
The House bonus battle was dull
affair. Interest seemed mainly linn
fted TO half dozen bonus Repre-
sentatives and the familiar squads Of
veterans from Washington hospitals,
who always assemble hopefully in the
the congressional galleries when mat
terS affecting them are under discus
sion. However, attendance both in
the galleries and on the floor was def
cient in comparison with earlier vet
erans' debates
The reason Is every one knows it
does not make much difference what
kind of bill is passed by the House.
Hottest Conference.
The hottest private conference held
in Washington recently was that of
Co-ordinator Richberg with the Labor
Advisory Board.
Irate United Miner John Le,uis
is supposed to haze conducted
~ O"o O"o-S1HHtHHuttOH W RtCILUCIQ OH
NeU Deal labor policies which
could hdUe been no more spectacle
lar il LeiDiS had chased Richberg
around the room tOith red hot
poker.
After hours of it, at pm, Richberg
excused himself to make a telephone
call. He never re-entered the room
Lewis and the others finally decided
1t was as diplomatic an exit as they
had witnessed and made telephone
calls themselves.
The Old and the New.
Rail Co-ordinator Eastman, an ad-
vocate of streamlined speed for rail-
roads, has sand hour-glass Oh his
desk.
Debonair Senator j. Ham Lewis
took no chances with the Irish vote
and wore green handkerchief for
four days after st. Patrick's day.
tCopyrisht. 1881
Evening star., 1935-03-22
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Continues debate on work relief bill.
Finance Committee hears Francis
M. Curlee on N. r. A.
Labor Committee questions wit
nesses 'on Wagner labor bill.
House.
Votes on bonus.
Interstate Commerce Committee
hears opposition to holding company
control.
Banking Committee takes testimony
on omnibus bank bill
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Rejected proposal to restore anti
trust laws.
Finance Committee heard Sidney
Hillman in defense Of N r. A.
Munitions Committee concluded
questioning of John T. Flynn on TAX
ing profits out of war.
House.
Tentatively approved Patman pln
to pay bonus by expanding currency.
, Education Committee heard HAIRY
L. Hopkins on relieving financial
plight Of schools.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
RECORDS OF DEAD
CLERK ARE PROBED
Auditors Seek Connection, if ANY,
After Body Found With
Bullet in Brain.

With the death Of Harry Goodrich,
So, colored, clerk in the District tax
collectors Office. who was found dead
with pistol bullet in his brain at sos
Division avenue northeast this morn
ing. auditors from the General Ac-
counting once began checking rec
ords in the tax office to determine If
anv shortage existed.
Specifically, the auditors sought to
discover if any connection existed be-
tween the death of Goodrich and the
arrest, last week, of Alfred Moss, also
colored, clerk in the water mains tax
division of the District assessors office.
Chatham Towers, District tax col
lector, ordered the auditing Of the Of
fee books following the death OF
Goodrich.
Goodrich was found dead in the
bath room of the home of Annie Jack
son, colored, at the Division avenue
address this morning. A 32-caliber
bullet had been fred through the roof
OF his mouth.
Goodrich lived on the Wilson road.
Fairmont Heights. Md, and was the
father of five children.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
STRACHEYS BOOKS
QUOTED AT TRIAL
Attorneys for British Economist
Argue Objections to
Deportation.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 22.-Attorneys
for Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey,
British economist, threw the full
weight of their arguments into the
controversy today to prevent deporta-
ton of the self-styled intellectual
Communist"
Long excerpts from Strachey's books
and magazine articles were part Of
the hearing record after William J.
Zuker, immigration inspector, read
the material yesterday.
Strachey's attorney, Arthur Garfield
Hays, New York lawyer. objected to
Zuker's request that the defendant
express an opinion on Communist
pamphlets, but zuker insisted that
Hays make his objections to Washing
ton and said he would file record of
the hearing and his recommendation
with Secretary Of Labor Perkins
at once.
Strachey, denying the Governments
charge Of advocating forcible over
throw of the Government, said,
There is nothing to prevent the hold
ing of communistic beliefs and holding
a sincere love for ones country, which
I claim to hold"
Evening star., 1935-03-22
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 22-Eerie
voices of undetermined origin, waiting
through the inky blackness Of a dark
ened cabin plane as it scared 1000
feet above New York, gave spiritualists
a topic of paramount interest today.
The voices identified themselves as
belonging to the spirits Of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, famed creator of Sher-
lock Holmes and a firm disciple OF
Spiritualism; Roald AmundSen, ex-
plorer: Horace Greeley, crusading
newspaper editor of a past era, and
Lincoln Beachey and Floyd Bennett,
ayiators.
Attempted for the first time so far
as the participants knew, the airplane
seance took place last night through
efforts of a group Of New York spir-
itualists to overcome interference. "
The interference, they explained,
sometimes handicaps their attempts
to contact the spirit world.
Song Starts Seance.
Fourteen spiritualists were In the
plane, from which all light had been
shut by newspapers tackled across the
windows After the liner was in the
air, Miss Mama Tafe. the medium,
suggested everybody sing" All did.
Soon an unearthly and thin voice
Evening star., 1935-03-22

AS no one here believes his situa-
ton is going to be safe any time soon,
the belief is general that the game
has only started.
To continue paraphrasing the per-
sonal thoughts of our political wise
men:
This game requires hazardous living
under the constant threat of war.
without getting into one. AT least
the broad objective is to stave off war
until economic chaos threatens tc
engulf you at home or until you are
strong enough to conduct war with
reasonable chance of success.
Hitler stole this technique from
the japanese They hare been
playing Just about the same game
in the Orient. By aggressive. tCdr-
like diplomacy, they hare iron ire
quent diplomatic pictorieS rom
Russia and euery one else IN Man
choukuo and China, thus Gpoidtng
political chaos at home.
OF course, with all this loading and
printing of guns one is likely TO &C
off at any time When war will come
is anybodys guess. The best guessing
here ranges from one year TO five. II
may be sooner or later. The inevi-
liability of it is obvious.
Russian Trade Farley.
The way is being shrewdly anc
quietly left open for resumption oi
trade-debt negotiations with Russia.
Contrary to official promises, made
six weeks ago at the White House and
State Department, the Export Import
Bank for Russia has not been abol-
ished. OF course, all they would have
to do to abolish it is to tear up a
couple of credit papers in George
Peeks files However, the papers are
still in their original place.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Experts Believe Hitler
Is Playing War Game
as Subterfuge.
BY PAUL MALLON.


THE re-saddling of the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
by Herr Hitler was almost as
Il puzzling to our diplomatic
seers as to the average news
paper reader. The diplomats know
little more about what he is up to
than you do, but they. have their own
ideas, which may accurately be con-
densed as follows:
Hitler is only an omen. What
is Fundamentally lUrong ,0ith the
situation Is that he and all the
rest OF the statesmen OF Europe are
not brilliant enough to Solpe. the
economic catastrophe in tUhtch
they are mued. 1t is tduorite
old remedy OF dictatorS and states
men to order the beating OF the
tCdr drums phen the people threat
en- to do more than cry for bread.
Hitler is an opportunist playing that
game, and he is not the only one
He does not want war, but he must
have diplomatic victories, by threat
ening wars. He must keep on having
them. He cannot stop until his do
mestic. economic and political situa-
ton is safe.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
FORCED STERILIZATION
CASES INVESTIGATED
Four Relief Recipients euizzed,
With No Crime Noted, At
torney Declares.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MARTINEZ, Calf. March 22.-
Deputy District Attorney Rex L.
Boyer, investigating reports some re-
lief recipients of Contra Costa County
had been coerced into undergoing
sterilization operations, said yesterday
four reported cases had been thor
oughly taken up, and that the inquiry
was continuing
We have found nothing yet in
volving any crime, he said.
The district attorney will submit
Bowers report to the grand jury.
DR.. Edwin W. Merrithew, county
physician, said when the inquiry
started several days ago that no ster-
lllzatlon operations had been per-
formed without written consent of the
patients, and that in many cases re-
quests for operations had been re-
fused
Evening star., 1935-03-22
Maurice Through as Sissy

CHICAGO [P1.-Maurice Chevalier
says he is through with Sissy" roles.
Stopping of en- route to Cannes.
France, he said he attended 70 sun
himself there until moving picture
producer decided to give him the kind
of a part I want"
He said the producers had wanted
him to laugh, kid and play all the
time" while he wanted to do some
thing different"
Evening star., 1935-03-22
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.


EMPORIA. KanS.. March % tNA
MAJ The greatest show since Pom
peii has sped over the high plains of
Colorado and Texas and sifted golden
gray dust over Oklahoma, Kansas
Nebraska, Missouri and parts of Iowa
The dust is still sitting down through
the trans Missouri region. In the sky,
men see a blue sun, a steel-blue sun
shining through a Shimmering, lemon
gray haze.
The whole landscape is painted
with a thin. bone -colored dust which
hides the greening wheat and the
young grass covering the crab bios
SONS and the forsythia that herald the
Spring. 1t is a weird and eerie silver
colored world. and, without breath
of wind, the dust is still drifting down
1t came without a breath from the
heights of 10000 feet. The vast re-
gional dust storm stopped the orderly
processes Of civilization. Schools
closed. Trains slowed down; thelI
headlights could not penetrate the
brown darkness. Kansas officials
closed the highways; accidents were
piling up too fast. Visibility for more
than so feet was impossible at the
height Of the storm.
In the towns and villages electric
lights cleaned like curious blue-steel
balls. Chickens went to rooSt. Cattle
turned from the pastures toward the
barn. Men went indoors. Traffic and
trading stopped, as it might have
stopped at Pompeii when Vesuviu;
began raining dust upon the little
Mediterranean city. Pneumonia pa
tients, and little children out in the
storm who did not come in, quickly
died. Though the death toll was moi
large, probably more deaths resulted
from traffic accidents than from any
other cause.
Called Worst in History.
All over Western Kansas, Nebraska
and Colorado the newspapers call i
the worst duststorm in history.
And what caused it? Fortunately
there is little 1oubt about it, It wa!
the war. The duststorm was one Ol
the prices we paid, and will keep or
paying for many years here in thes'
prairie States, ior the blessed privilege
OF sacrificing our young men to th'
war god. 1t happened this way:
When the millions in Europe wer,
called TO arms, European fields wer,
idle, the price of wheat shot up to 8
dollar and still higher. The peak wa.
more than So. Frantically men Went
out into the high semi-arid dry coun-
try in Eastern Colorado, in Wyoming
in New Mexico and in the extreme
western counties Of Kansas and Dlowec
up the sod. They put in wheat by g
process known as dry farming.
They raised few crops, made q
little money, not much, even at the
peak prices. for a paying crop dio moi
come more than one year in three
But the desert soil which had beer
covered and bound against the winc
by sagebrush and the natural foliage
of the region, had been crumbled int
dust, It's protection gone. After thu
war the nigh plains entered a we
cycle. The dry cycle began three
years ago.
The wheat crop failed and failed
again, and the vast dusty acres, mil
lions of them, were unprotected wher
the high March winds struck them
Evening star., 1935-03-22
BULLITT STARTS TRIP

William G. Bullitt, Ambassador to
Russia, left today for New York. where
he Is expected to confer with Alex
ander Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassa-
dor. before sailing March ~ for
Moscow
Membs of the Soviet embassy staff
were ass the station here to say
good-by.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
Toothache Defies Drug.

IOWA CITY, Iowa. March % P).-
Leo F. Burke had a roaring toothache
and decided to take few sleeping
potions. After taking five, the tooth
still ached. He I'd sk five more. When
Burke awoke In aGospital he still had
the toothache.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
ALIEN WANTS COMFORTS
Facing Deportation, He Asks to
Go Second. Glass.

MILWAUKEE. March % LPl.-Nine
times AthanasioS Alexiou. Al, crossed
the ocean between the United States
and Greece. but because it was at his
own expense, he Travelled third class.
Now, facing deportation, he asked if
the Government wouldn't oblige him
with second-class comforts. The an
swer was no"
Evening star., 1935-03-22
Mother Is Sentenced.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March %
R).-Mrs. Minnie Rose jenkins, 20,
late yesterday was convicted OF flrst
degree murder and &entenced to life
imprisonment for tR fatal poisoning
last November Of her 8-year-old
daughter. Alta Fern.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
Whisky Candy Barred.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. March %
R.-Nathan Mayo, State commits
sioner of agriculture. yesterday advised
the Cuban consulate in Miami THAI
PFiorida laws prohibit the manufacture
! Of candy containing whisky.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
WRITER FATALLY
STABBED IN CLUB
Woman Held by New Or.
leans Police Says 1t Was
personal Matter"
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS. March 22-John
Irving Pierce, 23-year-old magazine
writer of Jackson, Miss, and local
university student, was stabbed to
death early today as he sat at table
in the fashionable Nut Club" here.
With him at the time was woman,
who police said was Marian King, also
%. former newspaper woman.
The woman. who with Pierce, was
well known in New Orleans night life.
was accused by police OF the stabbing
and was held without formal charge.
M. Z. Culligan, assistant district
attorney. reported that the girl ad-
mitted driving the blsoe of a small
knife into the heart Of Pierce after a
series of quarrels. but he quoted Miss
King as saying its a personal
matter"
Refuses to Give Reason.
Miss King refused to give any spe-
cific reason for the stabbing, but Gull
ligan made public two letters which
he said might throw some light on
the case.
One letter, dated January 13. sent
from Annapolis, Md, and addressed
to the girl said:
Won't be long now when you'll be
with me" The letter was written
on stationery OF the United States
destroyer Babbitt and was signed
Frank"
The other note was signed by
Pierce. It was addressed to Mont
gomery. Ala, and read:
IT love you. ! have come to my
senses now. I trust you. I really do.
That will never happen again. Please
come back to me. as I am lost without
you. I have wired ticket, Call at
the ticket office. Wire me collect.
This was written on a telegraph blank
Student at Tulane.
| Pierce had taken up an academic
course at Tulane University prepara-
| tory to entering the Medical School.
The girl described herself to offl-
GERS as a newspaper woman who had
written as sob sister" on Detroit,
New York and Chicago newspapers
but she has never worked at her pro-
fession in New Orleans.
Officers said she admitted to them
she met Pierce in a night club while
she was penniless and drifting about
from club to club.
Victor Fouert, %, a waiter in the
Nut Club" gave police his version of
| the Stabhinp He said he uSherad the
young couple into the club and seated
them at a table near the entrance.
The last floor show was on. Police
quoted Fouert as saying:
While I was serving them drinks
I saw Pierce hand the girl a knife
Then he ordered q second round OF
drinks. While I was returning with
the drinks I noticed that they we're
quarrelling.
Suddenly the girl rose from her
seat. saw her thrust her right hand
forward and plunge the knife blade
into Pierces left side"
Fouert said then Pierce quietly
picked up the knife without uttering
q word, closed the blade and placed
the knife in his pocket.
Then, mortally wounded, he reach
ed into his hip pocket, drew out his
wallet, placed 1t on the table and
showed it over to where the girl sat.
Here. pay the check" Pierce said.
Then, according to Fouert, the
wounded man walked less than 10 feet
from the table, collapsed and died
| within 10 minutes.
Evening star., 1935-03-22

What duStStormS mean to the
heart OF the whedt country and hotO
its people regard suggested meas
ureS for curbing their Destructive
ness are discussed here By the editor
of the Emporid Gazette. tDhose
Kansas home has been darkened
by the clouds OF dust.
La gaceta., 1935-11-26
Proyecto de ley declarando Ell
boxeo legal en- Massachusetts,

Boston, Nov. 26.-El Estado
de Massachusetts, cuna de la Ii
bertad en- legislation social, a.
menaza hoy con declarar ilega-
les las peleas de boxeo, como
resultado de la comedia boxis-
tica de Ia semana pasada entire
ell excampeon Jack Sharkey y
Ell negro "desconocido" Wins
ton. Tn proyecto de ley en- csc
sentido ACADIA de ser presentado
a la legislature por ell represen
tante Gallagher, de Boston, qre
presencio ell "bout" entire ell ne
gro y ell excampeon y Sc do
cuenta de 10 que pasaba, del ia
trace que Sc hacfa a los fana-
ticos.
Aunque la comisi6n de boxeo
suspendi6 aver a Winston, por
un ano, Gallagher asegura que
no desistira de su prop6sito.
La gaceta., 1935-11-26
JACOBS EERRO Ell TRATO
EN- LA HABANA

Habana, Nov. 26.-Ante IA
Guiana de boxeo Sc fir
mo ell sabad2/up contrato por
medic ds>eual Mike Jacobs y
Julian Hlack, en- representation
de Jose Luis, conVinieron en-
que ell va famoso p1gil negro Sc
batira en- esta capital, ell dia 20
de diciembre, con ell gladiator
vasco Isidoro Gaztanaga, que
ha retado varias veces a PAUL.
no Uzcudun, sin ser atendido.
La pelea Sc efectuara en- Ell
estadio de La Tropical, en-
Puentes Grandes, que tiene ca
pacidad para $1,000 espectado
res. Luis utilizata ell estadio
CRYSTAL, en- la calzada de la In
fanta, para su entrenamieHto.
La gaceta., 1935-11-26

La comisi6n no quiso hacer
comentario al2uno sobre Shar :
key, cuyos directories Sc supone
i~nduieron al negro a no pelear.
Ell negro, en- la peiea del pa
sado viernes, Sc dej6 caer a Ia
Iona, sin recibir golpe de impor
tancia, cuando habia "acorrala-
do" a Sharkey en- una esquina.
Embellishments ell publico or :
ganiz6 una violenta protesta y
entonces v~olvieron a pelear, sien
do de nuevo "acostado' Wins
ton.
Gallagher sostiene en- SUI pro-
veto de ley que ell boxeo ha ST.
do degradado hasta tai punto en-
Massachusetts que va es un sis
tema de "raqueterismo'. ST esta
ley Sc aprueba solo Sc permit
ran en- ell Estado peleas anna :
teur.
La gaceta., 1935-11-26
rezca ser ~agradecido.

No es listed la que ha de
juzgar ell merito de sus a~ceiones
nj 10 jrsto o injusto de mis- sem
timientcs,-respondi6 el respe-
tuosamente, con cierta reser-
|va.-Lo mucho que a listed de-
DO, 10 Sc yo mejor que nadie; nj
gratitud por clio tendra listed
acaso OCCASION de apreciarla, asf
10 deseo.
Y con alguna mas vehemen-
cha, que procuraba, sin embar-
go contener, anadi6:
lie debo a listed la vida, mi
regeneration y la felicidad de
'haber recuperado mi hiia. lie
9arece a listed que no tengo So
'brados motives para estarle a.
gradecido?
La gaceta., 1935-11-26
III

Pasados unos dias, un coche
detlvose una manana ante la
puerta de la solitaria casita que
la condesa de Andrade habita-
ba en- Chamberi.
Del coche Sc ape6 I'm caballe-
no palido Y de andar INSECURE.
Era Mario. que aunque no
restablecido aGn del TODD, iba a
visitar a su amiga.
Su afan de verla, hizole ade-
lantar aquella vista, impueSta
Cor la gratitud y la cortesia.
Mario parecia muy triste,
muy preocupado.
Llam6 a la puerta con mano
temblorosa.
Gasparillo sali6 a abrir y lie