davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Weather Prophets
COnfOund Critics;
Are87 Pct. Correct
California Abore u. S,
Average-Np,u York
and Ohio BeLOiU.

BY the Associated Press.
Folks who pick up their newspapers
and say. "H'mm-the weather man
says fair-guess it's really going to
rain" were rebuked yesterday by
official batting averages of the fore
casters.
Edgar B. Calvert. who keeps a
constant check on the accuracy of
the Governments weather prophets,
reported they are right 81 per cent Of
the time.
That is the average for the United
States as q whole.s according to CAL
vert, chief of the Weather Bureaus
Forecast Division.
In California-where there is little
rain in the Summer time-the fore
casts come true 80 per cent of the
time or even oftener. Western New
York and Ohio are harder to figure,
and the average there ranges from 80
to SO per cent, Calvert said.
He added that the bureau is making
q steady, although not spectacular,
improvement in the accuracy of its
predictions.
But it's good deal like a game
Of golf" he explained. When you
get down into the 70's it's awfully
hard to cut stroke OF your average" :"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
RECKLESS DRIVING.


Aubrey Thomas Dreeden, 1144
Abbey place northeast, SIS or rs
days.
LEAVING AFTER COLLIDING.
Willie A. Smith, 3739 Kansas
avenue. $25.
FIRST-OFFENSE SfEEDING.
Aubrey Thomas Breeden, 1l44
Abbey place northeast. SIS.
Leo S. Bowman, 1928 Columbia
Frank w. Rose, jr.. 1746 Irving
street, SIS.
Tony Poppalardo, lila H street
James B. Green, 4o7 Third street
southwest, $40.
Charles w. Harris, 1914 street,
$40.
Frederick E. Robey, 4424 Albemarle
street. $40.
Harvey L. Vincent. Virginia, $40.
Morris S. Cohen, 724 Quincy srteet.
SIS.
Charles Pumphrey. s21 Eighth
street southeast, $40.
Marshall A. Smallwood, 3701 Tenth
street, $40.
Jerome J. Sullivan, 214 First street
southeast, $40.
PERMIT SUSPENSIONS.
Theodore Bailey, Edgewood, Md, 80
days.
Cory W. Baldwin, Farmville, Va, Is
days.
Floyd w. Baxter, Petersburg, Va,
Is days.
John T. Beelen. Baltimore, 80 days.
Albert L. Bond, Bennings, D. c.,
Is days
Alex Brash, Baltimore, revoked.
James T. Brockwell, Petersburg,
Va, revoked.
Robert E. Carter, Baltimore, Is
days.
Harry B. Classon, Baltimore. is
days.
William M. Clover, Knox, Pa, IS
days.
George H. Cople, Westminster, Md,
Is days.
George w. Croft, Clarendon, Va,
Is days.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

ception that there are certain uni
versal values, the quest for which, by
realistic and rational methods, Is the
noblest and most fruitful work Of
man.
Prof. Gibson comes from Europe and
he spoke with the feeling and ap-
prehension of one who lives in the
midst of a revolution which threatens
to sweep away the very basis of the
civilization in which we live. In his
speech he made perfectly clear what
that basis Is. It's foundation is the
belief that there is spiritual order
of reality, whose absolute right 1t
is to judge even the state, and even
tually to free US from its oppres-
sion"
He said: THE conviction that there
is nothing in the world above universal
truth lies at the very root Of our
mental and social liberty" If it goes,
he warned, there will be nothing to
protect us against the worst kind of
slavery to which mankind is now be-
ing submitted by totalitarian states
mental slavery.
Echoes Recent Sentiment.
In very different words, Prof. Gil
son echoed the thoughts which were
expressed some weeks ago in the
epistle of the dissident Protestant
clergy in Germany. Such ideas also
lay behind the refusal Of oxford and
Cambridge Universities to participate
in the quincentennial celebration at
the University of Heidelberg this year.
They are the conceptions that truth,
morality, social justice and beauty
are necessary and universal in their
own right. They cannot be true alone
for a certain social organization and
economic system, or for certain ma
tion or for a certain race. Their
validity must be universal.
The only conceivable source of cu1-
ture and learning. the only possible
spring of real progress. is in freedom
of mind to continue in search for
such universally valid truths.
Prof. ellison says that we have
Evening star., 1936-09-05

quite true that official
when could
plenty to criticize In Resetemen in other
New Deal TO attempt do big and unprecedented job quickly
without previous
fciency
The
temporary privacy in matters of administrative detail.
tee know the contents this confidential
who makes 1t his her business the conhdn
ta data which might damaging to Tugwels program
Unfortunately this nothing Washington When
pddle the national defense foreigners
pocket to cutrate friend the Republican
everything they
ping
the civil service by the imposition of oath Government
the
painfully Fascists in
S
The and will be equally painful both the
New their
formation from their Government let
public
whtewash everything
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Rebel Adra1,ce Perils Records
Of Early History of America
MedieraI Palace in Guadarrama Noun.
tains Contains Papers Highly
Priced by Scholars.

ings and monuments, but the build
ing was believed to be almost i'm
pregnabIe to infantry assaults alone.
One of the largest structures in Spain,
FL Escorial presents a 744foot front
of solid stone, and its walls are
fortress-like in thickness.
Loyalist troops, holding the palace
since the outbreak of the civil war,
have used 1t as a hospital base for
their Guadarrama columns.
In addition to the rare books and
manuscripts in its library, Ell Escorial
has long boasted a wealth of art OBJ
jects and historical relics. They in
clude Goya tapestries. paintings by
El Greco and Italian artists and
many antique arms and costumes.
Other collections of century-ol
documents dealing with the new
world are stored in government build
ings and private mansions in Seville
and Cadiz. ports which carried on
the bulk of colonial trade. Both cities
are in insurgent hands and have been
the scene Of bitter fighting.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Births Reported.

Harvey and Bertha Ankers. boy.
William and Gladys Appleby, girl.
Paul and Myra Betters. girl.
David and Maize Cantor, boy.
Earl and Esther Koeppe. boy.
Arthur and Ida Seligmsn. boy.
Gabe and Georgia Sans. boy.
Joseph and Jessie Walker. boy.
Frank ind Mary De Pierro.. girl.
John and Mary Taylor. girl.
George and Rose Wood. girl
Ernest and Olga Buckinsham. girl.
Dallas and Rose Steele. boy.
Frank and Roy Burr. girl.
George and Edna Windle. girl.
William and Alice Boyce, boy.
Evan and Dorothy Clague. boy.
Charles and Amelia Noack. boy.
Harold and Wally Mastrup. boy.
Necial and Elizabeth Tullos. boy.
William and Florence Rothrock. girl.
Rex and Anna Cain. girl.
Earl and Virginia Jones. girl.
Lafayette and Virginia West, girl.
John and Bertha Platter, twin boys.
Leroy and Martha Johnson. boy.
Howard and Jennie Bannister. boy. !,
Raymond and Arnbrosia Ray. boy.
wallace and Gertie Bock4f, boy;
Alfonso and Gertrude Wood. strl.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Astrologers See Good Times,
No General War Nor DrOu ght

There will be a boom in real estate.
There will be no recurrence of this
years disastrous drought which star
augurs believe was caused by an ex-
cess Of ultraviolet radiation from the
sun.
war for at least year.
Japan will not advance on China
until 1910.
I'VE want to put astrology where 1t
belongs-on a scientific basis" David
son said. I'VE are meeting to discuss
ways by which astrologers all over
the country can get together. If we
obtain facts and data and record
them properly, they will stand scien-
tific tests"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
VIRGINIAN is ARRESTED
IN 8-YEAR-0LD MURDER
Man Caught in Chestertown, Md,
Returned to Jail in
Montross.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va. Septem-
Der 5.-Leon Richards, 27-year-old
colored man, who for eight years has
been sought on a charge of murder
by Westmoreland County authorities,
was locked in the Montrose Jail Thurs
day following his arrest in Chester
town, Md.
Richards was brought back to
Westmoreland by Deputy Sheriff E.
s. Walker and Commonwealth At
torney Ferdinand Chandler Of West
moreland, who went to Chestertown
for him when informed that the man
had been arrested there and had ad-
mitted his identity He was delivered
to the Westmoreland officials by John
M. Bennett of Chestertown, Mary
land deputy sheriff.
Richards is charged with the muir
der Of John B. Lindsay. white man.
who died following a fight in which
it is alleged that Richards hit the
former over the head with q bottle.
The tight occurred at Monroe Hall in
1928 and Immediately following Rich
ards left the county. He has since
been q fugitive.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
BY the Associated Press.

News from Spain's fierce civil war
brought o twinge of anxiety today to
scholars of early American history.
Dispatches indicated rebel generals
were planning to carry their drive into
the vicinity of El Escorial, massive
medieval palace in the Guadarrama
Mountains.
In its library were stored. st least
until recently, hundreds of parch-
ment documents-eighteen century
reports to the Spanish kings from
the governors of their California,
Texas and Mexico colonies.
Government Guards Documents.
Whether the documents have been
removed to another place since the
war broke out was not known here,
though the government has announc-
ed the general policy of safeguarding
historical and artistic treasures.
American scholars have described
these archives as virtually untapped
mine of information which might
add many chapters to the early history
Of the Southwest Few of the fading
manuscripts have been translated into
English.
The burial place for generations OF
Spanish royalty, El Escorial, is one
of the country's most precious archi-
tectural treasures. Philip II planned
1t as a secluded monastery palace,
hidden in the barren hills rs miles
northwest of Madrid.
Workmen imported from Flanders
laid the first stones in 1863 and
labored for more than 20 years to
complete its bleak granite walls.
Rebel headquarters promised to
withhold artillery fire in the attack
to avoid destroying historical build
Evening star., 1936-09-05
P. W. A. GRANT ACCEPTED
BY RIVERDALE COUNCIL
Eids Asked by September 1S on
improvements to Lincoln, Mon
roe and Madison Avenues.


RIvERDALE, Md, September S.
Formal approval of the application to
the P. w. A. and acceptance of the
Federal grant Of $4,000 was COM
pleted by the local Council at a spe-
. cial session with Mayor William c..
Wedding presiding.
A. e. Pohmer, town engineer, was
directed to seek bids for the con-
struction of permanent streets, includ-
] ing concrete curbs, on Lincoln, Mon
roe and portion Of West Madison
syenue. Bids must be submitted not
later than September Is and work
! will begin not later than October l..
Payment of street improvement will
be borne by the abutting property
owners under the terms of the town
road law, which allows payments to
sbe made semi-annually over a period
Iof 10 years.
i Under the direction of the Council,
! property owners on other unimproved
streets are being circularized for their
attitude pertaining to further loans
for a more extensive street building
I. program.
Plans for the new municipal build
ing to be built adjoining the present
fire department building will be COM
pleted in the near future, when bids
viii be sought.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Dog Dies Trying Rescue.

Trotting on leash beside its mas
ter, black retriever died trying to
rescue an old man who started across
the railway tracks in front of an on
rushing train near Irvine, Scotland.
A .passerby gave a warning shout,
and the dog raced forward. caught
the mans coat in his teeth and tried
to pull him back. Both the man and
the dog were crushed under the
wheels.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
kaA TRAFFIC 20,
tt2coNWe7|oNs ! 4Al

Edward A. Dade, Arlington, Va,
Is days.
Philip T. Harpine, Arlington, Va,
80 days.
Keith B. Maust. 63lo Beechwood
drive, Chevy Chase, Md. Is days.
Smith L. Miller, Dallas, Tex, 80
days.
Linnel p. Morgan, Baltimore, Is
days.
Charles J. Murphy, st. Louis, Mo,
80 days.
Henry Tooma, Baltimore. 80 days.
Richard zape, Baltimore, 80 days.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Nv the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, September 5.-The star
gazers foresee good times and no
drought in 1887.
At least that was what one of the
leaders Of the All-American Astrologi-
cal Convention, D. M. Davidson OF
Chicago, said was the concensus Of
the 500 astrologers meeting here.
Although he said the purpose of the
convention was to discourage indis-
criminate predicting and put astrology
on scientific standards. Davidson con-
sented to disclose the astrologers read
in the heavens that:
The general economic outlook for
America during the next year Is good.
The average citizen is going to fare
well.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

the values which
are most chal-
lenged in the
world at this mo-
ment. the re-es-
/ q b ii shment of
reason as the
only unifying
force a m o ngst
men. for the re-
lection OF the idea
that truth Is the
instrument Of any
state, nation, race
or economic or
social system. for
the e | e v a tion
again of the con-
Evening star., 1936-09-05

TugueLs sad story be told In sentence: His
administrative high 40 peak he
made loans $4,000 rural tannes and subsistence
$4,000 But to render this aid, he employed than
10000 His Office Washington through different
buildings including hotel BY dloen application has
figures.
fact
that administrative costs Of between 81 cent
Tugwe continue constitutional entity until next
Western and Middle Western Congressman went the
900
drought him opportunity to demonstrate his
administrative which
said 10 President that R. A
Not from Navy but from equally authoritative
charge Of the the
about the identity of planes than
the destroyer commander
could at his reports which the Nary has kept
mould probably find that he identified his assailant
Italians, furthermore
Identification symbols had removed
OF course he had MOI flying it,
content to let the incident
orders issued the inside
the story alive
Evening star., 1936-09-05

There have been plenty Of mis-
takes. There we're bound to be.
Lack Of trained personnel and ex-
perience in administering novel
governmental programs insured a
fair number Of serious failures.
The American people are mature
enough to judge the New Deal by
its general results and to grant a
generous tolerance for executive
"roughage" in its diet Of re-
coVerv
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Deaths Reported.

Andrew Leitch. "a. st. Eiizabeth's Hospital.
Mary Mulkerins. II, 2O23 Portner pl
Martha A. Henley 20. 1885 A st. Sc.
Melville Wilcox. So. 420 7th ST..
Infant Paulsen. Gallinger Hospital.
Infant Mullikin, Garfield Hospital.
Fannie Smith. So Garfield Hospital
Lenora Newman. 80, Freedmans' Hos
pital.
0iilis L. johnson. 25. a1s 4th st. sV
Alice Nelson, 25. tuberculosis Hoskfal.
1nfant Evans. Gallinser Hospital.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Call Sounded
for Return
Truth
Present Day Nations
Subjugating This
Virtue in Man.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
"HERE was Q speech made on
Wednesday at the Harvard
Tercentenary Conference of
- Arts and Sciences which ought
to be reprinted in pamphlet form and
given to every teacher of the young
In this country. I hereby offer to
contribute to fund for the purpose.
The speaker was Prof Etienne ellison
of the University of Paris, one of the
worlds best-known scholars on
medieval thought, and he spoke on
Medieval Universalism.
His address was q brilliant plea for
Evening star., 1936-09-05

ceived about $2,-
233,096 of Fed
eral money for
local projects.
First. h er e's
the golf course.
The W. P. A.
spent sl0o,s26 on
1t. In construct
ing 1t a ditch
1900 feet long
" as dug a n d
filled up when II
" as discovered
that the ditch
was in the wrong
place for drain
ing A second
Evening star., 1936-09-05
News Behind the News
High Administrative Costs Topple Tugwelrs staff.
Kane's Skipper Knows Planes.
by PAUL MALLON,

BY PAUL MALLON.
theless effectively
Of staff gave q story day
crtaimens being effected the Resettmnt Admnra
been six months Those who could md jobs elsewhere found
them One Tugwe publicity helping Will Hays purify the
writing
recently
transfers One A. division
Evening star., 1936-09-05

HE opinions OF the ,crteS this page their
not necessarily The Stars. Such opinions pre-
sented in The Stars effort to giUe all sides OF questions OF
interest to its readers although such opinions be con-
Trajectory among themselves and directly opposed to The
Stars
Evening star., 1936-09-05
We, the People
Republican Use of ''Confidential" Report in R. A.
Attack Called Dangerous.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

VERY and then ocer enlisted
r. who sold confidential
Sometimes they caught tried
regulations governing the disposition
tense not at stake subject eventual
is
Evening star., 1936-09-05

The only really serious trouble
developing during President Roose-
velt's drought trip was on the
question Of snoring. 1t seems that
three eminent exponents of the
art of snoring aloud very nearly
broke up the trip. They were in
Mr.. Roosevelt's retinue. and. when
they reached the small hotel bed
rooms in the drought regions. they
became a major problem.
Director Morris Cooke OF the
Evening star., 1936-09-05

On the other hand.
Hcan
put their the decision ithout
methods
au they
though they foreign undermining safety
Evening star., 1936-09-05

mittee embarking on a course of
action which is the complete jus
tification for 100 per cent Demo-
cratic patronage in the executive
branch Of the National Govern
ment.
The reference is to the commit
tees recent release concerning a
confidential report by an admins
trative ofncial on the inefhciency
Of certain Of Tugwell's Resettle-
ment Offices.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

News dispatches report Nazi threats
to mob Rev. Martin Niemoeller, con-
spicuous holdout among Protestant
clergymen against the states efforts TO
get religion into the National Socialist
lockstep. Considering past perform
ances, it seems doubtful whether mob
bing would be effective in this case.
Germany's tall. grim, rigid. haggard
fighting parson was a submarine COM
mander in the war. He destroyed al
most record amount OF enemy ship
ping and was chased around the Med
iterranean for weeks in his crippled
submarine. He escaped and brought
his U-boat safely home. When he
later was ordered to take his boat TO
Scapa Flow to be sunk by the VIC
torlous allies. he refused and resigned
from the navy to resume his theological
studies. He specializes on hell fire,
and ne has dealt plenty of it in his day.
He is the pastor of the Berlin -Dahlem
Church, the richest and most fashion,
able in Berlin, attended by Junkers,
Monarchists and diplomats.
(Copyright, 1936J
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Sudan Sparsely Peopled.

The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. one
third the size of continental United
States in area. has population Of
but 5000 900.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
TO NOMINATE PRINCESS

Richmond Keech, Bachelor, Is
Named Chairman for Fete.
Richmond B. Keech, one of the
youngest men ever to be named
member Of the Public Utilities Com
mission, and a bachelor, has been
named chairman of a committee to
nominate a District princess to rep
resent the District at the Piedmont
Dairy Festival at Manassas, Va. Oc-
tober 2.
Commissioner Hazen named as
other members of the committee DR..
E. M. Colvin, jr.. and Quinter Conner.
both natives of Virginia.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

to r. A. several months ago has
been able within the last few days
to arrange a retransfer back to
A. A. A. The word has been
definitely spread on the inside
that this most mismanaged Of all
Government bureaus Is under .
voluntary soft pedal.
Note-More than 5000 Tugwell
employees are said to have been
let out, or shifted to other Govern
ment bureaus within the last three
Evening star., 1936-09-05

arrangements
did
without accompaniment
he sending all three home.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Headline Folk
and What
j
They Do
Star Among Harvard
Star-Gazers Is Indian
Astrophysicist.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

today's main event in the
Harvard scientific Olympics.
IL They find ghost stars"
strange cosmic dust which may de-
note a form Of matter never before
observed, new giant red nebuia, for
lorn little orphan stars and many
strange gleaningS and sweepings from
which they hope to sift a golden key
Of cosmic understanding.
DR.. Neigh Mad Saba of India Is a
decathlOn scientist who is expected to
score heavily. One Of the worlds
greatest astrophysicists, he has tray
eled 10000 miles from the University
OF Allahabad to engage in the dis
cussions. Highly certified as to scien-
tific orthodoxy, he repeatedly has said
that all this searching the heavens,
weighing and analyZing stars, NAV
yield something of tremendous work.
a-day value to confused earth dwell
ers, whose bewilderment Is becoming
planetary.
His ancient Indian gurus have long
been saying the same thing-in fact.
they have more than hinted at the
Quantum theory, which today is home
base at Harvard. But DR.. Saha's in
tellectual spectrum yields no trace of
foggy mysticism. Several years ago,
the combined astronomical and finan-
cial faculties Of Harvard set up an
astonishing correspondence between
ultraviolet radiation, as governed by
sun-spot variations, and world stock
market ups and downs over a period
Of 80 years. And now DR.. Saba says
the ultraviolet output is increasing.
That seems to be the only news desk
clue as to DR.. Sahas main idea.
Somebody ought to put a good re-
porter on the job.
He was an unknown professor on
the banks Of the GangeS, making valu-
able researches into the temperature
and chemical constituency of the stars
with inadequate equipment and assist
ance. At the University of Allahabad
his work on ultraviolet radiation
gained him a world reputation among
scientists. He is 43 years old, a man
Of wide and profound culture, who has
travelled much in Europe and the
Far East, but now making his first
visit TO the United States. He was
educated at the Universities of Cal
cutta and Berlin and the Imperial
College OF Science in London He was
the founder of the National Academy
Of Science Of India and is a former
president Of the Indian Scientific Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

in the name of relief" some of the
most fantastic operations with Fed
eral money that have been recorded
anywhere. Pueblo County has re-
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Boondoggling
TitleGoes to
Pueblo
County Which Pays
u. S. 100000 Tax
Gets S2,233,O96.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

\ UEBLO, Colo, September S.
This might well be called the
Boondoggle Capital Of America.
For here have been perpetrated
Evening star., 1936-01-09

resolution passed. A report by VIII
liam S. Canning, an official of the
Keystone Automobile Club, was cited
in objecting to this proposal. This
report pointed out that semi-annual
inspection would cost around $780,
900, and that of the 1000 accidents in
the District last year less than 8 per
cent we're caused by mechanical
defects.
A congressional investigation into
alleged use of un-American text books
and pamphlets and teaching OF un-
American principles in the public
schools was asked.
The association also asked that
Forty second street be opened from
Albemarle street to Nebraska avenue.
This would require that the street be
cut through from Albemarle street to
Brandywine street, and that the Sec
ton between Yuma street and Ne
braska avenue, which at present is
closed by barricade, be opened and
reSurfaced.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

representatives of the firms affiliates
and distributors, listened to q radio
program broadcast from Pittsburgh.
headquarters of the celebration. The
same program was followed at similar
meetings in all parts of the United
States, as well as in several foreign
countries.
Features OF all the get-togethers
were addresses by A. w. Robertson
and F. A. Merrick. company chairman
and president, respectively. who spoke
from Pittsburgh. The local meeting
was in charge of E. F. Sells, manager
of the firms District branch.
The program reviewed the history of
the company since its establishment
in Pittsburgh on January 8, 1886.
George Westinghouse was the founder.
Started in a small shop in an alley,
the company, following its incorpora-
ton, moved into a factory building,
where its first pay rolls contained the
names Of 200 employees. Today, Rob-
ertson pointed out in his speech, the