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Evening star., 1936-01-22
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Star and Song.
A word that glittered with thought
sincere
Held my attention fast.
1t came from far to my lowly sphere.
asked for song at last.
The song was careless. My heart grew
light.
It taught me again to smile.
The Truth still shone like some star so
bright,
The song was friend worth while.
Evening star., 1936-01-22

There will be no more lame ducks.
Even the blue eagle is discouraged as to
his chance to figure in some such role,
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Small Difference.

Small Difference.
New ways and old ways
Make q mighty change;
Timid or bold ways
Make the world seem strange.
Human passion still provokes
Strife for SerfS and kings.
Time still brings along new folks
To do the same old things.
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Mercenary Emotion.

Mercenary Emotion.
1.-THE love of money Is the root Of all
evil" said Mr.. Dustin Stax.
did you learn that In tinance2" asked
the friend.
Eyes. But it isn't the love Of money
that. hurts 80 much as the unrequited
affection"
Evening star., 1936-01-22

"You can't tell what makes de world
20 round" said Uncle Eben, but lot
O. folks dat makes big show Of pushin'
amt really doin' much In Do way Of help"
Evening star., 1936-01-22

A straw vote varies. carrying out the
adage. "Straws show which way the wind
blows"
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Deaerfed Cifies.

D60cft6Q Nlt1e0.
From the Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat.
Archeologists looking for deserted
cities may negotiate for some up-and.
going ones II they viii only pay OF the
bonds.
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Draw or Quit?

Draw or Qult.
From the Cheyenne wyoming State Tribune.
You know, 1t begins to look rs II the
New Dealers are going to have to draw
more cards or get out Of the game.
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Survival in Italy.

Survival in Italy.
From the Louisville Courier journal.
The crystal gazers of Europe declare
that MusSolini will survive 1896. The
question is, however. will 1896 survive
MuSSolini?
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Utopia Hunters.

vrom the Toledo Blade.
If such . place Is Utopia existed, and
you were on your way there, you'd meet
q number of disillusioned people on their
way back. Dreams are like that.
Evening star., 1936-01-22
Quest Of Freedom,

"Next time we will know better!"
It's what we often say.
We greet another debtor
Who goes broke the same old way.
Next time We will know better,
But what Is rather sad,
We change one irksome fetter
Fur another Just Is bad.
Evening star., 1936-01-22

@. What percentage of the telephones
in the United States are in New York
City?-D. T
A. New York City has 71a per cent OF
the telephones. There are about 17,424,-
400 telephones in the United States.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
HOUSE AGENTS OFF
ON PENSION PROBE
Representative Gavsgan to Head
Corps of Investigators in Los
Angeles Territory.

Spreading their attack over the en-
tire country, agents of the House COM
mittee investigating old-age pension
plans today were preparing to de-
part for approximately a dozen States
where operations Of the Townsend
movement have been ceutered.
Heading the most determined dele
CATION was Representative Joseph A.
Gavagan, Democrat. of New York, who
is heading a corps of investigators
bound for Los Angeles, stronghold Of
the Townsend movement. Gavagan,
himself lawyer, will quiz numerous
officials of the Townsend organization
there and presumably will take depo-
sitions from some rather than sum-
mon them to Washington. Other in
vestigators will study records Of busi-
ness operations in that area.
At the same time, committee inves-
tigators are being dispatched to Ore
gon, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan,
Minnesota, New Jersey and Maine.
From all these States, ceuters Of
strong Townsend support, have come
reports of diSsension within the Or
ganization and rumors of irregularities
in procedure.
The recess in open hearings OF the
committee may last for two weeks, 1t
was said.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

Most of the industries are locaetd
just east Of the Urals. The spot was
selected because it is about half way
between what will eventually be the
Eastern and Western fronts. Also
it is remote from air attack. But it
Is equally remote from the battle line,
four days by rail from the Western
front, six days from Vladivostok. No
roads worth mentioning supplement
the double-track railroad.
All that an enemy of Russia would
have to do right now is to keep bomb
ing the railroad as far inland as pos
Nble.
Plenty Is Not Read.
A Washington real estate man
strolled into hardware store in Car
thage, N. c., and found the proprietor
kicking around stack of mailed lit
erature about four feet high.
The proprietor explained: That's
the stuff I have received from the
Federal Housing Administration dur
time to open any of it yet"
kOP uUtfLOf tLtCS ON NtCf NtUttObUs
finance say that Britain saued the
franc. The London sterilization
fund is supposed to haze been used
to the ertent of 100000, 900, &C.
cording to unofficial guesses in Off
cidl quarters. The actual amount,
of course, is a British official Sc
cret. The battle is by no means
oper.
There may be something in the
fact that the death toll among WASH
ington newsmen this Winter has been
unusually large. while that of officials
has been unusually small. Seventeen
members of the National Press Club
here died during the last three months,
six active members of the Gridiron
Club. Less than half a dozen officials
have died.
Apparently it Is less Of q hazard to
health to be New Dealer than to try
to keep up with them.
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-04-04
RETIRED ADMIRAL
DUE NOMINATION
Second District Virginia Repub.
licans Expected to Nomi-
nate Stickney.
By the Associated Press.

nate Stickney.
By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, April 4.-The
nomination of Rear Admiral H. O.
Stickney, U. S. N, retired, as candi-
date for Congress by the Second
District Republican Convention at
Princess Anne Court House today
seemed assured when James M. VOL
colt, Norfolk attorney, who had been
pushed forward by his friends as a
potential candidate, announced he had
not been and would not be candi-
date, and urged all delegates to vote
for Admiral Stickney.
Admiral Stickney has been active
In his party's affairs here since he
retired from the Navy and began the
practice of law several years ago
He managed the successful campaign
Of former Representative Menalcus
Lankford when he first was elected
to Office in 1928
Admiral Stickney had no votes
pledged to him at today's convention
and 1t takes 81 votes to be nominated
Norfolk City's 88 delegates, instructed
to vote by the unit rule. are unin-
structed, and friends of Stickney and
Wolcott both claimed they could swing
these votes to their respective candi-
dates.
Admiral Stickney will oppose the
winner of the Democratic primary
in August.
Representative Colgate w. Darden
Jr, the Democratic incumbent, is ex-
pected to be opposed in this primary
by Norman r. Hamilton, publisher OF
the Portsmouth Star.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
THOUSAND HOMELESS.
Georgia Storm Section, However,
Checks Disease Danger.

CORDELE, Ga, April 4 Up.-More
than a thousand persons remained
homeless in this prosperous Georgia
farming center today.
Threats of disease and famine ap-
peared conquered, however, as Fed
eral, city and county relief agencies
and the Red Cross strained every re-
source
Injured persons were scattered over
the city. Army doctors, who led relief
work for the injured, said more than
500 had received treatment.
VastneSs of the task left by the
twister that dipped suddenly into the
city at daybreak Thursday was dis
closed by a Red Cross survey. The
actual count showed 287 buildings
demolished and 165 severely smashed.
Elsewhere in Georgia where the
storm hoped as it tore into the Caro-
linas the death list remained at seven.
and rehabilitation work was going
ahead under the leadership of corps
of Red Gross workers, who penetrated
even the smallest of the affected COM
munitieS.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

celebrating for an hour and 20 min
utes. The States case rested largely
on Cleary's evidence.
Defense Attacks Cleary.
States Attorney James H. Pugh in
sisted that other testimony corrobo-
rated Cleary's story Of the killing.
The States witness testified after he
had been promised immunity.
The defense charged in closing ar
guments that Cleary had been caught
"red-handed in the murder and tried
to save his own neck by shifting the
moose to the neck of another"
The most bitterly-contested point in
the trial was testimony by an employe
Of Alban Towers Apartment placing
Myers. Sutton, Cleary and "other men"
at the apartment just prior to the Will
son murder.
Cleary had testified that Sutton
hired the gang to dispose Of q busi-
ness rival while he was living at
Alban Towers Apartment. A colored
hall boy at the apartment was put
on the stand by the State and identi-
fed Cleary and Myers as two men
he had seen at the apartment with
Sutton just before the shooting.
One Witness Offered.
The only witness offered by the
defense was J. S. Bardwell, manager
of the apartment, in an effort to
refute the hall boys testimony. The
defense tried to show that the col
ored man remembered Cleary from
photographs and previous interview
rather than as a transient guest in
the Fall of 1884. The police took
Cleary to the apartments and con-
fronted him with employees following
his arrest last Fall.
McDermott and Sutton obtained a
change of venue and are to go on
trial at Cumberland, Md, in about
two weeks.
According to Cleary's story, Sutton
hired the gunner to kill Mcdonald
because the latter was tipping of
the police to Sutton's operations. The
gunner we're to take over McDonald's S
gambling business after disposing Of
him.
Cleary said the five men who lay In
ambush for Mcdonald were himself,
McDermott, Myers, Claude Bailey,
former convict, and Tony (The
Stinger) Cugino, Philadelphia gun
man.
Two Now Dead.
Cugino hanged himself in a New
York cell last Fall after detailing his
bloody career to police. Bailey was
killed last Summer as he attempted
to flee Lorton Reformatory.
The case was broken" by the will
son squad" of the Washington Police
Department. The officers worked on
the case from the time of the murder
until indictments were obtained last
Winter. The detectives were Lieuts.
John Fowler and Floyd Truscott and
Sergt. Earl Hartman.
Myers, when indicted, was serving
time at Lorton Reformatory for the
Tri-State Gang hold-up and shooting
of a postal employe in Union Station
in December of 1888.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Day Congress
TODAY.

Senate:
Debates immigration legislation.
House:
In recess.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues hearing on new tax legislation.
Interstate Commerce Committee
meets on bill providing protection Tor
railroad employees in consultations
and mergers.
MONDAY.
Senate:
viii proceed with trial Of impeach-
ment charges against Judge Halsted
L. Ritter.
Judiciary Committee holds regular
weekly meeting.
Appropriations subcommittee con-
tinues executive hearings on District
supply bill.
House:
VIII consider consent calendar.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinue HEARINGS en revenue bill at
10 Am - --s- ..---' ----..
Evening star., 1936-04-04
GREEN PROPOSES
PRINTERS MERGER
Hits Two Foes in A. r. |.
Feud by Suggesting Union
Consolidation.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 4.-Striking at
two of his principal opponents in the
American Federation of Labor's indus
trial union feud, William Green last
night proposed q consolidation Of the
printing trades unions.
Charles P. Howard, president of the
Typographical Union, and George l..
Berry. president of the Printing Press
men, have joined John L. Lewis, presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers, in
his fight to give each big industry one
big union.
Green. A. F. of L. president, Is
spokesman for the craft union faction.
He talked last night at the twelfth
anniversary dinner Of the New
Leader"
Recalls Former Union.
After noting that printing Office
workers once were united but had split
into craft organizations, Green said:
II am confident that if those en-
ployed in the printing industry would
now agree to unite and create one
organization for the printing industry.
the American Federation Of Labor
would respond to such request and
would grant charter.
But, because the American Fedora
ton of Labor holds fast to the prin-
ciple of voluntarism, it will not force
these printing trade organizations to
do so.'
Green Assails Lewis.
Green aSsailed Lewis for claiming
that the federation's present policy
was keeping thousands of employees in
mass production industries out Of the
organized labor movement.
IF these unorganized workers wish
to become organized and want a diff
ferent form of organization than they
could secure through afflliation with
the American Federation Of Labor,
there is nothing under the sun to stop
them from creating such an organiza-
ton" he said.
The facts are that these unorgan-
lied workers are prevented from be-
coming organized because of the tre-
mendous opposition and persecution of
their employers"
Evening star., 1936-04-04
HOUSE APPROVES
S115,o12,soo BILL
State, Justice, Commerce and
Lair Appropriations In.
creased $545, 500.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A total appropriation Of s115,o12,soo
for the State, Justice, Commerce and
Labor Departments was approved yes
terday by the House. This sum in
cluded the addition Of $545, $500 In
amendments.
The measure was approved without
a record vote, after the increases
including s528,0eO for the Com
merce Department under supplemental
budget estimates sent up by Presi-
dent Roosevelt-following completion
of the original bill in committee
went in without protest.
Involved was $150,000 more for air
regulation, an additional $l75,000 for
extension Of airways, development and
experimental work and 100000 for
publication Of the 1885 agricultural
census.
Another amendment added $50, 900
for enforcement of the Bacon-Davis
act requiring contractors on Gov
ernment building to observe prescribed
labor standards and $4,000 for building
shad hatchery somewhere on the
South Atlantic Coast.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
R|TTER'S COUNSEL
E[ATED At SHIFT
Eliminated Sections of Last
Article Bars Russell,
Principal Witness.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Defense counsel for Federal Judge
Halsted L. Ritter of Florida, whose
impeachment trial by the Senate is
scheduled to open Monday, were elated
today at striking out Of two sections
Of the seventh and last article Of the
charges, which eliminates the prosecu-
tion's star witness, Charles A. Russell,
and about 80 others.
Representative Summers of Texas,
chief of the trio Of House managers in
charge of the prosecution, moved TO
strike the sections with the explana-
ton they were too involved and would
require as long to develop as it would
to explain all the othere charges. The
defense had sought unsuccessfully to
have the entire seventh charge elimi-
mated.
After disposition Of these prelimi-
naries by the Senate, which resolved
itself temporarily into a court, Judge
Ritter, through his counsel, entered
12,o0O-word denial Of the House
charges. In turn, he denied that he
granted excessive receivership fees and
personally benefited thereby; that he
practiced law after going on the
bench, and that he evaded taxes on
part of his 1929 and 1880 income.
The eliminated counts charged Rit-
ter had Improperly" appointed Cary
T. Hutchinson, former utility official,
as special master in a suit by the
Florida Power Co. to enjoin the City
of Miami from enorcing an ordinance
reducing electricity rates, and that
Ritter had "wrongfully and errone-
ously refused to recognize the right
of the Florida State Banking Depart
ment to administer the affairs Of the
closed Trust Co. of Florida and ap-
pointed Junial S. Eaton and Clark D.
Stearns receivers.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
LOTTERY CIRCULAR
BEFORE HEARING
Mrs. Harriman's Group Asks
Postal Officials to
Drop Charges.
By the Associated Press.

Lawyers for Mrs. Oliver Harriman's
National Conference on Legalizing
Lotteries, Inc, sought today to prove
the conferences right to continue
using the mails.
The organization was ordered by the
Post Office Department Ito show
cause" why it should not be barred
from the mails for conducting "a gift
enterprise, or scheme for the distrib-
ution of money by chance, or lot
terry, gift enterprise or similar scheme
offering prizes dependent in whole or
in part upon lot or chance"
Circular in Evidence"
A circular advertising a $4,000
selection sweepstakes to legalize lot
teries," which the Government charged
was sent through the mails, occupied
most Of the Governments citation
against the organization, headed by
the New York society leader.
Mrs. Harriman's attorneys planned
a move to have stricken" charge
that las further part of the afore-
said scheme" the conference does
not now have, and did not have at
the time of the Inauguration of the
aforesaid scheme, sufficient funds out
Of which to pay the promised $780,
600 in prizes"
They indicated hackers of the en-
terprise had sufficient funds to meet
all prize demands, although the money
was not deposited in a bank in ad-
vance Of the contest.
Golden Stakes Case.
The Golden Stakes Advertising Co.,
Of which Alfred e. Smith, jr, is vice
president and counsel, completed yes
terday its attempt to show cause
why a fraud order should not be
issued" barring it from use of the
mails. George Morton Levy, attorney,
pleaded with Solicitor Karl A. Crowley
of the Post Office Department not
to be misled and brand young Al
Smith and Vino Murphy and all
these honest people for fraud"
Evening star., 1936-04-04
COPELAND SHIP SUBSIDY
MEASURE REPORTED OUT
Senate Commerce Committees Ac-
ton Is Approved by Only Half
Members, However.

By the Associated Press.
The besetting problem of ship sub
sidy legislation, which President
Roosevelt IA months ago asked Con-
gress to change, was still miles from
solution today.
The Senate Commerce COMMITTEES
yesterday reported the Copeland sub
sidy bill, but the report was signeo
by only half of the committee men,
bership. The other half favored the
Guffey bill.
The Copeland measure grants ship
owners as much as so per cent con-
struction subsidy and an operating
subsidy sufficient to meet lower foreign
costs. In addition, 1t would allow
owners to borrow from the Govern.
ment up to rs per cent Of their shar;
of the cost.
The Guffey bill would limit the con-
struction subsidy to 33la per cent
with other terms to some degree sim.
liar to the Copeland bill, but would
permit the Government to step in
and operate the ships in the event
private capital could not be inter-
ested.
Evening star., 1936-04-04

Since that time, word has come
to responsible quarters here from no
less an authority than an Italian gen.
eral at the front that the February
drive was staged to work the Italian
populace back home up to the point
necessary for peace agreement.
What delayed it then was the Hitler
move into the Rhineland. which took
the spotlight off the African sideshow.
Badoglio Writing Again.
Now that interest in Hitler's move
is cooling, Badoglio has marched un-
molested up to Lake Tana, the head
waters of the British Nile. Simultane-
ously he started writing home about
his bigger and better victories over
the great black warriors. who were
mostly frightened Negro villagers.
The purpose apparently was to re-
build the Italian mind at home for
the peace suggestion which was first
hinted in Rome two days ago.
The reason Mussolini is in such a
hurry is because the rainy season will
start shortly. It certainly will set in
heavily by mid-June. After that,
operations will be impossible until
October. It will cost Signor Mussolini
a pretty penny to keep his troops
where they are during the rainy sea-
son. Also there is nothing he can
gain by it.
The Seldsste angle is this: By
giving Italy most OF the territory it
now holds, he iDiH keep his plateau
and, Dhat is far more important,
his job. They say he rightly rea-
sons that it 1Dould be better to be
quaSi-Emperor, even il under
League of Nations auspices, than to
be a dead one.
This should make everybody
happy before nid-June.
A significant unmentioned factor
behind the current European political
dickering is the military weakness of
the Reds.
Those who know something Of the
inside of the Red military situation
believe 1t Is several years away from
its ultimate importance. The Soivets
have many new war industries. They
are now making their own planes and
tanks and are beginning to make their
own engines.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
PROCLAMATION

|$ Whereas it is eminently desir-
able that encouragement be given
any undertaking to promote the
health, safety and attractiveneSs
of the National Capital, and
Whereas Spring is generally
accepted as the proper time to
clean up and renovize homes and
private buildings and grounds,
including painting and repairing,
the planting Of gardens and the
removal of trash and rubbish, and
Whereas cleanup activities,
through stimulating business ac-
tivity, create new opportunities
for employment at a time when
many of our citizens are des-
perately in need of work,
Therefore, We, the Commission
ers of the District of Columbia,
do hereby proclaim that the week
of April 13 shall be observed as
Cleanup week in the District
Of Columbia.
During this period we call upon
all District citizens to clean up
and beautify their premises by
Kidding yards and vacant lots of
trash and by repairing or mod
ernizing houses and appurtenant
structures. We also call upon
local civic and trade bodies to aid
in this campaign by announce
ments to their members urging
that they cooperate whole
heartedly in observing Cleanup
week.
MELVIN c. HAZEN,
GEORGE E. ALLEN,
DAN I. SULTAN,
Commissioners of the
District Of Columbia.
Attest:
ROLAND M. BRENNAN,
Caeretarv IN the hoard
Evening star., 1936-04-04
Health Hike Planned.

The Modern Health Science Order
Hikers will walk to the Health Science
Summer camp, East Riverdale Heights,
Md, tomorrow morning. Members In
the northwest section of the city will
meet at the Treasury at II am, and
those in the northeast and southeast
sections, at Fifteenth and H streets
northeast at 11:15. Hikers are asked
to bring . lunch.
Evening star., 1936-04-04
MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
AFTER 2 CARS COLLIDE
Several Persons Are injured in
Series of Accidents in Down
town Traffic.

In one Of series of traffc acci-
dents recorded by police, William j.
Cummins, 80, of Solon, Ohio, was
slightly injured at 3 am. today when
his car was in collision at Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue with
an automobile driven by Lloyd w.
Bredbeck, Al, of the first block of
Seventh street southeast.
Cummins was taken to Emergency
Hospital in a police scout car. He
was treated for possibly fracture of
the right shoulder, and lacerations of
both legs, both arms and his forehead.
Others who received minor hurts
late yesterday and today were Kath-
crime Dreis, IA, of 813 K street north
east; Orien Whiting, 90, colored. of
l546 I street; Ellethia Hunter, 81,
colored; william Barnes, IS, of $500
Conduit road and Catherine e. Grant,
IS, Of 5334 Forty first street.