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Evening star., 1936-09-26
ALEXANDRIA JURY
|ND|CTS TWELVE
Man Named in Woman's
Murder-Theft of Bonus
Charged.
By STAN Correspondent Of The Star.
AZ Y1YE A Arr1nIA ia C>.&>>la. :

ALEXANDRIA, Va, September 26.
"A grand jury Of the Corporation
Court indicted IL persons, one for
murder, here yesterday.
True bills were returned against
William Lewis, cir, colored. charged
with the murder of Elizabeth Ford,
colored, on August IS; Eli johnson.
grand larceny of $3.50 in soldiers
bonus money from his brother in law;
Willis Petty, felonious assault on his
son, David, 16; Gerald w. Jones,
burglary: Charlie Williams. colored,
burglary; Harvey Doyle and Louis
Wells, larceny of an automobile; !;
Johnnie Brown and Elmer Beasley,
colored, automobile theft; Harry Ellis,
Chester Jones and Willie Robinson,
colored, felonious assault.
The case of Mrs. Marguerite Bodmer,
Clarendon, charged with hit-and-run,
was withdrawn from the grand jury
and remanded to the Police Court by
Commonwealth Attorney Albert v.
Bryan. The woman is charged with
failing to stop her automobile after it
allegedly struck and injured a colored
boy here August 81. She was or
dered held for the grand jury by
Judge James r. Duncan in Police
Court.
The jury was composed Of Capt.
George H. Evans, foreman; Robert M.
Reese, Gilbert J. Cox, jr.; Nicholas j.
Lawler and E. D. File.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
BABCOCK HEADING
INSTRUMENTATION.
United Civil Service En-
pIoyes' Defined by Former
A. F. G. (. President.

E. Claude Babcock, former president
Of the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees, has been chosen
head Of q new organization known as
United Civil Service Employees, which,
he says, will mot be new union" Of
Federal workers.
The organization, Of which he is
president and general counsel, will
have no locals, Babcock explained,
but will be service group for Gov
ernment people, who can appeal direct
to headquarters for aid. The U. C.
s. E. already is in operation, Babcock
said.
Principles Declared.
An official declaration Of principles
Of the outfit vas issued as follows:
l. To advance efhcient public serv-
ice to the people of the United States
and among them through the amelio-
ration Of working conditions, hours
and pay Of Civil Service employees.
2. To further the principle Of merit
In public employment, advancement
and dismissal. 49,.
3. To accept as members only
American citizens and who are or
have been incumbents Of permanent
positions filled under the Civil Service
act.
4. To give to every member equal
influence and voting strength by hold
ing conclayes in which every member
may participate on his own authority
and not As representing others.
5.HTo disseminate truthful infor-
nation to the public with respect to
the work Of Civil Service employees
and their needs.
8. To protect the character and
dignity Of Civil Service work and of
fellow employees.
Protection Of Members.
7. To protect every member by
promising not to disclose, without his
consent, the names Of other employees
belonging to the U. c. s. E., so that
members may attend meetings and
conclaves without question Of admin
istrative reprisals.
3. Any group Or groups Of members
Evening star., 1936-09-26

first prize in the Government and
commercial class in the water parade.
A fighting seaplane, outlined by
dazzling bulbs, won second prize for
the Naval Air Station. while Milton
Kronheim's phosphorescent speedboat
raced of with third honors.
In the large private craft class. first
honors went to DR.. Oscar B. Hunter,
Corinthian Yacht Club, whose yacht
Decoy was redecorated for the occasion
to represent floating lighthouse.
TT. Keane, Capital Yacht Club, was
awarded second prize for depicting
King Neptune and group Of mermaid
attendants. The Onda II, belonging
to G. Bache Gill, Corinthian Yacht
Club, with Illuminated sails raised
Evening star., 1936-09-26
Solar Heat Engine Enables
SUI, to Transmit Human Voice

Dr.. Charles G. Abbot's solar heat
engine, which went on the blink q few
hours before its scheduled debut at
the World Power Conference on Sep
tember 8, functioned perfectly yes
terday before a small group Of specta-
tors at the Smithsonian Institution,
who heard for the first time q human
voice transmitted by sun power.
The machine. which failed In its ini-
tial appearance because the rays OF
the sun melted the solder sealing .
vacuum, yesterday generated power
enough to supplant that in the radio
battery amplifier.
The huge machine consists mostly
at least from the SPECTATOR viewpoint
of large reflectors which focus the
suns rays into 4 small moving stream
Evening star., 1936-09-26
U. S. AID EXTENDED
IN DROUGHT AREA
35, 900 More Families Have Been
Aided by Resettlement
Administration.
Ey the Associated Press.

6y tne ASSoclAteQ fIeSS.
Reporting an increase in q week Of
nearly $4,000 farm families aided in
the drought area, the Resettlement
Administration yesterday announced
it will continue its drought program
through the Winter, assisting through
loans and grants those farm families
whose feed and feed supplies have
been destroyed by the drought"
The report showed 1858 farm
families had been assisted up to Sep
tember 10, compared with 100000
aided to September IL.
Drought expenditures were said to
total $4,157,37s, including subsistence
grants of $1,s54,326 to 122,5s7 fam
lilies, 10,550 live stock loans aggre-
eating $l,929,315, and 1896 emergency
crop production loans amounting to
$373,737.
Evening star., 1936-09-26

of black liquid. Yesterday the liquid
became heated to about 400 degrees
centigrade, was passed by means Of
tubes through q boiler driving the
steam engine, and generated elec-
tricity, which in turn furnished power
tor the broadcasting amplifler.
The performance probably was an
anti-climax for DR.. Abbot, however,
for after devoting . score Of years to
developing the apparatus, it failed In
its moment of expected triumph-be-
fore one of the most distinguished
groups Of scientists ever assembled.
DR.. Abbot, who is secretary OF the
Smithsonian, believes such machines
capable Of furnishing the worlds
power should the present supply Of
coal and oil become exhausted.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
BY W. H. SHIPPER, JR.

The 'whosoever WIZ mission at
2033 Claggett street northeast Is open
to all corners, the hungry in body as
well as the spirit.
Peaceful Joy said as much today,
standing in the presence of q dozen
photographs Of Father Divine. The
odor Of frying ham, which pervaded
the little meeting place, seemed to
bear her out, at least In part.
It has been long, Peaceful Joy
said, since "The Personal Body" paid
q visit to his flock in Washington.
yet his branch Heavens have carried
on and gained q few brothers and
sisters yearly. The second branch
is located at 1113 o street. under
the guidance Of Precious Love.
Peaceful Joy. middle-aged colored
woman Of ample proportions, received
her caller with the salutation,
"Peace!"
She offered him q seat in little
chapel furnished with q dozen chairs,
and called for another disciple to
help her explain the message Of F'a-
ther Divine
Deplores Publicity.
peace, brother!" she called. will
you help me answer the questions of
one who inquires?"
A young white man issued from
a rear room. He was dressed in neat
blue suit and immaculate linen, and
he spoke as an educated man.
"The newspapers" he declared,
"have sensationalized Father Divine
in every quarter of the worid!"
Its wonderful" chanted Peaceful
Joy, raising her palms to q level with
her face, and rocking in her chair.
Its wonderful"
Its ridiculous, this sensational
declared the young man,
Evening star., 1936-09-26

may assemble at will and consider
problems interesting to civil service
employees. Their determinations must
not be in conflict with any principles
stated herein and win not be binding
on members not present therein.
8. Right Of free speech win be con-
served for every member. He shall
be, personally responsible for his own
utterances only and shall not be re-
sponsible for speeches or actions Of
others, except such actions as may
occur in general conclaves in accord
ance with these principles. ~
Babcock also will edit the organi-
zation's semi-monthly newspapers, to
be known a. Merit.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
COLD night and choppy water

4 COLD night and choppy water
~ failed to dim the brilliance of
1 \ the Capitals tenth annual
nocturnal nautical carnival,
held OH Hains Point in conjunction
with the Presidents Cup Regatta.
In Winter setting, with low tenn
peratures bringing out fur wraps and
heavy coats, vessels Of many descrip-
tons piled a marked course past a
judges stand as they We'd for honors
before some 10000 spectators.
Aglow from stem to stern and with
rockets lighting the sky, the District
Firehghter showed she could be orna-
mental as well as useful by capturing
Evening star., 1936-09-26
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band, at the
bandstand, at $50 pm. today. John
s. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant bandmaster.
March, General Lejeune,"
Taylor Branson
Overture, Raymond" Thomas
Solo for Xylophone,
(a) 1.-The Whirlwtnd" ----Green
CD "Xylophonia" Green
Excerpts from musical comedy,
1.-THE Show Boat" (request) Kern
Idylle, "The Glow Worn" (request),
Lincke
Waltz suite, ''Pluie dor" "a Shower
Of Cold .--N--------.W Waldteufel
Finale, "Glory Of the Trumpets,"
Brockenshire
THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-09-26
Advice for Policemen.

CLEVELAND R.-Eliot Ness, di-
rector Of public safety, swore In 10
new patrolmen and gave them this
advice: you are expected to be hon.
est and to know that you win get no
great rewards for being honest. whoa
you walk into . restaurant for meal.
pay for It," -.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
RUTLAND PLANS DRIVE
AGAINST DIPHTHERIA
Health 0fhcer Hopes to Have
Augmented Staff for Work
Beginning October 5.

Health Ofacer George G. Ruhland
will start a city-wide campaign against
diphtheria October 5, according to
plans being completed today.
BY that time he hopes to have ap-
proval from the Commissioners for
the appointment Of six additional
physicians, six nurses and an equal
number Of clerks.
He hopes the campaign for inocu-
lation against the disease will reach
all children Of pre-school age, In
which, he said, the mortality rate is
the highest.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
Publicity for Father Diuine
Depl0red by White Disciple

and a gleam appeared in his eye.
Thousands of publications sensa-
tion6ize Father Divine's teachings" !"
Isn't it wonderful" smiled Peace
full Joy.
Leader Of Spiritual Host.
TITS ridiculous" repeated the young
man.
Father Divine is the spiritual
presence of God, the leader of q
spiritual host, in all quarters Of the
world, host which lives in higher
state Of consciousness, which is the
Kingdom Of Heaven, yet he is SEN
sationalized by the pressl"
cts wonderful" echoed Peaceful
Joy.
I'm only student, a novice" the
white man continued, scarcely noticing
Peaceful joys interruption, "and I
remain anonymous until my spiritual
name comes to me. 1t may come in
q fash Of inspiration, when I see the
light. and then I shall have true
name"
Make No Contributions.
Peaceful Joy and the young man
were asked if the branch Heavens"
here contribute any worldly goods to
Father Divine.
NO." said Peaceful Joy, Father
Divine gives; he does not receive. We
see Father in many, many cars, but
they are the manifestation Of the
blessings Of God through the Spirit.
God is everything. His spirit dwells
within the Personal Body, and His
manifestations surround the Personal
Body"
"The concept of the mortal mind"
said the young man, sis inadequate.
We try to explain the relation between
the spiritual and the worldly, but the
mortal mind cannot comprehend and
seeks only worldly explanation"
Peaceful Joy said she and her hus-
band, who was absent today, became
followers Of Father Divine together.
But there is no marriage between
Brothers and Sisters" she declared.
I'VE live on q plane Of higher con-
seriousness. My husband and I snce
were help-mates " now we are only
help-meets, as the Bible says ""'
Peace, Brothers and Sisters, peacel"
Evening star., 1936-09-26
STREET CARS PRAISED

Private automobiles will never re-
place street cars and busses in mass
transportation, e. D. Merrill, vice
president and general manager Of the
Capital Transit Co., told members Of
the washington Round Table yester-
day at the weekly noon luncheon in
the University Club.
To duplicate the service provided by
the company, more than 10000 ad-
ditional taxicabs would be needed and
street widths would have to be doubled.
he said.
Evening star., 1936-09-26

GIUSEPPE CANZONA,
Whose organ and monkey
haze been a familiar sight for
80 years, is shoUn Nth Jack,
rightly named Julia because
she's a lady," ,Dhom he ,Das
accused OF treating cruelty by
the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
The humane group charged
the organ grinder l0as cruel
Dhen he carried the monkey
In a satchel on street cars and
buSSeS, but Assistant District
Attorney DdDid A. Hart de-
cided otherwise Dhen Can
zona appeared at Police Court
yesterday and convinced him
OF his affection for Jack. The
monkey is z years old.
Star STAFF Photo.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
Indians of Big Tribe.

The Illinois Is . group Of North
American Indians belonging to the
great Algonquian linguistic tribe.
Evening star., 1936-09-26
DECISION IS AWAITED
ON PITTS PAROLE PLEA
Board Hears Additional Testi-
mony and Will Coordinate
Facts in Case.


Decision by the District Parole
Board in the case Of q. Bryan Pitts,
former promoter who was sentenced
to II years on conviction on an en-
beszlement charge, was being awaited
today.
Meeting yesterday at the District
Eeformatory at Lorton, Va, the board
heard additional testimony from Pitts.
Afterward Wilbur La Roe, jr., chair
man, said the board first would have
to analyze all the facts In the case be-
fore reaching decision.
James M. Hepbron, acting director
OF the Washington Criminal Justice
Commission, sat with the board In its
session. Later he said he appreciated
the opportunity to familiarize himself
with the problems Of the board.
Evening star., 1936-09-26

A coroner's jury this afternoon
held 27-year-old Norman Wesley
Robinson, colored, for the grand
jury in the murder of Mrs. Flor
ence D. Goodwin, Treasury Depart
ment typist.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-12-15
Weather Today
 GU. s. Weather Bureau)

Light snow was falling at Fair banks and light patches of gro- und fog were observed between Ruby and Tanana otherwise gen. orally fair skies obtained over the Nome-Fairbanks Airway and Nome-Kotzebue Airway at the 2 am. observation. Rainfall was reported along the Gulf and over southeastern Alaska.
 Sub-zero temperatures continue throughout the interior of Alaska and western Canada. The lowest minimum temperature last night was 50 at McGrath. Other min imums were Ruby -46; Nulato 42; Kaltag 40; Flat -39; Fair banks -36.
 Fairbanks reports the thick ness of ice in the Cinema River as 20 inches and l3 inches of snow on the ground. Juneau reported one inch of snow on the ground.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-12-15
PRESIDENT RETURNED
 WHITE HOUSE TONITE

tBv The Associated PressJ
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. IS, President Franklin D. Roose- welt returns to the White House tonight to face one of the bus- jest periods of his active career.
 He will find the maritime strike unsettled and will receive strong pressure to settle it. He must fill scores of vacancies in feder- al posts. He must plan legisla- tive program for congress which meets in three weeks, and inaug- uration is only five weeks away.
 The U. S. s. Cruiser Indiana polls arrived at the Charleston, South Cerdlina navy yard to- day, bringing the President back from histrip to the peace confer ence at Buenos Aires, Argentine, South America.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-12-15
AUTOCRACIES TO BLAME FOR MENACE
 OF WAR

Recent news from Europe may be both confusing and omnous but does to prove once more that it is the autocracy and not the democracy which IS menace to world peace.
 The reason is simple An autocracy can get very hard-boled in international crisis without stopping to find out how the on the street corner feels about it. A democracy cannot. The democracy looks for peaceabe way to settle things the autocracy lays its chips the line and invites anyone who thinks it is bluffing to call the bet
 The Spanish rebellion offers instructive ample. The two principle democraces of Europe, Eng land and France have worked desperately from the start to keep the trouble from spreading Obviously, they do not want to go to warrior the excellent reaS on that their statesmen know perfectly we'll that the ordinary Englishman and the ordinary Frenchman wouldn't stand for it. So the English and the French devised non-interference pact and went around Eur ope coaXing everyone to sign it.
 Now look at the record of the Relationships. The Italians gave contemptuous lip service to the agree ment and sent flock of military airplanes to the Span sh rebels. The Germans sent naval squadron to Spanish waters, acted very tough with it, and circulat ed the impression that they were ready to move up horse, foot and guns if anyone didn't like it.
 Then the Russian dictatorship followed suit de- nouncing the Germans and Italians in way that has led Europe much closer the edge of than most people like to think about.
 All of which creates more tense situation which the statesmen from London and Paris try ing frantcally to The thing to bear in mind is that all the warike moves have from the dicta torshps and the peaceful moves from democracies.
 The dctators perfectly willing to skate right up to the edge of the precipce-up to point where the smallest 'incdent could send them and the rest of Europe the brink. The denocracies are doing their best to stay as far away the law allows
 The ordinary German, Italian and Russian may not feel any like going out and getting shot some foreign battlefield than the English or French But the point is that what the former feel like is of no importance They have to do as they told and like it. Only in the democracies is the citizens ab horrence of something to be taken into account
 Nearly 20 years ago we were advised that we must make the world safe for democracy The advice is still sound A dictatorship is standing to world peace.-Alaska Press.
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WOMEN'S HATS FUNNY?- HEARKEN BACK, MEN!

The time seems to have come for a serious, heart-to- o-heart talk about the feathers on women's hats.
 There are feathers that go straight up, feathers that go side wise, and feathers that take a perky jab to the south-south- west. Some of them emerge from little slap-dash affairs of hats and some of them are the crowning glory of tall but shaky edifices of felt and fabric that would make Zulu chieftain proud.
 Some women look very ele- gant in them and some, alas, look like nothing human; and the harassed male, once again, gets a chance to announce that there is something fundamentally wrong and out of whack with sex that periodically goes in for such irrational adornments.
 For it does come in waves. Ev- cry so often some natural law or other makes it necessary for women to adopt a hat style that is just naturally gosh-awful, and we seem to be on the verge of one of those periods right now.
 There is nothing for it, prob- ably, but to dig in, hope for the best, and wait until the matters decide to let upon us again.
 Do you remember those Elm press Eugenie things that went bobbing down the misty corri- dors of time on the heads of young girls and staid matrons, making 90 percent of the femin- inc populace look like something out of one of the less reverent cartoons in the New Yorker?
 Do you get out the family photograph album and take a look at the snapshots of 1920, which show Mother moving about uneasily beneath a sky-scrap- ing connection of feathers, flow CTS, and preserved fruit? Or do you by any chance, recall the era of the Merry Widow?
 But if you do remember these things, and are man, you might do well to pause and reflect be- fore announcing that women have a monopoly on odd styles.
 Dig out that family album once more and study the hat you your self wore back in the far-off pre- war days. Remember them those flat-crowned, narroW-brim med things that tried to make sober men of affairs look like innocent lads on the way to Sun- day School?
 And do you remember the col lars that were in vogue at that time-those three-inch-tau things that looked awful, felt awful, and were Well-nigh impossible to fasten?
 And how about the rest of the outfit men used to wear? Surely you can remember the era of peg topped trousers, when the male form was ennobled by pants that were 18 inches too wide across the hips and six inches too short at the ankle? And the buttoned shoes with fatyt tumors on the top of the toes? And, heaven hell us, the foppy sailor-style breech- es of postwar years?
 l The male has scant reason tc point the finger of scorn. He togs
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-12-15

The lowest Nome temperature last night was l9 below and the highest yesterday 5 below.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-12-15

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Evening star., 1936-05-08

The kind of suit the Eng
lishman wears in the
tropics! Tailored with
precision - made of fine
spun rayon that cleans
beautifully. Single and
double breasted styles in
white, petal pink, gold
and yellow. Misses sizes
II to 20.
Evening star., 1936-05-08
MUNAGO SUMNER SUITS
1895

"A Munago suit is summer
comfort insurance.! Light
in weight and cool to the
touch, this summer fabric
cleans beautifully. Vital
lied to keep it from wrin-
Killing even on sticky days.
In white,' in single or double
breasted styles with action
or plain back. IL to 20.
Evening star., 1936-05-08

In the Orient (which
we're told reliably is as hot
as Washington you find
the willy Orientals keep
themselves cool in fabrics
like Zulu Cloth. Man.
tailored single and double
breasted styles with plain
or action backs. Misses
and Junior sizes in white.
fRnorts mn
Evening star., 1936-05-19
War Debts.

M. Leon Blum, who will become pre-
mier Of France on June /, chose the
medium of an address before the Amer
ican Club in Paris to revive interest in
the French war debt to the United
States. He deplored misunderstanding"
on the subject and voiced the hope that
something can be done to clear up the
vexatious problem. M. Blum ventured
no concrete proposals. but let it. be
known that he does not subscribe to
the widespread French theory that the
debt long since has been as good as
cancelled. He shares the view of former
Premier Herriot that France owes it to
herself, as matter of national honor,
to acknowledge the validity of the obli-
cation and approach its liquidation in
that spirit.
These expressions at Paris synchro-
nize with recrudescence of war debt talk
in London. Influential Britons are
quoted as feeling that some steps should
be taken to ameliorate q situation that
is not conducive to cordial Anglo
American relations. The Baldwin gov-
ernment gives no indication of cor
responding action. All Of the exchequer's
available funds for the immediate future
Evening star., 1936-05-19

due to the circus personnel. The man
agement appears to have been equal to
the emergency: the band heroically did
It's duty; and battalion Of laborers
courageously and successfully matched
their strength and skill with the mill
tant elements to prevent the collapse Of
the big top-by sheer physical force and
determination they saved the huge tent
and its frightened occupants. And the
show went on. Each actor, each clown,
each acrobat, even each dumb animal in
the ensemble met the crisis bravely. The
police and fire details lent their assist
ance in selfiess loyalty to their traditions
of service.
Gradually the tempest exhs usted
itself; order was restored, and there was
no insane stampede. The incident is
encouraging. Probably people are learn
ing to keep calm in the face of peril.
The lesson is important. Its benefits,
certainly, are useful in a planet never
quite exempt from hazard of one sort
or another. The crowd at the circus
yesterday never will forget the ordeal,
but perhaps there will be an advantage
in remembering it.