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Evening star., 1936-03-15

Parker Lodge will confer the F. c.
degree Tuesday. Senior Deacon Robe
son will preside. Junior Deacon
Schroeder will deliver the lecture.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Petworth Lodge will confer the
r. c. degree Thursday.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

The Fellowcraft Team Of Federal
Lodge will meet Tuesday at the Ma
sonic Temple at 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Singleton Lodge will entertain the
members Of Washington Commandery,
K. T., Thursday.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Dorothy Hancock Chapter met for
luncheon at the Raleigh Hotel. with
the following hostesses: Mrs. j. M
Littlepage, Mrs. J. v. Morgan. Mrs. j.
r. Grove and Mrs. George W. Lips
comb Miss Helen Towner was intro
duced as a new member.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Milans Lodge will confer the E. A.
degree Friday. Junior Deacon Bowles
will preside. Senior Deacon Ingels
will deliver the lecture.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Roosevelt Lodge will confer the
NJ. M. degree Wednesday at special
communication. Senior Warden Up
ton will preside
Evening star., 1936-03-15

A group of songs will be rendered
by the sextet from the music Sec
ton. Thomas Waterman Of the Ma
tional Park Service will give an illus
trated lecture on Virginia Colonial
Architecture"
The drama section will meet tomor-
row at 8 pm. in the home of Mrs,
Harry Fillmore Lowe, with Mrs. James
F. Davidson in charge of the pro-
gram. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary"
by St. John Irvine, will be read under
the direction of Mrs. Davidson and
with the following cast: Mr.. and Mrs
Raymond l. Sanford, Mr.. and Mrs,
Irving M. Day, Mrs. Albert R. Merz
Miss Peggy Lowe, Hugh L. Murrell
and Charles F. Pentz.
The literature section will meet Fri
day at 2 pm. in the home Of Mrs.
William Lawrence Fulton. The pro-
gram will be a Greeting to Spring,
in charge of Mrs. Maris M. Proffitt.
Mrs. Profitt will review the novel,
Singing In the Wilderness" by DON
aid Culross Peattie, and Audrey
Wurdemans poem, Bright Ambush,
will be reviewed by Mrs. Hillman Hol-
lister 1.-The Art of Walking" essays
edited by Edwin v. Mitchell, will be
reviewed by Mrs. Harold C. Bryant.
Mrs. o. Leland Hunt will be hostess
for tea.
On Saturday at $3.50 pm. the Build
ing Fund Committee will give a card
party at the Brook Farm Tea House
for the benefit of the Alice Mikkelson
building fund. Reservations may be
made through Mrs. Lewis s. Mohler.
Wisconsin PALS.
District Of Columbia League Of
American PEN Women.-The Wednes-
day rendezvous" will be held at the
league studio from 2 to 6, the French
group holding 0 class from 4 to D.
Evening star., 1936-03-15

Justice Lodge will confer the F. c..
4 degree Friday.
Brightwood Chapter, r. A. NJ, an
nounces the past masters degree at
its meeting next Wednesday. Scribe
Chester r. Draper will confer the de-
gree and High Priest Albert H. Coombs
invites chapter Masons to visit that
evening. Refreshments will be served.
The NJ NJ degree will be conferred
ut a special communication of Theo-
dore Roosevelt Lodge next Wednesday
Mt 7:30 pm. by Senior Warden Joseph
w. Upton, assisted by John C. Eilbeck
as senior deacon.
Evangelist Chapter, knights Rose
I, Croix, Scottish Rite Masons, met last
Tuesday evening and conferred the
eighteenth degree.
Next Tuesday evening Robert De
Bruce Council will meet in special Ses-
sion at S o'clock, when the twentieth
degree will be conferred. Dinner will
be served and at 7:30 O'Clock the
,twenty-first degree will be conferred
Mthras Lodge Of Perfection will
Evening star., 1936-05-23
VIOLENCE CHARGED
IN TENANT STRIKE
u. S. Mediation Asked in
Row Over $3.50 WAGE
for Field Workers.

BACKGROUND
For three years labor unrest has
been rampant on Arkansas pldntd-
ttons. Tenant farmers formed
union in 1888, aided By dUoUed
eastern doitdtors. SocidliSttc Com
monUealtb College at Mend, in
TeStern part OF State. also en-
couraged union. Trouble confined
principally to eastern tier OF coun-
ties, containing past cotton fields.
BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 23.-Charges
and counter-charges of violence few
today in the cotton choppers strike
zone Of Eastern Arkansas.
Planters and county officers accused
strike agitators of the Southern Ten
ant Farmers Union of threats and
intimidation to drive workers from the
cotton fields They also claimed out
side agitation" was responsible for the
unrest.
'PeOnage" Charge Hurled.
Strike leaders replied with charges
OF 'peonage" and terrorism de-
claring they would continue their
activity until planters meet demands
for wages of sl50 for a l0-hour day.
Conflicting reports came from Cross,
Crittenden and ST. Francis Counties,
the strike area, Of the walkout's effec-
tiveness.
Union leaders claimed 5000 men
were out, while planters maintained
their men we're at work as usual
False Arrest Charged.
H. L. Mitchell, secretary of the
union, charged that Gil Martin. sec
retary of its National Defense Com
mittee was unjustly arrested at Earle,
Ark. and accused of interfering with
labor
Mitchell awaited replies today from
kilograms he said he had sent to
Washington asking a Department of
Justice investigation and an attempt
at mediation through the Labor De-
partment.
The Tenant Union is not affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor One leader said tonight that
the union could not ask for men,
bership because "our people are too
| poor to pay dues"
Evening star., 1936-05-23

10 Be BROADCAST
II Champions of Grade
Schools to Compete for
Prizes Tuesday.

~oLUMBIA has completed ar
4 rangements to broadcast the
I twelfth annual spelling bee
~ Tuesday from the auditorium
of the National Museum.
Seventeen grade school champions
from the Eastern half of the United
States will battle for supremacy and
$1,750 in cash awards.
A list Of jawbreakers has been COM
piled by Dr. Frederick S. Breed of
the University of Chicago. In pre-
pairing the list. he carefully avoided
strictly foreign and unreasonably
technical words and eliminated all
those with hypens and apostrophes.
musicians from the Y. NJ c. A.
Boys Observation-Disclosures of first
prize in recent amateur night con-
test at the Central Y. M. c. A.-will
make their radio debut over WJSV
tonight at $50 o'clock. as guests on
Arthur Godfrey's program.
Lock Wallace, imitator of barnyard
noises, who won second prize in the
contest, also will appear on the
program.
Godfrey was master of ceremonies
for the amateur show and invited
the winners to be guest stars on his
program. The hill billies" are James
Bern, Richard Bern, Eddie Stoneham
and Richard Hardy.
A MOS N ANDY, who returned to
Chicago from California May 9,
will turn around and head for the
Pacific Coast again June 5, this time
to spend the entire Summer in Bev-
erly Hills, Calf. Their daily broad
casts will originate in the new N. B. C.
studios in Hollywood.
WoL's veteran thespians, the North
ern Dramatic Co., will open the
studios to the public during their
Evening star., 1936-05-23
TWO SLAIN IN PLOT
!. ON STARHEMBERG
Heimwehr RepuIse Attack
by Nazis on Waxem.
burg Estate.
Ey the Associated Press.

LINZ, Austria, May 23.-Soldiers
Of Prince Ernst Won Starhemberg S
private Heimwehr thome guard re-
pulsed an attack on the deposed vice
chancellor's Waxemburg estate early
today, killed two men and arrested
seven others officially described as
Nazis.
Official accounts gave varying ver-
Sions of the attack
One said 1t was a NaN attempt to
obtain arms allegedly hidden in the
castle, which is the Summer home
Of Won Starhemberg's mother Another
declaration asserted 1t was a Nazi
plot to kill the former Austrian cabinet
official
A third account said the conspiracy
was engineered by disgruntled men,
bers of Won Starhembergs private
troops.
Guards at the castle, forewarned
Of the attack. lay in wait for the
aSsaulting forces and returned their
fire. The leader of the attackers
| escaped.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
A.F.G.E. COMMAND.
ASSA|LS BABC0CK'
Four Members of Executive
Council Repudiate His
Democrat Attack.

The high command of the Amer
lean Federation of Government EN-
ployes was embroiled today, with four
members of the executive council
joining In repudiating an attack by
President E. Claude Babcock on
Democratic personnel policies, which
is being circulated in pamphlet form
by the Republican National Com
mittee.
ANY partisan or political statement
issued by any officer or member OF
the American Federation OF Govern
ment Employees is without ofilcial au-
thorization and must not be regarded
as representing the views of the fed
Grafton, as it is strictly non-partisan
organization" said the council mem
bers in a statement late last night.
Those signing it we're Michael d.
Schaefer, G. Carroll Dimond and Ira
Y. Balm, national vice presidents, and
Cecil e. Custer, treasurer.
Contact Other Members.
It was said they were commune
eating with 10 members of the coun-
Gil in other parts Of the country, &C
uuainting them with the local develop
ment and asking their views as to any
further action.
In formed of the statement, Bab-
cock said he subscribed" to it. He
added that he had expected to draw
fire because of the article in question
but I am enough interested In the
merit system to take the rap"
The pamphlet was written by Bah
cock as a former secretary Of the
Civil Service Commission. A foreword
explains: In the following article
written expressly for the Republican
National Committee, an authority on
civil service tells how the merit system
is being wrecked by spoilsmen of the
administration"
Tone Shown in Summation.
The tone is demonstrated by this
summation:
Jim Farley has been a good spoils-
master general. He has bought lot
of votes with the United States
Treasury.
Franklin d. Roosevelt has been
nice blind spoilsmaster.
The civil service child has beer
kidnapped and will never be founc
under this administration"
While the A. F. G. E. has not been
backward in attacking the substitu-
tion of patronage for civil service
during the last three years, the OBJ
lection to Babcock's statement in this
instance is caused by the tie-up with
the Republican party.
The article was written two or three
weeks ago In the interim. William
Green. president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, with which the
A. F. G. E. is affiliaEd, has come out
with an Endorsement of President
Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD
FOR DR.. CHARLES HILL
Tribute Paid to Late Professor Of
Political Science at George
Washington University.

Memorial services for DR.. Charles
E. Hill, professor of political science
at George Washington University, who
died May 10. were held yesterday in
Corcoran Hall.
The program included brief speeches
by Dean Elmer Louis Kayser. uni
versity marshal: Frank Weitzel, a
former student, who paid tribute to
DR.. Hill as a teacher; DR.. Charles c.
Tansill, international law authority.
who discussed DR.. Hill as "a man and
a scholar: DR.. Warren Reed West,
political science professor at the uni
verSity and assistant dean of the
School of Government, who praised
the late professor as a colleague and
friend" and President Cloyd H. Mar
win of the university. DR.. Marvin
expressed the university's apprecia-
ton of the work of DR.. Hill.
The prayer was conducted by Rev.
James S. Loughran. pastor of
the Cleveland Park Congregational
Church.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
BRITISH REARM|NG'
PROGRAM SPURRED'
Second Stage Is Entered
With Plans to Allocate
Machine Contracts.
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 23.-Great Britain's
gigantic rearmament program has en-
tered the production phase with q
speed and thoroughness rejecting the
possibility of war against which the
plan was devised and approved by the
people In last November's elections.
After two months of survey work,
the Imperial Defense Committee has
entered its second stage-development
OF productive capacity Of the empires
factories to supply shells and imple-
ments Of war.
The committee, under Sir Thomas
w. H. Inskip. minister for defense CO.
ordination, has undertaken immediate
ALLEGATION Of contracts for machines.
tools and gauges necessary to speed
up supplies.
Five Departments Of Work.
Sir Thomas divided the rearmament
work roughly into five departments.
/. Preparations to hasten naval
building.
Estimates on the naval program
indicate construction of 2 capital ships
cruisers, 8 destroyers, l aircraft
carrier, submarines and a number
Of smaller vessels. For this purpose
the admiralty has asked an additional
appropriation of $51. 10000 to its
original estimate of $349, ,65O, ,000)
2. Mushrooming production of planes
and equipment for the royal air forces
and aviation defenses.
Qnskip has told the House of Com
mons his committee. plans to increase
the flying defenses to three times
their size in 1884. Sixteen hundred
new pilots have already been enrolled
he said. Previous estimates said ap-
proximately $50 new planes would be
built)
Organization to Collect Food.
3. Organization for collecting sup
plies of food for civilians in time OF
| war.
"a new subcommittee on food con-
servation was formed under the super
vision of Sir william Beveridge. for
mer secretary of the ministry of food
during the World War;
4. Nationwide mobilization Of in
dustry for wholesale production OF
munitions and supplies.
S. Maintenance of speedy informa-
ton services on foreign developments
to assist the defense and general STATS
to formulate strategic plans.
The committee has declined to dis
close its exact plans even to the Par
Lament.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
BICYCLES MUST ABIDE
by TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Judge Curran Rules They Are
Vehicles in Meaning of
District Act.

Police Court Judge Edward M. Cur
ran ruled yesterday that bicycles are
vehicles within the meaning of the
District trafiic act and as such must
abide by trafic regulations controlling
automobiles and other vehicular
trafic.
The decision, which had been pend
ing for more than three weeks, dur
ing which time Trafic Director Will
liam A. Van Duzer took issue with
the court for dismissing other similar
cases. was rendered in the case of
Thomas flaming, a bicyclist charged
with running through a red light
Tanning was found guilty. but sem
tence was suspended and he was re-
leased on his personal bond.
In deciding the case, Judge Curran
said from the bench:
For the protection of the bicyclists,
themselves, this court interprets the
regulation to include bicycles and
therefore, they must be operated ac-
cording to trafic rules controlling
other vehicular traffic"
Evening star., 1936-05-23
MISS WATKINS HEADS
CHILD EDUCATION BODY
Retired Director of Public School
Kindergartens Is Honored
at Dinner.

Miss Catherine Watkins, retired di-
rector of District public school kinder
gartens, was elected president of the
District branch Of the Association for
Childhood Education at the annual
dinner meeting Thursday night at
Wesley Hall.
Miss Rebecca Rogers was elected
kindergarten vice president, Mrs. Hell
en- Barnum, primary vice president;
Miss Dorothy Trip, recording secre-
tary: Mrs. ]. v. Kenefick. cores
ponding secretary; Mrs. Margaret
Reed, treasurer, and Mrs. L. S. Alex
ander, Mrs. Katherine Hahn, Mrs
Ruth Maxon and Miss Marian A. zim-
norman, members of the board.
Retiring president and delegate to
the national convention held in New
York April 28-May 2, Miss thinner
man reported on activities of the con-
vention.
An address was made by Miss Fran
ces McClelland, associate editor of
Childhood Education Magazine, on
Reading Readiness"
Evening star., 1936-05-23
YOUTHS ADVANCE
|. IN FASCIST RANKS
$4,000 to Become AVIAN.
guardisti, $50, 600 Move
Up Another Notch.
BY the Associated Press.


ROME. May ga big platform
was erected today on the Via Del I'M
pero, leading from Premier Mrlssclinls
Venezia Palace to the colosseum, for
the Fascist levy tomorrow-the cere-
mony by which another wave of
Italian youth flows into the Fascist
party.
Tomorrow is the twenty-first scni-
versary Of Italys entrance into the
World War II Duce, surrounded by,
his government, military chieftains
and Fascist officials. will preside over
the Rome exercises, while similar
ceremonies will be held in provincial
centers throughout the Kingdom
Some 198,078 youths, who have
reached the age Of IA, will move up
with symbolic ritual from the status
of "balillas" to the rank of "avan-
guardisti," or advance guards.
Then, l50,534 advance guards. l3
years old, will advance to the rank
of young Fascist, where they remain
until they are 81 years old and be-
come members Of the Fascis: party.
The Balillas now total l,64l ,2l2 and
the Avanguardisti, 475.570.
Fascist officials published q state
ment today declaring
Although the Avanguardisti moving
up to young Fascists this year are
the class of 1918, which was the year
of the World War, with the lowest
birth rate, it is significant fact that
the total in this years levy surpasses
the total of last year by several thou
sands.
The lists Of the levy show that
about 80 per cent of the very youth
full Blackshirts who will pass into
the Fascist youth organizations belong
to the workmen's, peasants and
| artisans classes.
This fact demonstrates that ths
Fascist institution has profoundly
penetrated also into the masses Of
the people"
Evening star., 1936-05-23
Deaths Reported.

Mary v. Maher. so. 51OO Kansas ave.
Ella Z. Jones 20. St. Elizabeths Hospital
Frank MCGUIRE. rs. st. Elizabeth's Hospi-
odeiia Adler. "A. 1915 Kalorama road,
william A. volland. =. ! Sherman circle
joseph +. Wondrack, 81, 2S4 c st. ne.
Ida p. Browning So Sibley Hospital.
Charles E. Keller. jr-. 40. 1850 Wisconsin
Brownie J. chokis, 80. St. Elizabeth's
Hospital.
Leon Harley, 43 All Richardson st.
William Moore Al Gallinger Hospital.
Dan Terrell. 80, Gallinger Hospital.
Leroy Thomas. 81. Emergency Hospital.
Ethel williams. -. Freedmen's Hospital.
Madeline H Moten. 81. 2425 st.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
ATTACK is FOILED.
Nazis Said Officially to have Opened
Fire First.

VIENNA, May % lPy.-Two Nazis
were killed in an exchange of shots
during the night when a body of men
attempted to attack Prince Ernst Won
Starhemberg's Waxemberg's castle.
The Nazis were said officially to
have opened fire first. They we're
answered by gendarmes, who frus-
trated the attack.
The castle involved is the Summer
home of Prince Won Starhemberg s
mother. 1t is north of Linz. toward
the Czechoslovakian border.
Unofficial but reliable sources said
authorities were forewarned Of the
plot through Nazi who betrayed his
co-conspirators.
The Vienna Heimwehr headquar-
tiers said Won Starhemberg, who was
removed from the government in a
cabinet Shake.up by Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg, was in the capital.
In another report all members of
the Won Starhemberg family were said
to be absent from the castle, with only
servants and caretakers present during
the attack.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
Home Construction Active.

CHICAGO, May % (P1.-Residen-
tial construction in the United States
during 1896 should increase approxi-
mately 100 per cent over 1895, the Real
Estate Securities Committee of the In
vestment Bankers Association Of
America stated today.
Their statement said survey indi-
Gated the outlook for real estate this
year "is the brightest it has been in
several years"
Evening star., 1936-05-23

tune, will be featured by Freddie
Rich's Orchestra during the "Your
Hit Parade and Sweepstakes" pro-
gram on WJSV at 9. Fourteen other
favorite tunes also will be played.
Joe Penner viii be the guest star on
the "Follies Of the Air" program on
WJSV at z.
Keynote addresses Of the fifteenth
annual National Wemen's Exposition
Evening star., 1936-05-23
Births Reported.

Franklin and Lucille Moore boy.
Sqhn and Ruth Hoffman. Doy.
SharleS and Margaret Tompkins. bov
Roy and Thelma Reel boy,
russell and Harriet Whaley boy.
Ihomas and Mary Kane boy,
Aoraham and Rose Sherman boy,
FREQ and Jessie johnson. boy.
M11lam and Ruth Won NesSen. boy.
Paul and Anne ChrIsman gIrl
James and Audrey Gessford Jr girl
James and Marjorie Hardin jr.. girl.
Amerlgo and ErneStine Bellosi boy.
Robert and Caroline Woolf, boy,
Joseph and Rae Silverman. girl,
John and Grace Deane. boy.
Bernard and Tile Kicker, boy,
Land0n and Frances Holt. boy.
Charles and Mary Leannarda. boy,
Jack and Evelyn Kogok boy.
Amidln and Antoinette Auriti. girl.
Auburn and Doris Inscoe. girl
Karl and Irene Bredenberg girl.
Walter and Vera Sheldon boy,
James and Katherine Hall, boy.
James and Lucille Walker. girl,
Ulysses and Mary Shelton boy
Paul and Katherine Korger girl
Evening star., 1936-05-23

broadcast Tuesday night Of Marvin
Beers "Nocturne Russo" Admission
will be by ticket only. The tickets
will be issued free at the station.
NJ B. c. is arranging special pro-
gram for May 81 to mark the
80th birthday anniversary of Pope
Plus XII Cardinal Hayes, archbishop
Of New York, will take part, by send
ing birthday greetings to the Pope.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

Of Arts and Industries will be broad
cast by WRC at z. The general
theme will be "The Interdependence
of the Purchasing Consumer, Industry
and Labor"
A broadcast from the Socialist Ma
tional Convention in Cleveland is
scheduled by WJSv at 10. Norman
Thomas and Daniel Hoan, mayor Of
Milwaukee, are scheduled to speak.
Evening star., 1936-05-23

zasu Pitts, Norman Foster, Olson
and johnson, Adrienne Matzenauer,
Louis Prima and his band and King
Levinsky win contribute to the Cha
teau program on wRC at $3.50. Miss
Pitts and Foster win take part In q
dramatic sketch.
,''You," song hit Of "The Great
Ziegfeld," the Nations favorite dance
Evening star., 1936-05-23
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and
warmer tonight; tomorrow generally
fair and slightly warmer; moderate to
fresh southwest winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair and
warmer tonight; tomorrow generally
fair and slightly warmer.
West Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow. little change in temperature.
Evening star., 1936-05-23
CAUCUS LACKS QUORUM

Anti-Lynching Legislation Plan
Fails to Gain Support.
Failure TO muster a quorum last
night defeated plans to stimulate
action on anti-lynching legislation in
the House through the majority caucus
method.
The members were called together
on a petition signed by 81 Democrats
led by Representative Ford of Cali
fornia. but only about 80 members
showed up out of the 158 needed for
q quorum.
Evening star., 1936-05-23

Record for Last FL Hours
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-06
NURSES FITTED
 AT HOUSE TEA
Mabel MacVickers, Alice Peak Guests at St.
 Johns Yesterday

Miss Jeannie Heppel and Mrs. Edith Ladd, executive secretary Of the local Red Cross chapter, were hostesses at a tea given at St. Johns parish house yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Mabel MacVickers, superintendent of nurses at Water bury hospital, and Miss Alice Peak, director of the Visiting Nurses as sociation. Representatives from all parts of the city were present and tea was poured by Miss Lois Warner and Mrs. Lillian Strobach.
 Among those present were: Dr. Edward J. Godfrey and his staff of nurses, Mrs. Margaret Verdon, di- rector of the department of public welfare and her staff, Miss Agnes Fitzpatrick and Mss Maloney of the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service, the nurses from the industrial plants, Miss Sara Ball, Day Nursery, Miss Margaret Bull, Corner House and her staff, Dr. Christine Leon ard, William M. Harris, Lincoln House association and his staff of workers, Mrs. George Jackson and Miss Anna Murphy of the Anti Tuberculosis league, Miss Kathleen Crowley, Waterbury hospital dis pensary staff and members of nurS- ing staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-06
eco AGENT HERE
 FOR ENROLMENT
B. H. Van Buren Coming Tomorrow to Interview
 Men and Boys

B. H. VanBuren, state selecting agent for the Civilian Conservation Corps, will be in Waterbury tomor- how morning from 10 to 12 o'clock to interview men and boys who wish to register for camps for the com ing enrolment period. In letter forwarded to the department ot welfare this morning he stressed the fact all young men who are inter- ested should make it point to turn up for an interview with him to- morrow, for this may be the last opportunity they will have to do SC in some time.
 To date there has been 8 large number of boys who have signified intentions to register for hte com- ing enlistment period, but it is ex- pected many more will be on hand tomorrow morning. VanBuren is scheduled to be stationed in the aldermanic chambers in the City Hall.