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Evening star., 1936-05-20
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN.

It looked like a mooring buoy as It
rode the waters of the Potomac at
the height of the recent flood
Today 1t was definitely established
as an instrument of destruction-a
mine or depth bomb. aged and rusty.
as it lay on dock on Water street.
The mine was believed to have been
planted of Fort Washington during
the Spanish-American War 40 years
ago. The flood brought it TO life.
The tug Captain Toby brought 1t
safely to shore.
Capt. Philip Barbour, master Of the
excursion steamer Potomac, who dur
ing the flood piloted the Captain Toby
in salvage operations. found the mine
floating miles below Fort Washing
ton. He first thought 1t was a moor
ing buoy.
Assisted by Chief Engineer Charles
Cogwell and Joe Lee, colored cook,
Barbour threw a rope around the
huge sphere and dragged it aboard
the Toby. For more than a month
it has lain on the dock unnoticed.
AT first I thought it was a moor
ing buoy" said Capt. Barbour. vet
eran of 43 years on the Potomac.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

TO-DAY. "
Senate: &c
Debates hocd control bill.
Finance Committee weights tax bill.
House:
Acts on conference report on Inte-
rior Department appropriation bill.
Bell Investigating Committee meets
at 10 am. to continue questioning DR..
r. e. Townsend.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will transact miscellaneous
business If flood control bill Is passed.
Commerce Committee holds hearing
on stream pollution, 10 am.
Finance Committee considers tax
bill (executive).
House:
Plans to consider special rules.
Bell Committee resumes investiga-
ton of old-age pension plans, 10 am.
8 Judiciary Committee meets at 10
an.
Ways and Means Committee re-
sumes consideration Of Disney crude
petroleum bill, 10 am. -
Evening star., 1936-05-20
OLD MURDER UNSOLVE

kfADTSONv1LE, Tenn, May 20
R).-Ths State of Tennessee dropped
q 28-year-old murder charge against
63-year-old H. B. Kirkland yesterday
because all the witnesses are dead
Sheriff Hugh Webster, after q con-
ference with Attorney General r.
Beacher Witt, said he teiegraphed
Sheriff W. B. Mobley at Waco, Tex, to
release Kirkland. The man was ar
rested there Monday.
The sheriff said Kirkland was &C.
cused of killing Jim williams in the
Kirkland home. At Waco Kirkland
denied the killing. Another man In.
dicsed, Jointly with him Was acquitted
ju 1eO6,
Evening star., 1936-05-20

The fruits of victory are so sweet
that we'll call the bet off," wrote the
Senator.
But with McGahan, bet is a
bet And so, he went to q local seam
stress and had her make the Senator
an old-fashioned night shirt, with o
tasseled night cap of red flannel.
Here's hoping for your early re-
tirementl" wrc' McGahan, as he sent
the night shirt and cap to the Sen
ator.
"Thsre's no safer place in the
World than q circus tent in a storm.
They knoD their business and take
no chances"
With these words friend sought
to redssure an eIctted mother tDhose
children Uere at the circus during
Monday afternoons storm. A tew
hours later they met again ouer the
evening paper headlines describing
the effects OF the big blow.
"Thst sort OF makes you out
liar" she said
But gallant one," he defended
himself.
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FINAL TOUCH.
1T HAPPENED in the show window
of al local department store re-
Gently. The window displayed num-
Der of figures of the bride and heI
bridesmaids, dressed in the latest in
matrimd dnial attire. While the crowd
watched a window dresser was put
ting on the finishing touches. He sud-
denly took out his handkerchief, wet
it with bis lips and proceeded to wash
the brides face.
Evening star., 1936-05-20

(COnLlQued fTOm rHSt EASc.J
Boland about the first Of April, 1885.
The "Googy" note follows:
"Googy-I most certainly do not
intend to let you or that other party
get away with this last transaction.
That other so-called friend Of yours
did me dirty and you know 1t.
Nov, II you and this new friend
of yours are trying to do the same
thing, you're going to be badly mis-
taken as I am not going to let either
of you get away with 1t. I mean
this, and unless hear from him by
tomorrow night (Friday) am going
to start checking up on him. and be-
fore can do this naturally. Of course,
I will have to get you to give US the
head-way.
st am as much implicated. II not
more 50, than either Of you, but I
don't care what happens to me If you
do not go through with the deal. I
mean every word Of this and will give
him until tomorrow night Friday,
March 29) to get in touch with me.
have plenty Of friends that will
help me and will be glad to help me
as have done plenty Of favors for
some Of them. It will be to your friends
to get In touch with me,
either 20 through with the deal or re-
turn my money. / can make 1t plenty
tough for all Of US and don't give
o damn what happens to me If the
deal doesn't 60 through. mean
this-either get in touch with that
friend and give me back my money
or get him to get in touch with me-"
Contention Not Denied.
The State late yesterday offered sew
eral witnesses to show intimacy be.
tween Mrs. Lyddane and Beall This
contention is not denied by the de.
tense.
These witnesses included James Nc
Donald, q neighbor OF Beall's In
Darnestown. Mcdonald said in june
OF four years ago he saw Mrs. Lyd-
dane with BealL and again during
March of 1885.
Townsend Howes. Rockville news
editor, explained that In the Fall oi
1894 Mrs. Lyddane asked him to tele.
phone Beall. II Beall answered, Howes
said, he was to tell him to call . Ger.
tain number.
But II Mrs. Beall answers," the
news editor said he was Instructed
"just tell her to tell Beau the 0aithers-
burg Athletic Aaleclataaa Is usestauGs.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
OUTING is PLANNED

The Young Democrats of the Dis
trict will hold their pre-convention
picnic and jamboree at Marshall Hall
Park on Saturday.
Dancing and an excursion cruise
down the Potomac River on the City
Of Washington are included on the
program. Representative wearin of
Iowa and Miss veita Morrow of Seat
tie, Wash, will speak.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
Washington
Wayside
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
GUFFEY STORY.

GUFFEY STORY.
TINE coal act bearing his name
may have been declared un-
constitutional. but Senator
L Guffey has not always been
on the losing side of things. In his
present hour of darkness, ii that Is
what it Is, the Senator might look
back to that happier day when he
won bet from Col. Paul J. McGahan,
Philadelphia newspaper correspondent
here.
Here's the story that's going the
rounds in, National Press Club circles:
Old friends. Col. McGahan bet Mr..
Guffey that he'd never be elected to
the Senate from traditional G. o. P.
Pennsylvania. Col. McGatan lost.
True to his word, the correspondent
asked the Senator to name his tailor
and send the size of his hat,
Evening star., 1936-05-20
SPAIN LEFTIsTs STRIKE
Object to Alleged Judicial Len
iency to Fascists.

LUGo, Spain, May 20 HP.-Leftists,
irked because of what they considered
judicial leniency toward q score Of
Fascists, declared a general strike
today.
Coz. Jose Fernandez, In turn, de-
clared the strike Illegal because no ad-
vance notice was given. He threat
ened TO imprison the strike leaders If
work was not resumed this afternoon.
Sixteen Fascists were sentenced to
Q yser in jail. -Four we're acquitted.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
y X y 4
GOOD TASTE.
Army Planes Collide.

HALONS-SUR-MARNE. France,
May 2e R.-Two army planes, each
occupied by single pilot, collided
last night, one cutting the other In
two. 4
The pilot Of the most seriously
damaged plane was killed. The other
was injured.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
COMMITTEE APPROVES
FOOD AND DRUG BILL
Question Of Jurisdiction Over Ad-
vertising Compromised-Cos-
metics Put Under Law.

.
metics Put Under Law.
W the Associated Press.
Legislation designed to strengthen
the food and drug act was approved
today by the House Interstate Com
tnerce Committee, which rewrote the
measure passed last session by the
Senate.
- On the controversial question Of
whether the Federal Trade Commis-
sion or the Agriculture Department
should administer advertising regula-
tions, the committee decided to limit
the departments authority to adver.
tising on the package.
This gives the Trade Commission
authority over other advertising. The
commissions power was broadened to
cover advertising considered false in
itself as contrasted with its present
limitation to false advertising affect
Ing competition
The bill also brings cosmetics under
the law for the first time.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
Heads Health Committee.

Craftsmanship Of the, Council OF
Special Agencies Health Committee
has been accepted by DR.. Prentiss
Wilson, Or. Russell J. Chnchy, cou1-
ell president. announced today. DR..
Calvert Buck has been selected vice
chairman of sae committee, .~x
Evening star., 1936-05-20
OIL TRUCK 0vERTURNS;
DRIVER BURNS TO DEATH
Tire Blowout Blamed for Fatal
Accident on Eastern
Shore.

By the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD, Nd, May 20.-Harold
Luttsinger of Cape Charles was burned
to death near Eastville, Nd, yester-
day when his oil truck overturned and
burst into flames. Caught in the cab.
he was unable to free himself.
Luttsinger, originally from New
York, was returning to Eastville when
front tire burst. His truck swerved
from the road, overturned and gaso-
line spilled on the hot motor and ig-
nited. His widow and two young chill
dren survive.
Evening star., 1936-05-20

SL4 4EkSx4N1
THERE Is no limit to the ingenuity
of college students.
Out at the University of Maryland
they are still talking about the re-
sourcefulness of a freshman who
wanted to 60 to the presidents re-
ception. but had no studs fo- his
tuxedo.
Did he stay home?
Not at all He used paper clips
those brass things you push through
and then spread apart-and, accord
ing to his story, nobody noticed the
difference.
SHARE THE WORK.
IN THE Department Of Justice they
cheer on beginning clerks and
stenographers with a bracer some
thing like this: Stay in there and
pitch-you may get to be window
shade measurer some day"
The quip started when some one
in the department decided new vene-
ttan blinds would improve things. II
took five crews Of men to install
them.
The first gang came in one day.
silently measured the window open
tngs, and left. Ten days later a Sec
ond crew appeared with the blinds,
stacked them neatly in a corner, left
The third gang installed them-three
weeks after the first measurement.
Days later a fourth man, alone came
In and laboriously measured the
strings operating the shades. The
final stage consisted of a tester, who
capped the climax by coming around
and putting the shades through their
PAGES. Employees in the department
anxiously await the appearance Of a
venetian blind-safety inspector"
y Il Il
LIGHTNING.
Our lightning operatipe-the one
ao11o sodtches lightning flashes and
tells t0here they 90 and inhdt they
do-s.Ibn,itted report on q elfn
bolt itOhich tried to knock the
aluminium cap of the Washington
monument eractly at 4 pm. Mon
day afternoon.
1t came dopn, he says, Nth an
eor-splittino crash, hit the cap and
bounced right back Without doing q
bit OF damage. That, of course, Is
tOhnt alDays happens to errant
lightning flashes irtich pick out the
Monument to test their strength.
TheyEoet no,Dhere. but they keep on
trying.
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GOOD TASTE.
TOOTHPICKS may be taboo in po-
lite society, but they constitute an
important item in telephone repair
mans TOOL kit. A whole compartment
In the kit Is filled with toothpicks.
I'VE use them for broken line feed
ers," the repair man said, when asked
why he carried such big supply.
Realizing by the puzzled look Of
the inquiring wayside operative that
he had not made himself clear, he
added more simply:
"They come in handy to insulate
contacts wheE there Is o short CTR
cult" : !.
Evening star., 1936-05-20
SMITH SEES BORAH
Just a Call, Senator Hastens to
Say Of Former Long Aide.

Gerald Smith, former Huey Long
lieutenant. conferred yesterday with
Senator Borah, Republican, Of Idaho,
at the Capitol. but the Senator said
there was no significance In the meet
ing.
at was purely q friendly call"
Bxah told newspaper men
Evening star., 1936-05-20
Cuffey

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Evening star., 1936-05-20
Lyddane

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-05-20
Traffic

Continued From First Pase.)
Evening star., 1936-05-20

That left turns be prohibited at all
Intersections in the congested area and
on arterial streets where such action
will not result in serious congestion at
other points.
Aerui-snnual inspection Of all motor
.Sshtelss q pfvyidsd q q bfll which
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-17
FARM CREDIT
ADMINISTRATOR
Washington, D. C.

April 10 l!4
Hon. Burton X. Wheeler,
u. S. Senate.
Dear Senator:
There has been received yu
letter of April Z, 1886, addresld
to Governor Myers, transmitthl
a telegram and a letter UddTs
sed to you BY a number d
farmers in the vicinity Of Pa
tyWOOd, Montana, indicating I'd
they are unable to negOtiate q
emergency crop and feed In
because they have received =
sistance through the Ressiis
ment Administration.
It is our understanding u
loans for crop production I
poses out of the funds aIozs
bv Executive Order for diSpa
through the Emergency Crop
Feed Loan Section are 70
made farmers who are not
ceiving assistance thrOggh
Resettlement Administratls1a, !
is FURTHER OUR UNDsgs
STANDING THAT TEE y
SETTLEMENT ADMINNIISIII5I
TON WILL CARE FO BS,d "
NEEDS OF THE EAh @5S-
NOW RECEIVING AID i"
THAT AGENCY. ID
In the circumstance 49, T0s
no further action for the y
gency Crop and Feed Lon =.
ton to take in tnoss
where the existing Sta!n
farmer precIudes him ..1 T9s5
gOtiating a loan t thT' SS n
Section. BY REASON. I W
EXISTING RELATI,IIgSS1 IN
WITH THE RESEIII
ADMINISTRATION. ..,se
A copy Of this cOrr'Ns ",
has been referred 70 a.
Thayer, Acting Manage %ag.sbiS
office at Spokane, ~.
in order that he n .syys1I
himself that farmers n ~
Montana are receiving N
ance available Wl1Iu
and our regulations. .,.A ~
The Enclosures VIZ ..tin q
panied your cOIn I
returned herewith. ,mn
Philip G. n nira,s,
Emerge1ey ~
Feed Loan
:. would seem ts sstour
something definitely Pssss
, he function Of the IsntS
administration ID Itg. ~
rsf..,ssdaTl cOuu3 idll
iucerI CONTINUED an on P'''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-17
Friday. April !, j..
SEED LOANS
(Gantnno1 -
RESETTLEMF0TT

zATTsATfEE1zHBEEE E IOISS
2 s;t second letter on 't tSs lWAsslsh
Philip G. MuF rIirSd ALE a letter iosl
tor Of the EnesrSo+aasSl stant Dr.
Feed Loan Section ec 5Se0 acy Crop ' y,
matter nj Sen. Wheels concerning y: ~
ne ne., expected pc to see ia sdT s ~
over over the week end s suS p!sdjS
would take the s N hSuG When /.
, gatis{ personally, and Stn p vii
promptly" % worked h,
Director Mummy a.,
further our understoS-uI v:lses: 1t =
res Eesettlement AdministrssstsAa that u
care for the needs Of tS :'lS :: VII
now W. receiving aid thru M tS,,' aia,a
tlc?nship with the ResettISsS@la!g. NJ
ministratiOn. the Emers~.sso,aea t A.
and Feed Loan Sect;On s!snty Clo
ed from granting a losn = : p'etUi.
The letters follow and :,
read and studied caref iS Sva'Odh
THE LETTERS
UNITED STATES sEN,m
Washington, D. CS'AtE
Burton K. Wheeler, Senator
Mr.. F. J. MILL, April Ii, l@
PlentywOOd, Montana
My dear Mr.. Miller:
l am enclosing herewith :.
from the Assistant ~ H. la's
I Emergency Crop and Fed I I.'i
Section concerning loans ~ v Ii9
is self-explanatOry. 'A0
l have had numbers of 49,
plants concerning the IS 81 ' ~,
loan regulations and hsvs va ~ y.
the matter up personally 'V M
Governor Myers of the F,'s
Credit Administrator ana IN NJ
DAILY Of the Resettlement' ~ ~
Pect to see the President ~
the week end and trust ~.
satisfactory plan IS WOrfs5 I' si
promptly. W
With best wishes, Ian
Sincerely yUrs
B. K. WHEELER
The following is the mdou
letter from the Farm Credit a
ministration:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-17

Entered az Second Glass Matter, October
10, 1913, at the Post Office at Plentywood,
Montana, Under the Act Of March 9, 1897.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-17
THE PRODUCERS NEWS

Published Friday Of each week at Plenty
wood, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing
Company, Inc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-06
LAKE JUNAI.USKA

One of the best bits of news to come this way in
some time, was last Sunday when the fact was
made nown that the holders of the first mortgage
against the Lake Junaluska Assembly had reached
an agreement that the temporary restraining order
against confirmation of the sale of last February,
would De continued until the fifteenth of August.
This gets the legal entangements out of the way
for the summer season, and at the same time gives
ample warning TO the friends of Lake Junaluska,
and more particularly the Methodists of the South,
just the status of this summer gathering place.
/ The first mortgage against the property is $94,-
600. To an individual or small community that
is quite sum, but to a group as large as the
Southern Methodist church, it is merely a drop in
the bucket.
There remains four and one half months in
which the necessary amount can be raised. and the
judge hearing the case has stressed the point that
should satisfactory arrangements not be made by
August 14th that the sale would be confirmed.
2 This is challenge to those who love and believe
lin Lake Junaluska to contribute enough to nav off
the debt If that isn't done, then the result is al
ready known-Waynesville Mountaineer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-06
JONES PAYS THE FREIGHT

As long as Washington does the spending and each
section of the county gets its share we delude our
selves into believing that it costs nothing locally L.
should be borne in mind that every community will
eventually have to pay its part for running the
show" There is no getting around the fact that
"Jones pays the freight" Every tax goes back
to the consumer sooner or later. .t-.. ...
President Roosevelt is trying to curtail expendi-
lures In doing so, he is running into difficulties
Communities are SO pleased with having money
come from Washington that when the flow dw;n.
dies, letters and kilograms are rushed to members
of Congress urging them to use their Influence to
keep CCC camp, complete WPA or PWA prof
| ect in fact retain everything we now have and
get more if possible. ...-....
Such situation as this is quite embarr. ssing to
President Roosevelt and members of Contress in
an election year, Tax payers might as well learn
that the money stream from Washington can't keen
Nm indefinitely. 1t must and will gradually drv M
and as long as the let-up general throughout the
nation and no fayoritism is shown here or there
| WI ;sEznEa resign ourselves to Q eurtament pro
= gfam.-CleYelaHd star Fs@sas vi, t.s.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-06
RusINEss SPENDS FOR RECOVERY

| The United States government has borrowed and
spent or loaned during the past tour years not less
than S12,50O, 100000 in fighting the depression.
The United States News, the Washington news
magazine of national affairs has analyzed fnan-
ia statistics which show that in the past five years
private business, so called has dipped still more
deeply into its reserves and paid out still larger
sums to keep the country running near as may
be on an even keel"
These still larger sums are reckoned to be
twentysix and half billion dollars than twice
as much as the government has spent for the same
purpose.
But there is this difference, as the United States
News points out"
In the case of industry the money came from
rainy day reserves, earnings which were not paid
out in dividends First, they were earned then
they were paid.
In the case of the government, however, the
money came from borrowing against future tax re-
ceipts First they are paid; later they are to be
collected.
Then the rest of us will pay--for dead horses.
The contrast is NEST striking.
The governments method has probably been ne
cessary and the expenditures have undoubtedly &C
complished good, although they may have been ex
cessive for the results obtained,
But industry's surplus depression expenditures
having first been legitimately earned have gone
straight to their detectives without waste or loss.
Do we want to do anything that will disturb OF
interfere with this sort of industrial and social in
surance?
Certainly if we attack this one of the solid foun
| dation stones of business security, should 81
about it with eyes open, and sure knowledge
of what the consequences are likely to be-Rocl
| Hill (S.C.) Herald
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
EARN RELIEF PARADOX

Improve the soil, but raise less. That is the
naradox presented by the latest farm relief act,
which is lust now being widely discussed both with
rospect to its practical administration and with a
yie TO its ultimate effects by those who have given
tbought to the probable consequences of the new
law.
II is nroposd to distribute some 500 million dol
lars q wear to farmers who cooperate in plan TO
take portion of their land out OF production and
devote it to conservation purposes such as soil lm-
movement the prevention of erosion, and the like.
What it is proposed to do with this improved land
later on has not been disclosed
The immediate effect. it is assumed, would be a
reduction in farm production of salabe crops, IN
the hone of increased prices for what is produced
TINS continuing to put into praitce the ECONOMY
Of scarcityn theory which has been highly favored
IN Governmental circles for some time. How long
s,,ob nrogram and its heavy drain on the public
toos,,, can he continued is an important question.
Surely the government can not continue to pay
vast sums for such program Indefinitely, and when
ra,ments for non-production cease 1t Is inevitable
th.+ tho land temporarily left idle, and improved
through the soil conservation plan, will again be
cultivated with the result that surplus crops great
or that never before will be produced
To an unbiased observer the conclusion is ines
capable that the long rage effects of the new plan
will be more harmful than beneficial to the farm
ers themselves The beneficiaries OF the plan, II
any, will be the politicians who are wiling TO adopt
anv temporary expedient, however, unsound in
the hope of capturnr the farm vote next Novem-
ber-Monroe Enquirer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-06
This Actually Happened
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

leaving $101.OO on which to pay
interest," the remaining twelve
months. which would be about
$500. For the life of me | can't
see how you could charge me
more than $1,000 interest. That
would bring the total cost of the
box to $4,000 instead of
$28O.5O."
The salesman coughed some
more. 1T isn't interest alone
that we have to add to the price
of the box" he said. Its the
carrying charges"
What in the world" asked the
man, "are carrying charges"
The salesman explained that
carrying charges covered the fol-
lowing items:
/. Interest.
>. Average cost of collections.
3. Average cost of repoSScSS-
ing the box should it have to be
taken.
!. Average damage to the box
should it have to be repoSSeSSed.
5. Average cost of rcSe!Ilng
the box should it have to be re-
possessed. ~
81 Sec" unused the man. eff
/ buy that box from you on the
deferred payment plan must
stand my share of all the trouble
and expense you are put to deal
| ing with persons who are not en-,
titled to credit or to be trusted
with the care of a box like that.
"The main office has to figure
it that way-dealing as it doe!
with all classes of people" sale
the salesman.
"Wcll, Pm going to do some
figuring myself" said the man
And he left.
He went to his bank and founc
that he could borrow the cash tt
buy the refrigerator and save al
those carrying charges except in
terest. The man went back tC
the salesman and laid down thl;
proposition:
Il will pay you spot cash fol
that refrigerator" he said, pro
vided you will allow me $500
for my iceboX."
The salesman hemmed ant