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Washinqton Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

WAsH1NGToN' March 81
w Friends who talked with
Herbert Hoover during his recent
New York visit are saying he is
extremely hot under the collar at
Gov. ALT Landon.
Trouble seems to be Landon's
deal with Gov. Merriam of Cali
fornia for control of the states
delegation.
Hoover wants an uninstructed
delegation, but one that will take
orders from him. He views the
Landon- Merriam trade as a per-
sonal affront. And when he read
about it in the papers, he called
up Landon by long-diStance tele-
phone and protested.
According to the account Hoo
yer gave his friends, this is what
Landon replied:
We'll, Mr.. Hearst wanted me to
enter the California field, and in a
choice between you and Mr.. Hearst
l think it best to follow Mr..
Hearst's wishes"
TINE decision of a New York
Il Federal court declaring I'M
constitutional the embargo on
arms sales to Bolivia and Para
guay, is going to put Chief JUS
tice Hughes in an exceedingly
cough spot.
For Mr. Hughes, while Secretary
of State, was the author and chief
advocate of an act of Congress
almost identical to the one lis COL
league on the New York Federal
bench now has declared unconsti-
tltional.
What Judge Mortimer Byers in
New York objected to was the
fact that Congress delegated the
power to embargo arms sales IF
the President finds" this is pro-
longing the war. The delegation
of this power. Judge Byers held,
was unconstitutional
The law which Chief Justice
Hughes wrote while Secretary of
State in 1922 specifies that when
the President finds" revolution ex-
lists in any American country
he may embargo arms shipments
to the revolutionaries.
This is a greater delegation of
power. since it gives the President
the power of defining what is and
what is not revolution-some-
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trump and carefully observed that
Vests first discard was the seven
of hearts, followed by two small
hearts. Dummy discarded a small
heart on the fourth trump lead.
North played another trump
and discarded the five of hearts
from dummy, West the deuce of
diamonds. Three rounds of dia-
monds were taken, with the lead
ending in dummy's hand. West
discarded the ten of clubs on the
last diamond.
Only four cards were left in
each hand, and now declarer was
certain that West was holding the
guarded king of hearts and two
clubs. He, therefore, played the
king and small club, trumping
in his own hand, thus establishing
his fourth club.
A small heart was played to
dummy's ace ard the three of
clubs won the thirteenth trick,
giving declarer his grand slam
contract.
At the ninth trick, if West had
played the jack of hearts instead
of the ten of clubs, declarer would
have cashed his ace of hearts, the
king of clubs, and then trumped
a club, and the queen of hearts
would have won the thirteenth
tex.
Copyright. 1885, BY EEA Service. Inc.)
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League Plan Recalled

IT HOPE that proposal will neither be forgotten nor
Il laid aside" he said. He thus clearly indicated
that when the time for new effort at peace
he regards the plan a perfectly valid starting
point. And Capt. Eden is Adam in the Garden
of the League.
The league proposal was contained in report
of the Committee of Five appointed to draft an &C
ceptable peace plan 1t based on Ethiopia's ex-
pressed willingness to accept League assistance in
the reconstruction of the dark empire.
Turned down by II Duce last fall, the plan, as 1t
stands is even less acceptable today Italian armies
have mace advances since September. More decisive
activities are expected If and when they come, the
above plan then would need but little change to make
II fit the League formula.
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BY w. E. M'KENNEY

BY w. e. M'KENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
TN the previous article, I pre-
u sented a very interesting type
of squeeze play. While on the sub
ject>of squeezes, I should like to
show you another unusual form
of this play.
Today's hand was played by
Harry Raffels and Melville Alex
ander. both of New York City, in
the recent eastern bridge cham
pionship tournament. Raffels held
the North hand.
Easts opener of the eight of
clubs was won in dummy with the
ace. Raffels realized that he had
only IL tricks in his hand, and his
only chance to make the contract
depended upon execution of
squeeze The opening lead seemed
to indicate that the high clubs
were held by West. Now, if West
also had the king of hearts, there
might be chance to work
squeeze with the heart and club
suits.
Declarer played four rounds of
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u Comics

B,y Science Serrtce
WASHINGTON, March 81
With the death of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann imminent, psy-
chiatrists anticipate a wave of
confessions" to the Lindbergh
crime.
Usually in the past each
major crime case which has ex-
cited wide interest has been fol-
lowed by such confessions Not
all of them are just attempts to
gain publicity.
Outstanding crimes in the
past have often been "con-
fessed" by persons obviously
suffering from mental disease.
A sick mind may make the in
dividual certain that he is
guilty of the worst crime in the
world, and if he hears of such
a crime having just been COM
mitted he is sure he did it and
confesses to it.
Not infrequently a convict
who is dying from some incur
able disease will confess to
crime he has not committed in
the hope of getting some one
else freed.
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half-measure sanctions which
went far enough to constitute a
constant irritant and threaten to
upset all Europe, yet not far
enough to be effective.
AS matters nv stand, there
fore. nobody IAN back down.
Britain is committed. France is
committed. Italy is committed.
Ethiopia is committed. And the
League of Nations is committed.
Something has got to happen to
break the deadlock and that
must be one of two things: Dras-
tic action to crush Italy, or a
policy of standing back and wait
ing for decisive blow in Ethio-
- - L
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When Right Is Wrong

~ANDOR compels the admission that neither OF
I 4 the two leading League powers went to Geneva
with exactly clean hands Britain and France struck
a bargain with Italy in 1915 which neither OF them
has yet wholly made good They are therefore Ia
boring under normal difficulties. They are between
the devil of having to do something for former any
whom they doublecrossed, and the deep sea OF their
obligations to the League and to their own ma
tional interests.
italy can not forget that in 1915 she was prom
sed that "n the event of France and Great Britain
Increasing their colonial territories in Africa at the
expense of Germany Italy might claim some
equitable compensation" in the dark continent.
Tomorrow-"Whither Mussolin?"
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MhEzouph
by
WESTbROOk PEGLER

T ONDON, March Sl-The Irish Hos
pitfalls Sweepstakes has been silenced
IN the English press, but there is no sup
pressing the fact that the lottery was run
again in connection with the Grand Ma
tional, the great four-mile suicide race at
Antree, near Liverpool Friday afternoon. This
naturally leads one of Irish ancestry to wonder
how his kinfolk the old sod are coming along In
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telling blows against this country would almost GER
tainly set Europe fire. the powers-that-be appsr-
entity have decided to mark time.
When the hour strikes. I understand, Geneva
has plan But until II Duce either decisive
victory against Ethiopia's Lion of Judah, or meets
with equally decisive reverses, it will be held in
allegiance
In diplomatic circles here, British Foreign Mn
ister Anthony Eden is believed to have given clew
10 the broad principles of this plan when he referred
to the League proposal Of last September
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TOttering On to the Races

MEMBERS of the craft who have endured the
fortunes of sweepstakes hangovers report that
the sadie ounions and foot bunions the thirst and
Iatlgue which plagued the war correspondents in
ETHIOPIA and laid them low must have been mild
oistempers compared to the anguish of any man
VINO regalned consciousness in the fogg7 dawn of a
Dublin day and yelled feebly for the coroner to come
and take look at the body.
lhls year the English brothers of F1eet-st have
neen spared the ordeal for their papers are for
oidden by English law to permit themselves even
the remoteSt reference to the sweepstakes The Jour.
nal'sS OF other nations, however have had to carry
on as usual, and some Of the boys tottered out of
Dublin this week with feeble steps and glazed vision
IN an advanced state of that ghostly ailnent known
as the shrieking meemies
1t still legal to send of the Irish lottery to
most nations, but the copy must be filed by some
route which avoids England because the English
refuse to handle it even in transit to foreign lands
Many British public hospitals are supported bv
voluntary gifts and they placed at a great ap-
parent disadvantage when the British public spent
millions of pounds of spare money on Irish lottery
tickets. The Irish hospitals about so in number
were IN poverty, too, and probably their distress
was worse than that of the British because the
Irish civil war drove out of Ireland great number
OF wealthy aristocrats who took the remnants of
their fortunes with them
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There's a ChuckIe
in Sloan Report
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

TASHINGTON, March 31.-Usually you can find
wv a chuckle that wasn't meant to be there in
the report of any big business executive to MS STOCK
holders These reports follow fixed formula. First,
they solemnly denounce the New Deal Then they
brag about how much money they are making.
Alfred p Sloan Jr, president of General Motors,
saws sadly in his annual report that the New Deal
Is postponing recovery Then come the figures,
dancing merrly. Net sales last year gained "a per
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Italy Today
by
VIM. PHILIP S|MMS
Haywood Broun Is on vacation.)

Y ONE, March 31.-Benito Mussolini is
seeking a solution to all his troubles
with Britain, with Geneva, with France and
with sanctions-on the battlefelds of Eth
opia. And Britain, France and Geneva are
letting him do it,
Europe's fear of another world conflict is partly
based the imbroglio in Africa. with its far more
serious accompanments-in the Mediterranean
Central Europe and the Far East But statesmen
are finding it exceedingly hard to chart course
Blunders of the first magnitude have been COM
mitted at Geneva and other capitals, the biggest
and most perous being the mobilization of the Brit
ish fleet against Italy. The second Genevas
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Another Noble Experiment

GO the lottery in the first place vas as Mr. Hoover
~ would put it, noble in purpose. But it is i'm
possible to spend millions of dollars on medical re-
search and individual treatment in a hurry and
the Irish government pointed out in answer to an
urgent request for s1OOO0OO for scientific inquiry
that such an appropriation all in one lump would
be more likely to retard than promote progress But
the reasons for withholding s25 from hospitals
which are in serious want have not been explained
officially
small proportion of the fund has been made
available and your correspondent would have the
figure If he were able to dig it out of the great
and confusing mass of statistics in which he has
been delving. Anyway the plight of the ailing
kinfolk of all those Americans of Irish ancestry
who bought lottery tickets from motives tinged
with philanthropy is apparently the last consdera-
ton OF the management. Prior considerations are
the Free State treasury which exacts a tax on
the hospitals share of the money before placing
the remainder in cold storage, and fabulous cash
royalties to the four individuals who started the
lottery and ties up fund Of $125000 as guaranty
for the prize winners in 1880. The trouble is that
the sweep succeeded too we'll
1t is now likely to die in its own success The
hospitals share is too big to be spent usefully in
short time and the British boycott was imposed
only because the lottery outgrew its philanthropic
character and became serious parasitic growth on
the body of England
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Surely they must almost be
able to recognize friends or even
sit up and snap viciously at
slab of steak after all these years.
considering that they ARE sup
posed to have had the benefit of
more than S40,000,0O0 worth of
medical attention since the lot
terry began as a more or less pri-
vate enterprise in 1880. There are
not quite three million souls in the
Irish Free State and unless the
majority of the population has
been enjoying very poor health
the dividends from the great in
ternational gamble should have
been sufficient to relieve the sick
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cent over 1851. NtG pTUIIUo WtIt
$3.50 a share compared with sl.9s
share in the preceding year.
Sales. earnings and pay rolls were
the highest since 1929. What
does Mr.. Sloan mean, postponed
recovery
A THOUGH he is committed
IN to support President Roose-
welt for reelection, John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Work
ers. is flirting, so his intimates
say with the dream of building
a Farmer Labor Party after 1886
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UNUSUAL SQUEEZE WINS
Today's Contract Problem

Even though South has bid
hearts, he gets a heart OPEN
ing on a contract of six no
trump. East. plays the ten.
What card should South play?
With the spade suit not break.
ing. what play must declarer
make to give his opponents
a chance to make a mistake?
A 1854
wac
<KQ9
- OF
NJ
(Blind) " & Blind
Dealer
AAK7
WkQJS
= AJ10
- AXIS
N. & s. val. opener-vs
Solution in next issue. "a
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z
AT last reports the hospitals still had about s2s
oooooo coming as their share of the revenue and the
COCOA DOCTORS were setting up shr clamor on be-
nan Oh tnelr patients for glimpse of this money
The hospitality of management to the io,rnoiiet.
VINO nave gone to Dublin to cover the draw has de-
leateo It's own purposes in many cases.
Evening star., 1936-11-08
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS
OF AMERICA

Rev. r. H. Spence. director of the
Retreat League of Washington, ad-
dressed more than 100 members ut the
meeting last Tuesday evening at the
Willard Hotel. Miss Mary Louise
Brown was elected trustee to serve
until May, 1887.
The Retreat Committee, under the
Craftsmanship Of Mrs. Margaret Smith.
announced an evening of recollection
to be held at the Washington Retreat
House, 1000 Harewood road, next
Tuesday evening. The retreat master
will be Rev. Edward McAdams, pastor
OF st. Joseph's Church.
Court District of Columbia will at
tend st. Patrick's Church November II
for annual memorial mass ut 8 Am.
Following the services the members will
attend q breakfast at 1l07 r street.
Miss May Barrett Is chairman Of the
Committee on Arrangements.
In line with the national member
ship drive being sponsored by the Cath
olic Daughters Of America through
out the United States, "Today's Chal-
lenge to Catholic Womanhood." Court
District of Columbia has made plans
to start . new membership drive and
Miss Dorothy Wyman has been ap-
pointed chairman. Miss Wyman will
be assisted by team captains who are
to be appointed within the next few
weeks. As the result Of the recent two
months intensive work on securing
new members, . class Of 81 was initi-
ated on October as.
Evening star., 1936-11-08
JOBS DAUGHTERS

Bethel No. l met in the Masonic
Temple. The following were initiated:
Marjorie Spain. June Elizabeth Price,
Margaret Elizabeth Atkinson, Elaine
Aris Bacas and Nancy Garrison.
The next meeting will be for elec-
ton and installation Of officers.
The Hiking Club will meet Tuesday
at 1853 Oates street northeast, the
home Of Norma Coburn. The hostesses
are Katheryn Blankenship and Norma
Coburn. On November II there will
be q straw ride and weiner roast given
by the club. Meet at 1915 M street
southeast At o'clock.
The Ducky Daughters will meet
Wednesday.
A meeting of the choir is November
13 at the home Of Betty Reynolds, lit
Longfellow street. Helen Bertram
and Henrietta Nunnally are co-host-
esses with Betty Reynolds. There viii
be election Of oficers.
The Mothers' Club will meet Tues
day at the home Of Mrs. Garland. Ia
u street northeast.
The Attendance Committee Of
Bethel No. 2 reports the purple and
white contest Is becoming very close.
Plans are being made by the Dra-
matte Club to accept No. Is invitation
to the Hay Loft November IS. The
bethel dinner Is Armistice DAY. The
next dril meeting win be November Is.
Evening star., 1936-11-08
Order of the Eastern Star
venber u Mrs. Violet Markward and
Mrs. Virginia Sayer.

venber d Mrs. Violet Markward and
Mrs. Virginia sAyer.
The officers Of Mount Pleasant
Chapter gave Matron Dorm and Patron
Sherman . surprise Halloween party
at the home Of Junior Past Matron
Hewlett November 2.
The Couple Gard Committee will
meet November IL.
The Grand Chapter officers will visit
William +. Hunt Chapter next Thurs.
day.
The Auxiliary Home Board will meet
at the , ,me Of Past Matron J. Ethel
Richards, 3s3e Livingston street, No
vember 10.
The meeting Of November as has
been called on due to its being
Thanksgiving day.
Fidelity Chapter will meet Novem.
Der 10. The Grand Chapter ofncers
will pay their annual visitation. En-
tertainment and refreshments.
The Friendly Circle will meet Tues
day at the home of Mrs. Georgia Ma.
comber. 1877 Fourteenth street. Mrs.
Bellman will assist with luncheon at
1880 pm.
Mrs. Florence Bergman. matron,
has called . special meeting November
80 for initiation.
The matron and patron will enter
tain their officers and chairmen at
the Lotus at Z pm. December Z.
The grand oficers Of Maryland paid
their official visit Monday evening to
Ruth Chapter. Hyattsville. A pro-
gram was rendered by the ofdcers.
Previous to the meeting . turkey din
ner was given in honor of the grand
officers. The annual bazaar and tur-
key dinner will be held December 3
In the Masonic Hall.
Mrs. Anne D. Potter, matron, Har-
mony Chapter, announces . meeting
at Joppa Lodge Temple next Thurs
day. A benefit turkey dinner will be
served by the chapter November II,
S to 7 O'Clock, at Joppa Lodge Temple.
Ninth and Upshur streets. Election
Of ofncers will be held December 10.
Brookland Chapter will celebrate
Armistice night Wednesday. World
War moving pictures Of the st. Mihiel
offensive will be shown. All who
were enlisted are specially invited to
be present. Refreshments will be
served.
The matron of Warren @. Harding
Chapter announces q meeting Tues
day. Special invitation Is extended
to all members having birth anniver.
saries in October. November and De-
cember.
The Unity Bridge Club will meet
Monday at 3 pm. at the home of Mrs
Frances I. Dobson, 1925 Otis street
northeast. She will be assisted by
Miss Ruth Piatt.
The matron, Mrs. Dorothy Faerber,
announces . meeting Friday. with vot-
ing on the amendments to the by.
laws. It is also Mems night" with
the program and refreshments in
charge Of the associate patron, A. Z.
Knowles.
The Dramatic Club will give
Thanksgiving program November a.
Scheduled visitations for the week
by the Grand Chapter officers are:
Monday, $50 O'Clock. Miriam Chap
ter; Tuesday. $50 O'Clock, Bethlehem
Chapter; Wednesday, $50 o'clock,
La Fayette Chapter; Thursday, Sis
O'Clock, Federal Chapter. and at $50
O'Clock. William r. Hunt Chapter.
Evening star., 1936-11-08
P. E. O. SISTERHOOD

Chapter D met 1t the home Of Mrs.
Belle Mckenzie, with the president,
Miss Myrtle Siedler, presiding.
Miss Ada Bagby gave q paper on
"The Friendly Stars" Mrs. Lillis
Graham gave . review Of the book
Beyond Sing the Woods"
Guests were Mrs. Ratcliffe, Chap
ter A, Chicago. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Applegate, Chapter A. E., ClArinda,
Iowa.
Misses Laura Hanson, Margery WI.
iiams. Jean Handy and Doris Hayes
were hostesses to Chapter r, when
they entertained ut dinner In Gadsby's
Tavern in Alexandria October 2s. The
officers Of the District Of Columbia
Chapter and presidents Of the several
subordinate chapters also were guests.
Following . short business meeting
. program Of recitations and imper.
sonations BY members was given.
Chapter N was entertained at tea
"wednesday BY Mrs.. Martin schoen-
ert. Tflden Gardens. The president,
Mrs. Paul Hegwer, presided. Guests
were Mrs. Benton, OH, Iowa: Mrs.
Radcliffe. A, Illinois; Mrs. Protho,
Fl, Missouri: Mrs. Colver. All, Wis
consin. Mrs. Clifford Belts had
charge Of the program, her subject
being, "Cottey Colle0e."
The next meeting will be wednes-
day ct the home Of Mrs. w. j. seelye.
3l11 South Dakota avenue northeast.
Evening star., 1936-11-08
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF LIBERTY

State good of the order meeting
Thursday. card party, Fourth street
northeast; November Is, annual
thanksgiving services. st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Mount Rainier, Nd. z
pm; November 1s, . dinner and
card party. 2l00 Massachusetts, ave-
nue.; December 10. turkey dinner in
Northeast Masonic Temple.
Hope Council was called to order
by the councillor. Mrs. Ruth Panne-
baker. The State councillor and her
officers will make their annual onicial
visit Tuesday at Naval Lodge Hall.
The State councillor and her ON
GERS will make their annual official
visit to Justice Council on December
J.. The next meeting will be Novem-
Der 10 at Northeast Masonic Temple.
Washington Council will meet to-
morrow, s35 g place.
Columbia Council will meet Novem-
Der 40 at Northeast Masonic Temple.
A card party for the State Council
will follow the meeting of True Blue
Council Thursday At Z Fourth street
northeast.
Potomac Council will meet Novem-
Der 10 ut 935 G place.
Monroe Council will meet November
10 1t 743 Twelfth street southeast.
The last meeting of Valley Forge
Council was called to order by Junior
ex-Councilor A. Don Morocco. A silk
altar nag was presented to the coun-
Gil by State Vice Councillor Mrs.
Mae Etchison and two holders for
color-beArer flags by Hope Council,
No. 1. A salutation nag and ballot box
was presented by MI. Morocco.
The credentials of Mrs. Hattie
Campbell Of Justice Council, No. z,
IS deputy State councillor Of Valley
Forge Council were presented. The
next meeting will be November II at
s3S q place.