davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-07-12
TEST TOBACCO SEED
AT ARLINGTON FARM
Samples Obtained in Central and
South America in Quest for
Disease Resistance.

Test paintings of more than 600
samples of tobacco seed, collected by
the Bureau of Plant Industry of the
Agriculture Department in Mexico,
Central America and Northern South
America, are being made at Airing
ton Farm near Washington and at
agricultural experiment stations in
tobacco States in an effort to fnd a
type of tobacco resistant to disease
DR.. E. E. Clayton, tobacco disease
specialist of the department. said the
region where the seed samples were
secured probably is the native home
of the tobacco plant. This Is the
first systematic effort to collect and
test some of the innumerable types
and varieties that have existed there
for centuries.
From these many varieties, he be-
heves, a tobacco may be found which
will resist wildfire, blackfire, mosaic,
mildew (blue mold, wilt, stem rot,
black shanks, root knot and black
root rot, diseases which cause huge
losses each year.
The collectors were DR.. w. A. Archer
and Raymond Stadleman of. the bu-
reau. In their explorations they found
tobacco plants with flowers from purest
white to deepest red, some of the
plants with 55 to so leaves. Tobacco
flowers in this country are pink and
the plants seldom have more than
IS leaves.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
BIDS TO Be ASKED
ON HOUSING UNIT
81, 100000 Low Rent for
CoIored Families Nearing
Final Stages.

Bids will be invited by the P. w. A.
tomorrow for construction of BIT FAM
lily living units at Iangston, the
81 900 900 low-rent housing project on
Benning road northeast.
Completion of the foundations and
grading on the 14-acre site in another
week makes it possible for the huge
housing development to enter into
final period of construction. When
completed, by the end of the year,
Langston will provide decent living
accommodations for colored families
in two and three story apartments and
group houses.
Housing officials have not yet select
ed the families that are to occupy
these carefully built homes. AS
planned, the homes will rent for ap-
proximately $3.50 per room. including
service charges, officials explained.
The plans for the buildings, drawn
up by the local firm of Robinson,
Porter & Williams, are the latest de-
signs for comfort and sanitation. No
dwelling will be more than two rooms
deep, thereby emphasizing cross-ven-
tilation. About half of the wall space
is devoted to windows.
While the housing division at p.
w. A. has scores of applications from
colored families wishing to take ad-
vantage of the Governments reason
able scale of rentals, no arrangements
have been made regarding the per-
sonnel.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
Song Seruice Chief to Ciue
Testimony at Postal Quiz

Acting as his own acconpanst on .
piano that had been hauled into the
hearing room, Shapiro, at the insist
ence of Horace J. Donnelly, defense
counsel and former post ONCE solici-
tor, qualified" as a witness by sing
ing compositions under scrutiny. Opin-
ion was divided as to these vocal ef-
forts.
Cohen Is author of the internation-
ally known Canadian Capers," and
his appearance as . witness Is being
awaited with what practically amounts
to intensity.
william c. O'Brien, assistant solici-
tor. who is handling the case for the
Government, has introduced number
of exhibits, including several Of the
works whose composers hoped Tor
fortune and fame.
One Of them goes like this:
open this silver box, dear,
Within only faded white rose; :
A faint odor TO 1t still,
Placing It to his swollen nose. :.
But for this treasure, my dear,
Where would I've been today-wfo
knovsa"
Evening star., 1936-07-12

The Post Once Department still
looks forward to about three days Of
musical SIEGE"
There was temporary respite yes
terday, but tomorrow, Henry r. Cohen,
chief of staff of the. Universal Song
Service Of Hollywood, Is due to come
before Q solicitors hearing to defend
the right of Universal to use the mails,
and everybody is hoping for harmony.
The department objects to Univer-
sails operations. The concern offers
to assist embryo song writer's in get
ting their pieces in workable shape,
but does not guarantee sale. Its
standard charge is $50 for "servicing"
each composition submitted. Litera-
ture points out that song writer's make
q lot of money.
Thus far the Government has intro
duced one expert to testify that q
group of these "serviced" compositions
had no commercial merit. This wit
ness, who appeared Friday, was FL
liot Shapiro, Of the firm Of Shapiro,
Bernstein & Co. Of New York, who
wrote. "Yes. We Have No Banana"
Evening star., 1936-07-12
Hearing on One>Man Street Cars Will Start Tomorrow
Life of College
PrOfessOrIsNOt
Il Bed of Ease

The life of O. college professor isn't
what it used to be.
A case in point is the experience of
George p. Barse, general counsel Of
the Controller Of the Currency's ofice,
who has been conducting q lecture
course on banking law for the last
two weeks at the Graduate School Of
Banking of Rutgers University.
Barse has been a member Of the
faculty Of National University Law
School for the past Is years, and this,
together with the pressure of his OIL
cial duties, places a premium on his
time.
Consequently, when called upon to
conduct the course at Rutgers, he
decided to travel between Washington
and the university campus by plane.
Three times week, he commuted
between the Capital and New Bruns-
wick, N. j., by air. becoming probably
the first college professor to employ
this means of getting to and from
his classes.
The banking school, attended by
400 students this year, affords post
graduate courses only. The participa-
ton Of Barse followed the request last
year of DR.. Harold Stonier. director
of the Graduate School of Banking
for cooperation from the office of the
Controller of the Currency.
Evening star., 1936-07-12

Malnutrition and a weakened heart
proved fatal late yesterday to William
H. Poulson. 74-year-old recluse, who
for weeks refused to abandon his tiny
river shack and 60 to hospital be-
cause he did not want to leave his
mongrel dog Jack.
Poulson's last illness was far ad-
vanced when social workers found him
Friday afternoon stretched on a cot
in his little shanty which in former
days was q cook house on mud
digger" barge.
He was carried out on a stretcher
and removed to Gallinger Hospital.
Employees of gasoline and gravel stor-
age yards near South Capitol and S
streets had befriended the almost
helpless old man and his dog for
months.
The drivers who load their trucks
near Poulson's shack said they would
look after Jack, a small black and
white hybrid. which has become a
great favorite with them.
Meanwhile, District authorities
Evening star., 1936-07-12
NEW STREET CAR
CHANGES DELAYED
Weather Causes Postpone
ment of Rerouting for
Week.

Weather conditions have forced q
postponement Of the Public Utilities
Commissions plan to have five Capt.
tai Transit Co. street car lines re-
routed, effective at mignight last
night.
The excessive heat forced the COM
pany to dismiss its work crews Friday
afternoon and spokesmen for the COM
pany explained that during other hot
days the actual work accomplished
had been slowed dowp.
The utilities commission, through
Richmond B. Keech, acting chair
man, informally agreed to postpone
the changes for another week so that
the new temporary routes will not be-
come effective until midnight next
Sunday.
Friendship Change.
Under the new plan Friendship
Heights cars that now run to the
Sixth-Seventh street terminal on
Pennsylvania avenue would be run to
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
Cabin John cars would be alter
nately sent out Wisconsin avenue and
turned back at Washington Circle.
The Fourteenth street cars that
now run to Potomac Park would be
routed directly south on Fourteenth
street to the Water street terminal.
-... Effect OF Brookland.
Cars from Brookland and the Dis
trict line that heretofore have stopped
at g and Fifteenth streets, would be
continued out Pennsylvania avenue
and on the Potomac Park loop.
The Rosslyn line, now running
from Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast TO the Virginia
end of Key Bridge, would be turned
west at the Sixth-Seventh street loop
Evening star., 1936-07-12
HOT FIGHT NEARS
ON PLAN TO WIDEN
CLASS Of SERVICE
standing Petition of
Transit Co. Hit by D. C.
Groups.
ROBERTS WILL OPPOSE
SECOND APPLICATION
Citizens Fear General Use Of Lone.
Operator Carriers, Saying
Schedules Slowed.

The Public Utilities Commission will
open q hearing tomorrow morning on
use of one-man street cars that prom
has ever handled.
As long ago as last August, the
Capital Transit Co. asked for the right
to increase the number Of one-man
cars on its several lines here. This
Spring a second application was made
when 80 used street cars were pur-
chased from Providence, r. I.
Most Of those cars have been de-
livered, and five Of them already have
been reconditioned, repainted. mod.
ernised and placed in service.
Objection to more one-man cars.
however, has come from organized la
Dor and the Federation of Citizens
Associations William A. Roberts, peo-
pies counsel expects to wage a Wig
orous battle to present extension of
their use.
II Now in Service.
The company now operates II such
cars and seeks the right to use 40
more At the time the commission
ordered the hearing, 20 used cars had
been purchased, but the petition asked
for approval Of twice the number in
view Of further anticipated purchases,
and the possibility that some cars now
in service may be converted from two
man operation to one-man service.
Representatives of the several citi-
zens' associations objected so strenu-
ously to the plan that Roberts and
William NICK. Clayton, chairman of
the federation's Public Utilities Com
mittee, called a mass meeting to get
the views of interested citizens.
The meeting brought out several
objections, viz: the cars are now too
slow and one-man operation will slow
them further; operation Of the cars is
too much physical labor for one man
tn perform; one-man operation is more
dangerous than dual control and will
result in an increase in accidents;
one-man cars will mean a decrease in
the number of persons employed by
the company.
Fear General Adoption.
Spokesman for the federation re-
peatedly charged that II the transit
company is permitted to increase the
number now in service. one-man op-
Grafton will eventually become uni
versal.
The new "streamlined" cars on the
RoSslyn line are of such type that
they can also be converted into one
man vehicles, and company repre-
sentatives have indicated that if the
application pending is approved, these
will be changed.
Hinman D. Folsom, assistant cor
poration counsel and attorney for the
commission, Is away from Washing
ton. Riley z. Elgen, chairman, Is Ill
at his home. With these two away,
Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman
and former peoples counsel. expects
to act as both chairman and attorney
when the hearing opens.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, engineer Com
missioner of the District and q mem
Der of the Public Utilities Commission,
also Is absent from the city. but Capt.
Hoel S. Bishop. jr., assistant Engineer
Commissioner, has been designated to
serve In his stead.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
Malnutrition Fatal to Recluse
Who Refused to abandon Dog

took charge Of the body, pending
word from Poulson's relatives at Poul-
son, Va, Q town named after his
family.
Poulson, who had been a carpenter,
recently was placed on the Districts
old-age pension rolls, but never SEEM
ed to cash his checks. according to his
friends along the river front. They
fed him and his dog from their own
scant larders
Poulson's illness, his friends said,
dated from the food last Spring,
which sent 4 feet of water into his
shack. He developed a cough, that
grew worse as time passed.
Social workers urged the ailing
man to go to the hospital, but this
he stoStly refused to do, declaring
he must stay to take care of Jack
and the tiny garden of tomatoes and
beans he had planted in a patch Of
river mud.
Poulson had lived along the Ana
costa River for as many years as
old residents Of the neighborhood
could remember.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
MARRIAGE INTERRUPTED
Auto Accident, However, Fails to
Prevent Ceremony.

TRUCKEE, Calf, July II (P.-AA
automobile accident interrupted mar.
riage-bound Robert z. Kitching ant
Elsie Stang today-so they were mar.
ried In. o hospital.
Hospital attendants said the ~.
year-old bridegroom and 20-year-oM
bride probably would not leave the irls
stituticn "for . few days" Kitchinl
suffered some broken ribs In q cob
lision Of two cars.
Evening star., 1936-07-12

of the Cavalry
School.
Col. vain. .
wright serve d
with the 3rd Cav
airy at Fort Myer
a3 years ago as q
squadron com =
mander and since
has served In
several staff de-
tails In the War
Department. ..
Born in the
State Of Wash
ington, August
23, 1883, Col.
TYyns~urvS~h& ma
Evening star., 1936-07-12

boys in several States, including New
Jersey and Delaware.
The group of % German boys,
brought here on an international good
will mission, has departed for Eu-
rope after a two-week visit during
which the foreigners learned how to
play base ball and other American
games. In turn they taught the
American boys . number of curious
German sports, including hand bal" !"
played with. q soccer ball.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
JOHN T. NADENB0USCH
DIES IN MARTINSBURG
Actively Associated With Bank
There for Al Years-of
Pioneer Family.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTTNSBURG, w. Va, July IL
John. T. Nadenbousch. 10, native OF
this county, for ~ years actively asso-
ciated with a bank here until made
cashier emeritus two years ago, died
at q local hospital this morning. He
suffered q fall at his home Monday
night and complications ensued. He
came of . prominent and early Ber.
kelley County family. A brother
Adrian c. Nadenbousch, who died .
few years ago, was long deputy United
States Court clerk in this district and
. ranking Mason.
One son survives Mr.. Nadenbousch.
Rites had not been arranged this
Afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
Col. WAINWRIGHT
ASSUMES DUTIES
Takes Over Command at
Fort Myer and of Sd
Cavalry.

Col. Jonathan M. Wainwright ar
rived yesterday at Fort Myer, Va, to
assume command of that post and Of
the 3rd Cavalry. stationed here. He
came here from Fort Riley, Kans.,
where he was assistant commandant
Evening star., 1936-07-12
CASINO BANKRUPT
Famous FL Dorado at Nice Closes
Doors.

NICE, France, July II R.--The FL
Dorado Casino, one of the French
Riviera's most luxurious gambling
palaces, announced tonight it had
gone into bankruptcy and closed its
doors.
The casino, where the French actor,
Maurice Chevalier, got his start In
singing, was the third to shut down
=, since the depression hit the Riviera.
It's assets we're listed chiefly as
equipment. It's Liabilities were not
disclosed.
Evening star., 1936-07-12
w. p. A. TO HOLD BALL
Dancing at Ellipse Tomorrow Is
Open to Public.

The Works Progress Adninistra-'
tion's first annual ball will be held
tomorrow from o to IL pm. In q
roped-off space on the asphalt sur
face Of the South Eliipse drive. The
District Of Columbia W. p. A. 7-piece
orchestra will play. Dancing Is free
to I'll who wish TO come.
Evening star., 1936-07-12

(See BL.ANTON, Page a.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

HERE was the faint click of one ivory
ball meeting another on the Claret pur-
pie surface of the billiard table. Welker
Cochran, dogged fighter and game loser,
smiled and extended his hand. The fifteen
hundred who had crowded into the grand
ballroom of the Sherman Hotel in Chicago
cheered. There was a word to be spoken into
the radio microphone held before me. The
newsreel men were beginning to grind, calling
to Welker and me to shake hands again.
was the new three-cushion billiard cham
pion of the world. Willie Hoppe, the old
boy Wonder" graying at the temples now,
had won everything worth winning That's
what the final click of those ivory balls on
purple cloth had meant
l mean to say, that's what it had meant
to the departing spectators, and to the writer's
in the little press box
But to me that faint click was like the click
of camera shutter. As | heard it there
flashed before my mind the picture, vivid in
every detail, of an evening thirty years before.
recall it easily now.
That scene is the ballroom of the Grand
Hotel in Paris. Three thousand Frenchmen
have crowded into the lavishly decorated
room. The l8-year-old American, Hoppe, is
at the table. Despite an earlier VISIT he has
been almost unknown in Paris until this
Evening star., 1936-06-07

seven. was playing exhibitions long before
Twas out of short pants
did not enjoy the role of youthful prodigy.
l would recommend it to no other fathers
son. To win that first worlds championship I
sacrificed many boyhood rights.
But mine has been full life, at that.
Memories pay dividends-I recall, for in
stance, the keen interest of Mark Twain, not
only in watching me play, but in playing the
game himself He came one evening to see the
match between George Butler Sutton and me
in the concert hall Of old Madison Square
Garden in the spring Of 1906. 1t was shortly
after had returned a champion, from Paris.
Intent on my game, heard the little burst
of applause which knew was occasioned by
no sensational shot. | looked up and saw
Mark Twain coming down the aisle. When
the match had been completed, the referee
introduced the great writer, with the sug-
gestion that Mr.. Clemens say a few words.
He responded with enthusiasm. He told of
day in Nevada when, dropping into bill
lard room to knock the balls about idly for
bit of relaxation, he was approached by a
stranger who suggested that inasmuch as MIR.
Clemens seemed not too skilful, he (the
stranger) would play him left-handed.
Evening star., 1936-06-07

of the world. Nat Goodwin, who has come
to Paris from London to back him, is first at
his side. Eddie Foy and Tod Sloan are not far
behind. They raise him to their shoulders in
typical college football style Someone starts
to sing "The Star Spangled Banner"
The boy retrieves his precious cue and
fights his way toward the lobby with his
brother, Frank. They walk slowly down the
Rue des Capucines to their own little hotel,
and go to bed
Thirty years is a long time in sports.
Since that night in Paris have played an
occasional bit of billiards with baseball
player who flashed into view years later and
stayed for some time. His name was Babe
Ruth. have played also with golfer named
Bobby Jones and with boxer named Jack
Dempsey
The final click of those ivory balls on
that recent evening in Chicago, you see,
closed for me period of striving that had
included thousand interesting experiences
There have been countless associations which
have made my Thirty Years War" with the
cue worthwhile
The sports writer's have sometimes exag-
gerated the amount of training have had to
do. However, have covered many mile
Photo by
q I Rr.u-,n,
Evening star., 1936-06-07

THAT piqued my pride, " said Mr.. Clemens,
so decided to teach this plainsman a
lesson. He won the bank for the opening shot
and commenced to play left-handed, as he
had promised. chalked my cue, awaiting
his early miss. But he didn't miss. He con-
tinued to play and continued to chalk nv
cue He ran out his string without miss.
My goodness exclaimed, if you can
do that left handed, what could you do right
handed?'
Nooti"Ued on psse I3)
Evening star., 1936-06-07

evening. 1t is the "Old
Lion" = Maurice Wig
naux, the 59-year-old
FrenChman and cham
pion of the world at 1871
balkline billiards = who
has drawn the great lzs
crowd
But now the Lion sits
in his chair, his great
head sunk between his
shoulders - for this has
been long match and
he is quite fatigued. The
Count de Dree, the referee, chants in French:
a.. play for three!" Three strokes from
victory!
The American youngster is tired, too. But
youth is on his side. The next stroke of his
cue is mechanical, but the ball counts
a.. and play for two."
One stroke nearer the objective. Again
cue meets ball; there are two faint clicks and
the point is made
%. and play for one
Only once more must that cue, which
weighs bit more than pound but now
feels like twenty, do its work.
a.. and gamev'
The American boy, Hoppe, has won. At
eighteen he is 1871 balkline billiard champion
La gaceta., 1936-11-12
ASUNTOS DE ACTUALIDAD
La Convention de la Federation Americana del
Trabajo y Ell unionismo industrial
Una lucha que hara historic en- la vida
del obrero americana

production industrial, con su
msl'uinaria moderna ha revolu-
/ cionado todos los melodies de IA
bricacion. En-. los tiempos va le-
janos en- que no habia la actual
production en- masa, los traba-
jadores realizaban sus labores,
en- pequenos talleres, cada uno
dedicado a TN oficio especifico,
los herreros trabajaban en- las
herrerias, los carpinteros en- los
talleres de su oficio, y ash suce-
sivamente, existiendo, pudieraI
decirSe, cast u nambiente fami-
liar entire obreros Y patronos,
por llevarss a cabo la produc-
ci6n en- t~alleres peluenos donde
todos Sc conocian. En- aquellos
tiempos, va idos, las uniones
por oficios desempehaban TN
papel eficiente.
Pero cambiaron los tiempos
e hizo su aparici6n ell progreSo.
Los antiques pequenos indus
triales fueron acumulando ri.
luezas, combinaron sus capita
.es y fabricas, y crearon las
grandes unidades industriales
del presente. Individuos como
Andrew Carnegie empezaron a
;omprar los pequenos talleres,
Iue trabajaban ell hero y ell a.
:ero, y de esa combination sur
gi6 la United States Steel Cor
poration, como han surgido to-
dss las grandes corporaciones
del pals. La consolidation de es-
tas grandes 1tilidades industrial
les trajo, como era natural, e.
que los propietarios organfza-
ran grandes asdciacio-e9 para
controlar la production Y los
precios de la misma; fijarle ell
salario a los trabajadores, lu-
char contra la union de los o.
breros, crear listas negras v un
sistema de espionaje, y expul-
sar a TODD obrero que Sc orga-
nizara, o a ~aquellos que intenta-
ban inducir a sus compaheros a
que 10 hicieran. Els va bien sabi-
do que las grandes companies
La gaceta., 1936-11-12

de Ford y General Motors, ID
quimica de los DUPONT, la 60
ma de Goodyear, Goodrich, Fl.
restone J otros, ell aluminio dc
Andrew Mellon Y muchas otras
companies controladaS POI
Wall Street.
Sin embargo, a despecho de
todas las predicciones de los e.
nemigos de John Lewis y su Co
mite de Organization Industrial
los obreros de muchas indus :
trias eStan viendo claro en- este
problema Y grandeS masas, en-
los centres manufactureros del
Norte, Sc unen y piden cartas de
union al Comit4 demostrando
de manera decisiva con su actua
ci6n que c%omprenden ell peligrc
que tienen arriba con los anti =
guos melodies.
En- articulos sucesivos ire de-
senvolviendo toda la historic do
esta nueva lucha en- las filas del
obrero americana.
Pedro RdmirCz MoyG