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Evening star., 1936-12-27
Notable Events
OF Civic Interest In 1886.


THE Legislature of California
= adopted a memorial to Con-
gress asking that the District ma
tional representation constitutional
amendment be passed and submit
ted to the States for ratification.
Commissioner Allen took a COM
pany of American Indians over to
the Democratic National Conven-
ton at Philadelphia and put on .
modern tea party" as a propa-
ganda stunt for District national
representation. The convention
adopted a resolution directing the
national committee to request OF
Congress an investigation into the
question Of suffrage for the
District.
The character education program
in the schools was abolished by
elimination from the appropriation
bill of the required funds for its
continuance.
Two notable discoveries occurred
during the year. One was that the
District motto is "Justitia Omni-
bus" meaning justice for all. This
was adopted many years ago and
Is regarded as rather queer, con-
sidering the condition Of tyranny
under which District residents live.
The other discovery was by the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
of the District Of Columbia that
there were in the District notable
women civic leaders deserving OF
recognition Is honor guests at its
seventy-first annual dinner.
Two Of the local courts had their
names changed during the year in
recognition of the fact that the
bulk of their business was for the
United States. The Court Of Ap-
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Inauguration Day Hours.

Edward D. Shaw, secretary OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers ASsocia-
ton, has begun a check of the mem
bership of his organization to ascer-
tain just what hours will be observed
by stores on Inauguration day. Most
of the stores four years ago closed
during the ceremony at the Capitol
and did not open until after the
parade.
Shaw also announced that, begin
ming next week, the various trade
groups composing the M. g. NJ As
sociation will be called for their
annual meetings, when new members
of the Board of Governors will be
chosen. There are about IS groups
in the organization.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

7 YEARTBREAKING disap-
IL pointments, betterment
planning, watchful wait
L Il ing and hope deferred
mingle with q few achievements
and notable events in making up
the civic story Of 1896. Tyranny
continues as the form of govern
ment under which the voteless and
unrepresented residents Of the Dis
trict of Columbia live. There is,
however, growing interest apparent
for the relief Of this un-American
condition.
The civic hopes Of organized
civic Washington on the threshold
of 1885 have fallen far short OF
realization. A fairly accurate list
of the most important would re-
quire far more space than is here
available.
Some of these are almost forgot
ten as, for instance, the proposed
domestic relations commission out
lined by the Bar Association. The
disputed boundary between the
District and Virginia was to be
settled for all time and the plan
of Chairman Norton for a CO.
ordination Of effort between the
House and Senate committees deal
ing with District matters, particu-
larly as to appropriations, was to
introduce a new regime.
Local people were to be appointed
to local Offices and a new anti
gambling law, with teeth in it, was
to be enacted. The old No. 2 police
precinct was to be re-established
and No. IL was to be divided into
two precincts.
Rock Creek and the Anacostia
River were to be freed from pollu-
ton so as not to mar. with Of
fensiveness and danger to health,
the beautiful parkways through
which they pass.
A survey was to be made for a
transportation subway and real
solution for the mass tranSporta-
ton problem was to be discovered.
A practical use was to be found for
the abandoned Sixteenth street
reservoir and the fixing of traffic
tickets was to be abolished. The
Health Department was to be pro-
vided with adequate funds to make
both the health rate and its per
capita expenditure comparable with
other communities.
Our streets were to be made
more safe. the liquor law was to
be tightened up and the Hazen
farm for the treatment of the
inebriates and drug addicts was to
become a realization. The FIVE
year school building program was
to be provided and modern Juve-
nile Court law enacted. The long
delayed waterfront improvement
was to materialize and a location
secured for the Washington Mu-
nicipal Airport. The blare of auto
mobile horns. the screeching Of
radios, the banging of fiat car
wheels and other nerve-racking
noises were to be banished through
the noise-abatement campaign and
the District government was at last
to be reorganized along many lines
to eliminate duplication and in
crease efficiency.
The little red rider" that great
instigator of civic discord. was to
be repealed and the atmosphere
thus cleared for concentrated ef-
fort for school betterment.
These are all carried over to
1897 as unfinished business.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
CHAIRMEN NAMED
Connecticut Avenue Group Heads
:. Are Appointed.

!. The following committee chairmen
have been appointed by Harry G.
Grove. president of the Connecticut
Avenue Citizens Association:
w. H. Ross, zoning; F. F. Leith,
police and fire; Mrs. j. M. Whitman,
schools and Fairgrounds; DR.. B. r.
Read, public health, and David Babp,
laws and legislation.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Egg-White Helps Cure.

British scientists have found a new
means of combating hemophilia, or
excessive bleeding, the disease from
which the Count of Covadonga, the
former Prince of the Asturias, Is a
sufferer. Even minor operations or
tooth extractions are apt to be fatal,
they say. The new antidote Is the
result of an accidental discovery by
DR.. w. A. Timperley of Shefield, Eng
land, that q substance derived from
egg-white will make blood clot more
easily.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Notable Causes
For Rejoicing.

Notable Causes
For Rejoicing.
OF first rank among the causes
~ for rejoicing Is the involuntary
retirement from the House of
Representatives by vote OF his
constituents of probably the most
notable unfriend the District has
ever had. While We have been
threatened with tax increases, as
yet We can continue to rejoice in
not having been thus afflicted.
We can rejoice that the Michigan
avenue grade crossing is in process
of elimination, that plans and
funds are available for the new
Chain Bridge and that the plans
for the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge
have been approved by the Fine
Arts Commissions This bridge, it
is hoped by many, will be desig-
mated by Congress as the John
Philip Sousa Memorial Bridge.
At last the District is to have a
new Police Court building. now
being constructed in Judiciary
Square and the traffic bottle-neck
on F. street between Seventh and
Ninth has been wiped out by the
widening Of this portion of F
street, made possible through an
alteration to the old Patent Office
Building.
The Washington Criminal Jus
tice Association. an immediate out
come of the congressional crime
investigation. has been completely
organized and functioning for more
than a half of year.
The Community Chest plan has
been extended to the adjacent
suburban areas of Maryland and
Virginia and program for the
Identification of the grounds of
public schools has gotten well
under way. The sewage disposal
plant is practically ready for oper-
alton and race track gambling has
not yet been legalized.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
GET is MEMBERS
Membership Of 1,1ee
Includes 165 Women.

Petworth Membership Of 1,1oo
Includes 1876 Women.
Sixteen new members were ad-
mitted at the last meeting Of the Pet
worth Citizens Association, bringing
the total membership to 1899.
The new members are Carl w.
Gordner, Paul Lindsey, Miss Gladys
Weaver, George A. Robinson, Fred j.
Thomas, Bernard Menkoff, Cyrus
Morris, Arthur Reederman, Malcolm
L. Nicholson, Frank E. Springman,
John L. ..Moring. E. Clarence Postore,
Frank L. Garrison, Miss Anna A.
Burns, Robert L. Lowery and Edward
L. Miflin, jr.
OF the 1,199 members, 165 are
women, w. M. Barrett, financial Sec
retary, announced.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
The Regret UNIQUE.

HULL England P.-Sir Kingsley
Wood. minister of health, disclosed
woman, complaining of delay in get
ting her widows pension, wrote him:
IF I have to wait much longer
shall begin to wish my husband
hadn't died at all"
Evening star., 1936-12-27
LISTS
ITS AIMS FOR 1887
Vote for D. C., Red Rider Re-.
peal and School Are
Main Projects.

National representation, "red rider"
repeal and new Junior high school
are emphasized in the policy of the
coming year, according to Mrs. H. w.
Wiley, president.
The first is of paramount importance
to Kalorama citizens, as it is to all
residents of the District, Mrs. Wiley
says.
Wants Unbiased instruction.
The appropriation bill rider, which
causes all school teachers and en-
ployes of ,schools-even a charwoman
who cannot write and makes her x
to sign pay rolls, testifying they have
not taught any communistic princi-
Piles. will be unanimously opposed.
Kalorama, Mrs. Wiley states, believes
impartial and unbiased views of COM
munism, as we'll as any other form of
government, should be provided for
students.
If the 5-year school plan is ap-
proved by Congress and appropria-
tions made. the association will seek to
gain the much-wanted new Jefferson
Junior High School, she declares.
Other plans which Mrs. Wiley has
in mind are: Opposition to diversion
of gas and weight automobile taxes,
further taxation of any sort and the
40-hour week for women only; indorse-
ment of DR.. Ruhland's fight on tuber-
culosis and subterranean self-liquidat-
ing garages. and support of the Grim
inal Justice Commission. The Evening
Star safety campaign. the removal of
the Homeopathic Hospital to Chevy
Chase. proposed legislation on the
lunacy laws, added appropriations for
the Health Department and plans for
a board of estimates.
Plan Speaker Schedule.
A tentative schedule for guest speak
ers has been made through March, al
though the actual persons to speak are
not yet known. In January George
w. Hodgkins, treasurer of the associa-
tion, plans to introduce speaker from
the Board of Education; in February
Mrs. Julius Lansburgh, second vice
president, is commissioned to invite a
speaker on public health, and in March
Miss Irene M. Pistorio is responsible
for q speaker on art and architecture.
In other words, Mrs Wiley plans to get
speakers In various fields for the meet
ings through members of the associa-
tion interested in those fields.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Security OF
World,COal
Eden Seeks
EvenU.S. Must Help
He Tells Commons
In Dis Gus $40 n
About Sanctions

London, Feb. 24-(AP)-A British
plan to induce all nations, including
the United States to join worldwide
system of collective security in an
effort to end war was outlined to the
House of Commons today by Anthony
Eden, foreign secretary.
"Our final objective" Eden declar-
ed, must be a worldwide system of
collective security, which embraces
all nations, in an authority which is
unchallenged and interchangeable.
eve are far from that objective at
present. We can only hope, to realize it
by strengthening the authority of the
existing system and facilitating it by
agreement based on wide understands
ings and cooperation Of other ntaions
in our work.
Eden declared that the future OF
disarmament depended in large ex-
tent upon the military strength OF
Great Britain. In his first speech as
chief of the British diplomatic ser
vice in the House of Commons, the
young statesman declared:
s"The road to disarmament lies in
the increased power and authority of
the League of Nations"
He said that the League, in turn,
depended Gin a considerable measure
CONTINUED on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Was Candidate for Demo-
cratic Nomination for
President at Chi
cago in 1882
WAS VIGOROUS FOE
OF ADMINISTRATION
Held That Roosevelt Poll
cies Tended To Override
u. S. Constitution, and
Had Been Mentioned AS
Probable Hard Campaign
er Against President In
1896 i IL

Baltimore, Feb. "a (AP)-Former
Governor Albert G. Richie, vigorous
advocate of states rights and plo-
reer in the movement that led to pro-
hibition repeal, died suddenly at MS
apartment here early today. He was
in his Goth year.
A stroke apparently caused the
death of the noted Marylander, con-
tender for the Democratic preslden-
tial nomination at the 1882 Democrat
ic National Convention in Chicago.
The end came about AS a. M, less
than two hours after he was stricken.
Death ended speculation over the
possibility of mis- taking leading role
in opposition to denomination of Pres
ident Roosevelt at this years Demo
cratic convention in Philadelphia. His
toutspoken criticism that Roosevelt
New Deal policies tended to circum-
vent the Constitution and engult
states rights stamped him as an out
standing figure among intra-party
foes of the administration.
His last public utterance was on the
Constitution Addressing church
meeting across the street from his
home few hours before his death, he
had sharply criticized Capitalization
of government in Washington as OPP
posed to constitutional tenets.
News of his death spread rapidly,
and expressions of grief and tributes
were widespread, coming from nation
al leaders in all sections of the coun-
try.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Philippians
Claim Push
Into North
Staying of NJ a n y
Italians UnCOnfirm-
ed; Rome Poised for
Fresh Victory
by The Associated Press)

'By The Associated PreSS)
Ethiopian sources declared today
mat their soldiers had cut through
Italian lines between M&kale and
AduWa, killing hundreds of Italian
troops in a sudden thrust to the north
ward
This report was not verified by tia
nan sources, which announced IN
stead that the army, under command
OF Marshal Pedro Badoglio, was con-
uhulnS its move toward its immediate
objective Of Anba Alaji.
with the Italians known to be With
IN 10 miles of that objective, Italian
newspapers were ready to print extras
concernig its capture as soon as the
IlaIlan government announced it.
Inc Tightening war situation came
before the British House of Com
mons today for a decisive debate de-
signed to disclose Grea: Britain's at
tltude toward extension of sanctions
against Italy
The Commons proceedings called
Tor Anthony Eden to make his first
speech before the House as foreign
secretary under opposition criticism
that the League of Nations war pen
alties were being insufficiently APP
piled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Vast Extent of Ravages OF
Shows, Rains and Severe
Cold Beyond Com
prehension
FINANCING REPAIRS
WILL BE DIFFICULT
Will Take Time To Restore
Roads to Normal and Work
Cannot Even Begin Until
Dry Weather, Chairman
Waynick Says; Outlines
Phases of Problem
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
3y j G. baskerville.

Raleigh, Feb. 24.-The bigness of
the job now facing the highway de-
partment in trying to repair the thou
sands Of miles of roads damaged by
the SHOWS, rains and sub-freeZing
temperatures this winter, or the ire
mendous cost of this work, is not yet
realized by the public at large, Chair
man Capus M Waynick, of the STATE
Highway and Public Works Commits
sion, said today. There are still $4,000
miles of roads in the State which have
never even had topsoil or sand clay
surface put on them, while there are
$4,000 miles OF roads with nothing
more than topsoil, sand clay or sur
face treated surfaces, Waynick point
ed out.
1T has required a period of 16 years
and the expenditure of 100000, 900
for US to build only 5000 miles of con-
crete and asphalt pavement in North
Carolina. so [ do not see how we can
possibly be expected to put the o.
900 miles of soil or bituminous sur
faced roads and $4,000 miles of dirt
roads back into condition in a few
weeks time. But we are going to do
the best we can and do it as quickly
as we can with the money available, ="
Waynick said. But we cannot make
move until the roads dry up enough
for us to start work, since it is i'm
possible to scrape or repair muddy
road. We have just got to have some
patience and wait on the weather"
1t has been suggested that the high
way department put down gravel on
the dirt roads. But it would cost at
least $500 mile to put down only a
light sprinkling of gravel, the engi-
neers estimate while to do much good
and to last any time at least $1,000
worth of gravel per mile should be
used. Thus the cost of gravelling or
putting crushed rock on $4,000 miles
Continued on Page TWO.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
To PYOUide
FOrGruding
OF Tobacco:

Washington, Feb. "a (AP) = A
S25O,OOO item to administer the to-
bacco inspection and grading act was
included in the agriculture approp-
riations bill reported today in the
House.
The measure also carried a $137.-
744 item for continuing research for
improvement of tobacco production
and handling.
The tobacco inspection act provides
for government grading of tobacco
and the designation of auction mar
kets as government-graded markets
where two-thirds of the growers ap-
prove such service.
Expenditure of $1,000 toward equip
ping the tobacco research station at
Oxford, N c., is contemplated under
the proposed 1896 appropriation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Relieved of Eighth Corps
Area Command at San
Antonio After Testi-
mony at Capital
REFERRED TO WPA
AS "STAGE MONEY"
General Malin Craig, Army
Chief of Staff, Declines
Comment on Action Ord
cred by President Roose-
welt; Said Funds Spread
Over Country like Mud"

Washington, Feb. 24.-(AP)-Major
General Johnson Hagod was sum-
marily relieved from his command of
the eighth corps area at San Antonio,
Texas, today and ordered by Presi-
dent Roosevelt's direction to proceed
to his home and await orders"
Hagod, in recent testimony before
a House appropriations sub-commit-
tee, suggested that Congress take ad-
vantage of what he termed "WPA
stage money" and use it to improve
housing at army posts.
The order was signed by General
Malin Craig, army chief of staff, by
order of the secretary of war.
When asked the reason for the un-
expected order, Craig said he had enc
comment" on what he described as a
routine administrative procedure.
The chief of staff said he had nc
immediate new assignment in mino
for Hagod.
In his testimony on the War De
partment appropriation bill, HagOoc
urged that $15O,OO0,000 be used fol
army housing.
cat the present time" he sale
''C00r6 is a VAST HOW u SIlVcI-A Will
say gold-spreading out all over the
country like mud.
ct will soon dry up without any
thing permanent to show for it.
shall not be accused of profanity
when 1 say, For Gods sake, put some
of it into stone and STEEL"
Hagood said he was mot familiar
with the various pockets in which
Uncle Sam keeps his money, "but un
derstood" there is budget money
which is very hard to get; there i;
PWA money, which is not so hard tt
get, and then there is vast quantity
of WPA money, which is very easy
to get for trifling projects, but almos
impossible to get for anything worth
while"
A native of Orangeburg, S. G.
Hagood, who holds one of the mos
distinguished service records in thu
army, has been in vnarge of the
eighth corps area since October 4
1885.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Puerto Rico
Sayings To
Draw Probe
Police Chief, Once
u. S. Army Colonel,
And District Police
Chief Slain

San Joan, Puerto Rico, Feb. "a (AP)
Puerto Rican Nationalist agitation,
which resulted in the Staying of E.
Francis Riggs, chief of the insular
police, and a district police chief,
drew today a vigorous official investi-
cation.
Riggs, 48-year-old former United
States Army colonel, was shot to
death here at noon yesterday by two
nationalists, both of whom were kill
ed later by police.
Just two hours later, District Po-
lice Chief Francisco Velez Ortiz at
tempted to put down a Nationalist
riot at a cafe in the central town of
UtuadO, and was killed.
Governor Blanton Winship an
nounced that full inquiry into the
incidents would be theoretically
pushed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
Continued on Page Two.)
Party S Treasurer
Paid Well by Firms
Having RFCLoans

Washington, Feb. "a (AP)-
Senator COuHens, Republican,
Michigan, told the Senate today
that Walter j. Cummings, treas
tlrer of the Democratic National
committee, received salaries of
$4,000 a year as an official of
firms borrowing from the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation.
He made this statement in OPP
posing a bill supported by Chair
man Jesse Jones, of the RFC, "
exempt bank stocks held by e
corporation from State taxation.
Couzens said Cummings receiv-
ed $4,000 year as q chairman
of the board of the Continental
Illinois Bank of Chicago, to which
the RFC has lent $5O,O0O,OOO, and
$4,000 a year from the Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
railroad, another borrower.
eff these banks can pay these
salaries" he continued, "they can
certainly pay taxes on these pre-
ferred stocks"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
POu's Entry
IiVens Race
ForAuditor
Campaign for Minor
Office May Rival
GubernatOrlal Bat
tie in State
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
II u R La I'D WILL

Raleigh, Feb. 24-With the ans
nouncement today by George Ross
Pou that he is candidate for the
Democratic nomination for State au-
ditor in the June primary, the belief
in many circles here is that the cam
paign for that office for which there
are now four candidates, may rank
next to the gubernatorial campaign
in general interest. The four candi-
dates are State Auditor Baxter Dur
ham, who has held the post for IS
years and is expected to seek renom-
nation; Willard l.. DOwell executive
secretary of the North Carolina Mer-
chants Association; Charles w. Mil
Ter, of Asheville, 25-year-old directory
publisher there, and Pou
Two of these four candidates have
been colorful characters in North
Carolina politics for ten years or more
although this is the first time either
has ever run for a State office. These
two are DoWell and POu. Both are
regarded as being experienced and
canny in political matters, with I'M
usually broad contacts and acquain-
tances extending into every section of
the State. Pou was superintendent of
the State Prison for II years, from
1921 to 1888, until it was merged with
the highway department, and for a
year after the merger was executive
director of the prison division until
he resigned to run for the seat in
Congress left vacant by the death of
his father, the late Congressman Ed
ward W. Pou, of Smithfield: And
while Pou was defeated for Congress
by Harold L. Cooley, of Nashville, this
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-02-24
SOIL CONSERVATION
MEASURE TAKEN Up
BY THE CONFEREES
Agricultural Supply Bill Is
In Excess of Current
Year, With Reap
preparations
SHELTER BELT OF
TREES is DENIED
Appropriation for That
Cause Is Turned Down;
Farm Credit Administra-
ton Gets $4,OOO,OOO, Same
AS This Year; Would Eli
inmate Diseased Cattle

Washington, Feb. 24-(AP) - A
$161, 1853, 147 agriculture department
appropriation bill for the 1887 fiscal
year was laid before the House today
as the new $500,000,000 soil conserva-
ton farm program headed for confer
ence on House and Senate differences.
Although from the viewpoint of &C
tual new money appropriated, the
supply bill was $28,528,857 under bud
get estimates, there were reappropria-
tions of unexpended balances totall-
ing $18OOO000 The measure was at
the same time, $21, 635,563 above cur
rent appropriations, not counting re-
appropriations.
In addition, the bill allowed $4,000
600 for the Farm Credit Administra-
tion-the same as this year.
Following the policy laid down in
the War Department supply measure.
the appropriations committee refused
to allow the $1,OOO,OOO requested in the
budget for the shelter belt tree plant
ing program down the great plains
belt.
The principal provision for using
unspent balances which otherwise
would revert to the Treasury, was
$17,500,000 for the elimination of dis
eased cattle work-the amount re-
quested in the budget.
Chiefly accounting for the meas
ures total increase over this years
fund was inclusion of the soil conser-
walton service for the first time as
regular item under the agriculture de-
partment The committee cut the ST.
100000 budget estimate to $22, 1855, 265.
It is under this law that the sub
stitute AAA program is being set up.