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Evening star., 1936-04-26
Harvard Scientist Describes
Windo,u Found In Milky Way
Clouds of Dust around Center of Mans
Island Universe Pierced for
First Time.

the number are "out back" that Is,
beyond the hidden center of the Milky
Way.
The distance to the center is 10000
light years, the distance it takes light
that number of years to travel. Some
stars in the. window lie twice as dis
tant
The Chicago scales is a mass spec
trograph. an electromagnetic instru-
ment which weighs atoms 1t is one
of the most precise ever built. On it
the radioactive element. uranium,
weighs 238.09 atomic units, q new
value.
Changing to lead, by radioactivity
the uranium loses IA atomic particles,
8 of them alpha particles and elec-
irons, which reduce the weight to
206.05 atomic units.
At the same time the uranium gives
of 100000 electron volts of energy,
this energy being the stuff which held
the IA released particles in the ura-
mum atom.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
REAGUER DEFENSE
IN FINAL STAGES
Counsel Hopes AIienist's
Testimony Will Bring
Insanity Verdict.

The defense of William H. Reaguer,
57-year-old Culpeper, Va, undertaken
who has been on trial for murder in
District Supreme Court during the
past week, will enter its final stage
with the resumption of hearings
tomorrow.
His counsel hope that alienists who
examined the defendant in the Dis
trict Jail after the Staying Of 2l-year-
old Willie Mae Wood, a bride of IT
days, will convince the Jury that he
was insane.
After their testimony, which may
run into Tuesday, Chief Defense Coun-
sci James A. O'Shea expects TO rest
his case. An adjournment was taken
at noon Friday to allow him to confer
with the psychiatrists to phrase the
hypothetical questions intended to de-
velop the condition Of Reaguer's mind.
Assistant United States ATTORNEYS
Cecil r. Heflin and Irwin Goldstein
have said they will offer medical testi-
mony in rebuttal.
Evidence Thursday and Friday In
dicating that Mrs. Wood sought to
continue her affair with Reaguer, even
after her marriage, gave an unexpected
turn to the case and swayed the
sympathy of the spectators strongly
toward the defendant. The Govern
ment was expected to make strenu-
GUS effort to counteract the effect on
the jury of the evidence.
Mrs. Woods head was almost
severed from her body with pocket
knife. The Staying occurred October
IL last in a downtown hotel. where
she. Reaguer and her 17-year-old
cousin, Annie T. O'Bannon had gone
after trip from Culpeper.
Evening star., 1936-04-26

A somewhat bored political audi
ence today was awaiting the next de-
velopment in a war of publications"
now getting under way between the
Republican and Democratic campaign
forces.
A week or so ago Democratic head
quarters announced plans for a super
magazine to be issued soon and cir
culated at fancy price. Yesterday
the Republicans released the first is
sue of tabloid rotogravure publica-
ton described as a pictorial review
of the Roosevelt record"
Titled "On Our Way" the publica-
tion carried a weather forecast Of
Continued storms over U. S.. clear
ing in November"
Dated May 1.
The paper was dated May /. but ap-
parently the exuberant editors -
names not disclosed-could not wait
until next Friday to let their public
see what the G. o. p, reinforced by
its own brain trust" is capable OF
producing.
President Roosevelt and Postmaster
General Farley hit the front page OF
volume /, No. /, as shown above.
Page 2 features pictures of foreign
canned goods, unstamped potatoes
Vincent Astor's yacht and the new
presidential yacht Potomac-al with
captions unfriendly to the New Deal
A widely published snapshot of Sec
retary Wallace resting his feet in q
waste basket during a press confer
ence appears on page 3. under the
Evening star., 1936-04-26
NAVAL BUILDING
SANCTION IS SEEN
Budget Bureau Expected to
Recommend Work on
Two New Ships.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Congressional naval authorities dis
closed yesterday they expected the
Budget Bureau to recommend an i'm
mediate start on construction of two
new speedy ultra-modern battleships
to replace the obsolete Arkansas and
Texas at . final cost Of between $780,
100000 aud 100000.
. Since the House Naval Appropria-
tions Subcommittee already has COM
pleted consideration Of the $549, ,000.-
900 Navy supply bill for the next fiscal
year, informed sources said authorize
ton for the two new ships probably
would be included when the measure
reached the Senate.
Conferred With President.
Admiral William H. Staudley, Act
ing Secretary Of the Navy, recon-
mended construction of the ships to
President Roosevelt at a White House
conference last Monday. Afterward,
Standley told newsmen he had re-
ceived no definite commitment from
the Chief Executive, who previously
had indicated he was opposed to ask
ing Congress for building funds this
session
The Navy chief emphasized to re-
porters. however. that the Navy De-
partment has about $l0,000,000 in
money already appropriated which
could be utilized to lay the keels for
the two vessels and start construc-
ton If authorization can be obtained
from Congress to use 1t for that pur-
pose.
The estimated cost Of the two ships
is between s40,0o0,000 and $50,000,-
900 each. Each would be about 35,-
900 tons, with stress placed On speed.
The Arkansas and Texas, which they
would replace, have a tonnage of &c.
600 and $1,000 tons, respectively.
The Arkansas and Texas are ap-
preaching 26 years Of age, the age
fixed by the recently concluded Lon
don naval conference at the time
when a battleship should be con-
sidered obsolete.
Standley Explains Views.
In his conference with the Presi-
dent. Standley was understood to have
emphasized the Nays view that a
battleship replacement program should
be undertaken at this time because of
the failure of the London conference
to agree on a prolongation Of fleet
limitation imposed by the expiring
Washington and London naval pacts.
The new treaty signed at London
by the United States, Great Britain
and France. provides for restrictions
on the size, but not the number, Of
various types of fighting vessels.
When the original Washington and
London treaties expire next December
81, z of the Is American battle
ships will be over age Great Britain
already has appropriated funds for
laying down two new capital ships in
1887.
The Navy high command plans to
reach a full treaty strength by 194l
as indicated in recent authorization
by the House Naval Committee for
construction of 81 naval auxiliary YES
sells over a 10-year period to cost a
total of SITS. 100000.
Evening star., 1936-04-26

heading: Feet in the Waste Basket
Head In the Clouds" A relief worker
trying to frighten starlings from a
Pennsylvania avenue tree is labeled
"Bird-doggling."
Ickes Ridiculed.
Pages 4 and S contain a layout Of
pictures casting ridicule upon Secre-
tary Ickes' new "Hive for Drones,"
alias the new Interior Building; the
Grand Coulee Dam and subsistence
homestead projects, in which. the pa
per explains, 1.-The money goes round
and round and comee out of you; a
sea lion, which the reader is assured
is not DR.. Tugwell (because the sea
lion knows enough to come up for
air"), etc.
There are pictures of poverty-strick-
en- families on page 6, under the cap
ton I'VE Planned 1t That Way, Says
Mr.. Roosevelt; miscellaneous pictures
aimed at Secretary Morgenthau and
other New Dealers and their plans or
page and photographs of the ILL
fated Florida canal and 'Quoddy tide.
harnessing projects on page 8.
An editorial box points out that the
tabloid will be published about twice
a month, IF the money holds out, u
and asks for dollar contributions
with the suggestion that since the
money must be handled by Mr.. Far
ley's postal system it might be best to
send money orders or checks instead
of cash.
All of which gives you general idea
of the thing,
Evening star., 1936-04-26
EDITOR WILL ADDRESS
PROFESSIONAL WRITER'S
Richard Westwood Will Discuss
"What to Write and What
Not to Write"

What to Write and What Not to
Write for Nature Magazines" will be
the subject of an address to be de-
livered by Richard Westwood, editor
of Nature Magazine, before the Pro-
fesSional Writers Club of the Y. w. C..
A. at 8 pm. Thursday in the admin
istration building, Seventeenth and K
streets.
The Executive Board of the club
yesterday announced invitations to be-
come honorary members have been &C.
cepted by the following:
Albert W. Atwood. staff writer, Sat-
urday Evening Post; Byron Price. chief
of the Washington bureau, Associated
Press; Beth Heath Olmstead. presi-
dent, D. c. branch, League of Ameri-
can Pen Women Edwin N. Lewis,
editor, the Cathedral Age; Malvina
Lindsay, woman's page editor, WASH
ington Post; Howard Parrish, business
manager. Washington Daily News. and
Gideon A. Lyon, Hudson Gruenwald,
John Jay Daily and James Waldo Faw-
cett, all of The Star.
Evening star., 1936-04-26

Without funds to bring him home,
Mrs. Gentry has appealed to the
Travellers Aid for help. In the mean
time, she is making artificial flowers
which she hopes her elder son, Billy.
II, will be able to sell on the streets
unless "the police stop him." The
other child, Walter, 6, Is just getting
over the measles and is too young to
60 out on the streets anyhow. the
mother explained.
Mrs. Gentry said some one sent them
a basket of food aud that she received
a dollar anonymously through the
mail This, she said, will supply them
with food until Monday. The rent
is due on the first of the month,
however, and she hopes to raise
enough money to pay it by renting
two Of her rooms and selling the
flowers.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
Haruurd Grateful
To Senate, but Is
To Issue Invitations
By the Associated Press.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April as
Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the
Harvard Corp. said today Harvard
University looked upon certain por-
. tions Of q United States Senate reso-
luton recognizing the Harvard ter
centenary as "a very gracious act"
but that the university would extend
its own invitations to the 300th an
niversary.
The Senate yesterday adopted q
resolution to authorize President
Roosevelt, q Harvard graduate, to ex-
tend to the world governments and
individuals an invitation to join in
observing the anniversary.
The resolution. introduced by Sena-
tor Coolidge, Democrat of Massachu-
sets, would create a commission to
be headed by the President and con-
sist Of four other persons Of his
choosing to cooperate with the uni
versity and local ofiicials In working
out celebration plans. The proposal
also called for . $4,000 contribution.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
START ON V|ADUCT
POSSIBLE IN MAY
Solution Sought for Tie.Up
Over Bids on Michigan
Avenue Work.

Construction of the long-planned
Michigan Avenue Viaduct over the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will be
started next month If solution can
be found soon to a question of wheth-
er one or two contracts should be
let for the work.
When bids were opened last week
1t was found the James Baird Co.
was low on the job as a whole. bid
ding $l86,l92 for the viaduct and
$55,97s for the approaches, making
total of $242,17l.
The John w. Cowper Co., which
built the new Calvert Street Bridge,
was second, bidding $180,848 for the
span and s65,744 for the approaches,
making the total of the two $246,5
The Cowper company was low on
the viaduct alone, and the Baird
company was low on the approaches,
taken alone.
Usually In such work, 1t was said,
the project is awarded as a whole un-
less there are questions such as suff1-
cient District financing. In this case
the District has left for this project
approximately s242 900 out of a Fed
eral grant for grade crossing elimina-
ton programs.
Other costs, such as engineering di-
rection and inspection, are to come out
OF regular District funds. In the 1886
District budget there was provided
100000 for acquisition of the site
and beginning Of construction" of the
viaduct. A condemnation jury award
for land taken was for S61 900, but
there is pending an appeal on one par
eel. Also there will be other costs,
officials say.
Engineer Commissioner Sultan Is
expected to lay recommendation be-
fore the Commissioners this week.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
F|REMEN REQUEST !
S2 FEE PER BLAZE.
Arlington Board to Pass on
Plea at Session
Wednesday.

By q STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
April 25.-The County Board, at its
meeting Wednesday. will be asked to
include funds in the county's 1936-37
budget to pay volunteer flremen 50
apiece for each fire they attend.
A resolution. adopted recently by
the Arlington County Firemen's Asso-
citation, requesting the So attendance
fee for all flremen and the employ
ment Of two operators for each piece
of apparatus at salaries OF $l25
month, is to be considered by the
board along with other requests and
petitions in connection with the adop-
ton of the new county budget.
The head of one volunteer company
estimated the plan would cost the
county approximately 100000 year.
Final Action Expected.
Members of the County Board are
expected to take final action on the
budget Wednesday. It must be adopt
ed before midnight Thursday. Unless
approved by that time the tentative
budget, as submitted by the county
manager, will 60 into effect, County
Manager Roy S. Braden said today.
The Firemen's Associations pro-
posal to have volunteer flremen paid
by the county is in line with requests
presented by number of county or
ganizations at the public hearing held
on the proposed budget last Monday.
None of the plans for Inauguration
of paid fire department as presented
at the budget hearing, however, called
for payment of individual f1remen for
each fire attended. The proposals
were based on payment of s125-a-
month salaries to one operator for
each piece of apparatus. They involve
expenditure Of approximately 100000
year.
Extra Police Asked.
Because total estimates of the pro-
posed budget cannot be increased or
decreased at this time, funds for pay
ment of flremen can be included for
the next year only by reduction of
estimates for other county depart
mentS.
The new budget is based on the
present general tax rate of s270 per
S100 valuation. despite the fact it
carries an increased set-up of $780,
600 over last years budget.
A request of Sheriff Howard B.
Fields for an additional $4,000 for
the employment of five extra police
men also is to be considered by the
board. Sheriff Fields said the addi-
tional men are needed in the recently
annexed East Falls Church area,
Rosslyn and Cherrydale.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
BY HOWARD W. BLAKEsLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.


PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-Dr.
Harlow Shapely, director Of Harvard
Observatory. today announced find
ing Southwest window in the Milky
Way" hole in the obscuring clouds
of dust around the hidden, mysterious
center of mans island universe,
through which for the first time as
tronomers can see the back side of
nearby parts of creation.
He made the report to the American
Philosophical Society.
An atomic scales at the University
of Chicago, which actually weighs
energy and verifles Einstein's famous
declaration that mass and energy are
equivalent, was described by Prof.
Arthur j. Dempster of Chicago.
On this scale 100000 electron
volts, which might be likened to the
nature Of a radio wave. weigh 43
thousandths of one atomic unit and
the energy of 100000 electron volts
weighs SO thousandths of an atomic
unit. This unit Is the mass Of one
hydrogen atom.
Seen Through Telescopes.
The window which DR.. Shapely de-
scribed is looked through best by
telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mans island universe. the aggre-
cation of stars known as the Milky
Way, is shaped like cartwheel. The
earth is out on a spoke half way
to the rim.
But the center or hub Of this cart
wheel is surrounded with dust and
gas, fog which cuts of seeing both
the center and of most Of the oppo-
site side Of this wheel of creation.
The window" which the Harvard
telescopes have been studying Is like
a hole in the fog. It pierces this fog
southwest. on the celestial map, of the
hidden center.
1t required long study to be sure
that this was hole in the dust and
that the faint stars seen in its depths
were really out at the back side of the
Milky Way.
The results of the study, DR.. Shap-
ley announced today. The sky on the
opposite side of mans island universe
looks about the same as elsewhere.
Stars are distributed back there about
the same.
LAT Variable Stars Found.
Through the window, DR.. shapley
said, lat variable stars, so called be-
cause their brightness fluctuates, have
been found, with certainty that 100 of
Evening star., 1936-04-26
HICC0UGHS END

HAMILTON, Ohio. April Is Pl.-
An operation relieved Nellie Marcun
81, today of a l3-day attack Of hic-
coughs.
Surgeons severed a nerve in her
neck to relieve the pressure on the
diaphragm that caused Miss Marcum
to hiccough at intervals Of one to
four seconds for nearly two weeks.
They reported she showed little Ill
effect from the hiccoughing and with
stood the operation nicely. She prob
ably will leave the hospital within
a couple of days.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
P0CKETB00K SNATCHING
DRIVE NETS TWO YOUTHS

Two youths, l8 and 49, were arrested
last night in connection with the Po-
lice Departments drive to check the
epidemic of pocketbook snatching in
the District in recent weeks.
The boys are being held at the first
precinct, while police are searching for
several companions. No charge has
been filed.
One case of pocketbook snatching
was reported yesterday. Burroughs
Williams of 444 Irving street said
young colored man snatched sl9 in
bills from his coat pocket while he was
walking in the 1900 block of Seventh
street.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
RUTLAND TO ADDRESS
RESTAURANT SESSION
Health Officer Will Discuss Sani-
tation at Meeting to Be
Held Tuesday.

The Washington Restaurant Asso-
citation will be addressed by DR. George
C. Rutland, health officer, at its meet
ing at $50 pm. Tuesday in the S &, W
Cafeteria. New York avenue and Fiji
teenth street.
DR.. Rutland will speak on "Im-
proved Sanitation in Restaurants. ''
National Restaurant week will be dis
cussed by Frank J. Wifler, secretary OF
the National Restaurant Association;
Robert j. Wilson will speak on the
Atlantic City Hotel and Restaurant
Convention, and Miss Alice Webster
will describe how local restaurant
operators can cooperate in the Ma
tional Restaurant week celebration.
Musical entertainment will be fur
nished by Miss Katherine Wood and
Leon Brusiloff.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
ELSE J0ERN PRESENTS
CAPITAL SONG RECITAL
Former Berlin Singer Appears
at Deutsche Literarische
Verein.

song recital by Else Joern. lyric
soprano, formerly of the Staatsoper
Berlin, was presented last night by
Anita Schade, founder and president
of Der Deutsche Lterarische verein
of Washington, for the society's meet
ing at 1929 Rhode Island avenue.
Nine. Joern, wife of Karl Joern, for
merly of the Metropolitan Opera, gave
four groups of songs, which included
those by Schubert, Franz, Mozart,
Brahms, Schumann and Richard
Strauss.
Anita Schade gave two melodecla-
nations to the accompaniment of the
piano "Hoffnung," by Geibel-Schade.
and "Schoen Hedwig," by Hebbel-
Schumann.
Mrs. Greta Won Bayer was heard in
one Of her compositions, "Berceuse,"
as well as acting as accompanist.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY
TO RUN NATIONAL TICKET
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Forty-eight
delegates of the Socialist Labor party
from rs States assembled here today
to nominate candidates for President
and Vice President of the United
States and to adopt resolutions.
Arnold Petersen of Teaneck, N. j.,
national secretary, addressed the con-
vention today and urged the organiza-
ton of Socialists in industrial unions
Nominations will be made tomorrow
and a national platform adopted.
A State convention of the party
yesterday named Aaron M. Orange,
the Bronx, as its candidate for Gov
ernor.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
Zoo Officials Get
BIRD" For Buying
2 Waxwings Afar
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS. April 25.-The Zoo
sent halfway around the world
for four Indian waxwings only
to discover today, when the birns
arrived, that it could have got
ten them in its own hack yard.
The Indian waxwing, an exami-
nation revealed, Is the same as 1.
bird known as the Bohemian
waxwins, which Is found Ia Mis-
souri,.
Evening star., 1936-04-26
Studio Worker Injured.

HOLLYWOOD, April 25 R.-
Joseph Amador. film studio worker,
was seriously burned today when a
pick axe in his hand touched an
uninsulated electric wire The acci-
dent occurred at Paramount Studio,
where one man was killed and an
other similarly burned two days ago.
Evening star., 1936-04-26

ETERMINED to keep her chill
dren from privation until her
husband RECEIVERS his lost
- memory. Mrs. william H.
Gentry has begun making artificial
flowers for sale on Mothers day and
has hung out a room Torrent" sign
on their little bungalow at 1853 SIKH
street southwest.
The husband. and father, now in a
Providence, R. T., hospital, has been
gone for IL days. leaving the family
penniless. Subject to loss Of memory
since his skull was fractured in an
automobile accident years ago, the 35-
year-old Government clerk disap-
peared April Is and was located In
Boston last Saturday. After treat
ment in hospital there he was dis
charged, but again disappeared and
turned up two days ago in Providence.
his mind still blank.
Evening star., 1936-04-26

Motion pictures made In Japan last
year numbered Ala.
Evening star., 1936-06-14
WANTED-CoUNTRY BOARD

MOTHER DESIRES PLACE for two boys.
age 6 and 9, during July and August; not
over $50. Address E0X AIR, Star office.
VETERAN wants home on farm and low
price board. Write Miss Elsie Libby,
North Newcastle. Me.
Evening star., 1936-06-14
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