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The Washington times., 1936-05-06

When most tenors sing in the
upper register. the sounds emanat-
ing from the vocal chords make
one feel that eager fingers are
choking the singer. Albert Nah
lar, tenor soloist with the Rubin
J stein Club, last night at the VIII
lard Hotel, was one of the excep-
tions to the above rule. His high
tones were mellow and effortleSS
E and gave the impression of mas
culine origin.
Mr.. Mahler's voice is vibrant
with life and dramatic power; his
diction Is above reproach. The
chorus Of female voices, under the
direction of Claude Robson, gave
four groups of light songs appro-
PIRATE to the spring season. The
ensemble showed good bslance
Of sections and a high tonal quai-
tty. The diction was somewf at
OhScured. A large and enthIsi-
sstic audience was in attendance.
Louis A. Potter, conductor Of
the Washington Choral Society,
which gave its Spring Festival
Concert last night at the D. A. r.
Memorial Continental Hall, added
to the enjoyment of the audience
by having the words of the
chorus numbers printed on the
program.
Mr.. Potter realizes that there
are still many people who listen
to music that are old-faShioned
enough to wish to know the text
Of the songs. Most of the au-
dience will read the lines silently
in concert with the singers, and
feel that they have derived much
more pleasure from the concert
than when left to guess the
words.
This is not to infer that the
chorus did not have good diction,
which was above the average.
The groups of russian choral
works and madrigalS and part
songs were sung a capella. Part
Of the chorus sang from memory,
with the result that the attacks
were quite even and expression
signals were carefully obeyed.
The Pro Musica String Quartet,
with Mr.. Potter at the piano, per-
formed Dvorak'S Quintet for
piano and strings" This work,
which aboundS in melodic pas
sageS and beautiful development
sections, was played with q
warmth Of tonal color that was
most interesting.
The String Quartet with Lyman
McCrary at the piano, played an
accompaniment for the two latter
choral works: Beethoven's "Elegy"
and Grieg'S Thanksgiving" The
rugged character of the melodic
praise Of the Norwegian hero. Olaf
Trygvason, made a climactic end
ing to a carefully prepared con-
cert.
"Give me solitude, give me ma
ture, give me again, o Nature,
your primal sanities!" (Walt
Whitman). The section Of the
third movement Of Bloch's epic
rhapsody, America" which is in
troduced by the above shown
theme, played by the English
horn. is a tranquil thought after
the presentation Of the noises Of
the machine age. Bloch, although
writing this work in 1926, pre-
dicted "the inevitable collapse" I"
which occurred in 1929. The work
continues on to the end in a de-
velopment of the very first theme
of the first movement, heard fire.
uuently as a buoyand prophecy
Of the future sung by the COM
manding voices of the brasSes.
America" will be played tonight
by the Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra at 8 o'clock at the Ma
rine Barracks.
A matter of sentiment rather
than facts is continuing in some
publicity concerning the proposed
organization of the Washington
Symphony Orchestra by the noted
conductor, Yasha Bunchuk. He
The Washington times., 1936-05-06
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The Washington times., 1936-06-13
FIJI MM AND STARS DRESS SNARTLY FOR THE OUTOF-DOORS

GLENDA FARRELL selects
sharkskin for pajamas, in a pale
blue. They are severely tailored,
with pockets, and she wears white
sports shoes for resting between
scenes.
The Washington times., 1936-06-13

AT PALM SPRINGS, Margaret
Lindsay soaks up the sun in white
sharkskin, a shirt and pleated
shorts to match. Notice the odd
pockets, and even her sandals are
white.
The Washington times., 1936-06-13

COLOR comes into
the picture when Joan
Blondell goes out to
play. She wears shorts
with a red stripe up
the side, and a ker-
chief top made from
a red handkerchief.
It ties about the neck,
leaving her back bare
to the suns rays. Con-
ventional white tennis
shoes complete the
costume.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
RICHMAN SHIP
NEAR CRACKUP
-VOTE AMERICAN-

CROYDON, England, Sept. 4
G.N.S0.-"We came across like
a song and we're going back the
same way"
With these words, Harry Rich.
man, top-hat crooner of Broadway,
stepped out of his record-break.
ing transatlantic monoplane Lady
Peace this afternoon, completing
a flight from New York interrupted
by a forced landing in Wales.
At the controls was Dick Merrill,
the veteran air mail and transport
pilot, who guided the big ship
across the Atlantic in a little over
Is hours and set it down safely
in a COW pasture near Llandilo,
Wales, yesterday.
Merrill and Richman flew to
Croydon, scheduled terminus of
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
LAND0N CALLS
TRIP SUCCESS
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. 4 GIN.
SJ.-Gov. ALI M. Landon left here
early today for Topeka to resume
his campaign for the Presidency
after attending President Roose-
velt's non-political drought confer
ence at Des Moines.
The Republican nominee spent
the night at the home of his
friend, William M. Clark, local
business man.
Feed Loans Promised
One result of their conference
was a promise by the President to
provide Federal seed and feed
loans to farmers in the drought
areas of Kansas. The seed loans
have been started and feed loans
will be advanced, the President as
sured Landon, through the WPA
and the Rural Resettlement Ad-
ministration. At their conference
Landon emphasized feed loans.
since the drought has slashed the
Kansan cattle feed crop to but 20
per cent of it's nominal and neceS-
sary volume.
There was one distinct differ
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
3-Cornered Snake
Seen by Reporters
They Really Saw It!

NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Q.N.S0.
Here's what the boys-who-cover-
the-Waterfront found today:
Cats-that look like mongooseS.
Lung fish-that live in dry
rivers.
A three-cornered snake.
A Nippon salamander with a
head like a frog.
A chipmunk, big and black, that
screeches Justify at reporters.
That's the assortment brought
in today on the American-South
African liner City of New York by
Capt. c. ". Schmidt who caught
or purchased the animals and rep
tiles to sell to various ZOOS.
The captain pointed out. quite
unnecessarily, that the cats are
curious animals. In fact, a Depart
ment of Agriculture agent thought
they were mongooses because
that's what they look like. Just
imagine a face like a fox, a fur
covering like a raccoon and
withal faint resemblance to a
squirrel.
The three-cornered snake is
streamlined like an ordinary three
cornered file, four feet of writhing
activity and a pound in weight.
The Nippon salamander is only
$50 years old, but is full grown,
three feet long with a head like a
frog. .s.-.........-,.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
International News Service

The starting gun Cnundere0 TO"
day on a worldwide naval arma-
ments race which the major pow
erS have sought to hold in check
for Is years.
This was reluctantly admitted
in official circles as Japan and
the United States acted on Great
Britain's recent move in retaining
40, 900 tons of destroyers in excess
of the London Naval Treaty of
1880.
Ambassador Hirosi Saito pre-
sented formal notification to Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hull that
the Japanese government intends
to retain 1888 tons Of excess
submarines which were due for
the scrap heap before the end OF
this year under the treaty.
The excess tonnage in summers
ibles, the Japanese government
stated, is to match $4,000 tons of
excess destroyer tonnage permit
ted here under the 5-5-3 ratio Of
the treaty. Japan said she also
will keep 11,059 excess tons OF
destroyers.
At the same time, it was dis
closed the United States has noti-
fled Great Britain this Govern
ment Every reluctantly" must re-
tain 10000 tons of average de-
Stroyers in excess of the amount
permitted under the Lond o n
treaty, in order to keep pace with
Britain.
For some time the American
Government, while making every
possible effort to curb world naval
building, has taken the position
she will not be outranked on the
high seas by another world power.
On June Is, after many tenta-
tive feelers as to the attitude of
the American and Japanese gov
ernments. Britain notified the
two nations she intended invok-
ing the "escalator clause" of the
London treaty by retaining 10000
tons of destroyers due to be
strapped.
Britain gave the submarine and
destroyer building activities Of
Italy and France, neither sigma
tories to the treaty, as the rea-
son. She felt her domination of
the Mediterranean was seriously
threatened, she said.
Clause Explained
The so-called escalator clause
permits a signatory, If it feels
"the requirements of national Sc
curity" are materially affected"
by new construction of a non
signatory, to increase its arma-
ments, providing it first notifies
the other signatories. The other
signatories then may build to
meet this increase.
Adding to apprehension over the
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
U. S.. Japan in Naval
Race With Britain

apparent final failure of successive
disarmament conferences which
began in Washington in 1921, was
the recent unofficial announce
ment by Great Britain of its in
tention of building two new $4,000
ton battleshipS after expiration of
the London treaty December 81.
The United States has taken
steps to match these capital ships.
The Japanese action injected a
surprise note into the situation.
The question has arisen whether it
is permitted to substitute sub
marine for destroyer tonnage. The
japanese, it was learned, have not
decided to invoke the escalator
clause on submersibles, feeling
that it is entitled to substitute
them in view of Britain's action.
This attitude, however, was ex-
pected to be challenged by the
United States, and possibly also
by Britain.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
R0THSTE|N KIN
DIES IN BLAST

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 G.N.s).
The sister of Arnold RothStein,
gambler, had joined him in vio-
lent death today. The woman,
Mrs. Edith Lustig, wife Of Henry
c. Lustig, president of the Long
champs restaurant chain, turned
on six gas jets in her apartment,
police reported.
An explosion rocked the build
ing when the escaping gas fumes
were ignited by a pilot light on
the stove.
Rothstein was shot and killed
by an unidentified assailant in
Broadway hotel several years
ago.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04

CAsTEL GANDoLFo, italy,
Sept. 4 U.N.S).-Pope Plus ap'
pealed to the world today to pray
for salvation of the sanctity of
family, church and society, men.
aced by the tragedy Of Commu.
nism..' Il
His imprisoned call to the re.
ligious of all denominations was
issued during an audience granted
to 600 Franciscan friars at the
summer Vatican" here, 80 miles
from Rome. The Pope said:
"PleaSe let the world know
that I have wanted it to pray
for alienation of the many evils
today affecting church and
nation.
"The world is passing through
a stormy and menacing period.
1t is menaced by the tragedy
of communism.
ct is necessary to pray for
the church, to pray for society
and to pray for a youth that
is mad with vice and incred-
ulity.
ut must also pray for an
ending of the ills and discOrd
affecting a country not far
away from us. refer to
Spain, where brothers are kill
ing brothers, where souls are
butchered and where Sacreligi.
Gus and horrible slaughter sur.
rounds every human thing"
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
RACE Filler
SAVED BY
MIRACLE
jacobson REEVES to
Use Parachute After
Plane ExpIodes

KANSAS Be- CITY, Sept. 4
Q.N.SO. - Blown, unconscious,
from his plane, when it exploded
in mid-air, Joe Jacobson, Kansas
City aviator who was competing
in the Bendix coast7to-coast races,
escaped death today when he
came to while falling and in
stinctively pulled the rip-cord of
his parachute.
jacobson, who maintains a
flying service at Municipal Air
port here, was flying solo in a
Northrup Gamma plane.
He was the fourth entrant to
get under way in the air dash
from New York, taking off at
3:12 a. m. He refueled here
shortly after 7 a. m, taking to
the air again at 1921 a. m.
Stafford is about 80 miles west
of Hutchinson, Kan.
He alighted safely a short dis
lance from the minute ruins OF
his ship.
Had No Warning
The account of his terrifying
experience was related by Jacob
son in a. telephone conversation
with Gale L. Enos, one of the
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
-v0TE AMERiCAN-
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
BRIDGE OPENED
BY PRESIDENT

HANNIBAL, Mo-, Sept. 4
G.N.SO.-Here in the country
where Mark Twain found his
inimitable characters of Huckle-
berry Finn and Tom Sawyer,
President Roosevelt dedicated a
bridge spanning the Mississippi
today in honor of the humorist.
A great crowd of thousands
gathered from both the Missouri
and Illinois sides, witnessed the
ceremony and then crossed the
new span with Mr.. Roosevelt to
the Illinois side.
The Presidents train was met
here by Governor Henry Homer
of Illinois, who accompanied Mr..
Roosevelt into Springfield, and
will be his host until tonight
when the President continues
eastward into Indiana.
Several thousand people were
gathered at the Rock Island sta
ton to meet Mr.. Roosevelt.
Text of Speech
Following is the text of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech:
1t is with earnest American
pride and with a glory in Amer
lean tradition that 1 enjoy this
happy privilege today-jOining
in this tribute to one who inn.
pressed himself upon the lives
of youth everywhere in the last
four score years and ten.
To look out across this pleas
ant vista where the life of Miss.
iSsippi River bOyhOOd was cap
tured and recorded for pOSterity
and to have a part in its COM
memOratiOn is a privilege am
happy to experience.
No American youth has know
ingIy or willingly escaped the
lessons, the philosophy and the
spirit which beloved Mark Twain
Continued on Page 8, Col. u
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
RIVALS PART
IN J0VIAL
HUM0R,
Each Finds the Other
Very Fine Man. at
Drought Farley
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES

by GEOhGE II. dOLANakS
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Sept. 4
U.N.S0.-"Well, governor, how
ever this comes out wen see
more of each Other-either you
come to see me or I'll come to
see you"
81 certainly shall, Mr.. Pres
ident."
"And, governor, don't work
too hard. These campaigns are
trying"
A hearty handclasp and these
words marked the termination OF
one of the more unusual episodes
in American politicS-the meeting
here in Des Moines-almost ira
termination - between President
Roosevelt and his Republican rival
for the Presidency, Governor Al
fred M. Landon of Kansas.
Both men were smiling. Both
were evidently sincere. Two
American gentlemen, differently
educated and holding opposite
t1CW0 do w U41CO1 ASS GAA4A 44ACUAAOSAo
of government, met in the fiercest
spotlight of publicity that has
ever been focused on two polit-
ical figures. And they carried it
off to not only their own salts
faction but the delight, as well,
of thousands of people who sur
rounded them.
They played their parts. Were
the situations reversed, there is
scant doubt but that they still
would have played their parts
They have a sense of humor
And they demonstrated here in
Des Moines that it can surmount
the aggravation and pettiness OF
partisan politics.
A reporter asked Governor
Landon what he thought of Mr.
Continued on Page 3, Col. p
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
Church in BROOKLYN
DESTROYED by Blaze

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 G.N.s).
Cause of the fire which destroyed
the Central Presbyterian Church
at Brooklyn at a $780, 900 loss was
sought today while police and fire
officials stood guard over the
soldering ruins.
The blaze, which temporarily
threatened surrounding structures,
was fought by every available
Brooklyn fire apparatus. Thirty
five firemen deserted the roof
shortly before it crashed.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
NAVAL
OFFICER DIES

SUMMIT, N. j., Sept. 4 (I.N.S),
Rear Admiral Charles Sumner
williams, U. S. NJ, retired, died
suddenly today Of a heart attack
in a local butcher shop.
He collapsed and was rushed to
Overlook Hospital, but was dead
on arrival.
Admiral Williams was placed
on the retired list of the Navy
September 8, 1920. He was born
in Saratoga county, N. Y, Sep,
TENDER 8, 1856. He attended the
University of Wisconsin and the
United States Naval Academy.
He was retired as a rear ad.
miral, held temporarily while in
charge of the provision and cloth
ing department of the Navy Yard
in Brooklyn during the World
War.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
WOMAN IS OFF
ON OCEAN HOP

ABINGDON AIRPORT, Eng
land, Sept. 4 G.N.SD Determined
to join Mrs. Amelia Earhart Put
nam in aviation's hall of fame,
Mrs. Beryl Markham, 33-year-old
English society woman, hoped off
from here today in an attempt to
fly the Atlantic from East to
West.
If she succeeds, Mrs. Markham
will be the only woman except
Mrs. Putnam ever to span the
ocean alone and unaided.
For several days Mrs. Markham
has held her plane in readiness
at the Abingdon Airport, waiting
favorable weather reports before
starting her daring flight.
VOTE AMERICAN
Surrender Is Offered
PARIS, Sept. 4 G.NsO. Gov
ernor Ortega of San Sebastian is
attempting to forestau bloody
fighting in the streets of his city
by effecting unconditional sur
render to Spanish insurgents
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
Arabs Are Blamed
For Fatal Wreck

JERUSALEM, Sept. 4 QN.S).
Arabian train-w kers were
blamed today for the death Of one
British soldier when a speeding
train plunged off the tracks near
here. One other soldier and two
sailors were injured.
A widespread search was insti-
tuted for the saboteurs, who, tore
UP part of the track following a
long series of Arab-Jew and Arab
British clashes.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
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PREMIER,
CABINET
RESIGN
Reds Execute Bishop,
Monks and Mobiles
Before Surrender
BY THOMAS A. LOAYZA


MADRID, Sept. 4 U.N.SO.-Un-
der the blows of insurgent VIC
tories at run and double threat
against the capital from north
and south, the civil war govern
ment of Premier Jose Giral re.
signed today.
Francisco Largo Caballero, for.
mer Premier and Minister of La
Dor in the government of Manuel
Azana, Immediately formed a new
government.
More than 500 insurgent host
ages, including the Bishop Of
Valladolid and monks at Fuen-
tarrabia, were executed by loyal.
lists before Irun was surrendered.
With terrorism gripping Madrid
and anarchists in the saddle in
Catalonia and other parts of the
country, the cabinet change, the
most Important political develop.
ment in more than a month of war
fare, was the fourth collapse Of
the Madrid regime since the re-
bellion broke out.
Swing to RadicaliSm
Three quick cabinet reshuffleS
followed the resignation of Premier
Casares Quiroga in the early days
of the conflict, with Jose Giral in
the premiership since July 20,
when Largo Caballero refused to
take office.
Appointment of Largo Caballero
to the premiership by his former
chieftain, Azana, marks a further
swing to the left for the Madrid
government, in an apparent at
tempt to prevent the desperate
communists and syndicalists from
taking full charge of the govern
ment.
Revolt Within Revolt
Largo Cahallero is a socialist
and a former secretary-general Of
the Union of Workers.
Grave fears were immediately
felt that the new change. after
Giral had kept his grip on the
government for so short a time,
meant that moderate radicals were
finding it impossible to maintain
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
Santander Refugees
Tell Of Red Inferno u

LONDON, Sept. 4 G.N.SA
Refugees from Santander in Spain
who arrived in Lisbon 'NaYe
described Santander as a & Red in
ferno" where armed me h and
women are applying Z" popular
justice" the London Dali Mail
said today.
A light house is being used for
executions, said the paper, and the
Shrieks of tortured victims can be
heard night and day. Bodies are
thrown from the light house into
the sea, the refugees told the Daily
Mails Lisbon correspondent, and
hundreds of corpses are washed
up on the beach by every tide.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
q Soviet Officials
Held on Plot CharQe

BERLIN, Sept. 4 I.N.SD-Ger-
man press reports from Leningrad
today said Karl Radek, famous
Soviet publicist, A. I. Rykov, COM
missar of posts and kilograms, and
N. I. Bucharin, editor of the news
paper IzveStia, who hitherto have
been kept under "houSe arrest, ="
have now definitely been taken
into police custody on charges of
conspiring against the Stain
regime.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
DC. Stores TO Be Open
Entire Day Tomorrow

Most of the downtown stores
which have been closed either all
or part time on Saturdays during
July and August will be open all
day tomorrow, but closed on Mon
day, Labor Day, according to Ed
ward D. Shaw, secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change
In temperature; Sunday fair and slightly
warmer.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04

-VOTE AMERICAN-.
The Washington times., 1936-11-26
CCC BOYS DUE
BIG DINNER

There was an air Of anticipa-
ton in the three CCC camps in
this area today, for turkey din
ners-"all you can eat"-awaited
the 900 enrolleeS at the Federal
establishments.
The dinner bell will ring stimuli
taneously at Fort Hunt Con the
Mount Vernon Highway, Fort Du-
pont, in the Southeast section, and
on Roosevelt Island, and from IL
noon on it will be every man for
himself until the last leg and the
final portion of stuffing is con-
sumed.
Football games and other ath-
letic events have been scheduled
for the afternoon and it will be
a holiday except for the. score or
so lads who will have to remain
on maintenance duty at the camps.
For the most part, the CCC
men here are natives of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
The Washington times., 1936-11-26
ACADEMY HALL
CONTRACT LET

Construction of an extension to
sherwood Hall at the United
States Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis was awarded yesterday to j.
Henry Miller, Inc, of Baltimore,
Md, on a contract for $336,120.
The Academy construction prof.
ect was one of several awarded by
the Bureau of Yards and Docks OF
the Navy totaling $425, $50.
Included were an emplacement
for test guns at the naval proving
ground at Dahlgren, Va, contract
for which was awarded to the
Carlstrand Engineering Company,
of Baltimore, for $69, 800: pier and
breakWater repairs and dolphinS
at the Quantico Marine barracks,
awarded to the Carpenter Con-
struction Corporation of Norfolk
for $16,968: paving and curbS at
the entrance gate to the Washing
ton Navy Yard awarded to Corson
and Gruman Corporation of Wash
ington for $997, and repairs to
elevator at the naval clothing
depot, Brooklyn, N. Y, awarded to
the Otis Elevator Company Of
Brooklyn for $1,995.
The Washington times., 1936-11-26
MARYLAND u. Students
Hear Matkay Speech

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Nov. 26.
Charging that the present political
chaos in Europe is the result Of
"a deliberate inculcation of hatred
among the European nations that
has brought them to a state of
jungle mindedness," DR.. John Al
exander Mackay, president of the
Princeton Theological Seminary,
in an address before the Uni
versity of Maryland student body
here yesterday, appealed for the
support of the youth of this coun-
try in any movement that will
bring about greater friendship
among people.
In an address entitled Religion
in a Modern World" DR.. Mackay
also stressed the importance of
the women's place as a guiding
factor in the family life"