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The Washington times., 1936-10-23
PLEA
OF HERND0N

Indicted Wednesday on forgery
and embezzlement charges total
ing more than $4,000, William S.
Herndon, former manager of the
Georgetown branch of the closed
Fidelity Building and Loan Asso-
citation, pleaded guilty before JUS
tice Peyton Gordon in United
States District Court today.
Herndon disappeared last JUNE
after having taken $4,000 of the
institutions funds and was ar
rested on the West Coast three
weeks ago. An audit of his &C
counts by Treasury Department
accountants disclosed the other
shortages on which the charges
are based.
Herndon lost the money in vari-
Gus gambling activities, he said,
including a fling at the gaming
tables in Reno, New, where he fled
last summer.
The case was referred to the
probation officer for investigation.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
OBSERVATORY
PUBLIC HOST

The Naval Observatory here
will celebrate Navy Day Tuesday
by staging a special show for
visitors. it was announced today
by the Navy Department.
Three telescopes. the 40, 26 and
Pinch instruments, will be man.
ned by operators and the visitors
permitted to gaze through them at
the heavens.
A day and night show will be
staged, the matinee" open to the
general public, but the night show
open only to those with admission
cards. The cards will be mailed to
persons making written request to
the Naval Observatory. They are
asked to state in their applications
which of the three telescopes they
wish to look through.
Other branches of the observa-
tory will be opened to visitors, and
members of the astronomical staff
and naval officers attached to the
observatory will conduct groups
through the station.
-VOTE AMEPICAM-
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
MAINE RELIEF
VOTE ABSENCE
IS AIRED

Thousands of voters on relief
rolls in Maine remained away from
the polls in the recent primary
election because they feared they
would be claSsed as pauperS and
denied the right to vote, the Sen
ate campaign funds committee re-
ported today.
Senator Lonergan CD Of Con-
necticut, chairman of the COM
mittee, said that Attorney General
Clyde R. Chapman, of Maine, had
miSinterpreted his own State laws.
Both Parties Hit
Both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, a committee official said,
used "intimidating tactics" to pre-
vent unfriendly relief workers
from casting their ballots. Earl
JeffrieS, secretary of the commit
tee, said:
I'm counties where 1t was to
the advantage of Republicans to
keep relief workers from the
polls, they threatened to chat
lenge their vote as pauperS, and
in counties where the Democrats
felt they would gain by the same
tactics, they employed them"
"The matter apparently was
nOn.pOIitical, although more.
complaints were made against
Republicans than against Demo.
Gratis"
Under the Maine law, Chapman
ruled, a person on emergency re-
lief is deemed a pauper. A pau
per cannot vote.
Cites Amendment
But, the Lonergan committee
said in statement, Maine
amended the act in 1888 to pro-
vide that no person shall be con-
sidered a pauper if he receives
the benefit of public funds.
Lonergan referred complaints to
Walter Myers, committee counsel,
for his opinion on the Maine laws.
The committee statement said:
Complaints assert that the
right to vote without let or him
derance lies at the very f0unda-
ton of free government
ait is a right of equal sub
stance and SOlemnity with the
right to religious liberty, of free
speech, a free press, and the
right to assemble peaceably and
petition the Government for
redress of grievances
The Lonergan committee refused
to make public the names of
persons complaining against the
Maine practice.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
REVISED RAIL RATE ASKED

have failed to earn by approx
mately $6O,6OO,OOO their fixed
charges for the first eight
months of 1886.
although the volume of traf-
fic during the past year has
shown an improvement as COM
pared with the years immedi-
ately preceding, it is self.evi.
dent that the railroads are not
in a position to Withstand the
loss of revenue which would re-
suit from the elimination of the
emergency charges in the alb
sence of a revision of base
rates.
Even with the propose
rates, the railroads will still be
in dire need of additional reve.
nueS which are to be obtained,
If at all, only in the event of
. very substantial increase in
the present volume of traffic."
VOTE AMERICAN
Praise for Navy
Elmer Layden predicts Navy
will have its best eleven in histor!
this year.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
.Fi|ipinos 10 Stage
0ratoriCaI Contest

The Filipino Center. Inc, will
hold it's annual oratorical contest
Sunday evening at $3.50 o'clock in
the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium, 1875
G st. N. w.
Silverio P. Madelo, Gonzalo g.
Marie, Domingo C. Macatangay,
Liborio MeneSes and Jose Carriage
will deliver orations to be judged
by committee consisting of Prof.
w. A. Read, of Southeastern Uni
verSity; S. j. Spingarn. general
counsel of the Treasury Depart
ment, and Miss Dorothy Abbts, of
Catholic University'S social service
school.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
STABBER CUTS APPENDIX

ATLANTA Oct. % G.N.SO.-To
Lewis Trammell, "A year old
Negro, the incident was just a
fight in which he came cut the
loser.
But to the doctors at Grady
Hospital here it represented what
they believe to be the first &C
cidental appendectomy on record,
they revealed today.
Trammell'S opponent in the af-
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
Opera Stars Sing
Al Smith War Soma

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-Possibly for
the first time in history the ia
nous AL Smith campaign song
Sidewalks of New York" was sung
by two stars of the grand opera
world last night.
When Smith entered the great
auditorium, dedicated to opera.
Giuseppe Cavadore, the tenor, was
about to sing 20 Sole Milo"
The crowd demanded that he
sing Sidewalks of New York"
Cavadore sang it with gusto, &C.
companied by Maria Matyak,
mezzo soprano.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23
zI0NCHECK'S
WIDOW SAFE

DALLAS, Tex, Oct. % Q.NSO.
Mrs. Rubye Nix zioncheck, widow
Of the late Representative Marion
Zioncheck, who was reported miss
ing here, was back at the home of
her parents near Texarkana to-
day.
Considerable furore was created
yesterday when an unidentified
man telephoned police headquar-
tiers and asked officers to search
for Mrs. Zioncheck, who, he said,
had been missing since Tuesday.
Investigation revealed Mrs. Zion
check purchased a $1,000 silver
fox fur coat here and left late
last night by automobile, after a
trip to Fit. Worth.
VOTE AMERICAN
Police Would Play
Police Boys Club unlimited grid.
ders have a field and want a
game for Sunday. Phone Morris
Foy, National 1000.
The Washington times., 1936-10-23

fray, whose name was not learned,
pulled a knife and stabbed. Tram
nell was rushed to the hospital
where an examination revealed
that the Slashers' knife had in
flicted a perfect appendectomy
incision in Trammell's right side.
neatly nipping off the appendix
The doctor lifted the severed
appendix from the abdominal
cavity, disinfected the wound and
Sewed it up.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

opinion Of the court, be suficient To
enable q man to maintain O wife and
three children in a fair and reasonable
standard of comfort"
Other sections Of the law provide for
unionization Of workers, In some cases
compulsory unionization, and sets up
system for the arbitration Of industrial
disputes.
In reducing hours to 40 q week the
court was asked to increase hourly or
piece-work wages 50 the total weekly
pay envelope Of the employe would be
just as large as under the longer work
week.
An attempt was made to limit, 20
far as possible, work on Saturdays.
In the long and bitter debate over
the bill, one member OF Parliament In
defending higher wages declared:
"As the volume Of production in.
creases so must the spending power
of the people to purchase and consume
goods"
One member asked: Must the
people Of New Zealand 60 hungry for
no other reason than that there Is too
much for them to eat?"
Manufacturers contended higher
wages and shorter hours would in
crease production costs 50 much that
prices would be forced up, thereby
lowering the purchasing power Of the
workers wages.
Members of Parliament from farm
ing communities pleaded that farmers
could not mset ths additional costa
Evening star., 1936-12-06

coverage in silver. The divisional
money was nickel
The paper thalers were accepted ex-
clusively by Europeans and few
Ethiopian chieftains and notables liv.
ing in Adds Ababa. The main popu-
lation did not even know Of their ex-
istence. Not having any provincial
banks and being unable to conserve
paper money in primitive huts, the
natives wanted only the shining,
clinking thalers, which would keep"
II hidden away in the ground or tied
up in their shamas, and whose weight
gave reassuring feeling Of wealth.
The thaler is somewhat bigger than
the American silver dollar. Now when
the Italians came along and said that
the thaler was to have the value Of
liras, and was to be freely exchanged
for the italian silver 5-lira piece, the
size of the American quarter. q great
deal Of persuasion had to be used to
convince the Ethiopians that the two
coins were equal in value.
It was not until they began to see
that the big thaler would buy only -
much q the small 5-lira piece. or that
the 5-lira piece would pay OF . debt
tust - well - the big thaler. that
thsy began to seospt The Italian eotns'
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Difficulties Are Besetting Italy
In Circulating Lira in Ethiopia

Adds ABABA OP).-Italy Is hav-
ing difficulties in imposing its money,
the lira, In Ethiopia.
superstitions and prejudices Of
many centuries IN . land where bars
Of salt, sugar loaves and cartridges
were just as good currency ~ silver
coins, have to be overcome before
Ethiopia can adjust itself to smooth
monetary system.
The Italians have succeeded in q
few large centers In substituting their
money for the big maria thaler which
held sway under Halle Selassie.
In the remainder Of the empire,
however, the thaler is the only coin
accepted. A decree had to be passed
recently suspending a previous decree
that ruled out all thalers and per-
mitting the Bank of Italy at Adds
Ababa to sell thalers ut the same rate
In liras at which it bought them.
The Ethiopian monetary system
consisted OF silver and paper thalers.
The silver thalers were bought peri
odically from, the American Govern
naent like any other silver products.
The paper thalers were printed by the
National Bank Of Ethiopia to the
0auut of 3.0oo, 900, with 100 per cent
Evening star., 1936-12-06
New Zealand Builds Its Own IN. r. A."
Upon M Years of Social Reforms

WELLINGTON, New Zealand R.-
New Zealand has bid for prosperity
with its own IN. r. A.
Maximum hours, minimum wages
compulsory collective bargaining and
rigid conditions of labor have been
imposed by Parliament upon all adult
men and women Of the islands.
Such social reform measures in New
Zealand are not new: the first step
along that line was taken more than
A years ago with an investigation
into sweat-shop conditions.
The capstone Of the work was con-
sidered by many to be the recent de-
cision Of the New Zealand Arbitration
Court establishing minimum wages of
f3 l6s for men and Fl 16s for women
for q 40-hour week.
The first industrial conciliation and
arbitration act was passed January l,
1895. and the present law Of the same
name was enacted in 1925 with the
wage provision set by the Arbitration
Court under an amendment passed
June 8, 1886.
In fixing the wage the court was
empowered by law to take under con-
sideration 'the general economic and
financial conditions then affecting
trade and industry in New Zealand,
the cost Of living and any fluctuations
In the cost Of living"
II was added: The basic rate Of
wages for adult male workers hxed
under the authority Of this section
saaIl b such Q 1sts - would, n thu
Evening star., 1936-12-06

never compete with Texas or Brazil.
Italy must now face the costs Of q
barren conquest before 1t can function
normally in peace-time economics. 1t
cannot materially help recovery.
either Of Europe or Of itself, unless 1t
can induce other nations to loan" 1t
the money with which TO cover its
losses. On the other hand. even II
1t went bankrupt-as other nations
have done with less cause.-The effect
would be little more than a belated
sanction. There would be some dis
turbance outside Italy. but not enough
to stop the current of world recovery.
With Germany the case is wholly
different. There Is every reason-but
one-for it to join in with the West
ern powers in policies of freer trade
and economic recovery. That one
reason is not economic; it is political.
Germany needs credits to get under
way. and under ordinary circum-
stances there would be every reason
for those credits to be advanced by
the other trading nations. But at
present they would be used for the
one greatest industry Of Germany
that Of munitions; and it cannot be
expected that Germany's neighbors
will supply the capital to help it to
secure arms for possible use against
them.
The result has been to make Ger
many 60 back to primitive methods Of
barter. arranging all its trading with
one supreme aim-to get raw mate
rials for munitions. Not having money
enough to buy the things it lacks
for its new armaments, it arranges
its exports SO as to bring back a bal
ance Of copper, rubber, cotton or the
Evening star., 1936-12-06

other materials 1t needs for its vast
program Of mechanized warfare. The
result is q complete dislocation of Ger
man foreign trade.
Just at the moment when by q gi-
gantic national effort 1t has readjusted
its internal economy and brought 1t to
the point of greatly increased produc-
tive capacity. Germany has adopted
= foreign policy which Is almost liter
ally the same as that which European
nations labored under more than two
hundred years ago. For it is based on
the balance Of trade" idea, accord
ing to which nations used to try to
arrange their commerce so as to bring
in balance of gold or treasure. If,
in place of gold or treasure" we
insert the phrase raw materials" we
see how German foreign trade is
planned at present. The fallacy Of
the earlier system was long since made
clear, but 1t was much better business
than this adaptation, for gold has a
universal application. while those raw
materials which Germany is most
anxious to import as her trade bal
ance have only one chief use.
Germany Chooses Security.
1t must be said that the guiding
principle in all this Is not peace-econ-
omy at all; it is war-economy. The
Germans have no illusions on this
matter. For the present, at least, Ger
many frankly faces the choice be-
tween prosperity and what it regards
as security-and chooses security.
When the problem is stated in these
terms, there appears no reason for any
other nation to find fault with Ger
manys choice, for all of them have
done the same. National security Is
Evening star., 1936-12-06
BUFFER STATES LEAGUE
SOUGHT TO CURB REICH
Czechoslovakia and Rumania, Fearing
Invasion, Seek Poland's Aid in
Guarding Resources.

On the other hand. if Poland will
join the proposed pact. it will make a
continuous barrier running from Dan
zig to the Black Sea. 1t Is doubtful
whether Germany, if convinced that
Poland would make common cause
with the other two buffer states, would
dare risk the enterprise.
Haste is felt to be necessary in form
ing this defensive bloc. Information
here is that Germany, while not yet
fully ready for war, will certainly have
completed her war preparations by
next Summer, and that, If European n
diplomacy does not succeed in Or
ganizing the necessary barriers before
that time. there is better than an even
chance that Germany will decide to
open hostilities.
How seriously this menace is being
taken is evident from the recent speech
of the British foreign minister, Capt.
Anthony Eden. 1t is the first time in
modern history that England has taken
a public commitment to 60 to war in
definite circumstances.
But England will take such action
only If France or Belgium is attacked.
Germany may seek to maneuver in
such way that France will remain
neutral. Instead of, as in 1914. work.
ing on the plan of first annihilating
France and then turning against Rus
sia, Germany, in view of Eden's threat.
would probably seek by diplomacy to
limit the war to the eastern front.
(Copyright. 1g36)
Evening star., 1936-12-06

Here are 20 States, beginning with
Ohio and running west to California,
composing the entire territory between
the Pacific Coast and the western
boundary of Pennsylvania (omitting
Southern States and the three small
Southwestern States of Nevada, Ari-
zona and New Mexico) In this terri
tory all but one State went Repub-
lican at least five out of seven times
eight went Republican six out of seven
times, and seven went Republican
seven out of seven times.
Those States, this territory, were the
backbone of the Republican party. In
no presidential election that the Re-
publican party has ever won could it
have won with all those States missing.
Qndeed, rarely could 1t have won with
any substantial number of those States
missing)
Yet every one of those States went
for Roosevelt in 1882. and went for
him again in 1886. In many Of the
States the vote for him in 1896 was
greater than in 1882. Clearly this is
the territory in which the Republican
party Is wounded deep.
For about 30 years that part Of
the Republican party which inhab-
tied the West has been called the
Progressive Republicans Progress
sive Republicans" was a well recog-
nized political division. 1t was as we'll
recognized as Southern Democrats. !"
The Republican party in the West
was practically as sectional as the
Southern democracy. That is, the
Progressive Republicans" we're 10
Gated in the West almost exclusively.
(Although there were some small out
posts in the East Of the type Of Pinchot
of Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1936-12-06
/ ARIS.-''Dat ole debbil" of
, Hapsburg restoration has been
jumping up again lately This

time 1t has taken a new form
namely, the restoration Of Otto to the
throne Of Hungary instead Of Austria.
It is well known that Germany is
opposed to restoring the Hapsburgs to
the Austrian throne, because it would
mean first OF all that the famous
anschluss would then be an impossi-
bility, and. secondly, it would create
q threat Of reuniting the old Austro-
Hungarian empire and thus erect q
perpetual barrier to Germany's dream
Of hegemony in Central Europe.
Some diplomats, consequently,
thought they had found = bright So
luton IN handing Otto the Hungarian
throne. It was taken for granted
that Italy would make no opposition,
and, In fact, when Regent Horthy re-
Gently visited Rome, it was loudly
whispered that the visit was for the
purpose Of fixing up the conditions Of
Otto's return.
Such prophets, it now appears, were
taking the wish for the deed. It looks
very much as II neither Horthy nor
Mussolini Is at all anxious to see Otto
wearing st. Stephens crown.
Indeed, it II rather hard to under
stand why anybody should expect
Admiral Horthy to commit political
hara-kiri. As regent he u boss Of
Hungary, and has most Of Europe
eating out of his hand. So long as
the Hapsburss keep out, Hungary Is
quite definitely q key state In Europe.
But let Us look at what would happen
II Admiral Hofthy should Amazingly
Evening star., 1936-12-06


- Of League Of Buffer States,
running from the Baltic to the
Black Sea. is now being at
tempted, in view Of the increasing
menace Of war between Germany and
Russia.
In q long confidential talk with q
Little Entente statesman who has
played leading role in European
affairs ever since the war, it was
disclosed that Germany has definite
intention. in case Of hostilities with
Russia. to march through Czechoslo-
vakia and Rumania.
The advantage Of this route. from
Germany's point of view. is that it
goes through country rich in both
wheat and OIL At one stroke Ger
many would obtain food for the army
and fuel for motors and airplanes.
Moreover. the route leads directly into
the rich Ukraine.
Germany's hope is that Poland will
remain neutral. Italy has already
succeeded in detaching Yugoslavia
from the Little Entente, leaving
Czechoslovakia and Rumania isolated.
For that reason the Czech and
Rumanian governments are now
striving to persuade Poland to make
common cause with them. pointing
out to the Poles that, If they allow
Czechoslovakia and Rumania to be
overrun, it is only a question of time
until Poland will be swallowed In her
turn.
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Restoration of Otto to Throne of
Hungary Is Believed Unlikely

retire in favor Of the legitimate heir
1t has been said often that Haps-
burg restoration would mean war with
the Little Entente. That is correct
If the restoration took place in Vienna
But in Budapest it is quite a different
story.
Restoration in Budapest will not
mean war with the Little Entente
But it will mean something extremely
serious for Italy. It will mean that
the anschluss-the annexation Of Aus
tria to Germany-will became q fact
overnight.
The fact Is that the Little Entente
does not care . rap about Hapsburg
restoration in Budapest. The only
friend Hungary has in Europe Is Italy,
and italy Is not taken very seriously
As . factor in possible effort to re-
build the former Hapsburg empire.
What Is important is that, If Otto
should get the Hungarian throne,
Germany would Immediately swallow
Austria, and Austria would not find
. friend in Europe to defend her.
And the annexation Of Austria would
place Germany on Italy's frontier, q
thing that Mussolini would not like
at all.
That is why it is not believed that
Mussolini and Horthy even mentioned
the subject of Hapsburg restoration.
That Is why 1t is not believed that
Hapsburg restoration will ever be .
subject for serious discussion among
European statesmen until the day
when statesmen, perhaps, may. fear
that the only way out Of the mess
thsy have mado y VA.