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Senator King Embarks.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, August "a
Ex-senator william H. King OF
Utah and his family embarked for
New York yesterday, after spending
almost . month visiting Caribbean
points.
They stopped at Haiti and the Viz
gin Islands as well as Puerto Rico.
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ny tne Associated Press.

DETROIT, August 28.-The Rev.
Joseph L. Fillion, pastor Of the Cath
ole Church of st. Joan Of Arc, dis
closed today that q series Of acts Of
vandalism at the church had culmi-
mated recently in an attempt to burn
the building. He Is now standing
guard with a shotgun.
There are rumors that the Black
Legion Is responsible" he said, but
I have 20 evidence concerning the
identity Of intruders."
Father Filliou frustrated tie arson
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IS STORIES TO DEATH
Man Leaps From Platform Of EN-.
pire State Building.

NEW YORK, August 20 (A1.-An
unidentified man jumped So stories to
his death from an observation plat
form Of the worlds tallest building,
the Empire State, today.
He waved goodby to half q dozen
paralyzed onlookers.
so long, folks" he said. Then he
leaped outward from the protecting
paIapet, cleared three setbacks and
hurtled to the sidewalk on the Thirty
third street side of the structure.
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dQU1tlOu 10 COLI
tributing m or e
than any other
branch Of the
Fascist services to
the victory, also
saved Italy from
a disaster that
m / 6 hit av e
changed the en-
tire course OF
present-day world
events.
Moreover, they
did 1t with gas,
the TOUGHEST sub
ject in all the
category Of arma-
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HAILSTORM DAMAGES
ORCHARDS IN CLARKE
Apple Crop Expected to Be Re.
duced in Marrow Area Hit
by Stones.

Srecial Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, August 28.-
An inspection today disclosed that
severe damage had been done in a
number of Clarke County apple Or
chards by a hailstorm that swept
through a relatively narrow area, and
that as a result the crop in that
county will be considerably reduced.
1t was also learned there was little
or no insurance carried by owners of
the orchards that were hardest hit.
Some of the fruit, chiefly early Fall
varieties, can be utilized by by
product plants.
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Extortion Attempt Charged.

ABILENE, Tex, August 20 (R.-
Federal operatives filed charges of at
tempted extortion today against Fred
erick E. Mahan, 3S, of Cisco, Tex, in
connection with an attempt August
to extort money from Samuel Butler,
brother of Gen. Smedley Butler, U. S.
M. c., retired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-28

(Use of gas that burned the feet
of an Ethiopian Army to the bone
and dperted an italian disaster Is
described in the fifth OF sir I'm
censored articles by wdr corre-
spondent, Just back home.J
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COOL WEATHER is DUE
TO CONTINUE IN CAPITAL
Showers Tonight Are Predicted
by .Forecaster-Tomorrow
Afternoon to Be Warmer.

Continued cool weather, with fur
ther showers tonight and probably to-
morrow morning, followed by warmer
weather in the afternoon, was fore
cast today by the Weather Bureau.
Today's minimum temperature, So
degrees at AIS am, was two degrees
below the lowest yesterday. Through
the early morning the temperature
rose ut rate Of less than a degree an
hour and at 9:45 am. was only u
degrees. Yesterdays maximum was rs
degrees, at 2:45 PM, and today's was
not expected to be any higher, If as
high.
Despite the rains Of the past few
days, local rainfall for the month still
ID below the August normal, according
10 Weather Bureau records.
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SAFETY PIN IN STOMACH
Boy 20 Months Old May Escape

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, August % (F,
Doctors peered at x-ray films yes.
terday and commented that nature
may rid infant Jimmy Legrone Of an
open safety pin he swallowed without
the necessity of an operation.
The medical men said the pin
which lay in the 20-month-old boys
stomach for a week, is proceeding
through lower organs blunt end first
and doing no harm. A dangerous
operation likely will not be necessary
they agreed.
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BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
TOULOUSE, France, August %
@.-The French press tonight
quoted refugees from Spain as say
ing 100 Rightists, some of them
former leaders of the government,
had been executed in Madrid in
reprisal for an attempt by Fascist
prisoners to burn the model Jail in
the Spanish capital.
(Copyright. 1885. by the Associated PressJ
BURGOS, Spain, August 2s.-The
Rebel high command mapped plans
for restoration of the monarchy with
military dictatorship today, an
nounced a new bombardment of Ma
drid and strengthened defenses
against a surprise advance on this
Fascist headquarters by Loyalists.
A military dictatorship will be con-
btituted indefinitely" to "extermi-
nate" all Loyalist elements and rule
the country without any parliament
whatsoever" high officials Of the
Fascist junta asserted.
Then, they said, will come a pleb-
iscite to determine upon the restora-
tion of the bourbon dynasty.
(Former King Alfonso, who quit
the country in 1881, has been reported
considering a flight back to Spain
from Austria. His heir presumptive,
Prince Juan of the Asturias, some
weeks ago was believed to have con-
ferred with Rebel chieftains at
Burgos. But advices at that time said
ne was later escorted back across
the French border)
Collaboration Planned.
Close collaboration with Germany
and Italy, friendly nations" which
Fascist leaders said have stood by
the army in the present civil war,
would be maintained, they declared.
The rebels today won an aerial
battle above the Franco-Spanish
frontier and claimed Madrids de-
tenders were desperate"
With machine gun bullets spatter-
ing French soil, single rebel scout
ing plane routed two big government
bombers in the battle area near 1run
and San Sebastian, on the Bay Of
Biscay.
In the same zone, however, govern
ment forces claimed a merchantmen
loaded with food for besieged cities
had slipped past rebel naval block
ade.
Insurgent radio broadcasts, We
hicles of most of the Spanish Fascist
news and propaganda in the six
(see SPAIN, Page A-3)
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COP. Hopes September IA
Election Will Point to
National Victory.
WITHDRAWN SENATE
RACE MAY BE CLOSE
Republicans Insist Governorship
Will Go to Barrows by
$4,000 to $4,000.
BULLETIN.

CHICAGO, August 20 R.-John
D. M. Hamilton, Republican ma
tional chairman, announced today
that Gov. ALI M. Landon of Kan
sas, the party's presidential nomi-
nee, would make two more cam
paign tours-one in the Middle
West next month and another in
the East in the latter part Of
October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-28

And though I spent months IN the
first lines with the italian troops on
the northern front. lived with bat
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BY EDWARD ]. NEIL.
tCopyright. 1885, by the Associated Press. J

NEW YORK, August 20. Better
late than never is the story Of how
the Italian aviators in Ethiopia, in
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PIebiscite to Decide on Re-
turn of Bourbon Dynasty
Planned After Military Rule
Is Imposed.
END TO PARLIAMENTS
is ONE AIM OF REBELS
Sayings by Extremists in Madrid
Reported in Broadcast by In
surgents-Loyalist Bombing
Planes Routed by Scout Ship on
Northern Front.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Since Spanish government at
February elections ,oon Working
majority of Deputies. but tUith less
than halt OF national Uote, bitter
ness betpeen proponents OF taScism
and so-called Peoples Front-So-
ciaHsts, Communists, Anarchists,
etc.-led to open reuolt sir weeks
ago.
Rebels, composed of most OF
army, land and property cunning
classes and militant sections of
church, aduocate strong Fascist
rule at Madrid. Some favor return
OF monarchy under former King
Alfonso, trho fed country in 1881.
Socialist government meanwhile is
supported mainly by hastily Or
canised militia units OF workers,
peasants and miners.
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Spanish Ambassador Resigns.
LONDON, August 20 CP-Th<
Spanish Ambassador TO London. Lopez
Olivan, resigned today. He made nc
comment upon his action.
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(See DERN, Page A-2.)
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(See ICKES, Page A-2.)
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(See MAINE, Page A-3.)
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(See BAR, Page A-5.)
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%. 6. weather Bureau Foreeast)
Showers tonight and probably tomor.
row morning; warmer; moderate south.
east to south winds. Temperatures
Highest, n, at ais pm. yesterday: low.
est, SO, at Ais am. today.
Full report on page A-l0.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
"Out on Bond"

Three of the men arrested in connec-
ton with a shooting last week, which
bears all the familiar earmarks of the
bootleg rows identified with the prohi-
bition era, were convicted last March
as principals in liquor conspiracy case
When their case was appealed, they
were released on bond. Arrested in
connection with this shooting, they were
again released on bond.
Another man, said to have been iden-
titled by the victim of the shooting as
one of those participating in the assault,
was picked up on the street Saturday
and released shortly thereafter, having
no difficulty apparently, in raising the
rather high bond of $4,000. This man
has an interesting police record. He
paid two heavy fines for transportation
and possession of liquor in 1882. He
was charged by the police with murder,
but was not indicted He was indicted
as accessory after the fact in another
murder and the indictment was nolle
pressed when the murderer pleaded
guilty. He has forfeited collateral in a
disorderly conduct case and has been
twice arrested this year and questioned
by the police. but released each time.
The man who was shot. now recover
ing in hospital, has the reputation
with the police of being bootlegger.
One theory advanced is that he was put
on the spot" for infringing on some
body else's territory.
1t is going to be interesting to watch
the progress of this case. A weakness
of our system is revealed in the fact that
those known to the police as habitual
criminals, who make living at crime,
are apparently harder to put behind the
bars and be kept there, where they be-
long, than the otherwise law-abiding
citizen who, in the heat of passion or
under unusual temptation, yields to i'm
pulse and commits his first and possibly
his only crime.
Evening star., 1936-08-03

Of those specimens which the insects
preferred in which to lay their eggs.
Whatever may be the cause Of these
green walls beautiful beyond anything
which man may erect, they must be
accepted by all persons simply as so
much beauty which is free to all. There
is here no question Of ticket or price,
but only that of the seeing eye. The
older parts of the city share with the
newer this incompatible beauty. The
veritable. bowers which some Of the
older residential streets become at this
time of year are as acceptable today as
ever while in newer sections the pano-
rama of green everywhere would be
worth travelling far to see, if the for
tunate possessors of this loveliness were
not here already to enjoy it.
The latest phase in garden making is
the green garden" where the accent Is
placed on shrubs, trees, evergreens and
grass. Medals have been awarded by
horticultural societies for such gardens,
in which green is used, not simply as
background, but as the aim and thing
in itself.
Washington is a green city. a green
garden, in the best sense. And this
year 1t is more so than ever, owing to
this extra lushness of all foliage growth,
which makes all Of its citizens feel as
if they were living in the woods. 1t
must never be forgotten that the chem
istry of growing green things is as
marvellous as any to be found in the
finest laboratory of man. The chemistry
by which light acting on the green
substance of leaves converts carbon
dioxide into starch, and gives forth
pure oxygen to the atmosphere, re-
mains one of the eternal triumphs of
the Great Chemist. In these days of
super gasoline fumes, it is just as well
that there is more foliage than ever.
The vast quantities Of carbon monoxide
given into the atmosphere every day by
the exhaust of automobiles need some
antidote. Green of tree and shrub not
only is good to look at. it is essential.
and far reaching. This city, above all
others, perhaps, should think twice be-
fore it ever cuts down a tree, or removes
a shrub.
Evening star., 1936-08-03

United States in the preamble to the
Constitution: ITO form a more perfect
Union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common de-
fense. promote the general welfare and
secure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity."
Yet the sponsors Of the Federal char
ter did not define their terms inexorably.
Instead, they deliberately employed fiex-
ible language in the statement Of their
objectives. 1t was part Of their intent
to leave to the citizens the right and the
responsibility to choose the course Of
future years. Periodical elections were
stipulated so that representative democ-
racy might prevail. Much more. however,
than the mere selection of officers is
involved In balloting. Thus, in 1886, the
voters have the duty not merely to prefer
one candidate for the presidency above
several others, but also to indicate their
option on the philosophy of management.
For example, among the questions to be
decided at the polls is: Shall the Gov
ernment be cautious, or shall it be
adventurous?
The whole vast issue is tremendously
complicated. Indeed, it may be won-
dered if any previous occasion since the
Civil War has been more deeply sig
nificant, more highly momentous, than
that Of the current campaign. A man
old in wisdom and calm in temperament
has phrased the problem in an epigram:
"On November we shall discover what
sort of people we Americans are"
Evening star., 1936-08-03
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Mathematical Farmer.


A farmer said, I've had to stop
And study my lymphatics,
Cause it may help to raise a crop
OF higher mathematics.
Our glands are most mysterious things
They work in direction,
So strange, threat it sometimes brings
OF human vivisection.
With letters strewn most every way
In scholarly completeness,
plant field of algebray
With geometric neatness.
When here and then I graft a twig
Upon logarithm,
The yield of figures is so big
I can't do nothin' with 'em
Some trigonometry I plant
While neighbors stand in wonder.
The yield in terms of food is scant-
And that must be plowed under.
MY patch of calculus goes dry.
My figure prove mistaken.
I wish that I old ways could try
And just raise Beans and Bacon"
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Green Walls.

1t is seldom that the National Capita
and suburban areas have had more
foliage, tree and shrub, than this year
Veritable green walls of leaves have
been erected along our streets, in many
cases the foliage being so dense that
all buildings are hidden from view.
Mother Nature. who is wary in caring
for her own, seems to have determined
to make up for the trimming which
the cicadas gave the tip ends of trees
and shrubs. Just as she causes to
come into being more boy babies after
a great war than during the years of
peace, so when the "locusts" came she
made ready by increasing the growth
Evening star., 1936-08-03
The Purpose of the State.

There are men," says Pho Baroja, in
Youth and Egolatry," who believe that
the state, as at present constituted, is
the end and elimination of all human
effort. According to this view, the
state is the best possible state, and its
organization is considered so perfect
that its laws. discipline and formulae
are to be sacred and immutable in mems
eyes" Such, it may be assumed, is the
ultraconservative concept of an ideal
system of government.
But the same author continues: ION
the other hand, there are persons who
believe that the entire legal structure is
only temporary scaffolding, and that
what is called justice today may be
thought savagery tomorrow, so that it is
the part of wisdom not to look so much
to the rule of the present as to the
illumination of the future" And these
words, perhaps, may be accepted as a
fair summary of the ultraliberal attitude
toward governmental machinery, meth
odology and policy.
The one theory probably is too rigid;
the other almost certainly too unstable,
fiabby and weak. Under the former,
social progress would be infeasible;
under the latter, incessant revolution
would be the order of every day. What
a civilized people would desire, then,
must lie somewhere between the two
extremes. But form depends upon pur-
pose, and it follows that before nation
can be perfectly sure about its institu-
tions the electorate must be in common
agreement about the ends those estab.
fathers sketched their aims for the
Evening star., 1936-08-03

Some time ago when an effort was
made to interview him, Uncle" Daniel
willard evaded questioning by the jocu-
lar statement that he was, at the mo-
to discover the precise date on which In
dian Summer begins. The question is no
longer frivolous. Sudden variations Of
climate in July and August tend to give
it rating as a profound problem sug-
gesting New Deal experiments even for
the almanac makers.
Evening star., 1936-08-03

Will people conceivably give up their
precious speed?
The answer apparently is: No.
They won't, and that's that. as the
saying is.
These cars are here. with their great
possibilities, the very peak of what
has been striven for all along.
Their tremendous acceleration and
speed possibilities are the flower of the
ages, from motoring standpoint.
So what?
Nobody knows.
II any one could solve this thing
he would be the hero of the day.
The solution, it would seem, at least
so Templeton Jones thought, is to
reduce speed, and nobody wants to
reduce speed.
Nobody intends to go slow.
1t is going around in a circle. the
remedy known, or thought by many to
be known, with only few willing to
give it trial, however.
Just a few trying it seems to do no
good.
Just few, in fact, cause trouble
The only real trial would be for all
motorists to cut down on their speed.
A set 20 miles an hour would re-
quire a national dictator, at the least.
Probably a better idea. Jones thought
would be to get every car driver to
promise to do his best to cut down on
his own speed, even if only little.
Thus the man in the habit of driving
as fast as he dared would be willing to
20 just a little slower. A little slower,
all along the line, might bring about
some change for the better. 1t would
cultivate a national habit of going
slower, instead Of going faster.
1t would have to be in peoples mind
and hearts, however, and not just on
paper and signs.
And all the time, what about the
man afoot?
The man afoot" is a better term, all
things considered, than pedestrian"
because common usage has resulted in
pedestrians and motorists being Jumped
off as common enemies, whereas the
man afoot may be man who has just
stepped from behind the wheel.
In today's traffic. the man afoot is
less than the dust beneath a chariot's
wheel.
He will be ground to dust, II he
doesn't jump.
In the old days of buffaloes and In
dians, he had rife with which to pro-
tect himself. but today he has nothing
not even the satisfaction Of shooting
at the enemy.
All he can do for himself is be as
cautiouS as noSSihle
This might seem easy. but evidently
it isn't as witness any downtown corner
People without protection take untold
chances, chances just as unnecessary as
the speed of SO many cars.
The unnecessary, too, works both
ways. evidently.
Acceleration and speed being what
they are. it is up to every person afoot
to do the best he can for himself in
the way of protecting himself from the
common enemy.
The shame of it is that this common
enemy is some fellow just like himself,
who mostly has no desire to hurt others
but who, alas, too often does.
Public enemy No. l." he might be
called.
Will he be you?
Evening star., 1936-08-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Taking a trip recently to a part of
town in which he had not set foot for
several years, Templeton Jones found
one thing which impressed him above
all.
1t was the increased speed at which
vehicles Of all kinds roared through
those streets which once were so
familiar to him, and over whici. he had
travelled scores of thousands of miles.
This increased speed of travel was
something new there, Jones thought to
himself.
Then he realized that 1t was not just
new there, but was new everywhere,
and. in his opinion. was responsible for
the devastating toll reaped yearly.
1t was only when he went to this
old part of town again, and revisited
streets he knew so well, even down to
the very feel of them. that he caught
the speed, which in the remainder of
the city was so usual to him.
He had mental picture, deep etched,
of the way those old streets ought to be,
as he put it,
AS they were was what he meant.
Five years has done things to traffic
everywhere.
One of the worst things 1t has done
has been to deaden the sense OF speed
increase.
1t has been such a gradual growth
that no one, in the large sense, has
noticed 1t at all.
Only trip to section of town which
one knew intimately years before, down
to the very feel of the streets and
their traffic. suddenly reveals to most,
as 1t did to Jones, this increase.
Jones had been interested to discover
that the only vehicles which had not
increased their speed, in the years he
had been away. were the busses. The
driver told him they were running as
Of old.
In addition to the sheer speed the
thing that impressed the roaming Tenn
pleton Jones was the seeming reckless
ness Of it all.
What was the increased speed for,
and what did 1t get the drivers?
They were just ordinary mortals, some
quite evidently going no place in par
ticular.
Then why so fast?
The spirit of the age, of course, and
a modern motor car.
These are the answers. but the con-
sequences are often dread.
The belief continues to grow that
speed is the real cause Of the accidents.
Every time this is mentioned, ready
answer is that leSsening it would not
stop accidents.
Behind the speed, however. is the
spirit of recklessness. apparent to any
one who is willing to use his eyes and
tell himself honestly what he sees.
Ask almost any taxi driver.
Il don't know what this city is
coming to-" one of them said to Jones
the other day.
: The latest consideration of the traffic
problem lies in a book called Sense
and Safety on the Road" published by
Appleton Century. The authors sug-
gest that if the entire driving popula-
ton of the United States were willing
for a single month to reduce its speed
to 20 miles an hour, it would be safe
to believe that traffic fatalities would
be reduced from 5000 a month to less
than 100.
Fatalities, mind you. This figure does
not include the enormous number of
persons injured.
Evening star., 1936-08-03

Spanish Sovereigns furnished the
funds that send Columbus to America.
If the idea did not involve such formid-
able expense America might be tempted
to finance an expedition to double on
the trail and introduce the principles of
a Christian civilization into Spain.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Full House.

The mother was weary at end of the day
So many the children that trooped in
from play,
So many to feed and to tuck into bed.
And yet as she bent to kiss each tousled
head
She knew that to lose one was ever her
dread.
And often at night when they all were
asleep
From crib to the larger cots softly she'd
creep,
To kneel for a moment in sudden alarm
And pray that each child might be kept
safe from harm,
AS she covered bare foot or small out
flung arm.