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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
FLOOD BILL FACES
BATTLE IN HOUSE
$384,000,O00 Measure
Passes Senate Without
BiIbo Amendment.
Hy the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
A sharp new struggle over the big
omnibus flood control bill was In
prospect today as House members
looked over the Senate-approved
measure calling for the spending of
1894 100000.
The bill originated in the House
last session, but underwent many
changes before it passed the Senate
yesterday Senator Copeland, Demo-
crat, of New York, forecast the House
would insist upon the retention of
its provisions. A Senate-House con-
ference wa planned for next week.
AS it passed the Senate the bill
carries authorization for 216 flood
control projects, empowers the PreSl.
dent to select projects he believes
should be started under the S50000,-
600 available the first year and re-
ouires the interested States and locali-
ties to share the cost.
Bilbo Fights Cost sharing.
The cost-sharing proviso was bit
terly fought by Senator Bilbo, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, who offered an
amendment to require the Federal
Government to bear the whole eX-
pense The amendment was defeated
by 55-tol5 vote after Copeland de-
clared. IF you want bill that
amendment must be killed"
Bilbo, declaring the New Yorker
was resorting to ''veiled threat" of
a veto, was supported by Senators
Guffey, Democrat, of Pennsylvania
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. and
Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania
I'VE are starting on the highway to
spend $l2,OO00O0 on flood control,
said the Mississippian. Let us start
right. Let us fix the responsibility on
the beneficiaries. The benefits will
accrue to every man and woman and
should be paid for by the entire Ma
ton and not saddled on this section
or that"
Rider Sidetracked.
The Senate also sidetracked a rider
10 create national resources board to
make survey preparatory to a broad
conservation plan and turned down a
proposal by Guffey to make the Fed
ersl Government pay the cost of re-
locating railroads and highways in
building the projects.
After passage of the measure. Cope
land described it as the first pork
less f1ood-control bill in the history
OF the country"
While the Senate acted on the
omnibus measure the House voted to
increase the scop of flood-control prof.
scts on the Lower Mississippi, as pro-
vided in the Overton bill, from S272.-
100000 to 1898 10000 and prepared
for a vote on the measure today.
An amendment by Representative
Miller and Terry. Arkansas Demo-
Gratis. to authorize 26 reservoirs or
the Arkansas and White Rivers, was
adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
GAS ASSOCIATION PLANS
NEWSPAPER AID DRIVE
Three-Year Program Adopted.
Local Firm Urged to Spend
Millions in Promotion.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., May a.
Executives of the country's leading
gas companies meeting here yesterday
in the annual executive conference OF
the American Gas Association, ap-
proved plans for a three-year CO.
operative advertising campaign and
urged local gas companies to back up
this cooperative effort with strong
newspaper advertising campaigns.
T. J. Stricken, vice president Of the
Kansas City Gas Co. and chairman
of the committee to conduct national
advertising, recommended that in ad-
dition to the 100000 annual Cooper
alive advertising fund raised by the
association, local companies should
spend between two and three million
dollars for newspaper advertising an
nually.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-22
DANCE TO BE PRESENTED
100 Dancers Will Participate in
Program Monday.

The Bekefi-Delaporte Institute of
Washington will present its annual
May dancing program at the Ward
man Park Theater, Monday at $50
pm.
One hundred dancers will participate
In the two features of the affair, a
-pantomime, Les Millions d'Arle-
quin" and musical comedy, Dance
Monopolies,"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
LONDON WOOL SALES
CLOSE HIGHER

The first series of Colonial
wool sales for 1886 closed in Lon
don on January 30 with IAN excel
lent tone, prices for all descrip-
lions showing substantial increas-
es compared with the close of the
EreCeWng series, acc )rdIng to a
cable To the Bureau Of Agricr tur-
al Economics from Agricultural
Attache G. G. Taylor in London.
Compared with the closing rates
of the preceding sale on December
8, 1885, greasy merinos closed 5
to T19 percent and secured meri-
nos 5 to 10 percent higher. Fine
greasy crossbrcds closed 71a per-
cent and medium and low cross
breds 5 percent higher. Closing
prices of fine secured crossbreds
showed an advance of 212 percent
and medium and low secured
crossbreds of 5 to 71s percent.
Fine lambs wool slipes advanc-
ed 5 to 719 percent and medium
and low slipes 10 percent. Fine
sheep slipes were 71s percent and
medium 1O percent and low 1H2
percent higher.
Representatives of British mills
were the chief buyers of cross
breds.
Germany, France, Great Brit
ain and Russia competed. for mer-
mos. Russia, however, confined it's
purchases to the best greasy and
secured merinos.
Closing prices on January 80
compared with closing quotations
on Dec. 6, 1885 (the latter in par
entheses) converted to cents FER
pound at the exchange prevailing
on those respective dates and ex-
pressed in terms of official Unit
ed States standards for wool,
secured basis were: Oordinary 7O's
at Sc. I79 (53.45); GAS at 54.!1
(51.4O); CO.'S at 51.O6 1920; 58's |
at 44.29 $685.; SOS at 1887
(3O.84); and SOS at 1897 (24.16).
Carding 48's closed at 23.45 (2l.-
SOY; 46's at 21.88 (20.56); 44's at
21.88 (2O.56); 4O's at 2O.84 (19.-
53) and 36's at 2O.84 (19.53).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
DRIVE STARTS
FOR INCREASE
OF STORE TAX
Initiative Petitions Seek to
Put Chain Measure on
November Ballot

HELENA, Feb. 24.-Petitions
for an initiative measure which
would Increase Montana's chain
store tax were filed today bv the
independent Merchants Legislative
association of Billings at the Of
ice of Sam w. Mitchell, secre-
tary of state.
The petitions bore the names of
70 slgners in Golden VALLEY coun-
W and 81 in Richland county. IF
SUFFICIENT signatures are obtained.
the proposed measure will be sub
mltted to the people of the state
at the November election.
Ihe proposed measure would di-
vide chain stores into two groups
small chains with five or fewer
stores, and large chains with six
or more units. The proposed tax
rate would be $3.50 to S25 for the
small chains, depending on the
number n of branches, and $3.50 to
$1OQO for the large chains. which
would pay $1,000 for each store
above six.
Failure to pay the taxes provid-
cd would be punishable bv fines
OF $25 to 5000, each days infrac-
tlon to be considered a separate
offense.
The present maximum chain
store license in Montana is $50.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
OBSERVERS BELIEVE
BORAH is BURNING
ALL HIS BRIDGES

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a
Conjecture whether Sen atOr
BOrah of Idaho was burning all
bridges behind him" in his drive
for the republican presidential
nomination arose today out OF
announcement that a political
ally was seeking his senatorial
seat.
Raw McKaig of Boise, Ida, a
National Grange leader, mde-
pendent republican and for many
years a close friend of BOrah,
made the announcement shortly
after a conference with the SEN
atOr.
Borah himself declined to COM
ment. Some of his friends, now
ever, saw i'm the maneuyer IN
dication that he may abandon
any claim to the senate seat ne
has held since 1907 even before
the Cleveland convention next
June decides his battle for the
presidential nomination.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28

CONTINUED from page ene)
The election victory found the
masses impatient and the local
bastilles were threatened by spon-
taneous marches reminiscent Of
scenes in the French revolution.
Political prisoners received the
glad news behind bars and fever
emily broke into rebellion. In
many cases, order could be restor-
ed and lives protected only by the
intervention of Socialist candi-
dates who rushed to the scenes.
Many of the successful candi-
dates in the elections on Sunday
celebrated their triumph behind
prison walls. Luis Companys, rad
ical Catalonian president, who had
been sentenced to thirty years i'm
prisonment because of his activi-
ties in the October, 1884, revolt
ton, received news of his election
while a thousand of his cellmates
in the Cartagena penitentlary at
tempted mass escapes.
The trade unions, the member
ship of which is entirely Socialist
or in some caes syndicalist, held
themselves in readiness to start
the well-oiled machinery of gem
eral strike. In localities where pol
ice have attempted to interfere
with demonstrations of victory,
orders for general strike have al
ready been issued as in Saragossa.
Caballero, leader Of the Spanish
Socialist movement, who was re-
Gently acquitted after trial on on
charges growing out of the 1894
uprising, had predicted the vic,
tory. In no uncertain. terms ne had
made it plain thai, the SOCIALISTS I.as
would not tolerate the continuation
Of the regime that was holding
$4,000 100 political prisoners in jail.
SWe are ready to fight to the last
man said CaballerO, ''and this
time there will be no defeat
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
ROOSEVELT VETOS
SEED LOAN APPROPRIATIONS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.--A threat of a
revolt in the senate over President Roose-
velt's veto of the $5O,OOO,OOO seed loan bill
today brought speech from Majority
Leader Robinson advising against efforts
towards reenactment.
The executive declined to sign the mea-
sure with an explanation that his financial
program had not taken it into considera-
ton, and that congress had failed to pro-
vide revenue for the additional drain on
the treasury.
On Mr.. Roosevelt's assurance, however,
that he would order transfer of work re-
lief funds to aid farmers still in distress
from unforeseen disasters" Robinson, VINO
had hoped for presidential approval, advis-
ed against further action,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
80 BELOW IS 70
DAY AVERAGE

~, what is believed to be an all
u Elme cold wave record was estab
11shed here in February When n''. 10
Jays IN IN the month averaged more re-
readings. ~ "Ol"llSs
according to the records. COM
pied by George Wheeler, PLENTY.
wood ,meterologist, Feb. Is was
the coolest day of the neriod v %@S
at $3.50 a. M, 81 degrees below
zero was recorded. At 1880 y n"
that day the temperature hung at
46 below zero. a.
. Mr, Wheeler's records show the
following recordings: '--o
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
nnyC CATTLE AND SHEEP
|0gDED AT SHANGHAI
MN T.I1 TO CHINA'S RANGE

ENGHAI, China, Feb. "a con-
|mrt Of purebred cattle and sheep
have arrived here from Cheyenne,
will become pioneer settlers in
asvild west.
\ beef critters and the mutton-on-the-
we're not easily coaxed ashore, but
| landed they staged an imprOmptu
on the docks. The livestock will be
I'd to far western Chinghai province,
s5Orderland of Tibet, where the pure
ANNALS will be crossed with the ma
gOck
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
TWO NEW ATTACKS
ON TOWNSEND PLAN LAUNCHED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-TWO new at
tacks were leveled at the Townsend plan
today on the eve of the first meeting of a
bipartisan congressional committee direct
ed to investigate old age pension move
ments.
The American Liberty League said, "No
more cruel hoax ever was perpetuated up
on a trusting people, than the proposal
for transaction tax to pay old people 5000
a month.
A statement signed by II members of
the Economists National Committee on
Monetary Policy called the plan IAN ex-
preston of the false theory that more
money in circulation necessarily brings an
improved economic condition and higher
standard of living"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
SOLINI TO BUILD
new WAR BOMBERS

'NE, Feb 24.-Premier Benito Mus
plans to add at least 1900 new war
to ltay'S air fleet before the end of
aar aviation experts said tonight.
Stot the planes will be high speed
B
Sc machines, added to some 900 built
sr and to those already in service.
l1g ltaly'S military air force to
2O0O planes by next December, it
tmated.
Of the new ships will be the new
y omOerS, which Italian pilots say,
yam. speeds between 217 and 248
IN III lour, carrying three tons of
lnVf cruising radius is about 1850
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28

of the renowned squad coming
here Saturday, was selected on
every all-star girls team in the
east last year.
Helen "Steamline" Smith. a
super-attraction billed as the tall
est girl in the world at the Cen
fury of Progress-7 feet tall
has become the outstanding CEN
ter in girls basketball circles.
With her unusual height, Miss
Smith, broke all scoring records
for girls in 1933-34, scoing over
100 points for that season.
Another member of the squad,
Lillian Shanghai Lii" Wade, Will
berfOrce u star was picked last
year on the all-American girls
team.
The other two members of the
squad are Helen "Midge" Davis,
former star of the Tribune Girls
of Philadelphia, Pa, and an all
American in 19S3-34, and Gerald
inc Jerry Jones, member of the
Oberlin CAAAU Champions of
1880.
AS a big crowd is expected for
this outstanding event, provisions
have been made for staging two
games
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
JAPAN IN POLITICAL CHAOS
CABINET MEMBERS ASSASSTNATEO

!OhYO, Thursday, Feb. 27-Troops. ma
ironing Tokyo's streets this morning main
Calned order while high army and navy Of
Ilclals conferred with Emperor Hirohito
on the crisis precipitated when young mil
lCary extremists assassinated three cabi-
net ministers and wounded several others.
Inc city was quit, but politically. Japan
was in chaos. ON'i'''-A
"A dfastlc censorship, relaxed only suffi-
Gently to permit transmission abroad of
oIIllcal war office communicates, allowed
passage OF the following army account of
events: -
Several young officers at 5 a. m. We'd
neS go Z, attacked the following places:
L. The premier's official residence
where Premier Okada was killed.
Z. The lord privy seals private resi-
dence where Lord Saito was killed.
8. The army educational bureaus nri-
Vate residence where General Watanabe
was killed.
a. The hotel at the Yugawara hot
springs where the former lord privy seal.
count Maxine, was staying. Count Maxine
escaped.
"5 The grand chamberlin's private res
Idence where Admiral Suzuki was Injured
His Injuries are serious.
o. The finance minister's private resi-
9ence Where Minister Takahashi was in
jured.
e. The offices of the Tokyo newspaper.
"A declaration by the leaders of the up
rising said that Prince Saionji, elder states
man, heads of the army, finance ministry,
cllgues and political parties all joined in
policies damaging to the national interest.
The officers heading the uprising in
tended to eliminate them and lead the ma
ton destiny in the proper direction. An
emergency state of alarm was ordered to
maintain public peace"
At p. m. the government denied reports
OF fighting in Tokyo or elsewhere.
The public did not participate in the up
rising.
Violence was confined to young officers
attached to troops modified at war
strength and about to depart for service in
Manchuria.
In no sense is the position of The Emper-
or endangered.
All quarters indicated the uprising was
pro-imperial and intensely nationalistic
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
FEBRUARY Is, 1886
] Ooks at tt0 T0fl0

\ 55isPBT Ts7FDhr Feb. 24.-Eightssn sui j;
rDAF a. TO one song convinced
St5ri noIicp tonight that the tune men
@3 5. 4 g35fs Of Hungary and must be
rs8d. ,.oached when police re-
58cI isttar f" from the 18th suicide, Jo-
@ s3q ZEN 1SG r assing mt thf% 10
% . M GLOOMY Sunday" The words
|, I fa55islaus favor and the music by
5l os' # fhe song include all ages and
'l l.3 h both sexes. Two shot themselves
! f a4s to gypies draw the melan-
.ts Ss from their violins. Others hang
l.. arS i or gassed themselves-sOme
' fgF gramophOnes were reproducing
'ained version.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
,S SEEILEBRATES VICTORY BY
'aOlNG POLITICAL PRISONERS

S Yrono, ~. FeO = 24.-Celebrations were
e p,,o 10 Spain today in honor of
I roi NJ political M5 prisoners by the
rs ssna r.. The country was tranquil
lesn I si y the general election
s sTls'o u In !, a left triumph and more
~' u deaths in attendant dis
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
d I'M EROODUCTICONNN O OF

produ ngi 5;33.-An increase in the
q ANONYMITY crTclty Of labor in gold
g Of sovie Seo today following a
b requ uiri5t n mine managers. Drill
and w w 10 step up their output
. iacre s0rkers in smelling plants
IT. @Se production from 20 TO
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
1 cl1SSrA T SACKED

q Valenccii ezuela, Feb. 24.-Re-
w., great coff sald today a mob had
Saelula's late estate, Ell Tromp-
Destroyed dune $4,000 bags of cof-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28
PLAN.
/. CONGRESS-

b co osP, "A Z! world Jewish con-
Jewish g froI aazl is and establish a
Vas id 5pd l[1nt will be held next Aug
asc1fiyTlau ed today by a conference
b. ''s committee of Jewish del
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-02-28

FOR SALE-Old newspapers az
this Office for 5 cents the bundle
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SOCIALIST ARMIES

CONTINUED from page one)
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ROAMER GIRLS

Continued from page one)
Evening star., 1936-09-21
D0CkWEILER LIKELY
SUBCOM MITTEE HEAD
McMillan's Stand Opens Way for
Californian to Head Army
Bill Unit.

Representative Thomas S. Mcmillan
manship of the Subcommittee on Ap-
preparations for the four Departments
of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor
to the chairmanship of the subcom-
mittee to draft the War Department
appropriation bill.
He is in line for Craftsmanship of
either committee and the ultimate
appointment rests with Chairman
James P. Buchanan of Texas, but if
agreeable to him. Mcmillan says he
expects to remain with the four-de-
partment bill which he piloted through
the House in the last session. He put
in much work familiarizing himself
with the work Of these departments,
and find it gives him broader scope
OF general legislation than would con-
fining himself to specializing on the
War Department bill.
This opens the way for Representa-
tive John F. Dockweiler of California,
who has specialized on the needs of
the Army, to take over this important
subcommittee. Representative Dock
weller is not now chairman Of any
subcommittee, and the Democratic
members of the California delegation
are urging him for this post
Representative j. Buell. Snyder of
Pennsylvania, now chairman of the
Legislative Subcommittee, is negotiat-
ing for a shift to the Craftsmanship
OF the War Department Subcommit-
tee, if he is reelected. He is next in
line for the Craftsmanship under SEN
iority preference if Mcmillan declines
the post. Snyder is having a hard
fight for reelection.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Is a graduate of G. w. u, receiving
his law degree there in 1912. Previously
he had graduated from Princeton with
an A. B. degree.
William Warfield Ross, also a grad
uate of George Washington, VINO mas
been practicing here since 1922, was
appointed lecturer in law ana also
will serve as a judge of the moot court.
Justin Lincoln Edgerton, named an
associate in law, will serve as clerk
of the court. He also graduated from
G. w. u, receiving both his A. b.
and LII. B. there.
The fourth new faculty member is
Frank Lawrence Mechem, who was ap-
pointed lecturer in law. Since 1885,
he has been an attorney in the Bu-
reau of Internal Revenue, and prior
to that time taught law at the Uni
versity of Buffalo, University of Idaho
and the University of Washington,
and had practiced his profession in
Iowa.
Associated with the new members OF
the moot court will be Justice Joseph
w. Cox of District Court, who will be
chief justice of the court, and Gilbert
Hall, for many years a member Of the
faculty.
The G. w U. Law School this year
has been advanced virtually to the
standing of graduate school, a college
degree being required for entrance ex-
cept for students taking the six-year
T.
and-laW course.
All classes at G. w. U. start We'd
hesday.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
KNOX TRAVELS AGAIN

Delivers One of Major Addresses
at Los Angeles Tonight.
SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Septem-
ber 81 (P).-Rested by week end de-
voted chiefly to golf. Col. Frank Knox,
Republican vice presidential nominee,
prepared this morning to resume his
California campaign tour
Knox was to leave today aboard
the special six-car campaign train,
which has carried him into 19 States.
In Los Angeles Knox is to deliver one
of the major addresses of his Cali
fornia tour tonight.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
REICH'S ARMY PREPARED
TO PERFORM FOR HITLER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FULDA, Germany, September al
Detachments from all sections Of Ger
many's land and air forces moved into
position today. awaiting the arrival of
Reichschancellor Hitler to begin the
largest army maneuvers in the ma
tion's history.
Military corps concentrated in this
region were to begin their flve-day
revival of the famous Kaiser
maneuverS"
The German News Bureau declared
the maneuvers were according to the
tradition Of the pre-war army"
Evening star., 1936-09-21

ternational Justice and also of the
American Peace Society.
More than 500 meetings will be held
by the Emergency Peace Compaign
during october and November in as
many cities throughout the country,
eliminating in mass peace gatherings
on Armistice day. The campaign was
inaugurated last April.
DR.. MacLean is an associate pro-
fessor in social and international ethics
at the university.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

as q speaker for
the Fall and
Winter program.
DR.. MacLean
W q S organizer
and director of
the N a tt o n a |
Catholic Student
Peace Conference
last year. He is
chairman of the
Committee o n
Disarmament of
the Catholic AS
sociation for In
ternational Peace,
a member of the
Committee on In
Evening star., 1936-09-21

new term. En-
rollments began
S a t VI d a y and
were to continue
t hr o u G h today
and tomorrow.
Spencer Cor
don, who ha S
been in active
law practice in
Washington for
"a years, was
named an ad-
junct professor of
law and will serve
as one of the
ju d ges of the
moot court. He
Evening star., 1936-09-21
75c Rog Rugs

Firmly braided
from clean rags.
Pastel colorinss
for bed or bath
90 N. s lie
22x34.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
7oc Welcome Ruqs
6-Sewn Broom

Selected c orn
S I r a ". extra
long trim nat
ursl vanished
handle; extra
big.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
G. v. LAW SCHOOL
NAMES4TEACHERS
New Faculty Members Take
Places as Students Con-
tinue Enrolling.

Appointment of four new members
to the faculty of George washington
University Law School was announced
today as registration continued Tor the
Evening star., 1936-09-21
DR.. MAClEAN SPEAKER
IN PEACE CAMPAIGN
Catholic U. Professor Was Or
ganizer of National Student
Conference.

The Emergency Peace Campaign
announced today that DR.. Donald A.
MacLean, professor at Catholic Uni
versity. has volunteered his services