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Evening star., 1936-09-01
nv the Associated Press.

STONEVILLE, Miss, September
Cotton experts watched operation
of a mechanical cotton picker yester-
day and said it was all right in basic
principle" but whether 1t was eco
nomically practical must await ex-
haustive laboratory tests.
Several hundred cotton specialists,
ginners, planters and farm wives
looked on as tractor pulled the ma
chine up and down the rows OF cot
ton at the Delta Experiment Station,
near here, with steady stream OF
white staple pouring from it into
huge hamper.
It was the first Of series OF tests
planned by its inventors, John and
Mack Rust of Memphis, Tenn.
No authoritative source would haz-
ard a prediction concerning the ma
chimes future possibilities until Gov
ernment experts complete their tests
this Fall.
Reaction Mixed.
Some were openly skeptical. Others
were enthusiastic.
Hundreds of moistened spindles on
q moistened drum stripped the cot
ton from its bolls as the stalks were
compressed in an inverted trough on
the side of the machine. The greatest
criticism was it knocked too much cot
ton from the stalks to the ground and
that there was too much trash in the
staple picked.
Oscar Johnston, Government cotton
specialist and plantation operator,
said the machine seemed "basically
practical, but it needs improvements,
and to be successful, believe it will
require close cooperation among the
builders, cotton growers and ginners.
Economic Problem May Arise.
''It Is the death mell for those
family-si1e farms and for tenants. if
successful. The machine presents a
genuine, serious economic problem
greater than any labor saving device
I have seen. 1t will develop large
holdings and eliminate the small
farmer"
The practicability Of the machine,
pduCerS Sdlo, GepenQS on whether
Government experts could devise a
means of removing bits Of leaves and
twigs with the cotton, which cannot
be removed at the gin and which
lower the grade Of the staple.
w. e. Ayers, manager Of the Delta
Experiment Station, said he believed
the Rusts ''have the idea-it isn't o
finished machine, but they are on the
right track"
Charles A. Bennett, engineer in
charge of United States cotton ginning
investigations, and F. L. Gerdes, Gov
ernment cotton technologist, will con-
duct tests of the machine this FAN
and compare the results with records
of hand-picking.
win Tackle Trash Problem.
They will attempt to devise methods
Of removing the trash In the cotton
to get the maximum grade.
w. Z. Westbrook, Georgia cotton
specialist. said that Y the machine
Evening star., 1936-09-01


worthwhile of the paradox apparently that while
international foreign AFFAIRS SOMEBODY else mas
taken charge Of domestic foreign affairs
deny It, there Is rather geneTaI
presidential in progress indeed
unofficial branch Mr. HuS DEPART
fguauey Democratic national head
in Democratic authorities from
all subjects relating to
keeping uppermost in the
phch they believe they hdpe
the Republicans speeches. They poah like to Keep hitting
Wilson hit He kept out OF uar tn lSlo aHG
they doing quite ,OeH so Jar.
Those want accurate sieup the international situation ION
Hull rather than with what the
New Deal friend privately asked the
French and British economists.
international economic conference any
Of getting Stain Hitler ana
understood be
battle Of the franc the thought
possibility
.,,
However and then shows that Mr. Roosevelt
not the world that he is trying
holding him back the perfect campaign
Fareys long as MI Hull voos
implications anything intended hoped for
politicians much what the Communists do What
it (Toa Communist vote in 1882 was
49,.
developed indications that
tricks No less authority than the COM
Evening star., 1936-09-01

1ldo OulBcIltly IOS~
tered. He placates the German MI
nority, but Prague fears the next step
in Hitler's "Mittel Europa" advance.
During his remarkable postwar
career as one Of the half dozen most
brilliant statesmen OF Europe, DR..
Benes has fought with his back against
the wall for an authentic brand Of
British and American democracy,
against extremist forms Of government.
Short, slight in stature, sharp-eyed and
sha1p-featured, he became a mass
leader without demagogy. A skilled
orator, he is realist who Is contemptu-
Gus of vote-getting tricks. He has been
noted as more conspicuously lacking in
personal magnetism than any other
European statesman. and yet for years
has built mounting political strength.
An agile little man, careless In dress,
with his fiat felt hat cooked high on
his head, he has driven himself and his
country like Simon Legree, with the
bloodhounds frequently on his trail.
For ID years he has worked IS hours a
day, six days week. Now at 50 he
shows no signs Of abating energies He
sustains himself by no bland optimism.
He says men of good will must work
desperately II civilization is to be saved
from ruinous slump into barbarism.
A pupil OF the great DR.. Masaryk, he
was conspirator against the Austrian
rulers of his country in pre-war and
war years. His aliases have been
"Spolny," "Belsey," Berger" "Vo.
yotny." "Konig" and "Siche." He
was arrested as a spy six times and
six weeks after his last arrest was
dealing passports for the Nation which
he and DR.. Masaryk had created. AS
foreign minister and as president, his
bedrock policy has been an unbreak-
able alliance with France.
(copyright, 1885,,
Evening star., 1936-09-01
CRASH OF PLANE KILLS
THREE IN LONG ISLAND
Pilot, World War Flyer, Believed
to Have Lost Control
Watching Fire.

b. the Associated Press.
EAST MEADOW, N. Y, September
1.-The three occupants of a private
airplane were killed when the plane
failed to come out Of q tailSpin and
dove into a large field near this Long
Island village yesterday.
Lieut.. Jack Bishop, the pilot, World
War hier Of. the Canadian Air Corps,
was believed to have lost control Of
the machine while watching a barn
burning near the field.
Bishop and his companions, Roy
Anderson, 81, q student pilot, of Jack
son Heights, N. Y, and Raymond
George william Carlson, 19, Of West
bury, N. Y, were killed instantly as
the plane crashed upside down.
The three men took OF from Roose-
welt Field 10 minutes before they
crashed to investigate the barn fire.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
AL SMITH, JR., ORDERED
TO PAY WIFE ALIMONY
Bum Set Temporarily. at $3.50 for
Month Pending Suit for
Separate Maintenance.
~ the Associated Press.


SYRACUSE, N. Y, September L.
Mrs. Bertha Gott Smith, wife Of AL
Smith, jr., was awarded $3.50 monthly
temporary alimony and $500 counsel
fees yesterday in decision handed
down by Supreme Court Justice
Abram Zoller as preliminary in her
suit for separate maintenance.
In addition. Justice Zoller ruled that
the son Of former Gov. Alfred E.
Smith must pay his wife $3.50 per
month temporary alimony after jan
uary /, 1897, II trial of the separation
action is not held before that date.
According to the judges decision
they separated July 6, 1882. The pair
reached an agreement in January
1894. the Judge said in his decision.
under which AL Junior was to pay his
wife $50 per month maintenance for
three years.
Mrs. Smith complained that these
payments stopped after July 1, 1885.
Yesterdays ruling ordered the pay.
ment resumed as of July /, 1886.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

Wnen, imprisoned
in Bavaria for
attempting an
u n s u G c Q S S full
putsch against
the German Re-
public, he wrote
"Mein Kampf."
In 1t he specific
ally projected an
eventual W ar
with Soviet Rus
sia, and he did
SO on t W o
grounds: the ne
cessity Of dealing
a death blow to
the international
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Red Fascist
Showdown
Nearing
MIR. Hitler Heralded
Event As Far Back
AS 1924.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
VERY bit Of news that comes
- from Europe indicates that a
showdown Is hourly approach
- ing between two ideologies
which claim the domination Of the
World. That showdown was heralded
by Mr.. Hitler as far back as 1924,
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Benes of Czechoslovakia
Sees Opposing Systems
Closing In on Country.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

- AME little Edouard Benes,
president Of Czechoslovakia,
Y I Is the lone outpost Of democ-
~ racy in Eastern Europe. He
has said that he had both fascism and
communism beaten in his own country,
but now his little entente Is crumbling
and opposing systems again close in
with rlariaI y,ras
Evening star., 1936-09-01

WIN glacial pres
sure. I
This Is the iy.
depreciation Of In
formed European
observers, who see
In the fall of IT,
tulescu in Ru-
m a n Ia another
Fascist state add
ed to Germany's
Baltic string, and
Czechslovakia left
with only her al
lance with France
"a fealty which
President Benes
Evening star., 1936-09-01

ridden farms Of
the Middle West.
1t has made q
political as well
aS an economic
problem OF ma
tional impor-
tance.
For years Cali
fornia has ad-
vertised her sum
shine and her
mild climate, her
all - the - year =
round Summer.
And Just as the
covered . wagon
pioneerS took
Evening star., 1936-09-01

palgn 1unds, but the demise OF the
Landon boom appears assured.
President Roosevelt's decision to
make no political speeches" until
October Is q whole wagon load of
straw which shows how the wind
Is blowing. He senses-quite right
ly-that the American people are
bored with political bombast. He
realizes that 1t Is the shrewdest
sort Of New Deal electioneering for
him to take politics out OF the
Evening star., 1936-09-01

reconciliation with her husband,
Francis Lister, English stage actor.
I'VE were both thrown into a situa-
ton which really didn't exist" she
said. She did not explain the non
existent" situation.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

he realizes that the election Is
slipping away from him. With the
New Deal gaining in Maine and
with Big Jim Farley planning an
aggressive campaign in New Eng
land, some Republican counter at
tack was called for.
The Governor is friendly and at
tractive figure and his personal ap-
pearances in the East may check
the drift to Roosevelt in those sec
tions which are counted upon to
supply elephant fodder at the polls.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

muHlSt prtSIutHlIdI CdIIuIuaVc'
Browder, left the impression with
the National Press Club in speech
recently that the Communists were
willing to abandon their goal tenn
porarily in order to work indirectly
for their long-range purpose. In
other words, leech policy of living
from the strength of others. Brow
der said fatty the big job Of Com
munists Is to defeat Landon and
th,,e alont paosavalt He alSO WAS
Evening star., 1936-09-01

THE opinions OF the wrters this page their
not necessarily The Stars. Such opinions pre-
sented in The Stars effort to give all sides of questions OF
interest to its readers although such opinions be
Trajectory among themselves and directly opposed to The
Stars.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

NEW YORK, September 1 P.-
Margot Grahame, English film sc-
tress, was back in New York today,
via the Normandie. with word Of q
Evening star., 1936-09-01
News Behind the News
These Foreign Conference Suggestions Seem to Bear
Farley's Trade Mark.
BY PAUL MALLON.

sc hereabou been lately
the number Of sensational suggestions Of which
| State Secretary Hull is ignorant.
President Rooves embryonic idea OF getting
table
President suggested
the President there absolutely
nothing to 1t.
Now from Europe that Washington has put out feers
Hull ignored
both the
reported the thing few days later from official British
spokesman Hull took his denial In hand
few carefully chosen words Mr. Hull he had never
the matter, consideration
Evening star., 1936-09-01
We, the People,
Turning Point in Campaign Seen With Demise Of
Landon Boom.
Landon Boom.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Republican printing
M Gallup poll on inside page-its
number Of unrelated
the turning point Of this singuary
Topeka twtche be prolonged the
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Educators Appeal to W. P. A.

NEW YORK, September @.-
New York's Board of Education asked
the w. P. A. formally yesterday not
to curtail w. p. A. educational pro-
jectS in the schools.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Jobless Influx
Still Plaques
California
Aid Problem Created.
Registration Plan
May Cure Evil.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
os ANGELES, Calf. September
l.-"California, here we are!"
This might well be the theme

- song Of many hundreds OF
thousands Of persons who have
focked here during the depression
from debt-ridden homes and drought
Evening star., 1936-09-01
Pyramid Unearthed.

Archelogists have unearther
Mayan stucco pyramid and pottery
tombs near Guatemala City, Guate-
mala.
Evening star., 1936-09-01

Onhand, 1t would appear that
many people are letting their inter-
national imaginations run loose. or
else the man in charge Of foreign
affairs here Is not keeping up with
latest News Deal thought on this
subject. Neither conclusion Is war
ranted. Mr.. Hull knows everything
that is going on in American inter-
national relations; likewise the pub
lished stories were based on direct
information, rather than imagin-
Evening star., 1936-09-01
PAIR RECONCILED

Copyright REGISTER and Tribune syndc.te)
Evening star., 1936-12-03
49 IN ANTENAl
PARADE CONVICTED
B Local Demonstrators Get
500 Fine or 80 Days.
Suspend Other Fines.

Fines Of 500 each or 80 days In
fail were handed out in Police Court
yesterday to five local demonstrators
who were convicted, with A striking
seamen from Baltimore, for parading
without q permit before the German
Embassy Monday, to protest the i'm
prisonment of an American sailor in
Germany.
The A defendants from Baltimore
were given suspended sentences by
Judge Isaac r. Hit on condition that
they return to the Maryland city and
make no more trouble here. The
Judge found them guilty, fined them
t25 with an alternative Of 10 days In
Jail, and then suspended sentence on
recommendation Of the prosecutor.
The five who received the heavier
penalty were Martha Webster, Louis
Keck, Edward H. Ozmun, George
Kuchan and Richard Stone. All 40
Of the defendants pleaded not guilty.
Defense attorneys put no witnesses on
the stand IN condition that the prose-
cutor recommend suspended sentences
for the A out-of-town demonstrators.
Ten police officers told the court
how they rounded up the demonstra-
tors after they marched several times
in front of the embassy, shouting
"Free Lawrence Simpson" Down
with fascism" and Hands of Spain. -
Defense attorneys told the court
that Simpson was ordered freed in
Germany on the day after the demon
stration here.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
The jury deliberated nearly three

The jury deliberated nearly three
hours.
The defense did not offer any tes-
timony, but Edwards attorney, Ern-
est r. Warren. contended in his argu-
ment that Edwards was drunk when
he committed the crime and therefore
could not have premeditated the mur-
der. He asked for . second-degree
verdict.
State witnesses testified that they
saw the defendant o short while be-
fore the crime and that he was not
drunk. Solicitor John @. Carpenter
pressed for . first-degree-murder con-
viction.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
USE OF COMMANDMENTS
IS CORRECTED BY VICAR

SITTINGBOURNE, England R.-
Vexed by the constant theft of his
tankards, an innkeeper here acquired
new ones on which he had inscribed
Fhe Seventh Commandment"
. A stranger told him he had the
wrong commandment, and a small
= wager was posted. A prayer book
which the stranger produced proved
to the innkeeper his error, and the
stranger departed after leaving his
card, showing that he was vicar on
Q holiday.
The inn now has some more tank
ards inscribed: THE eighth COM
mandment."
Evening star., 1936-12-03
Vote Bans Street Lights.

KEWANEE, III, December R.-
Neponset, H., citizens have voted to
dispense with street lighting until
next Spring. BY vote Of lit to II,
they turned down . proposition for
street lighting which would have In
creased the tax rate from 66 to SIS
cents per 500 assessed valuation.
Evening star., 1936-12-03

Gov. Sholtz Landon's Host.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, December
R.-Gov. All M. Landon Of Kansas
was the guest Of Gov. Dave Sholtx Of
Florida at . luncheon yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-12-03

Czechoslovakia is supplying vacu-
I'm cleaners to farmers for grooming
cattle.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
Airways Profits Gain.

Although its subsidy from the Brit
ish government was cut down IN
1886, the Imperial Airways is show
ing increased profits.
Evening star., 1936-12-03
HUSBAND IS CONVICTED
OF KILLING YOUNG WIFE
Carolina Textile Worker Faces
Chair-Defense Claims He
Was Drunk.
ay the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
GASTONIA, N. c., December s.
A jury last night convicted Raymond
Edwards, 29-year-old textile worker.
Of nrst-degree murder for the axe
killing of his young wife, Mrs. Fam
ME Burrell. The verdict carried q
mandatory death sentence.
Evening star., 1936-12-03

LESTER B. SLACK.
Shortly after pleading guilty
to Staying his brother, Elgy,
1Dith poisoned 1Dine, Slack 10ds
photographed in the sherir's
office at Elkhurt, Ind. He con-
fesSed he ,Danted $1,000 in
surance money to finance a
honeymoon trip to Florida. He
yill be sentenced December IL.
-Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
The Washington times., 1936-08-05
COTTON PRICES
STEADY, UP

NEW YORK, Aug. 5. q.N.S).
Cotton prices turned fully steady
to slightly higher in late fore
noon trading. The motivating
force behind todays climb was
better technical position in the
market.
Among the important buyers
we're Wall Street, professionals,
brokers with Continental connect
ions, and the trace. while the
sellers we're represented by New
Orleans, spot houses and the
South. The recent "shakeout" was
caused by 1ears Of a high official
crop estimate.
Contributing bullish factors
were excessive temperatures i'll
Oklahoma. which offset the bene-
ficial precipitation in other parts
of the cotton belt and steady
Liverpool cables influenced domes-
tic prices. October was quoted at
11.95, up 7; December 11.95, up
7; January 1894, UP 8; March
11.95, up 7, and May 1193, up 4.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-08-05
'MIX-UP BABY
REPUD|ATES
PARENTS

ATLANTA, Aug. S Q.N.S). L.
The drama and heartbreak of
tragic baby mixup" that rocked
Atlanta and twisted the lives Of
two families II years ago was
renewed today when an attrac-
tive young lady-who was the
baby in this strange tangle-an-
nounced she had become con-
vinced the courts had awarded
her to the wrong family.
While the city wondered at
the unusual turn of affairs, the
families of John Garner and
Daniel Pittman prepared to con-
fer over the future of the young
lady known for II years as
Louise Madeline Pittman, but
who now has decided she is Mary
Elizabeth Garner.
Two baby girls entered this
world at an Atlanta hospital in
1919. One was named Louise
Madeline Pittman and the other
Mary Elizabeth Garner. They
were born one day apart, and a
few days later Mrs. Pittman an
nounced that she had been given
the wrong baby-that the child
she had been given was in reality
the daughter Of Mrs. Garner.
Babies Exchanged
The babies were exchanged over
the protest of the Garner family,
who were convinced the baby
originally given to them was really
their own.
Steve johnson, who then was
superintendent of the hospital,
was a sort of umpire" in set
ting the tangle, deciding that
Louise Madeline should remain
with the PittmanS and Mary Eliza
beth with the Garners.
Only few months later,
though, tragedy struck again.
The girl known as Mary Elizabeth
Garner died of pneumonia. The
same day, Louise Madeline vas
severely burned. Mary Elizabeth,
whose parentage was still mys-
terry. was buried as Mary Elizabeth
Garner.
The Garners brought court pro-
ceedingS to gain custody of Louise
Madeline, but records show the
habeas corpus proceedings we're
dropped. The two families assert,
however, that the late Judge
George L. Bell ruled that the girl
would be permitted to make her
own choice when she reached the
age of accountability.
Then Years Pass
Years passed, and the Pittmans
moved to Florida. There neigh
Dor told Louise Madeline of her
uncertain parentage. Today she
said:
"Since that time 1 have felt
that I was not a Pittman."
A week ago she went to Macon,
Ca, to visit the Garners, and
yesterday afternoon made the
startling announcement that she
had become convinced she had
been awarded to the wrong
| family.
The Washington times., 1936-08-05
FRANC DOW N,
GUILDER RISES

French francs dropped 5-16
point net to a closing level of
.O6587s in yesterdays foreign ex-
change market. At this quota
ton the franc was u point above
the gold shipping level against
the dollar, but against the belga
the franc reached the lower gold
point yesterday.
Capital appeared to be NOV
ing slowly out of Paris again, in
spite of the efforts of the French
government to force a repatria-
ton of French refugee funds.
Other European units were
moderately lower, with sterling
off 1-16 cent net at $5.01$.
Swiss francs off l point and
free marks off 4 points. Guilders
we're 1 point net higher at .6793.
The Spanish peseta was still un-
quoted.
The daily gold statement re-
ported the arrival of $1,301, 800
of gold from India yesterday and
$327,0 from India additional
for Monday. The Aquitania
brought in 276 bars Of silver con-
signed to Handy & Harman.
The Washington times., 1936-08-05
Uncle, Give Us Bread;'
StrOm Family Woes

Arne Stron, a Danish poul-
try expert Uho had HUed in
Canada and the United
States. He UGS engaged By
the SoDiet government to
help Improve its state farms.
Accompanied BY his tDite and
child, Mr.. Strom tDent to So
Uiet Russia imbued Dith a
deep sympathy for the Com
TluniStic experiment. He
spent a year oft the beaten
track,
EDerywhere he went in
Russia he heard the CRY
from a STARRING and miSer-
able people, "Uncle, Glue Us
BreGd?" He returned to Den-
mark utterly diSilluSioned.
With the pitdble CRY OF the
tortured millions, "Uncle,
GiUe Us Bread" as the title,
Mr.. Strom has published the
record OF his experiences.
The Washington times., 1936-08-05

stage at the Sylvan Theater was
well settled last night when Alice
Louise Hunters Dance Group gave
program assisted by the Wash
ington Gas Light Band and the
Pepco Male Chorus.
Another large crowd assembled
to hear the al freSco event. Miss
Hunter presented as guest dancer.
Ray Williams, of Baltimore, the
duo appearing in many Of the
scenes as partners.
The Pepco Male Chorus gave
variety of numbers in their three
appearances, but it was not until
the final group which included,
Dear Land of Home" (Sibelius);
Recognition of Land" ,(Grieg) I,
and Rolling Down to Rio" that
any true balance of voices was
heard. These songs were sung in
clear tone with good ensemble
diction under the direction of H.
E. Yeide.
The dance program was made
up of a number of short subjects
which were done in colorful cos
tunes and graceful movement.
The more pretentiouS spectacle
was Masquerade" in which Miss
Hunter danced the role "MySteri-
GUS Lady" Mr.. Williams, the "Ro-
mantle Gentleman" and Gloria
Masgoret, the young girl attending
her first ball.
The U. S. Marine Band, under
the direction of Capt. Taylor
Branson, will give the following
program tonight at the U. S. Capt.
tol at 1880 o'clock: "Marche Po-
lovtSienne," from Prince Igor"
(Borodin); overture to Flying
Dutchman" (Wagner); cornet solo,
Hungarian Melodies (Bach), 3,
played by Winfred Kemp; tone
poem, It'll Eulenspiegels Merry
Franks" (R. Strauss; clarinet
solo, waltz Aria" (Schreiner) ,
played by Emil Rada; scenes from
Madame Butterfly" (PuccinD;
xylophone solo, "Tambourine Chi
nois" (Kreisler), played by Oliver
ZinSmeiSter; Polka and Fugue,"
from "Schwanda" (Weinberger);
excerpts from Fifth Symphony"
(Beethoven).
A rather unique combination of
instruments will be heard this az.