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Evening star., 1936-06-21
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. c. JUNE d. 1s36pARr ONE

pected to complete her fourth trip from
Germany to Lakehurst.
The Goodyear Zeppelin Corp, work.
ing in close cooperation with Dr. Hugo
Eckener, head of the German airship
transport service, has planned for es-
tablishment of American airship trans
port service on cooperative basis, but
has delayed actual construction from
time to time pending the enactment by
Congress of a merchant airship law
which would authorize the carrying of
airmail and set up regulations for in
ternational operation by airships flying
the United States flag.
To Form Nucleus.
Crews of the six little Goodyear
airships now in operation in Washing
ton and other cities would form the
nucleus of the crews Of the big ships
If the program goes into effect.
Comdr. Lange has had more than
5000 hours of experience as COM
mander of airships in the Goodyear
feet. He was a student at Boston
University when the World War started
and became member OF the first
naval aviation reserve unit in the
country, going to Pensacola, Fla, for
training He responded to a call for
volunteers to test balloons at Hampton
Evening star., 1936-06-21
EXPLORATION FOR OIL
IN SUMATRA PLANNED
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press
NEW YORK. June 2o.-The Herald
Tribune said today the Standard Oil
Co. OF California through its sub
sidiary, the Netherlands Pacific Petro-
leum Co., has obtained a concession
to explore for oil in Central Sumatra.
The concession, it was stated. was
obtained from the Netherlands Indies
government and is one of the largest
on record, comprising about 1882 900
acres.
1t is located on the east coast about
midway between the present oil-pro-
ducing region of Atjeh, at the north
end of the island, and the Palembang
and Djambi fields, at the south end.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
GOODYEAR POINTS
TO A|RSH|P LINE
Assigns Lieut.. Comdr. Lange
to Training Duty on
Hindenburg.

Forecasting the development Of a
United States dirigible airship trans
port service in conjunction with the
trans-A Atlantic service of Germany, the
Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. has assigned
Lieut.. Comdr. Karl Lange, U. S. N. R.,
commander of the airship Enterprise,
which operates daily over Washington.
to three weeks of training duty aboard
the German airship Hindenburg.
1t became known that the Goodyear
company is training crews for giant
airships of the Hindenburg type so that
this country will have competent per-
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Roads Naval Air Station, Va, early
In 1918 and has been connected with
lighter-than-air operations almost
continuously since that TIME.
Smith also is one of the countrys
veteran lighter -than-air pilots. He
has more than $500 flying hours TO his
credit in balloons and airships.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

sonnel available in event 1t goes into
the airship transport service.
At the same time 1t was announced
that Capt. Werner Smith, one of the
pilots Of the Enterprise, has been as
signed as pilot Of one of the six bal
looms entered in the national elimina-
ton balloon race. to start from Denver,
Colo, July 8. Winners of the first two
places in the elimination race will rep
resent the United States in the Gordon
Bennett international Trophy balloon
race later in the season,
To Leave Capital Tomorrow.
Comdr. Lange said he will leave
Washington tomorrow in a Navy air.
plane from the Anacostia Naval Air
Station for Lakehurst, N. j., to meet
the Hindenburg. He is to make two
round trips in the big German ship
between Lakehurst and Frankfort and
will be on duty at one or other of the
bases between flights. The airship is
due to leave Lakehurst Wednesday on
the return trip to Germany.
Comdr. Lange is to be accompanied
by another airship man from the
Goodyear company. it was announced.
They will remain with the Hindenburg
through July l3 or IA, when she is eX-
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Museum Gets Milestone.

A 200-year-old milestone on the
Potsdam road in Germany, the cir
cular part of which forms a sun
dial, has been moved to Berlin niu-
scum and replica set up In its place.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
.L|BERES BL|GHTED
LOT IN CAYENNE
French Guiana Living He'll
for Prisoners Released
From Devils Island.

This is the third and last article
OF a series by De Witt Mackenzie,
Associated Press foreign stat
1Crtter, on his observations at
Depips Island, the French penal
colony of French Guiana. A rigid
official ban Uds lifted to permit
Mackenzie to gather the material
tor these articles.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

land States, despite the fact that the
Territory is farming country. This
Is because Hawaii specializes in its
Evening star., 1936-06-21
1t G1xQt Money S0UmGy
SUITES AND PIECES FROM SOME OF THE WORLDS
MOST RENOWNED QUALITY MANUFACTURERS

Furniture be admitted into Lifetime Furniture stocks
standard Of quality which hos been and for
many long years. Lifetime Furniture endres both oct and the
affections Of Of this dependable Lifetime un
ue thot offered OF such woeeorted reductions
Compare these special oues with oY anywhere You will find the
offerings worthy OF your immediate selection Shop here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Hawaii Buys U. S. Vegetables.

Hawaii buys each year more than
$l0,000,000 worth of vegetables and
other food products from the main
Evening star., 1936-06-21

farming-producing mainly cane SUI
gar. which cannot be grown In most
mainland localities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Ken Murray
Says:

With all the consistency Of
Spanish politics, the betrOthal Of
John Barrymore and Elaine Bar
RE has burst forth In another
rebellion, with John refusing to
return her love, or engagement
ring. Evidently the old boy has
also discovered that strife begins
ut fifty. e
Barrymore said that they
would never get married, because
81 can't get along with . dame
like that" Since when has
compatibility been . prerequisite
Of marriage in Hollywood? =
OF course, John has apparent.
" never got over the fact that
Elaine, . nOn-mOvie actress
sh Ou1d be temperamenta1
enough to throw that S1S-carat
diamond ring back ut him some
months ago. Looks like . case
Of 'fshe who Is without cinema
casting the first stone"
so REMEMBER:
There's an old saying that
women seldom marry geniuSes
And no wonder! It takes Q
genius to escape! Z
Copyright. 1885. by McNaughE
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
SEE RELEASE
OF BOY, IS

Habeas corpus proceedings to
obtain the release Of Charles Ivan
Johnson, 15-year-old Juvenile Court
prisoner who was sent to the Ma
tional Training School for Boys
until he attained his majority,
were instituted in the United
States District Court early today.
Attorneys Fred j. Icenhower and
william K. Teepe, who were re-
tanned by the boys mother two
weeks ago after Judge Fay Bentley
revoked his probation and COM
mitted him to the training school,
asked Justice Oscar r. Luhring
to sign the writ today. Justice
Luhring signed the writ but failed
to fix q date for the hearing, ex-
planning that he will allow the
justice who succeeds him to fix
the date, since his own time will
be consumed with current matters
already pending.
The petition claims that the boy
was deprived Of his constitutional
rights of trial by jury and aid Of
counsel when he was first brought
into court two years ago and
pleaded guilty to illegal entry
charges.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
FIVE SUSPECTS
FACE0'BR|EN

Joseph e. O'Brien, %, today
will try to pick from among five
men held by police the one who
shot him last Monday.
OBrien. wounded twice in the
legs, is recovering in Providence
Hospital. Police say the shooting
is part Of q gang war over the
liquor running racket in the
District.
Detectives say they know the
identity Of the gang that at
tempted to take O'Brien and two
companions "for a ride" His
companions fled to safety as
O'Brien fell before q hail Of bull
lets.
Police expect to make a number
Of additional arrests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Driving Whine Drunk

DIVING WINE drunk
Harold H. Coleman, 1904 Fourth
st. N. E., 80 days.
Second Offense, Speeding
william H. Minor, 1923 Twelfth
st. N. E., SIS.
First OfSenSe, Speeding
Don Mccormick, 1913 Carroll St.
s. E., SIS.
Richard Lewis, 1442 s st. N. w.,
SIS.
Willie P. Leitch, 634 Park Rd.
N. w., SIS. ~.
Constance B.. Spencer, 2103 Sec
ond st. N. W.. $40.
George p. Forest. 1925 Hol-
meade Pl. N. W., $40.
Eva L. Symon, Maryland. $40.
John T. Beelem, Maryland, $40.
Alden jackson, 1921 L st. N.
W., $40.
George p. Battley. 62s Irving
st. N. W., SO.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Girl Swallowed
Poison, Police Say

Because her sweetheart failed
to keep a date with her, 16-year.
old Ruth Trumbull, Of 1857 Girard
st. N. w., was in Gallinger Hos
pital yesterday, suffering from the
effects of poison swallowed in a
suicide attempt, according to po'
lice. The girl took the poison
draught in the basement Of her
home, police said, and later was
rushed to Garfield Hospital In a
private automobile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
JAIL
FUND VETOED
BY HAZEN
Favors Improvements
In CeII-Lockine
System

Commissioner Melvin c. HAGEN
threw cold water today on the
proposal that the District, in
preparation Of it's 1898 fiscal
year budget, provide q fund for
the construction Of q new Dis
trict Jail building.
Commenting on the inspection
which he made Of the penal in
Stitution with Engineer Commits,
sion Dan I. Sultan earlier in tho
week, Commissioner HAGEN said:
81 found It was one Of the
finest old buildings that 1 had
ever inspected in my life and
most certainly am not in
favor Of building . new jail
as long as we already have
such an adequate structure"
FAVORS IMPROVEMENTS
Commissioner Hazen said he
found that the building did need
some improvements, which he dis
cuSSed with Jail Superintendent
Thomas NJ. RiveS, and which he
favorS. =
The proposed improvements in
clude a new cell-locking system, by
which all cells could be opened
simultaneously in cases Of emer-
gencieS. The present celllocking
system is out of date, Commits
Sioner Hazen said.
To do away with overcrowding
at the institution, Commissioner
Hazen said he favorS additional
cells. He said the most serious
condition at the jail is the lack
of q proper execution chamber.
Joins Critics
He joined with critics Of the
present death-house at the Jail,
which compelS condemned priS-
oners to be executed in q mess
hall. The. condemned men are
forced to walk their last mile"
from q cell on one side OF the
building, across the large ro-
tunda, down q long flight Of
steps to the mess hall and then
to the very nd Of the hall where
the electric chair is installed.
Commissioner Hazen favorS
having municipal engineers look
over the jail to determine the
cost Of the proposed additions.
The inspection by the two city
heads resulted in a letter from
the Council Of Social Agencies
correction committee, which
urged the construction of a new
Jail, a.~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Stair Slip Sends
Child 10 Hospital

Slippery stairs sent eight-year-
old James Boone, Of $50 K ST..
s. w. to Freedmen'S Hospital yes
terday in critical condition from
conclusion Of the brain. The boy
left his room on the second floor
Of his home and on the stairs he
slipped and tumbled to the first
floor causing serious head injuries.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Police Seek Girl, II,
Missing From Home

Susie Ramsay, II, Of 1912 Fox
hall Rd. N. w., has been missing
from her home since yesterday,
her father, Sylvester Ramsey, re-
ported to police today.
Miss Ramsey left yesterday in
an automobile with another girl
and two men, believed to be from
Richmond, he told police. The
girl is described as feet tall,
weighs 1870 pounds and has dark,
bobbed hair and brown eyes.
When she left home she was
wearing white dress and white
shoes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
MARKET ORDER
CALLED UNFAIR.
BY SHIPPER !.
Says 1t Is Unconstitu.
tionaI, Should Not Be-
Given Approval

A blistering attack on the New
Deals policy Of curtailing farm
production by Eugene Casey.
Gaithersburg, Nd, interrupted
milk hearing proceedings this
morning at the Department Of
Agriculture auditorium.
Casey, dairy farmer, producer
and shipper, fired a whitening
criticism at the commission APP
pointed by the Secretary of Agri-
culture to get facts on the pro
posed milk marketing order which
is expected to raise Washington
milk prices one cent a quart. He
said:
"YOu know that this pIan,.
which aims to curtail milk
production, is unconstitutional,
and knowing that, it Is unfair
for you to sit ON this platform
and be paid q salary which /
am paying You indirectly
through my income tax and
other taxes. 'r
OPPOSES APPROVAL
''ThiS marketing order penal
ICES production and should not
be approved"
Promise Of night session to-
night to ''last all night, il
necessary, until we get the facts"
was made by Chairman e. o.
Mather. Hearing is scheduled to
close tomorrow at / p. m. All
unheard testimony must be filed
in form of a brief within 10
days following the close Of the
hearing.
Only a handful of interested
listeners attended this mornings
sessions, many farmers having re.
manned at home to reap the bene-
fits of last nights rain.
B. P. Parry, employed with the
Federal Trade Commission for
the past 81 years and who has
been in charge of milk sale and
distribution investigations for the
last two years, recommended q
strong check by a milk admins
traitor on distributors dollar sales
should the order be approved.
Have Been Favorable
Perry testified efforts by the
AAA in setting up milk control
boards have worked out favorably
in other places.
Renewed antagoniSm between
Maryland and Virginia milk pro-
ducerS' association officers and in
dependent haulerS and distributors
flared anew this morning. B. B.
Derrick, secretary Of the aSSocia-
ton. protested remarks by Clar.
ence Dye, independent hauler for
Highland Farms Dairy, who
charged certain farmers belonging
to the association were going to
quit the association.
Dye testified that in his opinion
a price Of 22.5 cents a gallon to
producers is fair price. ASSocia-
ton officials ask a price Of sos
cents a gallon to be paid to pro-
dUcerS,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Retail Credit Men
Name Coonin Head

Abe Coonin, Of william Hahn
Shoe Stores, was elected president
Of the Retail Credit Mems ASSo-
citation last night at The annual
meeting Of the Kenwood Golf
Club. Elsie Lee, credit manager
Of Frank r. Jelleff, Inc, was
named vice president, and John
X. AlthauS was named secretary
treasurer. e. Emerson Snyder is
the retiring president.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
FraiIey, Fox Named
To Legion Convention

George P. Frailey and George
H. Fox last night were named dele
gates to the American Legion de-
partmental convention to repre-
sent Tank Corps Post No. 10.
Wade T. Akers and r. T. Haugh
were named alternates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Youth Is Near Death

Knocked unconscious when his
bicycle was struck by an automo-
bile on the Queens Chapel Road
near HyattSville, Md, Jack Shuey,
IL, Of Prospect Avenue, Hyatts-
vile, was near death in Casualty
Hospital last night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Record of Convictions
In, Traffic Court

; Barney Striefe, $50 Emerson st.
N. W.. S..
John T. Phillips, 654 Girard st.
N. W., IS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Huge Deficit in First
Halt of Fiscal Year


MYTH the final week not reported,
w the treasury came to the end of
the first half of the current fiscal year
with receipts behind expenditures by
about $1,7S6,0000O0. For every dollar
collected in taxes and other revenues
since the financial year began July l.
S1.95 had been spent. OF the latter,
$1.10 went for the regular general ex-
penditures of department and bureaus
and 50 cents was for relief and other
emergency purposes.
These factors, coupled with prospec-
tive expenditures, caused an increase
of $1,S43,000,000 in the gross federal
public debt. The debt rose from $685.
70O,O00,000 last July 1, to $50, 543,0 00,-
600 on December %.
For the same period, all categories
of receipts, except processing taxes,
showed increases over year ago. To-
tai receipts were 100000 COM
pared with $1,S11 100000 in the same
period of the 1885 fiscal year.
Against the public debt total, the
treasury had balance of S2,291 ,0OO,-
600 in cash on hand, which included
$143,0O0,O00 of its gold profits result
ing from the revaluation of the dollar,
and S252,000,00O from seignorage
charges on the coinage of newly mined
silver.
The working balance totaled $780,.
100000, much larger than usual be,
cause some $9OO,OOO,OOO was borrowed
to meet the wintertime costs of the
relief and recovery programs. Since
the fiscal year began the general fund
balance increased $450,000,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
"Swan Song" Phrase Has
to Do With Final Tasks

A "swan song" is the last work of
an author, artist or composer, espe-
cially work produced just before
death, advises writer in the Indian
apolis News. The phrase alludes to
the old belief that the swan sings beau
tifully while dying According to
Greek legend, Apollo, the god of music,
passed into swan. Plato, in Phaedo,
has Socrates say that swans sing at
their death mot out of sorrow or dis
tress, but because they are inspired by
Apollo, and they sing as foreknowing
the good things their god hath in store
for them" Aristotle and other early
Greek philosophers accepted the be-
lief that swans sing before death as
having proper place in natural his
tory. Much has been written to prove
or to disprove the belief. There may
have been a slight basis for it.
Although most species of swans
make no sound at any time that could
be described as musical, there are a
few exceptions. In his Account of
Iceland" Nicol says of the whistling
swans of that island that during the
long, dark nights their wild song is
often heard resembling tones of vi
olin, though somewhat higher and re-
markably pleasant" A statement even
more to the point is found in George
Adolf Erman's Travels in Siberia"
that the Cygnus olor or whooping swan
when wounded. pours forth its last
breath in notes most beautifully clear
and loud" The United States biologi-
cal survey makes the following state
ment:
SIT seems now that notwithstanding
swans do not have notes that are par
ticularly musical. on rare occasions
wounded or dying swans do produce
notes which are very different from the
ordinary notes of the species and
which might readily give rise to the
story that the bird sings when dying.
This may nave been the original basis
for the story, and 1t Is vouched for by
the field observations of very COM
petent observer. in comparatively re-
cent years."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09

in force late in January. Meanwhile
the general military and naval staffs
of Great Britain and France concluded
conversations which were declared
satisfactory" meaning that those ma
lions were prepared to stand by each
other in case II Duce makes what
Prime Minister Baldwin called "a mad
dog attack" In the capitals of other
members of the League of Nations
similar plans were being laid by mill
tary and naval attaches.
Turkey came into line with the
other presumptive opponents of Italy,
but is reported to have made sugges-
ton that France doesn't like. This is
that it be permitted to fortify the
Dardanelles, the strait between Eu-
rope and Asiatic Turkey which was
demilitarized under the treaty of
Lausanne after the World war. The
Turks also, according to Paris adj
vices, ask the eventual return of the
island of Rhodes in the Aegean sea-
which has been under Italian SOW
ereignty since 1923.
Eden is a firm believer in the
League of Nations and, though he is
moving with caution, is determined to
bring Italy to terms through the sane.
lions provided the other members OF
the league give the necessary support
The British government certainly
doesn't want war with Italy, but it is
fast preparing for armed conflict il
that shall prove to be unavoidable.
That Mussolini, too, is getting ready
for extreme eventualities was evil
denced by orders canceling all Christ.
mas leaves of all officers and men OF
the army. The same orders directed
the return to their units of the 100
900 army men demobilized in Novem
Der in order that they might do the
needed work on their farms.
Premier Laval, defending his course
in the negotiations to end the Italo
Ethiopian war and promising that
France would stand by Great Britain
faithfully If the latter were attacked
saved his government temporarily by
the slight margin of twenty votes. He
skilfully lodged the oil embargo is
sue. 1t was believed that his downfall
before long was likely.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Lawyers Committee Says
Potato Act Is Invalid

THAT lawyers committee of the
l. Liberty league which is examining
various New Deal legislation pro-
nounces the potato control act invalid
and a departure from traditional the
cries of American government. The
committees report says in part:
"We are of the opinion that this
act is unconstitutional as not within
the scope of the federal power under
the commerce clause of the COnstitu-
ton and is not rendered constitutional
by the attempted improper use of the
taxing power, and further because no
such discretionary power as is sought
to be vested in the secretary of agri-
culture by the act, no such invasion
of state rights and no such taking
of the property of the private citizen. is
authorized by any provision of the Con-
stitution.
ITO sustain this legislation would
mean the abolition of all distinction
between our dual form of federal and
state sovereignties. a notification of
the right of states. and the estab-
lishment of the principle of pater-
nalistic federal government"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Benson Named to Fill
Out Schall's Term

ELMER A. BENSON, state banking
~ commissioner of Minnesota, was
appointed United States senator by
Gov. Floyd B. Olson to complete the
term of the late Senator Thomas D.
Schall. He will serve until December
81, 1886. Mr.. Benson has been a Farm
er-Laborite since that party's birth and
before that was active in the Nonpar-
tisan league movement in Minnesota.
He is forty years old.
The new senator is an advocate of
public ownership of monopolistic in
dustry and a hacker of collective bar
gaining for labor. He has urged great
er levies on higher incomes and in
heritances, and favors immediate pay
ment of the soldiers bonus.
II shall be very glad" Benson said,
"to join the liberal bloc in congress
in opposition to those who would turn
the arms of the clock backwards and
perpetuate system callous to human
suffering, which neither understands
nor wants to understand the meaning
of human happiness"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-09
Terms on Which Ethiopia
Will Discuss Peace

DISPATCHES from Adds Ababa
II said reliable sources there dis
closed the terms on which Emperor
Halle Selassie had authorized his dele
cation at Geneva to discuss peace.
They were thus stated:
Withdrawal of Italian troops from
Ethiopia; recognition of the African
empires sovereignty; payment of in
demnity by Italy; delimitation of East
African boundaries between Ethiopia
and the italian colonies by a league
of nations committee, and foreign
economic, administrative, and finan-
cial aid and advice for Ethiopia only
on the condition there would be no
Italian influence.