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Evening star., 1936-03-29
FRENCH BANK ACTS.
TO PROTECT GOLD.
Discount Rate Raised to 500
as Franc Faces Inter.
national Fire.
5y the Associated Press.

PARIS, March 28-With the French
franc and other gold currencies under
international financial fire, the Bank
of France acted today to protect its
gold supply.
The bank regents, in extraordinary
session, raised the discount rate TO
5 per cent from 3l2 per cent, the
first increase since last November IS.
Uneasiness over the German situa-
ton and fears the French government
might decide on imitation of the franc
were regarded as contributory causes
to the raise.
Investors and spectators were dis
posing Of their francs in great quanti-
ties in the worlds foreign exchange
markets. They we're selling their
francs and buying United States dol
lars and British pounds.
United States dollars. apparently,
were the preferred medium of REIN
vestment, for the dollar quotation
gained 2s cent to the pound in the
London foreign exchange market, while
both pounds and dollars advanced in
relation to the franc Despite the
manipulations of the official exchange
control fund on the London market,
the franc fell off from 1903 to 1904
to the pound.
The action of the bank regents was
most unusual inasmuch as any
change in the bank rate ordinarily
is announced on Thursdays and the
regents rarely assemble on Saturdays
They decided to increase not only
the discount rate, but to make a simi-
lar increase in the rates for 30-day
loans and 10 increase the rate for
loans on stocks from to per cent
The prices on rentes, government
securities, slipped slightly throughout
the short days trading, but it was
believed the bank action would boil
ster up the market over the week end
Evening star., 1936-03-29
CHALLENGE OF new
DEAL TO BE TOPIC
Charles M. Hay to Speak at Fri.
day Banquet of William and
Mary Alumni.

Charles M. Hay. special assistant
to the Attorney General. will speak
on The New Deals Challenge to
College Men" at banquet of the
William and Mary Alumni Club of
Washington next Friday, 7:30 pm,
ut the University Club.
Before coming to Washington, Hay
was active in politics in Missouri and
ran for the United States Senate.
He will be introduced by Judge Ed
ward c. johnson of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, who is
president of the club. Judge johnson
returned a few months ago from
American Samoa, where he served as
chief justice
DR.. John Stewart Bryan, president
OF William and Mary College. also
Is expected to address the club. Among
others invited to be special guests
at the banquet are: Senators Harry
F. Byrd and Carter Glass of Vir-
ginia, former Gov. John Garland Pol
lard of Virginia and Assistant Attorney
General Harry w. Blair.
More than so members and guests
OF the club are expected to attend
the banquet. Judge johnson will be
toastmaster.
Evening star., 1936-03-29

port, but expressed regret that the
character education experiment had
become a political foot ball in the
agitation of the subject
The chief sufferers of this agita-
ton, however, are the children" he
said.
Yaden defended the character edu-
cation experiment and paid tribute
to the ability and patriotism Of Miss
BERTHE Backus, assistant superin-
tendent in charge of the experiment.
Sullivan pointed out that the whole
red rider fight had been started when
Yaden offered a resolution which had
been amended by Jesse c. Suter to
prevent the advocating" of COM
muniSm. He paused and indicated
Suter when he read the statement
That was entirely different from
your monkey business" Suter put in.
At the outset Suter attempted to
block consideration OF the report
Then motion to table it was de-
feated by vote of SO to 18.
There followed a series Of heated
exchanges between members. Quinn
read part of Sullivan's testimony
and challenged his right to speak
for the red rider as the representative
of the federation. He was also
charged with failing to report back
several resolutions from member Or
CARNATIONS supporting the Sisson bill
Denies Hearing Fair.
Later when Sullivan asserted that
Dr.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, had been given "a fair
hearing" Quinn shouted
Il challenge any 10 members of this
federation to read this report of the
hearings and say it was a fair hear
ing. If you will do that, I promise
you I'll never open my mouth again
on the subject of communism"
When vote finally was forced on
the Wender substitute to indorse the
Sisson bill, roll call Of the delegates
also was forced and a call of the
member organizations was made when
the absence of a quorum was sug-
gested. The substitute lost "a to 19,
with four delegates not voting With
80 organizations represented. Presi-
dent Thomas E. Lodge declared 1t q
quorum.
The same tactics were followed on
the Sullivan report, which passed 36
to l6 When Wender changed his
vote from no to yes for the purpose
of moving reconsideration, Stull beat
him to it and Yaden moved to table
the motion to reconsider. 1t carried
by viva voce vote and while several
delegates were on their feet shouting
at the chair, motion 10 adjourn was
put and passed with the entire dele
cation in confusion.
Earlier the federation voted to
oppose the Public Utilities Commits
sion,s plan to permit from so to 60
per cent of the seating capacity Of
Capital Transit Co. busses to be car
ried as standing passengers after all
seats are filled.
William NICK Clayton moved to
limit the number of standing passen-
gers to five persons per bus, regard
less of the seating capacity of the
vehicle. An attempt to fix the limit
at 25 per cent of the seating ca
pacity was defeated and Clayton was
instructed to present the demand for
a limit of five "standees" to the COM
mission.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
SUMMER CLASSES
EXPANDEDATG G. ".
SO Courses in 19 Depart.
ments Announced in Cata-
logue lust issued.

A wide field of courses for Summer
study will be offered this year at the
George Washington University Sum-
mer sessions. The curriculum has
been considerably enlarged to meet
increased demands.
The catalogue just issued announces
q full program Of academic and pro-
fessional courses, and. in addition, spe-
cial curricula in the social sciences
and education.
80 Courses Offered.
There will be SO courses in 10 de-
partments Of instruction. Fifty men,
bers of the resident faculty will con-
duct classes.
Nine-week courses will run from
June Is to August Is and six-week
courses from July to August Is. The
Summer session of the Law School is
divided into two terms, the first from
June is to July 20 and the second
from July 80 to September IL.
Registration days will be as fol-
Evening star., 1936-03-29

lows: For the nine-week courses and
the first term in the Law School June
Is; for the six-week courses, July 6:
for the second term in the Law School,
July 1920.
Special Period for Students.
For the convenience of students
enrolled in the university during the
regular session who intend TO pursue
Summer study q special pre-registra-
ton period has been set aside. from
May IL TO May 28, in order that these
students may complete registration in
advance Of the more crowded regular
registration days.
The sessions are under the direc-
ton Of Dean Robert w. Bolwell.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
DR.. WILMER ESTATE
VALUED At $292,667
Foundation and Schools to
Share in 8equests by
SPECIALISTS Will.

DR.. William Holland Wilmer, world.
famous eve specialist, who died March
u. left an estate valued at 1892, ,667. 1t
was revealed today when his will was
admitted to probate in District Su-
preme Court. His widow, Mrs. Re
Lewis Wilmer, and his three children
are the principal beneficiaries.
Among numerous specific bequests
we're 5000 to the Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral Foundation, and 81 900 each
to the University Of Virginia Medical
School. the Georgetown University
Medical School and the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital
The collection of rare old medical
books and of old eyeglasses, spec
tacles and other apparatus Of his
torical interest, which DR.. Wilmer ac-
cumulated over many years. were left
to the Wilmer Opthalmological In
stitute of Johns Hopkins University,
with the proviso that they be kept in
freproof, locked display cases.
DR.. Wilmer also left his modern
medical books to the institute which
bears his name, providing, however,
that his friend, DR.. Benjamin Rones,
should have the privilege of selecting
what volumes he wishes.
Bequests of 81 900 were provided for
each of his children, Richard Hooker
Wilmer, 1915 Twenty-fourth street;
Mrs. Rebekah Wilmer Sard, 1717
Nineteenth street, and William Hol-
land Wilmer, ID, of New York City.
The children, together with DR.. Will
mer's grandson, Richard H. Wilmer.
Sd, and his daughter in law. Mrs.
Frances Arant Wilmer, also will re-
ceive the bulk of the estate after the
death of his widow.
Sums varying from SlO0 to $500
were left to the grandson, William
Henson, and Miss Elizabeth B. Kerr,
Ben Jones, Cora Hubbard, Katie
Banks, Wiley Brown and Wyman
Williams, employees
Mrs. Wilmer, who was represented
by Attorney Benjamin Minor, was ap-
pointed executrix of the estate
Evening star., 1936-03-29
CIVIL SERVICE GAIN
BY WOMEN IS TOLD
Mrs. Lucille McMiIIin Is Pan
Hellenic Speaker at An
nuaI Luncheon.

Women today enjoy greater equality
of opportunity in Government service
than ever before, Mrs. Lucille Foster
Mcmillan. member Of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, said in an address
yesterday at the annual luncheon Of
the Pan-Hellenic Association at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Pointing to the strides that have
been made since 1884, when the ap-
pointment Of Clara Barton to q clerk
ship in the Patent once was greeted
with eyebrow lifting Mrs. Mcmillan
declared that women eligibleS are
now found on almost all professional
and scientific registers maintained by
the Civil Service Commission"
With the broadening of womens
activities" she continued, there are
now found in the service women
chemists, physicists. doctors and den-
fists, economic analysts, lawyers ex-
amining claims, and In addition nu-
merous women engaged in those fields
in which they have been experts for
long periods of time, such as in library
and educational work. Equally i'm
pressive is the fact that much larger
percentage of women are receiving
salaries IN the higher brackets"
Mrs. Mcmillan ascribed the changed
status Of women in part to the suf-
frage amendment, saying that con-
trary to popular belief the World
War did not mark their immediate ad-
vancement to better paying positions.
although appointment in large num-
bers did pave the way for later prog
ress
The speaker emphasized that "wom-
en- almost always realize that they
must perform outstanding service in
justice to themselves and women to
follow, because as relative newcomers
in the field they are watched closely"
Evening star., 1936-03-29

bill. Some 20 delegates discussed the
subject pro and con, several of them
insisting that the Sisson bill be treated
IN a separate report from that dealing
with other legislation
Sullivan reviewed the activities of
his committee before the committees
OF Congress and was joined by Harry
N. Stull, chairman of the federation's S
Education Committee, who asserted
that Congress "S our only source of
relief" in view of the attitude of the
school board. Stull also charged that
witnesses against the Sisson bill were
hooted and hissed when they appeared
before the Kennedy subcommittee.
sullivan also charged that the news
papers had been unfair in saving he
had been accused of having a grudge
against the school board after fail
ing to sell piece of property for
client and then failing to say he had
been absolved of any blame by Henry
]. Quinn, board member.
Quinn joined Wender in supporting
the Endorsement of the repeater. In
answer to an argument that to men,
ton communism is dangerous because
the gestures or expression of the
teacher may give unwarranted sig
nificance to the words they use, he
suggested:
why not put in motion picture
machines, spoilers, peep-holes and
recording machines to be sure no
teacher is violating her oath. We
are discussing absurdities.
District an Exception.
mo place but in the District has
any such ban been placed on teachers.
No State has any such thing sad
died on them. Legislators are afraid
to try any such restrictions where
teachers have right to vote"
Later he asserted that "the kids
are laughing up their sleeves at us.
They are beginning to think we are
q bunch of nit-wits"
James G. Yaden, former federation
preslcent. supported the Sullivan re-
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Bamboo Paper Pulp Planned.
Paper pulp may be manufactured
from bamboo in the Philippines.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
KAUFMAN REAPP0INTED
CHEST PUBLICITY HEAD
Radio Joe" Selects Seven to
Work With Him in Cam
paign This Year.

Joseph D. (Radio Joe) Kaufman
has been reappointed chairman Of
the Community Chest Publicity Unit.
Coleman Jennings, campaign chair
man, announced yesterday.
Mr.. Kaufman selected the follow
ing to work with him this year: Her
luf Provensen, chairman of the Com
mittee on Radio; T. Carlisle Crump,
chairman of the Committee on Spe-
cial Features; Harry Lyles, display
advertising: H. Donald Sonnemann,
window exhibits: John Shoemaker,
outdoor advertising Robert Dougan,
transportation advertising. and w. w.
Wheeler, unit vice chairman.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Army Leaves University

HAVANA, March 90 Op.-The Gu
ban army moved out Of Havana Uni
versity yesterday after more than q
year Of occupation. Soldiers seized
the university in March, 1898, after
they found arms, ammunition and
anti-government literature in the
buildings.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
LECTURE TO BE GIVEN
Mechanical Engineers to Hear
Charles A. McCune April 8.

Charles A. McCune, secretary Of the
Magnaflux Corp, and former president
of the American Welding Society, will
give an illustrated lecture on Finding
Defects Magnetically" at a meeting Of
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers on April 9. The meeting
will be held in the auditorium of the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
Prior to the meeting, McCune will
be feted at an informal dinner at $50
pm. at the Raleigh Hotel Maurice
E. Weschler Is in charge of arrange
mentS.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Joy-Rides in Locomotive.

SPOKANE, Wash. (P-George
Rogers, an Indian who said he was
from Minnesota. was sentenced to 30
days for trying to take locomotive
for a joy-ride. Knocked from the cab
by q fireman, he climbed into another
and had it going when an ofiicer over
powered him.
Evening star., 1936-03-29
Federation

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-03-29

Chief of the United States
Secret Service, ,OaS ShOWered
iDith congratulations yeSter-
day on the occasion of his
72nd birthday anniversary,
tUhich he obSerued by ,Dork-
ing as usual from $3.50 am.
until after the rest of his
staff Dent home. President
Roosevelt tiOice has extended
Moran'S term OF office beyond
the retirement age. SilUer-
haired, Moran looks as young
and seems as rigorous, to his
associates as he did more
than a decade ago. His staff
presented him 1Uith q huge
bouquet OF birthday foWerS.
-HarrtS-E Photo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27

Australia has abolished its sales tax on flour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27
CITIES PRAISED
 BY COMMISSION
Waterbury Included in List for Special Credit
 in Relief Work

The cities of Waterbury, Bridge port, Norwalk and Meriden are praised for the manner in which re- lief problems have been handled during the past two months in the January and December report of the state emergency relief commits sion. The assumption here is that the credit is due to the Mutual Aid
 William M. Harris, director of the organization here, one which func- tions only on the surplus reported at the last financial meeting, point ed out that figures in the report show that Hartford, Stamford and Greenwich have very large num- bers of persons on relief, in com parison to the local status.
 He pointed out that a wealthy city like Hartford has a thousand more cases than New Haven, though the cities are the almost the same in the matter of population. The richest town in the state, green- wich, he further shows, is the ninth town in population and the seventh in relief tabulation. Star11- ford is sixth in population and stands third in relief numbers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27

NEW YORK CITY. in the early 1\ summer of 1885, saw the ar. rival of what was the worlds fin. est ocean liner--the Normandie. After only one year of uncontest. ed supremacy on the high seas, this great French liner faces the challenge of England's champion, the Queen Mary. U
 But as 1t rides the seas, the Normandie remains a marvel of size and comfort. Built at 8 cost of $59.000. 900. the huge ship Is too long and too wide to pass through the Panama or the SueZ canal. It Is half again as large as Germany's crack liner, the Bremen. and a single round trip across the Atlantic IS said to cost $250, ,000.
 The gigantic size of the Nor mandie can be realized from the fact that spacious play and Punch-and-Judy room fills the deck space within one of It's two dummy tunnels, while the other is occupied by a smoking room and cafe.
 For the liners inaugural trip, France issued the special stamp shown here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27
SPAIN IS STUMBLING.
 BLOCK TO FASCISM
Of Young Republic Restored To Democratic Rule Of Premier After Bitter
 Election Seeks To Provide Land For And Better Conditions For Labor

of 1894 and finally acquitted. The Spanish Lenin" they called him, this 64-yeaf -old former plas- terer. who had led in trades uni- onism for 46 years and had been Secretary General of the Trades Union Federation.
 The republican coalition cen= tered it's fire on Robles. They called him the enemy of the re- public, the proponent of Fascism. Hot shots from the locker were also aimed at Lerroux, under whose premiership his former friends had been arrested after the 1884 episode. And nobody had good ward for President Zamora. r Caballero Is New Boss -- The Left won. Its adl1erents began pouring forth in their -~thou- sands from the various jails and prisons. Many reactionaries who had taken part in the bloody events in Asturias, fled the coun- try. Robles said he would resign from the. leadership of his party, which still has the largest block of members in the new Cortes. Ca- ballero, the so-called Lenin, re- fused to take seat in the new cab- inet. t.s, <, The government is once more headed by Manuel Azana as Pre-. mier, as 1t was back in 1881. The scholarly lawyer, the President of the famous literary club of Mad- rid, the Ateneo, which he made a hot-bed of revolt against King Alfonso, will once more try to consolidate republicanism in Spain, put democratic laws into execution, further republicanize the army, get land for the peasants and better conditions for the town workers.
 Just as Robles bossed the gov- ernment of the Right, 50 now Caballero will boss the govern ment of the Left. Not in the cab- inet, he will watch it and bring pressure to bear upon 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27

Along about this time O the year. It's the weather that gets at this season with its invitation to shed coat and hat get out in clear bracng air. romp around the fields like young colt just released from the barn. There's the earthly smell that hits you full between the two eyes and makes you love every corner of Gods green earth There's the scrunch underfOOt as your shoe breaks the moist ground and leaves full imprint in the slowly drying soil few green sprouts here and there herald the birth of new year of vegetation The note of the bird has dlt- ferent ring . His chorus is fuller and rOunder. The sky seems bit bluer The eye has far-away look. :. You stop to gaze heavenward or earthward more often. It's Spring and it's good to be alive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27

the aristocrats bossed things, but turned his coat when republicans got control.
 Later on Robles consented to enter the cabinet, taking the port folio of war. Some of his politi- cal allies were royalists. But he gave lip service to the republic. It was feared by the republicans that he was only biding his time untN he got a good grip on the army and would then impose 8 Fascist regime, if not restora- ton of monarchy.
 1884 Revolution Was Premature
 The leaders of the Left, to pre- vent this, committed the foolish act of starting revolutionary pro- ceedings in October, 1884. This played right into the hands of Robles. The Lerroux government, supported by the army and the police, put down the revolutionary movement with Sterner tactics. The jails of Spain were filled with men of the Left from former Minister Caballero down to humble work men. In the mining region of the Austurias. the rebellious min- CTS tough longest. Quarter seems t. have been neither asked nor given there. The Robles adher- ents, through their big newspa- pers, published horriiic accounts of cruelties alleged to have been perpetrated by the rebels. AS there was a censorship, the lead- CTS of the Left could not reply, but by word of mouth 1t got about that the government had authorized terrible repression. It was charged 1t had called in the Foreign Legion from Morocco and that nameless crimes were perpe- trated.
 Vote Campaign Was Savage
 So the battle lines faced each other when the elections took place in February, 1936. A gov ernment of the Centre was in power. It tried to hold the scales evenly between Left and Right, but finally made some sort of coalition with the Robles adher- ents. The electoral campaigng. was short, sharp and far more savage than anything known even in the bitterest American presidential elections. The parties of the Right centered their fire on Largo Ca bellero, who had been jailed for his alleged part in the outbreaks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-27
CARS SIDESWIPED
 ON BRISTOL ROAD
Six-Year-Old Lad Injured in AcCident-Treated
 at Hospital

Robert Wallace, 6, of 62 Marlboro street, was treated at St. Mary's hos- pital last night for slight injuries after an automobile accident on the Bristol road in which the car in which the child was a passenger sideswiped another machine. Po- lice said the cars passed too near near each other. Both were badly damaged. The Wallace boy was rid- ing with his uncle, Fred Davidson, and they were returning from Hartford. George Brock was the driver of the other car. He was ac- companied by his sister and Will liam French, and was going to Wolcott. The accident was inves- tigated by Motor Patrolmen Thom- as Phelan and Thomas Bergin. James R. McMahon of 963 North Main street, foreman of the city water department, brought the in- Jured child to the hospital.
 Woman Hit
 Lacerations of the elbow and in- juries to the left side were sus- tained by Mrs. Catherine A. Healey of 1867 South Main street, who was struck last night by a car operated by Robert K. Kirschner of 369 Piedmont street. She was treated by Dr. Vincent T. Shea. According to MT. Kirschner's report to police, Mrs. Healey stepped off 8 bus and ran across the street towards her home. He said he tried to swerve his machine but that his rear fend- CT struck her.