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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

All told, some 81 800 900 OF Captal
improvements, included in the bill as
passed by the Senate, would be scut-
tied. This sum, together with in
CreaseS in other items, would raise
to total of approximately 100000
the loss in appropriations below funds
provided for the present year.
Resort to a continuing resolution
would mean the loss of hundreds of
Jobs for Washington residents which
would be provided under proposed
capital expenditures. Other jobs
would be lost in building projects
which would be dependent upon pro-
vision Of municipal services, such IS
sewer and water.
Residential Areas Hit.
Residential sections which have been
developing rapidly would be deprived
of needed sewer and water extensions,
since items for such work would be
thrown out along with all other new
construction.
Additional fire-fighting apparatus,
needed because of the increased popu-
lation. could not be purchased, and
employment of so additional police
men, as proposed by the Senate,
would be blocked. Police officials
have informed both houses OF Con-
gress that an increase in the number
Of policemen is urgently needed not
only to meet crime conditions but
also to aid in control of traffic.
Failure of Congress to pass the
regular budget would kill the cam
paign OF District and private medica.
leaders for a larger campaign against
disease since the Health Department
appropriation for next year would be
only $474,000 or nearly $4,000 less
than that the Senate approved.
If the Blanton plan were approved,
it is likely that fremen and police
men would be deprived of an increase
in annual leave which has been
granted to all Government workers
by Congress. At present they are re-
celving two weeks leave, and were tc
have been given 26 days.
Increase in Forces Needed.
Oficials today confessed they did
not know how policemen and flremen
could be given the additional leave
without an increase in their forces
These men already had suffered dis
appointment because the Budget Blu
reau to date has failed to send to
Congress a requested deficiency item
to provide for employment Of 48 adoi-
tional police and 80 additional fire.
men during the remainder of this
fiscal year.
The Senate bill proposed the fol-
lowing school building projects. which
would be lost If a resolution is substi-
tuted for the appropriation act:
New addition to Eastern High
School, S353,000; addition to Alice
Deal Junior High School, sl65.000;
stadium and athletic field woodrow
Wilson Senior High School. $4,000;
addition to Lafayette School, includ-
ing assembly gymnasium. $165,000;
completion of second floor, Hardy
School, $4,000; addition to Truesdell
School, including embly-gymnasium
$l48,500; addition to Grimke School
including neutrality-suspicious., $175,-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
KIND LADY.
.OUR baby robins which soon will
- be squawking for food out
Chevy Chase way will owe their


Chevy Chase way will owe their
a lives to Mrs. Dorothy Warren,
even though they grow up entirely
obliviouS Of their debt to her.
The robins debt, a prenatal obli-
cation, was incurred during the hail
storm the other day. Mrs. Warren, in
whose rosebush the parent birds built
their nest, saw the mother battling to
save her eggs from the violence of the
wind and the viciouSness Of the hail
stones. She was touched by the gal
lantry of the older bird--so touched,
in fact, that she rushed to the latter
assistance with an umbrella, which she
held over the swaying nest until the
violence Of the storm subsidized.
\ y X u
DATA.
Would it interest you to knop
that 30 felt hats can be cleaned in
the same time it takes to clean and
block 10 panama hats?
or Mould you be interested in the
fact that the fresh roses on Con-
roller General McCdrPs desk each
day are sent to him from the Cap
itol?
Well then, let's talk about coffee.
The coffee served in the dining
rooms OF the finest hotels is tUeaker
in the morning than it is later in
the day. The theory is that in the
morning, the tongue is sensitive to
taste. Later, eating. smoking, or
drinking, dulls the sense OF taste
and stronger coffee is needed to
create the same sensation.
y
LISTENER IN.
OUT at the Washington sanitarium
in Takoma Park, Md. every room
is provided with radio eqipped with
earphones.
Physiotherapist Fanny Corinne Cum
ingham, entering a room to admins
ter massage early one morning
inquired as to how the patient hac
slept,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

it obligingly began to cry at just the
right time.
It gave the visitor Q pretty good
chance to deliver her long.pent-up
lecture on better btbies and how TO
make them that wa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
PLANE CONTRACT LET
Navy Awards $3.50, $50 Order to
Curtiss Co.

Curtiss Co.
The Navy Department today award
ed to the Curtiss Airplane and Moto
Co. of Buffalo. N. Y, a $75e, $50 CON
tract for purchase of 40 scout observa,
ton airplanes and their parts.
The planes are similar to the l3I
machines delivered to the feet unda
q contract with the same compsn.
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Blanton Plan Would Cripple
d. c. Projects, Surrey Sho,rs
Control of Crime and Disease, School
Benefits Checked if ResO.
luton Passes.
BY DON s. WARREN.


would
government q Building
congestion
building would
a $1,650000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

The d. y. !. made the jump, turned
the somersaultS and, coming out OF
the last turn, seized the trapeze bar
which, somehow, broke loose and
started her plummeting toward the
ground!
In midair, however, the performer
graSped a rope attached to a cable
by means of a pulley and rode to
safety.
Waysider No. 3Zs2XW, who believes
himself the only spectator who noticed
the near-tragedy, so smoothly was the
pulley-ride executed, detected slight
wobbliness in the d. y. lis shapely
knees as she strobe toward her dress
ing tent.
MAGNETIC MAGNATE.
c. MelUin Sharpe is tDearino an
old telt hat these days, but it isn't
because he neglected to buy the
straw Which goes NTH the season.
The day OF the strap hat pur-
chase, Sharpe spent some time With
the uice president of a railroad
which paints its passenger trains
maroon. The nlagndte took quite
q fancy to Sharpe's new hat;
couldn't talk about anything else in
fact.
Under the spell of the other
mans eloQuence, Sharpe finally
agreed to trade. His respect for the
nrdgndte's eloQuence is greater than
his satisfaction Uith the hat he got
In the deal.
II X
GRANDMOTHER.
THE mother instinct slaarpened the
wits of grandmother to a pretty
fine point the other day: sharpened
them to point, indeed, that enabled
her to cut her way through a lot OF
inhibitions and into the apartment of
a family whose baby she thought
needed help.
The grandmother is a dignified
Southern lady and never has been in
trusive in her entire life. That baby's
crying in the apartment above, how
ever, had the effect of suddenly chang
ing her whole nature. She simply had
to speak to the mother and tell her
q few things.
What's more, she did just that.
Feigning an interest In subletting the
apartment (Which the tenant had not
thought Of subletting until our heroine
mentioned the idea) she found her
way inside. The baby Dad been silent
throughout the PREDATORY remarks, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

Terrible" the patient, an elderly
woman, replied. There must have
been a party somewhere around here
1 heard music and talking all night
1t was awful, tell you'll"
Just then Mrs. Cunningham noticed
the patient had forgotten to remove
the earphones-and the radio was
turned on full blast!
~
TRAP.
MISS MARY HUDSON Is original
AVA even in her technique for catch
ing mice.
She saw a member of the species
in her apartment recently and forth
with summoned the janitor. He baited
a trap with cheese and set 1t. but the
next morning there was neither cheese
nor mouse to be found. Miss Hudson
was terrified at the thought the animal
still was at large. but her terror was
entirely unjustified.
The beast was quite as definitely
trapped as a mouse ever was-trapped
in the toe of the silk stocking which
she picked up to wear that day.
The rest of the story is substantially
what you would expect
TELL-TALE KNEES.
DROBABLY nobody under the big
Top'-except circus attaches
realized how close the daring young
lady on the flying trapeZe came to
violent death Monday night.
Loudspeakers blared the announce
ment that she was 1.-The only girl in
the world" capable of leaping from a
platform near the top of the tent, turn
a couple of somersaults and wind-up
on the trapeze below-and all with
out the protection of a net"
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4 Chinese Purchases, Up.
Z China is buying morf goods from
Germany than from Japan.
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Battalion Leaves Cairo as Arab Jew
Disorders Continue.
CAIRO, Egypt, May 81 P).-The
list Battalion of the Seaforth High
landers was sent to Palestine today
to reinforce British troops, estimated
at 1000, already there. 1t was under
stood the action was taken because
Of the Arab-Jew disorders.
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Evening star., 1936-12-17

parently favorable to the contention
of the claw machine operators that
the contrivances are games Of skill. As
sistant United States Attorney John
J. Wilson attempted to beat his op-
ponents to the punch and meet their
arguments before they were made.
Grossman Records Profits.
Grossman said that in the past
year and half he has taken enough
prizes out Of claw machines to sell
back about 1000 to the operators.
and has spent only a few hundred
dollars doing it.
Explaining his methods of play, the
witness said that after dropping the
claw on some object. he found that 1t
helped to spin the direction handle
swiftly. II this was not done, the
object usually would be knocked out
of the claw by some other object, the
witness explained.
The spin is given to the wheel when
the claw reaches the level on which 1t
travels toward the chute, he said.
This shortens the string by which the
claw is suspended and swings the
boom in the desired direction.
Grossman said he had seen play
ers use string; a rope or electric tape
to spin the wheel.
Handle Has Been Changed.
The handle has been changed from
wheel to q round knob to prevent
players using string, Grossman
declared. Because the surface Of the
machine near the handle is rough,
experienced players often tape their
hands to protect them when spinning,
the witness said.
When a player finds a machine
which he can operate successfully, he
usually observes upon returning to
the machine several days later that
the claw has been changed, the wit
ness asserted.
DR.. Emmett c. Bailey, mechanical
engineer from the Bureau of STAN
dards, testified that there are eight
dead spots" on the playing field. in
respect to the center Of the claw,
and that not even the tips Of the
claw can reach within an inch or two
Of the sides, front or chute.
He demonstrated these dead
spots" by means Of chart tackled
on a blackboard.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
FISH LOSES TILT
IN c. 0. ?. FIGHT
Hamilton Foe Not Allowed
to Transfer One of
Three Proxies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December l7.-Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish of New York.
opponent of John Hamiltons reten-
tion as Republican national chairman.
lost his first tilt today before the Re.
publican National Committee.
Not q member OF the committee.
which met to act on Hamilton's plea
for a vote Of confidence, Fish was de-
MED by q vote of the body his request
to transfer one of three proxies he held
to an unidentified person.
The committee adopted q motion by
Col. r. B. Creager, Texas committee
man, forbidding such transfers.
So Committeeman Present.
Fifty-eight members of the COM
mittee answered roll call. Before their
session was over they were to vote on
Hamilton's offer to resign as the start
of a campaign to revitalize the ranks
and provide new leadership, II that
Is deemed the best course.
Associates OF the red-haired Kan
san, who .directed Gov. Alfred M.
Landon's unsuccessful bid for the
presidential election, disclosed that
he had been given nine unsolicited
proxies from members unable to at
tend the meeting.
AS the committee convened tele-
gram from Gov. Landon lauding the
5000 900 Republican voters for
their splendid spirit in defeat" was
made public.
Republicans throughout the Ma
ton will look to the committee and
the party's elected representatives for
intelligent leadership in formulating
the plans for the future" the mes.
sage added.
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was informed the crank was perfectly
legal so long as 1t did not deface the
machine.
While the claw machine case was
proceeding In District Court, the
United States Court of Appeals re-
fused to enjoin police from seizing pin
ball machines. pending decision on
an appeal from a recent District
Court decision that the devices are
Illegal.
In both instances the point at issue
is whether the devices are games of
skill or games of chance.
Restraining Order Sought.
Attorney William r. Lichtenberg,
representing pin ball operator. had
pleaded for a restraining order in Ap-
peals Court, arguing that If it was not
granted his clients business would be
destroyed before the case was finally
settled.
An accomplished player, Grossman
discussed methods Of spinning the
wheel" high" claws and low" claws,
loose" claws and tight" claws, dead
spots" and dressing" in District Court
All these things are important if the
machines are to be played with any
success at all. he told the jury, saying
that his ability had increased greatly
during the two years he has played.
BY putting on such testimony, ap-
Evening star., 1936-12-17
KUNG SAYS CHINA
IS QUIET IN CRISIS
People Possess Unity Until
Now Unknown, He Tells
U. S. by Radio.

Although the people Of China are
indignant over the actions Of rebel
Marshal Chang. abductor of General
issimo Chang Kai-shek, they have
remained calm and are joined in a
unity hitherto unknown. 1t was de-
clared In radio broadcast from that
country today by DR.. H. H. Kung,
minister Of finance and acting execu-
tive head of the Chinese Nationalist
government.
DR.. Sao-ke Alfred SEE, China's Am
bassador to the United States, heard
the special broadcast from the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.'S office in the
National Press Building
The people are as one behind the
government" declared DR.. Kung, who
is descendant of Confucius, famous
sage of China. Any attempt to dis
rupt this unity must be punished Sc
verely. he said, declaring that law and
discipline must be upheld.
Many Expressions Of Sympathy.
Commenting on the situation, Am
baSsador SEE said:
During the past two or three days
I have received numerous inquiries and
expressions Of sympathy from both
my American friends and my fellow
countrymen in this country regarding
the reported assassination of Gen.
Chang Kai-shek, I wish to take this
opportunity to thank all of you. DR..
H. H. Kung's broadcast has given you
a clear account of the present situa-
tion in China.
While I am not prophet :. nor
the son of a prophet, I am confident
that knowing the wisdom and patriot
ism of my people that the present
episode, sad and serious as it is, will
be so handled by my people that no
disastrous results will come to the
country and ultimately a stronger and
united China will be achieved"
With the troops of the Marking
(CentraD government poised for a
war to the finish against Rebel Chang,
at least four persons here are watching
the situation there with personal in
terest.
Nurse TO Nine. Chang.
Miss Ethel Porter, daughter of Mrs.
Mary Porter of SIT Carroll avenue,
Takoma Park, Md, was until late
October private nurse to Nine. Chang
Kai-Shek.
In letters to her mother, to her sis
ter. Louise Porter, typist for the Ma
tional Geographic Society and Mr. and
Mrs Paul Hotel. sister and brother
in-law, all of the same address, the
general and his wife have been de-
scribed as wonderful people"
1T would be disastrous for China
and Chinese unity If the rebel war
lord carries out his threat" Miss Por-
ter, who last was heard from in
Shanghai. wrote. She described the
generaliSsimo as 'self-made man."
and his wife, who Is Wellesley Col
lege graduate, as "a great aid to him."
Evening star., 1936-12-17

paved the way for consideration Of
the proposals Chang Ting-wen was
bearing.
Following the conference between
Elder and Nanking officials a govern
ment spokesman said:
"One thing is certain. It would
be beneath the dignity Of the govern
ment to negotiate with Marshal
Chang, whom we consider bandit.
Marking might be prepared to offer
Chang assurances for his personal
safety, but the government will never
come to political terms with him."
Chang's legions were reported re-
treating on Sian in the face OF ad-
vancing divisions of China's central
army under Gen. Ho.
The young marshals" troops were
said to be cut off from all aid to the
east and outfianked by loyal force
to the west by the well-trained gov
ernment troops moving in force to
rescue their imprisoned chieftain.
Closeted with Elder at the resi-
dence of DR.. H. H. Kung, acting civil
head of the central government, and
Nine. Chang, the dictators wife. was
DR.. T. v. Soong, who few from Shang-
hal to join the conference that may
have paved the way to end the Chi
nese crisis.
First Elder, a member Of the ex-
ecutive Yuan, and then DR.. Soong was
rushed through the streets in closed
motor to DR.. Kung's residence.
1t was reported here fear-inspiring
demonstrations of government war
planes over Sian had caused the mar
shal's willingness to negotiate.
Four hundred planes. one report
said. darkened the skies over the
provincial capital as an indication to
the rebels, of the Nanking govern
ments ability to blow Sian of the
map.
Numerous air fields Of Honan Prov
ince are well stocked with the pride
Of the Marking air force. The ma
chimes are of the latest models pro-
duced by Americas foremost makers
OF military aircraft.
CHANG BRANDED AS REBEL.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

branded Marshal Chang Hsueh- -liang
a rebel and ordered War Minister Ho
Yine-chin to suppress Chang and his
mutinous supporters.
Marshal Chang, the agency said,
released Gen. Chang Ting wen, cap
tured with Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek in the rebellion at Sian last
week and dispatched him by air to
Loyang, Honan Province. to inform
Gen, Ho Of his intentions to open
negotiations.
Gen. Ho, the agency said, on re-
ceipt of his governments orders, Or
dered II divisions of the central army
concentrated in Shensi preparatory
to q major offensive against Sian.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

shall Chang, who seized Chinas die
tator and 20 other dignitaries in a
sudden coup last week at Sian. had
the mutiny in his message to the
minister Of war.
Earlier in the day Elder new to
Marking from Sian, mountainous
stronghold of the mutiny in remote
Shensi Province.
Although Elder was held incom-
municado by officials of the central
government, it was learned he had
Evening star., 1936-12-17
War Minister Ordered TO Suppress
Mutinous Legions.

TOXIC, December II Up. - The
Central government Of China was
reported today by the Domei Jap-
anese) News Agency to have offcially
Evening star., 1936-12-17
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TO SOMEONE whom you
would plecse unfoiIinsly.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
TO Celebrate
SECOND Year
Drum and Bugle Corps Plan
Banquet; Doug. Nankervis
Elected President.

Our popular chief of police, Douglas
Nankervis, was elected president of the
Ely Drum and Bugle Corps at the
annual election of officers held Friday.
Oscar T. FreidSburg was chosen vice
president; Edwin Toms, secretary, and
Frank Zgonc, treasurer
Mr.. Nankervis replaces DR.. j. E.
Thompson who successfully filled the
office for the past year. Mr.. Toms and
Mr.. Zgonc succeed themselves.
The corps arranging for a party for
it's members on the evening of Sept
10, at the Forest hotel to celebrate its
second anniversary of successful Or
ganization.
The festivities will open with a BAN
uuet to be followed with a dance fol-
which the best of music has been
secured.
The report of the secretary and
treasurer presented at the meeting or
Friday showed a most satisfactory con-
dition of the finances of the corps.
The excellent showing made by the
organization at the Brainerd state con.
vention of the American Legion ane
Auxiliary, early in the month, ha'
spurred the corps to renewed effort:
for the next state convention at Vir
GINA next year where they confidentl!
expect to make fine showing for thu
state honors now held by the champion
Chisholm corps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
Simon E.. BOurgin NOlD
Bachelor of Arts.

A letter from the department of
public relations of the University OF
Chicago, brings the news of the gradu-
alton of a popular Ely young man.
The letter said:
Simon Elliot Bourgin of Ely, Min
nesota, was granted the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at the 185th convo-
cation of the University of Chicago,
held in the beautiful Gothic chapel of
the University on Friday, August %.
''Dr. Charles Hubbard Judd, the
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service
Professor and head of the department
of education, delivered an address on
This Era of Uncertainty in Education. y
Predicting that the next few years
would bring greater clarity in educa-
ton, Professor Judd said: eff in this
highly significant sphere new forces
can be released and effective organi-
cations developed, we are justified in
hoping that the uncertainties and in
combinations which besot industry, fl
nance, and government will disappear
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-03
SANDY POINT
ROAD CLOSED
Route to Popular Outing Place
Changed by Way of the
Chandler Location.

Announcement was made on Tuesday
morning that the road to Sandy Point
by way of the Pioneer property had
been closed and in order to reach this
popular picnic spot the newly con-
structed road over the Chandler loca-
ton route was to be utilized.
The new route takes you over the
tracks at the depot through the Chand-
Ter location and follows along the lake
shore to where the old road joined in
going into the grounds at the Point.
The new road was constructed under
a WPA grant with City Engineer
Somero in charge and is considered one
of the finest drives in the vicinity as it
gives a full view of the mining opera
tions and also the rugged grounds be-
tween the city and Sandy Point.
The old road over the Pioneer prop
erty has been in use since the mine
was established. Of late years, opera
tons at the Pioneer mine have made
the old road unsafe as the mining
methods employed have caused the sur
face to cave with the results that might
prove disastrous to those using the
highway.
The utilization of the new road will
prove somewhat of circuitous route for
the men employed at the Pioneer and
necessitateS a much longer walk or
ride in getting to and from the work
However, the employees are satisfied
as the danger of a cave-in on the new
road is not present.