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Evening star., 1936-06-03
Interest.

Interest.
There never yet has been a time
When everything went well;
When all existence was sublime,
With no hard luck to tell.
The Winter will be much too chill.
The Summer is too warm.
In spite of all we do, there will
Be something to reform.
For every man that's good, we'll see
number going wrong.
Somewhere there's pretty sure to be
A diScord in the song.
When skies are blue we fear anew
The wreckage and the storm
But what makes life worth going through
Is something to reform.
Jud Tunkins says he loves the old
farm, but wishes he could get chance
to think as much of the dear old place
as he does of the mortgage.
"To borrow anothers thought" said
Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown, lis like
borrowing another's raiment. However
handsome 1t may be, it will not pre-
cisely fit your personality"
Evening star., 1936-06-03
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN,

A reader can get the nnsWer TO ary
question OF fact by Uriting The Wash
tncton Euening Star Information Ba-
reou, Frederic J. Hasktn, director,
Washington, D. C. Please incLose stamp
for reply
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Q. Is Yellowstone or Hot Springs the
Oldest national park in the United
States?-M. j.
A. Yellowstone was set aside for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people
March l. 1872 thus becoming the first
OF the national parks. Hot Springs was
not made national park until 1921.
Forty-seven hot springs had been re-
served there by the Federal Govern
ment in 1882 to prevent exploitation
OF waters.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Enforced LOafinR.

Enforced LOafing.
This world seems unkind
When your toll you pursue
But it's worse when you find
You have nothing to do.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

O. Why is the Duke of Norfolk known
as the premier duke Of England?-R. F..
a. The dukedom of Norfolk is the
Oldest and thus the highest ranking of
all British peerages.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

@. Does the 17-year locust, which Is
appearing this year. have a song like
that of the annual locust which is
heard in August and September?-D. c.
A. The song has no resemblance to
the shrill, undulating screech of the an
nual locuSts The song and notes of
the larger variety Of the 17-year cicada
have a burr sound and atSleaSt four
different utterances can be distinguished.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Q. What is a franc -tireur?-B. z. c.
A. He is a French skirmishing or
scouting sharpShooter.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

@. What was the highest price paid
for seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change in 1880 and le34?-A. M.
A. In 1880 the highest was S46O,000
and in 1884 it was $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

@. How many children has Serst.
Alvin C. York?-E. r.
A. The war hero has five children
Alvin. jr.; George Edward Buxton. Wood
row Wilson, Andrew jackson and Betsy
Ross.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
MM&@2n1
"Death Ship"
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.

EFT ready for action Here Distinguished Adventurer
~ Hobart n Deane of New York city, and he's bringing with
him tale packed with thrills that-wcl-I didn't know
whether was coming going when read it, and I'm betting
you won't either
1t took place ship called the S. S. Barstow, gasoline
tanker anchored at Fort McHery just outside of Baltimore
Mo- You could through all the looking
hat ooat today, and never find trace of her.
She just amt By the time Hobey Deane got
through adventurng with her. there wasn't left of
her to pick your teeth with. That's the story.
1t February 1918,
Hobey and his shipmate Al the merchant those
moment.
Hobey's Adventure Starts With Boom!
Hobeys adventure Yes mean that
literally Six sailors sitting
clock cold February when suddenly
sound OF loud explosion Along with it shock that
lift Hobey right of his clothing jumped
to the deck with the rest of the right his heels
eve arrived deck" HObey, 'in time o
big venIator from the forward
in heap of barreled oil that piled
ashore AT the time, sheet of fame hundred
feet high shot forward tank. gal
Ions of naphtha ablaze"
Down the DOCK of the casting
alongside and began haul the
bay About third of the the decided
without taking the trouble the Barstow
they wouldn't like a ride back o
Two Heroes Sacrifice Their Lives Courageously
There about twenty of aboard, Hobey
from all swell be blown
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Recovery of Business
Holds in First Half

CONTINUING business recovery
~ during the first six months OF
1886 fulfilled the hopes of optimls-
tic prognosticators and surpassed
the expectations of conservative
forecasterS.
All the leading trade barometers
registered fair business weather at
the close of the first half Of the
year. The production of automo-
biles reached 100000 units in the
first six months of 1886, the best for
the period since 1929.
Improvement was further reflect
ed by the steel industry, the opera
tions of which rose from 49.2 per
cent of capacity at the start of the
year to TIP per cent at the end
of June The output of electricity
climbed steadily to reach an all
time peak in June.
The steady recovery of the rail-
roads was indicated by carloadlngs
which worked up to approach their
best levels since 1881. The figures
for the first six months of 1886
were substantially better than
those for the similar period of 1885.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

We about to when occurred might
happen if the ship drfted in close land up.
"The boatswain his storekeeper, two heroes if L
went forward released the anchor. But
the back there another explosion they
blown to bits The magazine where kept the ammunition
for antisubmarine o had
taken the boatswan storekeeper along
After that, the ship hot for comfort
submarines whng from that burning magazine
reached it, shell hit and blew it to spners. Believe
not Hobey but neither touched by the flying
debris By this time the whole fore and midshps of
flame.
Al and Hobey Leave the Floating Bomb
It raining molten metal chunks of iron and
pieces of timber Al and and deck boy way
much time to lose Even then the ship seemed be swelling beneath
feet like giant bomb.'
Hobey couldn't swim a stroke, Al % jump,
and he'd shore The
Al him he'd right behind. Then
icy water. "A waited for him the surface
says Hob but the seconds became minutes and he didn't
show up"
again. felt so desolate in
all life But life is sweet and realized that how
chances were they better in the
stow The nearest life below deck and by this
burnt to a crisp had to depend on AL"
Tugs Skipper CANDLES to Help in Rescue.
Well sir Hobey plunge shock of the cold water
either, says. hit the surface last
hold of before knew grabbed his shoulder with
and padded with the other and set for that lying
thousand yards away.
seemed we were moving a a snail's pace. got
distance away from the ship, but could the Feb
ruary doing Al good. He tagged out.
My heart lungs felt if they in steel wise.
done. All wanted to do was let go and rest"
Hobey right Al WAS tagged He stopped swimming and
began help The tugs skipper
knew dangerous nearer to the burning vessel but
he chance. They good clip Hobey but
forever before couple of husky got ho OF us and
lifted us onto the deck
Hobey says like O his story by saying both he
Al pneumonia But they didn't have cold the
next day. The Barstow, though didn't do so we'll She
burned to the waters edge
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

from the family of sovereign states.
Appearing personally before the
league assembly, the refugee en-
peror, Halle Selassie, made last
moving bid for Ethiopia's freedom.
The king of kings" denounced
France and Great Britain without
mentioning their names. To the
generally expressed desire to re-
form the league, he said the weak
ness was not the league covenant
itself, but a lack of international
morality. The Negus' request for
a loan of $50, ,000,0 900 to Ethiopia was
voted down. Previously Halle had
informed Capt. Anthony Eden, Brit
ish foreign secretary, that he would
return to Ethiopia Immediately to
join his loyal tribesmen and fight
for Ethiopian independence.
With Mussolini given satisfaction,
the Danzig situation brought into
the foreground the figure of Adolf
Hitler, chancellor of Nazi Germany.
1t was Nazi follower of Hitler, DR..
Arthur GreiSer, president of the
Danzig senate, who demanded inde-
pendence for the former German
city now surrounded by Polish ter
ritory and who denounced the
league and Sean Lester, league
high commissioner for the port.
Observers were of the opinion
that Greiser was acting under or
ders from Chancellor Hitler. In
view of Germany's expansionist
program and it's rearmament, they
feel that Danzig will be the next
NaZi objective now that the Rhine
land is remilitarized. BY the elm
,ination of Commissioner Lester or
by the curtailment of his authority
over the international affairs of the
city, it is believed the Nazi would
be in a position to crush the opposi-
tion party and pave the way for an
nexation of Danzig by Germany. In
the event of a Nazi putsch on Dan
zig, it is believed that Britain and
France would cooperate in oppos-
ing it. Because of a rumored deal
between Poland and Hitler, the po-
sition of Poland in the matter was
in some doubt.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

to the state constitution was in pros
pect Discussions of the farm prob
lem and conferences with Governor
Landon's political advisers were on
the program. The Republican stand
ard bearer was not expected to re-
turn to Colorado until after the no.
tification ceremonies.
In the meantime, great activity
was apparent in opposing campaign
headquarters.
President Roosevelt summoned
Democratic National Chairman
James A. Farley to Washington for
a conference on the political cam
paign. 1t was expected that the
question of Mr.. Farley's retirement
from the cabinet about which there
has been considerable rumor lately,
would be decided. The Democrats
have established national headquar-
terS at the Biltmore hotel in New
York and it is from here Chairman
Farley will direct the campaign.
John Hamilton, national chairman
of the Republican party, opened
national headquarters in Chicago.
He addressed $500 banqueters at
a dinner in his honor and declared
that the reaction of voters in recent
days has been disheartening to the
Roosevelt administration. Since the
Cleveland convention, he said, the
Democrats had offered the Repub-
licans the sincere f1attery of imi-
tation."
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

all reports conditions had become
as serious as they were in 1884. due
to lack of sorely needed rains.
The secretary declared that un-
less rains descended in the sun
scorched regions the government
will buy 30,OO0,OOO head of cattle
in the next month.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the governors
of the five drouth-stricken north
western states met with Federal
Works Progress Administrator Har-
ry L. Hopkins and administrators
from the various states. Mr.. Hop
kins ordered relief jobs made i'm
mediateJy available for from Is, 900
to $4,000 farmers who have seen
their sole source of livelihood de-.
stroyed. Their jobs were to be made
available on water conservation
projects, farm-to-market roads,
rural schools and recreational prof.
ectS.
President Roosevelt, in Washing
ton, appointed a special committee
composed of Secretary Wallace,
Budget Director Daniel Bell, Aub-
rey Williams, assistant works
progress administrator, and Dr..
Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement
administrator. They will work in
cooperation with committee of
Department of Agriculture officials.
The President instructed Budget
Director Bell to study government
appropriations to determine what
funds are available
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Justice Bailey Decides
Rail Pensions Are Legal

DESPITE his previous decision
~ declaring unconstitutional the
tax on railroads to permit pensions,
Justice Jennings Bailey of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme court
ruled in an oral opinion that the
railroad retirement board could
pay pensions to railroad workers.
The Justice declared that his pre-
vious decision on the validity of
the rail pension laws could not be
construed to mean that the retire
ment act itself was unconstitution-
al. He ruled that the government
could proceed to collect from rail
workers a sum amounting to 3 1-2
per cent of their salaries and could
use the money to pay retirement
pensions to the workers when they
reach sixty-five years Of age or
have worked 40 years.
He also ruled that the railroad
retirement board could proceed to
collect information on which to al
lot the pensions, provided it did so
at its own expense and by recon-
pensing the railroads for any cleri-
cal work involved.
Justice Bailey's original decision
in the case had specifically en-
joined the railroad retirement
board from taking any steps to
compel the railroads to furnish in
formation. The decision ruled that
the tax law adopted to finance the
pensions was unconstitutional and
ruled that the tax measure and re-
tirement measure setting up means
of paying the pensions were in
separable."
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Roosevelt and Landon
Return to Their Desks

THE Presidential candidates of
l. both the Democratic and the
Republican parties returned to their
desks in their respective capitals
following absences.
President Roosevelt came back to
Washington after a three-day pill
grimage to Virginia. Included on
his program was the dedication of
the. Shenandoah National park, his
Fourth of July address from the
portico of Thomas Jefferson's home
at Monticello and his visit to Will
liamsburg, capital of the Old Do
minion from 1899 to 1879. In his ad-
dress at Jefferson's home, the Pres
ident called on the nation to rekin-
die the sacred fire" of true free
DOM which had lighted the golden
age" of American history. He de-
clared the present emergencies re-
quire the same leadership as that
displayed by the founder of the
Democratic party.
Gov. Aft. NJ. Landon returned to
Topeka, Kai-., after a vacation in
the Colorado mountains, for the re-
converting of the state legislature
-and for the acceptance speech at
the Republican notification. ceremo-
MES July % National significance
Was attached to the meeting of the
Kansas legislature because of the
fact that it would have to deal with
b; old-age pensions, unemployment in
surance and general social welfare
legislation and that an amendment
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

ness was addressed to the American
bishops because they originally
took the lead in movie censorship.
He invited bishops of the entire
world to follow their example.
To carry out the plan of censor
ship, the pontiff directed that per-
manent national movie reviewing
office be established in each coun-
try. He urged the exchange of in
formation between the various Of
fees for making the censorship ef-
fective. He urged bishops to appeal
to Catholics connected with motion
picture productions to use their in
fiuence in accordance with their
faith and ideals.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Bought Land by Inch

Land values reached a new high
level in Australia recently when 6 so
an inch was paid by a Melbourne
hotel owner for four and one-half
inches. When constructing a wing
for his hotel, P. w. Tewsbury took
over. an adjoining building and
gained legal right to half the gar
den wall He wanted the entire
nine-inch width of the wall. but the
owner Iefused to sell. At last, how
ever, TeWKsbury gained the diSput-
ed four and one-half inches for a
total cost of 4135.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Labor Leaders Begin Drive
for Steel's Unionization


WITH labor organizers spread
w ing throughout the nation S
steel mills in drive to enroll $780,
600 workers into one big union, the
National Labor Relations Board re-
opened a fight in the courts to force
steel companies to accept the Ma
tional Labor Relations act as a
means of keeping peace.
The board announced it had petit
toned the Federal Circuit Court Of
Appeals at New Orleans in new
effort to enforce the act.
Meanwhile the full resources of
the $4,000, 100000 steel industry were
marshaled against the unionization
drive. Observers pointed out that
the situation was fraught with grave
possibilities of industrial warfare.
Principal steel companies who have
banded together in a militant eff
fort to maintain the open shop
warned employees not to be mis-
led'' into affiliation with the Anal
gamated Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers Union, which forms the basis
of organized labor'S drive.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers and head of
the committee for industrial organ
ization, in a radio address broad
cast from Chicago entitled Indus
trial Democracy in Steel" sought
the support not only of union labor,
but of the public generally in his
crusade.
At Homestead, Pa, scene of the
bloody conflict between strikers and
guards in the famous strike of 1892,
speakers officially opened the union
ization drive. Foremost among
them was Thomas Kennedy, lieu
tenant governor of Pennsylvania
and secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers. Kennedy
promised state relief to any work
ers who might lose their jobs.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
July 4th Celebrations
Cost 346 Lives, in u. S.

a TOLL of 346 lives was exacted
l. Il in the celebration of the
Fourth of July throughout the Unit
ed States.
Booming cannon crackers played
a comparatively innocent part in
the slaughter, for only IL lives were
lost in accidents due to fire.
crackers.
But if the nation needed warnings
about the danger of fireworks, it
forgot the menace of motoring ac-
,cidents, for 208 people in So states
were killed as the result of acci-
dents on streets and highways.
Ninety persons were drowned in SO
states. Miscellaneous tragedies ac-
counted for 81 additional fatalities
in Is states.
Not since 1881 has the celebration
of Americas patriotic holiday
claimed SO many victims. In that
year the death total from accidents
reached 483.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

prominent IN wei
fare work and up
lift movements in
his home conmu-
nifty - in short, a
typical specimen of
sub variety that
seemed to sort "t
peter out in the
years Immediately
following 1929, some
quitting by request,
some by indict-
ment and some just
" h IN o into
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Indians Good ImitatOrS

Similar to the Ohio Indians man.
ner of initiating forest fowls in or
der to attract birds was their abil-
ity to bawl like a fawn so that the
doe could be drawn to the spot
True men of the forests, the In
dians could initiate the bleating of
a fawn in distress so successfully
that a doe, alert to the instinct to
protect the young, would come
dashing through the brush toward
the Sound. Then all the Indians
had to do was kill the oncoming
doe.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

President R oos e.
velt to marshal
$500, 900, 900 in re-
lief funds to COM
bat the damage
and to develop fur
ther plans for fight
ing drouth.
Secretary of Ag-
riculture Henry w.
Wallace, who left
Washington for a
personal survey of
the stricken areas,
declared that from
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Gen. McCarl Criticises
New Deal on Retiring

D ETIRING from the post OK
IN Comptroller General, J. R. Nc
Carl announced that following the
expiration of his term of office he
would aid in the government reor-
ganization study undertaken by the
senate committee headed oy Sen
ator Byrd of Virginia.
General McCarl criticized New
Deal emergency agencies as
loosely and extravagantly set up"
and as tax consuming in the ex-
treme." He declared that a syste-
matte reorganization of both reg
ular and emergency agencies would
improve government administra-
ton and reduce the cost to tax
payers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Texas Floods Cause
Heavy Property Damage

FLOODS which followed a series
L Of cIoudbursts in south Texas
caused property damage estimated
at millions of dollars and cost the
lives of % people.
AS the flood waters receded
they. revealed grave picture of
destruction. The flood ripped
through the settlement of Kyle, be-
tween Austin and San Antonio
washing out bridges and wreckfng
a train. 1t was here that the loss
Of life was greatest.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

to do about the
Free City of Dan
zig now seeking to
free itself from the
bonds Of the League
Of Nations.
The league dis
posed Of the sane
tions problem by
voting to abolish
them, thus to all
practical intents
and purposes re-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

ops of the Roman
Catholic church in
the United States.
The pope also or
dered b i S h o p S
thr rough out t h e
world to obtain
from their COM
municants annual
ly en- e w a b | e
pledges Ito abstain
from witnessing
bad films" The en-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

necklaces on nSr
neck and on the
gr un d nearby,
a i C h aeologiSts
discover the we'll
preserved body of
an Egyptian prin-
cess whose ia
ther, the Pharoah
Chephren, b uil t
the second big
gest pyramid; it
was his brother,
Cheops, who built
the largest.
Those pyramids
were tombS for
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Pope Plus Orders World
Censorship of Movies

a WORLD censorship on movies
L \ was ordered by Pope Plus, in
an encycical letter addressed di-
rectly to the bishops and archbish-
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
uJt%t o
IN HSWH wn
S!.OII,o,hlh y o |
Nlur1b1 about
Haile's Private Treasury

CANTA MONICA, CALF.
O'-ffad it not been a foreign
dispatch, a fellow might have
thought it referred to one of our
own investment councillors,
specializing in looking after.
widows and orphans funds,
and having a neat line of Euro,
pean securities to dispose of, and
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17

:: :. For advertising reasons, a group
Of men made: long distance. hike
on diet of broken grain to prove
''me'superiority of that diet. They
were surprised when So hikers
showed a total loss of 211. pounds
in weight, while one, &c years ole
showed a gain of three pounds.
g King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WEU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Qanzig Crisis Worries
Nations of Europe

NIAR-WORRIED Europe SHIFTED
w its anxiety from the Italo-
Ethiopian sanctions problem to the
newer and battling question of what
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-17
Drouth Crisis Brings
Government Aid

EEARS that drouth may ire
L trievably destroy farm crops in
North and South Dakota, eastern
Montana and Wyoming prompted