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The Washington times., 1936-12-25
B BRISBANE {
AT II DIES
SUDDENLY
World Famous Writer
Was Former Owner
Of The Times

NEW YORK, Dec. 25
G.N.S.). - Arthur Brisbane,
noted newspaper editor, whose
brilliant writings have been
read by millions the world over,
died at 5 80 o'clock this morn
ing Of heart disease. He was
y years old.
He died peacefully in his
sleep at his New York City
apartment, 1915 Fifth Avenue.
He was under an oxygen tent
when the end came.
Present in the room were his
family physician, DR.. Leopold
Stieglitz, and a nurse. Mem
bers of his family-his wife,
five children and a grandchild
were elsewhere in the apart
ments
No funeral arrangements
had been made up to noon to-
day. The funeral, however,
will be private. Mr.. Brisbane S
home is at Allaire, n. j.
Writes Last Column
Mr., Brisbane's last hours
were characteristic of his life
of ceaseless labor. Although
he suffered a violent heart at
tack yesterday afternoon he
later wrote his column for to-
day-A Christmas Day column,
He was so weak, however.
that he was forced to ask his
son, Seward, %, to construct
the concluding paragraphs. 1t
was the first time in the great
editors career that he was
forced to call upon another fol
editorial assistance in his own
output.
He had several attacks the
last few days but rallied and
seemed to be in his usual cheer
full mood. After these attacks
he went on with his work, die
tating his articles into a dicta
phone, a habit long age
acquired. Even as late as last
night he wrote a personal let
ter to a relative.
Enduring Record
In spite of his weakened con
dition he was looking to the fu
ture. This was characteristic
of the great editor who en-
tered the service of Mr.. Will
lam Randolph Hearst in 1884,
and who left his mark on the
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CHANG REPORTED RELEASED
Roosevelt
Yuletide
Joyous
International News Service

MOVIE OCANASC
Bedlam reigned in the White
House this morning as six eager
youngsters-clamored to see what
Santa Claus had left in their
stockings.
Enjoying hugely the scramble
was grandfa father-President RooSe.
velt.
Two of the juvenile group were
a bit too young to grasp the days
full significance but they man.
aged to add vocally to the oc,
caSion.
Dawn was not far past when
the White House grandchildren
Stormed into the Presidents bed.
room. They had hung their stock
ing6 there Christmas Eve before
being persuaded to bed so the
grown-upS might trim the family
tree and make other preparations
Only a few hours sleep intervened
before they began, for them, a
very full day.
Most sophisticated in their re.
ception of the Yuletide were
"Sistie" and "Buzzie,'' children of
Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, the
Presidents only daughter. BY vir
tue of having attained the age OF
9 and Z, respectively, the coming
of Santa Claus wasn't quite SO
new a proposition, but they still
managed to get a sufficient thrill
out of the opening of presents.
Still somewhat puzzled by the
general excitement, but getting
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Bethlehem KneeIs
To Prince Of Peace
AsWorId Sees War

JERUSALEM, Dec. 25 GN.SO.
Europe's new war scares and the
internal strife between Arabs and
Jews were forgotten in December
brightness today as the Holy Land
solemnly celebrated the 1,936th
anniversary of the birth of the
ChriSt-child.
A cleaning three-quartered
moon, brilliant in clear sky was
like the Star of Bethlehem as hun
dredS of pilgrims went to Bethle-
hem to worship Him.
Joyous pageantry filled Judea,
with all Christian sects participat-
ing-the Roman Catholic, Greek
Orthodox and Protestant faiths.
peace on Earth, Good Will
Toward Men" was chanted in
score of tongues in the stable-grot.
to, traditional birthplace of Jesus.
Voices chorused paenS of Yuletide
happiness in the candle-lit church
of all sects.
A mass at midnight in the
Church of the Nativity at Bethle-
hem started the observance
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PRINCESS BORN
TO KENTS

LONDON, Dec. IS Q.N.S0.
Birth of a daughter to the Duchess
of Kent, wife of the youngest son
ofEthe late King George v, at their
Belgrave Square residence, was
announced today.
The daughter born today is the
second child of the Duke and
Duchess. A son, Prince Edward,
was born IA months ago.
An official bulletin stated:
"Her Royal Highness The
Duchess of Kent was safely de-
Hvered of a daughter at 1920
o'clock this morning. Her Royal
Highness the Infant Princess is
doing excellentIy."
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GET
YULE BREAK

ALEXANDRIA. Va, Dec. 25.
Law violaters in Alexandria got
a double break this Christmas.
Those in Jail were served a tur-
key dinner today, while those ar
rested on Christmas eve were
handed out suspended fines in po-
lice court yesterday.
Determined to extend the Yule
spirit fully, Judge James Reese
Duncan not only gave those ap-
pearing before him yesterday
morning suspended fines, but last
night held a special session of
police court to help those who
overdid their celebrating during
the day.
City Sergt. Robert E. Cox, In
keeping with the annual custom,
today served so inmates of the
city jail with a turkey dinner.
The prisoners were given the free.
dom of the corridors during the
day and sang Christmas carols.
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Enduring Record
DiOnne Family Dimes
With QuintupletS

CALLANDER, Ontario, Dec. IS
G.N.S0.-Peace reigned in the
Dionne household today as the
famous quintuplets, for the first
time since their birth, were united
with their parents and six BROTH
ers and sisters under one roof.
The father, Olivia Dionne, said:
1--WE have been waiting for
this day for more than two years.
The day is just as it should be,
with all the family together"
His feelings and those Of his
wife were echoed by the happy
cries of the youngsters as they
grappled with the wealth of toys
and gifts left by Santa both at
the quintuplets' nursery and the
nearby Dionne family home.
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B T | IE Y f D
LYING TO
NANK|NG
Shanghai Residents
Celebrate With
Fireworks

SHANGHAI, Dec. 25 UN.SO.
Official Chinese sources today
said that Premier Chang Kai-
Shek, two weeks prisoner of anti
japanese Marshal Chang Hsueh-
Liang at Sianfu, had been re-
leased.
The premier, it was stated, went
by airplane to Loyang on his way
to Marking.
News that Chang had been
freed turned what promised to be
one of the worst Christmases in
Chinese history into a day for
joyful celebration. In Shanghai.
Marking and other cities, eXultant
Chinese gave expression to their
feelings by bursting fire-crackers
and firing roman candles.
The premier was. accompanied
by his American-educated wife
and by w. H. Donald, his Austria
lian advisor, when he arrived at
Loyang, according to reports re-
ceived here. His wife previously
had gone to Sianfu to plead for
Chiang's release.
T. V. Soong, brother-in-law Of
Chang and chairman of the Ma
tional Economic Council, remained
at Sianfu to continue negotiations
with the rebels, who seized the
premier in an effort to force
China into a war against Japan.
Warning by the Nanking gov
ernment that no further time
after today would be allowed be-
fore beginning of an army punitive
offensive against Sianfu was be-
lieved back of the reported release
of Generalissimo Chang.
With the termination of the last
truce tonight, Gen. Ho Ying-
Ching, Marking war minister, tele-
graphed Marshal Chang, the drive
against Sianfu would be resumed
Notwithstanding possible further
requests for delay by the prisoner
Chang himself.
Terms of the reported liberation
of the Christian dictator of China
were not at once made known
whether Nine. Chang, American
educated wife Of the premier, had
arranged for a ransom, or whether
Marking officials had agreed to
Marshal >Chang's demands for a
more vigorous policy against
Japan.
PARIS, Dec. Is G.N.SO.
Premier Chang Kai-Shek Of
China, has been released by his
captor, Marshal Chang Hsueh-
Liang, and has arrived at Loyang
from Sianfu, according to press
reports form Shanghai today.
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Four Sisters Span
TUO Continents
In Greetings

YONKERs, N. Y, Dec. Is
GN.SD.-Four sisters in distant
cities on two continents had been
able to exchange personal Christ
mas greetings today by an elab-
crate telephone hook-up.
They were Mrs. George w.
Tower, New Rochelle, N. Y, Mrs.
J. E. Spur, Winter Park, Fla;
Mrs. Ella Schroeder, Leipsig, Ger
many; and Mrs. Emma Zastrow,
Rostock, Germany.
Listening in at Yonkers was
Mrs. Mary Lou zastrow, daughter
in law of Mrs. Emma Zastrow,
whose husband, an official of the
New York Telephone Company,
arranged the five-way transmits
sion.
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Dies Giving Toast;
Shock Of Death Is
Also Fatal 10 Wife

TOLEDO, Ohio. Dec. Is G.N.S)
John Coakley raised his glass in
the cafe of a friend last night,
and drank a gay toast to the
Christmas season.
A few minutes later he fell
dead.
His wife, Alice, was notified.
She rushed to the cafe, gazed at
her. husbands body. Then she,
too, fell dead.
Harold Shapiro, assistant cor
oner, held both deaths due to
heart attack.
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Il DUCE WARNS
REICH ON SPAIN
BY LINDSAY PARROTT


PARIS, Dec. IS G.N.SO.-Left-
ist France, conservative Britain,
and now even Fascist Italy today
brought pressure on Germany
and gave Hitler pauSe-to leave
the Spanish insurgent forces to
their own devices and keep the
civil war there from. spreading
through Europe.
Permitting Europe, after an eve
of fear, to enjoy a slightly re-
pressed Christmas, Italy stepped
in with the information to Eng
land that Rome will not support
Berlin in any drastic action to
aid the Spanish rebels.
Two factors entered into the
all-important Italian SWerve:
/. Italy considers the ap-
preaching settlement of her
quarrel with Britain and France
over authority in the Mediter-
ranean more important than her
rapprOchement with Germany.
2. BenitO MuSsOlini would
Just as soon have radical Spain
triumphant as to see 10000 or
10000 Nazi troops on the Medi-
terranean shore.
The decision-and the world
watches it with trepidation-rests
in the hands of ReichSfuehrer Hit
Ter.
Needing some "cover" for the
German economic plight, he is
said in Paris and London to be
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APARTMENT
FIRE R0UTS
TENANTS
Man Is Slightly Hurt
While Climbing
Down Escape

Fire in a front apartment on the
fourth floor of the Lynton Apart
ment, 3149 Mt. Pleasant st. N. W..
shortly before II a. m. today forced
the tenants out in the streets as
the smoke filled the building.
Three alarms were turned in
and the streets were soon jammed
with the bulk of the fire apparatus
in the Northwest section and the
curious.
Cedric johnson, a resident of
the four-story brick building in
which some 20 families were
housed, said that he complained
yesterday about smoke. =
L. B. Rich, another resident
said that he noticed smoke in
the building early today.
Rich said the fire appeared tc
have started in one of the lower
floors and been carried to the
roof through the dumbwaiter.
Most of the blaze was confined
to the roof area, although all of
the apartments in the building
were filled with smoke.
John w. Bowser, resident OF
Apartment ~ where the flames
did the most damage was slightly
injured as he came down the fire
escape. He was treated at the
scene by an Emergency Hospital
surgeon.
Damage was estimated at ap
proXimately $4,000. The alarm
was turned in by Leonard Croker
in apartment IS.
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Bill Robinson Plays
HotC1a Harlem Santa

NEW YORK, Dec. Is GN.SO.
Children of Harlem were delighted
today to know that Santa Claus
is not a nordic any more.
Harlem had it's first colored
Santa Claus in the person of Bill
Robinson, tap dancer, who pre-
SIDED at the annual Christmas
eve party for Negro children.
Leading the singing, Robinson
mingled "Silent Night" with ''ho-
dee-ho-de-ho."
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After attending midnight mass,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dionne returned to
their home. Shortly after dawn
the children at home dashed down
stairs to find a Christmas tree
heavily loaded with presents. Soon
the floor of the room, which was
the quints' nursery during the
early months of their life, was COW
cred with toys and wrapping paper.
Shortly before noon the Dionne
parents and their six youngsters
went to the quints' nursery, where
they were greeted with peals Of
welcome. Here an abundance of
gifts was on display.
Later Christmas dinner was
served in the famous babies din
ing room, where tables and chairs
had been arranged.
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

y Generally fair, warmer today.
row, with dropping temperature.
MEAN TEMPERATURE
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(Weather Details on Page 81
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-10

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1O.-The
farmer who comes to the Capital
during the next year viii find
truly electrifying display awaiting
him at Rosedale Farm, across the
Potomas in Virginia. Installed
under direction of the Rural Elec-
trification Administration, the dis
play shows how the hard work of
farming may be cut down to the
simple flip of a switch.
It's a free show, with the only
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ing to crawl through the electri-
fed screens are instantly electro
cuted.
Practically all of the tools and
machinery about the farm, as we'll
as lighting and ventilatino, have
been electrified. Electric razors,
toves, washers, curriers' and a host
of etceteras modernize the old
farmhouse. Only the hog wallow
seems to have escaped the maze
of wires.
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Resettlement
Survey Results
Are Made Public

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (UP)
The Resettlement Administra-
ton last night announced that a
survey of the Western prairie
states showed that whole sections
were unfit for crop uses and
should be returned to range.
The survey, made under the
supervision of DR.. L. G. Gray, as
sistant to DR.. Rexford Guy Tug
well in the RA, said that much of
the area devasted by drought this
year ordinarily was capable OF
producing profitable crops but
that in some sections emergency
measures Twill not solve the prob
lem of human distress caused by
insufficient rainfall"
"The first type of rehabilitation
in these regions" the report said,
sis to encourage the conversion
of substantial portions Of the
cropland into grazing range. The
second is to increase the size OF
existing farm units"
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JOHN LEWIS LEFT
WINGERS BACK F. R

CONTINUED from mage one)
organization, Berry and other
friends. It has not and will not
accept contributions from either
of the political parties, Berry in
sists.
Quietly but vigorously, league
agents have created the skeleton
of an organization stretching
from California to Maine. State
organizations have been set up,
headed by community labor lead
ers who are cooperating with To-
cal Democratic committees. Twen-
ty state declarations of labor have
endorsed the reelection of Mr..
Roosevelt and more, Berry said,
are expected to come into the
fold before the election in No
vember.
There will be league watchers
at the polls, it was said, and the
organization will initiate a coast
to-coast drive to get out the vote.
"The reports l have received"
Berry said last night, convince
me that President Roosevelt can
count on all of labor and friends
of labor for 100 per cent active
support for his reelection"
Although two of the most pow
erful G. l. o. unionists - Lewis
and Sidney Hillman, head of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
who are in turn vice president
and treasurer of the league, will
be among the principal speakers
at the meeting today, Berry in
sists that this organization was
taking no part in the internal
struggle which has rocked the A.
F. of l..
He heatedly denied reports that
affiliation with the league in the
Roosevelt campaign would indicate
sympathetic leariings for Lewis
industrial unionists. Flush from a
political victory in Tennessee
where he aided in the nomination
of Gordon Browning, Democrat,
as governor in a. state, party split,
Berry emphasized that plans of
the league go beyond labor quar-
rels or the 1886 elections. 'i' .,
The league will remain in ex"
istence, Berry has explained, and
be prepared to take advantage of
the political realignment which he
expects to occur before 1910. To
this end a new method of financ-
ing the organization will be decid-
ed upon today. While no details
of the plan are known, it was ex-
pected that small contributions
would be asked from all members
of the organization.
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Rotary, Legion
Teams To Clash

The Rotary ana Legion softball
teams will play at the high school
athletic field this afternoon at 6
o'clock.
A win for the Legion will put
the team in a tie for third place
in the leage, while win for Ro-
tary will boots the teams stand
ing a couple of places.
The league standing is as fol-
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High Point Man
Dies In Crash

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug.
10. (UP)-Death Of Monroe
Spencer of High Point, N. c., last
night brought the toll from a
Lookout Mountain automobile
crash to four.
Spencer died in a hospital here
from injuries sustained in the
crash that killed Carl Gauss, Chat
tanooga; Miss Jane Pulliam and
Mrs. Robert Elliott, %.
Returning to Chattanooga over
the War..atchie Pike, the car
crashed inLo the side of the noun
tain and plunged 800 feet down
the mountairside, spilling its oc-
cupants as 1t crashed over huge
boulders.
Spencer and Gauss came here
recently from High Point to en-
gage in the Autograph business.
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NAZI DIRIGIBLE SAILS
WITH BIG FURNACE
AS PART OF CARGO

LAKEHURST, N. j., Aug. 10.
(UP)-The German dirible Hin
denburg took off on it's sixth re-
turn fight to Frankfort, Germany,
last night carrying SIS passengers
and a steam furnace weighing l.
1862 ponds destined for Copen-
hagen. The ship cleared the u. S.
Naval Air station here at 1875 p.
m. (EDT.)
Captain Ernest Lehman said he
would take the northern or great
circle route eastward over the At
lantic after clearing Cape Race,
Md. The ship will fly over New
York and on up the coast. Be-
cause of rough weather over the
sea Lehman said no attempt will
be made to smash the record east
ward crossing of 45 hours, 43
minutes.
The zeppelin is scheduled to
start another trip here Aug. 16.
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RESIDENT WRITER TO
MAKE LECTURE TOUR

Anne Hunt Fullwood, Hender-
sonville's nationally known poet,
will leave on Tuesday on an ex-
tcnsive lecture tour in Ohio, In
diana, and Illinois. The tour will
require about three weeks and
Mrs. Fullwood will return to Hen
Jacksonville shortly after Labor
day.
Mrs. Fullwood has received in
formation that her book, "An
Itinerary of Thoughts is meet
ing with exceptional success with
the public.
Her son, Phillip, will accom-
oany her on the tour, and before
returning to Hendersonville, they
will visit Mrs. Fullwood's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. f. N. Hunt, in
Cromwell, Indiana.
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FRUIT JAR 60 YEARS OLD

TOLEDO, Aug. 10. (UP)-
Mrs. Martha Perkins has a glass
fruit lar which has been in con-
slant use for 60 years and is still
in perfect condition.
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Japan SEEKS
TO FOIL SPIES
Closer Watch To Be Kept,
More Liberties Granted
Tourists

TOKYO, Aug. 10. (UP).-Jap-
anese authorities have started the
seemingly contradictory and deli
I,cate task of increasing vigilance
against foreign spies while at the
same time giving greater liberties
to FOREIGN visitors.
An idea among certain sections
of the police that all foreigners
are spies must be abandoned, ac-
cording to the views of Shzo MI
yano. director of the peace pres
ervation section of the home min
istry.
But it is constantly necessary,
authorities say, to be on watch
against international espionage
agents, who are said to have in
creased their activities since the
Feb. 26 revolt.
The unsettled period of the
trials of the insurgents, II of
whom were sentenced to death,
was particularly trying to those
entrusted with detecting all secret
activities considered hostile to the
government. ,
1t is believed here that the strict
surveillance to which foreigners
have been subjected in the past
has injured the tourist business
and caused many foreigners to
stav away from Japan.
The newspaper Miyako declares
that Miyano will tell directors OF
the foreign offairs of the prefec-
tural police later this summer that
foreigners should be shown more
courtesies, should be afforded ade-
quate protection and should be
given every opportunity to see the
country.
The rule will not hold true,
however, for foreigners against
whom the japanese have raised
strict taboos.
Wilbur burton, free-lance Am
erican writer, was refused permits
sion to land in Japan because he
was believed to hold antagonistic
views toward Japan and Manchu-
kuo. He was met by firm refus-
al when he reached Moi from Dali
rem.
Burton has spent a great deal
of the time since 1927 in China
and has contributed to various
American magazines and newspa-
pers. He is reported to be critical
of the central Chinese government
as we'll as the japanese.
To deal more effectively with
genuine espionage efforts in ia
pan, authorities have built up the
foreign affairs police service. Ten
to twenty men were added to
each of the sections at Tokyo, Yo-
kohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, and
increased personnel was assigned
also to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya and
in the Hokkaido.
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matter as one of emphasis that is
demanded. To give such help,
account must be taken of the
varying needs and abilities and
abilities and capacities of indivi-
dual students in school and else
where, and it must be recognized
that the aim for some is merely
to promoted the physical well-be-
ing of themselves and their faml-
lies, and thereby the prolOngation
and enrichment of their lives
while developing such understand
ing of the evolution of race and
national growth of the bases of
social understanding and political
life. and Of the social values of
group and individual morality as
they are capable of acquiring.
For others who give promise of
becoming leaders in the continual
process of social reconstruction,
another aim of incalculable social
Importance is their guidance and
development to that end.
Such fundamental changes will
not be made overnight, DR.. Hull
predicts, because of their expense,
| institutional insertia, professional
! incompetence and also because OF
public conservatism and the ad,
herencc to established educational
traditions. His scheme, he says
was pres ltted as an ideal for the
direction of the public energies
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ton will make the abortive efforts
of vested groups to impose tuition
upon high school students appear
as mere flashes in the pan, DR..
Hill declares.
Discussing the subject of THE
American High School, a Public
Institution" DR.. Hill declared in
an interview here that the high
school even though universal, will
still be ineffective unless its pro-
gram be organized around the
study of current and predictably
near future social problems IN
which there is common interest.
without doubt, geometry, an
cient history, physics, literature,
and all the rest of the traditional
subjects will have their place, but
only as they relate themselves
directly and dramatically to the
Interpretation, the comprehension
and the ever-varying adjustments
of social living" Dr.. Hill asserts,
at is certainly the responsibility
of the high school to impart the
stores of knowledge accumulated
bv civilization; but it is equally
certain that it has also the greater
responsibility to help the student
interpret this knowledge in term:
of his own living in a new socia
order, a changing order that al
ways will be new.
at is not so much a change Of