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The Washington times., 1936-08-21
Pilot Blown 10 Bits
As Plane ExpIodes

HOPEWELL, N. j., Aug. 81
GN.SO.-The pilot of an airplane
was blown to bits and his plane
demolished today when the ship
dived into a woods at Mount Rose,
Princeton township, and exploded.
The pilot was tentatively iden-
titled from papers found in his
pockets as Charles w. Hall, pres
ident of the Hall Aluminium Air
craft Company. Bristol. Pa.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
Gov. Olson Weaker;
Feeding Difficult

ROCHESTER, Mimi, Aug. 81
G.N.SO Gov. Floyd B. Olson,
suffering from an abdominal all
ment in the Mayo clinic here, was
reported today to be slightly
weaker"
A bulletin, issued by Mayo physi'
clans, said:
"The governor spent q fairly
comfortable night. Pain and
feeding difficulty continue to be
a serious problem"
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
WORKERS NEAR
AMEN IN MINE
pictures on Page 81

MOBERLY, Mo-, Aug. FL Il.
N.SD. Only three or four feet
of ground and debris separated
rescue crews from the main drift
of the old Esry mine in which
four men were trapped by a fire
and shaft cave-in Tuesday, lead
erS of the rescue workers re-
ported this morning.
1t was expected passage to the
mine would be clear by early
afternoon.
MOBERLY, Mo-, Aug. 81 G.N.SO
Burrowing their way at the rate
of two feet an hour rescue workers
early today had penetrated to
within 10 feet of four miners
trapped 100 feet below the earth'S
surface since last Tuesday after
noon.
The $50 rescue workers. risking
their own lives in the gaS-filled
mine, held little hope the en-
tombed men will be found alive.
The four victimS-Demmer Sex
ton, 81, and Edward Stonner, jr.,
81. who leased the mine three
weeks ago; A. w. Mccain, so. and
George T. Cameron, 81, negro
mule driver-were trapped in the
mine when fire broke out in the
main shaft.
The flames spread through the
mine, destroying the shaft cribb-
ing. The resultant cave-ins locked
the four men in their subterran-
can prison.
VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
1900 SLAIN
IN MAJ0RCA
AT TACK
One of the Fiercest
Battles of Civil War
Raging on Islands
The Crisis IN Spain:

Gen. Queipo de Lllano's as
sertion over the Seville radio
that insurgents control 80 of
SPANS 30 provinces conforms
on the whole with report
from all other sources. Radi-
Gals holdings are in South
eastern Spain, Catalonia, and
on the fringe of the Bay of
Biscay.
BURG S-H. z. Knicker-
booker describes guerrilla fight
ing back Of San Sebastian.
MAJORCA - ExpeditiOnary
force from Catalonia makes
second attack by land and sea.
MAD War minister
says: The enemy has been
prevented from crossing the
Sierra Guadarrama."
BELCHITE-TOwn set afire
by air raid of government
planes.
Embellishments held
in check after advancing to-
wards Madrid.
HEND AYE, France-TwO
forts, q torpedo boat, and all
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
-MnrE AWE RIcAM-
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

on the Austro-G German zechslova-
khan borderline that the customs
misunderstanding occurred.
Mrs. Howard and her daughter
wrote they would return to the
United States September II.
The Washington times., 1936-08-21
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Mostly cloudy tonight and tOmoI
much change in temperature.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

-NOIE AMERlCAN-
The Washington times., 1936-08-21

weather Details on Page I'D
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Children Should Not Be
Admitted to Crime Shows
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is as yet to be hoped that "some-
day when dreams come true" that great
throngs of understanding people who
love children and the country in which
they live will have march, union or
what have you, and organize to
strengthen Mr.. Stephanoff's plea for the
refusal of admittance of children to the
aters when showing emotional gangster
and murder films.
It is q general knowledge that chill
dren are merely imitators desperately
trying to analyZe life for themselves and
adjusting their minds to accept what
they see, hear and feel until they advance
to q reasoning age. A horrible, sensa-
tional movie is to them thrill, adven-
ture, life! While and only while children
are young Is our chance to refine the clay
in our hands before it hardens and re-
fuses to yield. Let them develop in
laughter, fun, idealism and may as much
reflection be given to undernourished
minds as to vitamins in milk. Degrad-
ing, cogent dramas breed more trouble
ahead. How unjust for parents, If they
know, to permit their children's patron
age and for theaters, who positively do
know, to admit them.
I still have hopes that there lives
somewhere great philanthropist with
q vision and fortune who will come
to the rescue Of our future citizens and
promote a chain of little theaters where
the kiddies may exit as lightheartedly as
they entered, but with something worth
while to dream about.
The theater is a powerful agent. and
so is aroused public sentiment!
MARTHA MOFFETT BACHE.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Commendation of Plea
Against Cangster Films
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
At least one person was given fresh
courage and confidence in her fellow
men upon reading in the Saturday,
March IA, issue Of The Star the letter
written by A. G. Stephanoff under the
caption, "Gangster Films Are Not Fit
for Children to See."
1t has been cause for much wonder
ment to the writer that in an enlight-
ened community there was no appar-
ent concern over the fact that the i'm
pressionable minds Of children were be-
ing filled with such vicious pictures, as
well as some of the dramatiZed serials on
radio.
And 1t seems to be bearing fruit, II
one may judge by the fact that wher-
ever group of school-age boys are play
ing the prevailing game is shooting.
Each boy is well equipped with q gun
for each hand, and they play well, no
detail being omitted, and they are sur
prisingly expert at the placing of the
gun, at the command to stick 'em up"
These lads of today, playing at their
banditry, will be the 16 to 20 year olds
tomorrow-that age from which the
greater number Of our criminals come.
Boys would be dull, indeed, not to
react to whatever arouses their real in
terest, and let any who doubt their
interest go and sit through one of these
pictures and observe the boys-and listen
to the silence at the climaxes, when the
villain is creeping up" You can hear
pin drop-nothing else-unless little
gasp from a timid girl, but the air is
pregnant with awful possibilities ahead
Of some of those boys, and one can only
wonder where the mothers, the parent
teacher associations, the Child Welfare
League all are. The voice Of the people
should be heard about such a condition.
And yet we wonder, and are Mortified,
when an 11-year-old boy shoots his
father, hardly realizing what he has done
or why. He is only practicing what he
has learned with our consent.
MRS. H. w. ALVERSON.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

to intervene. This weeks floods, 50
viewed, have given the Nation an oppor-
tunity to return to its normal pattern
of action; and that is q definite gain
impossible to overestimate.
Further, it is encouraging to note that
the cost of the floods would have been
higher had there not been better build
ing in the past few decades than there
was in more remote times. Houses,
bridges, railroads and dams stood the
strain because they were constructed
with such an objective in mind. without
arguing the matter, it may be suggested
that durability justifies its expense.
But the finest lesson of the ordeal Is
that Of its spiritual implications. Only
a race competent to triumph over suf-
fering could survive such trials. The
other variety would perish under the
weight Of its Affections.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
The Floods Challenge.

Melting snow combined with excessive
Spring rainfall are the immediate causes
of floods. But the activities of man
himself in upsetting the nicely arranged
balance between land and water con-
tribute more to the damage and de-
struction of great floods than even the
rainfall and the melting snow. There
have always been floods and there
always will be floods. But when Nature
lashes out with such terrific punishment
as unloosed in the present floods, affect
ing a wide area in the Eastern United
States, she also sends warning against
repetitions, even more damaging, unless
man mends his careless ways and
through careful planning proceeds to
re-estabIish some of the safeguards that
his greedy plundering Of the past have
torn down.
1t is remarkable that there have not
been more calamitous floods along such
rivers as the Potomac, the Monongahela,
the Allegheny, Beaver, upper Ohio and
these rivers are rather closely walled and
the rivers rise in districts thickly dotted
with the villages and towns accompany
ing industrial development. When a
single settler has cut away woodland
and torn out the underground to make
way for his cabin and the cleared land
for his farm he has increased the danger
of flood by accelerating the waSteful
''run-off" of water. And when the work
of the pioneer has been duplicated and
magnifed a thousandfold by careless
lumber cutting and rapid industrializa-
ton the vicious force Of Spring floods
is also increased, along with the damage
they cause.
Such floods as the one that has left
a dismal scene of death and misery
throughout the East, along with the dust
storms that in recent years have in
creased their plaques in the West, present
grave challenge to man to begin the care
full work Of restoring the balance between
land and water so carelessly destroyed.
Floods or dust storms are the more ORA
matte indications of loss of property and
of life. But every rainstorm takes its
share of the toll in washing away fertile
topsoil and in diminishing the resources
of the land.
One of the great and necessary under
takings in this country for the next CEN
tury is the work of reforestation and
other measures aimed at soil conserva-
ton and food prevention. The work
undertaken already in that direction by
the soil conservation service and Re-
settlement Administration represents one
of the valuable contributions of the New
Deal. It is a work that must be in
creased In breadth and scope; made
lasting project in reconstruction.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Old Argument.

Old Argument.
Men change in customs and attire,
New languages arise.
What anciently they would admire
Fills moderns with surprise.
One thing alone will persevere,
The same old argument we hear.
The public loved the buildings fine,
The speeches and the games.
But never liked to step in line
To meet taxation's claims,
And showed an interest intense
In ways of meeting the expense.
When Wealth and Power forth would 60
To make grand display
They say, "The people saw the show
And so they ought to pay"
The crowd said, You should pay, be.
cause
You found such joy in our applause"
The biggest managers grew sad.
The audience was rude
And vowed the actors were too bad
To call for gratitude.
That's how the ancients came to get
Into debates not ended yet.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

able Endorsement from this latest hap
pening.
There is reason for congratulation for
the escape Of the Capital from serious
experience. No lives have been lost, the
property damage is relatively small and
the disarrangement of business and the
affairs of the people has been slight and
brief. This city, menaced for a short
time, turns in sympathy to those COM
rnun;ties which have been grievously
injured and offers its aid, through the
gifts which its people will promptly make
to the Red Cross funds, as token OF
thanksgiving that it has been spared
from great suffering and loss.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Seven Remedies to Cure
Crime Disease i'm II. S.

TO the Editor Of The star:
The striking cartoon on the front page
of The Star Of March II on the pre-
vention of crimes should interest every
law-abiding citizen to lend his support
to make our country q safer place to
live in.
The professional criminals can be
curbed in a very short time If the Gov
ernment officials would be more sincere.
Inside of two years there would not be
/ per cent of those criminals operating
its underworld racket on peaceful citi-
zens. To do this I have the following
suggestions to make:
/. To license all ammunition manu-
facturers, wholesale dealers and retailers
Of such implements to be permitted to
retail firearms and ammunition only on
presentation of a purchasing permit is
sued by the proper authority.
e. Establish Government agencies In
every county to investigate all possessors
Of and new applicants for firearms and
issue such permits If the investigation
warrants.
3. Photograph and fingerprint every
possessor and new applicant Of firearms
and file copy of those documents with
the proper authority. A photo should
be pasted on the purchasing permit for
Identification purpose.
4. All wholesalers and retailers Of fire.
arms shall keep records of all sales
made and report to the Government
officials each month.
S. Penitentiaries shall be reformed to
serve as correctional institutions, pre-
pairing inmates to be useful citizens upon
termination of their service, and shall
not continue in the present form Of a
bastile.
6. Alcoholic beverages shall be dis
couraged by hygienic methods conducted
under the supervision Of each city's med
ical department and not by fine and jail
sentence.
z. Slum districts are the hotbeds Of
crimes and contagious diseases and shall
be erased and rural settlements encour-
aged. Put those regulations in force
and we will come closer to the solution.
AUREL VASZIN.
Dayton, Ohio.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
The Capitals Escape.

Washington's escape from a disas-
trous inundation leaves the Capital with
a comparatively slight loss. No lives
were sacrificed to the food and the
property damage is relatively small. For
q time there was reason to fear a serious
situation resulting from the torrent that
came pouring down through the Potomac
Valley and the Anacostia stream bed,
especially in the interruption of electric
services, but this menace passed with
the peak of the flood waters late yes
terday afternoon, when the highest
point was reached without doing more
than the submergence of some of the
lower streets in Georgetown and the
almost complete covering of Potomac
Park. The protective provisions made
in anticipation of rise Of the waters
throughout the lower portion of the city
were effective in preventing the flooding
of the Easements of Government build
ings located within the zone of possible
danger.
Dislocation of traffic due to the COW
ering of the road on the Virginia side
and the temporary closing Of Highway
Bridge, causing the routing of all We
hicles by other bridges, proved the
worst effect of the high waters. The
Highway Bridge itself withstood severe
strain. The Chain Bridge came through
the assault of the food intact, perhaps
to the disappointment Of those who have
been hoping to see this antiquated, in
adequate and long suspected visduct
carried out, to compel decision and action
upon It's replacement by modern, eff
cient and assuredly secure structure.
Eventually this bridge must be sup
planted by another means Of crossing
the river. The plan for a suspension
bridge, making the span from the high
ground on each side Of the river and
with a clearance above the stream in
consequence to give absolute assurance
against the impact Of the waters, which
always rise to q dangerous height at
that point In consequence Of the char
scter Of the channel, receives unmistak-
Evening star., 1936-03-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

doing that anyhow, as far as Greeces
claims were concerned.
From the standpoint of Washington
news writers, no session of Congress
within memory-certainly none during
the New Deal-has been so colorlesS as
the current doings of House and Senate.
Day after day the press galleries are
almost deserted. The telegraph COM
panies this Winter have handled the
smallest volume of congressional news
matter filed at the Capitol in many a
year. Attendance in the public galleries
has fallen off, too. AS far as the Sen
ate is concerned, most authorities think
Huey Longs disappearance is largely
responsible for that, as well as for the
relatively drab proceedings which have
been the rule since his tempestuous day.
X r n
Plans of the Senate Economy Commit
tee, headed by Senator Byrd, Democrat,
of Virginia, to study useless and over
tapping Federal agencies again prove
that there's nothing new under the
Washington sun. Identical schemes are
at least as old as the Harding admins
tration. Walter F. Brown, later POST
master General under President Hoo
yer, had a ng-standing commission
from Harding to evolve ways and means
of abolishing superfuous establish
ments. Comprehensive surveys and re-
ports are supposed to have been made,
but they never got anywhere. Through
out Herbert Hoover's secretaryShip OF
commerce, he, too, attempted to grapple
with the problem. As classic illustra-
ton of governmental duplication and
waste, Hoover liked to use "the story of
the three BEARS" meaning that three
separate Observation-Disclosures Agricul-
ture and Commerce-had jurisdiction
over the various bruin species extant in
Uncle Sans domains.
* X *
Army leaders are gratified by the Sen
ate's rejection of Senator Frazier's
amendment to the War Department sup
ply bill, whereby funds for the Reserve
Of1cers' Training Corps would have
been withheld. r. o. T. c. units in high
schools, colleges and universities are con-
sidered by our military authorities to be
indispensable adjuncts of the peacetime
national defense system.
sk 4
Frederic A. Delano, President Roose-
velt's uncle, who has been designated as
chairman and reserve agent of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Richmond, is the
first close relative of F. D. r. to land
a Job under the New Deal. Nepotism
charges are not in order, as "Uncle
Fred" will draw no pay. Col. Delano
was a wartime member of the old Fed
eral Reserve Board and vice governor
when he resigned in 1918. He has had
wide experience in railroad financing
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-03-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

acter, this change from dislike of the
bird chorus at dawn to positive love Of
1t, came about solely as the result Of a
gain in knowledge.
One by one the individual birds were
picked out, their names learned, their
characteristics, colorings and sorgs rec
ognized.
This was done in haphazard manner
and 1t was not until five years had passed
that we knew very many birds.
It was the wood thrush we believe,
which showed us beyond all doubt that
bird music. properly heard. is real music.
The thrush, Of course, has definite,
true musical pattern in his song. Besides,
he is famous beauty and a most en-
gaging little creature.
No doubt he has done more than any
other one bird to turn thousands of per-
sons definitely birdward.
Just to accept the birds and pay no
particular attention to them, just be-
cause they are so common and so plen-
tiful, Is to miss a great deal.
One might as well know little about
them, at least to have some realization
of their better points, and what their
names are, and how they live, and how
they may be recognized.
This growth finally leads on to a de-
sire to do something for the wild birds,
and this usually eventuates in taking up
the task of bird feeding in Winter.
Once suburbanite has gone this far
he has definitely put himself on the side
of the birds, so that thereafter he can
be counted to see the good points in
them he formerly missed.
So far the cardinal has taken the lead
In the singing.
He Is supposed to have three songs,
but evidently two of these came later.
Now he sings an unfinished song, clear,
COOL loud, beautiful actually and in its
implications.
His bubbling call is heard at all hours,
mingling with the calls of the numer-
Gus members Of the sparrow family. OF
these we are sure of the English and the
fox, but think song sparrow or two
are present likewise else whence these
canary-like measures which continually
come up from the ground?
Can these be the fox sparrow" we
ask, and know no more than we are sure
that squirrels pretend to bury a nut
eight times before they cache it for
keeps. This latter information comes
from a gentleman who has spent many
hours watching these engaging little ras-
Gals, and he is probably as right about it
as can be, but we never have had the
patience to watch them so closely.
Squirrels, English sparrows and card
inals, or redbirds. are the most active
things in the garden at this time.
The former are forever running from
one bird feeder to another, trying to
find seed or grains more suitable to their
taste. While all this high-powered run
ming is going on the birds go calmly
about their business Of feeding, eating
with the rodents in the greatest peace
and contentment, after a few prelimi-
nary flutters to the fence rails. 1t is for
tunate for the birds that the squirrels
do not attempt to harm them, other
wise one OF these active animals could
prevent hundreds of songsters from eat
ing.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Italy's Opportunity.

London, having suddenly superseded
Geneva as the seat Of efforts to pre-
serve European peace, is now the scene
of renewed attempts to halt the war in
Africa. The League Of Nations Com
mittee of Thirteen, charged with the task
of bringing Italo-E Ethiopian hostilities to
an end, is in session at the British capi-
tai, sitting cheek by jowl with the League
Council and the Locarno powers. which
are jointly graphing with the crisis
provoked by Germany's military re-
occupation of the Rhineland.
Events have made it not inappropriate
that bodies dealing with Hitler's maneu-
yer and Mussolinis war should be con.
vened at the same time and at the same
place. The Locarno powers, including
Italy, are under strong pressure from
France to take punitive action against
Germany. A tentative agreement in
which the Italians are reported to have
acquiesced provides for re-establishment
of the demilitarized zone on German
territory and for its future supervision
by international forces which would en-
brace italian troops.
If France and her friends cherish any
genuine hope of italian cooperation IN
the project to restore a demilitarized
Rhineland, concessions plainly will have
to be made to Italy in connection with
Ethiopia. Mussolini has been adamant
in the demand that before he will enter
into any negotiations for cessation OF
operations against Halle Selassie the
League must lift the oppressive sane
tions against Italy. II Duce has not yet
gone the length of saying that he will
not otherwise join in action to chastlse
Germany, but he manifestly holds that
trump card up his sleeve. 1t is his
golden opportunity and he can hardly
be blamed for making the most OF 1t.
Meantime, Italy's peace demands re-
main unchanged. She insists that she
shall not be considered as an aggressor in
Africa, but as the benefactor and liber-
ator of savage Ethiopian tribes op-
pressed by their Amharic conquerors.
Rome further requires that 1taly's mill
tary gains in Ethiopia and her rights to
further expansion and colonization be
unoualifiedly recognized. On both north
ern and southern fronts the Fascist
armies are in battle array, prepared to
make the maximum of headway before
imminent advent of the rainy season, II
peace moves again prove futile.
To give way to Mussolini on the lines
he proposes would amount to the
Leagues complete disavowal of its previ-
GUS attitude. But II Duce finds himself
in strategic position to drive a stern
bargain. The Locarno powers, especially
France. in their zeal to punish and re-
strain Germany, have vital need OF 1tal-
ian support. Mussolini is not likely to
pledge it without substantial compensa-
tion. The quid pro quo he covets is q
conqueror's peace with Ethiopia, sancti-
fed by the League Of Nations. 1t may
thus well turn out that his war OF colo
nial conquest will be won not in the
valleys and jungles of East Africa, but
on the banks of the Rhine, via the diplo-
matte conference table at London. The
Fascists are by way of making hay while
the sun shines, or, perhaps it would be
more accurate to say, while the Leagues
sun sets.