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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

Mexico City's all-star high school
foot ball team that came to WASH
ington in November and took q drub-
bling ut the hands of Central High
School, has challenged the same 20
Central players for return game In
Mexico City in l045.
They outlined their challenge in q
letter to Harvey A. Smith, Central
principal.
It would be q contest between two
teams in their late twenties instead
of their present late teens.
Furthermore, the same group Of ~
wants to return to Washington. Their
second visit, however, would be for a
reunion. not . foot ball game. They
want to come back here with our
wives" In 1855.
A letter, signed by all ~ Mexican
athletes, was received by DR.. Smith
last week. Most Of 1t was devoted
to thanking Central High School and
the people Of Warrington for their
reception. At last, however. they got
down to business.
We ~ players." thsir letter said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Mexican Au-Stars Challenge
Central to Return Game IN 1915

selected to visit Washington in No
vember, 1885, would now like to issue
your Central High Schools 20 actually
participating players a friendly chal-
lenge to meet us In q decennial re-
union at the City Of Mexico in 1915.
Come down on your honeymoon.
Our % boys will be your proud guides
to show you the most interesting
sights in our beautifully and CLIMATE
cally, delightful-situated great city.
List each Of your % players, Just
what he has done as worthy citizen.
And we will list each Of our %.
Then we together will cite our few
most worthwhile individuals who have
helped International good will, aided
in correcting narrow prejudices, and
promoted fair understanding Of the
people and the problems Of both our
nations"
DR.. Smith has not yet presented
the challenge" to the foot ball squad,
but q number Of the boys, told about
It, have expressed enthusiastic ap-
proval Of the idea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

"Along about half an hour later
another missionary come topside and
asked me the same thing and said:
fright over there. Madame She
sort of gasped and hurried below.
well, I guess during the course OF
the morning must have told about
half a dozen Of them where Mount
Sinai was and the church service
began at II o'clock. The minister
conducting the service, which was held
in the social hall, stood with his watch
in his hand and he opened the meet
ing by saying:
Brothers and sister, at this exact
minute We are passing Mount Sinai,
which lies directly to our right
Controversy Over Location.
"Well, up jumps lady missionary
and she says:
~ think there must be some mis-
take We passed Mount Sinai at
o'clock this morning. The captain
showed it to me- And then another
missionary got up and said:
well. that's curious, because ex-
actly at $50 this morning. wrote II
down in my diary-we passed Mount
Sinai and the captain pointed it out
to me-
We'll. you wouldn't believe it, bu,
that argument got hotter and hotter
and finally the meeting was postponed
and all the missionaries started top
side to get me to settle the argument
had heard something about what
| happened and saw EN- coming anc
ducked and they hunted for me bu,
couldn't find me. / saw to that. Blu
they landed on the deck officer and
he was took plumb by surprise. moi
having given Mount Sinai a thought
He had to get out his charts and take
compass bearing and then it was
too late for them to see Mount Sinai
as We was way to hell and gone BY
that time. Yes. sir. Mount Sinai car
be heap of trouble to us when there's
many missionaries aboard. They Ger.
tainly do take an uncommon amount
of interest in it,"
A ship, east-bound, was nearing us
and the deck officer said she was the
British ship Dorcetshire. carrying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
abrasion OF, Coins
That Just Sit Still
Puzzles Tread,Cdy
Legislator Can't See Why
Funds Are Asked for
Wear on Gold.

By the Associated Press.
How there can be abrasions on gold
coins that are stored safely in inn
pregnable vaults in the Kentucky hills
Is worrying Representative Treadway,
Republican, of Massachusetts,.
The deficiency appropriation bill
brought to the House an item OF $780,
900 for a half doze.l different things.
including abrasions OF gold coins.
Il think the definition Of the word
'abrasions' is rubbing on" Treadway
said. Formerly we had the pleasure
of jingling gold coins IL. our pockets
:nd the Government made allowances
for abrasion. Our pockets have now
been stripped, but the allowance for
abrasion still goes on.
IF the administration has taken
all the gold In the country and stored
1t In the vault down In Kentucky,
which has been built at tremendous
expenditure Of the taxpayers money.
what earthly need Is there for money
to pay for any abrasious7"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
HEAVIER TRAFFIC
PENALTY SOUGHT
Commissioners to Ask $500
or 8 Months in Jail for
Reckless Drivers.

Congress will be asked this week
by the Commissioners to amend the
District traffic act to raise the maxi
mum penalty for reckless driving from
a fine of 500 or 80 days in jail, or
both, to $500 or six months in jail
The Budget Bureau yesterday noti-
fed the Commissioners it had no
objection to the plan of the Commits
sioners to submit the program to
Congress.
The increased maximum penalties
were planned by the Commissioners
as a part OF their renewed drive to
gain more compliance with traffic reg
ulations.
Small Loans Bill.
The bureau also informed the Com
missioners yesterday there would be
no objection to their sponsoring the
new small loan bill already sent
to Congress by the Commissioners, to
limit interest and other charges to
per cent per month on the unpaid
balance. The bill failed of enactment
last session.
Enactment Of this measure was
urged by Corporation Counsel E. Bar
rett Prettyman, appearing last week
before members of the House District
Committee AS an alternative, the
District proposes another amendment
which would limit all charges to
per cent per month. including fees
lo1ri ol hv,n ~
man has explained the intent ano
expected effect of the latter bill would
be to wipe out the small-loan bust.
ness in the District. The bureau
agreed 20 this measure provided II
was amended to exempt credit unions.
Amendment on Usury.
The bureau also said it would have
no objections to enactment of another
bill, to amend the District code re.
garding usury. provided it was changed
so as not to apply to credit unions
This bill would limit the interest or
loans of any size to an interest charge
Of per cent per year, or 8 per cent
where there is written contract.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen an
nounceo yesterday the Commissioner.
would send to Congress the bill tt
establish drink cure" hospital neal
the District Workhouse at Occoquan
Va. although the Budget Bureau sale
1t was in conflict with the f1nancia
program of the President. The bill
proposes appropriation out of District
revenues of 100000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Walsh Forum Speaker

National defense needs and admin.
istration plans will be the subject OF
an address by Senator, David I.
Walsh of Massachusetts. in the Ma
tional Radio Forum tomorrow at
1890 pm. The forum is arranged
by The Star and broadcast over the
network of the National Broadcast
ing Co.
Senator Walsh, long a member OF
the Naval Affairs Committee OF the
Senate, will discuss the plans for
naval and military defense Of the
country. He will stress particularly
what is being done and proposed to
be done for the air services Of both
the Army and the Navy. With the
clouds of war looming over many
parts of the world, Americans are
considering seriously what must be
done to put this country in a posi-.
ton to defend itself against any at
tack. II II should coma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
PALESTINE IS TOPIC

Jewish activities in modern Palestine
will be outlined by Mrs. Goldie Myer-
son, secretary Of the Women's Labor
Council in Palestine, in an address
Tuesday night at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center.
Mrs. Myerson is making a lecture
tour under auspices Of the Palestine
League for Labor. She also will de-
liver an address Wednesday before
Washington Jewry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
SCOTTSBORO FIGHT
VERSIONS AT ODDS
Grand Jury Summoned for
Probe February II in
Decatur, Ala.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOCIATED FEeSS.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, January as
Conflicting versions Of a knife-gun
battle, in which defendant in the
Scottsboro case and q deputy sheriff
were wounded, developed today as q
grand jury investigation was ordered.
While State authorities conducted
their own inquiry, Solicitor Melvin
Hutson Of Morgan County directed
the grand jury to meet at Decatur
February II to investigate events lead
ing to the knifing and shooting.
The tight occurred as the nine COL
ored defendants. accused Of a mass
attack on two white women in 1881,
were being brought here by automo-
bile yesterday from Decatur. scene Of
their trials.
Powell In Serious Condition.
Ozie Powell, prisoner. shot in the
head, was In serious condition at q
hospital here with an even chance to
recover. Deputy Edgar Blalock, whose
throat was slashed, was under care
Of physician at his home. He could
not be reached for q statement.
A statement by Clarence Norris,
one Of the prisoners. that trouble
started after Blalock slapped Powell,
was contradicted by Sheriff j. Street
Sandlin Of Morgan County, who said
mot a word had been said for 10
miles" during the 90-mile trip.
There's not q word of truth In
any statement that any officer made
threats against the Negroes"
Sandlin said "the Negroes didn't
plan the attack on us" and added he
was looking for others who might
have put the husky young defendants
up to the abortive attack.
Roy Wright and Norris, who were
manacled to Powell, denied a charge
by the Officers that Wright partici-
pated in the fight.
Doubt Death Sentencing,
I'VE didn't plan to try to escape
Wright said, I'VE wouldn't try, now
that things look better for us. We
don't believe we'll ever get sentenced
to death in these cases, but we be-
.iv We will be turned loose"
Norris said he was in the middle
nandcuffed to Powell and Wright
when the fight started near Gull
man, Ala.
"Ozie and Mr.. Blalcck had been
talking about the case, and Ozie
'sassed' him." Norris said, land Mr.
Blalock slapped him. A few minutes
later Ozie reached his hand into his
pocket and got his knife. He opened
it and then reached over and cut
Mr.. Blalocks throat. We thought
they were going to kill US, but they
didn't hurt any Of us but Ozie."
Jail Employe Questioned.
Powell said he bought the knife
from colored delivery boy in the
Decatur Jail. A Jail employe, Ernest
Meriwether. was questioned. but
denied selling the knife to the pris-
| oner.
Gov. Bibb Graves ordered protec-
zion for the men at all costs" The
Governor was advised there were nc
signs of trouble here
Replying to statements by Norman
Thomas, Socialist; the Scottsboro De.
Tense Committee and the 1nternationa
Labor Defense, criticizing Alabams
officers, Graves said. The State tool
every precaution possible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Trivial Things
That Make
a World
Cobra Guards Baby
Boy Swallows 50
Marbles on Bet.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN.-Festival dates are once
again being marked on calendars in
Christian nomenclature supplanting
the designations Of old mythology in
vogue for the past year. Of1icial cir
cles intimated that the German farm
ers, deeply religious for the most part.
just wouldn't buy calendars that ig-
nored the hallowed festivals OF Chris
tianity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
DOG NEARLY BREAKS
JAIL BY OVEREATING
Sheriff Glad to See million
Dollar Appetite" Removed
From Custody.
BY tn Associated Press.

BY tn Associated Press.
DECATUR. Ala, January 25.-The
thousand-dollar dog with a Million
dollar appetite is no longer at the De
Kalb County Jail and Sheriff Jake
Hall is happy.
For nearly a month the giant st.
Bernard was held in custody pending
settlement of litigation over ownership.
He nearly ate the sheriff out of house,
home and Jail.
The dog was ordered returned to F.
l.. Lawrence and Jeter Maynard when
Judge Frank Guess grantee petition
of Mrs. S. C. Williams asking dis
missal Of her bail trover action.
The sheriff lost no time in carrying
out the court order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

Washing'' Machine
Takes FeebIeness
Out of Goldfish
". P. A. Writer Tells
What S,uishing Did to
One Overlooked in Net.

BY inc ASSoclACeo fre6S.
OAKLAND, Calf, January 49,
Throw your goldfish into the washing
machine and let him battle the strong
currents set up by the agitator II you
want to make him ;iveiy-that's w.
p. A. idea.
A writer for the American Guide
Book. q w. p. A. project, reported to-
day he discovered this boon for pisca-
torial pets in a local hatchery where
customers make their selections with
long handled nets. When the nets
needed cleaning the proprietor put
them in a washing machine, using
plain water. A feeble old goldfish hap
pened to be in one. He got thorough
swishing and returned to the tank a
veritable dynamo among his fellows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
FOUR BELIEVED DEAD
IN FIRE AT HOSPITAL
Nun and Three Patients Escape
Building Where Eight
Resided.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. January Is.
-Firemen searched the smouldering
ruins of hospital building tonight
for the bodies Of three patients still
missing after fourth died from burns.
Eight women. all middle-aged. occu-
pied the building. 1t was part OF q
group comprising the Passavant Me-
mortal Home for Epileptics which has
rs male and SO female patients.
Firemen confined the flames to the
12-room, 3-story brick bungalow in
charge Of Sister Alice OFT. The nun
escaped with four other women. Chief
Walter Romich of the North Rochester
Volunteer Fire Department carried out
the first victim, burned beyond recog-
milton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

Joseph I. McMul-
len, chief of the
patents section Of
the judge advo-
cate generals Of
flee, will be tried
for accepting le-
gal fees from pri-
vate sources.
The War De-
part m e n t dis
closed yesterday
that Col. McMul-
len was arraigned
secretly January
8 at Walter Reed
Hospital, u n d e r
tho ninety Siyth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
BULKHEADS WITHSTAND
1900 DEGREES OF HEAT
q. S. Officials Plan Further Tests
With Fire-Resisting Mate
rails on Ship.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT EUSTIS. Va. January Is
Observers of the Department Of Com
merce, here to conduct fire tests aboard
the abandoned wartime freighter
Nantasket, planned to return to Wash
ington today with data gathered dur
ing two days of research.
The ship. anchored in the James
River, has been fitted up with cabins
and other interior structure built Of
fire-resisting materials and using mod
ern principles of marine construction.
Yesterday fires set in the main hold
developed 1900 degrees of tempera-
ture without allowing the flames to
spread past heat-resisting bulkheads.
Additional tests are planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Lovers Phone Pests.

RIO DE JANEIRO.-All the world
may love a lover, but Rio business men
don't-when the lovers use the tele-
phone. Annoyed at lengthy billings
and cooings which tie up oflice tele-
phones, they have inaugurated q drive
to keep love OF the wires during busi-
ness hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Swallows IS Marbles,

SHEFFIELD. England.-"IH bet,"
said q playmate OF 13-year-old
Colin Snsedley, THAT you can't
s,oalloto handful OF marbles. So
Colin 0ulped doiDn rs glass marbles
and 10 steel ball bearings. Physi-
clans said he suffered no Ill effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
RAIL COLLATERAL
i" $2,9)D,0lO 40FF"
Chairman Jones Of R. F. c.
DiscIoses Deficiency A.
fecting Certain Roads.
Sy the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
An apparent deficiency" Of $32.-
100000 in the collateral securing GER
tain railroad loans was disclosed yes
terday by Chairman Jesse H. Jones OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
= Jones, said. however, that "securi-
ties that will come to us from reor-
CARNATIONS in all probability. with
few exceptions. will be worth the
amount Of the loans"
Although aggregate rail collateral
exceeds the loans by 48 per cent. he
said q $32,500.000 deficiency In col
lateral of certain of the roads was
shown on the basis of present market
quotations.
1896, 249,S60 Outstanding.
In the annual Reconstruction
Finance Corp. report, Jones said,
$396,249, $50 Of loans were outstanding
to Sc roads. including % in receiver
ship or which have filed reorganization
petitions under the bankruptcy act.
He said the corporation had dis
bursed $8,197 ,376.669 of which ST.
366,728,506 was to meet ALLEGATIONS
made by Congress.
OF the remaining $3.50, 648, 1853 au-
thorized by directors of the corpora
ton, $3,237 ,092.716, or 55.5 per cent.
had been repaid.
$115,S44,219 Over Expenses.
Interest and dividends collected and
accrued have exceeded Reconstruction
Finance Corp. expenses by $115,844.-
PIC, the report said, adding:
If the policies of the corporation
are continued substantially as they
have been, 1t appears that this $l15,-
844.2l9, together with the small mar
gin between interest we pay the Treas
ury and our lending rates, will be
sufficient to cover losses of all loans
including investments In banks anc
insurance companies, assuming thu
Commodity Credit Corp. will have nc
ultimate loss.'
This latter organization, financed
by the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
makes commodity loans to farmers a.
a part Of the administrations farm
program.
The report said aggregate Recon.
struction Finance Corp. administrative
expenses had been 0.42 per cent Of
loans and investments authorized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
MISS RANKIN SPEAKER
Former Representative on Capital

Former Representative on Capital
City Forum Program.
Jeanette Rankin, associate secre-
tary for the National Council for the
Prevention Of War and former Rep
resentative from Montana, will adj
dress the Capital City Forum. 1902
Fourteenth street, on Congress and
the Peace Movement" at a meeting
at 8 pm. Friday.
Tucker p. Smith, director Of the
Brookwood Labor College, will speak
an "A6iutarism, In Colleges and Out."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Plan Canonixation.

PARIS.-Ecclestias authorities
are gathering data on the life OF
Mother Marie-Eugenie Milleret In an
effort to have her canonized rs q
saint. Mother Marie Eugene. born
in 1917 founded the teaching order Of
the Assumption for Girls. She died
In 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
ARMY COURT SETS
M 'MULLEN'S TRIAL
Charge of Accepting Legal
Fees Will Be Heard
February II.

A second court-martial growing out
OF the House investigation of lobbying
conditions at the War Department, will
convene here February II, when Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
DATE FACTOR IN r. F. C. SUIT.
Stockholders Say Chicago Bank Was
Closed at Time Of
Ixnan

CHICAGO, January Is R)-The
date when the old Central Repub-
lie National Bank and Trust Com
pany ceased to exist assumed today q
crucial import in the suit of the Re-
construction Finance Corporation to
collect more than $l4,OO0,0O0 from
its 1000 stockholders.
The suit is based on the $50, 0O0,-
900 loan to the Chicago banking in
stitution once headed by Former Vice
President Charles G. Dawes of which
more than $4,000, 900 has not been
paid.
NO. A. the trial opened this week before
6oderal Judge James H. Wilkerson,
the governmental agency contended
that the bank closed October 6, 1892,
while attorneys for the stockholders
asserted it ceased to exist October S.
h The stockholders claimed it was
beyond the power of the Central Re-
public Bank directors to negotiate a
loan from the r. F. G. or anyone else
after the bank had stopped accept
ing deposits. They maintain that
for this reason the $50,000.0 900 in
stallment of the total 100000 900 lent
It by the r. F. G. was illegal as it
was effective October safer the
existence Of the bank was ended.
No session of the court was held
today but on Tuesday, r. F. c. at
torneys were expected to resume their
testimony that many prominent Chi
cagoans urged the loan to the bank
to avert general banking collapse
not only in Chicago but over the
nation. In testimony already given,
the r. F. c. has endeavored to show
that the late Mayor Anton Cermak
wired he could not be responsible for
law and order here in June, 1882
when runs on local banks were under
Way-unless the Central Republic got
relief from some source.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

British J0bless Drop.
LONDON.-Present unemployment
In England Is the lowest in five years.
The ministry Of labor's final return
for 1885 showed 1,S68.565 registered
unemployed, q decrease Of 2l7,250
since December II, 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
ENDS HUNGER STRIKE
Prisoner in Yugoslavia Has Eaten
Nothing Since November %.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, January
Is (R.-Svetozar Lukich, a prisoner
in the Pozharevats Jail, ended his
63-day hunger strike today after a
bishop told him persons who commit
suicide do not receive church rites
at burial.
Physicians said they believed Lukich,
who was protesting a life term i'm
posed tor murder, would regain his
health. He had been reported near
death last night, after taking nothing
but water since November %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

u. s. to Draw British Tourists.
LONDON.-New York Is to be the
mecca Of British tourists next Sum-
mer, shipping company ofncials say.
It seems the British are not interested
in stopping on at Mediterranean ports,
especially those under the italian nag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Cobra Guards Baby.

COLOMBO, Ceylon.-The Hart-
jan natiues are telling the strange
story of a cobra Which stood guard
oper a year-old baby left By its
parents under tdmdrind tree.
Crows focked doDn to peck at
crumbs from the MONDAY meal
scattered near the baby. Suddenly
the child's mother noticed the
crows Tapping atCay mildly. The
baby ,Uas playing ,oith the tail OF a
cobra, Which Kissed turiously at
the crows. When other natives ran
to the rescue, the cobra uncoiled
itself, according to the story. and
slithered into its nest in the base OF
the tree The child fDdS unhurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
EARTHQUAKES Predicted.

LYON.-Many more minor earth
quakes such as the two in 1885 will be
felt in Eastern France, according to
Prof. Long Chambon. geologist. The
Alpine ranges on the edge Of the
area are gradually being forced up
ward, he said, and as consequence
the crust Of the lower regions sinks,
causing the quakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

LIEGE.-Rigid surveillance of all
German tourists" has been ordered
in the wake of spy scare instilled
by the recent arrest Of four Germans
charged with attempting to smuggle
out of the country important military
information.