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Evening star., 1937-08-25
Q. Who was Aspasia?-C. r.

Q. Who was Hspasia?-C. r.
A. She was a beautiful Athenian wom-
an noted for her genius, wit, and po-
litical influence. After her marriage to
Pericles. who repudiated his wife in order
to wed her, her house became the meet
ing place for the learned men Of Athens.
Socrates was one Of her admirers. She
was indicted for impiety. but Percles
successfully defended her in court.
6. When were incubators first used
for babies?-E. H.
A. The first incubator designed for
roaring children too weak to survive
under normal conditions was that Of
DR.. Tarnier, constructed in 1880, and first
used at the Paris Maternity Hospital.
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Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and virsinia

All Other STATES and C,nada
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with Marney and spends q good bit of
his unoccupied time with Marneys
family. Sally Lunn, who has Job in
London, Is home for 4 visit when the
lifeboat episode occurs, and reneWs her
acquaintance with Tom. She suspects
that he is In love with Marney's wife
but is not too greatly disturbed by that
knowledge to become interested in trying
to win him for herself.
AS the old feud between the Tosdycks
and the Lunns develops new complica-
tions, Henrys family blames him for
not having accepted the post which
would have maintained harmony and
made fishing easier. The children be-
lieve It best to leave Bramblewick and
move to the more friendly village of
Burnharbour, but both mother and
father refuse to be driven out by their
enemies.
Then on 4 horribly thick night the
siren OF ship in distress brings matters
to climax. Henry, his two sons and
Tom Fosdyck 90 to the rescue in the
motor coble Which the townfolk have
sneered at As 4 substitute lifeboat They
successfully lay 4 kedge after hours Of
strenuous labor with fog and high seas
as enemies. The stranded ship is freed,
set again on her course, and the coble
limps into Bramblewick just after dawn
with her motor smashed and her crew
weary. Luke and Tindal Fosdyck, watt
ing on shore, greet the rescuers with
the news that Mrs. Lunn is seriously
Ill and has been taken to Burnharbour
Hospital for an operation.
It looks IS though there Is no choice
left for Henry Lunn but to surrender
to his enemies and leave Bramblewick.
Marney moves his family to Burnhar-
bour, persuades his father to buy q hope
les old tub that win permit dshing In
deeper waters and then wishes he had
Evening star., 1937-12-06

on a proposal that the Government
subsidize trsns-oceanic airlines by
lending IS per cent of the cost Of
building aircraft for foreign trade
American Airways, Of which
Lindbergh is technical adviser. has
been represented as opposing the sub
sides which, persons close to the
Maritime Commission said, would be
available to competitors of Pan-Amer-
ican. as well as to that company.
Both Basin Harris, vice president
of the United States Lines, who met
the Lindberghs at Quarantine yester-
day, and the Rev. Mr.. Carpenter said
Lindbergh'S conversation centered
centered largely on aviation.
Representative Sirovich, Democrat,
of New York, ranking member OF the
House Merchant Marine Committee
said he believed Pan-American may
have asked Lindbergh to advise it in
the subsidies question, perhaps even
to testify in case hearings were held
on any proposed legislation
Lindbergh's exploration in science
have been less publicized. but equally
as spectacular as his exploits in the
air. He has won especial acclaim
for his work with DR.. Alexis Carrel of
the Rockefeller Institute in develop
ment Of the artificial heart.
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PEACE SENTIMENT
|NCH|NA GROWING
Wang Ching-Wei Is Leader
of Movement to Bow
to Japanese.
BY REGINALD SWEETLAND.
BY Radio To The Star

BY REGINALD SWEETLAND.
BY Radio to The Star.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.-Peace senti-
ment among Chinese government
leaders Is growing, though it is not
expected to gain much headway for
some days yet Leading the peace
movement is Wang Ching wei, chair
man Of the Central Political Council
Of the Kuomintang Nationalist party.
In long and vivacious meeting held
Friday in Hankow, Wang Ching wei
told government and party leaders:
If you want peace you had better
make peace before the fall of
Marking"
This particular sentence was sup
pressed by all Chinese newspapers and
news agencies, this correspondent is
informed by influential Chinese in
Shanghai.
In making that statement Wang
Ching-wei alluded to the famous Chi
nese classical saying, 1T is humilia-
ton to make peace with the enemy
under the city walls"
Offering his services as mediator, the
German Ambassador to China, Oskar
P. Trautmann, met Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek at Kuling. a noun
tain resort midway between Nanking
and Hankow, on the Yangtze River,
where for hours they discussed peace
prospects Chiangs attitude was one
of. understanding and need for peace,
Evening star., 1937-12-06

berghs were friendly but made it evil
dent that they wished to be left to
themselves. They exercised on deck
early in the morning, the colonel TAX
ing few turns at climbing the rigging,
and engaged in frequent promenades.
They dined at the captains table
almost every night. with Capt Roberts,
the Very Rev. DR.. Spencer Cecil Car
penter, dean of Exeter Cathedral,
Devonshire, Eng, and Capt J. A.
Furer, assistant naval attache at the
American Embassy in London and
Mrs. Furer. They attended the re-
ception on the last night at sea, but
avoided the evening dances and
movies. They politely but firmly re-
fused requests for autographs. They
inscribed their names on menus for
their tablemates at the last dinner,
however.
An echo of the Lindbergh kidnap
ing-most famous crime in American
istory-accompanied the Lindberghs'
return. From New York, the Citizens
Protective League. a German -Ameri-
can organization claiming $4,000 sup
porters, sent kilograms to Gov. Harold
G. Hoffman of New Jersey and to
Lindbergh asking that payment of the
reward for apprehension of the kid
napers of Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.,
be "suspended' because "the real cul-
prits have not yet been caught"
Disposition OF the $4,000 reward
by the State has not been settled.
There are 80 claimants.
The telegram to Lindbergh also
asked that he please do something"
for Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
widow of the man who was executed
in 1896. The message, over the sigma
lures of Kurt Mertig, merchandise
broker and chairman of the league,
said Mr.. Hauptmann is "bereft of her
support and in dire distress"
The league has actively opposed
antiNazi boycotts and has had ex-
tensive correspondence with Hoffman
concerning the Hauptmann case.
Hearings in Capital Cited.
Supporters of the theory that avia-
ton lay back of Lindbergh's surprise
trip pointed to the resumption of
hearings in Washington next week
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Return to Europe Expected.

LONDON, Dec (P)-British news
papers broke their months of COM
parative silence on the doings of Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh today
in New York dispatches announcing
their arrival in America
Some of the newspapers expressed
pride that the Lindberghs had found
in England the peace and seclusion
they had been unable to find" in their
native land
There were confident predictions
that the couple would return shortly
to the country which had been their
unobtrusive host for nearly two years
in order to take up again their secluded
life with their children.
The fact that their two sons-Jon,
5, and 7-month-old Land Morrow
were left behind was taken as an in
dication that the surprise visit to their
homeland would be a brief one.
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but the generalissimo feels that what
ever terms the japanese may offer
cannot be trusted.
Furthermore. Generalissimo Chang
must come out Of the present war
with enough Of his own troops to
maintain himself In . dominant posi-
ton, for it Is still true in China that
nobody can hold authority without an
army behind him.
Threatening Chiang's dominance Is
Gen. Pal Chung-hsi, representing the
kwangsi or Southern China element,
headed by Gen. Ii Chung jen. Gen.
Pal. throughout the present war, has
been constantly demanding that
Chang kai-shek put up 1irmer oppo-
sition against Japan.
Chang Kai-shek and Pal Chung
hsi now find themselves side by side
attempting to defend Marking. If
Pal loses the backbone OF the army,
then Chang will be in q position to
discuss peace terms with the japanese.
II Pal comes out top dog, then Chang
will find himself without an army and
hence powerless.
Chang had expected help. first from
the League OF Nations, second from
the Brussels Far Eastern Conference,
third from Britain or America, fourth
from Soviet Russia. Each OF these
failed to materialize.
Severest Of all were Russia's de-
mands as the price for assistance:
U That the Kuomintang must
unite with the Third International;
and
CD That Generalissimo Chang
must transfer the high military COM
mand to the Chinese Communist gen.
eral. Chu Teh, meaning nothing less
than that the leftist groups would
eradicate Chang and then step in.
With the fall of Marking considered
a matter Of course, Gen. Han Fu-chu,
>Shantung provincial warlord, is ex-
pected to throw himself into the
Japanese arms, making further fight-
ing IN the north unnecessary.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-06
| 20 to Be FlO,Un
To Safety From
Vessels in Ice
Women and Children
on Ships Seeking
LeUanefsky.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RUDOLF ISLAND, Franz Josef
Land, Dec. tby wireless to Mos
cow Preparations were made today
to ny 20 women and children by
moonlight back to the mainland from
three ships frozen fast in this region
Of polar ice.
The ice-bound ships, the RusanofI,
the Roshal and the Proletarii, brought
equipment and provisions with which
to renew the search for Sigismund
Levaneffsky, Soviet flyer who was
lost On a flight across the pole.
The aerial hunt was expected to be
resumed about mid-December, when
fun moon will permit flights during
the polar night. When flights become
possible, Ivan Mazuruk, aviator sta
toned at the Rudolf Island base, was
ordered to fly the women, children
Evening star., 1937-12-06
GREET STOYADINOVICH

ROME. Dec. 6 R.-The Italian
government last night gave Premier
Milan Stoyadinovich Of Yugoslavia an
impressive welcome on MS arrival
to discuss the conomic and political
peace Of Central Europe and the
Balkans.
In blaze Of fioodlignts the Yugo-
slav statesmen shook hands with
Premier Mussolini and Italy's foreign
minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. The
German Ambassador to Rome, Ulrich
Won Hassel, was among other digni-
taries who welcomed him.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
OPTIMISM SURROUNDS
FRANCO-POLlSHP PARLEY
Delbos and Beck Go to Krakow
Tonight to Visit Tomb of
Marshal Pilsudski.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WARSAW, Dec. 6-French Foreign
Minister Yvon Delbos said today that
the sun shining on Warsaw was SYM
bolical of the atmosphere surrounding
Franco-Polish relations
NJ Delbos and Foreign Minister
Col Joseph Beck have discussed ques-
tions of interest to the two countries
since M. Delbos' arrival Friday night
He parried queries today on details
Of the talks, but asserted his tour Of
Central Europe was designed to
strengthen Europe's peace efforts
and especially the Franco-Polish alli-
ance
M. Delbos and Col Beck will go to
Krakow tonight for visit to the
tomb Of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
PARADE OUTBREAK
B[AMEDON JAPAN
Eden Tells Commons Toxic
Was Warned Against
Shanghai March.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 6-Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden today told the
House OF Commons that Great Britain
had warned Japan last Fridays vic
tory march" through Shanghai's In
ternational Settlement was ''provoca-
tive and uncalled for
He said the British Ambassador in
Toxic, Sir Robert Craigie, also had
been instructed to make clear British
opinion that Japan would have to
take responsibility for the trouble
which subsequently occurred
A Chinese student threw a hand
grenade at 5000 Japanese soldiers
marching through the International
Settlement in Shanghai Friday. Three
japanese soldiers. a japanese police
man and a British police inspector
was wounded,
Japanese Warned Beforehand.
The secretary explained that both
the British and American commanders
at Shanghai had informed japanese
beforehand the parade was contrary
to their wishes and that they could
not take responsibility for any incl
dents
Answering a query on the general
Oriental situation, Mr.. Eden declared
he could not accept the suggestion that
British Far Eastern possessions like
Hong Kong ARE in imminent danger"
Reuters British News Agency dis
patches from Shanghai said the Brit
ish consul general made representa-
tions to the Japanese consul general
at Shanghai regarding Japanese
air raid on the Wuhu water front yes
terday. A British warship and two
British merchantmen were hit.
Army Changes Loom.
War Secretary Leslie Hore- -Belisha
indicated to Commons the possibility
of additional changes in the army
command
Explaining the army council shake
up announced last week. which he
said would be effective by the first
Of the year, the war minister declared
any further appointments would be
based on merit, character and abil-
ity," regardless Of youth, age or mere
seniority"
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Simpsons Arrive in England,

PLYMOUTH, England, Dec. 6 CP1.
Ernest Simpson and his bride. the
former Mary Kirk Raffray, arrived
today on the liner Queen Mary.
Simpson, a former husband of the
Duchess of Windsor, said they would
settle in London. They were married
November l8 in the United States.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

and sick members Of the crews to the
Russian mainland.
The planes were being equipped
with landing skis by the light of
projectors despite icy gales and tenn
perature of 40 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit.
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Educator to Speak.

Prof Arthur S. Thurston of Mary
land University will be the guest
speaker at 8 o'clock tonight at the
birthday" meeting of the Woodbridge
Garden Club at Sherwood Hail.
Twenty-second street and Rhode Is
land avenue NE, at which time the
Evening star., 1937-12-06
M'REYN0LDS BACKS u. S.
PROTECTION FOR LATINS
Supports Opinion of Argentine
Foreign Minister of Anglo
Saxon Cooperation.


BY the Associated Press.
Chairman McReynolds of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee joined
Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra La
mas of Argentina today in expressing
the opinion Latin American and South
American security rested on basis
of Anglo-Saxon cooperation.
Il think Saavedra Lamas is correct
in stating that basis of joint action" >"
McReynolds said, especially in so far
as we are bound to protect the Monroe
Doctrine That is now agreed to by all
South American countries. We now
have joint action of that type agreed
to in principle by all countries in South
America"
Evening star., 1937-12-06
News to Injured Man.

KELLOGG. Idaho, Dec 6 (P,.-F, ed
Wilson thought it pretty tough to ha We
an arm partly paralyzed from a
month-old accident. He went to a
doctor.
An X-ray showed his neck had bee,,
broken.
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Forbidden to Leave Home.

In the 10th and l7th centuries the
Japanese were forbidden by decree
under pain Of death from leaving theip
homeland.
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annual election of officers also will
be held. His subject will be Autumn
Color in the Garden
Evening star., 1937-08-01

Federal payment has become a stead
lily diminishing percentage of the
total general fund outlay. until for
the year Just ended it was but 1247
per cent of total general fund ap-
preparation Of s40,O834l0, For the
year Just getting under way the S.
100000 Federal payment is about the
same percentage.
d. c. Paid IS Per Cent Last Year.
These figures do not include gas tax
highway Improvements or the cost OF
maintaining the water service. both Of
which are maintained from separate
funds collected locally in the form Of
gas tax and water rents II these
appropriations are added to the gen.
eral fund items. the S5000000 lump
sum would have represented even less
than IL per cent OF the total spent to
run the District last year. In other
words, the District met 88 per cent.
The conference agreement on the
new tax bill. now awaiting House and
Senate ratification. gives the Commits
sioners $4,000 with which to study
the entire tax structure of the city,
and directs them to submit recommen-
(See TAXES, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-08-01
MURDER, SUICIDE
AT CHURCH ALTAR
Man Stays Doctor and Self as 65
in Congregation Watch,
Horrifed.
BY the Associated Press.

Ell CENTRO, Calf. July sl,-Be-
fore IS horrified members Of the con-
grega ton, Fred w. Simmons. 49, El
Centre hatchery owner. shot and
killed Dr.. o. L. Webster, 81, Holtvllle
physician, and then killed himself
today at the altar of the Seventh
Day Adventist Church here.
Simmons fired with a 1890 rifie
Just after the Adventists' Sabbath
Church services ended.
Police Sergeant George Bucklin said
investigating officers reported SIM
mons frequently had expressed dissatis-
faction with the church in which his
wife was active.
Members of the congregation told
officers they had been unaware of
any personal enmity between SIM
mons and DR.. Webster.
An inquest will be held tomorrow
afternoon at mortuary here.
Simmons drove up to the church
door as services were breaking up.
He brandished the rife and shouted:
Il want Dr. Webster
He espied the physician outside the
building and shot at him. but the
bullet missed DR.. Webster then ran
back into the church. Simmons fol-
lowed him and men, women and chill
dren of the congregation recoiled in
fright
Dr. Webster dropped on his face
near the altar TO escape further fir
ing. Simmons ran to him and fired
into the back Of the prone victim,
killing him instantly.
He then fired a bullet through his
own heart.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
STEAMER CARRYING
500 IS GROUNDED
Coast Guard Cutters Ordered to
Aid Vessel on Long
Island.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August (Sunday) -
The Coast Guard reported early today
that the steamship Yankee, carrying
500 passengers, was ashore on Gin
Beach, near the Eastern tip Of Long
Island. Details were not Immediately
available.
Coast Guard headquarters here said
it was understood the Yankee was in
service as q ferry between Montauk,
on the tip Of Long Island. and New
London, Conn.
The Coast Guard cutter Galatea,
from Staten Island. and the cutter
Comanche, on patrol of Long Island,
were ordered to the scene. Crews
from local stations along the South
shore of Long Island, and q crew
from Fishers Light were also ordered
to the scene.
The Yankee. a 780-ton wood paddle
vessel, was built in 1904 It is owned
by the Ferries Operating Co., New
York.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Wage-Hour Lac
Would Be SIOu
In Taking Effect
l2O. Day Lapse Re.
quired and Hearings
WOuld Cause Delay.
By the Associated Press.

DS INC hskOCiAleO Efehs.
Should the House quickly pass the
administrators wage and hour bill
considerable time may elapee before
the man in the street feels its effect.
In the first place, 120 days must
elapse after passage before any wage
or hour order could become effective
Even then some time probably would
be required for the proposed Labor
Standards Board to study each indus
try and establish appropriate minimum
wages and maximum hours. Until the
board has made such study and is
sued an order for each industry. there
will be no compulsory increase In
wages or reduction in hours
Before issuing any order. the board
would be required to hold public
hearing and consult an employer
employe committee representing the
affected industry.
Because of various exemptions and
because the board could deal only with
workers receiving 40 cents An hour
or less or working more than 40 hours
a week. many workers will feel no
direct effect even when the bill is in
full operation.
1t also would not directly affect any
farm worker or any one employed in
purely local business.
Employment of children in indus
tries operating in interstate COM
merce would become illegal l2O days
after the bill becomes Law.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
ENJOYS WIFE GAVE
$4,000 FOR BOOKS
Mrs. A. J. DrexeI Bidd|e
Shown Heavy Buyer of
Campaign Tome.

The name of the wife Of A. J. Drexel
Biddle, jr., Amba assador to Poland,
appeared yesterday as $4,000 con-
trlbutor to the Democratic National
Committee through purchase Of the
Book of the Democratic National Con-
vention of 1886. in a list of Pennsyl-
vania purchasers made public by Rep
resentative Otter. vice chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
The Biddle purchase. the largest
thus far drawn from Democratic COM
mittee reports filed with the clerk of
the House under the corrupt practices
act. was approached in the Pennsyl-
vania list only by the total of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp. purchases
which amounted to $500.
The Pennsylvania list was made
public in connection with insistence by
Representative Otter on the demand,
first voiced by Representative Smell Of
New York, Republican leader in the
House, for a congressional investiga-
ton of the Democratic National Com
mittee's sale of copies of the 1886 con-
vention book. specially autographed by
President Roosevelt, to corporations
and labor unions. as we'll as individ-
uals throughout the country.
The name Of the wife of the Penn
sylvanian who obtained the appoint
ment as Ambassa dor to Poland to
succeed John Cudahy appeared in the
list dredged out of the Democratic
committee report files by the Repub-
llcan Congressional Committee in this
way: October 8, Margaret Biddle
Green Hill Farms Hotel. Overlook
$4,000 The analysis of the files
covered reports of contributions made
during 1886
Blddle. former Minister to Norway
was made Ambassador TO Poland sew
eral months ago. after Mr.. Cudahy
obtained the post of Minister to the
Irish Free State. where although the
rank and pay are lower. the living
conditions are rated among the most
desira Bile provided for American en-
VOWS abroad.
Eoting that the book sales netted
100000 in his State alone, Repre-
sentative Otter said
Investigation discloses that in many
instances the books never we're deliv-
cred. The purchasers simply paid for
them and let it go at that. Evidence
submitted in support of our demand
for a congressional jnVestipa tion irdi :
Gates that the statesmen of the Demo-
cratic National Committee repeatedly
placed emphasis upon the purchase
rather than the delivery Of the books
In several instances these statesmen
offered the book as golden oppor
tunity for a judicious investment in
the good will of the administra ton. "
tCopyright, 1897, by the New York
Herald Tribune.)
Evening star., 1937-08-01

The local community has not fought
against the revenue measure needed
to meet the present emergency. al
though individual views have differed
as to the forms OF tax to be adopted
But when Washingtonians look back
over the trend OF fiscal relations be-
tween the Federal and District Gov
ernments in recent years to see how
the present revenue need developed, it
is natural to wonder what the next
few years will bring and what they
are to get for their money.
L. S. Paid 40 Pct. in 1922.
Glancing backward. it is seen that
in 1922. when general fund appropria-
tions totalled only $22977,4ll, the
District was meeting so per cent and
the United States 40 per cent, under
substantive law which has never been
repealed
The practice of annual lump-sum
Federal payment in lieu Of the ratio
fixed by substantive law entered the
picture, however. and decade later.
In 1892, it is found that while the
general fund appropriation total had
mounted to s43 84O.o22. the lump sum
that year represented only fraction
more than 81 per cent.
In the past five fiscal years the