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from falling apart. General Shuts that for centuries no such prerogative, If there was one, had been exercised, and that the question was not one of law, but of politics.
 Of course, what the economists who cite the status act as evidence that the British Empire Is disintegrating fail to show is that political power or legal power are not the real bands which hold the Empire together. Experience has taught us that In time of war nations do not act on the literal in- depreciation of the law. The ties that bind are more substantial. In the case of the British Imperial DominiOns they are the advantages of free trade with in the Empire and the protection of the British fleet. The Union of South Africa would be an easy mark indeed for an invading force were 1t not for the protection of the greatest fleet in the world. It Is extremely doubtful that the Union would ever want to for sake such protection.
 With its constitutional status now more clearly defined than ever before, the Union of South Africa is ready it. self to begin expanding It would like to annex the adjacent protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and BasutO- land. which are now governed under the Dominions office in London. When the Union was formed in 1909, the con stitution provided for the eventual in- clusion of these territories.
 Their population, however. is 99 per cent black, and they were left out of the original Union and kept under di- rect London protection because of the treatment they had received at the hands of the Boers who made up a large share of the Union population.
 When, last year. Prime Minister Hertzog announced to Great Britain that the Union of South Africa was ready to act immediately to include the protectOrates his act drew an in- stant appeal from Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland. British ad- minlstration to the prOtectOrates has not been all that 1t might be, but na- tives and native sympathizers believe that 1t is better than the dscrmi- nation which might harm them at the hands of the BOers.
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England entered the World war there was widespread dissension in South Africa, and even serious uprisngs in some cases. Clarke goes on:
 Neutrality and secession are po- litical issues, to be determined In the light of all the facts when the ques- tion arises. They are not to be de- termined In advance, as some of the die-hard lawyers seemed to demand, by any constitutional legislation, espe- cially legislation under such docu- ments as the Balfour declaration and the Statute of Westminster"
 The Ties That Bind.
 The abolition of the prerogative pow. CT of the king aroused the anguish of the pro-British faction in South Africa. This faction claimed that in the time of crisis the king was the executive head of the entire British Empire, and that he could act as he saw fit in case of crisis. in order to keep the realm
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zMMN@om / .~ ADVENTURES Yxl CLUB v MM@@
 "Ne1rIy the Tnst ROundUD''
"Nearly tue Last Round-Up'
By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter.

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to stabilize a leading industry of South Africa gold mining. Other interests suffered badly, and General Shuts South African party accused the in cumbents of pampering the political interests always prone to take the op- posite line from the empire, jeopardiz- ing the interests of the Union in gen eral thereby.
 It was conceded that If General Shuts could force an election at that time he would have more than an even chance of winning, but that he could not do so without stirring up the smolderlng embers of racial con- fiict between Boers tor, rather, the present-day Afrikaanders) and Britons. an anlmosity that had been admirably Subdued in the preceding decades by wise government.
 To youth of South Africa really goes the credit for coalition. Young men of both parties know the sentimental and romantic racial dissentions mere
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 l \ England, has formed an in-
 nocent, if worldwide, insti- tuition for propagandlzing the unity and extent of the British Empire. NO one. certainly, questions its extent But there are those among the pohti- cal economists of the day who at least suggest that the far-fung realm sho"s signs of breaking apart, and when the real test comes, If 1t ever does, they may be right.
 Recent developments In South AT rica have again made people ask whether the British Empire Is oreak- ing up." writes Fred Clarke, English educator and former representative or the Union of South Africa at Geneva, In Current History Magazine. With out attempting to answer that question, one can have no doubt as to the im- portance of the status of the union act, which received royal assent on June p, 1884 This new law has bearing on the whole future of Brit ish imperial unity"
 The status act contains the first de1- nite official reference of the crown to the union as "a sovereign independent state" Its accompanying seal act gives the exclusive right of use of the Great Seal and Little Seal, heretofore held by the king. to the South African min' isters.
 For more than quarter of a cen tury South Africa, politically, has been torn bitterly between two political fac tions as directly opposed as our New Dealers and rugged individualists. They were led by General Smuts right hand man of General Botha in the Union govern ment which arose a few years after the South African war, and General Hertzog, minister in the BOtha cabinet who was removed in 1912, two years after the cabinet was formed.
 General Shuts and his faction open- ly considered the Union a definite part of the Empire, with British civi- lizatiOn and culture dominant. Hert- zOg sympathizers held out against the complete social, cultural and political dominAtion of the Boer population by the British, and have always striven to make the Union separate and inde- pendent nation.
 The present status of the Union has been effected as sort of political compromise between the two generals and their respective parties. The Union Is undeniably independent now, with merely allegiance to the crown" the string politically tying it to Great Britain. And the two parties have fused into one.
 They Get Together.
 It Is interesting to note that the coalition of the parties came about because their differences became so bitter after England went off the gold standard in 1881 that party leaders decided that unity and compromise would be the only means of averting hopeless internal political strife. I'm agine MT. Roosevelt and, say, Mir. Hoo- ver getting together before political campaign and straightening out their differences!
 General Hertzogs nationalist party, which was in power in 1881. preferred to keep South Africa on the gold stand ard, believing that England had stepped off only temporarily, and that maintaining the standard would help
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Is the Vast British Empire Breaking Up?
By WILLIAM c. U1lEY

r / ING GEORGE v's silver 1ubi- X lee, now at Its height In l England, has formed an h.
 .e ,,orld wide insti-
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Young Couples Here
For Several Days.

Mr.. and Mrs. Gregory C. Draddy.
whose marriage took place Thursday
in the Larchmont Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Larchmont, N. Y, have ar
rived at the Shoreham to spend sew
eral days.
Mrs. Draddy is the former Ruth
Gwendolyn Hatrick, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Butler Hatrick Of
Larchmont, and Dr. Draddy is the son
of Mrs. william Draddy. The cere-
mony. which was performed by the
Rev. Robert Russell, was followed by
large reception at the Westchester
Country Club in Rye.
The brides father is vice president
of the Cosmopolitan Productions at
Burbank, Calf.
After their wedding trip, Mr.. and
Mrs. Draddy will live in New Rochelle
N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Louis Lambt
OF Raleigh, N. c., are at the Shoreham
also on their wedding trip, and will
spend some time in Williamsburg
Va, before establishing their home in
North Carolina.
Mrs. Lambe before her marriage
Saturday, october %, was Miss Jen
Peay, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Nicholas A. Peay of Chattanooga
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Engagements
Announced
Recently
Meredith Haines
To Be Bride of
MIR. Taylor.
r. COL. AND MRS. EDGAR

r COL. AND MRS. EDGAR
FREMONT HAINES of Gov
ernors Island, N. Y, formerly
IL of Washington, announced the
engagement of their daughter Mere
dith to Mr.. Donald Frederick Taylor
at a dance given in her honor last
night at the Governors Island Club.
Miss Haines was graduated from
the Spence School in New York City
in 1886. She is at present student
at the New York School of Fine and
Applied Arts.
Mr.. Taylor is the son Of Mr.. H.
Frederick Taylor and Mrs. Taylor OF
Medford, Mass. He was graduated
from the Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology in the class Of 1885.
Miss Phoebe Hinman
Engaged to Wed.
MAJ. BURRITT HAVILAH HIN
NA MAN. U. S. A., and Mrs. Hinman,
formerly of Boston, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Phoebe
to Mr.. Rand Newman Stowell. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Newton Stow
ell of Dixfield, Me.
Miss Hinman is graduate OF the
Erskine School and attended the Gar
land School in Boston.
Mr.. Stowell was graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1885. He is
member of Phi Gamma Delta and
Casque and Gauntlet. There are no
definite plans for the wedding.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Sherman Guest
Of Honor Yesterday
At a Party.

MRS. ELIZABETH NoRTHRoP
and Mrs. D. Werner Smythe en-
tertained at tea yesterday afternoon
from 5 to 7 O'Clock at Mrs. Northrops
shoreham Hotel apartment, for Miss
Eleanor E. Sherman, whose marriage
to Mr.. Dom Werner Smythe will take
place Saturday. Among the guests
were Mrs. Stanley L. Currier of Gin
cinnati, Mrs. w. G. Schrader of Buff
falo, Mrs. C. H. Fiske. Mr.. and Mrs.
C. G. Kilbourne, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H.
Sherman, Miss Mildred Reeves, Mr..
and Mrs. Richard S. Doyle, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. H. Fowler, Judge and Mrs. w.
E. Blount, Maj. and Mrs. H. H. Jacobs,
Mr.. Ernest Covert, Miss Pearl Shock
ley. Messrs. Clark. Raleigh and Cush-
ing Daniel; Mr.. and Mrs. H. Clendon
Bush, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul G. Tomalin,
Mr.. Robert Pollard. Mr.. and Mrs.
Dwight Smyth, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Gasch. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fulton,
Miss Carrie Roper Fulton, Mr.. w. B.
Mann, Mr.. and Mrs. Edmond H. Parry,
ir.; Mrs. B. B. Cain, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Gasch, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Clephane and DR.. and Mrs. Paris
Brengle.
The wedding will take place at 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon in the Emory
Methodist Episcopal Church, DR.. Hor-
ace e. Croner performing the cere-
mony, assisted by the Rev. Forest j.
| Prettyman. former chaplain Of the
Senate. Mrs. George W. Hill will play
the organ.
Mrs. Stanley L. Currier of Cincin-
natl, sister of the bride, will be the
matron of honor, and the bridesmaids
/ will be Miss Gwen Haddock, class
mate of the bride, now of New York,
and Miss Kathryn Jones, daughter CT
| Col. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones OF the
wyoming Apartments. Miss Denise
Hall Currier. niece of the bride, OF
Cincinnati, will be the junior brides
| maid.
The ushers will be Mr.. Robert Gear
of Chicago, classmate of the BRIDE
groom at Cornell; Mr. Gushing Daniel
Of Washington, classmate of the
bridegroom at Cornell; Mr.. Stanley L.
Currier of Cincinnati, Mr.. John
Evans and Mr.. John Hardie OF Wash
| ington.
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Jewish Juniors Plan
Dance Next Month.

The Council of Jewish Juniors are
making plans for pre-Thankssivins
dance to be held at the Wardman Park
Hotel November 20.
The proceeds of the dance is used
for the councils many philanthropic
projects, one of which is the Dorothy
Goldsmith Camp Fund, which provides
two weeks at camp for poor and un-
derprivileged children.
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Miss Eleanor Bishop
Engased to Wed 1t. Powell.

MAJ. AND MRS. HARRY A.
1VA BISHOP of Fort Sam Houston,
Tex. announce the engagement OF
their daughter Eleanor to 1t. Beverley
Evans Powell, U. S. A. The wedding
will take place in the late winter.
Miss Bishop attended st. Mary's
Academy in Denver, the Chevy Chase
School in Bethesda and William and
Mary College in Williamsburg. She
is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Sorority.
1t. Powell is the grandson of Mrs.
Thomas Dudley Evans of Russellv1lle,
KY. He was graduated from Mercers-
burg Academy and later attended the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, graduating from there In
1886. He is on duty with the 18th
Field Artillery at Fort Sam Houston
and will leave in November for his
new station at Fort Knox, KY.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Barbara Giliis
To Marry Mr.. Palmeri.

MRS. THOMAS A. GILLIS of Chevy
AZ Chase. Nd, has announced the
engagement of her daughter Barbara
Louise to Mr. Anthony Louis Palmeri
of New Haven. Conn.
Miss Gillis is the daughter of the
late Mr.. Thomas A. Gillis, former as
sistant secretary Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. She is grad
uate of the Wilson Normal School and
attended George Washington Univer-
sity and the Pennsylvania State Col
leee. She is member of the Phi
Delta Alpha Sorority.
Mr.. Palmeri is a graduate of George
Washington University and is stu
dent in Hahanamen Medical College
in Philadelphia. Pa.
The wedding will take place No
vember "a in Chevy Chase, Md.
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Miss Mamie Rogers
To Wed MIR. Burroughs.

MRS. LAURA ROGERS of Morgan
A town, Charles County, Md, an
nounces the engagement of her daugh-
ter Mamie Gwinn to Mr.. George T,
Burroughs, attorney, of Upper Marl-
boro, Md. The wedding will take place
November % in Christ Church at La
Plata, Md.
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Miss Louise Hersperger
To Wed Mr.. LLOYD Jones.

MR.. ELMER CLAYTON HERSPER-
A'A GER of Poolesville, Md, an
nounces the engagement of his daugh-
ter Louise to Mr.. Lloyd James Jones,
r.. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd James
Jones of Dickerson, Md.
The wedding will take place in De-
eember.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Birth Announced.

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Cersley an
nounce the birth of son, Walter E
Cersley, jr., Wednesday, October 49,
at Georgetown Hospital Mrs. Cersley
was formerly Miss Dorothy Margert
Rodier, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles H. Rodier of Georgetown.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

Washington. The wedding will take
place in December.
Miss Byrd attended Sweet Briar
College and Ensign Maurer is grad
uate of the United States Naval Acad-
envy, class of 1885, and is now attached
to the u. S. S. Colorado.
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Miss Ellen Fishback
Engaged to Mr.. Thorpe.

MIR. HENRY FISHBACK Of Mar
Az shall, Va, announces the en-
gagement of his daughter Ellen Vir-
ginia to Mr.. John Carlin Thorpe, also
of Marshall. The wedding will take
place in January.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Catherine Mary Foley

Enraged to Mr.. Edwin Connor.
MR.. AND MRS. T. JOSEPH FOLEY
AVA Of Providence. R. l., announce
the engagement Of their daughter
Catherine Mary, formerly OF Wash
ington, to Mr.. Edwin Lyme Connor,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Connor
of Providence. Miss Foley was for
merly connected with the Government
In washington and was then trans
ferred to Providence and New York
City.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

New soft dressmoker type Of
hondboe for afternoon. Rich
black suede, swinging from o
wide topkondIe, and high
lighted BY q ieweIed elosp.
Beautifully lined and 81
fitted ----------
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Miss Catherine Hughes
A. HEz.-.,

Engaged 10 Marty
MR.. AND MRS. MAURICE WILL
4$A LIAM HUGHES of Laurel, Md,
announce the engagement of their
daughter Catherine Sellman to Mr..
William Latta Welsh, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Clarence Welsh OF Silver
Spring. The wedding will take place
the latter part of February.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

Tenn. Mr.. Lar1be is the son of Mrs
p. r. Lambe OF Winston-Sa N. c.
The wedding took place In the college
chapel Of the West Raleigh Presbyter-
ian Church in Raleigh.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Anita Lamar

Miss Anita Lamar
Engaged to MIR. Schley.
MR.. AND MRS. GEORGE H. La
MAR OF Rockville, Md, announce
the engagement of their daughter
Anita to Mr.. Charles F. Schley Of East
Orange. N. j. The marriage will take
place next month.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Byrd Engaged
To Ensign Maurer.

TT. COMDR. AND MRS. ORVILLE
~ F. BYRD announce the engage
ment of their daughter Billie to En-.
sign John H. Maurer, U. S. N. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A. Maurer Of
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Miss Phoebe Hinman
Engaged to Wed.
Miss Anne Britton
Furar red tn Marry.

MR.. AND MRS. JOHN BRITTON
AVA of Washington and Radnor, Pa,
announce the engagement OF their
daughter Anne to Mr.. Gilbert Megar-
gee of Gynwyd, Pa, son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Megargee.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Everybody Rich
As Entire TO,Un
Wins in Lottery
Ey the Assc ciated Press,

CORDOBA, Vera Cruz, Mexico,
September l8-Lady luck kissed 1856
poor Mexican peasants today and the
whole town of Acatlan, in the state OF
Oaxaca, got rich.
The inhabitants Clipped in with
amounts ranging from IL cents TO SO
to purchase half interest in q lottery
ticket costing about $28. 1t won the
main prize of $280,000.
Overjoyed at their good luck, the
400 residents Of Acatlan, including
women and children, sang and danced
on the cobblestone streets The men
celebrated in the good old Mexican
fashion of drinking liquors and firing
pistols in the air.
Since every one in Acatlan was rich,
business activities were totally sus-
pended. No one felt like working
The baker, butcher and charcoal seller
closed shop Only liquors and fire-
crackers were obtainable and the
town was lacking in foodstuf1s.
The winners were organizing 4
caravan to make the 45-mile trip from
Acatlan to Cordoba to collect their
prize, and Cordoba merchants were
preparing TO cater to the new-rich
visitors. Payment will be made Mon.
day.
The other half OF the prize ticket
| was held by 10 Cordoba residents.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
.E|GHT ARE SEIZED
in $4,000 ROBBERY
Arrested After Baltimore
Raids-TWo Brought
Here for Quiz.

Six men and two women were ar
rested by Maryland police in con-
nection with the robbery OF two Bal
timore suit factories Of clothing valued
at $4,000, following a series of Spec
tacular raids yesterday by Baltimore
officers and the Maryland State police
at Laurel.
TWO OF the men arrested were
brought to Washington late last night
for questioning in connection with the
theft OF copper sheeting valued at
about $1,000, said to have been taken
from the Enterprise Roofing Co., 2125
Rhode Island avenue.
Baltimore police said later two of
the men and the women had no con-
nection with the robberies and would
be released.
Acting on a tip from Baltimore
Sergt. G. B. Durham of the State DO
lice with two other officers stopped q
truck and an automobile near the
Laurel police station and arrested
five men and recovered goods VAL
ued at $4,000.
Returning the men to Baltimore
Durham aided city police in round
Ing up the other suspects as men,
bers OF gang which is suspected of
perpetrating numerous robberies In
Maryland and Virginia recently.
On information obtained from the
first three men arrested, police raided
q house In the 800 block Of East Biddle
street in Baltimore and arrested the
two women.
first three men arrested, Baltimore
police raided house in the 300 block
OF East Biddle street and arrested
two men and two women.
AS the officers left the house, ac-
cording to reports, they saw a car
answering the description of one
they suspected of figuring in the case
and attempted to stop the driver. The
driver speeded up and drove out
Belair road at speed of more than
rs miles an hour.
Baltimore Detective John E. Fox
finally brought the car to a stop by
staging a daredevil leap from the
running board Of a police scout car
to that Of the fugitive and turning
on the ignition switch.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Pennsylvania Kan Will Back
Roosevelt, Leader Declares
Viii Endorse Him Regardless of Out
come of Case-Cleric Says He Saw
Black at 1926 Meeting.

The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania
will support President Roosevelt -four
square" regardless Of the outcome OF
the controversy over appointment of
Justice Hugo L. Black to the Supreme
Court, it was announced yesterday.
This became known as Rev. w. c.
Vest, Baptist minister of Irondale,
Ala, disclosed he was present at a
Klan meeting in Birmingham when
Black and Gov. Bibb Graves are
said to have accepted life membership
in the hooded order. The statement
of the minister was published in a
copyrighted article by Ray Sprigle of
the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
Announcement Of the Klan support
for the President was made to the
Associated Press by the grand dragon
of the Pennsylvania Klan at the close
of State convention at York. He
added the support would be forth
coming even if the President asked
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Sail Regatta, Checked by Calm,
Forced to Reuise Slate TODAY
President Sees Graft in
II Divisions Compete
in Late Squirt.

Bobbing over the Potomac of Hams
Point before a crowd that included
President Roosevelt as an interested
spectator. more than 125 sailing craft
of various shapes and dimensions bat
tied to decisions in IL classes yester-
day afternoon to provide colorful
curtain-raiser for the annual Presi-
dents Cup Regatta.
The Nations No. sailor, past mas
ter In the art Of handling spreading
canvas, arrived of the course in
Georgetown Channel in the presi-
Dental yacht Potomac just couple
Of minutes before the first starting
gun cracked at 2 o'clock. 1t was not
until the last straggler among the
competitors had crossed the finish
Continued on Page B-6, Column ~
Evening star., 1937-09-19

Justice Black to resign" In a pre-
pared statement, he said:
I'VE will stand by the President to
the last degree. And we should take
the same stand il Justice Black were
a Catholic or member Of any other
denomination. But Pennsylvania
Klansmen see no reason why any Of
our members should be Disseminated
against for any public Office"
In Boston, Edwin D. Sirois, Repub-
lican candidate for the House seat
made vacant by the death Of William
P. Connery, co-author with Black Of
the wage and hour bill, called on the
President to demand the resignation
Of the justice if the charges of his
membership in the KlAn are estab-
lished.
Il certainly have no quarrel with the
Klan," Mr.. Vest said. Il believe that
it was great and worth while organi-
zation founded upon the highest ideals
(See KHAN, Page A-3)