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Evening star., 1937-05-19
COUNTY TO PUSH
STUDY Of BUDGET
Montgomery Board to Meet
Twice Weekly Until Levy
Is Signed.
By . Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, May le-The
new budget and roads will be taken
up by the county commissioners at a
special board meeting here tomorrow
At am. The board is expected to
meet twice a week until the new levy
is set next month.
Commissioners were reluctant to
discuss the budget In advance and to
forecast whether 1t would be higher
or lower than that OF the current year.
Some OF the department heads are
known to be asking an increase, but
.5hether such requests would be cut
OF increased revenue would be suf11-
cient to permit them could not be
aScertained
Revenue from liquor taxes for ex-
ample. were estimated at $50,O0O for
the current year. but are expected to
reach almost double that figure Other
revenues may increase over estimates
made last year, but hardly in as great
proportion.
With the "overdraft" for county
road construction and maintenance
Of approximately $4,000 wiped out
by the bill introduced in the Legisla-
ture by Senator Stedman Prescott and
signed yesterday by Gov. Harry w.
Nice. the commissioners are planning
to resume work on county roads in the
near future.
Commissioner Richard H. Lansdale,
Sandy Spring, announced yesterday he
favored securing An opinion from the
attorney general on whether the
county could direct its own expendi-
lures, and to request such permission
from the State Roads Commission.
Lansdale estimated that the IA
cents the county Is entitled to as its
share of the State gasoline tax would
bring in about $l35 900 this year, and
that about $4,000 remains unex-
pended from the previous year. Q total
Of $4,000. Estimating maintenance
costs at $4,000, slightly more than
was spent last year. would leave about
$50, 900 for new construction and debt
retirement, he pointed out.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

believed all campus policemen should
be hanged, drawn and quartered, We
no longer approve Of collegiate antics.
Visiting high school students who
swipe hotel towels by the dozen and
stun soap in keyholes are almost as
much Of pain to our dodderine
sense OF humor as they are to the
management.
We do like, however, the incident
OF the sportive visitors who filled 4
paper bag with water and dropped it
out Of tenth-story hotel window
The bag landed plop on the head of
lady walking below, and she
tainted
When she came to, she held no
malice whatsoever against any one.
Just before the blow fell, she had
been on her way to the drug store.
and when she regained consciousness
she believed she had been caught IN
q shower while completing ths sfsand.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
STATES 1O0-YEAR LOAN
STILL ON BOOKS OF U. S,
b the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Onciak reported yesterday the
Treasury still was carrying on its
books . 100-year-old loan to 26 States.
They added there was not much hope
1t ever would be collected.
The loan, totaling $2S,l0l ga, was
advanced to the States in Andrew
Jackson's administration on the plea
Of Daniel Webster and others. Web
sters group said . $42. 1858 sur
plus in the Treasury was keeping too
much money out Of circulation. >
They contended part Of it af0uld
be deposited with the States - Sir
could how out through channels Of
commerce and industry.
Treasury officials said no effort ever
has been made to collect the money.
They added 1t would be carried on
Treasury ledgers - IN asset" until
Congress omeia1ly relieved; The states
o6 liability.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
GOV. NICE TO HAVE
RIGHT EYE REMOVED
Operation Necessitated by Fall in
1934-Recuperative Rest
Also Ordered,
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 19.-Gov. Harry
w. Nice announced late yesterday, at
the completion Of three hours contin-
uous work signing legislative bills,
that physicians have ordered him to
undergo an operation and take an
extended recuperative rest.
Injuries to his right eye, suffered in
fall shortly before his election in
1884, have made it necessary to re-
move the organ, the Governor dis
closed.
He said he will wind up pressing
duties here about May 20 and expects
to enter New York hospital about
June !.
The operation will keep him in the
hospital about two weeks, his physi-
clans informed him, and another
three weeks will be required before an
artificial eye can be inserted. There
after, the Governor said, he plans 4
recuperative rest of between four and
six weeks He said he expects to take
. motor trip or cruise.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

BY the Associated Press.
AMOREBIETA, on the Bilbao Front,
May l9.-From 500 women and chill
dren left by retreating Basque and
Asturian troops, insurgent officers to-
day cleaned tales of terror that cli-
NAKED stubborn defense OF Amore-
beta against Gen. Emilio Molas in
surgents.
The refugees, who fed to Mola' s
encircling lines In search of food and
sanctuary, babbled versions OF the
war madness that gripped the once
peaceful town of 5000 inhabitants as
the Basque forces made their last
stand.
The women and children said the
retreating soldiers took all the civilian
men of Amorebieta with them in their
retreat to Bilbao's last line of defense.
Bilbao Is only miles away to the west
and slightly north.
The refugees said militiamen
splashed gasoline on the better
houses and then set them afire with
hand grenades.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
SORORITY UNITS WORK
FOR CHARITY PRAISED
Group Supplies Glasses to Chill
dren Who Cannot Buy
Them.

Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Washing
ton charity worker, last night applaud
ed members of the Washington Alum
nae Club Of Phi Sigma Sigma Soror-
ity on their work In furnishings med
ical supplies for needy school chill
dren. She spoke at q monthly meet
ing Of the sorority at the home Of Miss
Beatrice Oxenburg. 1926 Seventeenth
street.
The sorority has established a trust
fund to supply eyeglasses to children
whose parents are unable now to OBJ
tain money for this purpose from the
Community Chest or other agencies.
The fund Is dedicated to the memory
Of Flora A. Zukor.
Mrs. Philip Diatz was reelected
archon Of the organization. Miss
Martha Benenson was named vice
archon; Mk Sidney Kolker, scribe,
and Msss MYTH xazinsky. u11hA
Evening star., 1937-05-19
Justice M'Reynolds
Viii Become Dean
Of Supreme Court
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Justice James Clark McReynolds,
who pleaded recently for good
craftsmanship by those who lose in
court, will become dean OF the Su-
preme Court when Justice Van
Devanter retires next month.
McReynolds, a bachelor, was Presi-
dent Wilson's Attorney General when
appointed to the court In 1914.
Outranking him in age is Justice
Brandeis, 80, who was appointed BY
President Wilson in 1916 Chief
Justice Hughes and Justice Suther-
land, like McReynolds, are IS.
Voting against one Of the first New
Deal laws to come before the high
court. McReynolds declared: The
Constitution Is gone!" He has written
more opinions holding laws unconsti-
tutional than any other man who ever
sat on the Supreme bench.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
FARM TO Be HOME
F0RVANDEVANTER
Retiring Jurist to Pass His
Remaining Days on Place
Near EI|icott City.

The rolling hills Of his 788-acre
farm in nearby Maryland beckoned
today to Justice Van Devanter, who
will conclude 26 years Of service on the
Supreme Court when he retires Tues
day. June 2.
Never losing his attachment for the
quiet life Of the farm, the 78-year -old
jurist told reporters yesterday he in
tends to pass his remaining days on
the estate he purchased recently near
Ellicott City
Quietly smoking his pipe, Justice
Van Devanter received newspaper men
in his book-lined study shortly after
announcing his intention to retire in
a brief letter to the President.
Canadian Trip Planned.
He will spend most of his time living
the leisurely life of gentleman farm
er, he explained, but may make trip
this Summer to the Seigniory Club,
a gathering place for sportsmen in
Canada, where he can indulge his
fondness for golf, hunting and fish,
ing.
Justice Van Devanter wanted to
resign from the bench in 1929, when
he reached the age Of 10, but Chief
Justice Taft persuaded him to remain
and give the court the benefit of his
profound knowledge Of procedure and
the law Of public lands and water
rights.
After Taft resigned, other members
Of the court induced Van Devanter to
remain. 1t was said that Justice
Brandeis, whose views Of constitu-
tional law differ in many respects
from Van Devanter's, took the lead in
persuading him to stay on the bench.
Will Get Full Pay.
incidentally, Brandeis was one Of
the three justices who did not issue
statements yesterday expressing re-
gret at his retirement. The others
were Cardozo and Roberts, the latter
being out Of the city.
Justice Van Devanter will retire
under the new law which assures that
his salary Of $4,000 . year will con-
tinue.
The previous law provided for the
same salary when . justice resigned,
but Congress could have reduced It.
The salary Of Justice Holmes was 20
reduced after he resigned In 1882 at
the sge Of 81.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

Some families were trapped in the
burning houses" one woman said
Many just perished unless they
managed to escape"
Insurgent troops said they heard
terrible cries" from the village Mon
day night.
The insurgents believed dynamite
explosions which shook the town after
the Basque evacuation had been IN
tended for them-on the theory that
Mola's men would occupy it immedi-
ately. The insurgents, however,
waited until long after the Basques
had fled before moving In.
Refugees Plod in Rain.
While the insurgents camped In
vast horseshoe" about the war
scared town. the refugees plodded
through the rain over rugged noun
tain terrain to seek aid from the be-
siegers. One woman had q baby at
ner breast. Many were in rags and
wore crude wrappings on their feet
we were month without bread
and with little water" said one
fearful refugee. For q fortnight We
Evening star., 1937-05-19
COURT PLAN FOUGHT
BY COLONIAL DANES
Protest Sent to Roosevelt and
Chairmen of House and SEN
ate Committees.

BY the Associated Press.
The Board Of Managers Of the
Colonial Danes Of America protested
to President Roosevelt yesterday
against his effort to reorganize the
Supreme Court.
In . telegram to the President, it
said:
THE parent society of the Colonial
Danes Of America, the first woman's
patriotic society In the United States,
strongly protests against the proposal
to change the Supreme Court"
Letters and telegrams against the
Roosevelt court bill were sent also to
the chairmen Of the House and Senate
judiciary Committee and to In
divtdalal members Of Congress.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
gees boys and gls yet their landed at
Pduilac, France. -Copvight, A. P. Wirephoto.

Basques from the smoking, partly
ruined town.
The insurgents found shelter in
what were once Basque dugouts be-
fore continuing the thrust toward
Bilbao. Soldiers not on the firing
line yesterday huddled in them away
from the rain and the Basques' ma
chine gun and rife fire
3 Lines of Trenches Taken.
The dugouts were crude affairs
topped with corrugated iron and
camouflaged by the branches of pine
trees. To reach them, the insurgents
had driven the Basques out of three
lines OF trenches, one a few yards
behind the other, with barbed-wire
entanglements Is feet thick in front.
Many Of the trees bore the scars
OF machine gun fire. Some had even
been sneared of.
Asturian "dinamiteros' had left
many OF their grenades on the battle
field. These, their favorite weapon.
we're egg-shaped mechanisms with
two sticks OF dynamite wired to each
Evening star., 1937-05-19
Miami U. Physicist Dies.

OXFORD, Ohio. May 10 LP.-Dr.
Joseph A. Cutler, 70, professor emeri-
tus n Dhysics at Miami University
and nationally known for: his re-
searches IN radium and radio. died
yesterday IN = hospital after illness
Of q week. Dr.. Cutler Is listed In
Who1 Who a. the author Of eight
text books in physics tor high school
and college use.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

have had almost no food. The reds
tried to evacuate everybody, but many
Of us refused to leave
Sunday we were locked in the
church by mil!tiamen who pointed
pistols at us while they forced US
inside. With pistols against our
chests the militiamen tried to take
our younger children, saying they
would be sent to Russia Some gave
up their children. but most of US
clung to ours, saying we would rather
be shot"
Freed From Church by Cariists.
The women and children locked in
the church were freed by a squad OF
Carlists, who entered Amorebieta yes
terday morning and broke open the
doors.
Rescuers and rescued alike fed
through machine gun fire from
Basque snipers who held a hill on the
Bilbao side Of Amorebieta A Basque
tank had remained on duty in Amore-
beta until yesterday morning and
then fed with the last handful Of
Evening star., 1937-05-19
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
PENITENT.

PEN1TENT.
~ ONTRITE because he heard 4
traf1lc warrant had been Is
sued against him for failure
~ to post collateral on parking
ticket, an upright young man of this
city went dutifully to the Tra1ic Bu-
reau and offered penance, total IS.
The bureau clerk looked up his
name, made a significant gesture to
another policeman and the penitent
lad found himself hauled behind the
rail.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
u. S. TO BUY FISH
5000, 900 Pounds to Be Distrib-
uted a. Aid to Industry,

Federal oficials announced today
they would purchase about 3,000, 900
more pounds Of Ash. To date the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
has bought e,4ooyeoo pounds in an
effort to relieve the fishing industry
Of IN oversupply.
The dsh Is distributed TO States for
the Use Of unemployed in areas vhaso
dsh oonSumptaou ioJoN
Evening star., 1937-05-19
DEPARTMENTS CLOSED
Union Men Refuse to Work in
Studebaker Plants.

SOUTH BEND. Ind. May 10 tP).-
Most departments Of the Studebaker
Corp, automobile manufacturers, were
closed today when several thousand
union workers refused to work. Pres
ence of non-union employees was re-
ported the cause.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

6y lHt hSSOCldleO fIeSS.
PARIS. May 19-Diplomatic quar-
ters reported today that France and
England were considering a Joint dec.
laration to safeguard the independence
of Austria and maintain the status
quo in Central Europe.
The report came simultaneously
with renewed proclamation Of
Franco-Russian loyalty to their mu-
tual assistance pact policy of collab-
Grating for peace.
Diplomatic quarters considered the
developments to be directed at any
German ambitions in Central Europe
or objections Of the Reich to the
Soviet pact as a bar to a new Locarno
treaty to guarantee the peace Of Vest
ern Europe.
The Franco-Russian declaration was
contained in communique issued
late yesterday after a conference
among Premier Leon Blum, Foreign
Minister Yvon Delbos and Russian
Commissar OF Foreign Affairs Maxim
Litvinoff
Maintenance of Peace Aim.
The common goal Of the two ma
tions, the communique declared, was
the maintenance of an organization
for indivisible peace in collective Sc
curity."
Diplomats considered the expression
to mean that France considered a
positive accord with Russia was pref.
cradle to a nebulous offer of security
agreement with Germany.
Delbos informed the Council Of
Ministers today that his recent talks
with Russian and British statesmen
brought assurances their nations
would cooperate closely with France
to maintain the present political line
up in Europe.
Evening star., 1937-05-19

Japan's Emperor Honors Britain's.
:: LONDON, May 10 (P.-King George
vi was given the order of the chrysan-
'fhemum today at the command of
emperor Hirohito of Japan.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
Hogerstown

Entries for Tomorrow.
HAGERSTOWN, May l9.-Clear and fast
FIRST RACE-Purse. S400; and 4
all
Evening star., 1937-05-19
L0NDONANDPAR|S
MAY BACK AUSTRIA
Keeping of Status Quo for
Peace Aim-France, Rus.
sia Renew Aid Pact.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
CHIEF, perhaps, among the Uor-
ries OF European treaty makers is
the independence of Austria. SO
long, feel England and France. as
Germany is preuented from uniting
1Dith its old ally, balance OF pouer
in Central Europe can be PRESCRIBED.
Thoughts OF q combined Germany
and Austria. hoUeuer. send War-tedr
shiuers up the back of the rest OF
Europe.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
REWARD.

REWARD,
Always first Uith the bizarre in
11eUs, our DUN tdUorite newspaper
reported last week that the Enot-
neers' Club at certain local uni
Oersity was going to dward a
plague" to an outstanding grad.
uote in the class of 1897.
O. X, II they feel that wav about
It, but ,Ue hope he keeps 1t to him.
self.
X X
SHOWER.
GROWING gray with the years and
almost unable to remember the
days when we drove stolen mill
wagons around New Have, ant
Evening star., 1937-05-19

SECOND RACE-Purse. S4O0: 3-yesr-
olds and up. claiming: about 6i7 furlonss
(all entered to be claimed for 5000.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
bMiss B. Faulconer entry.

FOURTH RACE-Purse. S400: 3-year.
olds and up: claiming: about ga furlonss.
Evening star., 1937-05-19
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Queen Nadi lLauch
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Tageolet fPalumbo
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The Washington times., 1937-01-13
| Y n n MAYOR
OF HERND0N

HERNDON, Va. Jan. 13.-Fol-
lowing its acceptance of the resig.
nation of Mayor Allen H. Kirk,
the Town Council of Herndon last
night elected Russell A. Lynn, busi-
ness and civic leader, to fill the
mayors unexpired term, which
runs to September /.
Mayor Kirk gave pressure Of pri-
vate business affairs as the reason
for his resignation. He is now
employed as station agent and act
ing postmaster at Sunset Hills, Va.
The mayor was completing his
second term as chief executive of
Herndon. He formerly served as
a member of the school board and
as town clerk.
In line with the proposal for in.
stallation of gas lines in the Hern-
don area. a committee was ap-
pointed to confer with officials
of the Virginia Gas Distributing
Company. Committee members
are Councilman William S. Blan.
chard, Waite wilkins and T. Ed.
gar Reed and w. Bentley Harri.
son, Willis w. McGlincy and j.
l.. Nachman.
The Washington times., 1937-01-13
COUNCIL BACKS
LIBRARY FOR
ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 13.
City council last night approved
a four-fold project that will re-
suit in Alexandria having a pub
lie library by early summer, for
the first time in the city's almost
200 years of existence.
The council, by unanimous
vote, approved an agreement
whereby the Alexandria Library
Association will furnish it's col
lection of 10000 volumes, DR..
Robert South Barrett will con.
struct q library building, trustees
Of the Friends Society will donate
the site and the city will appro-
pirate $4,000 a year for its opera
ton.
1t will be known as the Kate
Waller Barrett Memorial, in
tribute to the memory of the late
DR.. Kate Waller Barrett, promi1-
ent Virginia educator and mother
of DR.. Robert South Barrett.
The site, offered without com
pensation by trustees of the
Friends Society for period of
80 years, is that of the old Quaker
burying ground in the TOO block
Queen St., near the city's center.
DR.. Barrett, who recently con-
structed a $4,000 clubhouse for
the new Alexandria Boys Club,
has estimated that the library
building will cost between $4,000
and $4,000. He hopes to have it
completed by early summer.
The Alexandria Library Associa-
tion, which has operated a sub
scription library here since 1874,
will give the city its $4,000 collec-
tion of books, 5000 of which are
rare editions that have been On
it's shelves since the library was
started, and has offered use Of its
$4,000 endowment fund.
Under the agreement approved
last night, the new public library
will be under direct control of a
Library Board of the Alexandria
Library Association, with the City
Council exercising supervisory
control through a library commit
tee. All offers are contingent
upon the city appropriating $4,000
annually for maintenance.
Mrs. H. G. Outwater, an expert
enced librarian, has offered her
sedvices in setting up the new or
ganization.
The Washington times., 1937-01-13
JOB INSURANCE
CHANGE ASKED
IN MARYLAND

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Jan. 13,
Unemployment insurance was
thrust to the fore in the Maryland
general assembly last night when
bills liberalizing the State social
security act were introduced in
both the house and senate.
Senator Raymond E. Kennedy
Cd and Delegate Leon Abramson
CD, both of Baltimore, offered
measures which would require the
number of employees required for
an employer to come under the
act, from eight to one. Both we're
referred to judicial committees.
Committees Named
Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer
CD, of Prince Georges, president
of the Senate, announced his
committees for the session with
but two minor changes. Senator
Kennedy was named as an addi-
tional member of the Senate
finance committee and Senator
o. Straughn Lloyd (RO, of Wi
comico, formerly minority floor
leader was put on the judiciary,
instead of the finance committee.
Senator j, David Baille (R0, of
Carroll county, present minority
floor leader was named to the
finance comittee to take the place
of Lloyd.
In the house Delegate william
H. Labrot CD, of Anne Arundel
county, and speaker Emmanuel
Gorfine Cd, of Baltimore City,
introduced bill that would
eliminate the names of presiden-
tial electors from the ballots.
This was referred to the judiciary
committee.
Senator Kennedy offered bill
in the House which would limit
the number of free scholarships
to the University of Maryland to
232 and providing, in his bill, that
eventually, they should all be
named from Baltimore city and
the counties of Maryland.
Scholarships Restricted
The bill provides for the ap-
pointment of one from each of
the legislative districts of Balti-
more and one from each county
during the next year, which would
make 20 in all.
The number would increase
during the next three years, in the
same ratio from city and coun-
ties, until the full quota of 232
was reached.
Both houses adjourned until
noon today at which time Speaker
Gorfine is expected to name his
committees. Kent r. Mullikin
CD, of Prince Georges county, is
expected to be renamed chairman
of the powerful ways and means
committee.
The Washington times., 1937-01-13
Woman Asks $4,000
For Crash Injuries

Alleging serious injuries as the
result of a collision between a
taxicab in which she was riding
and an automobile last Septem-
Der % at Third and C Sts. S. E.,
Mrs. Anna L. Haardt, 1874 Sixth
st. S. w.. filed suit for $4,000
damages in United States District
Court yesterday.
Attorneys R. H. Yeatman and
William H. Yeatman represent
Mrs. Haardt, who names, as de-
PENDANTS Edward P. Tillinghast,
So T st. N. w., driver of the cab;
The Terminal Transportation
Company, owner of the cab, and
Joe and Helen J. Vance, 329 C
st. S. E., owner and operator, re-
Spectively, of the automobile.
The Washington times., 1937-01-13
MRS. MARY E. McELHONE


Requiem mass will be cele-
brated tomorrow at 10 a. m. in
st. Matthew's Catholic Church
for Mrs. Mary E. McElhone, so,
retired employe of the Federal
Trade Commission, who died Mon
day of a heart ailment at her
home, 1900 Sixteenth st. N. w.
She was the widow of Philip
McElhone, Washington lawyer,
and the daughter of the late Mr..
ard Mrs. William o. Orndoft
She was born near Rockville, Md.
Surviving Mrs. McElhone are
two daughters, Mrs. George L.
Raymond, and Mrs. Thelma M.
Howard, both of Washington.
Interment will be in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1937-01-13
MEREDITH H. Pollen

Meredith H. Pollen, A, owner
and operator Of the Hob Mob Res
taurant on F Street Northwest,
who died after a short illness Sun
day in Emergency Hospital, was
buried today in Cedar Hill Gene
terry. Services we're held in the
S. H. Hines funeral home.
Mr.. Pollen, who had been in the
restaurant business here for the
past IA years, was a native of
Prince William county, Maryland,
For q number of years he oper,
ated a restaurant at Eighteenth
Street and Columbia Road North
west.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ida K. Pollen; five brothers,
j. NJ, C. o., C. W., C. r., and Harry
W. Pollen, and a sister, Mrs. w. c.
Ellison.