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Evening star., 1937-05-28
II RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
FROM NATIONAL PARK

81 ecial Dispatch to The Star.
FOREST GLEN, Md, May o.
Graduation exercises of the prepar.
atory department of National Park
Seminary were held in the chapel here
Wednesday. A class of II received
diplomas.
The commencement address was
given by Rev. Raphael H. Miller Of
the National City Christian Church,
Washington. Rev. Joseph T. Kennedy
OF st. Johns Church, Forest Glen,
gave the invocation.
Presentation of certificates was mads
by Elizabeth Crawford Heylmun, dean
OF instruction. The program also in.
cluded organ selections and song by
Nancy Lee Cotton.
Honor students were Cora Lee Aron-
STAN of New York, first; Ruth Wheary
OF Wisconsin, second. and Martha
Sloan Of New York, third Honorable
mention was given Lillian Hill, New
Jersey, and Isabel Davis, New York.
Jean Owens of New York is presi-
dent of the class and Jane Virgins Of
Michigan is vice president.
Evening star., 1937-05-28

jostliug around in the cdn loosens
up a horses muscles as much ds
any gallop, and maybe they are
right.
At least a dum9el 1De sdD suing
ing onto one ot those ceiling bars
in a Washington bus apparently
thinks 50. She 1oas being Dashed
about quite bit as the bus
crunched on its Day, and polite
tellow said, won't you take this
seat? I get OF at the nert stop"
"No, Thanks" she said.
Bit further on, tho seats pere de-
serted. She stood her ground.
Finally curious passenger said.
Don't you epcr sit dotun?"
"Certdt1,ly," said the lady. "But
this Is the wdy get my daily
dosen."
Evening star., 1937-05-28
SWEENY ADVANCES
TO BRITISH F|NALS|
U. S. Entry to Face Irish
Title Holder for Crown
in Amateur Golf.
b. the Associated Press.

SANDWICH, England. May 28-
WELDING magic putter, tall, curly
haired Robert SWeeny. native New
Yorker who has lived in London for
several years. battled his way into the
final round of the British amateur ROLF
championship today.
Tomorrow he will face 50-year-old
Lionel Mum, many-times champion
Of Ireland, over the 36-hole route for
the crown relinquished by Hector
Thomson Of Scotland because of i'll
health.
So deadly on the greens that he re-
quired only Al puts for the % holes
he played today in eliminating Will
ford Wehrle of Racine, Wis, and
Charles Stowe, British colliery en-
glneer. Sweeny was reckoned at no
worse than an even-n1oney bet against
Mum. The veteran Irishman reached
the finals by first eliminating j. j.
F. Pennink, English amateur cham
plon. 2 up, and then Count Alaric de
Bendern, and 3.
Wehrle Bows, 3 and 2.
Sweeny won his quarter-hnal round
match from Wehrle by 3 and 2
count. In the afternoon he shot a
sensational 80 on the outgoing nine
against Stowe to be up at the turn.
He followed up with four successive
As to win, 6 and S, as large gallery,
headed by Merle Obepn. film star.
looked on in amazement at his putting
skill.
Sweeny has been persistent con-
tender in the tournament since 1882
He was beaten In the third round that
year and in the fourth round in 1888.
In 1885, however, he Travelled all the
way to the semi-fi finals before he was
eliminated by Lawson Little, 3 and @
Little went on to win the title for the
second time in succession.
Last year Sweeny reached the sixth
round before bowling, l up at the
twenty first, to the Australian cham
pion. Jim Ferrier, who subsequently
was beaten in the finals by Thomson
Champion Is Beaten.
Dick Chapman Of Greenwich, Conn,
the other American survivor, went
down on the nineteenth hole to Count
Alaric Bendern in the quarter finals.
Chapman lost in the nineteenth hole
after three valiant comebacks had
brought him all square both on the
ninth and eighteenth greens. His
drives have been 50 wild that, after
almost week Of play, he still scarcely
knows the conditions Of the Royal
st. Georges fairways.
Mum left the fairway only once
in defeating Count de Bendern. The
veteran Irishman shot the first nine
in 35 strokes, to take 2-hole lead
at the turn. He won the tenth, but
dropped the eleventh-the only hole
he lost After halving the twelfth
and thirteenth, Mum ended matters
by winning the next two holes with
Is. while his opponent was taking =
pair of IS.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
WAGES SEEN SAFE
IN REORGAN|z|NG
No General Reduction Indi.
Gated in House Plan,
Cochran Says.

Reorganization of the Government
as proposed by the House Reorganiza-
ton Committee would not result in a
general reduction in salaries of Gov
ernment workers, Chairman Cochran
today indicated on the floor of the
House when he said he is mot in favor
OF a revision of salaries at this time,
either by increases or reductions"
The committee will meet early next
week 'just as soon as Speaker Bank
head returns and Representative War;
rem, Democrat, of North Carolina, who
has been acting in his place, Is Free"
Cochran said.
The chairman emphasized that all
the joint committee meetings, includ-
ing the one held Thursday. were as
peaceful as any legislative committee
could hold"
Opposes Salary Revision.
His opposition to any revision of SAL
aries was announced at this time
because OF inquiries regarding his vote
on the amendment of Representative
May, Democrat, of Maryland, reduc-
ing the salary Of Harry Hopkins, re-
lief administrator. He explained that
he has been trying to cooperate
with the President in preventing the
passage of bills containing new au-
thorizations that will require large
appropriations.
Cochran said, "There are a lot Of
officials and employees in the Govern
ment service who are underpaid, and
there are many officials and en-
ployes who, in my opinion, are over
paid. but whenever Congress intends
to increase salaries, so far as I am
concerned personally, it will be those
in the lower brackets who will re-
ceive first consideration from me.
Il have received large sumber Of
letters from all over the country pro-
testing the passage OF any bills pro-
vldlng for the reorganization of the
Government. many of them indicating
that 1t would result in a reduction in
salary. While the committee has been
meeting in executive session, and I
have never made it a practice to dis
SuN' ~A4dt lldppSlLS DcIlulQ ClOSeQ
doors, nevertheless I feel justified in
stating that that question has never
been advanced at any time at any
meeting that has been held, nor has
the committee ever received any rec
ommendation that calls In any way
for a reduction in salary.
Purpose Of Meeting.
"The meeting held by the joint COM
mittee, with the exception OF the one
on Thursday, have been for the pur-
pose Of hearing the representatives Of
the Presidents committee, as well as
representatives of the Brookings In
stitute, who have explained their rec
concentrations. Those hearings have
been completed. In the interest of
expediting legislation it was decided
that until further notice the House
committee and the Senate committee
would act individually. There has
been absolutely no definite agreement
OF any kind as to the future policy Of
the House committee"
Evening star., 1937-05-28
ia. A. URGES MOTORISTS
%759r
TO AVOID MEXICO NOW

The American Automobile Associa-
$tun today warned It's members
fhaoushout the country against imme-
dfAte tours to Mexico because strike
eeepetroleum workers has completely
GSd up gasoline sales.
Reports to A. A. A. headquarters
here said many American motorists
we're stranded below the border with
empty fuel tanks when gasoline sales
,StPped yesterday in anticipation Of
tie general petroleum strike which
Hent into effect at midnight.
sIames B. Stewart, United States
9onsul general at Mexico City is trying
fosObtain sufficient gasoline to get the
EfSanded motorists back to this coun-
1eE "but travel into Mexico is abso-
A0fely inadvisable at the present time"
'faA. A. said
Evening star., 1937-05-28
BYRD DENOUNCES
BUREAUS WASTE
Tells Students Cost of Gov.
ernment Too Great to
Be Borne.
By the Associated Press,

RICHMOND, Va. May Ex-senator
Harry F. Byrd of Virginia told Univer-
sity Of Richmond students today that
there exists at Washington the most
wasteful and bureaucratic form Of
government that has ever been known
in our history"
Byrd, speaking at the university
convocation, said that with the ex-
tended operations OF the Federal Gov
eminent, some of which may be bene-
f1cient and desirable, the cost of these
numerous bureaucratic machines Of
duplicated activities is too great to
be borne"
They are rapidly becoming Frank
ensteins-the contrivances of ingeni-
Gus idealistic theorists-that may grow
so powerful as to destroy the right of
citizens to liberty, life and happiness, +"
he said.
Can Rarely be Dismantled.
This Is probable because the great
bureaucratic machines. once estab-
lished and made operative, can rarely
be dismantled."
Byrd, chairman Of a Senate COM
mittee on governmental reorganiza-
ton, said he made his statements
after investigating for months the
operations of the Federal Govern
ment'
The danger is that in meeting and
overcoming one crisis we must not
create another one he warned.
Government must operate its af-
fairs with machinery Of administra-
ton as simple and effective as private
business would provide" Byrd said.
"One Government - the Federal
Government-should no more be given
all power than one business establish
ment should be allowed q monopoly.
Relief must be afforded. but economic
servitude to government should not be
necessary to provide it."
Integrity Of Supreme Court.
Touching briefly on the proposed
Supreme Court reorganization, Byrd
said "the courage, capacity and integ-
rity of the Supreme Court of the
United States had been demonstrated
under many trials and tests. I" II
would be a national calamity were
public faith to decline in its honesty
and independence of judgment"
He urged protection of the Nations
credit through curbing expenditures
and reduction of the public debt, and
said he was convinced that definite
steps can be taken to place the Federal
Government on strictly pay-as-you-
go basis beginning the first of next
July, and then we should begin to pay
OH our Indebtedness.
'The Federal Government can con-
tinue the activities that are desirable
and necessary" he said. Hundreds
Of millions Of dollars can be saved by
retrenchment and consultations of
departments and agencies. The relief
should be locally administered and
the Federal Government should no;
contribute more than one-half the
total expense"
Had Disagreeable Task.
Byrd said it was "a disaRreeable
task for me when I publicly asked
that q $l,500,000 resettlement alloca-
ton IN my own community be
salvaged.
II did so, however, because of my
belief that the money WAS wastefully
expended and because I believe that
economy, if effective, must begin at
home" he added.
so long as public officials and
citizens generally demand expendi-
lures Of Federal money in their own
communities we will be unable to re-
duce the distribution Of Federal
money"
Evening star., 1937-05-28
INQUEST IN SLAYING
OF WOMAN PLANNED
Ey the Associated Press.

ORANGEBURG, S. c., May 28.-
Solicitor A. J. Hydrick said last night
an inquest into the Staying Of Mrs.
Alice Holman Boltin, 25, would prob
ably be held today.
The young woman's partly clothed
body was found on her bed room floor
Monday afternoon, bullet wound in
her head, and officers detained her
husband, Doyle Boltin, a bakery em-
ploye, for questioning.
Sheriff George L. Reed said a pis-
tol was found near the body, and torn
bits of undergarments we're scat
tered about the room, indicating .
struggle with her slayer.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Samuel B. Snider, 806 North Capt.
tol street, pleaded not guilty to three
short-weight charges when arraigned
before Police Judge Walter j. Casey
today. He was released under $500
bond pending jury trial.
The charges, filed by Weight In
spector Charles F. Applegats. involved
the purchase Of chickens and other
Evening star., 1937-05-28
Congress in Brief

TODAY.
Routine business in Senate and
House.
House Agriculture Committee hears
Secretary Wallace on new farm pro-
gram.
House Interstate Commerce Com.
mittee considers putting commercial
airlines under Interstate Commerce
Commission.
TOMORROW.
Neither house In session.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
RATHER.
NSWERING the telepho1

4 NSWERING the telephone in
n the toy department of a
~ downtown store, a somewhat
"A befuddled salesman recently
heard lady's voice say, Go get one
of your indestructible rattles and
bring it to the phone"
Yes, madam" said he, thinking 1t
wiser to obey than to argue with some
one in such a humor.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
TCH TCH DEPT.
SHINE.

~ EVER would have thought Of this
II one of our keen-eyed CORE
spondents hadn't seen it with his own
eyes. Walking down the street the
other day he espied a well-dressed,
exceedingly portly gentleman ambling
along with shoe lace Hopping loosely
around the ankle Fellow obviously
was aware Of it, but what to do? He
couldn't bend over and reach it, a
tentative inspection OF a nearby fire
plug convinced him discretion should
overrule valor as to that scheme, and
in this unchivalrous age young ladies
don't stop on the street, tip their
funny bonnets and say, Pardon me
sire, but may be of any assistance
in the matter Of the shoe lace?"
Our spy tra1led the fellow couple
Of blocks. suspectng. somethana 1as
Evening star., 1937-05-28
ROOSEVELT AT DESK

C0Id Yearly Zone, Pfes1uent 20
Leave Capital Tomorrow.
President Roosevelt was back at his
desk in the executive office today after
being away three days because Of q
head cold
The President said he felt much bet
ter, although the malady had not yet
disappeared entirely He plans to leave
Washington tomorrow night to spend
two or three days at his home at
Hyde Park, N. Y.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
TRAINING.

A je1p horse trainers Nth nopel
ideas sometimes pass up the cere-
n1ony OF the "morning bloUout"-
the Ddrna-up at datDn before big
race-uhen their charges are going
to be shipped to the scene OF the
race In a Uan. They argue the
Evening star., 1937-05-28

Every we'll" he continued, return
ing with the rattle in hand.
Rattle it," said the lady, sternly.
He did.
Now break it," she ordered.
But, madam, it Is indestructible. +"
'Phooey. My 6-month-old son Just
broke his. Smash it. say, and charge
1t to me-
"Yes. madam" said the salesman.
smashing away.
Smashed yet?"
Quite" said he.
Now count the bells inside"
There is only one bell. madam"
"Only one? You sure?"
"Only one"
Thank goodness" sighed the lady.
II could find only one after Junior
broke his 'indestructible,' but every
time I shook him thought I heard
him tinkle. Guess he didn't swallow
bell, after all. Well, thanks very
much. Charge it,"
Yes, madam" said the clerk, rat
tling of to get sales slip.
X X X
CHECK-UP.
WE'VE always thought it q bit OF
an affectation to have a pri-
vate telephone and a house tele-
phone in anything less than a major
domestic blishment, but heard
the other evening a practical tale
that rather changes our viewpoint.
This was about a fair lass who has
the two-phone combination in her
small apartment. A young man who
comes around quite lot has the same
arrangement in his quarters. Tother
night he called up to say he was
frightfully sorry but he didn't think
he could keep an engagement with
her. Had a terrible cold, was at
home and thought he'd best stay
there
Suspicious, our lass decided the
swain was not really at home. She
summoned her apartment mate, told
her to get on their house telephone,
put through an outside call to the
gentleman's house telephone and see
what happened. Then she went on
conversing with him on the private
hook-up.
Few seconds later he said, "Wait
a minute, my other telephone is
ringing" and darted away.
Came back very shortly.
That's funny" he said. Nobody
on the line"
very funny" said she and began
sympathizing with his cold in q
large way.
TCH TCH DEPT.
After his story had gone out on
the 1uires to thousands OF BREATH
less fans, certain press service
correspondent here had to send
through tUo corrections in his &C.
count OF the national spelling bee.
Both ,yere necessitated by mis-
takes in spelling, the expert hauino
put through "diptheria" as "dipth-
theria" and "anoeba" as "an,eobd."
He says that after all the kidding
the boys gaze him, he felt about as
hSn ah~
Evening star., 1937-05-28

All fyn The Nantucket sail about third the time
3aopoWer motor
CRUISE TO Norfolk the Azores Southampton Amsterdam Madeira
Re
clarence Abe U N, retired.
Evening star., 1937-05-28

going to happen. 1t did. just as he
had guessed. The heavy one turned
into the nearest shoe shine parlor,
sank heavily into one Of the leather
chairs, waited for the boy to give him
an unnecessary shine and, Incl
dentally,, to tie the shoe.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
JUDGE DOOMS DOG
Boy Loses Plea for Pet Which
Nipped Man.

DENVER, May 2s R.-Municipal
Judge Phillip B. Gillian sentenced
Curley, water spaniel, to die June I
after Carl Eskildson testified yester-
day the dog had nipped him on the
right calf
FERN Armento, y, eaearfully pro-
tooted hb IT Was no4 v1caouR.
Evening star., 1937-05-28

Finishing strong, Denny turned the
halfway point up on his par and
won 10 where Hines was In the rough.
Shute missed 2-footer that would
have won II and then failed to get
down one from feet and lost IA. But
he rammed in 10 and foot puts for
hirdiec IN IA and II
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08
The Game of Poker.

CALIFORNIA'S attorney general
~ decides that draw poker, unless
played as a percentage game, is not
gambling.
Had he gone deeper into the SUBJ
ject, he might have ruled that draw
poker, as generally played nova
days, is not even a game. What vet
eran would call it anything except
sacrilege against an ancient and
once honorable sport when folks are
free to introduce at will such abom-
nations as deuces wild or one-eyed
jacks or barber's itch or spit in
the ocean?
To draw honest cards; to try to
play the other fellows chances as
we'll as your own; to try to figure
when to raise and when to call and
when to quit; to try to pick the right
moment for bluffing, since the bluff
is the real soul of the thing-that's
poker, my masters, an American
born pastime, hallowed with age,
ennobled by usage, beloved Of the
fathers.
IRWIN S. COBB.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08
Negotiations to Settle
the Chrysler Strike

T NDER the persuasion Of Gov.
~ Frank Murphy of Michigan,
John L. Lewis, head of the c. I. O.,
and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman
of the Chrysler motor corporation,
were brought together in more or
less peaceful conference at the state
capitol in Lansing. The immediate
result was an agreement that the
sitdoWn strikers should evacuate
the eight Chrysler plants in Detroit,
and that the corporation should not
resume production during the Pc
riod Of negotiations. Six thousand
strikers had held possession of the
plants since March in defiance of
court orders and the governor, as
in the case of the General Motors
strike, had been extremely reluc-
tant to authorize forceful methods
of enforcing the law. He had, how
ever, insisted that the men must
obey the law and court orders, and
the concession by Lewis was VIC
tory for the governor, as well as
for the corporation which had de-
clared it would not negotiate while
the men held its plants. Mr.. Chrys-
'lc- also has asserted the company
would not enter into any agreement
recognizing any one group as sole
bargaining agency for all en-
ployees.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08
No Government Action Yet
on Sitdown Strikes

T 1NDER pressure from his advis-
~ ers to take a public stand con-
corning the sit-down strike, Presi-
dent Roosevelt Immediately after
his return from Warm Springs held
a conference with Vice President
Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joe
Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and
House Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn. At its close Senator Robin
son, presumably voicing Mr.. Roose-
velt's views, said:
THE government cannot initiate
action under the circumstances thus
far presented. It is felt that the sit
down strike situation in a general
sense is improving.
There are two conditions under
which federal action may be in
voked in case of acute strike condi-
tons; namely where federal laws
have been violated or where federal
property, including the mails, is in
terfered with
"Unless one of these conditions
exists, federal intervention or ac-
ton, under the Constitution and de-
cision of the courts, is not warranted.
''The second condition is cases
where state authorities, under the
federal law, ask the services of fed
eral agencies in the preservation of
law and order and in the prevention
of violence.
Neither condition has so far aris-
en-. Except in instances where in
terstate commerce is interfered
with, where a federal law is disre-
garded, the federal government
does not, and cannot under the Con-
stitution, initiate action"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08
Planning Health and Energy.

When the business man plans that
his income will take care of eX-
penses, he is said to budget his fl
nancial undertakings. A great many
housewives work on or use a bud
get, putting aside so much for rent,
for food, for fuel, for clothing, for
medical and dental attention and
a little for the savings bank.
1t would seem then that it would
be only good sense if each and
every one of us were to budget our
health, our energy, so that we could
do all that was possible for our
health or energy to do without rob-
bing ourselves and so causing i'll
health and lack of energy.
Dr. George Grille, in his book Dis
eases Peculiar to Civilized Man"
shows how the insane desire for
speed of all kinds which afflictS
and sometimes seems like to ruin
this rather mad generation is the
cause of such we'll recognized all
ments as ulcer of the stomach and
intestine, increase in the activity
of the thyroid gland in the neck
so that all the processes of the body
are driven at an increased rate of
speed, weakness of the muscular
and nervous system, and brought
about the knowledge of how to cure
these conditions by cutting the trans
mission between the brain and the
overdriven organs.
The treatment is for the physi-
clan to show the patient that it is
oyerspending of energy in work or
play that is causing the symptoms
Copyright-WNU Servios.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08
Congressman B. K. Focht
of PENNSYLVANIA Dies

THE small Republican group in
l. the house lost one of its men,
bers by the death of Representative
Benjamin K. Focht of Lewisburg,
Pa. Becoming suddenly i'll while
dining at a Washington hotel, he
was taken to hospital and passed
away from heart disease.
Mr.. Focht, who was editor Of the
Lewisburg Saturday News, began
his public service in 1907 as a men,
ber of the 60th congress. The pres
ent was his tenth term, but he had
not served consecutively. He was
seventy-four years of age and was
the son of Lutheran minister. His
widow, son, and daughter sur.
vive.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-08

$50 l think it is my duty to say
that careful inquiry indicates that
the sit-doWn strikes do not reflect
any widespread movement to defy
the law or impair civil government
or change current conceptions of
property rights. The detectives are
the usual objectives of unions in la
Dor disputes.
That the sit-down strike involves
grave implications detrimental to
labor's interests" is the view of the
American Federation of Labor as
stated by President William Green.
This for two reasons:
First, public opinion will not sup
port sit-down strikes. That means
labor loses public support when any
part of it engages in sit-down
strikes. Without such support or
ganized labor cannot win strikes or
establish and maintain itself as a
vital force in the economic and in
dustrial life of the nation. Labor
cannot afford to lose the support of
public opinion.
Second, temporary advantages
gained through sit-down strikes will
inevitably lead to permanent injury.
The public generally will not long
tolerate the illegal seizure of prop
erty. If persisted in, it will through
state and federal law-making bod
les force enactment of legislation
providing for compulsory arbitra-
ton, the incorporation of unions and
other repressive forms of legisla-
ton"