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Evening star., 1937-12-06
BY the Associated Press.

That complete catalogue for en-
ployers-the annual report of the
Civilian Conservation Corps-came out
today with the dimensions of $4,000
men.
Anybody wanting to hire man can
find just about every kind from au-
thors to big-chested boys ready to
pound q police beat.
For instance:
The corps has three men over 7
feet tall and 10 who are feet high.
There are 81 Of the enrolees who
can expand their chest 8 inches and
three who-at the risk of vest but
tons-can do better than 8.
Here's a tip to a professional foot
ball team looking for weight in the
line. Director Robert Fechner's got
10 lads who weigh 270 pounds or over.
That's six teams and four subs!
Sixteen authors, the report states,
are ready for the waiting1Vorld, as are
l0,342 cooks and 100 REPORTERS.
The G. @. @. also has 80 men ready
Evening star., 1937-12-06
MAN KILLED HERE
IN POLICE AMBUSH
AS FIVE ESCAPE
Suspected Safe Robber Is
Slain Outside Home of
Numbers Operator.
FUGITIVES' AUTOMOBILE
RIDDLED BY BULLETS
Car Used by Cohorts of Carlton G
(Cotty) Williams Is
Recovered.

Trailed for months as suspect in
numerous safe robberies here, Carlton
G. (Cotty) Williams, 80, was shot to
death last night when he walked into
police trap that blocked his attempt
to crack the safe of wealthy Mary
land slot machine and numbers
racket" operator
Four companions, whom Williams
left seated in parked automobile
as he confidently walked alone into
the ambush in the 5000 block of Suit
land road Sc, escaped in a hail of
bullets fired by six police officers
from submachine gun, automatic
rifles and shotguns.
The fugitives' automobile, riddled
with bullet holes. later was recovered
by police. Two suspects were arrested
early today and held incommunicado
Maryland and Virginia police were
warned to be on the lookout for the
other desperadoes. Two of the men
were believed to have been wounded
in the battle with police. Hospitals
and physicians were checked for traces
of them seeking treatment.
Was Under $4,000 Bond.
Williams, under $4,000 bond since
last April in connection with a $4,000
pay roll hold-up and other robberies in
Philadelphia, had been shadowed for
the last nine months by Detective
Sergt. Joseph w. Shimon. Arrested
several times in connection with local
safe robberies, he had been released
for lack of evidence.
Finally, police tapped telephone
wire used by Williams. A few days
ago, Sergt. Shimon heard him dis
close plans for cracking the safe in the
Suitland road house. A $4,000 haul
Evening star., 1937-12-06
OPENED
/. BY YOUTH COUNCIL
Leaders Seek to Prevent
Cut in Funds of National
Administration.

The National Council of the Amer
lean Youth Congress opened a two
day emergency meeting today at the
National Education Association Build
ing to plan to prevent reduction of
appropriations for the National Youth
Administration and to seek passage
of the so-called American Youth Act"
introduced at the last session of Con-
gress.
Attending the opening session were
Senator Lundeen. Farmer -Laborite, of
Minnesota. who introduced the youth
bill in the Senate; Senator Dixie
Graves and Representative Voorhis
of California. one of the sponsors of
the bill in the House.
At the conclusion of the initial
meeting a group of five members
of the National Council were to call
on Aubrey Williams, director of the
N. Y. A., to urge restoration of funds
cut from the N. Y. A. appropriation
during the current year and to stress
the fact that many of the Nation S
youth have been denied aid because
of the reduction. The American
Youth act would extend and make
permanent the N. Y. A.
At this afternoons meeting the
council was to discuss plans for a
youth pilgrimage to Washington next
March on behalf of a five-point pro-
gram, which includes urging Congress
to pass the youth act, to provide
Federal aid to States for education,
to pass the Nye-Kvale bill and the
Bernard c. c. C. bill, and to pass
legislation to defeat industrial mobili-
zation plans.
1t was announced at this morning S
session that John l.. Lewis, chairman
of the Committe for Industrial Or
ganization, has pledged c. I. o. sup
port to the youth act.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
HOLLYWOOD IDEAL
IN FAMILIES HIT.
Best Stock Not Reproducing
Itself, Dr.. Popenoe
Tells Council.

American family life is slipping be-
cause too much of the best stock of
the country has gone Hollywood" and
is not reproducing itself, while those
who can't afford it are having too
many children, DR.. Paul P. Popenoe,
director of the Institute of Family Re-
lations OF Los Angeles, told the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies today.
DR.. Popenoe was the principal
speaker at the opening session of a
three-day conference in the United
States Chamber of Commerce Build
ing, sponsored by the council for dis
cussion of family relations.
The more than 500 members of
charitable. civic and club groups pres
ent were told by DR.. Popenoe that the
home, the school and the church all
have failed in the education of chill
dren and now "are passing the buck
to each other"
THE Average Family"
Facetiously describing the average
modern American family as consist
ing of man, another mans wife and
dog. he said family life was failing
in this country mainly because too
| many families are patterned after q
Hollywood model, and this leads di-
rectly to the divorce courts. He pro-
duced data showing that large num-
ber of the marriages in Los Angeles
County end in disaster.
In tracing the present trend OF
family life, the speaker said it is
being based on an affectional function
only. That is, men and women marry
with no idea of raising children, but
merely to shower their affections upon
each other. To make family life
ideal, DR.. Popenoe advocated a
strengthening of the reproduction and
economic functions with q deflation
of the affectional function. He pic
tured a life built on the affectional
function as one-legged affair and
said family life really should be a
three-legged proposition made up Of
the functions he cited.
| Society Gets Responsibility.
| Most of the ills that beset family
life were traced to the machine age
DR.. Popenoe pointed out that the old
family took upon itself the attitudes
of education, politics, economics and
soclology--even recreation; but that
all these groups have now been handed
back to society en- masse. He traced
the growth of manufacturing from the
steam engine and pointed out that
through the rapidly growing system
of communications and transportation
and other factors of the mechanical
age the family had lost its grip. Sc
much so, in fact, that great cities
have destroyed the educational ad-
vantages of family life. Children
he said, nowadays grow up without
the example of their fathers, and
mothers oftentimes are out working
Because of this children have come
to feel that they have no partnership
in the home.
The morning session was presided
over by the Rev. DR.. Russell j. Clinchy
pastor of the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church and president of
the Board Of Directors, Council of
Social Agencies. The afternoon ses.
sion centered around the subject THE
Search for Romance" led by John
L. Nixon, director Of the department
of social welfare for the Washington
Federation of Churches.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
7-RO0n1 House Must Be MOued
Or RemOdeled to Meet "Trend''
1t Vas Farm House When She and Hus.
band MOued Into 1t, Retired u. S.
ChariUO1nan Recalls.

when I got s400 saved up, I
decided to buy the house. I used
my savings as a down payment and
continued to pay every month, the
same as rent finally got the place
paid for-oh, a long time ago"
Retired at the age of 70 on
pension of $40 a month, Mrs Suiker-
bulk ekes out her income by raising
and selling rabbits and raising chick
ens-to sell the eggs-in addition to
caring for two boarders. Every morn
ing at 7 o'clock she trudges four
blocks to chain grocery. pulling
toy express wagon" which the
clerks fill with greens-carrot tops,
turnip tops and the like-for her
rabbits.
Mrs. Suikerbuik's first intimation
that her dwelling was threatened by
the Capitals expansion came about
five years ago. when workmen began
to cut through Girard street.
Erected Fence Along Edge.
'The first thing I knew about it."
she declared, was when I looked out
the window one morning and saw q
steam shovel Then, about two years
ago. the same thing happened again
this time on the Fifteenth street
side. right where I'd always had my
vegetable garden"
BY the time the digging was COM
pleted the north and east walls of the
cottage were SO close to the precipice
that District authorities, as a safety
measure, erected a fence along the
edge.
A search of the records Of the prop
erty in the files of the District Build
ing disclosed that 90-foot rights oI
way for development as streets were
presented to the Municipal Govern.
| ment in 1889-just about two years
| after Mrs. Suikerbuik and her husband
rented the house, but long before she
began to purchase it. The dedications
were signed by two trustees for the
estate which owned the property.
Must Take Action.
It was not until a few DAYS ago
however, that special survey revealed
that the northeast corner of the dwell
ing projected S feet beyond the
southwest boundary of the intersection
and portions of the irregularly shaped
east wall from S to 13 feet beyond
the west boundary of Fifteenth street
This means Mrs. Suikerbuik will either
have to move her home-she owns the
two lots nearest the corner--a safe
distance westward, or else have the
structure remodeled.
"I've already built two-room addi-
ton on the south end of the house,
the widow said. And last year hac
to put in oil heat that I'm still payine
for, because I couldn't get coal de.
livered up on this hill. I just haven't
got any more money to spend on the
place"
Thus far, District officials said, there
are no plans for completing the street
projects, which eventually will include
paved roadways, sidewalks and CUTTERS
and parkings.
"Well," Mrs. Suikerbuik remarked
when given this information, "maybt
| won't have to worry about that. Tn
IA, YOU know"
Evening star., 1937-12-06
NOVENA BROADCAST
st. Mary's Catholic Church to
Have Service for Shut-Ins.

The Rev. Charles ]. Trinkhaus, pas
tor of st. Mary's Catholic Church,
Fifth street near H NV, has arranged
for a special broadcast Of the novena
in honor of Our Lady Of the Miraculous
Medal, for the benefit of the sick and
shut-ins. The broadcast will be at
$3.50 o'clock tonight through Station
VOL and will be continued on each
Monday evening at the same time.
For more than three years, thou
sands Of Washingtonians have been at
tending these services on Monday OF
each week, including many non-Cath-
olics. Masses are at 8 and 10 am,
and are followed by other novena serv-
ices at 12:16s4, 4:45. Sis, 6. $50.
tbs, 7:45, $3.50 and s:15 pm.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
No more home-cooking!
NO more >dish-washing!
No more maid trouble!

These cardinal promises are held out
to the good housewives Of the Nation
by 1000 earnest and conscientious
restaurateurs gathered at the May
flower Hotel from Eastern. Seaboard
States with one idea: To make the
American home slice of paradise on
earth, and this by doing away with
the kitchen and all its attendant
drudgeries.
Main idea, of course, is to get the
American family out of the home at
rneal-times, with the possible excep-
ton OF breakfast.
"It means" according to Julius
Lulley, general convention chairman,
who launched the campaign on be-
hall Of the National and Washington
Restaurant Associations, in joint as
sembly, "the end of the divorce prob
I'm in America, as we'll as better food
aRd better health for the Nation"
$Backed by Henry I. Dunnock Of
xaltamore, president Of the national
Evening star., 1937-12-06
MYsTERIoUsLy' HURT

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 6 (SpeciaD
John Pope, As, Of Germantown, was
found unconscious on the Shady
Grove road early yesterday and taken
to the Montgomery County General
Hospital by 8 passing motorist, ac-
cording to reports to police here. He
told his son, Ira Pope, he had been
out in Car with q relative the night
before, but was unable to explain
how he was injured, police wAre told.
He suffered q cash on the had and
may have q fractured skull
Evening star., 1937-12-06
AIR CRUISE DELAYED
BY HEAVY WEATHER
BY the Associated Press.


MIAMI. Fla, Dec. 6.-Heavy weather,
with a ceiling Of only 800 feet at
Key West, caused postponement until
tomorrow Of an air cruise to Ha-
vana planned today by a score Of
pilots as an aftermath of the all
American air maneuvers.
At the same time Jacqueline Coch-
ran, who established a New York
Miami speed record Of 4 hours 1917
minutes last week, delayed an attempt
to seek new marks for 100, so and rs
mile closed courses.
Richard Archbold of New York took
of from Havana in the 14-ton flying
boat he few here nonstop from San
Diego, Calf, bVh the other entrants
in the cruise vfsed for the weather
Evening star., 1937-12-06
COL. HALSEY PRAISED
IN SENATE FOR SERVICES
Secretary to Group Today Com
pleted 40 Years of Employ
ment at Capitol.

Before resuming debate on the farm
bill today the members of the Senate
paid tribute to the services of Col.
Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the
Senate, who today completed 40 years
of service at the Capitol.
A native of Virginia, Col Halsey
began as page and worked his way
up to the top of the staff of Senate
officials. His Office force presented
him with a golf bag and other gifts
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Bone to Leave Hospital,

Aides of Senator Bone, Democrat,
OF Washington, said today he would
leave the Naval Hospital within few
days. He entered the hospital for OBJ
servation last week after a slight at
tack of indigestion and throat trouble
Hospital officials said his condition
at no time was serious.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
"NUMBERS" HOLIDAY

The numbers" racket was not oper-
ating in Washington today, player
discovered when he could find no one
willing to accept his usual bet.
The holiday" was not due to any
unusual police activity, but to the
fact the horses were not running at
any Of the large tracks from which
the local racket operators were willing
to take numbers.
The "pay-of" numbers usually are
obtained from the mutuel figures at
one Of the large race tracks.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Roper Urges Legal Measure

Congress ought to decide just how
long an inch is and how much pound
weighs, Secretary Of Commerce Roper
suggested yesterday. Most people
know the answers, he conceded, but
they have never been determined le-
gally.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
BAND CONCERTS

BY the United States Marine Band
tomorrow at pm. in the auditorium,
Marine Barracks; Capt. Taylor Bran
son, leader; William F. Santelmann,
second leader.
Program.
Overture, "Euryanthe" Weber
Characteristic, In a Persian Mar
Cornet solo, "Serenade" Schubert
Musician Winifred Kemp.)
Selections from 1.-THE Runaway
Girl" -----------Caryll- -Monckton
Trombone solo, Celeste Aida Verdi
(Musician Robert Isele.)
March, 1.-The Skyliner'' Afford
Donkey Serenade" from 1.-THE
FREELY" --------------- Friml
Trombone solo, Little Mother of
Mine" Observation-Disclosures -Burleigh
(Musician Olin Maxfeld.)
Waltz, Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt
March, "Gridiron Golden Jubilee"
Capt. Taylor Branson
Hymn, Softly, Now the Light of
Day" Observation-Disclosures Weber
The Marines hymn:
"The Halls Of Montezuma."
'The Star Spangled Banner"
United States Army Band, at the
Army Band Auditorium; Capt. Thomas
r. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assist
ant leader; today at pm.
March, king Cotton" Sousa
Tone painting, Impressions of an
Afternoon" Mainente
Xylophone solo, "Liebesfreud,"
Kreisler
(Joseph I. Young, Soloist.)
Popular, Remember Me-"
Dublin & Warren
Musical sketch, Prom Japanese
Screen" Ketelbey
March-song, "Old Doughboy,"
Raymond
Waltz, "Gipsy Love- -Lehar
March, "On Dress Parade" Chambers
The Stas spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1937-12-06
WOMAN KILLS SELF
Found Hanging, Neck Broken, il
Hagerstown Hotel Room.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. 6 (P).-
The body of Mrs. Alice Patterson, 48,
was found hanging in her room at a
hotel here yesterday by police.
The woman apparently had fastened
a,.clothes line to hook in the CELL
ing. tied the other end around her
neck and jumped from her bed. Her
neck was broken. Coroner John Dunn
gave virdict of suicide.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
A DEMOCRATIC PARTY AFFAIR

To say that the Democratic PLATFORM ana '"'
prediction campaign of President Roosevelt or
either of them, contemplated what the fresaen'
now undertakes to persuade Congress to do TO the
Supreme Court, or that the election gave man.
date for it, is mere rhetorical juggling A scfupu-
lous intellectual honesty requires that proponents
take this position: That the 1886 election was d
carte blanc authorization to Franklin d. Roosevelt
from large majority Of the electorate }.
Representative Lamneck, the Ohioan, says that
his party twill probably find itself in the grave
yard if it allows itself to be known as the party
that surrendered the hard-won rights of the Ameri-
can people," more severely true appraisal OF the
proposal is this 1t is not sound party policy to en-
act fundamental legislation that has not been dis
cussed as an issue in national campaign. If Mr..
Roosevelt or the platform drafters, or the Demo.
cratic national convention, the campaign speak
ers and writer's, had in mind the summary replace
ment of the Supreme Court Of the United States
none of them said so in express terms, and the
great body of the voters were not conscious that
they were voting on any such proposal.
Political parties do not take their platforms, al
ter election, any more seriously than necessary:
but there is a line somewhere beyond which it Is
not sound party practice to go, even In the light
OF new developments after election. And there
have not been any new developments that material
" alter the situaton.-Greensboro News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-06
CUT THEM OUT

Every year, and especially in election years, the
folks back home learn of the valiant fight Their
representative in Congress is putting up to stem
the tide of waste and corruption that threatens &c
engulf the administration.
These stirring tidings come from reprints from
the Congressional Record of speeches never made
franked free through the mails.
Now Representative Sam Hobbs of Alabama pro
poses that the Record be closed to extraneous mat
tiers, including speeches never delivered on the
floor of either house.
This would save the people a couple of hundred
thousand dollars, and would eliminate from the
Record such stimulating articles as a discussion o.
the French duelling code and the curative effects
of radium water which actually have been printed
Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-06
TAXES TAXES. TAXES

Taxes in this country are the highest in the ma
TONS history according to report of 10 research
experts working under the direction of the Twen-
tieth Century Fund. The annual tax bill averages
500 for every man, woman and child in the coun-
try.
If government borrowing were ended and expen-
ditures were not reduced, the average annual tax
would be Sis to S120 per person, the report
showed.
The largest portion of the tax goes to the Fed
eral government the specialists reported, with "A
cents on each tax dollar, or S44 person going to
the U. S. Treasury. Local governments collect an
average of $50 year from every individual while
the remaining $50 per year per person goes to the
state governments.
Taking federal, state and local tax together
more than one-ifth of the national income is used
to pay taxes, it pointed out.
Every one, the report said, pays taxes directly
or indirectly. "If he does not pay directly to the
government" it said che at least helps others to
pay through increased rent and prices of food
clothing and the other necessities of life."-Gas-
tona Gazette.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-06
SUBSCRIBING CITIES

Put it down, ladies and gentlemen, that the
housing bills the reclamation of slums" and all
that sort of thing are for the benefit of cities The
houses that government is substituting or proposing
to substitute for persons of low income in cities are
better by far than is the average farm house in
South Carolina-the farm houses that men and
women have built and paid for without govern
ment's help. Government is substituting houses for
people who can't pay fair rent based on the cost,
while other people pay not only rent-or interest
on the money invested in them, which is the same
thing-but also taxes to support the government
This country is now run the principle that when
ever horse can't or won't pull its load, some other
horse must be harnessed up by government and
made to pull it. No horse must go without oats
| whether it pulls its load or not There are old
horses, sick horses, crippled horses, among human
| beings that should and must be fed and sheltered
We are not talking about characterization News
| and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-06
Sees Industrial
Renaissance For
South Carolina
Billion and Quarter Income
for Farmers There Is
Forecast.

COLUMBIA, S. c., March c.
(UP).-An industrial renaissance
for South Carolina and the south
was predicted by Carl B. Fritsche,
managing director of the farm
chemurgic council, in an address
at the University Of South Caro-
lima.
industrial uses of American
farm products can in 10 years
will in 20 years ;. bring a billion
and quarter dollars in new in
come to our farmers" Fritche
predicted. "These uses will fur
nish employment to the unemploy-
ed, help solve the tenant farmer
and sharecropper problem.
Fritsche explained that the farm
chemurgic council is composed of
national leaders in agriculture, in
Idustry and science. It's purpose is
Mo advance the industrial use of
american farm products through
applied science, he said.
Me estimated tina development
of score Of new "chemurgic"
projects will utilize 50,000,000
acres of farm land within the next
few\years.
Speaking specifically of paper
pulp from pine trees, one Of four
such projects now in the CONNER
clal production stage, Fritsche
said:
"There are 2OO,000,OOO acres
Of pine in the south. Ten per cent
OF this acreage, properly protect
ed, could supply paper necessities
of TIE entire world.
There are II pulp mills now
locating in the south. They rep
resenA total investment of $780,
100000 and will turn out 100000
tons o. pape~ pulp each year. In
20 yeas there will be 100 pulp
mills insouthern states"
Fritsc1e said three other che
murgic Industries, now in various
stages Oh commercial production
in the south, are producing power
alcohol, stIches and tung oil.
He mentioned specifically a
starch mill y Laurel, Miss, which
he said was capable of producing
100000 pmnds Of starch an
nually. To mpply the domestic
demand alone, he added, would re-
quire 200 .othr mills equal in ca
pacity.