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Evening star., 1937-08-09
BABY SHOWS LISTED
ON PARKS PROGRAM
Trip to Zoo on Schedule for Fri.
day-Pet Exhibit Will
Re Hold

Events ranging from baby shows to
a visit to the Zoo have been scheduled
for the public recreation program this
week. the office OF National Capital
Parks announced today.
Baby shows will be held at the
Wheatley Community Center Wednes-
day. the Eastern Community Center
and Henry-Polk Fairgrounds Thurs
day and the Buchanan Community
Center Friday.
Children at Langdon Park will enjov
the trip to the Zoo Park Friday. A
puppet show is scheduled for Fridav
at the Dunbar Community Center.
while a sports costume show will be
held at IL am. Tuesday at the Stanton
Playground.
Pet shows will be held at 2 ON,
Tuesday at Noyes Playground, and 3
pm. at Congress Heights Playground
and Takoma Recreation Center. Other
pet shows will be held at the Paul
Community Center Thursday and
Mann Playground Friday.
A bicycle race for boys will take
place at the Stanton Community
Center Friday, while a health show
is scheduled for Georgetown Play
ground Wednesday.
A baby and pet show and a vehicle
parade will be held Friday at the
Jefferson Junior High School Play
ground. Bathing beauty contests for
girls under IL will take place at
Buchanan Community Center and
Janney Fairgrounds Wednesday.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
PL0TTERS SOUGHT
|NTRA|NDERA|L|NG
B. & O., With 200 Aboard,
Gets Over Road Trest|e.
No Serious Hurts,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
CARLYLE. Ill, August 9.-Railroad
detectives and Clinton County officers
hunted clues today to plotters who
they said derailed a Baltimore e. Ohio
passenger train last night as it sped
200 passengers across highway
underpass near here en- route to St.
Louis.
Minor bruises were the only injuries
reported from what trainmen called
IAN apparent attempt to wreck the
train They said unoff1cially they be-
leved cranks caused the wreck.
A heavy steel fish" plate, found
still fastened atop the rail, was blamed
directly for the derailment which sent
the engine and tender plunging down
20-foot embankment.
Railroad Investigators said only the
trains speed of about IS miles an
hour carried it across the cut and
prevented more serious wreck. The
IL cars remained standing. some bal
anced precariously on the trestle
across the highway.
Workmen started early today re-
pairing the 300 feet of damaged track.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
110 STAR CARRIERS
GET TRIP TO RESORT
Winners in Efficiency and Sales
manship Contest to Go to
Atlantic City.

Winners in an efficiency and sales
manship contest last month, l10 Star
carrier boys will be Atlantic City,
bound tomorrow for a two-day visit
to the beach resort as guests Of The
Star.
Leaving at am. from Union Sta
ton, the boys will arrive in time to
register at one Of the leading hotels
and get out on the beach for an
afternoon swim.
Tomorrow night they will go to the
steel pier for a round of movies,
circuses and other places of amuse-
ment. Wednesday will be spent seeing
the town and swimming, the group
returning home that night.
Charles A. McKenney of The Star
circulation department will be in
charge Of the trip. He will be assisted
by D. H. Burrows. D. N. Nicklason,
J. H. Moore and Cedric johnson.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
Star Staff Photo.

said Re didn't believe she would ever
get up again. Old age has sapped her
strength and she may have to be de-
stroyed, he said.
Maybe she'll get all right, and
be up and around again." said Ernest
P. Walker, assistant Zoo director, "but
it's hard to tell. She may not live
very long. There seems to be general
wearing out-you know, an elephants s
life span is just about the same as that
Of human being"
They don't know Babes exact age.
She is somewhere between 80 and 100
years, Zoo officials believe She spent
half century with the Barnum g.
Bailey Circus The circus said she
hadn't lain down for six years, and Zoo
officials are certain that last night was
the first time she had laid down here.
Babe started to back out Of her
quarters in the elephant house yester-
day morning, but fell. Her $500
g pounds wedged in the doorway, it
required block and tackle to move
her inside and then she wouldn't. or
couldn't get up.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
. Id BABES eyes seemed as

(LD BABES eyes seemed as
bright as ever this morning,
but-although Zoo officials
hate to admit it-they believe
old age finally has caught up with
her.
The famous circus elephant, who
was retired to the Zoo three years
ago, slept lying down last night-the
first time she had been of her feet
in nine years. Ralph Norris, the
elephant keeper, thought she might
be up and numbering around today,
but Babe just lay quietly in her quar-
tiers.
,Headkeeper William H. Blackburne
offered her little hay, but she
wouldn't eat any To add to the
weariness Of old age Babe = bothered
by an ingrown toe-nail, for which a
veterinarian has been treating her for
about a month.
Blackburne, veteran former circus
elephant trainer. who trained the
famous Jumbo and knew Babe for 80
years before she came 70 The Zoo,
Evening star., 1937-08-09
STREET ROPED OFF
FOR MOY FUNERAL
Two Orchestras to Play at Rites
Today for Former On Leong
Tong Head.

The 500 block Of H street, heart Of
Washington Chinatown, will be roped
off today for the hundreds of Chinese
and American friends of Charley Moy
expected to attend the last rites for
the former On Jeong chief.
Two orchestras, one Chinese group
from New York, will play for the
services at pm at sll H street. next
door to Moy's famous Joy Inn, where
he suffered a paralytic stroke Friday.
He died late in the day in Casualty
Hospital.
After the services. which, according
to Moy's lifelong friend. George Wen,
will be like your American funeral
without the celebration peculiar to
Oriental rites. burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Moy, who was 40. is survived by
his widow and three children, George
2l; Charley, jr., 4, and Virginia, s
Evening star., 1937-08-09
COURT BILL SENT
TO CONFERENCE
Joint Committee to Work
Out Agreement Acceptable
to Both Houses.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House sent the Senate's lower
court procedure bill today to a
Senate House conference committee
to work out an agreement acceptable
to both houses
Chairman Summers of the House
Judiciary Committee obtained unani-
nous consent of the House for this
action.
Leaders said it eliminated the need
tor extended consideration of the re-
vised measure by the House Judiciary
Committee.
Speaker Bankhead appointed Sum-
ners and Representatives Weaver,
Democrat, of North Carolina: Walter,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania; Nc
Laughlin. Democrat, of Nebraska; ;
Guyer. Republican, of Kansas, and
Hancock, Republican, of New York, to
represent the House at the confer
ence.
Bankhead said no disposition to
change the bill was in prospect, how
ever, and it probably would be ac-
cepted early in the week.
Containing no mention OF the Su-
preme Court the measure shot through
the Senate Saturday without a record
vote under the parliamentary adroit-
ness of Vice President Garner.
Pounding his gavel Garner took the
Senate by surprise and shut off de-
bate by jumping from adoption Of a
minor amendment to passage of the
bill
without objection. the amendments
(the bilp in the nature of a substi-
tute will be agreed to-" he said The
chair hears no objection. Without
objection. the bill is passed"
That was the end of the controversy
which split the Senate for five months.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
J0BLESS CENSUS
SEEN RELIEF BASIS
Black Bill Aim Discovery of
Number and Class Need
ing Work.
BY the Associated Press,

census of the unemployed. which
the Senate approved Saturday, may
help lay the basis for the Govern
ment's future treatment of the relief
policy.
The bill, introduced by Senator
Black, Democrat, of Alabama, declares
the aim is TO determine the number,
class and distribution Of those need
ing work, and their occupations. IN
comes and dependents, ito aid in tire
formulation of a program for re-em-
ployment, social security and unem-
ployment relief"
Years Of agitation lie behind the
approval of the measure by the Sen
ate There has been much criticism
that relief activities have been more
or less haphazard, due to being based
on insufficient data concerning those
out Of work Estimates Of the army
of the jobless have varied by millions
Hopkins Data Held Adequate.
Administration officials have con-
tended, however, that Harry L. Hop
kins, W. P. A. administrator. has COL
lected sufficient statistics on which
to proceed intelligently with the w.
P. A. program. They added. however,
that census would be a good thing.
If voted by the House. the census
will be held before April /, at cost
Of $4,000 900 to SIS, 100000
The bill would let the following
group determine the exact type OF
count, who would conduct it and the
nature of the questions: Secretaries
Of Labor and Commerce, the works
progress administrator, chairmen Of
the Social Security and Central Sta
tistical Boards and the census director.
A year ago proposals for door
bell-ringing" unemployment census
were shelved. Later, President Roose-
welt expressed favor for a voluntary
registration scheme which would have
become the only basis for extension
of relief.
Patronage Plum Envisaged.
Hugh S. johnson. former national
recovery administrator, termed the
former method "cockeyed" He as
serted it would be costly patronage
plum.
But Secretary Perkins said there was
nothing in the voluntary registration
plan to prevent a person registering in
several places in the hope of increasing
his chances of obtaining work.
With introduction of each relief bill
the last two years, some members of
Congress have demanded a count of
the unemployed. The Senate in June
rejected proposal by Senators Lodge,
Republican, of Massachusetts, and
Bridges, Republican. of New Hamp-
shire, for a s2o,000O0O census.
A short time later, administration
leaders said privately they would not
oppose the Black bill. 1t passed the
Senate when sponsors of similar bills
withheld their objections.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
Embryonic T,cin
Is Severed From
Child, 7 Months
Girl Reported Doing
Veil in Huntington,
". Ta., Hospital.
B, the Associated Press.

HUNTINGTON, W Va, August o.
The separation Of a 7-month-old baby
from an embryonic twin Joined to her
hip was disclosed today at Hunting
ton hospital.
The baby, reputed to be the great
great-granddaughter Of one of the
original Siamese twins with the P. T.
Barnum circus, was reported 'just
fine" at the st. Mary's Hospital.
Attendants declined to discuss the
operation, performed last Thursday
by DR.. Francis Scott of Huntington, be-
fore gathering of physicians from the
Lower Ohio Valley.
DR.. Scott would not answer inquiries
about the operation, but said the child
would recover.
The undeveloped twin, sources close
to the hospital said. was attached to
the normal baby by band of flesh
and there was no juncture of the
splnes.
The operation was delayed after
birth until the normal twin could
withstand the shock
Names Of the baby and her parents
were withheld by physicians and the
hospital.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Debates Bonneville Dam bill.
Finance Committee considers sugar
legislation.
Wheeler Committee opens inquiry
into financial history Of virginian
Railroad
Special committee studied Govern
ment reorganization bill.
House:
Considers District legislation
Ways and Means Committee begins
hearings on bill to plug tax loopholes.
Banking Committee studies housing
bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program uncertain
District Committee considers mis-
oellaneous bills, 2:30 pm.
House:
Program uncertain.
Banking and Currency Committee
resumes consideration Of Housing bill,
1890 am.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee considers bill authorizing
loans for construction Of floating prop
ertv, % an.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
BILLS TO RE|NSTATE
POLICE TO BE STUDIED

Hearings were to be resumed today
by subcommittee Of the House Dis
trict Committee studying bills for the
reinstatement of four dismissed po-
lice officers.
The policemen are D. R. Thomp-
son, Ralph S. Warner, Amos B. Cole
and James P. Day, all of whom were
dismissed after Investigations by the
trial board
At the hearings last week Represen-
tative Bates, Republican, Of Mass
achusetts, charged the Police De-
partment with inefficiency. He de-
clared there was cause for removal
Of men for neglect of duty" in the
handling of the Jordon murder case,
in which he said major witnesses had
not been interviewed over a period Of
years.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
CIRCUS FANS ELECT
D. c. MAN PRESIDENT
Melvin D. Hildreth Will Succeed
Frank A. Hairless, Norfolk
Convention Decides.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, August 9.-The
Circus Fans Association of America
IN annual convention here. Yesterday
elected Melvin D. Hildreth of Washing
ton, association president to succeed
Frank A. Hairless of Chicago.
Other officers elected were Col. C. G.
sturtevant, San Antonio, Tex, South
ern vice president; Karl K. Knecht,
Evanston, Ill, Central vice president;
Harper Joy, Spokane, Wash. Western
vice president, and George Duffy, Fort
Plain. n. Y, Eastern vice president
aH OF whom were reelected sxcept
Joy, who succeeds J. 4. Westmoreland
Los Angeles. Walter M. Buckingham
secretary-treasurer, also was re-
elected.
Walter H. Hohendel, Rochelle. H.
was reelected editor of the associa-
tons magazine. White Tops. and Col
sturtevant was chosen again as his
torian.
The committee on the 1888 conven.
ton site recommended Portland, Me.
but the convention will act on the rec.
ommendation later.
The convention will end Tuesday.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
SCORED BY COPELAND.
Personal Dictatorship Charged In
Mayoralty Influence.

Senator Copeland, Democrat, OF
New York, commenting today on
press report that President Roosevelt
had injected himself into the New
York mayoralty campaign. said, "At
least We have in the United States
personal dictatorship if not political
dictatorship"
Aroused by published reports the
President had thrown "taclt support"
to his Democratic rival for the New
York mayoralty post. Copeland as
serted in a statement to newspaper
men that the President himself does
more in five minutes to destroy Dem
ocratic harmony than can be re-estab-
lished in q generation by jefferson
Island picnics and peace dinners"
Interference "Undemocratic."
Copeland added that If press reports
that the President had thrown "taclt
support" to jeremiah T. Mahoney.
former New York Supreme Court
justice. were correct. his interference
is gratuitous and undemocratlc.'
Franklin D. Roosevelt is not
voter in New York City" the New
York Senator. who is running for
mayor. asserted. We are not inter-
ested in what his private views may
be. But why should President Roose-
welt attempt to dictate to the Demo-
Gratis Of my city what they should do?'
Talking Informally to newspaper
men, Copeland asserted the President
was actually for reelection of Mayor
La Guardia, He said La Guardla was
the candidate of the Communists, the
Socialists, the radicals and labor, and
cts the same group that is back Of
the President"
Won't Hurt La Guardia.
THE President" he added. isn't
going to do anything to hurt La
Guardia If the White House felt
would be weak candidate against
La Guardia it would support me"
At the same time, Copeland sug-
gested that if there was White House
opposition to him it was based on his
fight against the Roosevelt court bill.
They talk about not having re-
prisals," he said You know well
there will be reprisals Every one of
us who opposed the Presidents plan
will be proceeded against. You have
got to be 100 per cent for the Presi-
dent or he is against you"
Copeland expressed confidence,
however, that his court bill stand
would not hurt him in the mayoralty
campaign. Pointing to big envelopes
in his closet, he said they contained
100000 letters against the court bill
from New Workers and only 1000
for it.
"Who Is Flynn" Says Copeland.
Copeland commented on pub
lished report that the President had
tacitly thrown his support to Ma
honey. The President conferred yes
terday with Edward J. Flynn, Dem
ocratic leader in the Bronx, who is
supporting Mahoney.
BY the way, who is this Edward
J. Flynn mentioned in the dispatch?"
Copeland asked. He is the same So
called political leader who corrals the
Office of secretary of state of New
York at s12 900 per year and the COM
missionership of the worlds fair at
$4,000. Hence he has a total of
$4,000 income from appointive posi-
tions, and I have no personal knowl-
edge of what service his law firm may
be rendering public or semi-public in
stitutions"
Evening star., 1937-08-09
Report Tobacco Sales.

ATLANTA, August 8 LP.-The
State Department Of Agriculture has
announced reports from 46 of 56
warehouses in the Georgia tobacco
belt showed unofficially 25.o7l, 1928
pounds sold last week at an indicated
average of around Is cents q pound.
This gave a cash total Of approx
mately $5.267, $50.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
OPEN NEW OFFICE
Social Security Field Headouar
ters Operated at Richmond,

G. r. Parker, regional director of
the Social Security Board, announced
today the opening of a board field
office in Richmond, with James w.
Dinwiddie of Franklin County, Va, in
charge.
The Office will be located in the
Post Office Building and will serve
the Counties OF Campbell, Amherst,
Appomattox, Prince Edward, Char
lotte, Lunenbure. Mecklenburg, Hail.
fax and Pittsylvania.
Other Virginia field Offices have been
opened at Richmond, Roanoke, Nor
folk and Bristol.
Evening star., 1937-08-09

One OF our cubs around the office
has been yoDling lately because
he called up to make check on
the riuer stage and mud suspension
in the Potomac the other morn
ing, and 7ohen he asked, "How's the
riuer todny?" uoice drdwled,
"Purty fine, catching plenty OF bass
this n1aUnin'."
Phooey on such impatience.
In our day We once called up th'
same place about the same matter
and when we asked "How's the rive
today?" fellow at the other end of tn,
wire said, Which one you mean?"
Evening star., 1937-08-09
VAN 0RSDEL FUNERAL
IS TO BE HELD TODAY
Rites Scheduled for 4 Pm. In
Massachusetts-Burial
in Nebraska.

Funeral services for Justice Josiah
A. Van Orsdel of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District were
to be held at pm. today in Great
Darlington, Mass, at the home of
Mrs. Margaret Zimerele of Washing
ton, with whom the Justice and Mrs.
Van Orsdel were visiting when he was
stricken with a heart ailment three
weeks ago.
The jurist died Saturday at rs.
After the funeral rites. the body will
be taken to Blue Springs. Nebr., Mrs.
Van Orsdel's old home, for burial.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SALE

TALES of the high-pressure sales
men who have been telephon-
ing people and saying, Your
tires are in dangerous con-
dition. You need new tires" reminds
us, for exactly no reason, of something
that happened to a friend who owned
an extremely costly, beautiful and
luscious sport phaeton.
One night he left it on the street
while dropping in for twirl at a
night club. Came out with his party
to find note stuck on the windshield
In excellent handwriting, it said, If
you ever want to sell this car please
telephone me at, ETC., ETC."
Evening star., 1937-08-09
ROOSEVELT SEES
BRONX CH|EFTA|N
Possibility of Influence In
New York Mayora|ty
SpecuIated Upon.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ftorello H. La Guardtn elected
Mayor OF Mem York IN 1888 on
fusion ticket after Tamrany poaC.
er suffered setback in internal
V9ht after resignation of James J.
walker IN 1882. La Gunrd,1 in
tends to seek reelection and Sem
dtor Copeland accepted bid OF one
Tamn1any group to become cnndt-
ddte for moyornltu GroUer
Whdlen, originally included in r1ce
TOR Democratic nomination, has
retired.
BY the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, August e.
Whether President Roosevelt has be-
come behind -the-scenes consuItant
IN the fast-moving New York may
orally contest was question of much
conjecture among political observers
mere today after a visit to the Sum-
mer White House by Edward J. Flynn,
Democratic leader of the Bronx.
Silent on Reason for Call.
The dapper Bronx chieftain and
New York secretary of State was an
unannounced guest at the Roosevelt
estate yesterday. While presidential
aides insisted there was no political
significance in the visit, some observ-
ers of the New York City situation
contended the fact that the call was
not officially announced was a de-
velopment worthy of more than casual
note.
Flynn was not disclosed as a Roose-
velt luncheon guest until he appeared
in an automobile with the President
during an inspection of types Of stone
for a Poughkeepsie post office. He
would not discuss the reason for his
call.
The Bronx leader, with the party
York boroughs outside OF Manhattan
where Tammany reigns, is supporting
jeremiah T. Mahoney, former State
Supreme Court justice, for the Dem
ocratic nomination. Mahoney also
is believed to have the Endorsement Of
Natiopal Chairman James A. Farley.
Tammany Backing Copeland.
Tammany is backing Senator Royal
S. Copeland anti-New Dealer, who,
with Mayor La Guardia, fusionist with
the American labor party support.
also may figure in the battle for the
Republican nomination.
Whether he would attend the Dem
ocratic senatorial harmony" dinner
tomorrow night in Washington to be
given for Majority Leader Barkley,
was uncertain, the President told a
press conference at his home yester-
day. He also said he had not made
any vacation plans and would not do
so until Congress adjourned. He Will
leave shortly before midnight. arriv-
ing back in the Capital tomorrow
morning.
~-DorD NV -or-v. .>-~
Evening star., 1937-08-09
MISS DEWSON SPEAKS
New Deal Success "Inevita ble.'
She Says in Maine.

LEWISTON, Me, August Q (P.-
Miss Mary w Dewson, Washington,
vice chairman Of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, told Democrats Of
four States here yesterday that the
Nations upward movement under
President Roosevelt may be halted,
but its ultimate and complete success
is inevitable"
Miss Dewson was one Of several
speakers at an outing here sponsored
by the Ladies' Roosevelt Club OF Ane
droscoggin County and attended by
Democrats from Maine. Vermont,
Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Evening star., 1937-08-09
LABRADOR IMPORTS ICE
Ten Tons Arrive by Boat for Use
in Salmon Packing.

BATTLE HARBOR. Labrador,
August 9 P.-Ice has become scarce
In this land where many persons think
there is perpetual supply of it.
Ten tons, imported from Halifax,
Nova Scotia. arrived here aboard an
auxiliary schooner for use In packing
salmon.
The scarcity of icebergs in the Belle
Isle Straits during the Summer made
1t necessary to import the ice for dis
tribution In settlements where none
has been available for packing since
the Spring breakup.