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Evening star., 1937-07-11

your snapshooting, you will discover
that even box camera, which has
shutter working at about 1-25 of
a second, will stop action if taken
from the proper distance and angle
And even if your camera has a
shutter operating at speeds much
faster than 1-25 of second. you will
get more satisfying results by work
ing at an angle. Remember, too, that
the faster the shutter works the
larger the lens aperture should be.
Dark Background Advisable.
Analyze your shots before you make
them. Watch your backgrounds. Try
to get dark background for a light
colored subject. The resulting con-
trast helps to bring out the details
of the action.
Try anything once! But give your
camera chance and don't expect it
to perform miracles You must OBJ
serve the few simple fundamentals
of action photography. One of your
action shots may be chosen for entry
in the National Awards to compete
for the $4,000 cash awards. Start
shooting today and enter as many
pictures as you wish in the contest.
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K. of c. to Honor Deputy.

State Deputy and Mrs. Walter I.
Plant will be guests Of honor at the
second inaugural ball Of the Knights
of Columbus to be held at the Indian
Spring Golf Club at 10 pm. Friday.
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Eldest Life Insurance Policy
Holder Spurns Diets as Fads
Man, 90, Tells Mutual
Agents He Never
Felt Better.

Jacob Frech, 30, appeared yester-
day as Exhibit A" at regional con-
vention Of the Mutual Life Insurance
Co. Of New York in the United States
Chamber Of Commerce Building.
He is the company's eldest policy
holder, at least in this section of the
country. and undoubtedly one of the
eldest insured by any company. He
has held his policy IS years.
II never felt better in my life" :"
Mr.. Frech declared.
Asked the prescription for becom-
ing an insurance mans delight, he
said he had none, but added that
he had never followed diet. He
distrusts such fads.
Il eat whatever I want whenever
I'm hungry" he said.
He also smokes black cigars and
takes an occasional drink.
When Thomas P. Morgan, jr., re-
gionAl manager of the company, sug-
gested that Mr.. Frech visit the COM
pany's agents on his hundredth birth
day, he answered: well, I might do
that"
Mr.. Frech was with the Govern
ment for 10 years. He was born in
Germany, but came to this country
1T the age of 6. At IL he became
. messenger in the ONCE OF the Judge
advocate Of the Naval Retirement
Board. . post then held BY Judge
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HOUSE CONSIDERS
LENGTHY RECESS.
1Wo.Week Rest Period May
Be Taken as Senate
Argues Court Bill.

Ds TIM Associated Press.
Speaker Bankhead said yesterday
Exploratory" plans were afoot to
permit the House to recess Indefinitely
II the Senate settled down for pro-
tracted filibuster against the Su-
preme Court reorganization plan.
Possibility of an agreement under
which the House would transact no
business for perhaps a two week
period arose Friday when Majority
Leader Rayburn told the House he
had been discussing three-day re-
cesses with Bankhead and Minority
Leader Smell
The Speaker made it plain yester-
day. moreover, that more extended
Tecesses were being considered
Under the rules. neither House nor
Senate may recess for more than
three consecutive legislative days
without the consent of the other, but
Bankhead said a concurrent resolu-
tion would be introduced to obtain
that consent "if conditions warrant
It,"
The House is so well advanced with
Its routine work, leaders said. it
might be possible to start such a
recess within 10 days or two weeks.
If three-day recesses are decided
upon. some members would have to
be on hand for perfunctory sessions
OF the House every third day. Bank
head indicated he felt that might
prove unduly discriminatory against
himself and Rayburn.
If the rest of the boys are 60
ing to be turned loose" he said,
Sam and want to be able to get
away, too."
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H. 0. L. c. OFFICES MOVED
TO INDIANA AVENUE SITE
Post Office Department Quarters
Being Vacated Over Week
End bv Agency.

Over the week end the Home
Owners Loan Corp. is moving out
of the new Post Office Department
Building, Twelfth street and Penn
sylvania avenue, into its new build
ing at Indiana avenue and First
street.
This was announced yesterday by
Melvin c. Russell, acting chief of the
division of government space con-
troll of the National Park Service,
Interior Department. The United
States Government some time ago
purchased the old Acacia Life Insur-
ance Co. Building and recently con-
structed an annex to this structure
This has now been completed and is
ready for occupancy, officials said.
Some 500 employees in the new Post
Office Department building are az
fected by the shift. With the con-
centration of the employees in the
same vicinity, officials said, this will
make for better administration, and
the conduct of public business will be
expedited. The space vacated in the
Post Office Building will be taken up
by other units of the Government,
which are considered crowded now.
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strikers voluntarily had returned to
work and will be paid for the time
they lost.
The paper. which was closed last
Saturday, published q second consecu-
tive days editions today under a small
police guard.
Scripps said returning strikers were
members Of the circulation and busi-
ness departments. Skeleton news and
advertising STATS published today's
editions and they were distributed
without difficulty. the management
announced. There were full crews
in other departments.
The guild members walked out a
week ago today after jurisdictional
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IN which the principal interest is a
child or children in everyday clothes
or in costume.
2. Sports, hobbies, recreation, avo-
cations. action-Base ball, golf, tennis
motor boating, canoeing, sailing, beach
fun, airplanes. fishing, animal pictures
pets, gardening, farming, carpenter
Ing, etc
3. Scenes and still life-Landscapes
marine views, city streets, travel or
country scenes. architecture, interiors
still life" pictures of art objects
eurios, cut flowers, fruit, etc.
4. Informal portraits of adults
Pictures of one or more persons (close
up or full figure) in natural and ap-
parently imposed attitude, character
studies genre illustrative of every
day llfe), and pictures in which charm
and personality of the subject are out
standing.
At the end of The Stars weekly
contests the four pictufes judged tc
be best of all submitted in each OF
the four classes will be picked for the
$25 final prizes and entry in the
national competition.
Division of National Awards.
The $4,000 national awards will be
divided as follows: Grand prize
$1,000; first prize winners in each OF
the four classes, $500 each; second
prize winners. $3.50 each: third prize
winners, $l00 each, and 112 honorable
mention awards, from all classes, $50
each. The grand prize winning pic
ture will be chosen from the four
$500 class winners, the two prizes for
this picture amounting to $500.
The national winners will be Sc
lected by a distinguished board of
Judges composed of Howard Chandler
Christy, portrait painter, illustrator
and writer; Franklin l.. Fisher, chief
OF illustrations division National Geo.
graphic Society; Margaret Bourke-
White, famous photographer of in
dustrial and neWs-interest subjects;
Ruth Alexander Nichols, outstanding
photographer of babies and children,
and Kenneth Wilson Williams, editor
Of amateur publications of Eastman
Kodak Co.
Action Pictures.
Those considering entering the con-
vest are advised not to neglect action
shots. Have you taken any? They
may be made with any camera.
That doesn't mean that you can
stop extreme action with box camera
Or one with . slow lens and shutter,
II the subject is whizzing directly
BY the camera lens. That's expect
ing too much. The amount OF action
you can arrest with any camera de-
pends not only on the speed OF the
lens and shutter, but the angle from
which the picture is snapped.
Take, for example, an automobile
eoming down the highway at 40 miles
an hour. AS you watch it from the
roadside, 1t doesn't seem to be going
very fast until 1t gets directly op-
posite you. Then, of course, you
must turn your head quickly to fol-
low 1t.
In other words, it is easier to see
. speeding object as it approaches
you than it is during the instant it
passes by.
II you will apply this example to
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Spain will be commemorated by the
Embassy on July II. The year that
has passed has deep significance not
only to Spaniards but to all those
who have any interest in the pres
ervation Of democracy. 1t is not only
appropriate to pey homage to those
victims who have fallen in their
fight for the preservation Of democ-
racy but it Is important also that
clear-cut view Of tho issues now in
volved be consciously understood to
avoid confusion"
At the same time it was announced
that Spanish consuls stationed At New
York, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Evening star., 1937-07-11
FUQUAY is APPOINTED
TO COMMISSION POST
Made Regular Secretary of Fed
eral Power Body After
1S Months.

Leon M. Fuquay, for some time act
ing secretary of the Federal Power
Commission, yesterday was appointed
secretary.
Fuquay, native Of North Caro-
lima, came to the commission as sec
retary to a commissioner In 1881. He
later was secretary to Chairman Frank
r. McNinch, and about 18 months
ago was named acting secretary of
the commission.
He is 38, an ,alumnus of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and stud
led law at George Washington.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
1000 Store Clerks Strike.

PAWTUCKET, r. l., July 10 P.-
About 1000 department store workers
in four stores here struck today in an
effort to force the managements to
close the stores at 5 pm every Satur-
day during the Summer. Stores now
close at pm. Two stores remained
open, operating with a skeleton crew.
The other two, among the largest
stores in the city. closed.
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AUTO DEATHS INCREASE

in 121 Major Cities.
The Census Bureau yesterday re-
ported . sharp increase In automobile
fatalities this year.
1t said motor deaths in 121 mai
cities totaled 4,545 between January
l and July 2, compared with 3,8i2 in
the same period last y.ar.
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Snapshots.

CONTINUED From First Page)
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Philip Hamilton, son OF Alexander
Hamilton, first Secretary Of the Treas
ury. Mr.. F'rech remained in the
Government service until his retire.
ment, at the age of 81, in. 1929.
He is believed to be the oldest gradu-
ate Of the National University Law
School He took bachelors degree
in 1881 and q masters degree the
following year.
His hobby is chess, at which he is
so proficient that he once defeated
. world champion by oorrsspondenoe.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
DEADLOCK HOLDS
ON SEATTLE PAPER
Scripps Announces, However,
That Eight Who Walked Out
Are Back at Work.
B~ the Associate ted Press.

b. the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, July l0-Negotiations
between the striking American News
paper Guild and the Seattle Star con-
tinued deadlocked tonight. but Pub
Usher E. w. Scripps announced eigf~
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New Orleans and Galveston have
been called to Warrington during
the week OF July II.
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dispute with the Teamsters' Union
over membership OF circulation en-
ployes in the guild.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

man weapons would need overhauling
and improvement.
At this juncture, the impact OF the
British rearmament program admin
stered q severe shock to the war
plotters in Rome and Berlin. They
feared the loss Of the long start which
earlier armaments had given them.
It is an open question whether Hitler
ever has contemplated an actual war
like attack upon any neighbor or even
Soviet Russia. His tactics, like those
OF Mussolini, probably have been to
extort concessions by threat of war and
to carry this threat to extreme lengths.
Hitler's Two-Edged Sword.
This is the true meaning Of the
German campaign for return OF her
former colonies. If colonial conces-
sions were granted, Hitler would score
a resounding success without firing a
shot. however little the colonial ac-
quisitions might relieve German eco
nomic and financial straits. If con-
cessions were refused, the refusal
might be interpreted as justification
for territorial expansion in Europe
either by pressure Of military menace
or by actual attack.
Things now stand at this point
Hitler, with the support Of Mussolini
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Nine. de Pompadour
House to Be Restored

PARASITIC house where Nine. de
Pompadour lived at the time of Louis
XIV is to be restored by the Commis-
sion des BeauX-ArtS.
Millions who have relived the glories
of the old regime by visits to Versailles
have never stopped to wonder where
Nine. de Pompadour lived. They have
marveled at the mirrored apartments
where Marie-Antoinette, Mime. du
Barry and Nine. de Maintenon held
forth in regal splendor. but Of Nine.
de Pompadour they have seen no
memoirs. Who has noticed drab
five-story apartment building labeled
Hotel des Reservoirs" Z Rue des
Reservoirs, scarcely a stones throw
across the street from the Palace Of
Versailles?
1t is here that, in her days of in
f1uence, the brilliant wit held sway.
Close by are the old stables which
housed so horses bred for royalty.
The stables will add to the museum
and house treasures. among which will
be the famous Globes of Coronelli. In
the glass-covered court will be shown
the luxurious coaches and carriages Of
the court.
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LATIN AMERICA HELD
i. S. TRADE ELDORADO
20 Countries Produce What This COun-
try Lacks and Consumes What Is
Produced Here.

Brazil. all the Latin American peoples
can be reached in the same language.
Spanish. and identical advertising and
selling methods can be put into prac-
tice in any one OF them. Commercially
speaking. there is probably not a larger
homogeneous area on the map Of the
earth.
The barrier of inefficient commune
cations, the greatest impediment in
the past, is gradually being solved.
Better and faster steamship services
to the Latin American ports have been
inaugurated in the last few years. and
new railways and modern highways
are at present under construction in
the majority Of the southern repub-
lies Moreover. Latin America today
is crossed in almost every direction
by airplanes, which tremendously IA
cilitate transactions and personal con-
facts.
But above all these reasons there
stands out one. simple, conclusive IN
itself, which means more than geo.
graphic propinquity. material facilities
or even political conveniences. the
purely economic reason. And this is
that the Latin American countries in
general consume what the United
States produces. and produce every
thing that the United States does not
have at home.
Line Of Least Resistance.
In a capitalistic society. organized
mainly for private profit, the dream OF
perfectly balanced and well pro-
portioned international economy Is not
possible. National interests are too
interviewer with the interests OF
private capital at home. And these.
for the most part, continuously are
in conflict with private interests in
other countries. Protection Of national
industries in one country becomes
prohibitory tariffs in another. Do
mestic privileges result in foreign
discrimination. Currency def1ation to
help local conditions becomes an "un-
fair barrier to trade" viewed from an
other country. The problem seems un-
solvable.
Logically, the only way is to follow
the line Of least resistance. And the
line of least resistance is. simply, to
divide up the job, to bring together In
separate groups those interests which
are most susceptible Of harmonization,
those interests which, instead of COM
peting with, can complement each
other.
Obviously this can be done only by
regions, by groups. The foundation
of all international economy is trade.
In trade there are, generally speaking.
two elements: Countries which pro-
duce raw materials and countries
which manufacture goods. The thing
to do then is to group those countries.
bearing geographic and economic con-
siderations in mind, so that regional
units may result in which the two
elements of trade appear more or less
balanced and supplement one another.
Two such groups are the United
States and Latin America.
| rAsaI 'sq1Ixkdool
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may soon stage a spectacular demon
stration against one or more OF Ger
many's neighbors. According TO my in
formation from trustworthy sources,
Gen. Won Reichenau, commander OF
the Munich Army Corps. recently in
formed his staff officers that every
thing must be ready for mobilization
by March IS. When the officers
showed surprise, Won Reichenau told
them that the orders did not neces-
sarily mean war. as the object Of the
mobilization would be to lend weight
to foreign political action on a large
scale.
It is a fact that preparations for
mobilization have been going on
rapidly for the last few months in
Germany, but exactly what Hitler has
up his sleeve no one seems TO know.
The British and French governments
doubtless are fully informed of these
things and are prepared to meet any
turn the situation may take. How
France views the outlook l am not
prepared to say. But it is clear from
Anthony Eden's statements in the
House Of Commons and the recent
declarations of Lord Plymouth for the
government in the House OF Lords
that 1t is unwise for Germany and
Evening star., 1937-03-07
1886 Wholesale Trade of $4,000, ,OOO. 900
InU. S. Still Short of 1929 Record

textiles and its products. more than
5000 producing chemicals. drugs and
sundries and approximately 10000
producing material handled by hard
ware stores, it is evident Gas has been
pointed out by DR.. Theodore N. Beck
man, professor of business organiza-
ton at Ohio State University that
the wholesaler is a very important
factor in the entire business situation
of the country.
Not only does he perform the serv-
ice of supplying goods in large guam
titles, which makes them easier to
handle, but he saves the retailer an
enormous amount of energy. time and
patience which would otherwise be
necessary to receive the hordes Of
statesmen from thousands of manufac-
turers if the retailers should attempt
to buy directly from the producer. as
well as the enormous amount of busi-
ness necessary to place orders by mail.
1t is beyond dispute, says DR.. Beck
man, that it is very great conveni-
ence indeed for the retailer to have
the burden of assembling fall on the
wholesaler. "If the wholesaler were
not here today. he would have to be
invented, if for no other reason than
for the performance of this function
alone"
Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Japan Faces Demands
For Wage Increases

Rising commodity prices in Japan
have caused the demand for higher
salaries and wages to spread from
government Offices to private enter
prises. In many cases the pay has
been increased or promises of consid-
Grafton given.
The Toxic Chamber of Commerce
recently started an inquiry into wages
in 200 plants of more than 10 types
of work The f1na ice ministry is in
clined to meet the problem by COM
batting increases il commodity prices
and may use its power in that direc-
tion.
Men working on the lines Of the gov
ernment railways have been demand
ing that 1881 wage cuts be restored.
The army also is much concerned
about the rising cost Of living and
may ask the government to increase
salaries and wages.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

NEW YORK.-New slants on Ameri-
can history are coming out Of the
w. P. A.
DR.. Richard B. Morris, New York
regional director in q Nationwide
survey of Federal archives W. P. A.
project-tells of them in an article in
the American Historical Review.
The research workers, DR.. Morris
said, have dug up interesting and new
data on such things as the sinking Of
the battleship Maine 20 years ago. the
unofficial war" between the United
States and France Q798-180D, the
capture of a Fiji Island chief by the
U. S. S. Peacock and the lawsuit Of
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BY WILLIAM BIRD.

STANBUL.-"You talk about Ger
many's need for colonies, DR..
Schacht? Why, Turkey has
L been something much better than
a colony to Germany. You have
treated Turkey exactly like colony.
except that you haven't had to main
tain an army here, and you haven't
had to pay for the civil administra-
ton. We Turks have taken those bur-
dens of your shoulders"
Such, I am told by diplomat. were
the words that Germany's economic
dictator heard from Turkish official
during his visit here two months ago.
And there Is very little exaggeration
in them. Little by little, Germany
has almost succeeded in getting a
strangle-hold on Turkish trade. Some
thing like 81 per cent Of Turkish COM
merce is with Germany.
The Turkish government has per-
ceived the danger in allowing single
country to dominate its economic life.
If that situation continued, Turkey
would very soon be at Germany's
mercy. If Turkey refused to follow
Berlin's directions, Germany could
abruptly break off commercial rela-
tions and leave Turkish trade
stranded.
Used In Other Countries.
The methods used by Germany in
Turkey are similar to those that are
being employed in Rumania, Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia and other countries. 1t
is what is known as the clearing"
system, which theoretically is barter,
but in practice works out somewhat
differently.
Germany comes to Turkey, for in
stance, and buys tremendous guam
titles of copper, cotton, wool, tobacco,
etc. The Turkish government pays
the producers for the goods, and in
return is credited in Berlin with an
equivalent amount in blocked marks,
which can be utilized for Turkish pur-
chaSes Of German manufactures. But
as Turkey is as yet relatively back
ward country and its people have no
use for such quantities of manufac-
tured goods, the practical consequence
is that Turkey is simply piling up
credits in Berlin and actually getting
nothing tangible in return for its ex-
ports.
The trouble is aggravated by the
fact that Germany's purchases here
are not confined to Germany's own
needs Germany takes all the cotton
in sight. for instance, uses as much Of
it as she needs and sells the rest in
Amsterdam for cash. The cash, in
stead of going to Turkey, serves to
purchase other raw materials, such as
nickel, which are produced by coun-
tries which have no Clearing" ar
rangement with Germany and will do
business only on a cash basis.
Pays More Than World Price.
Because of the wide difference be-
tween the official value Of the German
mark and its real value, Germany pays
much more than the world price for
what she buys. She pays more, for ex-
ample. for short-staple Turkish cotton
than the best American cotton would
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Interesting Slants ON U. S. History
Being Provided bv w. p. A. Research

the Sultan of Turkey against the
Providence Tool Co.
DR.. Morris said that the research
concerning the battleship Maine
brought to light new evidence con-
corning the explosion aboard the
vessel-an explosion that had its echo
in the war with Spain.
The new material, he said, will not
settle the standing argument as
to the cause of the explosion. but "it
proves definitely that the battleship
was in an unseaworthy condition"
The work of the New York project
has included the surveying Of approxi-
mately 100000 linear feet of Federal
records in some 10000 separate COL
lections.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
New Zealand Puzzled
AS Big Trees Die Away

Big trees in the town Of Rotorua,
center of New Zealand's hot springs
district, are slowly dying and the au-
thorities are seeking a way to pre-
vent their extinction. The roots have
gone down so far into the earth that
they have reached the place where
the soil is too hot for roots to live.
The latest tree to fall victim to
the thermal forces is a giant sequoia.
the big tree of California, which was
planted so years ago and has grown
to height of 81 feet, with a cir
cumference of % feet.
Rotorua is a garden town with wide
tree-lined streets. Every year thou
sands Of tourists from all parts Of the
world visit the geysers, boiling pools
and healing springs.