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Evening star., 1937-11-20
PUBLICLY OWNED
STREET CARS URGED
Roberts, Former Peoples Counsel,
Also Asks Subway to Relieve
CONGESTION Here.

Public ownership Of District public
transportation facilities and imme-
diate construction of a subway system
to relieve street car and bus congestion
was urged yesterday by William A.
Roberts, former peoples counsel.
In statement issued through Edna
Anderson, secretary Of the Conference
Against Increased Street Car Fares,
Mr.. Roberts also suggested re-estab-
lishment Of the Office of peoples coun-
sci, which has been vacant since he
resigned more than year ago.
Miss Anderson said many civic or
carnations have responded favorably
to call for the conference in regard
to the recent street car token price
increase. The conference will be held
Tuesday night in the Old Interior De-
partment auditorium.
Mr.. Roberts said it was evident the
Capital Transit Co. never would con-
struct a subway system. Such a rapid
transit system must be built, he con-
tended, to smooth out the movement
Of Washingtonians from IAN artifi-
cially congested governmental and
working district to their homes in the
suburbs"
Evening star., 1937-11-20
APPEAL TO POLAND
ASKED OF ROOSEVELT
Committee Calls at White House.
Urging Personal Protest on
Jewish Oppression.

Representatives of the Jewish Peo-
pies Committee called at the White
House today to urge President Roose-
velt to send a personal appeal to the
government Of Poland protesting al
legged oppression Of the Polish Jew.
The group presented its petition to
Marvin H. McIntrye, secretary to the
President, and planned later to present
petitions of protest to the Secretary
of State, the Polish Ambassador and
various congressional leaders.
Before an audience of more than
1900 delegates of the committee, Rep
resentative Coffee OF Washington last
night denounced intolerance and
urged racial and religious freedom.
This country" he told the conven-
ton in the National Press Club Audi
torium, was built ON the idea of an
asylum for the downtrodden and op-
pressed of the world"
Also speaking on the same program,
Senator Thomas Of Utah urged protest
in an orderly way" 50 as not to
arouse public sentiment against the
protesters. He cited the right OF petit
ton as representing the best "in our
American institutions"
Evening star., 1937-11-20
SURVEY
CARDS ARE DUE IN
Registrations Should Be
Mailed to Post Offices
by Tonight.

Reporting widespread interest in the
unemployment census, John D. Bigsers.
In charge of this gigantic undertaking.
called attention today to the fact all
registration cards are due to be mailed
back to local post offices by tonight.
Mr.. Biggers said the groundwork for
the count of unemployed and partly
employed had been laid so carefully
and had received such unusual CO.
operation that there had been but
per cent error in the registration.
Wherever a mistake is found in a
card, it is returned by the post Office
to the carrier on whose route it orig
mated, for correction by the person
filling it out
Blggers also said that many, in max
ing returns. urged their need for en-
ployment or other aid, but that this
was matter outside of the province
of census officials.
The purpose Of the census" he ex-
planned, sis to gain knowledge of the
facts on which to base a national plan
for unemployment. There is no way
by which the Unemployment Census
Administration can give jobs or grant
the other personal appeals for aid"
Evening star., 1937-11-20

Sl20. Rev. Charles L. Carhart and
Mrs. Alfredo Post Carhart.
Sis, Mrs. Powell Clayton.
SllG, Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Loomis
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Behrend
sl00. Col. and Mrs. Frank L. Hatch,
Gerard D. Reilly, DR. Seize A. Nord-
hof-Jung, Francis P Miller, w. R.
Wlnslow, Paul Mayo, Howard j.
Klossner, Alexandria Amusement
Corp, Mr.. and Mrs B. We'll, T. J..
Fannon & Sons, Eugene G. Adams,
Wilson B. Nairn, DR.. and Mrs. Charles
A. Richmond, Clarence B. Hewes,
Ferry K. Heath, Mrs. Charles C..
Glover, jr.; Mrs. Walter D. Denegre,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson E. Perrin, Mrs.
Bessie Edison, H. Lee Boatwright, jr.;
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. Callahan, jr; Mrs.
John Sewer. Doubleday-Hill Electric
Co, Mrs. Howell Moorhead. H. j..
Heinz Co., Mr.. and Mrs. Harry King,
DR.. w. Marion Falls, Dr. L. F. Cooper,
DR.. Montgomery Blair, jr.; Morton j.
Luchs. the Mode, Inc; Mr. and Mrs
Edward P. Hubbell, E. K. Morris, Mrs.
john T. Schaaff, Committee for In
dustrial Organization, Bishop James
E. Freeman. DR.. Harry M. kaufman,
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Riemer, Mrs. B.
Fritz Smith.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
JAPANESE UNITY
COMMAND IN WAR
Imperial Headquarters Set
Up With Approval
of Hir0hitO.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC. Nov. 20-A joint army and
navy communique announced today
that an imperial headquarters" had
been established at the imperial
palace.
Emperor Hirohito approved creation
Of an imperial headquarters" pre-
sumably to consolidate Japan's gov
ernment in a centralized admin
istrative body with sweeping powers,
last Wednesday.
Long Hostilities Seen.
This action was taken in order
to concentrate the military forces for
so-called long-term hostilities," the
statement said, believing this neces-
sary to place the organ Of supreme
command on a wartime basis
THE imperial headquarters is the
organ OF supreme command under
the direct jurisdiction of the EN-
peror. Its mission is to participate
in discussions on matters regarding
the supreme command and to main
tain closer cooperation between the
army and navy
The statement said the cabinet
would be kept informed of any meas
ures by the imperial headquarters
through the ministers of war and
navy.
Saito May Be Shifted.
The newspaper Hochi said today
that Kensuke Horinouchi, vice minis
ter OF foreign affairs, might succeed
Hirosi Saito as Japanese Ambassador
TO the United States.
Saito. appointed Ambassador to
Washington late in 1888, probably
would be transferred to London, the
newspaper said.
The newspaper Yomiuri said Sir
Leslie Cralgie, British Ambassador to
Japan, had limited directly" that
Great Britain was ready to arrange
direct peace negotiations between
China and Japan.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
PASTOR ON STAND
IN MURDER TRIAL
Illinois Preacher Charged
With Killing Close Woman
Friend, Mother of Two,
By the Associated Press,

P1TTSFIELD. Ill, Nov. 2O.-The
Rev. c. E. Newton took the stand in
his own defense today to deny State
charge, backed by his own purported
confession. that he killed a former
Sunday school teacher in his church.
The accused minister Strengthened
his shoulders as his name was called
and walked with brisk, light steps to
the witness stand. He had sat glumly
through the close Of the States case
against him.
The 51year-old Baptist minister is
charged with the hammer-slaying Of
Mrs. Dennis E. Kelly. As, mother of
two children, last July l3.
The State presented the strongest
link in its week-long chain of EVIL
dence-the preachers own "confes-
sion" that he struck the woman, wife
of Paris, Mo-, rural mail carrier on
the head with a hammer and then
tossed her body into the Mississippi
River.
AS Mr. Newton listened nervously,
States Attorney Merrill H. johnson
dramatically read to the jury the r.
page statement describing the quarrel
which followed Mrs. Kelly's alleged
hysterical pleas that the minister join
her in her flight from home and
children.
Defense attorneys vigorously but
vainly sought to keep the former Paris
minister's signed statement from the
records. claiming it was obtained by
"trickery." Circuit Judge A. Clay
Williams, however, ruled the document
admissible after holding it was free
and voluntary" statement.
A dramatic moment in the trial
came earlier this week when the min
ister's foster daughter, Miss Myra
Hanan, and Noel Newton, his tall, "a
year-old son, testified as State wit
nesses against their father.
Miss Hanan related to the Jury how
the preacher handed her an envelope
OF money and told her it belonged to
Mrs. Kelly. She also corroborated
young NeWtons testimony how the
two of them burned what apparently
was Mrs. Kelly's baggage after finding
it in the minister's automobile.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
SINKING QUIZ BEGUN
BY GREEK LEGATION
Counselor to Interview Survivors
of Freighter Disaster-U. S.
Tankers Crew Criticized,

Launching an investigation of the
sinking of the freighter Tzenny Chan
dris last Saturday in which eight
men died the Greek Legation today
dispatched Nicholas G. Lely, counselor
to Norfolk, Va, where he will inter-
view survivors of the disaster.
An Associated Press dispatch from
the Virginia city said the newspaper
Virginian-P last night quoted the
captain of the vessel as criticizing
the American tanker Swiftsure for
failure to pick up more than six
survivors,
Although the paper said the master,
Capt. George Coufopandelis, requested
his criticism be forwarded to the lega-
ton here, an attache said the message
had not been received.
However, when informed Of the
statements contents, Stephen Kound-
ouriotis, chancellor Of the legation,
said the criticism sounds logical"
Evening star., 1937-11-20
CARNEGIE DUE TO REPLY
TO LEWIS IN TALK HERE
Author of "How to Win Friends
and Influence People" Will
Speak Tuesday.

A reply to Sinclair Lewis singing
criticism of the book How to Win
Friends and Influence People" is ex-
pected from Dale Carnegie, the au-
thor, when he addresses the Wash
lngton Forum in Constitution Hall
next Tuesday night.
Mr.. Lewis, in a speech before the
League for Political Freedom in New
York recently, derided with charac-
teristic sarcasm what he termed Mr..
Carnegie's contribution to "self-im-
provement books" which are "all
alike in that they teach the tricks of q
pleasant manner and a pretended in
terest in others as being more i'm
portant than fundamental integrity
and sound learning"
The novelist still would have the
opportunity for last say, however,
as he is scheduled to speak before
the forum later in the season.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
CONGRESS PLANS
MOONEY INQUIRY
Subcommittee Will Start
Hearings December Is
on Pardon Plea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A congressional investigation Of the
Tom Mooney case-with Mooney him.
self as a. possible witness-is scheduled
for next month.
A subcommittee of the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee will begin hearings
December IS on resolution under
which Congress would ask Gov Mer-
riam OF California to grant "a full and
complete pardon" to San Quentin's
noted prisoner
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, chairman of the subcommit-
tee, said presentation of witnesses was
being left to the Mooney Defense Com
mittee, and a spokesman for that
group held out strong possibility that
Mooney might appear.
Mooney is serving a life term after
conviction IN connection with the Pre-
paredness Day bombing in San Fran
cisco in 1916
An effort to bring Franklin Griffin.
the judge who presided at Mooney S
Trial, TO the stand, along with Felix
Frankfurter, who headed a commits
sion which once made an investiga-
ton of the case, is under considera-
ton.
The Mooney Committee, it was said.
already had determined its strategy
Tor the hearings. 1t intends to pre-
sent, first of all. testimony that
Mooney was convicted by perjured evi-
dence, and follow that up with testi-
mony on the nature of the opposition
to efforts to liberate him.
The resolution asking pardon
for Mooney was introduced Jointly
by Senator Murray, Democrat, of
Montana. and Representative O'Con-
nell, Democrat. of Montana.
1t asserted that:
An overwhelming array OF con-
vincing evidence has been uncovered
showing that his conviction was based
upon false and perjured testimony"
Evening star., 1937-11-20
BOND FOR TORRE CUT
ON BRIBERY CHARGES
U. S. Granted Delay in Case of
Alleged Attempt to Obtain
Gambling Protection.

Bond previously set at $4,000 was
reduced to $4,000 yesterday when
Charles Tore. 46. alias Charles
Lamar, was arraigned in Police Court
on a charge of attempting to bribe
a detective to give protection to a
gambling place in the HOO block of
Thirteenth street NV.
Judge Hobart Newman continued
the case until December 3 at the re-
quest of the Government.
Tore was arrested Thursday night
after Detective Carl A. Sierk of No
2 Precinct, had told his superiors OF
Torres bribe proposal and a trap had
been laid for his arrest
1t. Floyd Truscott and Detective
Sergts. Earl Hartman and Eldon
HaWley concealed themselves near
where Detective Sierk had arranged
to meet Tore and made the arrest at
a prearranged signal just after Tore
allegedly had given Sierk $50.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
A. F. OF l. FAV0RS DELAY
ON REORGANIZATION BILL
Green Summons Executive Coun-
Gil to Policy-Shaping Confer
ence on Wage Measure.

euCc on \" age measure.
BY the Associated Press
The American Federation of Labor
said today its legislative agents favor
postponement of congressional action
on the administrators executive re-
organization bill until the January
session.
Leaders of the railroad brother
hoods have expressed opposition to
any reorganization which will change
the independent status of such agen-
cies as the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
President William Green has sum-
moned the A. F. of L. Executive
Council to shaping confer
ence on the administrations bill to
regulate minimum wages and maxi
mum hours. Chairman Norton of the
House Labor Committee asked Mr..
Green for the A. F. of LIS views on
the bill.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
MISSIONARY BANQUET
TO BE ANNUAL EVENT
Three D. c. Pastors Are Main
Speakers at Meeting in Cal
vary Ranfist Church

More than 200 members OF the Law
mems Missionary Movement attended
a banquet by the organization last
night in Calvary Baptist Church as
a sequel to "Men-and- Missions Sun
day" held in Washington Protestant
.churches recently.
The banquet was promoted by the
National Committee of the movement
through the Washington Federation
Of Churches and the Ministerial
Union. The men present represented
different denominations in Washing
ton.
Principal speakers were the Rev.
Edward H. Pruden. pastor of the First
Baptist Church, who discussed the
Far Eastern situation; the Rev. Oliver
j. Hart, rector OF st. Johns Episcopal
Church, and Rev. Peter Marshall,
pastor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church.
The Rev. Daniel A. Polling of Phila-
delphia was scheduled to be a speaker,
but was unable to attend.
The banquet will be an annual
affair. the laymen's group decided.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
All Those Missed
Bv Chest Workers
Urged to Telephone

Residents of Washington or its
suburbs who may have been
missed by Community Chest
solicitors and who wish to aid
in the local fight against hunger,
distress and despair are asked
to notify the Chest, telephone
Metropolitan 2284.
If you have not been visited
by solicitor" Chest Director
Herbert L. Willett, jr., said, 1T
may be that you were not at
home when he called and that he
will return. If you are not solic-
tied for any reason, however, we
hope that you will forgive the
oversight, which was not inten-
tional, and that you will realize
that your gift is very much
needed, Just telephone the Chest
and solicitor will visit you"
Evening star., 1937-11-20
LOW OF "a DEGREES
PREDICTED FOR D. C.
First Official Snow" Recorded in
Early Morning-Mercury
Is Down to SO.

1nsistent that freezing weather Is
near despite the failure of the mercury
to cooperate during the last four
days, the forecaster today predicted a
minimum of "a degrees before dawn
tomorrow
Generally clear skies will accom-
pany the drop, the Weather Bureau
said, and with fair weather tomorrow
the winds will be fresh and from the
northwest.
The first Official snow" was
recorded this morning when furries
developed around 4 o'clock and again
at g.
The "low" reading was 36, at ITO
am. 1t was still at that mark three
hours later Yesterdays high" was
43, at pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
FRUITLEss DAY

BALTIMORE, Nov. 90 (PJ.-Police-
man Charles Rinehart, just trans
ferred TO the traffic division, spent
a busy morning tagging cars parked
in the middle of a business street
Then the traffic division spent busy
afternoon retracting the tickets.
It's legal to park there.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-11
LAWYERS AS LAWMAKERS

Three out of every five congressman and approx
imately four of every five United States senators
are lawyers, according to new survey just COM
pleted by the Literary Digest. ,-.. ...
OF the 435 members of the house OF represen-
tatves, 262, or co., per cent, have qualified to
practice law, and of the 90 senators 80, or 1873
per cent are lawyers.
An average of one out of every four members
of the state legislatures is lawyer also There
are 1900 upper and lower house and unicamerai
state legislature members of which 1900 or "a
per cent practice law. ..'
The preponderance of lawyers in congress is
sharply higher than in the legislature of any state
Arkansas with a 56.8 per cent lawyer-memoer-
shin ranks second and New Jersey, whose legisa-
ture is made up by exactly one-haf lawyers, ranks
next. :, =
At the other end of the ranking, none OF the 81
members of the legislature of Delaware are law
yers ,. -
Nebraska's uncameral legislature has 10 law
yers among it's total membership OF Az
In the upper houses Of the various legislatures
6O2 or BAL per cent, of the combined total Oh
767 members are lawyers and l,lSs, or zo.S pei
cent. of the $500 members of the lower houses IN
AZ states. and Nebraska, are lawyers
OF the So Continental gentlemen who gathered
in philadelphia in 1887 and finally compromised or
constitution for the IS states the magazine NOTES
that % of them, or 500 per cent, were lawyers
Greenve Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-11
THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHINGTON
ny RODNEY BUTCHER.

"And think that | had better,
make amends and make them
at was Just typist's error,
can elision quite unmeant,
"And hope that you'll be
fairer E. -. -.
"Than to think it my intent"
There is practically no threat,
however, that this sort OF thing
will become common In govern
ment correspondence.
MORE and more irritation is be-
Ih coming evident in Congress
at the prolonged session. 1t may
turn out to be one of the things
that will affect the fate Of the
Presidents Supreme Court pack
ing plan. For present prospects
make it appear that Congress may
sit far into the summer or even
early autumn. D.,
Thus far little or nothing mas
been done except to pass neutral
ity legislation that completely
satisfied nobody. The court plan
has become an absolute legislative
bSt,leneck, leaving the bulk OF the
~sa, work Of the session to be done
after it is disposed Of ~i ~ Z,
r,oNGREssIoNAL interest y,
u the steel and scrap iron, export
situation was cons,i d er ply
whetted by government figures
showing that March broke an
s e%ye record for unfinished
steel exports. and that the export
| of sG2 249 tons of scrap iron and
steel broke all records for a single
month. While the export OF more
than 100000 tons of new steel was vas
only about four per cent OF tne
national production, and there,ore
not a great factor, the tremendous ss
cyport of scrap makes good luei
for the fire Senator Schweiienoach
is building under that trade. ~
! Ccopyrirht. 1887. NEA sT''SSs"' W. F.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-11

paid the fifteen dollars, Dut
felt / was paying three times too
much, 49,.
Why shouldn't lawyers adopt a
general policy toward the public
similar to that employed by physi-
clans? A person can go into the
average medical mans office and
get advice for two dollars and up,
depending on what the physician
has to do. AS a result, the gem
eral public is in the habit of con-
sulting physicians, and knows IN
advance approximately what the
fee will be. But tell the average
man he should consult a lawyer
and he is apt to hold back. He
visualizes large fee. He has
heard that lawyers get "retaln-
ers." He may not know what the
term means, but it sounds formid-
able. So he may try to get legal
advice without paying anything
for it-and it usually insn't worth
anything when gotten that way:
or he may get along without legal
advice and get himself into a peck
of trouble.
Wouldn't it be a good thing for
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-11
WIDER USE OF LAWYERS
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

the public and a good thing for
the lawyers, if lawyers made a
practise of giving legal advice as
physicians give medical advice, so
that person with a legal prob
lem on his mind would not hest
tate to consult an attorney?
Wouldn't that get the public into
the habit of consulting lawyers as
freely as it does physicians? And
wouldn't that lead to a better
feeling between the public and
the legal profession?
By encouraging the public to
consult them at fees the public
could readily pay, wouldn't the
rank and file of the lawyers make
more money than they are now
making?
There is feeling of fellowship
between the public and the physi-
clans. 1t would be excellent for
all concerned-including the gov
ernment-if a similar spirit were
to be developed between the pub
lie and the lawyers. The lawyers
are tremendous force in this
land. A higher, wider, justified
confidence in them would be ben
eficial to all concerned.
l charge the lawyers no fee for
this advice.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-11
SCIENTISTS POINT WAY TOWARD
IDEAL LIVING
(By BRUCE CATION

That party of scientists who sailed from
Honolulu the other day on two-months
trip to study four-minute eclipse of the
sun might very we'll be taken as model
for the rest of the world to copy.
Along with IL tons of equipment, these
scientists - there are Is of them = are
bound for one of the uninhabited Phoenix
Islands, far out in the Pacific. They will
set up their apparatus there and on the
eighth of June they will have 24O seconds
in which to study completely eclipsed
sun. .....
The party over, they will head for home
again, having spent good deal of money
and great deal of effort in the quest for
a collection of facts which, from the dol
lars and cents viewpoint, will never do
anyone the least good ........ .,s..
But the net result will be that the sum
total of the races knowledge about the
infinitely mysterious world it inhabits will
be increased, if only by little.
The point is that it is still possible for a
disinterested job of this kind to be done.
We can still get some high-powered brains
together, spend important money and
make elaborate plans for an expedition
whose fruits can't be turned into cash or
reserved as the exclusive property OF any
one. ... .-.....
The knowledge gained by this expedi-
ton will be available to Germans. and Rus
slams and Englishmen and Japanese as well
as to Americans. 1t will not be patented
and let out on a royalty basis by any man
or corporation, or jealousy guarded in the
archives of any foreign office. 1t will be as
free as the air to any human being who
has the wit to use it.
That sort of thing isn't as common as it
might be, these days. For the keynote to
this goth century world seems to be unre-
strained rivalry-every man Cor nation)
for himself, and the devil take the hind
most, as he is quite likely to do. The idea
that the race will be better off if it works
together and stops trying to gain advan-
tage for one group at the expense of some
other has hardly so much as dawned on US.
Yet it ought to be obvious that we SIM
ply aren't going to be able to hive by
this devil-take-the-hindmo creed so very
much longer The devil is following alto,
gether too closely on our heels. Like it OF
not, the human race is going to-wherevel
it is going-as a group. .
So this little scientific expedition shines
like good deed in naughty world. 1t is
hint that we aren't necessarily doomed
togo on cutting one another's threats, aft
err all. We can cooperate, we can make
the gain of one the gain of all 81, ..pf
And if we ever do set out to live up t.
this example set by our scientists, what
world we can make for ourselves. ..a