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Evening star., 1937-06-17

working conditions involved in only point
IN dispute is whether there shall be signed
Last week held conferences with and
lhen JOINT conference Friday At that time submitted
point peace proposal which the labor
accepted as basis for negotiations was
(See DAVEY, A-3)
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Summary of Today's Star

FOREIGN.
Japan opposes Roosevelt secret naval
treaty. Page Al
White Russian leader in Soviet is
dead. Page Az
Italian ship damaged in loyalist bonn
bardment. Page AS
NATIONAL.
Court plan to be big topic at Official
house party" Page Al
ReconLnittal of Presidents court bill
held probable. Page Al
Three-man board is named to mediate
steel strike disputes. Page Al
Bailey defends vigilantes at P. O.
strike hearing. Page Al
Preventative legislation urged at trsu
tax-dodging hearing. Page Al
Navy open three bids for battle
ship. Page Az
jeanette Macdonald and Gene Ray
mond married. Page Az
Antitrust complaint filed against
General Motors Page Al
Steel organizers committee prepares
to aid strikers families. Page AS
Connery praised by President and Mrs.
Roosevelt. Page A-6
Federal and county authorities differ
in missing heiress case. Page b.
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY,
House expected to pass revised D. G.
tax bill. Page AL
Mrs. Tydings. in first address, urges
women work for peace. Page Az
v. F. W. hears preparedness plea by
Representative Martin. Page AS
Senator Duffy chief independence day
speaker at Water Gate. Page Az
King urges study Of D. G. fiscal ques-
ton, including taxsA Page Al
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JAPAN TO REJECT
SECRET NAVY PACT
Roosevelt Fails in Attempt
to Limit Guns to 14-InCh
CaIiber.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The London treaty OF March rs,
1886. ,Das designed to succeed the
Washington treaty of 1922 and the
London treaty OF 1880, Which estab-
hshed a ratio OF quantitdtire strength
OF 5-5-3 for Britain, the United
States and Japan. The expiration
OF the 5-5-3 treaties, December
81, 1886, Uas the signal for the i'm
mediate Inauguration OF 1corld
natal building race.
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FEDERAL MEDIATORS APPOINTED
In STEEL STRIKE AFTER DAVEY
APPEALS TO PRESIDENT FOR AID
Gov. Davey's Appeal

The President TOR Fed
eral }ouous:
His Excelency Franklin D Roosevelt,
President of the United States
Washington D. C.
Dear Mr. PRESIDENT
After nearly two weeks of dligent bring about
reasonable settlement of the steel strike to Ohio
companies find temporary
deadlock The companies have repeatedly said they
Evening star., 1937-06-17
BULLETIN.

State Department officials dis
closed today that the United States
has asked the principal world naval
powers If each would agree to limit
the caliber of big guns on their
battleships to IA inches.
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70 d buI eNu 1UTetustD
Partly cloudy with showers this after.
noon and possibly tonight; tomorrow fair
with rising temperature: gentle winds.
Temperatures today-Highest, 70 at l
pm; lowest, 65, at am. Full report on
Page A-l9. Temperature at pm, rs.
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Gee ENSIGN, Page A-4.)
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8 japanese Flyers Killed,

(See JUDICIARY, page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-06-17

(See TAXES, page A-3.)
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Dwelling ON Grievances
Power of Trouble Is Increased
And Distributed by Talking of 1t

wise. Is this not really what we,
ourselves, hope to hear when
we air our troubles?
Trouble MOngers
When we are awakened to the
fact that talking of our woes adds
to those of the listener without
lessening ours, that we are i'm
planting troubles in the minds of
others, we surely will try to be
more careful about giving vent to
the misfortunes by talking about
them. Moreover, if we do con-
tinue to be trouble mongers, no
one will be eager to talk with us.
Winning Out.
If, instead of dwelling on our
grievances, we discuss pleasant
topics, we are not only giving
pleasure to others, but we are ac-
tually doing ourselves kindness
as well. We diminish our own
depression by rising above our
troublous thoughts, thus becom-
ing conquerors in and through our
conversation.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
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Origin of Lead Pencils

r HE peculiar thing about the So
L called lead pencil is that it is
not lead pencil at all. 1t is made
of graphite and contains not the
slightest trace of lead.
The first pencils made of graphite
(Which comes from the Greek word
"grapho," meaning 81 write') were
invented back in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. They created quite stir,
because they were much easier to
write with than the old goosequill
pens and could be carried around
anywhere. Stocks of the graphite
mines in England underwent almost
as big a boom as wildcat gold mine
stocks did during the gold rush days.
But after the first excitement was
over, the early pencils proved to be
too expensive for ordinary use. The
graphite had to be cut with crude
saws, and since it broke very easily,
there was a tremendous waste. 1t
was not until 1895 when a French
man named Conte conceived the
idea of using pulverized graphite
with binding clay that pencils be-
came cheap enough for popular
consumption.
An even bigger impetus was
given to the pencil industry when
an Englishman happened to think
of tipping them with rubber erasers.
He was smart enough to patent his
idea, and during the years that his
patent lasted, his royalties
amounted to over $1,000 annually
It just goes to show how much
money can be made from one good
idea.
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lies in the fact that he was born
in the Lawrenceville section of
that city, much of his ca
reer was spent there and his body
lies in Allegheny cemetery, not
far from his birthplace, beside
those of his father and mother.
Considering the place which he
and his songs hold in the hearts
of his countrymen, it is appro-
pirate that the birthday of the
nation should also be his birth
day. For he was born on July
4, 1925, and at noon on that day
the ninth child of William B.
and Eliza Foster was ushered
into the world to the tune of
Hail Columbia" yankee Doc
die, )" Hail to the Chief and "The
Star Spangled Banner" played
by blaring bands as Pittsburgh
celebrated the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence.
William Foster was not present
to welcome his youngest for, as
a prosperous merchant trader
and a leading citizen of the COM
munity, he had been made an
assistant to the mayor of Pitts
burgh in the conduct of the In
dependence Day celebration. So
Eliza Foster endured her travail
alone and it was she who named
her latest born Stephen Collins
for the son of neighbor and
childhood friend of hers, a little
boy who had died just before
her own son was born.
The Child Musician.
The youngest member of a
large family, Stephen was both
petted and spoiled, but he
seems never to have been very
well understood by the other Eos
tiers. He showed an aptitude for
music early. When he was two,
he would place his sisters guitar
on the floor and, bending over
it, pick out harmonies from its
strings. When he was seven he
was taken into a music store by
one of his brothers. There he saw
a fageolet, picked it up and was
playing a tune upon it before his
brother realized what he was
doing.
At the age of thirteen Stephen
was taken by his older brother,
William, to Towanda, Pa, so he
could attend Athens academy at
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THERE is a curious and very
L much mistaken idea that by
talking of our grievances and our
troubles, we decrease their pow
er over us to make us miserable.
Instead, by dwelling on them we
reinforce their power. We not
only do this, but we scatter the
seeds of their discomfort, as we
unburden our hearts, and whole
new crop of disturbing thoughts
enters into the minds of those who
bear with us during our outpour-
ing of words.
Making Misery.
If the person to whom we speak
is near and dear to us, our
troubles weigh on them almost as
their own. We are unwittingly
the cause to them of an added
weight of discordant thoughts,
and perhaps they may be trying
to get the better of their own
bothers.
Sympathy Versus Help.
We have only to consider the
effect on ourselves of listening to
others talk Of their worries, mis-
fortunes, and hard luck, to real
ize the depressing power of such
conversation. 1t is seldom we can
do anything to help them. In fact
persons who talk of their troubles
seldom do it to get helpful sug-
gestions. They are bespeaking
sympathy and often are disturbed,
hurt or annoyed, when they get
advice, even though it be excel
lent. What is wanted is to hear
expressions of understanding of
their position as difficult, and to
hear their actions considered
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-04
How Blotting Paper Was
Invented

T IKE so many other inventions,
IL blotting paper was discovered
by mere accident. One day early
in the Nineteenth century, a care
less workman in paper mill in
Berkshire, England, forgot to put
the sizing in a run of paper he was
making. The whole lot was ap-
parently ruined.
Shortly afterwards the outraged
owner, having fired his negligent
employee, sat down to write letter.
He thought that some of the con-
demned paper would serve his pur-
pose, and was intensely annoyed
when he was unable to write on it
because the ink spread out all over
its surface.
Suddenly the thought flashed
through his mind that if the unsized
paper could not be used for writing,
it could be used for drying ink in
place of the sand then universally
used. Under the name of blotting
paper, he was able to sell all his
damaged stock at good price.
Before long, he had turned his en-
tire factory over to making plotting
paper, and had made himself
wealthy in the bargain.
Although he did not know it, the
reason why this sort of paper dries
up ink is because the paper fibres
are really q mass of hair-like tubes
that suck up liquids by capillary
attraction. Put fine glass tube into
water and you'll find that water
rises in the tube due to this same
principle of capillary attraction.
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Foreign Words
und Phruses

Caetera desunt. (L.) The re
mainder is wanting.
Lingua Toscana in bocca Ro
mana. Ut.) The Tuscan speech or
Roman lips; i. e., the most cor
rect Italian.
Au fait. CD Well informed
master of; skilled.
En- arriere. CD In the rear;
backward; behind.
Lares ct penates. (L.) House
hold gods.
Ore rotundo. G) With full ut.
terance.
Principals obsta. N.) Withstand
beginnings.
Sans gene. CD Without EN-.
barrassment.
Pleno jure. (L.) With full power
Sinilia sirnilibus curantur. (L.)
Like things are cured by like.
Tout au contraire. GU Quite
the contrary.
Quo jure? G.) By what right?
Via media. L.) A middle
course.
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artist only one sitting. Whether
the artist was not satisfied with
the portrait or whether the pub
fishing firm cancelled the order,
cannot be ascertained and no
definite statement can be made
in this regard. Thomas Hicks, the
artist, gave the portrait to Will
liam Hicks, a prominent mer-
chant of Brooklyn, who was an
admirer of Foster. William
Hicks died in 1895. His widow
gave the portrait to her grand
daughter, Mary Elizabeth Post
Holmes, who in turn gave it to
her daugher, Mary Elizabeth
Case, she being the last of the
family to own the portrait, and
who sold it in the summer of
1885.
The reason for erecting a
memorial to Foster in Pittsburgh
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for fourth place "Old Black Joe"
and "Oh, Susannah" are tied.
Six of the rarest items in the
collection are manuscripts from
Stephen Fosters hand for songs
containing both words and mu-
sic. One notebook in the collec-
ton, 220 pages long, contains
practically all his drafts for
verses written between 1851 and
1860.
In addition to the Lilly col
lection the Foster shrine will
display other contributions. One
is the composers flute, given to
the university by the grandson
of a personal friend of the musi-
cal genius.
Recently announced, too, was
the gift to the university by the
Andrew w. Mellon Educational
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Twas This WAY
Q Q
By LYLE SPENCER
@ Western Newspaper Union.
g Western Newspaper Union.
Learning to Shave

1890 ~ $3.50
M OST women probably think
1Vl that the person who invented
shaving made a great contribution
to civilization. At least he made
it unnecessary for them to look at
and be scratched by sweeping mus
taches and billowing boards. But
this forgotten inventor, whoever he
was, also condemned the male
world to centuries of painful scrap
ing before poorly-Gghted mirrors.
The invention of shaving goes
back before the dawn of recorded
history. Before the use of metal
razors, men either pulled out the
hairs one at a time or slashed
them off with bits of sharp-edged
stones. Some of the earliest draw
ings found in Egypt and Assyria
show men clean shaven.
The American Indians, who have
scanty boards like Oriental peoples,
religiously cut all the hair from
their faces with sharp flints. Many
Polynesian savages still shave with
two pieces of flint, and others use
pieces of shells or sharks teeth
ground down to a razor edge.
The metal razor itself is very old,
and was probably used by the As
syrians and Egyptians as far back
as $500 B. C. Shaving Is even men,
toned in the first chapter OF the
Bible, where the book Of Genesis
says that Joseph Shaved himself,
and changed his raiment," when
ordered to appear before Pharaoh.
Alexander the Great ordered his
soldiers to shave before they went
into battle so that the enemy would
not be able to grab hold of them
so easily. But nowhere do the
early books suggest that men
shaved for romantic reaaons. Not
until modern advertising made the
world razor conscious have men
shaved to please their wives and
sweethearts.
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ody, is one of the valued
articles.
His Most Popular Song.
One large bookcase, ready for
installation In the Foster Memo
rial, contains 500 monograph
recordings of every Foster song,
some made especially, but most
including the Japanese version
of "My Old Kentucky Home
produced for commercial sale.
Many songs, such as the most
popular, "Old Folks At Home"
which had $50 editions before
1900 and many more since, APP
pear in several versions.
Second most popular, the
classification based on numbers
of editions published, is ''My Old
Kentucky Home" according to
Mr.. Hodges. "Massa's in de Cold,
Cold Ground" ranks third, and
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and Charitable Trust of por-
trait of Foster which belonged to
the famed Thomas C. Clarke col
lection of American portraits.
A Portrait of Foster.
The portrait, Is by, 80 inches,
and in an excellent state of pres
ervation, shows the composer in
three-quarter length pose, and
depicts him as a young man in his
early twenties. 1t was painted
by Thomas Hicks, noted artist,
for Firth, Pond & Co. of New
York, who were the publishers of
Fosters music. Foster gave the
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and gentle hearts," probably the
last thing Foster wrote and the
likely title for a song. 1t, too,
is in the collection.
Eighteen letters written by
Foster, principally to members
of his family in Pittsburgh in
Guiding his brother, Morrison,
one of the few contemporaries
to appreciate his genius, are also
included.
Fosters melodeon, only four
and half octaves in range and,
hence, not suitable for the finger
ing of a composer seeking mel
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Today's Work

Finish every day and be done
with it. You have done what
you could; some blunders and alb
surdities crept in-forget them as
soon as you can. Tomorrow is a
new day. You shall begin it we'll
and serenely, and with too high a
spirit to be encountered with your
old nonsense.-Emerson.
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Intensity of Ultraviolet Rays

The intensity of the ultraviolet
rays is about eight times as great in
August as in January. 1t increases
rapidly from sunrise until noon,
when it again decreases rapidly un-
ii, sunset. The intensity is almost
twice as great at noon as it is at 3
o'clock in the afternoon
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-04
Good Men

You cannot make good citizens
without making good men. The
State is the individual writ large.
And the finest wealth consists in
those things which are increased
by sharing; where one mans gain
is not another mans loss.-Dean
Inge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-04
Tallest Chimney Raced

More than so pounds of dynamite
were required at Ince, England, to
bring down Britain's tallest CHM
ney, which weighed 5000 tons and
contained 1,0t0, 900 bricks, and which
was destroyed because the IRON
works it once served had been
abandoned.
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"A New Memorial to Stephen c. Foster,
Americas "Trogic Troubodour Elmo Watson


A Wit. II wealth of melo-
~ dies which have
been their favor
ties for nearly three-quarters
of a century-such songs as
"My Old Kentucky Home"
"Massa's in de Cold, Cold
Ground "Old Folks at
Home" "Come Where My
Love Lies Dreaming" ooh,
Susannah" and NELLY Was a
Lady"
And now-such is the irony
of fate-they are building a
memorial which will cost half
a million dollars to honor
Stephen Collins Foster, in
whose pocketbook was found,
when he died, 38 cents in
coins and "shin plasters,"
Civil war paper money. The
memorial will stand on the
campus of the University of
Pittsburgh in the shadow of
Pitts famed Cathedral of
Learning and it will be dedi-
Gated early this year dur
ing Pitts celebration of its
growth in $50 years from
log cabin to skyscraper."
Funds for the erection of the
Foster Memorial building were
raised by the Tuesday Musical
club of Pittsburgh, in co-opera-
ton with the university and with
musical clubs in IS other states.
In it will be a Foster shrine"
containing the collection of Fos-
teriana which Joseph K. Lilly of
Indianapolis, Ind, has gathered
together at cost of approx
mately 100000.
This collection and its curator,
Fletcher Hodges, who for six
years directed the gathering of
the original Foster manuscripts,
first editions, books and personal
belongings of the song writer,
arrived at the Cathedral of
Learning recently and began
storing away these priceless rel
les of Americas Tragic Trouba-
dour." AS soon as the newly
completed stone work on the in
terror of the memorial is finished
he will move the collection to its
place in the shrine where, under
the terms of Mr.. Lilly's gift,
they shall "belong to America"
The building in which this
Fosteriana will find a home is
adjacent to the main building
of the Memorial which contains
an auditorium seating about $50
persons, with rehearsal and re-
ception rooms below. 1t has been
built of stone to harmonic with
the other buildings of the Cathe-
dral quadrangle in the heart of
Oakland, Pittsburgh's "civic CEN
ter"
Depicts Foster Characters.
Loaded windows, with colored
medallions depicting the charac-
tiers in Foster songs, will be in
stalled this spring. The memorial
room, connected with the audi
forum foyer by a covered pas
sage, will house the Foster col
lection and will be open to the
public. Students of Fosters life
and times will have access to
the research facilities of the Lii
ly collection.
The collection includes literal
ly Everything under the sun"
relating to the composer. There
are hundreds of books in which
he is mentioned-some in only a
sentence-including some mod
ern histories of jazz.
One of the rare personal effects
is the pocketbook Foster carried
when he died, containing the 38
cents and a scrap of paper on
which was written, Dear friends
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Largest Fish Markets

In this country Fulton Fish mar
ket, New York City, is the largest,
while Billingsgate, London. is the
largest in the world.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
BY WILLARD
@Ie31 Ny Tk,0vssR Isc
BY S. L. HUNTLEY.
-By REX COLLIEF

and especially If you remain still and
become to them a part of the land.
scape will you be permitted to watch
how they work.
The sexes look alike. There Is Z
very slight difference in their coats
toward Winter, but not enough to
trouble you. The color above is q
mixed black and white with yellow
ish- brown tinge. The many spots on
the coat are white. The neck Is black
ish, the side of the face grizzled, the
hips and thighs reddish brown. The
babies are clad in . lighter shade oe
the colors worn by their parents.
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large cat. It has rather heavy
body, covered with thick fur, and the
tail is not so long as those worn by
the Southern members of the tribe.
Because of the climate and the food
situation, these squirrels must 60 into
Winter quarters and remain there for
several months. Often six months
must be spent underground. This
long sleep uses up all the fat stored
in the body, even though the heart
beat only registers about four faint
ones per minute and the temperature
at this time Is only So degrees. The
animal that this test was made upon
WAS 20 close b being dad that tt
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this case, there was little circulation

this case, there was little circulation
of the blood, the nerves did not re-
spond to tests and even amputation Of
q limb did not cause the animal to
stir from its condition that was close
to-if not actual-suspended anima-
ton. Yet others who have shown
this same almost lifeless condition
one day would come back under the
administration of warmth, and after
partaking Of little food, in very small
portions, would be as lively as 4
cricket in q few days.
The home of these ground squirrels
Is usually . snug retreat under rocks
q such places dsep down In the
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ground that will afford them shelter
as well as safety from foes.
The Columbia ground squirrel does
not show as much activity and zest
for life as his more Southern relatives.
Perhaps the long sleep and the bleak
days when he is awake are too dis
couraging to arouse much enthusiasm.
In Western Montana to Washington
you may have an opportunity Of
watching these fellows when they are
busily engaged In seeking seeds, roots
and feshy plants growing in their
territory. True, they are quite timid
at first. but quietness on your part
viii b enough to dispel their fear,
Evening star., 1937-07-08
By Phillips

8. Attempt.
9. Scotch bailiff.
10. Counterfeit.
II. Relieve.
-. Destruction.
13. Level.
18. Twenty quires.
%. Nobleman.
"a. Best part.
26. Ridiculous proceeding.
q. Pungent edible bulb.
%. Bud.
80. Projecting roof edges.
80. Is sick
80. Bend.
"a. italian province.
IS. Scoff.
81. Cried.
80. Punitive.
40. Exclusion from society.
IS. Meadows.
40. Entangle.
So. Clans in ancient Ireland.
SO. Small sea fish.
IS. Unites.
Sc. Cessation of frost.
81. Garment.
So. Imitator.
SO. North African river,
go. Large volume.
81. Ancient France.
| SO. Heating apparatus.
| 81. Gather in.
81. Legume.
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Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY,

COLUMbl GROUND SQUIRREL
(Citellus colunbianust.
IN THE extreme Northwest, reaching
= through British Columbia, across
Alaska and even as far west as Siberia,
the Columbia ground squirrel, much
larger than his Southern cousins,
keeps faith with family traditions, in
70 far as he Is permitted in such
cold climates.
Th1S fellow = about tho ai0 a q VIZ
Evening star., 1937-07-08

The bullet fired at Muviro missed it's mark, and
he and his men sought behind boulders.
Then he called to the flyers in English, explaing
that the Waziri were friends. But it was too late
for the aviators we're encircled by the white
savageS
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Twizzler Answer.

The parts are 10, 8, 3 and 2. They
all give an answer Of 6 when treated
as specified.