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Broadway celebrities are their friends.
 He Fishes Alone
 When flag catches up with them they pack their skis for Sun Valley in Idaho. Or jump to Miami for some sun. Or hop to a country club for a polo tournament. But when he goes fishing he goes alone. Toe slow" she says.
 You miss such a lot,' he pro- tests.
 She knows from sad experience that he thinks so. That time he packed up for Montauk Point tc fish. He had been gone two days when she received long distance call. She quavered, Whats hap pened?' as she rushed to the phcne She heard his voice. He sounded excited. He exploded Darling I have caught a swordfish. just wanted you to know"
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FOUR MANCLED WHEN AUTO IS
 HIT BY TRAIN
Union Pacific Crashes Into Closed Car at Rail-
 road Crossing

NYASSA, Oregon, May l2.-Four persons were killed when their car was struck at a railroad crossing by west bound Union Pacific freight.
 The dead, all badly mangled, have tentatively been identified as Eugene Trash, aged IT; Mrs. J. j. Burlington. 30; Miss Kruger, about 19, and Mrs. Marie Graham.
 The party was riding in a closed car and the freight train was going about 40 miles an hour.
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Mitchell Must
 Pay Large Sum On Income Tax
Circuit Court Unanimous in Case Against Former
 New York Banker

NEW YORK, May lz-The Unit ed States Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that Charles Mitchell, former President of the National City Bank of New York City, must pay $718,0o0 income tax for the year 1929.
 Mitchell claimed loss was in- cured through the sale of shares of the bank stock. His wife held the shares, the court decided, and the transaction is therefore not a genuine one.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, May 12. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is l2, American Can 100A American Power and Light 91z, Anaconda 50h, Bethlehem Steel 82la, Calumet and Hecla 13. Commonwealth and Southern 2,h, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 57A, International Harvester 1074, Kennecott 54as, New York Central 46A, Southern Pacific 57M, United States Steel 99lk, United Corpora ton 5, Cities Service 3as. Republic Steel 351a, Pure Oil 18A, Holly Su- gar 341z, Pound $4.94as.
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YOSHIDA BROTHERS ON WAY TO JAPAN;
 HAVE SOLD HOTEL

Having som the hotel and safe which they have operated at White horse for several years, K. and M Yoshida, were soutibound passen- gers through Juneau on the steam CT Princess Louise, 'enroute to their old home in Japan, where the two brothers will visit for about two years, before returning to White horse
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ANCHORAGE 07767
 Anchorage, Alaska. December 2. 1886.

December 2, 1886. Notice is hereby given that James Jackson, entryman, has made ap- plication for tract of land e;n- braced in U. S. Survey No 2505 situ- ate on Tenakee Inlet. Latitude ST 46'3G~ N Longitude 135 l2' W. con- taining 1.15 acres together with his witnesses, Raymond Paddock and John Vavalia, both of Juneau, AL aska, and it is now in the files of the U. S. Land Office. Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the peri cd of publication or thirty days thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate is- sued.
 GEORGE A. LINGO,
 Register. First publication March 3l, 1937. Last publication May 26, 1937.
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FORMER 1T" GIRL TURNS
 DOWN OFFER
Clara Bow Refuses to Take Test for Part in Gone
 with the Wind

FRENCH LICK; Ind, May 12.--- Clara Bow, one time the Tt" girl of the movies, gave up her last chance to emerge from retirement by turuing down test for the role of Scarlet OHara in the film yer sion, Gone With the Wind" Her husband Rex Bell said friends begged his wife to take the test, but she refused because she felt that only southern born girl could give the part. the proper treatment
 
 Try The Empire classifieds for nuicE reSIlltS
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oN CUSTOMS INSPECTION

Frank M Burns, Canadian Gus toms Inspector, was a passenger en- route through Skagway in the Yu- kon Territory, aboard the north bound Canadian Paacific steamer Princess Louise. He is making his annual trip to the Yukon customs points.
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JUNIOR C.D.A. CARD PARTY

Parish Hall Saturday afternoon at 1;l5. Bridge, pinochle-prizes. Admission soc. adv
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Post Office at Nenana
 Is Raised in Ranking

WASHINGTON. May 12. - The Post Office at Mcnamara has been advanced to third class from fourth
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Enroute to Nome, P. L. Dibble construction man, is passenger to Seward aboard the westward bound steamer Baranof.
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class as the result of increased business and the postmaster has received an advance in salary from $l2OO to $2300 yearly. depending on the volume of the mail
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now. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow Jcnes averages: industrials 172.24 rails 58.89, utilities 38.03.
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treasurer sof the School Board.
 The finale, waltz from the ballet "Ternreschen,' will be presented by he Juneau High School orchestra.
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Some 9.542,000 harmonicas were imported into the United States during the last year. Germany supplying 7.458,O00 of them.
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BACK TO MISSION

The Rev. Joseph Allard, Roman Catholic missionary. in the Atlin section of Northern British Colum- Ibia, passed through Juneau to Skagway on the first trip north ot the Princess Louise, enroute to Atlin
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Alaska" by Lester D. Henderson
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Empire ads are read.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

were employed by the warrior cults or
societies of Yucatan very much as in
sigma are used by the various orders
of modern times to identify particular
groups. Neither is it improbable that
the older temple buried within the
pyramidal base was erected by the
laguar cult of warriors and used by
them in ceremonial practices"
The reclining human figure and the
jaguar throne will be left in place by
the Mexican government Electric
lighting is being installed in the an
Gent and CHASTITY lodge room" so that
visitors can view in stu what Dr. Nor
ley describes as the most spectacular
discovery of archaeological specimens in
original position ever made in the New
World"
Archaeological work however, is con-
tinuing at this particular pyramid. the
most elaborate erected to the dreaded
Kukulcan, whose delight was in human
sacrifice conducted with elaborate cere-
monies which eliminated in the casting
of the most beautiful Maya maidens
into the nearby sacred we'll to appease
the rain god, who was supposed to have
his abode there.
Accompanying the cruel god out of
the west. the Carnegie Psychologists
found, was more elaborate culture
and an advanced and more spacious
form OF architecture The period of
the invaders represented the peak of
Maya civilization, which was beginning
to deteriorate when the first white men
made their appearance in the sixteenth
century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Yawns.

Princess Margaret Rose, not yet seven
years Of age, is reported to have yawned
at the Archbishop of Canterbury during
the coronation ceremony in Westminster
Abbey. The incident was not without
precedent. Both Calvin Coolidge and
Herbert Hoover are known to have in
dulged similar instinct on almost as
solemn occasions. A celebrated Chief
Justice of the United States at least
once obeyed an irresistible impulse to
express boredom by monstrously pro-
digious cape aimed directly at an attor-
ney who had earned the rebuke by
hours of hair-splitting argument
The dictionary defines a yawn in the
picturesque phrase: "An opening wide;
specifically, an involuntary opening of the
mca1th with prolonged, deep inspira-
tion, as from drowsiness or WEAKNESS"
But it is beyond the power of language
to ,analyze the phenomenon adequately.
Like q sneeze, real, authentic, honest
to-goodness yawn is impossible to stop.
PoAteness prompts an effort to hide the
conpulsion, yet it must be gratified. The
cause Is incontrovertible. Exhausting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

and repetitious formalities have the effect
of promoting physical as we'll as
psychological reaction. It is natural to
surrender to the urge.
Princess Margaret Rose, therefore,
need not worry about the universal pub
licity accorded her lapse. Seven hours
of ceremonial formula constitute all the
excuse she needs. Numerous older spec
tators probably were guilty of the same
sin and passed unnoticed in their wick
edness merely because they were not
members of royal family. The arch
bishop himself betrayed wish for the
termination of the tedious services when
he uttered gigantic sigh. Radio listen
ers in Washington heard him and SYM
pathized with him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Abandonment of Water
Gate Concerts Regretted

U tne EQltOI OF ne otaf.
The announcement that there will be
no Summer concerts this season is little
short of amazing. The huge crowds
which have attended the concerts of
the past two Summers have demon
strated conclusively that very real need
for them exists. The orchestra, in its
appeals for support, has insisted, very
rightly, that it fulflls an important
public service. But if this is true of
the regular season, it is even more true
of the Summer concerts, which have
brought this service to thousands who
are not served by the Winter concerts
Any one who has looked at the faces
of that vast crowd at the Water Gate
must realize the need those concerts
supplied and the loss which must result
from their abandonment.
A similar announcement last Spring
resulted in the orchestra players them
selves organizing Summer series which
was even more enthusiastically re-
ceived than the first. No such plan has
been advanced this year, as it is said
that several of those most active in last
Summers enterprise were subsequently
dismissed from the orchestra.
Whatever the reason for the decision,
it seems to square rather poorly with
any notion of public service which
has any reality. If the public is to sup
port the orchestra, better recognition of
the needs of that public is in order.
J. F. OIL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
British Labor Crisis.

Now that the stellar event of the
coronation festival is over, Britain must
come to grips with labor crisis of the
first magnitude, involving the grim pos
slblllty of another general strike on the
1926 model. The situation arises out of
the demand of London busmen for
7A2-hour day and improved working
conditions. With characteristic stoicism,
the great city did not permit absence of
bus facilities, on which it ordinarily de-
ponds as the principal means of urban
transportation, to interfere with corona
ton activities. The SPRAYING metropolis
'muddled through" for the most part,
on its joint and several lower extremities.
Up to the eleventh hour, it was feared
that other transport workers would re-
sort to sympathetic Walkouts in support
of the striking busmen. Such action, by
tying up the far-f1ung network of under
ground tube lines, would have para
lyzed the London traffic system at
moment when the Kings capital was
thronged as almost never before.
While the busmen were rejecting
appeals FOR Cancellation over the corona
ton period, attempts to avert the
threatened national coal strike also
broke down. Strike notices expiring
May 20 are about to be issued by 100000
miners. The final rupture was precipi-
tated by refusal of the Nottinghamshire
collieries to meet the Mine Workers
Federation for discussion of the conflict
until the federation agrees to genuine
amalgamation with locals" which, &C
cording to the owners, the big union
seeks to eXtinguish.
Conditions underlying both the trans
port and coal controversies parallel those
now causing widespread labor unrest in
the United States. The cost of living
is rising in Great Britain. Since last
Summer, prices have steadily advanced
faster than wages. Thus, at the very
height of the country's prosperity, it
is contended--in the words of the
Laborite Daily Herald-that "the real
standard of life is slowly falling"
Britain is at the threshold of a universal
determination among trade unionists to
gain greater security and improved con-
ditions. The demand for them at this
time springs largely from the fact that
the trade boom is accompanied by an
omnlpresent increase in emotional strain,
because the effort for maximum output
has led to wholesale speeding up in
industry and more or less regular
overtime.
Stanley Baldwin, first British in
dustrialist to attain the prime minister
ship, only a few days ago turned his
farewell address in Parliament on the
eve of retirement later this month, into
an ardent plea to the nation to stem
the rising tide of labor discomfort. He
appealed particularly to employers to
accept collective bargaining as the only
alternative to anarchy" The redoubt-
able Tory leader may be depended upon
to devote his few remaining days In
Downing Street to dissipating the dark
cloud lowering over his country at
this otherwise joyous hour. Baldwin
shrinks from the prospect of relinquish-
ing Office amid industrial chaos that
calamity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Federal Government.

To the man in the street Govern
ment" means the executive branch,
headed by the President That feeling
has been more and more on the increase.
There are reasons for 1t. Congress
has delegated constantly greater power
to the Executive. The last three sessions
have set a record in this respect, in
peace time. Congress is in session on
the average only six months a year,
while the Executive is always on the job.
There are approximately 100000 civilian
employees, to say nothing of the Army
and Navy, huge host on the Govern
ment-the executive pay roll. And so
the executive branch of the Government
the judicial branch being of small pro-
portions means Government to the
people.
AS this feeling that the executive
branch is the Government has grown
among the people, so it has grown in the
mind of the executive itself. It's will is the
dominant will. 1t has imposed its will on
the legislative branch, and is seeking
to do so on the judiciary. This is not
healthy condition in democracy with
three supposedly coordinate branches
of government, each to operate in its
own sphere.
The executive branch is like an army.
The individual officers and the rank and
file must keep in step. They may speak
favorably of the Presidents policy-and
go as far they desire. But If they dis
agree with this policy, they must for
reasons well understood keep their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Ex.Farmers Would Like to
See the CAPITAL Beautified

To the Editor OF The Star:
The editorial entitled "City Beautiful
in Mondays issue of The Star is a very
good description OF Washington on an
early May Sunday. At no time of the
year are leaves and foliage more beauti-
full on the trees, and in no other city
have I seen so many trees. Leaves are
so green and tender Yet, the Autumn
leaves hereaboutS are not exactly eye
sores.
There is no more delightful aroma
to us eX-tarmerS to say the least-than
the scent Of freshly moved Spring grass
on the lawns drying under the sun when
1t is just right. And just little way out
Wisconsin avenue there are some dog
wood blossoms that would take the blue
ribbon anywhere. Perhaps you have
noticed them-just as you go up the
hill.
Washington architecture is unsur-
passed. and her public buildings sermons
on fine masonry. Nowhere will you find
prettier buildings. And nowhere will
you find uglier residences. Row houses.
Dilapidated bricks. Frame houses in
need of repairs and paint. Houses
damned right up to the sidewalk. Worn
out brick-Walks. Houses that should
have been torn down ten years ago,
vacant in many instances, and not fit
to live in. Yet, if you tried to rent one
there would be an enormous rental
charge. Property is sky-high, rents are
entirely too much and taxes are being
piled upon taxes world without end.
A short time ago roofing con-
tractor sold out, lock. stock and barrel,
and left for Florida because the taxes,
insurance premiums on compensation
for employees and threats of still more
taxes were eating up his profits. A
radical move in the opinion OF his en-
ployes and the tax collector, but the man
showed good sense in his selection of a
home Florida and the deep South are
still frontier States, prices are low
and living costs cheap, so that II he
had any money at all left he could make
good, assuming he knew anything
about the late Calvin Coolidge. You
can really be thrifty and economic
without fear you're going to lose it
when the tax collector comes around.
Florida wants people. There is a move
ment on foot to exempt homes from
taxation unless the valuation exceeds
$1,000. Roads last a long time when
they are built, because there are no bad
course, and justly so. The money is
spent on the roads.
Yes, Washington is a beautiful city,
except for its residences, which are an
eyesore Half of them should be torn
down. There ought to be law against
row houses If they need the space,
go up toward the sky-there is plenty
of room up that way. Make apart
ments instead of row houses. Then
maybe there would be room for few
flowers and shrubs and even vege-
table garden, or just green grass AS
it is now, only few suburbs and ex-
elusive sections, as, for example, Chevy
Chase and Bethesda and others, can have
these.
If you have ever taken a drive out
through West Nashville and seen those
big, fine estates and lawns, or through
Druid Hills in Atlanta, or out West
Peachtree street, you'll know what I
| mean. HARRY ALEXANDER,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1t is not too late to plant gladiolus
bulbs, technically known as corms, but
always referred to by professionals and
amateurs alike as bulbs"
Owners of sunny yards, by all means,
ought to grow this flower. While it does
mediumly well in semi-shady place, 1t
Is best in full sunshine, and no wonder.
1t is African.
All of the modern large Powered
gladioli are descended from the old
Sword lily" of grandmother's garden,
which was a direct import.
That name was given from the shape
of the leaves, from whence the word
"gladiolus," meaning like sword.
These leaves somewhat resemble those
of the iris, but are longer, not as broad at
the base, not as firm, nor of as good a
color.
Gladiolus leaves look we'll when the
plants are massed, the bulbs having been
placed not more than inches apart
each way.
In other situations, especially when the
individual plants are too far apart the
leaves are nothing to brag about. Too
often they are afflicted with broWnish
edges or are of too pale green.
1t is for the glorious flower, then, that
the world grows the gladiolus.
The secret Of gladiolus culture is two
fold:
l. Sunshine.
2. Fertilization.
With these two really ought to go
another, cleanliness of culture and culti-
walton. This also includes clean bulbs,
free from thripS, those annoying, per-
sistent insects which in recent years
played such havoc with what had been
before a remarkably insect-free plant
Steps have been taken throughout the
industry to supply amateurs with bulbs
free from this pest.
In most instances all the amateur
grower will have to bother with will be
the need for plenty of sunshine and
plenty of fertilizer.
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Full sun is best.
Remember that this bulb is from hot
place, one of the hottest in the world.
1t needs plenty Of sunshine. Like a
modern bathing beauty, it loves to sun
itself.
If sun can be secured but part of the
day. let it be the full afternoon sun, for
that is longest and the warmest Re-
member that the gladiolus, provided it
has the necessary water, cannot be
harmed by sunshine.
Nor is watering task with this plant.
A thorough watering with the hose every
two or three days is sufficient, and this
only when there is lack of normal rain
fall.
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Bulbs may be planted 6 to inches
deep. The deeper down, the longer the
plant takes in coming up, of course
FloWering times for the hundreds of
different varieties (really species) on the
market have been worked out almost to
the day.
That is, by knowing how long each
bulb takes to flower, under average con-
ditions, the grower may plant his bulbs
at different periods for maximum effect
and long-continued blooming
This will mean that he should buy
named varieties, as they are called.
They cost a little more that way, each
sort labeled, but there is a great deal
more pleasure in growing them.
We would advise every person who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Dominican Republic Pays
International OBLIGATIONS

To the Editor OF The Star:
I have read the interesting editorial
entitled Latin American Debts" pub
lished in the May issue of your I'M
portant daily paper.
I deem it opportune to call your
attention to the remarkable promptness
with which the Dominican Republic
has been meeting its international
economic obligations. The government
of President Trujillo Molina has made
almost religious matter of the fulfill
ment of those obligations. Despite the
hurricane that all but destroyed the
ancient city of Santo Domingo, despite
the world crisis which seriously endan-
gered the economy of many nations,
despite the carrying out of the brilliant
program of public works that is going
on at present in the Dominican Re-
public, the government has been exer-
cising special efforts to continue meeting
punctually the payments of both the
interest and the amortization of its
external Indebtedness
Nothing could better describe the atti-
tude of the government of President
Trujillo Molina in connection with the
external debt of the Dominican Republic
ClldIl Iile lOlloWllIS SCdIeIleIlC IudQc ny
Secretary Hull in August, 1884:
1T seems to me that it should be a
matter of great satisfaction and pride
to the Dominican people and to your
government that during this period of
world depression your government has
maintained prompt payment of full
interest on its foreign obligations =.
In the substantial effort which the
Dominican government is thus making to
meet, as far as it feels able, it's pledged
faith on it's financial obligations the
Dominican government has set an
example worthy of emulation"
EMILIO GARCIA GODOY,
Charge d'Afaires ad Interim.