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Evening star., 1937-11-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
TODAY.

Dinner and dance, Ladies Swiss So
eiety, Lafayette Hotel, pm
Banquet, Phi Delta Legal Fraternity,
Mayhower Hotel, pm
Dinner, Delta Sigma Delta Frater-
nifty, Mayflower Hotel, 7pm.
Dinner, Variety Club, Willard Hotel,
7:30 pm.
Meeting, Delta Alpha Sorority,
Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm
Meeting, Philosophical Society, Co.'S
mos Club, SIS pm.
Dance, Polish Club, Stansbury Hall,
1892 Georgia avenue NV, $50 pm.
Dance and card party. Naomi Chap
ter. No. 3. Powhatan Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Georgia State Society, Shore
ham Hotel, $50 pm.
Dance, Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority
Willard Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Washington Section of Jun
ior Council. Wardman Park Hotel.
Dance, Norwegian Society, Washing
ton Club, Seventeenth and K streets
NV
Football party, alumni of University
OF California and Stanford Univer-
sity. 2400 Sixteenth street NV, 4:4C
pm; buffet supper, pm.
Dance, Regular Veterans Associa-
ton. Hamilton Hotel, 10 pm
Dance, alumni of the Sacred Heart
Of Mary, Hamilton Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
HOW TO STRIKE

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (P).-Anna
Warshaw gave money and sympathy
yesterday to the strike against the
Brooklyn paper plant operated by her
father and uncle.'
She announced $40 contribution
to the C. I. O. union locals strike
fund because she considered herself
"a member of the working class" and
father has plenty of money" to i'm
prove working conditions.
The union said she threatens" TO
join the picket line.
Nathan Warshaw, the father, de-
plored her action and blamed Com
munisln."
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Operalog at Raleigh.

FRANCESCA KASPAR LAWSON
will present an "operalog" lee
ture on Rossini's opera, The Barber
Raleigh Hotel at pm. The lecture,
which will be musically illustrated by
selections from the opera, is presented
under the joint auspices of the Inter-
national Art Forum and the Wash
ingtol- Popular Opera Association. The
complete opera is to be presented on
Tuesday in Constitution Hall with
Pompillo Malatesta and Margarita
Salvi in the leading roles.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Italy Launches Three Subs.

ROME. Nov. 20 (P).-Three subma-
rines-the Marcello, the Dandolo and
the Mocenigo-were launched today at
Monfalcone shipyards. They are boats
of 1,026 tons, each equipped with
eight torpedo tubes and two cannon
and capable of submerging to a depth
Of 300 feet They have large cruising
range.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
AVERAGE SIZED TURKEY
ENOUGH TO SERVE TEN
Gobblers This Year Slightly Lars-
er Than 1896 Models, Fed
eral Figures Show.

The average size turkey this year
Is little larger than the average
last year-probably because there has
been a more plentiful supply of grain
In 1887, the Department of Agriculture
SAID today.
And If you're interested, the average
size gobbler is big enough to serve 10
persons and give them all second help
ngs, according to the best figures.
The department added spologetical-
~ 1t has not yet attained its goal of
producing strain of smaller bodied
turkeys, just large enough to feed the
average family OF four.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Finds Is Boats at Work.

h'~' ~ Iva to 0t w
He said the dark night and the heavy
neutrality-suspicious. under which SINH
lar forays have been made upon the
oyster beds in past years-hindered
visibility and he decided a patrol of the
river should be made.
The Kent had been cruising for less
than hour when it suddenly came
upon the pirate feet at work. Fifteen
boats were scattered in a wide circle
and their crews were hard at work
with landscapes. Capt. Thrall told
newpaper men.
His command to surrender was ig-
nored, Capt. Thrall said, and the
pirates Immediately opened fire upon
the police with rifles and shotguns.
Bullet after bullet whined over the
deck of the Kent, but none of the
conservationists was hit.
Machine Guns Go Into Play.
Rifles and machine guns, issued to
patrol boats after past encounters, but
never before brought into play, an
swered the challenge. but brought only
a heavier hail of bullets from the out
law fleet Capt Thrall declared.
The battle ragged until nearly am.
before the pirate fleet retreated, the
boats scattering in every direction.
The Kent put out in pursuit and over
took the boat manned by Crockett and
Pruiett. The rest escaped
An investigation was being con-
Quoted today in an effort to determine
the identity of the fugitives who es-
capped. They will be brought here
for trial if apprehended, authorities
said. Capt. Thrall said about 40 men
were in the fleet and declared he had
information the majority were from
McHodick, in the northern neck of
Virginia.
To Ask for More Boats.
Capt. Thral said gunfire has been
exchanged between Maryland con-
servation officers and Virginia oyster
men every year since the f1and-scrap-
ing law was passed by the Legislature,
but declared last nights encounter
was the most vicious and most pro-
longed battle in the flve-year history
Of the ban.
Undoubtedly the assignment of more
patrol boats in this area will be re-
quested of heads of the Conservation
Commission. he declared.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
WENCHEL NOMINATED
AS REVENUE COUNSEL
Will Become Chief Lawyer for In.
ternal Bureau-Has Been in
U. S. Service 23 Years.

John Phillip Wenchel 6S05 Sixth
street NV, a Government attorney
IN the classified civil service for %
years, was nominated by President
Roosevelt yesterday as assistant gen.
eral counsel of the Treasury Depart
ment, to act as chief counsel for the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
MIR. Wencheel, graduate OF the
University of Maryland, practiced law
IN Baltimore until 1914, when he came
to Washington and entered Govern
ment service as an attorney in the
Agriculture Department He was
made an assistant general counsel III
the Treasury Department last Feo-
ruary !, and assigned to the Bureau
of Internal Revenue on q recess an-
polntment on September 20.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
TOMORROW.

Oyster roast and dance, Columbia
Lodge No. l26, Loyal Order of Moose,
Hayloft Inn, Upper Marlboro, Md,
pm.
Meeting, Washington Cultural So
ciety, Hamilton Hotel, pm.
Dance, Phi Gamma Alpha, Hamil-
ton Hotel, 4 pm.
Tea, Delta Alpha Sorority, Shore
ham Hotel, 4 pm.
Dance and card party, Ladies Auxil-
larry of the Ohen Sholom Congrega-
ton, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-20

Over 100000 tons of American
wheat was received In the Netherlands
In the first nine months Of 1897.
Evening star., 1937-11-20

Dry Lahore. India, will have a dry
ice plant producing 4o,oOo,oO0 pounds
Evening star., 1937-11-20
''Pirates''
Continued From First Page J

'OoHUIHueu FTom FIrSt Page.)
growth of the oyster industry, but long
has been opposed by oystermen on the
Virginia side of the river.
Capt. Thrall, accompanied by Capt.
Douglas Russell, commander of an
other conservation vessel, and his regu-
lar crew of four men set out in the
patrol boat Kent shortly after mid
night
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
The Dutch Mail

NHEN type in print shop be-
w comes all mixed up, that's
''pi," and it's also grief for the
newspaper publisher if this happens
just before the paper is ready to go
to press. But when it happened to
an early English editor, he made
the best of a bad situation. Sir
Richard Phillips was his name and
he was editor of the Leicester Her.
aid.
Just before press time one day, a
devil" dropped a tray of type just
as it was about to be put into the
forms" There was no time to
straighten out all the ensuing mess,
so Phillips assembled the scattered
type and printed from it in that con-
dition. With it was a notice that
the Dutch Mali news from Hol-
land had been received too late to
be translated and was therefore be-
ing printed just as received.
Thirty years later Phillips is said
to have met reader in Nottingham
who had carefully preserved his
copy of that paper. He was still
trying, to find someone who could
translate the news from Holland!
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
The Lancaster School Board

ITS an oft-repeated tale-that sto-
ry about the school board in Lam
caster, Ohio, refusing to have the
school house used as the scene of a
debate on whether or not railroads
were practicable. They are quoted
as saying that such things as rail-
roads and telegraphs are impossi-
bilities and rank infidelity. There is
nothing in the Word of God about
them. II God had designed that
His intelligent creatures should
travel at the frightful rate Of Is
miles an hour by steam He would
have foretold it through His holy
prophets. 1t is a device of Satan to
lead immortal souls to He'll"
The tale is only half-true. In 1881
a traveller from New York stopped
at a little log school house near
South Charleston in Clark county
and told the pupils about seeing a
demonstration of a new 'fire-wag-
gon" in the East. When the pupils
took the story home, their parents,
being conservative folk whose minds
weren't open to new ideas, said the
school house shouldn't be used for
such trashy talk" So the school
board sent a note to the teacher,
Hervey Scott, who was secretary of
debating society, telling him he
was welcome to use the school house
to debate all proper questions, but
'such things as railroads, ETC."
Telegraphs were NOT mentioned in
their note because the electric tele-
graph hadn't been invented yet.
That came Is years later.
The story was tackled on to Lam
caster because Scott, later editor
of a paper in that town, printed in
it a series of pioneer sketches in
cluding this yarn. And that's why
citizens of Lancaster ever since
have been denying the story which
casts a reflection upon the intelI.
gence of their forefathers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Historic
HOaxes
g
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
G Western Newspaper Union.
The White Elephant
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

THE year 1884 is known in circus
L. land as the white elephant
year" P. T. Barnum had secured
from Siam a genuine sacred white
elephant and it drew such crowds
that one of his rivals decided he
must have a white elephant too.
He whitewashed one of his pachy-
dermS and renamed it the Light of
Asia" The dazzling whiteness Of
this beast, set off by its black velvet
trappings far outshone the rather
dingy whiteneSs of Barnum's genu-
inc animal Barnum denounced it
as a fake, but to prove it genuine
its owners allowed visitors to touch
its trunk which had been enameled.
But they didn't dare enamel its
whole body (the whitewash could be
scrubbed off each night and there
by hangs a tale. At each perform
ance the Light Of Asia" was
stripped of its trappings, placed on
a platform and beside it stood
learned professor" who gave
lecture about the wonderful beast.
The crowds noticed that the PRO
fessor" skipped about as he gave
his spiel and wondered why. The
reason was that the elephant wanted
to make friendly advances to the
professor" and he knew that if he
allowed the Light" to rub against
him, the whitewash might rub off on
his black coat.
For some time the war of the
rival white elephant" went mer-
rily on. Then Barnum made deal
with his competitor to withdraw the
Light of Asia" The next season
the elephant was back on the road,
but this time in its natural colors.
Eventually, the Light of Asia"
wound up its career as ''Old john"
one of the favorite bulls" of the
Ringing circus.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30

Texan were Speaker Bankhead and
Senator Barkley and Representative
Sam Rayburn. majority leaders Oh
the senate and house.
The topic of their discussion was
what should be done with the wreck
age of the five-point program In the
closing days of the session and how
much of it should be demanded OF
congress in the regular session In
January.
It was hoped the new housing bill
could be pushed through the senate
before adjournment, having been
approved by committee after pas
sage by the house, 325 to %. There
was not much opposition to this
measure, which administration lead
ers said would lead to the construc-
ton and sale of millions of new
homes, most of them to cost about
$1,000.
Crop control bills were passed by
both senate and house, but they diff
fered widely and early final enact
ment was impossible because the
Joint conference between commit
tees of the two houses to recon-
cile the measures could not get into
action before January.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Farm Income Larger

IF THE statisticians of the Depart
ment of Agriculture are right, the
farmers of the United States have
had a pretty good year. They es-
innate the cash income from crops
and livestock for 1887 at approx
mately So, 500, 900, 900 compared with
81, 7,920, 900, 900 in 1886. This increase
of $3.50, 900, 900, the department said,
is in spite of the fact that prices
for farm products were lower.
The better yields which farmers
had on virtually every major crop,
combined with increased income
through government soil conserva-
ton and benefit payments, were re-
sponsible for the increase in total
cash payments. Government sub
sides totaled $3.50, 900, 900. compared
with S287, 1000, 900 in 1886.
Farmers cash income for 1887
was the largest since the 1929 boom
year, when income was $40, 49,
900, 900, and about twice the 1892
income of 81, 32S, 600, 900, which was
the low since 1924.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Uncle MlG
~ 4
&w: AM
Charqed for Ignorance

There are no new laws of Ma
ture, but men never seem to learn
the Importance of those that al
ready exist.
Everything is in the top drawer
of the chiffonier and if you search
long enough, you'll find it.
We envy the Indian for at least
one thing. He doesn't make ex-
cuseS.
If we must gossip, let us gossip
about the important people dead
and gone. That's what most of
the new biographers do.
He Is but Burdened
An ass is not learned, though he
be loaded with books.
Man is said to be the only ami
NAL that can laugh, but we believe
that a dog does.
Almost every man is important
to some one.
Happiest home is the sturdy oak
and clinging vine kind-and 1000
years have proved it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30

stars, nine years ago when they
were all with the Cape Cod Play
house. O'Neill was the star then.
Fonda painted scenery and Bette
was an usher.
ODDS AND three on
Match" the picture that launched
joan BlondeH, Bette Davis and Ann
Duorak toUard stardOm WiH be re-
made featuring Warner Brothers netO-
est discoveries, Lana Turner, Gloria
Dickson and Mary Mcguire The
bearded OutlatUs in Robin Hood had
to cIank tankards Of root beer instead
OF the ale the script called for, be-
cause BidUeH Park, tOhere the scenes
were filmed, tOqs endo,0ed by pro-
hibitiOnist Jean HerShOLt's scripts
for "Dr. Christian" are rapidly becom-
ing treasured items OF collectors. The
veteran screen star, graduate OF the
Copenhagen Arts school, covers the
margins tUith sketches during rehearsal
:. Spencer Bentley played both Betty
and Bob on a recent broadcast tUhen
Betty Keller tainted just before broad.
cast time. Early in his stage career, he
did female impersOnation act, so he
uaSn't nervous.
G Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Ambassador Bingham Dies

D OBERT WORTH BINGHAM,
IN American ambassador to Great
Britain, died in Johns Hopkins hos
pital, Baltimore. of rare abdom-
inal ailment He was sixty-six years
of age and already had submitted
his resignation because of i'll health.
Mr.. Bingham was one of President
Roosevelt's first diplomatic ap-
pointees. Previously he had gained
considerable fame as a newspaper
publisher in Louisville, KY. His
body was taken to that city for
burial and lay in state in the Ken
lucky capitol in Frankfort. King
George and Queen Elizabeth of
Great Britain cabled message Of
coincidence.
Another notable death was that of
Gen. Erich Won Ludendorff, German
commander in the World war, at
Munich. He won international fame
as Won Hindenburg's chief of staff
on both the eastern and western
fronts and then was made chief
quartermaster general of the Ger
man army. Just before the war
ended he quarreled with the kaiser
and was dismissed from his post.
In his later years the embittered old
warrior attacked all factions in
Germany, though friendly relations
with the Hohenzollerns were re-
established on his SEVENTEEN birth
day.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30

THE napkins and mats are
L. fringed and then whipped to
keep them from raveling and to
strengthen the edge. This is a
very quick and easy finish to use
for linens of the coarser weaves
and is in harmony with peasant
dishes and provincial furniture. :
In cutting the material for the
mats and napkins it is best to pull
thread to guide you so that the
edges will be perfectly straight
and fringe easily. Cut right along
the little opening made in the ma
terial by drawing the thread as
shown at A. Plan the size of the
mats and napkins SO that the ma
terial will cut to good advantage
and the stripes will arrange them
selves in a pleasing way through
the center of each piece. Napkins
for this purpose may be as small
as nine inches square though
many people like them a little
larger than this. The mats are
usually about eleven by eighteen
inches.
Pull out the threads to make the
fringe at the edge as have shown
here at B. From a half to three
quarters of an inch is a good depth
for the fringe. Save the threads
you pull out and use them for
whipping the edge as have shown
here at c.
Every Homemaker should have
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Frank To Help COP.

DR.. GLENN FRANK. former
- president Of the University of
Wisconsin, was selected to be chair
man Of a committee to draft new
charter for the Republican party.
He said he probably would accept
this job of formulating the party's
policies, and National Chairman
Hamilton said the committee would
be an absolutely independent
agency Of the party. Many mem
bers Of the committee have been
named by the executive commit
tee of the national committee.
Frank is identified with the liberal
wing of the G.. o. p, but he is not
friendly with the La Follettes of
Wisconsin, since they forced him
out of his post at the university.
His political and economic views
suit Hoover and Landon and many
of the party>leaders of both the West
and the East.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Waoe-Hour Bill Killed

N 1GAN Iuc Oih AoA AC5oAos4OAA -
w wages and hours, approved by
the senate in August, came up for
action in the house the President
suffered one of his greatest legis-
iative defeats. Southern Democrats
and the Republican minority COM
bined to send the measure back to
the labor committee. which meant
its definite defeat. This bill, which
would have set up an administrator
with dictatorial powers over labor
and business management, was con-
sidered only second in importance
70 the farm bill. 1t had the support
Of the c. l. o.. so John Lewis shared
in the defeat. The A. F. of L. had
offered substitute which was re-
iected, as President Green had ex-
pected it would be.
No action was taken on the Presi-
dents other must" measures,
which were for revision of anti
trust laws, regional planning and
federal government reorganization.
Advocates of the ever-normal gran
ary bill, which passed the senate,
contend it will stabilize both prices
and supplies Of five major crops
and so benefit farmers and consum-
ers. Opponents not only question its
efficacy but say it calls for harm
ful RECOMMENDATION.
Nothing definite was done by con-
gress concerning revision of the
taxes which are hampering business
and industry.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Liberal Coalition

I TNDER the leadership of william
~ Allen White, noted Kansas edi-
tor, a liberal coalition has been
formed, representing the church.
education and the general public.
It's announced purpose is to protect
guarantees that labor may bargain
collectively and organize freely. The
organization is called the "Ameri-
can Association for Economic Free
dom" and White is temporary chair
man of its policy board. The vice
chairman is w. Jett Lauck, chief
economist for the United Mine
Workers and adviser to John L.
Lewis Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
N{2awu9d ~. UEckG1a
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
9 Western Newspaper Union.

the automobile finance industry.
In a letter to Chairman Summers
of the house judiciary committee
Cummings charged that Geiger's S
conduct was so obstructive to the
administration of justice that could
not justify a failure to bring it to
your knowledge"
Geiger, presiding over the East
ern Wisconsin federal district. dis
charged the grand jury without per-
mitting it to report after three
months investigation into the ac-
tivities of three companies, which,
Cummings said, were identified in
interest with General Motors cor
poration. Ford Motor company and
Chrysler corporation.
. Cummings charged that the grand
jury was prepared to return indict-
ments when it was dismissed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
U.A.W. War Chest

OFFICIALS of the United Auto
~ mobile Workers said in Detroit
that all resources of the union were
being concentrated in half-million-
dollar war chest for the organization
of the Ford Motor company en-
ployees. All union members who
work five or more days a month
are being assessed 81 and interna-
tional officers and organizers are
asked to donate 10 per cent of their
salaries.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
China Won't Give Up
TN HANKOW. now the Chi

IN HANKOW, now the Chinese cap
L ital, high officials declared China
would make no peace overtures to
Japan but would fight to the end.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek was
perfecting a new plan for military
operations.
Chinese blew up and burned most
of the Japanese-owned mill area of
Tsingtao, the damage being esti-
mated at 100 million dollars. All Of
the 300 Americans in that city were
reported safe. Three American
warships were there ready to aid
them If necessary.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
Discovered Gelatin

The diary of Denis Papin, a young
French inventor, contains the fol-
lowing entry dated February, 1879:
II boiled an OK foot or COW heel for
four hours or more upon a moder-
ate fire. The flesh was excellently
well boiled and the bones were so
soft that trey might be cut with a
knife and eaten like cheese The
juice did concrete into very firm
jelly" Gelatin was soon extensively
used in France. especially in hos.
pitalS.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
War Vote Plan Blocked

IMPOSITION Of President Roose-
~ welt and Secretary Of State Hull
was believed to have effectually
blocked the proposal of Representa-
tive Louis Ludlow for submission OF
a constitutional amendment requir-
ing a popular referendum before
the declaration of war except in
case of invasion of the country
Ludlow obtained the necessary 2l8
signatures to force the house to con-
slider the plan during the regular
session, but no one expects its APP
proVal in the near future.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30

nment which have been doing
about as they chose. 1t would be
an astonishing development in an
other way, for hitherto the ''Son of
Heaven" has always held himself
aloof from such concerns. The
Japanese cabinet was called in ex-
traordinary session to discuss the
Panay incident and determine what
reply should be made to the Amer
lean protests.
In Washington Ambassador Hirosi
Saito added his voice to the many
apologies offered. In a radio ad-
dress he termed the bombing of the
Panay and the Standard Oil ships
shocking blunder" and said that
necessary steps are being and will
be taken so that guarantees of safe
ty will be assured all foreign per-
sons and interests" in Japan-con-
trolled areas Of China.
Washington's second note was es-
pecially sharply worded because
of the revelation that the Panay
and the boats carrying its dead and
wounded to shore were fired upon
by machine gunners in Japanese
army boats. The stories of the
survivors, including several news
paper men, and motion pictures of
the attack were all in the hands of
the American officials and seemed
irrefutable, although General Hara-
da, the Japanese military attache
at Shanghai, issued report which
contradicted them in several vital
particulars. 1t purported to be ''the
sum total of staff officers investiga-
ton of the incident.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
6heEk 1omPW

off by the fresh coal, preventing
puffs and explosions.
Allow sufficient time for these
gases to be exhausted before
banking the fire. When this is
done, close the ashpit damper,
open the check damper, leaving
the turn damper as nearly closed
as possible. Never leave the fire.
door open after the fire is banked
for the night.
WNU Service.