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Evening star., 1938-04-17
Eastertide Finds Social
Interest Centered in
Capital Visitors
D. A. r. Convention Will Open
Its Program Tomorrow.
Homes Tours Continue.
By KATHARINE BROOKS.

pemeaes the air this Easter morn For alone does
1
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will
anniversary the Battle of Lexington April 49, will This
which
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possible Chdrens
Former United States Ambassador Argentine Robert
Woods Bliss have their Dumbarton the
sne-haggd orangere where ancient
wnke, furnish ceiling
will be assisted by Miss Maka Miss
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Pelenyis Visit
New York.

The Hungarian Minister and Nine
Pelenyi went to New York yesterday
and will remain there through this
week.
The Minister and Nine. Pelenyi
will have as their guest next month
Miss Mary Wright, daughter of the
United States Ambassador to Cuba
and Mrs. J. Butler Wright. Miss
Wright will come to Washington May
IL to remain 10 days or fortnight.
During the visit of the Minister
and Nine. Pelenyi In Havana, where
the Minister represents his govern
ment, they were entertained At the
United States Embassy by the Am
bassador and Mrs. Wright, although
the Minister and Nine. Pelenyi stayed
at the hotel in the city Of Havana.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Smith College Head
To Be Feted.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Chaplin
Huntington will have as their guest
next week end President William Al
Ian Nelson of Smith College. Mrs.
Huntington is member of the Board
Of Trustees of Smith and was for.
merly president of the Alumnae Asso.
citation.
President Nelson, a distinguished
Shakespeare authority, is coming to
Washington to make an address at
the Folger Library Saturday evening.
He will be guest of honor and speaker
at a luncheon to be given next Satur-
day by the Washington Smith Col
lege Club at the Hotel Raleigh at l
o'clock.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

of Easter
Season.
Margaret Baker
And MIR. Talbot
Married.

A wedding of unusual interest
~ took place yesterday afternoon
II when Miss Margaret Waller
Baker, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George T. Baker Of Hampton,
Va, became the bride of Mr.. Barry
Wise Talbot, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
A. Talbot of Houston, Tex.
The ceremony was performed at
4::3O o'clock in the grand salon Of
the historic former French Embassy
at 246O Sixteenth street. now the
Henderson Residential Club.
Before the lovely carved mantel in
the spacious drawing room, where
Easter flowers and palms had been
banked to form a picturesque setting,
the bride and bridegroom were united
In marriage by the Rev. Edward
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Evening star., 1938-04-17

Representative and Mrs. Jesse P.
.Wolcott have with them for the Easter
vacation the latter'S niece. Miss Vir-
ginia Gibson of Detroit, who arrived
Friday.
Miss Fanchon Aldrich, niece of Mrs.
them, will give cocktail party Fri
day for Miss Gibson. and. later her
guests will attend the gingham ball
at the Raleigh. Miss Aldrich and
Miss Gibson will return this. morning
from Annapolis, where they went for
the hop last evening at the Naval
Academy.
The majo general commandant Of
the Marine Corps and Mrs. Thomas
Holcomb are expected back in Wash
ington Thursday after spending a
week or 10 days at Paris Island.
Miss Eudora Glover, sister of Mrs.
Holcomb, who was their guest at
their quarters at the Marine Barracks,
has gone to New York, where she will
be until she sails April u to return
to Paris, where she has made her
home for some years.
The Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Wayne Chatfeld-
Taylor have with them for today
their daughter, Miss Adelaide Chat
field Taylor, who will return to her
studies at Bryn Mawr this evening.
The adviser on political relations
of the State Department and Mrs
James Clement Dunn have gone to
Hot Springs for the brief holiday
and are expected back tomorrow or
Tuesday.
The Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde
will leave tonight for Columbia, S.
c., where he will be the guest of Mr.
Thomas Rogers Drake. Mr.. Mac
Bryde will officiate at the wedding oi
his niece, Mrs. Susan Guignard
Sparks, to Mr.. William Shelby Moye
| Wednesday. Later. in the week he
will be the guest Of his brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs Christie.
pher Gadsden Guignard.
Miss Alice Richardson, daughter o.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Richardson
has returned from Birmingham. Ala.
| where she spent several months will
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Notes of the Diplomats
Ambassador and Sonora de Espil
Among Those at Hot Springs.

TINE Argentine
Ambassador Virginia
Thursday morning, making trip by
Belgian Ambassador
holiday they Friday
Ruar will
themt O
Potock
personal observance of the Easter
Evening star., 1938-04-17
LOckes Host

Col. and Mrs: Morris Ernest Locke
will entertain at dinner at Grass
lands Tuesday evening in compli-
ment to the latters cousins, Count
and Countess Cornet de Ways Ruart,
who are guests Of the Belgian AM
bassador and Countess van der Straten
Ponthoz. The Ambassador and the
Countess. with their guests. are spend
Ing the Easter week end at Hot
Springs and will return Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Engagements
Announced
Today
Marjorie Garland
Will Be Bride of .
Ensign Cole.

MR.. WILLIAM STETSON GAR
LAND announces the engage
ment of his daughter, Marjorie E., to
Ensign Cyrus Churchill Cole, SON of
Admiral and Mrs Cyrus Willard Cole.
The wedding will take place in the
late spring. .
Miss Garland attended Gunston
Hall School and Ensign Cole was
graduated with the class of 1885 from
the United States Naval Academy.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

The Spanish Ambassador and
Sonora de los Rios were joined the
middle of the week by their daughter,
Senorita Laura de los Rios, who will
be with them through Easter week,
returning to her stdies at Columbia
University next Sunday.
The German Ambassador and Frau
(Oontinusd on Page D-2, Column s.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

~.
The unique and lovely hilltop garden
OF Mrs. Anne Archbold, with its
masses of flowers and open glades
edged with woods, will be on view for
the first of these tours. Carved stone
birds and garden imagery are part of
the subtle magic of this garden hid
den away from the road and close
to the house of the Archbold estate.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dunthorne
have cleverly decorated the walls OF
their charming garden with espalier
fruit trees, making unique back
ground for the unusual and effective
arrangement of rare plants. AS an
added attraction Mr.. Dunthorne will
put on view some of the flower and
garden prints from his collection,
which is said to be the most COM
plete Of its kind in the world.
Evermay. one Of the most historic
Of the Georgetown gardens, and which
now belongs to Mr.. and Mrs. F. Lam
mont Belin, will be among others to
be shown within fortnight.
Local Interest Shown
In Earhart Foundation.
MRS. DAVIS, wife of Senator James
j. Davis, like many other hostesses
in the congressional circle, is keeping
an eye on her husbands campaign
'at home" but still has time for hel
usual varied interests here. She was
chosen chairman for the District Com
mitee of the Amelia Earhart Founda-
ton last week and before the close
Of the meeting was mapping ways
and means" for increasing the fund
Mrs. Davis, who was among thost
attending the recent meeting at the
(See EASTERTIDE, Page D-4)
Evening star., 1938-04-17

The Italian Ambassador and Donna
Matilde de .Suvich will return in a
few days from Pinehurst, where they
went Friday by motor.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Copelands Entertain.

Senator and Mrs. Royal s, Cope
land entertained at dinner in the blue
room at the Shoreham last evening
for Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Julian l.
Schley.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Tea Cancelled.

Gen. and Mrs. oscar Westover, ow-
ing to the death Of Mrs. Mason Pat
rick. have Cancelled the tea they had
planned for this afternoon.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
Miss June Marie Booth
Engaged to Mr.. Francis E. Stan.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Alexander
Booth of Washington. formerly Of
New York, announce the engagement
of their daughter, June Marie Booth,
to Mr.. Francis Z. Stan. Mr.. and Mrs.
Booth will be at home this evening at
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Insurgents
TrapLoyals
In Surprise
Francois Rebels Try
ing Desperately To
Continue Dash To-
ward SeaCOaSt

Hendaye, France, March 21--(APl
Spanish insurgents, driving wedge
southeast of Alcaniz, trapped scat
tered units of government troops to-
day in a triangular sector west of Tor
revelilla.
The movement to straighten their
front for a renewed drive toward thu
Mediterranean was started yesterday
with aerial and artillery attacks.
which took the government advance
guard by surprise.
Pursuit planes machine gunned
Catalan engineering squads attempt
ing to erect barricades and dispense i
them with heavy losses.
The insurgents claimed a triangular
sector pointed by Alcaniz, Calanda
and Torrevelilla. The dispatches added
however, that government militiamen
were still holding out in some of the
villages included, but that consolida-
ton operations were under way.
The insurgents acknowledged that
the government was putting up strong
resistance.
An attack launched from the AL
CONTINUED on Page Six.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
BACKWASH OF WAR
WOULD Be SERIOUS
Economic Slump Would Be
Crushing Even If United
States Stayed Out
By CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIurnnist

Washington, sMarch Fl. = In the
event of another war, throughout most
of the rest of the world, keeping ply
sically out of it is not the only pro-
blem the United States would have to
consider.
Doubtless we would have been some
what better off now if we had not &C
lively participated in the last great
conflict. We would have saved all tn,
American lives that were sacrifice
on European ihattlefields We would
not have the recurrent issue of vet
Grams allowances to puzzle us. We
still would have a lot of money that
our powder and shot cost us.
But our economic backwash from
that war would have been terrific,
anyway.
War BOOmS Collapse.
Suppose another war, like 1914-to-
1885, with Uncle Sam on the side
lines, however.
Is it Imaginable that American agri
culture, industry and commerce would
not be enormously doomed by it? They
were thus doomed by the last war, be-
fore we went into it. We simply wal
lowed in profits-or what looked like
them. War millionaries popped up il
every direction. Farmers were af
fluent. Wages skyhooted. It was love
Continued Un Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Turn from War to Peace
Follows Lithuania's Ac-
ceptance of Demands
From Poland
TWO NATIONS LONG
HAD BEEN AT ODDS
Had No Relations With
Each Other for Is Years;
Two Lithuanian Ministers
Quit Posts, One Having
Offered To Resign Before
Crisis Came Last Week

Warsaw, Poland, March 21.-(AP)
Poland and Lithuania, deciding not
to go 10 war, made plans today to fix
up an old railway line so they could
resume friendly communications
The turn from war to peace was
accomplished by Lithuania's accept
ance of Polish demands that commun-
ications be resumed and that the tw }
countries exchange diplomatic ENJOYS.
Side by side the two nations had
been at odds since Poland took Wilma,
the old Lithuanian capital, Is years
ago.
Foreign Minister Stasys Lazoraiti;
and Minister of Justice Stasys SilingS
have rendered their designations to
President Antanas Metona, of Lithu-
ania. but it could not be learned today
whether they were accepted.
There were reports that Lazoraitis
offered his resignation five days ago
before a show of Polish arms forced
Lithuania to bow to demands for NOR
malization" of Polish-Lithuanian com
mercial and diplomatic relations, but
the president would not accept it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Whitney:S
BYOtherHnd
GiUenLOnn

New York, March 81 (AP)-Rich-
ard Whitney, 40, expelled former
president of the New York Stock Ex-
change, disclosed at public hear
ing today that he was in serious fl
nancial straits in November, 1887,
and that his brother, George Whitney,
a partner of j. P. Morgan & Company
came to his aid with a personal loan
of $1,O82,OO0.
The defendant, who has pleaded
guilty to two grand larceny indict-
ments, denied that he was Shield
ing" any of his associates in the in
vestigation of the collapse of Richard
Whitney & Company, Wall Street
brokerage firm. He insisted he alone
was responsible for the crash.
Assistant Attorney General Am
brose Mccall brought out that the pur
pose of the 81, 100000 loan guaranteed
by Whitneys brother was to enable
Richard Whitney to redeem securi-
ties originally in the New York Stock
Exchange gratuity fund.
Whitney testified he had misappro-
priated these securities and pledged
them to the Corn Exchange Bank for
a loan.
He said the gratuities fund commit
tee made a demand upon him last
November for the return of the secu-
rites, and that his brother came to
his aid.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Bloody Battle RACES Along
Grand Canal, With De-
lenses of Natives
Holding Firm
JAPANESE CAVALRY
UNIT HURLED BACK
Swims River But Cut Up By
Chinese Machine Gun and
Rifle Fire; Invaders Fight
Desperately To Effect
Crossing and To Continue
Their Advance

Shanghai, March ?1-(AP)-JapaE
csc shock troops failed 10 crack Chi
nese defenses today in bloody battle
along the ancient Grand Canal.
Despite terrific artillery Smelling
the Chinese chung to their trench line
on the south bank of the canal, Is
miles north of Suchow.
An advance guard of japanese
cavalry, which swan the river, was
driven back by Chinese machine CUR.
and rifle fire.
The Japanese werezfighting desPer-
ately to effect a crossing and to con-
tinue their advance down the Tient
sin-PukoW railway.
Hanchwang, on the southern bordeI
of Shantung province, where tbs
Tientsin-Pukow line crosses the canal
fell into Japanese hands. japanese
were assaulting Taierchwang, rs miles
to the cast.
Both sides admitted heavy losses
The fighting has Teen going on inces
sanity since the japanese started their
new drive down the Tientsin-Pukow
railway more than a week ago.
A dispatch reaching Shanghai said
a German Catholic church at Lin
cheng, on the railway north of Han
chwang, had been bombed by Japan
csc planes before troops sized the
town. Four occupants were killed, and
200 wounded. All the casualties were
believed to have been Chinese. Ihe
church was said to have been flying
the Nazi flag.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Republican Attempt To
Send Measure Back to
Committee Is Defeat
feated on Floor
68 NEW WARSHIPS
IN NAVY PROVIDED
$50 Airplanes Included,
With Three Giant Battle
ships, Two Aircraft Car
riers Nine Cruisers, % De-
stroyers, Nine Submarines;
% Auxiliaries

Washington, March 21-(AP)-The
House approved overwhelmingly today
the administrations billion dollar
naval expansion kill The roll call vote
was 292 to 100.
Final passage came after defeat of
a Republican attempt to send the bill:
back to the House Naval Committee
with instructions to eliminate the pro-
vision for three new battleships. The
bill now goes to the Senate.
The measure authorizes construc-
ton of 46 new warships, % auxiliary
vessels and $50 airplanes, which Presi-
dent Roosevelt said were needed "spe-
officially solely because of the piling up
of additional land and sea ornaments
in other countries"
The new warships, estimated to cost
1871, 095, 900, include three battleships,
two aircraft carriers, nine cruisers, %
destroyers and nine submarines.
The % auxiliary vessels include five
destroyer tenders, three submarine
tenders and three repair ships. They
would cost about $246,000,000.
Officials estimated tho $50 airplaneS
which would give the Navy a mini
mum of 5000 planes, would cost $780,
100000.
The bill also authorizes the Navy to
spend $3O,OOO,O0O on experimentatio
with small, swift mystery ships, air.
craft bombs, torpedoes, bombs AMI
other devices of war. A fund of So
100000 was earmarked to replace the
lost dirigible Los Angeles.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Claim Concessions to Great
Britain Would Further
Depress Sick Tex
tile Industry
MURCHISON GIVES
COMMITTEE FACTS
Says Labor and Machinery
Would Be Displaced and
Final Collapse of Domestic
Price Structure Would En-
sue; Would Be No Hope of
Recovery Then

Washington, March 21.-(AP) =
Northern and southern cotton man':-
facturers opposed today any tariet
concessions on their manufacture
goods in the proposed trade agreement
with the United Kingdom.
Claudius' Murchison, president of tn
Cotton Textile Institute, representing
more than 80 percent of the cotton
mills in the United States, said tariff
concessions would:
1. Compel q displacement of Amerl-
can textile labor and machinery
2. Cause final collapse of the domes-
tic price structure, with no hope OF
recovery.
g. Cause loss of balance in our eco
nomic structure, increasing our de-
pendence upon foreign markets.
4. Force costly and painful trans
fer of workers from occupations and
industries and areas to which they are
adjusted into new modes of life, which
rest precariously upon the fortunes
of foreign trade.
Murchison said in a statement pre-
pared for the committee for reciproc-
(C0ntinued on Page Ski
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
WarningOf
SpendingIn
FDR's Plan
King Says Budget
Will Not Be Balanc-
ed Under Executive
Reorganization

Washington. March 21.-(AFD -Sen-
ator King, Democrat, Utah, told tn.
Senate today that passage of the adj
ministration's REORGANIZATION bill
would mean that "expectations of bal
ancing the budget and lifting the
heavy tax burden must be abandon
ed
The broad reorganization powers
which would be granted to the PreSi-
dent under terms of the pending meas
ure would permit bureaucratic" gov
eminent "to become more powerful,
and, therefore, more autocatic," Kin 3
asserted He added he believed the re-
organization would be followed by an
increase in government employees and
a consequent increase in expenditures.
Senator B9isey, Democrat, North
Carolina, told the Senate the govern
ment was on a spree of spending and
advocated cutting expenses one billion
dollars year. He said there was no
reason for greater expenditures in
1888 than in 1887, but that the cost
of the current year would be far great
er than the last
eff we levied the taxes directly we
would be driven out of office" Bailev
said $50 we levy it on corporate
structures"
Two controversial amendments to
the reorganization measure were Of
fered by Senator Byrd, Democrat, Vic
ginia. One would insert in the measure
a congressional recommendation that
government costs be cut ten percert
!5y the reorganization. The other
would preserve the office of comptrol-
Ter general A provision of the bill
would abolish this office.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
POLITICAL CENTER
OUTSIDE RALEIGH
Much in Common in G. .. +.
and Dry Meets and Much
Also Different
Daily dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.


Paleigh. March 21.-21.-Thei two
most colorful, and perhaps most I'M
portant, Statewide political develop
ments in North Carolina last week
did not occur in this capital city; pue
in Charlotte, where the empatISu
hosts of the Republican party neiu
their biennial session, and In Greens
boro, where the militant Unlteo Dry
Forces of the State g1rded up IIeli
loins for a devastating campaign q
gainst Old John Barleycorn, ana VIVA.
they euphoniously termed "allen am
treacherous liquor forces" OF the
State
There was something in common 10
the two meetings. also, as the Repub-
licans adopted as their most aggreS-
sive platform plank a vigorous anc
UNQUALIFIED demand for State"loS
referendum on the liquor questlon. III
Guilford the drys likewise voiced ah
Identical demand.
Parting of Ways.
After that bit of similarly, however
the paths of the two organizations
parted. The. G.. o. P. boys, quite M
turallv. emphasized the point ina.
legislators of their own brano wouio
hest serve the purpose in view. VI
the other hand, the drys, Wnlie oni.
ing the issue a "non-partlsan olio
openly declared they will center 'neii
hottest fire on candidates IN the pre-
maries. which is to say they Will con
centrate principally on the LEN
cratic candidates for l95Ss Genoi =
Assembly. ,,
AS was forecast exclusively py w.
correspondent last WEDNESDAY, 'io
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Ginning Figures
Put Cotton Crop
At Record Total

Washington, March 21.-(AP)-The
Census Bureau reported today final
ginning figures of the 1887 cotton
crop, placing production at 1S,241,72o
running bales, or 1924, 1873. equivalent
5OO-pound bales, exclusive of inters
The crop is the largest ever produc-
ed. It compared with 12,398,882 equi-
valent 5OO-pound bales in the 1896 crop
1858 391 bales in the 1895 crop. and
14,667,0OO bales the five-year 1928-32
average. Heretofore, the record was
17,978,0OO bales, produced m 1886.
The gross weight of TIE bale for the
crop counting round 10 half basHs,
and excluding linte.2, is *!9 pounds,
compared with 51O.a -1nd5 for 1886,
and 51O.5 pounds for 1875.
The ginnings ~ states lncludeo
North Carolina, 1905 inning bales,
and 1922 equivale..s 1IG-pound oales.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Higher,
Employment Less
During February

Raleigh, March Il IAFj-Payrolls
in 531 North Carolina manufacturing
establishments ran ;--.a.'a h',,her m
February than in Jan, airy, Labor
Commissioner A. L. Fletcher reported
TODAY. but employees dropped by 229
during the typical survey period.
The February oay.cH: aggregated
81 635. 1853 for 1883 workers, while in
January 114,122 received $1,569,75
The figures covered similar week in
each month.
In the non-manufacturing category
employment dropped by 1913, or from
4 $50 to 4,736, and payrolls dropped
sill. or from $87, 1872 to $87,681.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
Says Federal Spending
TOBe Increased Unless
Tax System Is Revamped

tax theory" saying "the present law
drives capital into tax-exempt securi-
ties and prevents its investment in
new enterprises. He recommended a
maximum rate of Is percent on cor
porations, with lower graduated rates
for those with an income of $4,000 or
less; a maximum IL IL percent rate
on capital gains, or rates graduated
from Is to five percent over a ten
year period, maximum individual
surtax rate of 40 percent instead of
the present IS percent; and retroac-
tive removal of "a few of the most
glaring mistakes of the undistributed
profits law"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
PLANS APPROVED ON
NEW HYGIENE PLANT

Raleigh, March 21-Plans and spe-
cifications for the laboratory and
barns to be erected on the farm OF
the State Laboratory of Hygiene west
of Raleigh, submitted by DR.. John r..
Hamilton, have been approved by the
Board of Health, in session here. The
board also, at the request of DR.. Hub
ert B. Haywood, a member and chair
man of the State Commission for
the Study and Control of Pneumonia,
approved the issuance of bulletin
setting forth the names and address
es of all technicians trained to type
pneumonia This will be sent to the
entire medical profession throughout
the State
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-21
TRENDS IRREGULAR
IN STOCK TRADING
Efforts at Another Rally Meet Little
Success, with Gains Latter
Cut Down

New York, March 21.-(AP)-Eff-
forts at another rally met with little
success in today's stock market, ana
early gains running to two or more
points were reduced substantially or
cancelled. With dealings slow from ire
start, volume was considerably under
that of last Friday, and trends were
somewhat irregular near the fourth
hour. Strength in foreign securities
markets, rejecting revived hopes that
any general war would be avertea,
was a hopeful influence IN the lll'iaI
1nturn Wheat futures responded, as
usual. to brighter peace prospects by
declining. other commodities were
moderately mixed. Secondary carrie
loans registered further improvement
in the bond department Europea''
currencies, on the whole, were lower
in terms of dollar, indicating IN.
flight of capital from ABROAD mas yet
ltd