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The Washington times., 1938-08-16
ACTLHEIES:
Takoma Gardeners Are Entertained at Luncheon
AmOng Those PreSent---
MISS CLARA DIKEMAN, ma

MISS CLARA DIKEMAN, ma
AVA tional historian chaplain Of
Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority. vi
vaciOuS, humorous and senti-
mental, although she won't ad-
init it. was born in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. graduate of
Central High School. claims
she's very undOmesticated but
take extra special care Of her
dad for whom she works. is
strikingly attractive with prema-
tureIy gray hair, wide gray eyes,
and SIN DO h, satiny skin .
dresses simply but with an air
of SOphiSticatiOn. likes clothes
from one extreme to the other,
tailored for daytime wear, and
severe evening clothes at night
her favOrite color is dubOnnet,
favOrite flower the orchid and
favOrite perfume, LelOng's "In-
discreet" is never seen but
that she is laughing or smiling
E. bubbles over with a sense Of
humOr that is contagious. Is
grand SpOrtSwOma7 plays gClf
like an expert is a good swim
mer . has competed in several
tennis tournaments md come in
a runner-up was forward of
the ketball team Of
the Jewish Community Center
in her school days. has trav-
eled to Bermuda, Cuba, the
United States, but has a senii-
mental attachment to MOI
treal, Canada. is fond of music
particularly sweet, sentimental
ballads. at one time had great
aspirations Of becoming a sculp-
treSs. and now spends most all
her time in the Art Galleries.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

'"Goofies" around your home write
the Skipper" and tell him about
them. Well pass them on to the
other members.
Hot weather or no hot weather,
however, the "Old Skipper" is go
ing to hold extra additions in the
studios of WJSV in order to clear
up the extra heavy list of re-
quests for try-outs. Cards will be
in the mail for two extra ses-
sions this week and many new
members are expected to be Sc
lected for appearances on our Sun
day radio progtams.
Magic membership cards are be-
ing made ready for those who do
not participate in the weekly
musical cruises and news of just
how to get them anc what they
will mean to the holders will be
announced soon.
The OLD SKIPPER.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
Legion Auxiliary
Names Officers

New officers of the District Of
Columbia Department of the
American Legion Auxiliary, who
will serve the ensuing year, are
the following:
Miss Minnie May Hardy, pres
ident: Mrs. Viola Hines Fones,
Mrs. Sarah Kohen, and Mrs.
Mary B. McMillin, vice pres
idents; Mrs. Helen M. McCabe,
historian; Mrs. Anna Elliott,
chaplain; Mrs. Helen Mahoney,
sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Eu a
Lockett Hollis, property custo-
dian; Mrs. Ethel Clark and Mrs.
Myrtle Spudis, color bearers.
New unit presidents who were
installed at the closing meeting
of the annual department con-
vention, Saturday night in the
Carlton Hotel, with the retiring
department preside Mt. Mrs.
Dorothy B. Harper, as the in,
stalling officer, are as follows:
Miss NJ. Edna Mcintosh, Vic
tory Unit No. 4; Mrs. Anna
Seiders, Kenneth H. Nash Unit
No. 8; Mrs. Virginia Mccarthy
Sergeant Jasper Unit No. 13:
Mrs. Ada Riley. George E. Xii.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

S If working
out more club
Coolies" just
for fun. No
one wants to
think too much
on a sultry day
and let's turn
to lighter ma
terial for our
column.
H We you
e v er noticed
t he abbrevia-
tionS of the
cities nd
States of the
Union? H aV e
VyN~ A1,A~ AvSAL /,
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
WOMENS CLUB ACTIVITIES:
Mrs. Frederick Pratt Is Hostess; Mrs.
S. A. Swiggert Speaks
By MARY PADGETT

The garden of the home Of Mrs Frederick Pratt 20 Chest
nut Ave. Takoma Park, Nd, provided the setting for
luncheon of the garden department of the Takoma
Women Club yesterday Prior to the luncheon business
aession and nropram conducted,
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

The recording and financial
secretaries Of all Rebekah lodges
will meet tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the home Of Mrs.
Charles Lampe, secretary Of Re
bekah Assembly, 4o07 Warren
st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16
BY DON HIX

Heigh-Ho Shipmates. The hot
weather must be in having its ef
feet for the Skipper" finds him.
The Washington times., 1938-08-16

you ever tried to pronounce them
Evening star., 1938-09-06
AREA AUTONOMY
IN CzECHS' OFFER
Reuters Dispatch Reports
Principles Are Considered
to Satisfy Demands.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Chancellor Hitler's intentions re-
garding C.echoslouakia has all Eu-
rope in = litter. Sudeten Germans
are clanloring for autonomy as
Great Britain and France match
developments anriously. British
cabinet has promised to side NTH
France in euent Nazis inpade
C-echoSloudkid.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 6-The Phaha cor
respondent for Reuters, British news
agency, reported from usually WELL
informed source" today an outline of
the Czech governments new offer to
its Sudeten German minority.
The dispatch from Praha said the
Sudeten party had decided to conduct
on October Is at Aussig a congress
similar to the Nazi party convention
now in progress in Nurnberg, Germany.
The agency said the offer approved
by the cabinet yesterday took the
form of several principles" These.
it stated, are considered to satisfy the
demand of the Sudeten negotiators
for preliminary acceptance of their
own principles prior to continuance Of
the talks about rights to autonomy.
The principles were listed as:
l. Recognition by Praha of ter
ritorial autonomy of the Sudeten Ger
man region of CZechoslovakia.
2. Recognition of full equality of
Sudeter Germans in the Czechoslovak
state
3. Recognition of the equality of the
German language as the official Ian
guage in the Sudeten area.
These principles were being COM
municated to Ernst Kundt, Sudeten
leader, by Premier Milan Hodza today
Acceptance Seen Certain.
Acceptance by the Sudetens was re-
earded as practically certain, Reuters
said.
The Reuter- story continued:
"Territorlal autonomy will give the
Sudetens complete liberty they have
demanded to organize their affairs
after their own wish.
Point two. the equality of status,
has been one of the chief demands of
the Henleinists. 1t will give the Sude-
tens special recognition as Germans,
no matter in what part of the country
they live.
Equality of language has for long
(See CZECHS. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1938-09-06
QueenMmy Lands $4,000, 900
Cold Shipment in Ne,u York

The United States buys all the gold
offered at the fixed price of s35 an
ounce. But in London the demand for
the, metal hoisted the open-market
price about 19 cents an ounce above
Saturdays level in terms of sterling
This was one of the widest advances
for so brief period since the British
instituted exchange control through
the fluctuating gold market in 1881
The French franc followed thu
pound on the decline. Sterling. how
ever. was the focus of trading Interest
The Queen Mary brought in 423
boxes of gold bars, described in f1nan-
cial circles as the largest shipment
since mounting war fears and foreign
trade account heavily weighted with
merchandise imports in England
touched off the latest flow of gold to
the United States six weeks ago.
Already custodian of about $l3,-
$4,000, ,000-more than half the
worlds recorded gold reserves-the
Treasury stood to get a good deal
more as the incoming metal is de-
livered to T. -
Evening star., 1938-09-06
PRESIDENT URGES
AN UNBIASED PRESS
Roosevelt Sees Vital Need for
Truth in News in Greeting
to Publisher.
R~ the Associated Press,

z, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept 6-President
Roosevelt sees vital need" for free
press "untrammeled by prejudice and
unfettered by selfish bias, which will
serve no cause but that of truth and
which will recognize no master but
justice"
Congratulating Frank D. Schroth,
former Scranton, Pa, publisher. on his
recent acquisition of the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, the President wrote:
These times, it seems to me. de-
mand above all else truth in the news.
for it is a corollary of our democracy
that the public can be depended upon
to assess problems and policies at their
true value if facts are presented as
facts, and opinion as opinion-each
in its true light. We are governed
by public opinion. We cannot lay too
much stress on the Importance OF
truth in the news.
once the public realizes that its
newspaper serves no interest save that
OF truth" the Presidents letter con-
tinued, 1T will give that paper an ellie
glance that neither depression nor
i'll fortune nor any form of hard times
can weaken.
L have faith in the American press
just as have faith in the American
people and in our democratic institu-
tions. I venture the opinion that
the Straightforward pursuit of truth
and justice points one way to pros
perity and larger influence of Ameri-
can newspapers both great and small.
- times change but the essen
tials OF life remain. Ours is the task
of seeking new approach to the So
luton OF age-old problems which pre-
sent new phases to changing genera
tions. In all this he who serves the
cause Of truth will best serve the ma
tional interest 4
Evening star., 1938-09-06
DIES TO SEEK DATA
FROM MISS PERKINS
Committee to Be Asked to
Summon Secretary on
Bridges Case.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
Chairman Dies said today he in
tended to suggest to the House COM
mittee investigating un-American &C
tivities that Secretary Perkins be sum-
moned to testify about the deportation
case of Harry Bridges, West Coast
c. l. o. leader.
In a statement issued by his Office
here, Representative Dies said it was
amazing that Madame Perkins would
assume the attitude that she has in
defense of the alien Bridges and refuse
to enforce the law"
After the committee had looked at
the files in the Bridges case, Repre-
sentative Dies wrote the Labor Sec
retary asking that she act immediately
to deport the labor leader, She de-
clined to do so and cited pending liti-
CATION which might bear on the sub
ject as grounds for delay.
The Congressman, who is in Texas,
said he had been advised that the
Bridges case was not the only one of
its kind and added that people ARE
curious to know how many similar
cases there are where the Labor De-
partment has failed to enforce the law
with reference to radical and criminal
aliens"
The committee had heard testimony
that Mr.. Bridges. a native Australian,
was an active Communist.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
Couadonga Bleeds to Death
Of In illries IN Miami Car Crash

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 6.-The Count
OF Covadonga. 81, eldest son of former
King Alfonso of Spain, bled to death
today from cuts about the head suf-
fered in an automobile accident.
The injuries in themselves were not
severe. but the counts condition was
complicated by hemophilia. the heredi-
tary disease of the Battenbergs, which
causes excessive bleeding and prevents
the blood from coagulating normally.
The former heir to the throne of
Spain died in hospital about nine
hours after the accident. in which his
companion and driver of the car was
a night club cigarette girl, Miss Mil
dred Gaydon. 25. They have been
friendly for some time.
Miss Gaydon suffered slight chest
injuries. She was questioned by po-
lice and then released. She related
that she and the titled Spaniard were
driving along Biscayne boulevard about
3 am. when she swerved to avoid
(See COVADONGA. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1938-09-06
WAGE LAW WORK
LEFT TO INDUSTRY
Andrews, in Talk on Forum,
Says Business Largely to
Enforce Measure,
(Tert of interpien, Page Bill

Industry itself will be largely re-
sponsible for enforcement of the new
wage and hour law, Elmer F. Andrews
administrator of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act Of 1893, said last night in an
interview in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star and
broadcast by the National Broadcast
ing Co. He spoke from New York.
Calling for "wholehearted cooper
alton by employers, Mr.. Andrews
asked that they report promptly any
competition based on violation of this
law" as a service to other employers
to workers and the public.
He said he intended to depend on
the people. and mot on an army of in
spectors from Washington" to make
the law work after it becomes effective
October "a.
Mr.. Andrews said he expected tC
promulgate certain basic interpreta-
tions and definitions by October l and
to issue a few essential regulations
shortly after that
Pointing out it is feared in some
quarters that the law will not be uni
formly complied with and not effec.
lively enforced, the administrator sale
that by effective performance the
wage-and- hour division and coop.
Grating State agencies can demon
strate in a short time that uniformly
effective compliance and enforcement
is a fact.
The immediate jor task. he said
is to prepare for the application of the
basic minimum wage and maximum
hour provisions of the law. The es-
tablishment of industry committees to
set minimum wages above the 25-cent
minimum is next in importance.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
ES-the Associated Press.

ES tHe ASSOClate0 fTeSS.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-Headed for
the United States Treasury's vaults,
some of the biggest shipments of gold
received in recent years are moving
across New York's docks in flight of
capital from war-scared Europe.
Nearly s24,O0O,O00 of the metal, de-
scribed in financial circles as the larg-
est shipment since the present inflow
from Europe started more than a
month ago, was reported today to have
arrived on the Queen Mary.
The movement of funds here was re-
garded partly at least precautionary
shift in the event of war. In addition,
exchange men said, transfer of gold
from England has been necessary to
pay for merchandise bought in the
United States.
Over the Labor Day recess in Wall
Street the British pound cracked
sharply under the strain of money
headed for America. Echoing the fall,
the pound was quoted at one time to-
day in Wall Street at $4.821s, of *
cents from Saturdays close. =
Evening star., 1938-09-06
SHIP BURNS TO WATER
Fruit Vessel Out of Norfolk Is
Destroyed OF Haiti.

NORFOLK. Va. Sept. 6 tP.-Ofh-
GERS of the fruit ship Worden OF the
Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. re-
ported here today that a sister ship
the Truxton. had burned to the water
line off Aux Cages, Haiti
The Truxton's master, N. Soderberg
and members of the crew were saved
a spokesman from the Worden said,
and will be brought here or to Balti-
more on one of the lines larger ships.
The cause and time of the fire were
not given.
Formerly United States Navy de-
stroyer of the same name, the Truxton
had been in operation between Norfolk
and Haiti for about two years. She
lett Norfolk last Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
CAPTURES FUGITIVES

HAzLETON, Pa, Sept. 6 (P.-Rail-
reading and enforcing the law 60
hand-in-hand for Russell Wise, a
Reading Railroad conductor and a
Hazleton constable.
Making his regular run last night,
Wise saw hiding in some bushes near
the tracks two youths he recognized
as fugitives from an industrial school.
Wise had the engineer stop the train.
He got off, captured the boys, placed
them in custody Of railroad employees
until he finished his shift, then took
them back to thA school.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
BRITISH VESSEL BOMBED

MADRID. Sept. s (R.-A stoker
aboard the 1,989-ton British freighter
Marvia was killed today when the
vessel was hit by three bombs and
set afire during an insurgent air raid
on the Spanish government port Of
Alicante
Five Savoia 1talian type) planes
dropped more than so bombs. Ten
persons were injured in Alicante,
Mediterranean port south of Valencia
Evening star., 1938-09-06
CENTRAL JAPAN SWEPT
BY FIRE AND FLOODS
97-Mile-anHour Typhoon Leaves
Possible 100 Dead-31 Ships
Sunk at Kobe. y

Ply the Associated Press.
TOXIC. Sept. 6.-Fire and floods
swept Central Japan today in the wake
of a 97-mile-an-hour typhoon which
left a possible 100 dead and destroyed
property over wide area.
Fire broke out in Takaoka, at the
base of MOTTO Peninsula. and quickly
leveled more than 1000 buildings.
Toxic newspapers estimated deaths in
the Takaoka fire at 100. possibly
more. Osaka reported $4,000 homes
were flooded. At Kobe 81 ships were
sunk or damaged
The typhoon swept over Shikoku
Island and Honshu. the main island of
Japan, and reached the Japan sea
this morning
Evening star., 1938-09-06
FREER REAPP0INTED

The White House announced today
the reappointment of Robert E. Freer
of Cincinnati to a new seven-year term
on the Federal Trade Commission.
Mr.. Freer, one Of the five-man COM
missions two Republican members,
was first named to the ONCE by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in 1885 to complete an
unexpired term. The new term runs
from September "a
Evening star., 1938-09-06
HITLER IGNORES CZECHS
In NAZI PROCLAMATION:
FRANCE CALLS 100000
Soviet Army Begins
District Maneuvers
In Quiet Manner
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. 6.-Soviet Rus
sia's customary district army
maneuvers have started quietly.
Marshal Klementi E. Voroshiloff,
commissar of war, yesterday re-
viewed war games in the Moscow
zone.
The big autumn exercises.
usually held later in September,
probably will be staged this year
in the Ukraine or in White Russia
along the Soviet Unions long
western frontier, facing Europe.
Nothing has been disclosed off,
cially. however. concerning the
maneuvers plans.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
HOOD AT GIBRALTAR

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 6 R).-The
British battle cruiser Hood, largest
fighting ship afloat. arrived today
from Malta and anchored close to the
crippled Spanish government destroyer
Jose Luis Diez near the southern en-
trance to the admiralty harbor.
The Hood was ordered here after
persistent activities of insurgent Span
ish warships in the Straights of
Gibraltar had aroused fear that they
might try to seize or destroy the Jose
Luis Diez while she was in British
waters.
Evening star., 1938-09-06
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Despite the absence of the three
Ohio officials chiefly involved. thu
Social Security Board today opened
its public hearings here on charge.
OF maladministration of Ohio's old.
age pension program, which is sup
ported in part by Federal funds con-
trolled by the Social Security Board
Charges that Gov. Martin L. Davey
attempted to use old-age assistance
benefits for political purposes have
been dropped as a result of his de-
feat in the Ohio primary by Charles
Sawyer Social Security officials said
Netting the absence of Gov. Davey
Henry j. Berrodin. chief of the Ohio
welfare departments division of aid
Altman. director of the welfare depart
ment. Arthur j. Altmeyer, chairman
OF the board, remarked at the outset
of the hearing:
1T comes as no surprise to the board
that these officials have failed to ap-
pear at this hearing. 1t is reasonable
to assume that their failure to appear
is an admission of the truth of the
charges of which they have been
notified.
THE board sincerely trusts that this
failure does not indicate also that these
officials will take no steps to correct
the situation, in order that the old peo-
pie OF Ohio may not suffer for the past
acts of Ohio's officials"
Aid May Be Dropped.
If the board receives no assurance
that changes will be made in the Ohio
methods of administration, Federal aid
will be suspended until the corrections
are instituted, it was learned.
A board representative said it was
understood Mr.. Berrodin had arrived
in the city in time for the hearing,
but would not appear because of orders
from Gov. Davey.
Social Security Board enployes
familiar with the Ohio case were called
by the board to testify. The first wit
ness. Robert J. Bingham, assistant to
the boards general counsel, took the
stand at 10 am.
Chairman Altmeyer said that tran
scripts OF all testimony at the hearing
would be forwarded to Ohio, adding
Whatever the decision of the Social
Security Board, the Ohio officials will
be given every opportunity to indicate
what measures. if any. they are now
willing to take to correct the situation
as it exists"
In Ohio social security has been so
administered as to deny old-age as
sistance to some" Jane Hoey, director
of the boards public assistance bureau
testified.
Evening star., 1938-09-06

lx the Associated Press.
NURNBERG. Germany. Sept G.
Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler ignored
Czechoslovakia in his proclamation
today to the tenth annual Nazi Con-
gress. Disappointing anxious European
statesmen who had hoped for an ink
ling of Germany's intentions in Gen.
trail Europe.
Almost his whole 5,000-word procla-
nation dealt with the inner condition
of Germany, particularly economically,
which the Fuehrer assured his fol-
lowers was so healthy that the nation
will be without worries for food for
years to come"
Through the voice of District Lead
er Adolf Wagner, who read the Fueh-
rers proclamation in congress hall. Hit
Ter repudiated any intention of form
ing pact with foreign powers.
Il have never had nor have this
intention" the chancellor declared.
The statement was cheered thunder
ously.
Offers Greater Germany.
Instead, he declared he was offer
ing the people greater Germany"
referring to the absorption last
March l3 of Austria-and the union
OF six and half million Germans
who today spiritually unite here .
stronger than ever >. in a great in
dissoluble community"
The absence of any word on Czecho-
slovakia undoubtedly was disappoint-
ing to the 45 frock-coated foreign
diplomats who had accepted Hitler's
personal invitation to attend the con-
gress. They were an island in sea
of uniforms in the packed hall
Among them was Hugh R. Wilson,
United States Ambassa dor to Berlin.
Never before had an American Am
bassador accepted the invitation to
Nurnberg
Besides his brief denial of any in
tention of aligning Germany in
pact. the chancellor's only illusions
to foreign affairs were an evident
reference to Italys newly begun anti
Jewish measures and a denunciation
vi bilC lllbCIlldtloIldA cCWlSll WOl III
enemy"
Hitler linked the Jewish virus" with
the world pest" of Bolshevism.
More threatening than ever he
said. "the Bolshevist danger of the
destruction of ma tions rises above the
world
With 2i italian Fascists in the audi
ence, headed by Roberto Faranacci,
former secretary of the Fascist party,
the Fuehrer lauded the mutual spirit
ual conception" which leads us more
and more humanely together"
He expressed joy that another great
European power = shares the same
termination has drawn the most far
reaching conclusions"
Greater Germany. its inner strength
and the annexation of Austria provided
his main themes.
Germany's house is in order, he de-
clared. and he advised the democracies
to follow her example if they wanted
to revive world trade.
We went to Nurnberg this year
more deeply moved than ever before"
the document read.
For many years the party conven-
tions have not only been a festival of
joy and pride, but have become one of
inner consciousness.
The old fighters come here in JOY
full hope and see again many old ac-
quaintances of the long struggle for
in this city as fighting comrades of the
greatest German revolution. This year
lSee HITLER, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1938-09-06
SET new MARK
Endurance Flyers Are Debating
Whether to Continue.

Whether to CONTINUE.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. Sept. 6 (P).-
With a new endurance record for light
airplanes in their possession. two
Syracuse flyers, Merrill Phoenix and
Harold Allen. remained in the air to-
day, undecided whether they should
attempt only to double the previous
mark or continue on indefinitely.
Downdrafts. chilly weather and
slight carburetor trouble contributed
to the indecision of the men who yes
terday passed the previous mark of So
hours and IS minutes
Evening star., 1938-09-06
G0>T0 MAYO CLINIC

James Roosevelt and Mother Are
En- Route to Rochester.
CHICAGO. Sept. P).-James
Roosevelt and Mrs Franklin D. Roose-
welt headed today for Rochester,
Mimi, where the Presidents son was
treated recently for stomach all
ment. Mr. Roosevelt, who arrived
here last night with his mother By
plane. said he would be given . oG-
tine "check-up" at the Mayo Clinic
Evening star., 1938-09-06
Summary Of Today's Star

Gold Cup stays in America, although
won by Italian count. Page A-l2
Bucs' 9-game series with Reds now KEY
to National League race. Page Alb
Infield collapse big factor in poor
showing of Nationals. Page A-13
Foot-fault curb on Quist mars Budge's
Davis Cup clincher. Page Ala
Golf pros here favor more competition
among themselves. Page ALA