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Evening star., 1938-01-09
MARINE MAJORS
BEING SELECTED
Brig, Gen. vogel Heads Board.
War Games Preparations
Made,

The Marine Corps Selection Board
now choosing nine majors for promo
tion to the rank of lieutenant colonel
and the preparations being made at
Marine Corps headquarters for the
forthcoming war games at Culebra,
near Puerto Rico, are engaging the at
tention of Marine Corps official.
Brig. Gen. Clayton B. Vogel, adju-
tant and inspector, heads the board,
which convened on Monday at the
Navy Department. Serving with him
are Brig. Gen Seth Williams, quarter
master; Col. Russell B. Putnam, as
sistant paymaster: Col. Leander A.
Clapp. on the staff of the Marine Corps
Schools at Quantico, Va: Col. Joseph
c. Fegan. who commands the Marine
Barracks here: Col Roy S. Geiger,
commanding Aircraft l. Fleet Marine
Force. at Quantico; Col Charles D.
Barrett, on duty in the Office of naval
operations at the department: 1t. Col.
Seldom B. Kennedy. on the staff of the
Marine Corps Schools at Quantico. and
1t. Col. Matthew H. Kingman, who
has come to Washington for this duty
from headquarters Of the Department
of the Pacific at San Francisco. Calf.
1t. Col. Lloyd L. Leech. assistant adju-
tant and inspector, is the recorder.
Marine Corps outfits at Quantico
will depart January IA for the war
games at Culebra.
Marines going to these games will
be commanded by Brig. Gen. Richard
P. Williams. commanding the lst Ma
rine Brigade Of the Fleet Marine
Force. The maneuvers will last about
two months
Marine Corps headquarters has di-
rected Maj. Francis I. Fenton to as
sumo duty at the Marine Barracks,
Puget Sound, Wash, Navy Yard. He
has recently been on duty with the
4th Regiment, U. S. Marines, at
Shanghai, China.
Maj. Jacob M. Pearce has been de-
tached from duty with the 18th Bat
talon, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve,
and ordered to report for duty at Ma
rine Corps headquarters here.
Maj. James M. BARN has been or
dered detached from the Marine Bar
racks at Portsmouth, Va, and assigned
to duty at the Marine Barracks, Naval
Operating Base, Norfolk, Va.
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Third Division.

A meeting of the WASHINGTON
branch will be held January 10 at l4l4
I street NV. at 8 pm. All men who
served with the Marne Division are in
vited to attend. Refreshments will
be served. Secretary Harry Cedar an
nounced The Watch on the Rhine,
the omcil publication. has tust besu
inned
Evening star., 1938-01-09
BROADCAST PLANS
MADE BY V.E.W,
All Members Admitted After
January ! to Be
Honored.
Meetings This Week.

Meetings This Week.
Monday-Front Line Post,
TOO L street NV.
Tuesday - National Capital
Post, l0l5 L street NV; Admiral
Robert E. Peary Ship, 100 L
street NV.
Wednesday - Columbia Post,
1926 Massachusetts, avenue NV;
Potomac Post, 100 L street NV;
Defense Post, 1920 Rhode Island
avenue NE; Washington Post,
1700 L street NV: Overseas
Military Band, National Guard
Armory; Cootie Drum and Bugle
Corps, National Guard Armory.
Friday-United States Treas
ury Post, 1918 L street NV.
Saturday-Advance Post, 100
L street NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

year the Legion as part of its child
welfare program nationally spent a
total of $3,242,75653 in aid to needy
children of World War veterans num-
bering 34l,665. OF this amount
$l,600145.70 came from the Legion
and its affiliated bodies, while Sl,643,-
610.83 was secured outside the or
ganization. With more than 10000
volunteer workers engaged in the
work the Legion reached a new high
record in the field of child welfare.
The Department Employment Com
mittee. under the leadership of Dom
aid G. Stanley of the National Ca
thedral Post. met at Legion head
quarters last Monday evening and dis
cussed problems that a unified pro-
gram for this department could be
made for presentation to the ma
tional employment conference. to be
held at the Hamilton Hotel January
rs to 28
The department employment officer
has sent to each post employment
officer questionnaire blanks to be dis
tributed to the unemployed members.
He requests they be returned to him as
soon as possible. He also asks in
addition that each post employment
officer file with him in the near fu-
ture list of all unemployed vet
erans in his post
Vincent B Costello Post met last
Tuesday evening at the Carlton Hotel
Condr. Julius l. Peyser laid out a
plan for a Costello Post Memorial Day
to be held on a Sunday in the future,
when the memorial markers on Six
teenth street for the World War heroes
of the District of Columbia will be
decorated with flags and wreaths.
Curtis A. Jackson offered to donate
the flags and Comdr. Peyser the
wreaths. Plans are being developed
by the Vincent B. Costello Memorial
Committee.
The post welcomed Admiral Regi-
nald F. Nicholson, Oldest member Of
the post and understood to be the old
est Legionnaire in the District of Co.
lumbia. He is IS years old There
were motion pictures of the recent
New York national convention.
Those admitted to membership were
Harry c. Mould. jr.; Everette Tody,
Theodore D. Peyser. Francis Joseph
Govan. Philip Herman. August Flegel,
Samuel Blick, Willis S. Armstrong,
Leroy Friedlander. Allan P. Sadtler,
Harry Heimbuch. Pressly r. Baldrich.
Charles Jerome Specter. Henry Brent
Hebb. Fay E. Flater. Robert Ignatius
Mckenzie and Joseph Smith.
Adequate national defense was
stressed in an address at past COM
manders' night" of George Washing
ton Post last Tuesday night by Past
Department Comdr. J.. O'Connor
Poberts.
A feature of the evening was the
presentation by Past Department
Comdr. Amos A. Fries of a past COM
mander's jewel to Retiring Comdr.
Harry Coope. Past Comdr. Howard
s. Fisk presented him with citation
for meritorious service rendered the
post during 1896. when he acted for
the entire year as commander of the
post.
Miss Winifred Nichols, past COM
mander OF Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6;
Past Comdr. Oscar G. Jones, Paul O.
Tucker. Capt. Archibald H. Thomp-
son, district representative for the
c. M. T. c. Association; Past Depart
ment Comdr. Joseph ]. Malloy and
Past Comdr. Wallace Streater spoke.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

The French were the first to recoe.
nise the value q balloons for war pur.
pooeA.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
News Of veterans organizations
intended for publication in The
Sunday Star must be received by
the Editor Il Veterans News not
Later than poeu On Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Second It.. Charles l.. Cogswell.
company of1cer Of Company D. Is .
graduate Of the 1885 platoon leaders
class,
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Is seriously needed in the regular
establishment.
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ing picture entitled "The Legion
Marches On"
The Entertainment Committee Is
also arranging for the annual Wash
ington Birthday ball at the Mayfiower
Hotel on February 18. All Legion
naires and their friends are invited.
Agriculture Department Post met,
with Comdr. Philip L. Blake presid-
ing. Motion pictures of the 1887 ma
tional convention in New York were
shown. Welfare Chairman Harry
Boon reported the post had taken
care Of several veterans families with
food and clothing. The next meeting
will be held January 81.
At the last meeting of Government
Printing ONCE Post, No. 80, Represen-
tative Walter Lambeth, chairman Of
the Joint Committee on Printing, gave
an address on and showed motion pic
lures Of the dedication of the Amer
ican war memorial at Bellicourt,
France.
The next meeting will be tomor-
row at pm.
The Department Of New Jersey will
be the host to the annual Area B child
welfare conference Of the Legion and
its afiliated bodies at Newark, N. j.,
January IA and is at the Hotel Doug
las, closing on Saturday evening with
an informal dinner. The Department
Of the District Of Columbia will be
represented by Mrs. Julia Long, q
member of the national committee for
Area B and commander Of the Jane
A. Delano Post.
This territory Is made up Of New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode
Island. Maryland, Virginia and the
District Of Columbia. DURING tie lat
Evening star., 1938-01-09

The 29th National Guard Division
has received two new officers, It. Col.
Thomas j. Shryock, jr, Field Artillery,
and Maj. Henry c. Stanwood, Infantry,
both attached to the State staff Of the
Maryland National Guard Maj. Stan
wood formerly was an aide to the late
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephen.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Mrs. Mildred c. Bell, department
child welfare chairman, will represent
the Department of the District of Co.
lumbia at the Area B Child Welfare
School Conference in Newark, N. j.,
January IA and Is.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Much OF the work of the guards
men during the current quarter.
which has just been inaugurated, will
be away from the routine drills and
in the direction Of class room in
struction. The specialists in the va
rious branches Of the engineers have
been ordered to attend schools which
have been established under commis-
stoned officers. Among the various
classes which have been selected for
establishment Of schools are mapping
and sketching, explosives and denloli-
tions, chemical warfare, camoudase.
carpentry. blacksmithing, buglers ana
automatic riflemen.
Each company has been ordered to
designate certain number Of men to
attend these classes. The schools will
be ended by April 80, which will give
those who attended an opportunity to
serve as instructors to the men of
their commands prior to the depar-
ture for the annual encampment.
where they will put to practical use
the knowledge they obtained during
the winter classes In the armory,
Evening star., 1938-03-18
Stock Averages
By VICTOR EUBANK.


NEW YORK, March l8.-Stock mar
, ket leaders toppled ] to or more
points at the worst TODAY under heavy
selling waves touched off by a revival
of European war fears
The ticker tape was behind in the
first and final hours. as much As
minutes at one time. as both do
mestic and foreign liquidation en-
veloped virtually all industrial groups
and numerous issues sank To new lows
for the year or longer 1t was one Of
the widest relapSes in months.
The list acted fairly we'll at the
start, but it soon crumbled when re-
ports were received of further Polish
troop concentrations on the Lithu-
anlan border and an agreement be-
tween Berlin and Warsaw for new
lineup on the Polish Corridor in
volving the taking over of Danzis bv
Germany.
After the initial nose-dive, mao.
stocks halved extreme losses and deal
lngs slowed. There was another drop
later when volume again expanded.
Buying support appeared near the
close and recoveries running to
point or so were we'll distribute1
Transfers approximated l.5O0. 600
shares
Steels were among the first to slide,
United States Steel touching q new
low Tor the past two years. along with
a number of others. Coppers, motors.
farm implements. aircrafts. mail
orders. oils and specialties we're among
the weak spots.
Gold mines rallied at the opening.
but most were unable to retain climb
ing vlgor. Rails, utilities and rubbers
put up show of resistance.
F'orelgn securities markets ended no
more than irregular, but continental
monies were down most of the dsv as
frightened funds sought safety in dol
lar purchases
Conspicuous on the doWnside were
Westinghouse, Du Pont Allied Chem
ical, General Electric. American Can.
bethlehem, Douglas Aircraft, Ioew's,
Philip Morris. Johns -Manville, Amer
ican Telephone. Chrysler. General
Motors. Sears Roebuck. MONTGOMERY
ward. J. l. Case. Eastman Kodak.
American Smelling. Anaconda. Stand
ard Oil OF New Jersey, Santa Fe, Pull
man and Homestake Mining
United States Rubber preferred
moved up at the last.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. March Is.-Rallies due
to persistent reports Of severely
strained European political conditions
lifted wheat values anew late today
Fresh upturns Of wheat prices.
though. were somewhat curbed bv re-
ports Of rains in Kansas. Another
handicap to friends of higher prices
was relative smahness of export buy
ing Of United States wheat today. es-
fimated as totaling but 100000 to
300 900 bushels.
At the close Chicago wheat futures
were 81 to rs above Yesterdays finish.
May 88-88is. July 85L4-3a: corn y to
Evening star., 1938-03-18

ceived here to-
day.
T he recession
hit the graphic
arts industry in
the lattey part of
1887 just as it
did other indus
tries, he says.
Notwithstandin G
these conditions.
the sales volume
has increased by
the above men,
toned figure.
In celebrating
on the company's
Evening star., 1938-03-18
NEW YORK COTTON
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK. March ls.-Co,tor
displayed renewed easiness TODAY
under foreign selling and commission
house liquidation promoted by con-
tinued nervousness over the European
situation.
July sold off from 8.92 to 8.7S and
IN midafternoon was quoted at asO.
when prices generally we're "A 10 Is
points net lower.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
New Orleans Prices

NEW ORLEANS, March IS r. Cotton
futures opened steady. / to - points rrt
ing ~
Foreien markets were about as due and
operators assumed waiting attitude be
cause OF continued dullness in textiles
and desire to await Chancellor Hnlers
speech this afternoon
May contracts opened At Sn1, Jnlr .,
3.0-. October at 9OS. December Al p n>
and January Al n1O
Toward the end Of The frst half hour
prices nncfuated narrowly around tho rre-
vious closing levels
Cottonseed oil opened steady: March
.,Sb: MAY. 1.13b: July. :; ;Sb: September,
1.1Sb: October. ;rSb.
Bid
Evening star., 1938-03-18
SALES INCREASED
BY MERCENTHALER
Volume Averages Around
2I2 Per Cent Ahead of
/ Period Year AGO.
By EDWARD C. STONE.

Sales Of the Mergenthaler Linotype
Co. since the fiscal year began last
October are running az per cent
ahead of the same period a year ago,
President Joseph T. Mackey stated
In special letter to stockholders re-
Evening star., 1938-03-18
DIVIDEND IS ORDERED.

NEW YORK. March 18 (SpeciaD.-
Directors Of the American Maize
Products Co. today declared the reeu-
lar quarterly dividend o: SITS per
share on the company's preferred
shares. payable March 81 to stock
holders Of record as Of March "a.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat, No. red, s2L No. 2
hard, 9234: corn. No. mixed. So: No.
3 yellow, 57H 1914; No. 3 white. ss3a;
oats. No. 3 mixed, 32&: No. white,
34-34h; rye. No. l. IS; SOY beans,
No. yellow, 95 3 barley, feed. 1850.
nominal: mailing. $3.50. nominal;
timothy seed. 25O-3.0O; red clover.
32.00-3700: sweet, l00O-5O.
Baltimore Quotations
BALTIMORE. March IS LP,.-Whesj. No
2 red winter. earlicky, spot. domestic, a4I,.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
COttOnSeed Oil.

Bleachable cottOnSeed oil futures
closed lower Sales. 70 contracts.
MAY, S.2ob: July. sl9; September.
823; October, 822b. b Bid
Evening star., 1938-03-18

Continued on Page A-ls.)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21
AID VALUE PROVED

And speaking of newspapers the value Of news
paper advertising has been proved in no uncer,
tain manner in Portland, where printers strike
has shut down the three daily newspapers.
According to international News Service
dispatch from that city on Wednesday, store
clerks standing idle, wondering where bust
ness was, and the few customers that appeared
in sight experienced little trouble i'm being waited
upon.
Even the ''tive and ten" stores were compara-
lively quiet With very few customers on hand
and Edward n. Weinbauun, manager OF the re
tail department of the Portland Chamber of Com
mercc, admitted that the shutdown of Portla1ld's
three newspapers had affected business greatly
mo advertising of bargains-no business. y he
declared.
A good many words be written about the
value of newspaper advertising, but none will
prove half so effectively it's true value this ac
tual incident. Just Portands entire retail
trade has been affected by the absence of advcr-
tising. SO is every concerns business affected by
it's volume and quality of advertising.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21

i, left between Farley's report and
4 the publishers reply to- call for
another review of the whole case"
We don't believe that Mr.. Pegler
is so naive as to wonder very much
why they don't quit using the
mails and go over to the private
agencies. True, these private agen-
cies will carry their papers from
the metropolitan centers, where
they are published, to the small
cities and towns, where they are
distributed to their readers, at
cheaper rate than will the post
office department.. But having been
deposited at these distribution
points, it would cost them consid-
erably more to have private agen-
cies distribute them to subscribers
Cor to maintain their own distri-
button SYSTEM than it is to have
Uncle Sam deliver them at the
zone rate of one cent a pound. So
that's the answer, Mr.. Pegler, in
case you really want to know.
AS for an attempt at justtica-
tion" for a lower postal rate for
the country press because of
sentimental plea that a lot Of
little country operators, getting
along with hatful of type and a
kick-press, can't afford to pay
postage" who has been making
such plea, Mr.. Pegler? We don't
seem to have heard it.
In fact, we believe that MIR. Peg
ler's knowledge of the country
newspaper business should be
brought up to date. When it is, he
will learn that the type of country
publisher who is seeking charity in
postal rates as we'll as in advertis-
ing revenue is as few in number
as the small country papers which
ride absolutely free in their re-
spective counties" Some one should
tell him that the 1888 model coun-
try publisher has considerably more
equipment than "a hatful of type
and kick-press" in his shop, that
please turn to page 81
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21
NEWSPAPERS DO TRY

AS result Of twenty-four years in the news
paper business Webb Miller, the great United
Press correspondent, says he has learned that the
majority of reporters and newspapers want to
print the whole truth if they get it, He says
they are mortified and Inundated when they fail
or are led into error The newspaper standard of
accuracy is really astonishingly high when dealing
with concrete facts. The main trouble reporters
have is to get the facts.
Mr. Miller says the more he studied the var
ious aspects of any particular subject, the
qualified the less definite and clear-cut his opin-
ion became. Even when he questioned eye wit
nesses, persons who had reason to distort the
truth, each told a somewhat different story. AS
reporter he didn't tell the truth, he had to strike
iii average of their stories and temper it with
his Judgment of the circumstances and interest
involved
IL found" he says, "that even when people
with the best will in the world tried to tell the
TRUTH they could not do it. Each one saw some
thing different Every mans imagination unwit-
tingly distorted what his eyes saw In the face
Of those facts, isn't it astonishing that newspapers
are as successful as they in telling the truth
about happenings? -'S Shining Lines, Mergenthal-
er Linotype Company"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21

is one point where it says that the
papers can be transported and dis
tributed by private agencies more
cheaply than by the post office de-
partment. knowing that publishers
are not philanthropists by nature,
I have to wonder why they don't
quit using the mails and go ovel
to the private agencies if that is
so, and there is enough discrepancy
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21
What Others Say
In Regard to That "Press Subsidy

Westbrooh Pegler, Scripps- How
ard columniSt, in commenting this
week on the so-called post office
subsidy of newspapers" mentioned
by President Roosevelt in a recent
press conference, took a side-swipe
at the country press as follows:
There is just no argument about
the fact that some small country
papers do ride absolutely free III
their own respective counties, and
even though this is only a small
item in the total deficiency which
Jim charges to the handling of
/ papers, nothing can be said to JUS
tify it,
The only attempt at justification
is the sentimental plea that a lot
of little country operators getting
along with hatful of type and I,
kick-press can't afford to pay post
age, but, by the same reasoning the
little country grocer should be al
lowed to deliver his corn meal ana
canned goods free through the
mail"
Only a small ITEM Mr.. Pegler?
'InfinitesimaI would be the better
word!
For, if you'd ask the average
country publisher how much post
age he saves each year because of
the free in-county provision in the
postal laws, he'd tell you that it's
only a few cents. That provision
applies only to newspapers deliv-
cred through post offices where
there is no rural route or town CAR
rier delivery and those are mighty
few in number The majority OF
post offices have at least one rural
route, so the majority of country
publishers pay the zone rate Of
one cent a pound for delivery of
their papers.
Therefore. if, as Mr.. Farley says
according to Mr.. Pegler). this low
rate helps cause a post office def
cit, then the principal contribu-
tors to that deficit are the big city
dailies-such as those for which Mr.
Pegler writes. They're not the coun-
try weeklies. :.
The big dailies are the papers
which profit most from the zone
rate and Mr. Pegler is entirely jus.
titled in questioning their sincerity
in one angle of the current dispute
over this subsidy" In commenting
on the answer of the postal COM
nlittee of the American Newspaper
Publishers association to the Pres
ident's press conference statement
the columnist says:
THAT answer has it's merits, but
not enough of them, because there
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21
NO FREE RIDES WANTED

In another column we print very adequate
answer to the recent question of the postofice's
"press subsidy" No newspaper has asked for
such a subsidy, and newspaper has urged
it's continuance.
A good many harsh words have been said about
newspapers in general by the present admnstra-
ton, but our guess is that they have been of ser
vice only as so many red behring's Perhaps
complete review of the facts would be of value to
the public.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-21

on brilliant and dor.
ing sdids in which he
destroyed U MO n
stores and conmuni.
cutions. obtain ed
valuable information
and in general har.
dssed and checked
the Northern CRIMES.
In one campaign.
Stuort's troops com.
pletely ckcled the
Federal forces.
Evening star., 1938-12-04

The world" at the New York
World Foir. ArchiteoturolIy It
will be symboIized by the huge
perisphere seen here with i
moze Of scoffoIdine ground its
sphericoI wall. The view is
from the TryIon tower ond
shows, in the background, two
OF the main exhibition buildings
in modernistic design.
Wide World
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-07-01
GOLF TOURNEY
MAY BE HELD
GOLFERS AND NEAR.GOLF.
ERS SEEMS TOO BUSY
10 PLAY
by GRAVY

1t was the wish of the Over
seas Celebration Committee that
a golf tournament be held in con-
nection with the throo-day celo-
bratl0n
It seems that So many OF the
golfers. and those who call them
selves golfers. win bo SO busy do
lng other celebrating that they
viii not bc able 70 play golf
However. if any wish TO enter
the tournament and if any golf
player in town wants 10 play.
there win be 36-hole handicap
tournament-thc handicap to be
decided by the committee from at
least three nine-holc cards.
You may get your 36 holes in
anytime during the three days
and turn your cards in 10 the
starter shop
The prize is supposed To be- a
cup for the wInncr-wo amt got
the cup vet