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Evening star., 1938-01-23
By Lucy Salamanca.

BY Lucy Salamanca.
n EOPHYTE Congressmen are
M very apt to turn up in WASH
" ington with their bags filled
4 with laws they would like to
put over. Therein Bruce Barton, new
Republican Congressman from New
York. differs from his colleagues, for
oils has bags and briefcases bulging
with laws he would like to put out
Of instead of in commission. This
gentleman from the seventeenth con-
gressional district of New York City
is 50 serious about the situation
that he has asked the aid of attor-
neys the length and breadth of the
land and for their suggestions for the
elimination Of useless laws, laws that,
in their estimation. the country would
be better without. From the enthuSi-
astic response, one may judge that re-
peal has become almost as important
a question today as new legislation in
sorely law-ridden Nation.
Barton sums it up as such a big
job that he will have to move to re-
peal two laws . week until the end of
the session II he hopes to get rid Of
those he terms most useless" in that
time. And that, in the days ahead,
is his legislative objective.
Bruce Barton has already moved to
repeal the greenback imitation provi-
sions of the Agricultural Act of 1888
and to liquidate the Commodity Credit
Corp. Just two more laws that ought
to 60 into the ashcan," declares this
congressional original "One is USE
less and the other is so bad that 1t
carries a threat to every wage Garner.
savings bank depositor and insurance
policy holder in the land"
Admittedly Barton is starting . new
line Of thought. not only in Washing :
ton, but in State Legislatures and City
Councils. The whole country" he af-
Arms. "s punch-drunk with where
ases.' 1t has q stomach ache from
undigested enactments. 1t needs an
old-fashioned dose of repeal"
THAT was the platform on which
this 6-foot. red-haired New Yorker
was swept into Congress last year. His
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mately 90 feet long. 18 feet high and
has . wing spread Of $50 feet.
Four l,000-horsepower engines drive
this monster of the air through the
skies at speed in excess Of 225 miles
per hour. It Is six tons heavier than
the BIZ. has 50 feet more wing
spread and q larger gas capacity. 1t
has cruising range in excess Of 1000
miles as compared with 1900 for the
BIZ.
In addition to tie two main power
plants there are two auxiliary engines
located inside the airplane. driving
the generators of 1l0-volt alternating
(see MINIATURE RANGE Page C-5,)
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CLOSELY related to the radio bomb
ing activities Of the Air Corps in
training It's sky fighters is the training
given with bomb sights in . specially
constructed room. Recently there was
built at Kelly Field. Tex. . specially
designed octagonal tower for this pur-
pose. In this tower the bombardier
sits near the ceiling and looks down
on a miniature range below him.
This range is a small strip of terrain
painted on canvas and which moves
slowly on an endless chain. AS it
rolls along beneath his feet the bonn
bardier sees bridges, railroads, farm
houses, airdromes, highways, cities
and ammunition dumps in moving
array, just as though he were flying
above it all.
Standing there, gazing down on this
moving panorama, he Is given the
order to bomb certain target-let's
say an airdrome.
AS the 'drome moves into line with
the cross hairs Of his bombing sight
he turns crank to set the instrument
for ground speed, keeping the cross
hairs lined up on the target until the
automatic signal indicates that the
mechanical plane is set. When the
target crosses second point on the
sight he pulls the release handle. This
movement operates q signal to the
scorer, who notes the hit-or miss.
EXPERIMENTS related to defense
maneuvers in the air are also
conducted at March Field. For these
maneuvers obsolete or WORKOUT planes
are used. Small bombs are exploded
in their vicinity and the effects on
the fuselage and wings noted. The
data obtained from these experiments
are expected to have an important
bearing on defense maneuvers In the
future. with particular reference to
the position Of the planes in flight
which have been made the victims of
time fuses dropped from higher alti-
tudes.
The Army evidently believes that
the air will be the battlefield of the
future. And that bombing planes will
play the greater part in the control
OF the ether. just as the super-dread-
Evening star., 1938-01-23
By Walter McCallum.

~oLD and gloomy in the shadow
Of Capitol Hill. Warm and
sunny in Florida. Particu-
~ larly out on the azure waters
of the Gulf Stream or in the key
dotted maze of the Ten Thousand
Islands over on the west coast, where
the tarpon play.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of
Washingtonians are laying plans this
year for a fishing trip to the stubby
finger of Florida, sticking out into the
Atlantic Ocean toward Cuba, where
fighting fish swarm and where no man
goes who doesn't get his full quota OF
thrills battling the scrappy fighters Of
the reefs, the shadows and the deep
blue Gulf Stream. What will they
find?
They'll find something more than 600
species of fish, from the spiny little
reef stragglers through the tasty king
fish, and on up through the ugly
vicious barracuda. the deep-boring
tuna and bonito, the gorgeously- -hued
dolphin, the thin-hanked sailfish, and
up the scale to the scrappiest fighter
Of them all-the blue marlin of Bi.
mini and British West Indies waters,
only occasionally taken of Miami.
They also will find, If they go away
down South over the Key West High
way, to be opened late in February,
the shallow cI- and tidal estuaries of
the southernmost keys filled with
scrapping tarpon, ugly shark and
sometimes the flat-bodied, three filmed
sawfish, q weird denizen of tropical
waters never found in temperate cl-
mates. They will not get tarpon In the
winter in continental Florida waters,
even though enthusiastic Chamber Of
Commerce leaflets tell yarns Of winter
tarpon fishing. There isn't any such
thing in January and February, ex-
cept for the small tarp which come up
into the Tamiami Canal to feed. The
big tarp don't hit into west coast
waters until late March. After that
they flood through all the passes and
cuts up and down the coast, and even
reach over onto the east coast.
MIAMI is the hot spot, the center
OF all this fishing Centered at
Pier 5, q stones toss from the tall
hotels which front ON Riscayne Boule-
ward. a feet of hundreds of regally
equipped cruisers awaits the angler.
They don't come cheap (the prevailing
rate Is s35 a day., but it's worth it.
You can get the same type of boat at
a dozen spots-on the Causeway to
Miami Beach, on the beach itself, in
the Miami River or at Fort Lauder
dale, a few miles north, or at Palm
Beach or Stuart.
But don't net anybody fool you about
Florida dshing In the winter. Sure
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naught plays the greater part In the
control of the seas.
There Is evidence Of this in the
recent sving-over by the Army to the
huge bombers of today. They have
been getting bigger and bigger, better
and better as the years pass. A year
ago We had no Bits. Today We have
IL built or building. And We are still
reaching out. up and up. Only . few
weeks ago there was turned over to
the Army the BIS for tests. This
ship surpasses the Bit. It is so per
cent larger.
This new bomber has a gross weight
Of more than 80 tons. It is approxi-
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They are there, these big boys, at this
time Of year. but they're scarce and
1t costs plenty Of money to try for
them. Roughly you have to figure
on . week at Bimini' At about $50
to SIS . day. You might hit your
blue the first day out and you might mt
be able to get out for a week, If q
blow comes along. And all that time
your costs run on just the same.
About all you can do then is to go
bone fishing on the flats. They're
good, too. Mrs. W. B. Hurst of Bal
timore boated q 400-pound blue in
January last year, but she was lucky.
You never know out there in the
Gulf Stream what species of fish will
hit your skipping bait. More likely it
will be . bonito or . dolphin. Occa-
sionally 1t will be a wahoo or Q barra-
cuda or q tuna. But the big thrill
comes when the guide sees looming
up behind your bait . long, brown
shadow and brown fin weaving along
with possibly q bin sticking out
through 4 wave. You'll be all tense
and excited. You'll be all tittery, and
il you were fishing by the old-fash-
ioned "drop-back" method you'd prob
ably lose him. But they've fixed it
now 50 you have an almost automatic
hooker on sail flsh. Every charter
boat that leaves Miami nowadays is
equipped with outriggers. sturdy bam-
Inn VN0Jnc uh3rA atirL ~
degree angle from the side Of the
cabin and carry the line up through
q clothespin and down to the bait.
With the angle of the line so high,
the bait skips through and over the
waves. looking every inch like q live
f,sh trying to escape.
THE sail sees this succulent morsel.
comes up and looks 1t over. II
he's hungry he'll make . pass at It
right away. II he's skeptcal he'll
hang along behind the bait and give
1t the once-over for ave minutes or
more before he hits. Then he'll hit
the bait smack In the middle with
that foolish little bill. The effect on
the angler will be twofold. First his
line will come out Of the clothespin-
on the outrigger and whirl down to
the surface of the water. The other
will be . first-class case of the Jumps
jitters to you. He'll probably strike
too fast or too late, but in either event
he'll probably hook the fish. Outrig-
gers are more or less automatic hook
ers. Then that big boy out there
will leave the water in . jump that
will startle you. The surface Of the
ocean 100 yards out will burst wide
open. and the sail will be in the air
frantically shaking his head to shake
that hook out. He'll probably, II he's
active. give you . little tail.valking
stunt, skittsEtns for % test along
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the edge Of . wave, head in the air
and tail pounding like . propeller.
You'll ight him for IS or 40 min
uteS and at the end the captain
will take his bill in gloved hand, hit
him . vallop over the head with the
''persuader." you'll look pridefully
at your prize and then go back in
the cabin for snooze. It's no sport
for guy with flabby muscles. The
sail is no sissy.
Then If you are really lucky and
you happen to be in Florida at the
right time you'll want o have a whirl
at tarpon. They'll tell you that Ever
glades is the spot for them during
the late winter and early spring. It's
true. too. On their circuit of the
Caribbean they move north and get
into the Ten Thousand Islands area
late In March or early in April. They
will be around the southern keys
early IN March, ready for the signal
that sends them north. But they are
strictly warm-water fish. They don't
like cold weather.
YOU'LL leave Everglades some warm
morning on little shallow
draft cruiser about 80 feet long,
heading for West Pass or Lopez River
or Turner River or Sandfy Pass.
You'll have two methods Of fishing,
but first your guide will look for tar
pom. Yes, look for them. Frankly,
there isn't great deal of use fishing
for them If you don't see them rolling.
That roll will be . showing Of part
OF the back and the dorsal I'm Just
above the surface of the calm water.
It's the tarpon's way Of getting oxygen,
or 50 the scientists have figured out.
You'll troll around for q while and
you'll snoo3e In the warm sun. It
kinda GETS you, the combination Of sun.
and OAh Vat3r. - -, 80, r
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thing from Germany but money.
He could swap Rumanian oil,
wheat, and cattle for German
cameras and harmonicas, but he
couldn't get a nickel in cash. And
cash is what Rumania needs.
On paper. the budget is bal.
anced. In fact, it is nothing OF
the kind. Rumania has always
been a paradise for the looter
Bribery has been commonplace
ever since Turkey ruled the coun
try, not so long ago. Salaries are
tiny. Officials are-or were-ex
pected to make up their living ex
penses from graft and creased
palms.
Carol has stopped all this. II
there is any money to be had, he
wants it himself. He is the first
businessman of Rumania. He
dominates the sugar, paper and
celluloid industries. He owns all
the gambling casinos and - some
say-all the brothels.
The King loves his poker. And
European poker is different than
ours. Over there, they have no
showdown. You take the word of
the man who claims to have the
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Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

and Husing?" and she says mysteriouslke: 20,
nothing-nothing- he wants me to go with
him to the Orange Bowl game in January and
know that?" and she says: "Certainly-in Florida
and Betty Lawford will come with us as chape-
rome, so think will CO."
TUESDAY: He has been with Harold Ross and
= John Martin at Twenty-One and there has
been a debate about magazines which they repre-
sent-one is named the New Yorker and the
others are Time and Life and guess something
was said about dogs because one of them, 1t
seems, keeps talking about soon the tail will be
wagging the dog and the other says, yes if it
keeps up the tail may wag the dog completely
away. None Of this makes sense-but Badly
seems to think it is very funny and he chuckles
when he tells the Queen, and she says sus
picious-like: us that one of those what you call
smoking room jokes?" and he says: "Gossake
not has to do with economics"
"WEDNESDAY: did you know" asks the
w Queen, that Helen Morgan is now our
neighbor? She lives down the block and I am
going to have tea with her. She told me she has
piece of paper to put outside under the doorbell
and some one came along and took it out. She's
been doing it every day-and every day some one
who wants her autograph takes it out of the SLOT
Isn't that cute?"
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slender, in those days. Weighing, should think
about 100 pounds, he had the courage and the
heart of lion. He simply did not know what
fear was.
One night the telephone rang and my dear
friend, Miss Poe told me there was charming
young man downstairs in her home who hao
hiked many miles and was in pathetic cond1-
ton This delightful young man said he knew
where Means had the money banked in Chicago
Didn't Want ReU0rd
THE STRANGER did not want any reward
l. This was simply an act of retaliation, as
Means had been the cause of his brothers death
while in Jail.
I listened very carefully, but had promised
Mr. Hoover to see no one at that time, so my
hands were tied. I walked my son, gave him
gun and told him to go on over and see the
delightful stranger, take him down to the Will
lard Hotel and get him room for the night
I would tell Mr.. Keith about him, as soon as
could get hold of him.
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Riot in Budapest
After Jew Raids

BUDAPEST, Dec. 2 U.N.S.).
Order was restored today aft
er a sudden widespread out
break Of anti-JewiSh violence
which resulted in the arrest
Of several hundred members
Of the NaXi ''free corps"
Thousands of rioters as.
saulted Jews, raided their
shops and smashed windows
before authorities subdued
them after several hours DEM
Onstrati0ns, the worst In Hun
gary for some time.
Gendarmes quelled the Nazi
mObs with batOns and Sabers,
in q burst Of street fighting.
Many were reported injured.
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he swell-headed about it!
Droop- Chin comes in growing:
"Why can't I get the boys up
here for poker?" And the
Queen says: Goodness, I'm
not stopping you only the last
time you had them UP you
didn't break up until 9 in
the morning and there vas no
living with you the rest Of
the week. You are a poor
loser" and he says: "a fellow
can't win all the time" and
she saws: IF you had given
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likely to produce about the
greatest three-ring political cir
Gus seen in Washington since
the days of Huey Long.
With Sheridan Downey all
ready to enliven the debates Of
the greatest deliberative body
In the world" after promising
CALIFORNIA; old-age pension
groups everything but the
moon, the prospect of having
the newly elected Governor
Olson join him as CALIFORNIA;
Junior Senator, is something to
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in the fate of the Little Entente
-Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
Hungary, Rumania-though they
were responsible for this buffer
against Germany. Again, no
money.
Carol then went to see Hitler.
AS usual, Hitler screamed at him
for three hours. He demanded an
economic treaty. Carol, being q
German himself "a Hohenzollern,
related to the former kaiser), re-
sents being told what to do. He
was polite to Hitler, nothing more.
He found he could get every
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Movies Are Cheaper

Movies Are Cheaper
GUNDAY: He is telling the Queen he has been at
~ Twenty-One all afternoon listening to the
Duke-Pitt and the Army-Navy games over the
radio and it seems he has bet with Will Corum
and Herbie Mayes and he has picked Duke which
is why it was very thrilling listening to that game.
MONDAY: II think" says the Queen dreamily.
AVA IT will accept Ted Husing's invitation" and
ThinBrain says: what is there between you
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Says Boake Garter

tices the same kind of personalized government
that one finds permeating Washington.
All members of this California trio are past
masters in the art of rabblerousing and kibitz-
ing. and possess the ruthlessness for which the
which he also was so adept.
The difference between these men and Huey,
however, lies in the fact that there was nothing
pink" about Huey. The California trio smell
pink look pink and are distinctly fond of that
color-just at present Their stock in trade is
capitalizing on popular discomfort and each has
done right smart job along these lines.
"AH Believe in Freedom of Press"
ALL OF THEM believe in free speech, free
press and so on-providing they have the
freedom!
The California trio took leaf out Of F.DR's
book and outpromised the Boss with greater
degree Of intellectual dishonesty CLOSING over
the obvious chicanery in their promises.
So there are many Californians who are
hoping that a Merciful Deity will spare them
the services of Senator Hiram johnson for an
other two years at least and thus spare California
from drawing the same kind of dubious notoriety
that was Louisiana's lot when Huey Long was
reading long passages from the Bible and de-
partmentoStore catalogues in almost the same
breath to full Senate galleries but empty SEN
atorial seats.
Copyright Ledger Syndcate)
(Boake Carriers opinions are his oton and not
necessarily those OF The Washington Tin1eSJ
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has been built up in America
the FBI-is resting in peace
ut last.
I had the privilege and the
honor to know Mr.. Keith very
well. He was the man who
finally clamped down on Gas
ton Means. Through all those
terrifying and heart-breaking
days, Johnnie Keith was a
patient, loyal and devoted
friend to his duty and to his
chief.
W rv,ne n 1iff1o mon Very
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Belong to "Opportunist Party"

A Ii THREE MEN belong to that unofficial
~ but increasingly potent political group known
as the Opportunist Party. They know how to
sling the demagogic slush. The political
morals of each shift with each shifting "ism"
wind in CALIFORNIA; political skies-and they
shift every six months or so!
Patterson used to be Republican. but now
he's for Patterson. Olson, who tags along with
Bridges and the old I. w. w. boys, is one of those
popular characters who swears continually he's
for the "nlhoused. ill-fed and illclad," but prac
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FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1888
My Say By E0alw Walsh DlcLean

My son followed these directions faithfully.
The young man was given nice hotel room and
left safely parked for the night.
Early the next morning Johnnie Keith picked
up my boy and they went down to interview this
unknown man. Keep in mind that the stranger
was a very tall, very powerful man and the
Oman looked like a child beside him.
After questioning him for about half an hour.
Johnnie Keith suddenly sprang at him, grabbed
him by the coat and said: "You so-and-so, you are
going down to headquarters with me-"
No Resistance
MY BOY was so startled he was paralyzed,
AVA fully expecting to see Johnnie Keith'S neck
broken before his eyes. But that young man was
marched down to headquarters without even
a whimper from his lips. Pushed into chair, in
a very short time his complete record was laid
before him. and they told me it was long enough
and bad enough to reach from Washington to
New York and back again.
That was John Keith for you. He did not
have gun on him that day. He was helpless.
It was simply his utter fearlessness and his grim
determination to do his part.
He leaves lovely wife and sweet little daugh-
ter, to whom am devoted. He came out and
had dinner with me just about month before
his end. He was the same delightful man used
to know, but how he did miss his work with the
FBI
No matter what caused John Keith to decide in
himself that it was time to leave this world he
has left behind him record that every man and
boy should be proud Of He was loyal to his great
chief He risked his life hundreds of times,
as all these wonderful FBI men do in their line
of duty, and he was a really great gentleman
whom it was an honor to have known.
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It seems to be a foregone conclusion here
that in the event of ill health suddenly returning
Senator johnson to his Maker, Olson will send
himself to the Senate and his lieutenant gov
ernor, Patterson, will take over the governors
chair.
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me all the money you have lost at poker and
rummy and backgammon and let me save it, you
would have an annuity now" and he says: "A
fellow has to have some recreation" and she says:
II read where movies are our best entertainment
and cheaper, too"
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T|But''-

T OS ANGELES, Calf Senator Hiram john
- son should retire or should his allotted span