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Evening star., 1938-05-11
SENATELETTERS
ASK HAGUE PROBE
Civil Liberties Committee
Receives Hundreds of
Pleas, Thomas Saws.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee has received Hundreds Of re-
quests" to investigate the New Jersey
political organization headed by Mayor
Frank Hague of Jersey City, Senator
Thomas, Democrat, Of Utah, said to-
day.
Senator Thomas, committee men,
ber, said requests have come from
widely scattered sections of the coun-
try and even from Jersey City
The committee would have to de-
termine whether it has authority to
inquire into activities of a municipal
government and also obtain additional
funds, the Senator said. before it
could consider such an investigation.
President Roosevelt, asked at press
conference yesterday about allegations
that free speech and free assembly
we're being curbed in Jersey City,
termed it local police matter. He
said the Federal Government could
do nothing about it.
Representative O'Connell, Democrat,
of Montana, who asked the President
to seek Hague's resignation as Dem
cratic national committeeman, has
urged an investigation by the La Fol-
lette Civil Liberties Committee
Mr. O'Connell and Representative
Bernard, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota
planned to speak in Jersey City Satur-
day night, but the addresses were
called off after their associates said
bloodshed might result
The Audit Committee reported to
the Senate without recommendation
a Civil Liberties Committee request
for an additional 100000 appropria-
ton. Previous appropriations totaled
$4,000.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
Democratic leader, predicted the ad-
ditional money would be granted.
STUDENTS PLAN RALLY.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
BY RAY TUCKER.


IT IS one of the strange ironies Of
politics that the role of disrupting
the Roosevelt tax program should
have fallen to Pat Harrison Of Missis-
sippi. For this Senate rebel has been
instrumental in advancing the political
fortunes of the President he defied
on an issue so fundamental to the
New Dealers basic creed-redistribu
ton of wealth.
As close friend of Gov. James
Cox of Ohio, the Senator from old
Mississip" had a powerful voice in
nominating Mr.. Roosevelt for Vice
President in 1920. Eight years later
he braved sectional and religious
prejudice to campaign for the Presi-
dents political sponsor-Al Smith.
Along with John N. Garner, Mr.. Har-
rison held the lines for Mr.. Roosevelt
at Chicago when they were about to
break under the conservatives can
nonading.
The Smith -Hague-Ely faction had
blocked the Hyde Park mans nomina-
ton for three ballots. and the con-
vention had recessed The anti-Roose-
welt bosses lobbied furiously, and the
late Newton D. Baker was coming fast
to the front. The Iowa and Minne-
sofa delegations were about to swing
away, others were restless. While at
mis- hotel, Pat heard that his delega-
ton had voted to bolt
,v,f1 TO viz oI
while the car rounded Chicago corners
and crowds on two wheels he picked
up the news that Texas was switching
to the New York man, dashed into
the Mississippi meeting and forced
another poll. His own vote and elo-
quence swung it to Roosevelt.
1t is against this background of
early friendship that some people
project Mr.. Roosevelt's support Of
Alben Barkley against Mr.. Harrison
in the Senate leadership contest.
Sometimes Pats chums speak in Bit
ter tones Of the reward meted to him.
But he himself is not the man to hold
grudges. and he didn't want the re-
sponsibility of leadership. Senate con-
servatives sicked him on out of dislike
for the Kentuckian's more radical
tendencies. Once in, Pat did his best
to win. It would have been better
for the White House If he had.
Has Powerful Friends.
No man has more friends than
the fun-loving, good-natured. witty
Finance Committee chairman. He
might have spared the President some
of his disastrous defeats in the Senate
through personal appeals. Pat is
smart, quiet, ingratiating salesman
He argues plausibly. forcefully; he
never rants or loses his head. Around
Evening star., 1938-05-11

transmitter "for possible use of 3l03
kilocycles for voice" Mr.. Putnam
advised the Itasca that the direction
finder on the plane covered range
Of about 200 to l,400 kilocycles"
Comdr. Thompson comments in his
report that. if this information was
correct, Miss Earhart could not use
signals.
Then, from Sourabaya, Miss Earhart
radioed the Itasca that her direction
finder or homing device covers 200 to
l,5oo and 200 to 1900 kilocycles but
not near the end bands"
Confused Radio Men.
To the confusion of the Itasca radio
men, she then asked the Itasca to
transmit the letter "a" the cutters
position and its call letters every half
hour on $500 kiiocycles. a frequency
far beyond the range Of the Earhart
planes direction finder.
On June Miss Earhart again re-
quested the Itasca to call her on $500
kilocycles and added, Il will give long
calls by voice on 3,105 kilocycles at
quarter after and quarter to the
hour"
The Itasca advised Miss Earhart
that her direction finder would operate
best at from 270 to $50 kilocycles, but
she insisted on signals sent on a fire.
quency of $500 kilocycles.
Familiar with radio conditions in
the South Pacific, the Itasca noted
that the frequency requested would be
good in that area only within a radius
OF 80 to IS miles. Yet, as Miss Ear
hart kept insisting on having signals
sent on the high frequency and voice
messages sent on 3,105 kilocycles, the
1tasca advised her the request would
be complied with.
No one could learn just what equip
ment was left on the plane. Various
pieces had been discarded from time
to time as the flight neared the end.
Mr.. Putnam could give the Itasca no
accurate information. and Miss Ear
hart either was too busy or neglected
to answer inquiries.
1t was then that Comdr. Thompson
sent his warning messages to WASH
ington on the radio dangers of the
flight.
And. in his confidential report, he
commented as follows:
Viewed from the fact that Miss
Earhart's flight was largely depend
ent upon radio communication, her
attitude toward arrangements was
most casual, to say the least"
Copyright. 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1938-05-11
By ALFRED p. RECK.

OAKLAND Calf, May 1.-THE
confidential files of the Coast Guard
cutter Itasca disclose for the first time
the real story of what happened when
Amelia Earhart went down to death
in the South Pacific.
Written in the routine report Is the
story of a dramatic fight for life and q
gamble of human ability against me-
chanical handicaps.
A year ago this month, Miss Ear
hart and her navigator, Frederick ].
Noonan, were winging their way East
ward from Oakland on what was to
have been the first circling Of the
globe at the Equator.
They reached Lac, New Guinea. and
were flying across the Pacific at the
end Of their longest overwater hop
1850 miles to Rowland Island-within
a few minutes of their destination.
when disaster struck them.
For a year, the world has wondered
what happened after Miss Earhart
sent her first radio fash Of impending
tragedy.
Answers in Ships Log.
The answers are written into the
log of the Itasca, now made public
for the first time The Itasca at
tempted to monitor the flyers on the
hop from Lac to Rowland Island.
Miss Earhart did not miss Rowland
Island by an appreciable distance.
Miss Earhart's failure was not due
to any lack of ability Of her own or
her navigator's, but was due solely to
lack of proper equipment and prepara-
ton.
The flyers reached their objective
after more than 20 hours in the air
from the tip Of New Guinea. They
piloted the so-called flying labora-
tory" straight and true to the tiny
speck Of coral in the mid-Pacific and
then they went down to a courageous
death only few miles away. The
Earhart plane crashed into the ocean
because its radio equipment was value
less.
Long after the last publicly an
nounced message from the Earhart
plane was received, the worlds most
famous woman pilot and her navigator
were cruising north and south in the
vicinity of Rowland in the glare of the
rising sun, hoping to sight what they
could not 10 late by radio.
II believe that Miss Earhart passed
north and west Of Rowland Island
and missed it in the glare of the rising
sum-" wrote Comdr. w. K. Thompson,
captain Of the Itasca. She probably
had receiver trouble. The only signals
which Miss Earhart acknowledged
were on $500 kilocycles. Her direc-
ton finder could not handle this fire.
quency."
Finder on Island.
On the island was a high fire.
quency direction finder, borrowed by
the Department Of Interior from the
Navy Department at Honolulu. but
Miss Earhart did not know it was
there.
The direction finder was operated on
Rowland Island solely on gun bat
teries borrowed from the gun turret
of the Itasca's 3-inch gun. The bat
teries were strong enough to run the
direction finder only . few hours.
Capt. Stanley v. Parker, district
Evening star., 1938-05-11
New Deal Leaders IN Revolt
Third of 10 articles on the New Deals Rebellion

Some Of the spirit Of boyish gaiety
seems to have gone out of Pat in
recent years. He no longer delivers
the old-fashioned, burlesque, tub
humping speeches that evoked howls
Of laughter from the floor and gal
leries. He doesn't spread-eagle his
arms to the Senate skylight, scream
in a squeaky, falsetto voice, shake his
gray head as he proclaims, in a mar
velous show of sincerity, that only
Democrats should go to heaven.
Broadway theaters never produced
more comic scenes than the farcical,
oratorical duels between him and
Jim" Watson. erstwhile G. o. P.
leader. They shouted and shook their
fists at each other. Strangers in
the galleries sat entranced at the
prospect of blood-flsticuffs at least.
But Pat would usually arrange 1t SO
that he would wind up near his
enemy's seat across the aisle. Then,
looking down, the Democrat would
say:
Jim. amt I the worst demagogue
you ever heard?'
mo. Pat" Watson would grin. Il
am"
Pat would probably swap Mr.. Roose-
velt's brain trust" with few austere
cabinet reformers thrown into the bar
gain, for the sunny presence and
snappy repartee of the Wabash states
man-the Hon. James Watson.
Spins Good Yarn.
He is man of extremely simple
tastes. A pitcher in the Tomato
League as a youngster, he is an ardent
rooter for the Washington American
League team. Frequently he persuaded
the late Joe" Robinson to recess or
adjourn the Senate early so that he
and his cronies wouldn't miss the pre-
game practice. OF winter afternoons
he ambles downtown to Mr.. Tumultys
Office to spin yarns and reminisce
with newspaper men, politicos and Off
cialS.
While Woodrow Wilson's secretary
brings tears--real tears-to every eye
by reciting tragic scene from an
Abbey Theater drama, Pat brushes
away the tears with rollicking Negro
anecdote told in a high-pitched dialect
that rolls his hearers on the floor You
look twice before you realize-or be-
lieve-that the grinning, twinkling fel-
low with his legs tucked beneath his
body is the Senate's authority on taxes
and tariffs-and one of the most ex-
pert recent Congresses have boasted.
But" as Pat once said with mock
seriousness, there's no reason why a
statesman can't smile-no law against
it, unless they passed one while
wasn't looking"
(Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-05-11
AID IN NEXT WAR SEEN
BY MOBILE HOSPITALS
Improved TRANSMISSION Technique
Also to Save Many Lives, Chief
of Spanish Work Says.

Mobile hospitals, stated with ex-
perts, and improved techniques in
blood transfusions and other treat
ments will save the lives of many SOL
diers Of future wars, according to DR..
Irving Busch, chief of the Interna-
tional Hospitals in Loyalist Spain, who
spoke yesterday at a meeting OF the
Womens Committee to Aid the Chill
dren Of Spanish Democracy.
During the bombing of Barcelona,
DR.. Busch said, it was impossible to set
up hospital tents and shelter for the
wounded was difficult to find. Even
this failed to daunt the spirits of the
civilians, DR.. Busch said. The inter-
national hospitals in Spain are stated
by 120 American doctors and techni-
clans, he added
Mrs. Charles w. Putnam presided at
the meeting.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
BAR GROUP ACTIVE
IN CITIZENSHIP WORK
Committee Expected to Sponsor
More Than 1000 Addresses by
End of Association Year.

The American Citizenship Commit
tee of the American Bar Association
will have sponsored more than 1000
addresses on American citizenship at
the close Of the association year in
July, it was reported at a meeting of
the committee in the Mayfiower Hotel
yesterday.
The committee is composed of men,
bers Of the Junior Bar Conference of
the association. Among those attend
ing the meeting were Charles e.
Pledger, jr., and Paul F. Hannah, both
Of Washington, and Amber H. Moss,
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
BURLEITH UNIT MEETS
Recovenanting Problem Discussed
by Civic Association.

The Burleith Citizens Association
spent practically its entire meeting
time last night in a discussion of the
recovenanting problem, deciding In
the only definite step taken to have a
group of lawyers handle the matter
instead of the property owners.
Present leases on the property in
most of Burleith expire in l943, and in
previous meetings it had been decided
to have members of the association
canvass the neighborhood and draw up
the proper petition signed by the
property owners and rejecting their
opinion on recovenanting.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Mail Goes Through-Almost.

GARDEN CITY. Kans. @.-When
speedy Santa Fe trains passed through
Garden City at rs miles an hour mail
clerks complained they were having
trouble picking up the mail bags at
that speed. Engineers were ordered
to cut down on the throttle.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Gun Missing From Statue.

BROOKFIELD, Mo. R.-Brook-
fields statue of Union soldier now
lacks a gun.
Officials are seeking prankster or
a gun thief.
The weapon the soldier held was
Civil War relic.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
Earllart Crash Laid to Lack
Of Proper Radio Equipment
Commander of Coast Guard Vessel
Assigned to Guide Her Warned of
Potential Dangers of Flight.

The real story of the crash that
carried Amelia Earhdrt and Fred
erick J. Noonan to death In the
South Pacific on July 2, 1887, as
reuealed in the confidential files of
the Coast Guard cutter that sought
to guide the flying laboratory
along the air lanes to Ho,uland
Island. is disclosed here for the first
time in the first of series of tpo
articles.
Evening star., 1938-05-11
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Evening star., 1938-05-11

After travelling more than
200, 900 air miles as an airlines
hostess (American), Miss KroH
OF this city finally Uound up
in a hospital. She cut her
hand on q tin can 1Dhile en-
route to a tennis court at
Memphis, Tenn. Miss Kroll is
on the Ne1D York-Memphts
flight. Wide World Photo.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-01-14
The Grand Bank

The Grand Bank is a great shoal
In the Atlantic ocean lying of the
coast Of Newfoundland, famous
throughout the world as a fishing
ground. Bank" here means an
undersea elevation which produces
a shoal, shelf or shallow. The Grand
bank is about 300 miles in length, il
less than 600 feet below sea level
and projects southeast from the
Newfoundland coast toward the CEN
ter Of the Atlantic ocean. Biologists
believe it to be the remnant Of an
ancient submerged mountain range.
The bottom in this region is COW
cred with fine mud and sand and
the meeting of two currents brings
an endless supply Of diatoms and
algae which supply food for cruS-
taceans and mollusks and other
types Of invertebrates, supplying
food for the hosts of Goldfish which
swim in from the deeper waters.
Pelicans, Heavy Birds
Pelicans are heavy water birds,
have a broad, rounded wing and it
takes considerable tapping to Gre
ate enough power to lift them into
the air. The white species has the
same large bill with the great dis
tensible pouch suspended from the
lower mandible. The legs are short
with large feet of four toes connect
ed by a web. Nesting in colonies.
they are as sociable as the penguin,
flying in flocks and feeding togeth-
er. They favor a shallow spot for
feeding where they are able to drive
schools Of small fish into a trap.
Their eggs are bluish-white when
first laid. The young birds are maxi
cd at birth and have a short bill
which grows with surprising rapid
ity.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-01-14

headliner. Bruce tests Frank Ad-
rolf, Minneapolis, in the six round
semi-windup. Withers engages Carl
Vinciquerra of Omaha in another
six rOunder. All three bouts are
heavyweight encounters.
Three four-rounders complete the
card. Harry Greb and jimmy Col
Inns, Minneapolis middleweights,
come to blows in one. Paul Hart
mex of Omaha faces Stan Savoldi,
st. Paul heavyweight, in another.
Sherwin Bogie of Excelsior, Mimi,
and Jack Jersey, St. Paul, meet in
the curtain raiser.
All contestants finished their
training Thursday and all were in
excellent physical condition. Wins
ton tapered off in Gibbons gym
nasium, St. Paul, while Thomas put
the finishing touches to his ring
wares at Potts gym, in MinneapO-
lis.
Reserved seats sell at $1.2O and
$2.40, general admission at So
cents. The card gets under way at
$3.50 p. m. Friday.
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Mr.. Advertiser,
Use This Test:

Don't take our word for It! Ask
any colored citizen the name of the
leading local colored newspaper.
Ten times out Of ten" he or she
will truthfully give you the name
Of this paper.
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Johnny AppleSeed" Earned Name
Johnny Appleseed" is the name
applied to John Chapman, a native
of Massachusetts who came to Ohio
about 1901 and earned that name
for himself from his peculiar occu-
pation-his itinerant distribution Of
young apple trees. It was his Gus
tom to clear loamy spots in the vir-
gin forests, on the banks Of
streams, plant there the apple seeds
he had obtained at cider presses in
western Pennsylvania, inclose the
ground and then leave the place
until the trees began to grow. When
settlers appeared in the vicinity
Johnny brought them his young
trees to trade them for an old coat
or a knife. But his needs were
few and he often gave away his
trees or left his little orchards to
grow up undisturbed. All over the
countryside, through western Penn
Sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, John
ny's little apple nurseries were To-
Gated.
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Three Race Lads
On Mpls. Boxing
Card Friday

Three topnotch colOred fighters,
Eddie (Unknown) Winston, Red
Bruce and Scott WitherS appear on
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lead early in the second half and
after that they were never in dan
ger.
The two teams will play a re-
turn engagement some time later
in Duluth.
The Twin City Golf Club held its
regular monthly meeting last Sat
urday night at the Halle @
Brown. The club has made new
movement in that they will hold
two meetings monthly rather than
one; the first Saturday night OF
each month will be business meet
ing night, the third Saturday night
of each month will be social night,
at which time the club will enter
tain all friends who are interested
in golf. A couple of driving nets
will be installed in the gym of
Halle Q. Brown. Anyone interested
in golf will be welcome to use same
with free instructions from the
most experienced men of the club.
They say this unknown" Win
ston, who fights Harry Thomas in
the Minneapolis Armory Friday
night, really has a chance of up
setting the dope bucket. AS all of
US remember, Thomas is the Min
nesota man who gained just as
much popularity by being knocked
out by Max Schmeling as he would
have had he knocked out Schmel-
ing. RED" Bruce, of Pittsburgh,
a lad who is making himself quite
popular in the cities here, will fight
in one of the curtain-raisers.
Word comes from Hollywood
that Bill "Bo-Jangles" Robinson
has turned out a basketball team Of
former college stars, all of whom
he has taught to tap dance. They
say the boys are booked to take
filmdom by surprise.
John Thomas, of Phyllis Wheat
ley, who recently resigned his post
as head boys worker at the Wheat
ley institution, will certainly be
missed here in the sport circles,
Thomas has always been a true
sportsman and a darned good
coach. John, himself a very good
basketball player, has always
specialized in his prize basketball
teams. John is beloved by all Of
his boys over at the Wheatley
House, their loss is someone else's
gain, so John, as you go, let us
personally say-Good Luck!
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to keep people from getting up.
That boy who gave up his $500
savings to pay for his mothers OPP
Grafton is a youngster after our
heart.
They are raising a row about the
election of officers in a Minneapolis
Women's Lodge.
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The Spotlight
(By Jimmy Lee)

The Halle Q. Brown lads got even
with the Duluth Joe Louis Athletic Club
Basketball team for last years defeat
by handing them their second defeat of
the year with score, Halle Q. 16, Du-
luth IL.
Just as the score indicates, the game
was a closely played defensive game.
with the score being SIS at half time in
favor of the Louis boys. The visitors
seemed a little lost all during the first
half. We believe the size of the floor
handicapped them greatly. However.
Whithers and Hins were dead eyes from
center court. The Halle boys seemed
more excited than anything else, but
with such sharp-shooters as John Mel
son, Paul Micheals, and Maurice Bellamy,
they weren't to be denied. These lads
started popping the cords from all oven
the court. The score was tied at 1888,
the Halle boys assumed a three-point
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It is not easy to tell how the seed
thought is borne into a. heart, there
to terminate and ripen; for in
fluences are subtle invisible things.
Like the pollen of a flower. which
may be carried on the antennae Of
some unconscious insect or borne
into the future by some passing
breeze, so influences which viii yet
ripen into character and make des-
tines, are thrown off unconsciously
from our common deeds, or they
are borne on wings Of a chance,
casual word.
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