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LINGERIE:

Philippine Gowns
-$1.39 to $1.69 values. {
Sheer, pretty cotton gowns, y
with embroidered designs.
Regular and extra sizes.
Slips, Gowns, indies =
Sit SO to $1.95 values. Slips 81
Of silk and rayon satin and
rayon crepe. Gowns Of rayon
satin, rayon crepe and silk-and-
rayon. indies Of silk and rayon.
Kanns-SecOnd Floor
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HOSIERY

Ankle Socks, 8 pairs .
Fine quality, fast-color J
socks and ankletS. Plains
and fancieS. Half socks, 6
to 8. AnkletS, 6 to 101a.
Boys Knicker Socks, (
A pairs )
-Closeout Of soc quality! ,
Blue, grey and tan mixtures.
All with laStex in cuff. Sizes
S12 to II.
Silk Hose, 2 prs. .
-Ringless 4-thread chiffons, 5
with silk top; also liSle-top :
service weights with long
wearing feet! Spring colors.
Kann'S-Street Floor
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=YARD GOODS

. $3.50 SINNERS printed -
Silk Chiffons. G
o SIPS 'Marillyn" Pure
Dye Silk Crepes. @
. $1.25 "salyna" Spun Rayon
and Cotton.
Smart COttons, 6 Yds.
Q Arnold's Ding Dong DIM D
ity Prints. 9
. A. B. c. Tuxedo Batiste
Prints.
Q Arnold's Flock Dot voiles.
o Arnold's Pic Pan Prints.
. Floral Printed Lawns.
Q 32-in. Dress Ginghams.
. 36-in. Pepperell and 80-in. 50.
Percale Prints. ....7 yds. $1.0O
Silks and Rayons, 3 Yds. n
. soc Silk Sports Crash. :.
o soc Striped Tub Rayon
Crepes.
$l.95 to $3.50 WoOlens a
Atwood and wool-and-ray- ,
on mixtures Coat1ngs
and Suiting weights ..
Tweeds, Fleeces, Checks, Shet-
lands, Plaids. All colors. 81 in.
wide.
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-ANAAAGLVEN1
1000 Spring Hats =
-Pedalines! SiSolS! Novelty y
Rough WeaVeS! Even the new
wide-brimmed wool felts and %S
swagger types! You'll want two
or three!
Kann'S-SecOnd Floor.
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%=CORSETS #
Girdles and COrsettes q
-$1.59 to $500 values ?
Lastex girdleS,, rayon bro
eade girdleS, corsetteS of ray
On batiste and other fabrics. All
sizes in group.
Bandeaux, Brassieres, u
z for q
Soc to $1.00 values AS
sorted styles. Sizes in lot 80
to 46.
Kann's-SecOnd Floor
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=UNDERWEAR-
RayOn indies, 4 for Z
-Panties, briefs, stepins and
vests Of rayonS in plain and
fancy stitches. Small, me-
dunn and large sizes. Extra and
double extra size boomers, step
ms of plain rayons.
RayOn Mesh indies, 3 for 4
$50 and CSC values
White and tearose panties
and briefs in regular sizes
80. Panties in extra sizes.
Kann's-Street Floor
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Women's, misses and extra sizes
in the group. Cotton wash frocks
in gay floral prints from WE'LL
known makers; fast colors; sizes
IA to 50.
Uniforms, IA to 46.
Hasty Goats, II to 20. ,
Hooverettes in small, medium
and large sizes.
Kann's-SecOnd Floor
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DOMESTICS-
$l.59 Candlewiek Spreads a
-Double-bed size with hand
cuttings in white and colorS
on unbleached sheeting.
$l.49 Bates" Spreads 4
Cotton colonial spreads in }
plain-colored fancy 1ac-
, guard patterns. Double-bed
size. Also Cotton Crinkle spreads
(other makes.
Csc Pillow Cases, 6 for 4
--42x36.inch fine muslin pill
low cases. Neatly made
with wide hens.
Unbleached Muslin,
IL yds. {
-36-in. muslin, in a good
weight for many household ~
purposes.
Kann's-Street Floor
The Washington times., 1938-07-12
He Gets Story

ScrupulouSly r efr a lining al
ways from quoting anyone with
out permission or revealing the
source of his information, the
skilled reporter plays one against
another and whether you answer
or not, whether you say "yeS"
or no." he's got a story or at
least background" Then, too. he
knows that few men in public
life are above the common hui
man frailty of liking to see their
names in print and that the
hardest thing for any man in
public life to say is II have
nothing TO say"
But here the committee has
designated the executive Secre-
tary to act as a coordinator so
as to develop unity Of action.
With the chairman and vice
chairman as consultantS he will
find the way to prevent duplicar
ton of effort. It may be proper
to remark here that Hatton
Summers, of Texas. chairman of
the House Committee of the
Judiciary and one Of the domi
nant Members of Congress, is a
consummate diplomat as well as
a wise man. He'll be back in
Washington after his primary
on July % and he may be de-
pended upon to chart an even
course for the inquiry.
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O'MAHONEY SEES
SENTIMENT FOR
MONOPOLY CURB

G.N.SO Senator OMaho n ey
CD of wyoming, chairman of the
congreSsional-executive committee
investigating monopolistic praC-
tices, said today a survey of the
opinion Of the business and in
duStrial world indicated a willing
ness to cooperate with the inquiry,
and a desire for adequate" legis-
lation.
The fear Of destroying
States rights had held Congress
away from enacting monopoly
laws" he said. But the people
now realize that the States are
altogether inadequate in their
powers to deal with these busi-
ness firms which extend across
State lines. We can restore
States rights by laying down a
national rule which will pre-
serve them"
O'Mahoney said some of the
antitrust laws have failed because
they have been written from the
standpoint of the individual, in
stead of the corporation"
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ACCORD is NEAR
ON COMMITTEE.
F 0 R REFUGEE
Stimson Is Proposed As
Permanent Director

EVIAN-LES,BAINs, France, July
IL U.N.SO.-Acceptance by Wash.
ington, London and Paris of a
draft agreement for establishment
of a permanent 32-power commit
tee for refugees in London was con-
fidently expected today.
The three democratic powers
have agreed in principle on the
committee and. the plan will be
submitted to the other 90 nations
participating in the intergovern-
mental conference here as soon as
home governments are heard from.
WaShington'S reply was the first
to arrive, and Myron C. Taylor,
Of the American delegtion, called
Senator Henry Berenger Of France
and Earl Winterton Of Britain to-
gether for q conference.
Another meeting Of the whole
80 nations will be held in Lon
don, July 81.
henry L. SClmSon, former Unit
ed States Secretary of State, is
said to have been approached as
q possible permanent director of
the London committee. Myron C.
Taylor, head Of the American
delegation to the Evian Confer
ence, has declined, while offering
his cooperation.
Taylor, however, will attend a
second meeting of the present
intergovernmental com m t e e,
scheduled for about two weeks
after this session closes Friday.
Under the tri-partite plan, the
new commission to be set up in
London will be independent Of,
but will work closely with, the
League Of Nations commission on
refugees.
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By EValyn Walsh Mclean

Again on account Of the noise Even at Green
belt they will not let the youngsters have dogs
Well, know what would do If I lived out there
now as young person. would make it so un-
comfortable for whoever is running that place
that for the sake Of peace they would give in and
allow dogs. Every child that can afford to feed
one should have his own little dog no matter if
it is only cur dog.
Commissioner Hazen has said there is $8,000,0 900
in reserve fund for the jobleSs. This fund comes
from per cent insurance tax the employers
pay and it is coming in faster than it is being
paid out. Now this sounds great and it is
wonderful thing that Insurance Director John
Marshall sent to 10000 persons their unemploy-
ment checks in June. But what is the rest Of
this 100000 doing?
Twenty thousand unemployed people in the Dis
trict of Columbia is q mere drop in the bucket.
Why don't the officials give out every darn
nickel Of this If necessary, and help the other
poor souls when they admit it is coming in faster
than they can spend it?
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News Behind
The News

Statesman bites columniSt-
Senator tells on a reporterl In
this formula there could not be
any bigger neUS than Senator
Joseph C. O'Mdhoney'S tollotD-
ing exposure of neDSmen lin
cluding this one) tDho haze been
kicking around the Gnti-monop-
oily Investigation committee OF
1Ohich he is chairman. He hits
straight and hard, as usual
and tells the netDS as he sees it.
Senator O'MGhoney is the
first of the statesmen and goU.
ernment economists of all vie1DS
1Oho tDiH tDrite the neUS behind
the netOS as they see it for a
tDeek or so 1Uhile your CORE
Spondent is taking a short fish
ing UGcGtion.
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Says Boake Carter

markable quality Mr.. Roosevelt possesses in lay
ing the blame for the countrys ills on institutions
which affect, directly or indirectly his periodic
economic fads.
When the Nations banks were closed and new
banking experiments were under consideration
five years ago, Wall Street was responsible for
the economic unbalance of the Nation" So the
financial men were ordered to form big parade
to attend a big political circus in Washington at
which they were appropriately thrust into the
stocks Of public ridicule
When Mr.. Roosevelt wanted to put over the
IVA, the utilities were responsible for the "eco-
nonic unbalance of the Nation" and they were
whipped from pillar to post.
When the effort to pack the Supreme Court
was attempted-the successful opposition was de-
nounced in the bitterest of language as the group
that should shoulder all future blame for the
economic unbalance Of the Nation"
Now, many Southern States are critical poll.
tical backgrounds, wherein many a New Deal
rubberstamper is on "the spot"
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We must remember, how
ever, that the stock market
Is a sensitive barometer which
usually anticipates business
conditions a month or two
ahead. There are enough signs
Of a business turn to warrant
hope that it is doing its fore
casting job as usual.
Certainly the declining trend
In industry and business has
been checked. which is the
first step toward recovery. Al
most all indexes show that
conditions are at least as good
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Washington reporters make the
news.
The truth of the matter is,
they don't hunt news, they hunt
drama and they experience the
thrill of a boy in his first pair
Of long pants when they detect
even a hint of personal conflict.
An entertaining news story is
like q good movie-the more
human emotion there is packed
into it the better, and if the
emotion involves q row Of some
kind, we'll, that's the stuff the
editors will put at the top Of the
column! And how the columnists
like to feed Il to them!
DEAR this in mind when you
- read about the So-called
monopoly investigation. Only
this afternoon, I went through
three quarters of an hour Of
tough croSS-examination at the
hands Of q score of correSpon-
dents who were trying their
best to uncover some hidden
drama in the latest meeting of
the twelve-man legiSlative-execu-
tive committee which has peen
set up to study Americas eco
nomic problem. The law lost
a fine bunch of inquiSitorS
when the boys in the Senate
Press Gallery decided to devote
their talents to journalism.
X 4 4
There's No Fighting
IMAGINE the possibilities of
l. this story. Here's a commit
tee composed of representatives
Of six important executive agen-
cies on the one hand, and six
members Of Congress on the
other. Surely it's impossible to
believe that at least one or two
ead-on collisions can be
avoided. Are not the executive
and legislative branches of the
Government bound to be Sus-
picious of one another?
But the committee has ar
ranged to assign one of its Con-
gressional members to each Cx-
ecutive agency in order to af-
ford a complete basis for under
standing and cooperation. Then
the Craftsmanship and the vice
Craftsmanship are given to mem
berS of the Congressional group.
and Leon Henderson, who has
been economist for the WPA,
is made executive secretary.
So out goes one possibility for
a scrap.
OTHERS are left, as, for ex-
" ample, in the overlapping
Jurisdictions of the departments
and commissions. Wouldn't it
be possible, the reporter asks
himself, for the Federal Trade
Commission and the Depart
ment of Justice to battle one
another since both deal with
combinations and mergers? So
the correspondent begins a deli
cate probe. He meets one com.
mitteeman in the hall and an
other in his office.
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a Washing
ton corr E.
spondent and
tell the News
Behind tn e
News m
the point Of
vie W Of q
m e m b er Of
the Senate.
B ut, then n,
I've always
b e e n lucky.
So now at
last, I can
tell Paul NAL
Ions readers
L
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RFC Note Issue
Is 0VersubsUibed

The Treasury indicated
today that an offering of the
Reconstruction Finance Cor
pOratiOn's notes had been
Oversubscribed.
The RFC offered 70 Of l
per cent interest to borrow
$2OO, 100000 for three years.
The notes were placed on
sale yesterday morning and
the Treasury closed the offer
last night.
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the poor people have to face.
In the first place, as have
said before in these articles,
o man with average means can
not afford to get sick or let
his family get sick. If a poor
man gets sick that is about the
end for him, as far as I can
see. The really interested doc
tors here are trying to work
out something. and I think
the disqualification plan is a
splendid thing. But, just stop
and realize, there are no free
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Moreover, he added: 1--WE
have an economic unbalance
in the Nation as a whole, due
to this very condition in the
South"
The letter and the obServa-
tions contained therein are re-
markable for several reasons.
FirSt-This is the first time
Mr.. Roosevelt has decided that
the South is responsible for the
Nations economic troubles.
The South now joins the ranks
of the bankers, utilities. indus
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wards in this city. except at GaIlinger Hospital
a city of nearly 100000. I have a few receipted
bills right here in my drawer which show what
some doctors (not the fine ones) have charged
really poor people, and they knew they were
poor.
Then take the question of getting job here.
Letter after letter tell about the red tape One
has to have pull or know friend of friend
Of somebody in the Government, to get anything.
Take the Community Chest understood
some time ago Chest officials dropped the School
for the Blind from It's list. They said it was not
run properly and was not fit place to give
money. Did any of these Community Chest Off
cialS go out there and investigate report the con-
ditons of this school to the authorities and have
1t closed? Never that heard Of. And, yet, there
are human souls living there in misery and neg
lect in that eternal blackness, which Is beyond
words to describe. Why couldn't these people
have been taken to decent place and kept under
the care of the biggest organized charity in this
city?
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Business Confidence Improves

Business Confidence Improves
business confidence shows some improvement
~ and according to all reports there has been
gain in optimistic sentiment.
This is largely due to the rise in wholesale
prices of raw materials When wholesale prices
rise, retail prices must follow eventually. Thus
retailers are likely to buy more freely, and this
fact leads to more buying and more confidence
all along the line.
Actually there has been little upturn in activ-
fly. In view Of the fact that weather conditions
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|. Q. Answers
Questions on Page 1n)

Questions on Page 1O)
l. Seven. 2. Kit tch en-.
3. Georges Clemenceau. 4. Sim
bad-the- Sailor. 5. Aintree, New
Liverpool, England. 6. Julius
Caesar. z. Hamlet. 8. Mustang.
9. It was settled by the Dutch as
an independent village at one
time and was named after
Haarlem, Holland. 10. Great
Britain.
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Here Is More Red Tape

7 am sure the employers who pay the per cent
insurance tax If there is any reserve left. would
feel glad to know this money was being used to
help the needy. even If it did not come exactly
under the original plan. But there is your red
tape again. People may starve and die but rules
must be kept.
Then take the poor souls when they come to
their last long sleep. AS far as can find out
they can not even be buried decently without hav-
ing their families run into debt. Now do not
know whether this is true or not, but when left
instructions that when died was to be ere
mated and put in the cheapest pine box that
could be obtained, was told that this was not
allowed by the UndertakerS' Association. There
was a minimum put on caskets and no matter
whether you were burned or buried you had to
pay that The only cheap pine coffin have
ever seen or heard Of is down at the District
Morgue waiting for potter'S field.
Now it is a crying shame that the poor people
cannot afford to live and they cannot afford to
die. They cannot afford to get sick and they
cannot afford to get buried. A pathetic condi-
ton of affairs with the millions rolling out sup
posedly to help these very people I have been
thinking about.
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Step in Right Direction
IN my opinion, however there is more than mere
sentiment behind the improved business out
look Business has fallen to very low levels, and
it is over year since the last peak so that the
cycle theory suggests recovery next.
Raw material prices having fallen very low in
comparison with finished goods, are now rising,
as usual at cycle bottoms, at the same time. sur
plus stocks of commodities are generally either
about to decline or actually being reduced.
Probably the revision of the basing point price
structure in the steel industry is unfortunate at
this time. It is step in the right direction and
eventually may improve competitive conditions
in the industry. At the moment, however, it
causes natural hesitation among buyers.
On the whole building activity shows moderate
gains. Good crop reports are encouraging and
larger shipments have increased railway car
loadings. Live stock prices are very strong The
demand for textiles and shoes shows a gain.
Wholesale markets, though reflecting caution, in
dicate improved sentiment and better buying.
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NEW YORK, July 12.-Looked at in the cold
AN light of statistics, business activity has not
yet made much of recovery. In comparison with
the rise in the stock market, the gain has been
Verv slight indeed
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The Federal Government is
pouring into business channels a
total of about ST, ,101 ,00o, 900 every
month.
On the basis of a 26-day busi-
ness month, this shows a daily
expenditure of $42,346, 100 and on
the basis of an 8-hour business
day, a total of $5,293,282 every
hour.
EIGHT GROUPS
Eight major emergency bureaus
are allotting the money-PWA,
WPA, the U. S. Housing Authority,
the non-military works division of
the War Department, the Federal
Surplus Commodities Corporation,
Rural Identification, the Farm
Security Administration and the
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Not included in this list of
spending bureaus-which actually
allocate money-are four prime
loan organizations which are also
working toward recovery but are
guaranteeing funds rather than
handing out cash.
This is particularly true of the
Federal Housing Administration,
which is doing almost 500, 900, 900
monthly In mortgaging business
for small homes and general build
ingS, the Home owners Loan Cor
poration and the Commodities
Credit Corporation, which ad-
vances funds on farmers stored
surplus crops.
RFC ALLOTMENTS
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, however, allots as
well as guarantees money. It's
average monthly business of late
has been about $50, 900, 900 to in
duStry and railroads, but allot-
mentS have been small.
Out of the $1,101 100000 spent
every month, PWA, USHA, and
WPA distribute the largest
amounts. In less than a month,
PWA has earmarked a total of
$710, 600, 900 for 2,844 non-Federal
public works. This pace must stop
by September 30, next, since PWA
earmarkingS will then cease under
the terms Of the $3,755, ,OOO,OOO re
covery act. PWA will spend about
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$13 100000 daily between now and
the end Of September to spend
$1.S65, 900, 900.
80 MILLION A MONTH
The United States Housing Au-
thority has averaged $4,000, 900
per month in earmarkings and
contracts since it began opera
tions land unofficially opened the
recovery drive) last January. This
figure should remain fairly con-
sistent for the next year and a
half, during which USHA will COM
plete Slum-clearance and low-rent
housing contracts covering its en-
tire $500, 100000 fund.
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My Say

As go deeper and deeper into the pleas for
"A help I get, am simply appalled, by the
circumstances that the white collar class and
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But

MIR. ROOSEVELT delivered letter to 25 South
AVA ern Representatives. in which he observes
that the territory below the Mason and Dixon
Line constitutes "the Nations No. / economic
ToroJoIaVro
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RECOVERY PROGRAM:
RECOVERY PROGRAM:
u. S. AGENCIES SPEND
BILLION EVERY MONTH
Eight Emergency Bureaus to Restore
Prosperity Through Construction
By MERRILL MUELLER

UNS An estimated total of more than $5250000 is being
spent every hour every business day the Administrations
1898 drive to national prosperity through construction
The Washington times., 1938-07-12
BY SENATOR JOSEPH C.
O'MAHONEY
Democrat Of Wyoming

TNHIS is an opportunity never
L expected to have-even for q
day-to take over the column Of
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trialists, monopolists. Tories, obstructioniSts,
money changers, foreignerS-all Of whom have
had their day as popular villains in the court Of
Roosevelt opportunism.
From this bold statement you would not sup
pose that competent engineers. business men and
citizens have been suggesting for five years that
Mr.. Roosevelt could make himself one of the
most constructive Presidents of all American his
tory by encouraging American private enterprise
to rebuild the South and so remove the "un-
balance"
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Promises Remedy

Promises Remedy
HAVING displayed for five years mastery in
IA activity" on one OF the most constructive is
sues of our times it is at least a pleasure to
note Mr.. Roosevelt has recognized it, and says
something must be done about it. For that the
Nation, doubtless, thanks him-and will not
bother to recollect that it is more politically ad
vantageous just now to soft soap" the South
than offend it.
Copyright Ledger Syndicate)
(BoGke CGrter's opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those Of The Washington TineSJ
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World of Finance By Lewis Haney

have been none too favorable while political
conditions are unsettled, even a little upturn is
worthy Of note.
Some feel that the thing is still in the senti-
mental stage and fear that q setback in the
stock market-perhaps caused by some verbal
attack from the White House-would push the
budding recovery over.
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It's Election Year

0ECOND-1t is remarkable that the President
~ suddenly discovers" the economic plight of
the South. in an election year. at the commence
ment Of political speech-making tour which will
take him through many Southern States
Third-It is yet one more exhibition Of the re-
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E'No Room for Children"

TAKE the young married people with babies.
u They cannot walk into most apartment
houses in Washington and rent little apart
ment. They are generally told: Children make
too much noise we don't allow them here"
These poor young people have to take just about
any place they can get, no matter how disagree
able it is fo1 them and their babies, so OTHER
people will not We disturbed
If the child is big enough to have dog it is
not allowed to have one not even a cur dog.