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Evening star., 1938-01-25
IL HURT IN BUS CRASH
Driver Blinded, Machine Plunges
Into Pond Beside Road.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn, Jan. Is (P.
Twelve passengers on a New York
Boston bound bus were injured today
as the vehicle plunged into a pond
after the driver was blinded by water
splashed from flooded highway onto
the windshield
Only two of the injured required hos
pital attention.
Passengers crowded to the rear of
the bus. which was out of water, and
were assisted through windows by the
driver.
Evening star., 1938-01-25
COLDER WEATHER IN EAST.
Fishermen Endangered and Shipping
and Air Travel Hampered.

NEW YORK, Jan. Is lP.-Colder
weather was in prospect for the Allan
tic seaboard today. replacing a rain
and windstorm that last night en-
dangered fishermen and hampered
shipping and air travel.
In the New York area, rain was
swept in on wind that reached q
maximum velocity of 48 miles an hour.
Numerous inbound liners battled
heavy seas in the Atlantic, and ex-
pected to arrive several hours late.
The Coast Guard reported two cutters
en- route to aid the dredge Peru, in
distress "a miles southwest of Diamond
Shoals Lightship, off Cape Hatteras,
last night.
Evening star., 1938-01-25
PALM|SANO URGES
100000 LUMP
SUM FOR DISTRICT
Head of House Committee
Is Hoping to Avoid New
Tax Legislation.
MAY DISCLOSE HIS PLAN
OF STRATEGY THURSDAY
Meanwhile, Program for Added
Levies Here Is Discussed
by Subcommittee.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee's million dollar slash in Dis
trtct budget estimates for merit
fiscal year Uds tolloued last ueek
by suggestion that proposed s5.o00.-
900 reuenue bill might be scrdpped
entirely, if Commissioners ordered
continuance of "emergency' 25-
cent increase in real estate tar
District ddrisers are dtrided on
plans TOR permanent budget bal
dncthg.
Evening star., 1938-01-25

NATIONAL.
Jackson admits using compulsion in
consent decree cases. Page Al
Southern anti-lynching f1libuster con-
tinues unabated. Page Al
Lewis assails wage reductions to fight
recession. Page Al
Easy sailing forecast for bank holding
company bill. Page AS
Tie-up is warned by longshoremen's
head Page AS
New regulations to put stop to short
selling. Page A-1O
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Fidelity shareholders to be paid in
February. Page Al
Washington-bound plane lost in fog.
lands in Hartford. Page Al
Palmisano to fight for $4,000, 900 lump
sum. Page Al
Washington schooner believed disabled
near Cape Charles. Page Al
Mrs. Boyle seeks to get trust fund for
school lunches. Page Al
Dodge holds special activities of Chest
essential. Page Al
Board of Trade indorses Gravelly
Point airport site. Page B-1
Gravelly Point site lauded by Federal
air Official Page B-1
Valuation dispute breaks out IN Pepco
hearing. Page B-1
Evening star., 1938-01-25
BRITISH SHIP ATTACKED
Torpedo Fired in Mediterranean
Official Reports Saw.

LONDON, Jan. Is (F.-The ad-
miralty today received a report that
the 2.868-ton British steamer Lake
Geneva had been attacked by an un-
identified submarine in the Western
Mediterranean 10 days ago. A tor
pedo passed under the ship.
Evening star., 1938-01-25

TdHc NdS disrupted and dirpldne
frduel hampered. Duststorms in
Southwest added to hazards, and
uinds OF tornddo-like intensity
s1Uept Alabama and Oklahoma.
Chief threat in Arkansas ipas rising
1Uaters of riuerS and streams.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Jan. 25.-A severe cold
wave accompanied by a snowstorm
that reached blizzard proportions
moved over the Middlewestern prairies
today in the wake Of heavy rains that
sent streams over their banks and
hundreds OF families fleeing for safety
Two persons were drowned. thou
sands of acres of farm lands we're
inundated, and winter wheat crops
suffered damage as flood waters
surged over large portion of Northern
Illinois and small part of Southern
Wisconsin.
Eddie Proctor, 6-year-old schoolboy
and Ralph Hartness, 20. truck driver
were drowned in Illinois, where more
than 600 families fed from their
homes. Rainfall ranged from 2 to
almost 4 inches in the northern half
of Illinois.
Gale Hits 50-Mile Speed.
Heralding a recession Of food
waters, the cold wave pushed SOUTH
eastward from the Dakotas, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin. A 50-mile gale
buffeted the head of the lakes.
North Dakota and Minnesota felt
the lash of the stinging winds late
yesterday. Temperatures dropped to
8 below zero at Pemhina, N OAK; 8
below at Devils Lake and below at
Wlli!sfons >Monrhead, MINI. also re-
ported 2 below
Storm-tossed Lake Superior beat
down six-hour attempt by Coast
Guard cutter to reach two fishermen
marooned on Cat Island, off the Wis
conSin shore, since January IL. Shift
ing winds broke the ice to prevent
the f1shermen's return by dog team
Bad weather grounded two Army
planes. which were to have resumed
search for fishing tug with three
men on board. missing since Decem-
Der 10 and believed ice-bound in the
straits of Mackinac.
Communication Lines Down.
In Wisconsin communication ant
power lines broke down under thu
weight of to 8 inches of snow and ice
Many rural schools were closed ir
the Upper Michigan peninsula. where
steadily falling barometer warned
of bitter weather in the ofing.
A 50-mile gale from the Northwest
followed rain into Iowa. Winds thai
reached gale proportions kicked ur
dust and snow in Nebraska.
Chicago brsced for cold siege.
Below freezing weather promised
relief in Arkansas where muddy fooc
waters crept over lowlands, endanger-
ing live stock and forcing families
from their homes.
Evening star., 1938-01-25
Summary Of Today's Star

Mattresses tips discussed at minimum
wage hearing. Page B-1
Evening star., 1938-01-25
FAMILIES ROUTED
ASBL|zzARDSADD
TO FLOODS PERIL
Stricken Areas Are Hit by
Cold Wave-FarmIands
Are Inundated.
SCH00LB0Y AND DRIVER
DROWNED IN ILLINOIS
Effort to Reach Two Marooned in
Lake Is Futile-Many Schools
Are Closed.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Storms in Midwest and South
Test yesterday took heavy toll in
property after sending many
streams out OF their banks. Families
rere forced to flee their homes
TIen food ,Uaters imperiled them.
Throughout stricken area highmay
traffic mas disrupted and airplane
frdrel hampered. DuStstorms in
Southwest added to hazards, and
uinds OF tornado-lke intensity
sWept Alabama and Oklahoma.
Chief threat in Arkansas mas rising
Waters of riuers and streams.
Evening star., 1938-01-25

(see NUMBERS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1938-01-25
WEATHER,

Fair and much colder tonight; tomor-
row fair and colder; lowest temperature
tonight about "A degrees: fresh to strong
northwest winds. Temperatures today
Highest, 63, at am. lowest, A, at pm.
Full report. page Az.
Evening star., 1938-01-25

tsee LUNCHES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1938-01-25

(See BRITISH, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1938-05-15
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star
In the Capital City, where the statesmen
Of the Nation congregate, and where the
many economic problems that have con-
fronted the people for years are still ap-
pealing for logical settlement. encountered
a taxi driver, while riding with him from
the House Office Building, who has solved
the unemployment problem. No expensive
committee investigation had to be employed
and no tax money expended.
He said that his chance for employment
cided to be his own employer. He had
bought acres of land miles from this
city and was putting up house at cost
of less than 5000, doing the work himself.
He had dug we'll already and had good
water. He proposed to get back to the land
where he knew that if he worked as he al
ways had not been afraid to, he would
never starve.
II there is any other solution of this vital
question, which has confronted the people
for the last seven years, it had better be
tried before we are faced with an even
more serious problem. If there is no other
solution, why delay in admitting, as Black
Hawk did so long ago, that the land is our
mother" our nourishment, the foundation
Of all employment
This was the guarantee by government
in the Declaration Of Independence: All
men are created equal" Without equality
Of opportunity to the land that immortal
document becomes meaningless
Chicago, Ill. JAMES o. MONROE.
Evening star., 1938-05-15

fully equipped radio stations, with operat-
Commerce Department, emergency fields
and beacons following. Airmail planes
were sold to airmail contractors or trans
ferred to other Government departments
BY August 81, 1927, the Post ONCE De-
partment had completely relinquished its
service.
Growth of the contract system was
phenomenal from the start, due in large
measure to the public interest stirred by
the flight of Col Charles A. Lindbergh
from New York to Paris in May. 1927.
There was a 20 per cent increase In air.
mail poundage in June; Congress passed
beneficial legislation: the public poured
millions of dollars into the aviation indus
try.
Today the airmail system has expanded
from the 218 route miles Of 1918 to 30,450
miles In the foreign system and 32.376
miles in the domestic-a total Of 62,826
miles under the United States nag. Planes
new more than 100000 miles on these
routes during the past fiscal year. Every
State, with but on exception, has direct
airmail service; that is served by stops at
nearby points.
single-engined airplanes have disap-
peared from the transport lines and speeds
have mounted steadily and now are ap-
preaching 200 miles per hour. Giant A.
passenger four-enginer transports soon
to make their appearance on the domestic
routes and even larger flying boats on the
transoceanic foreign routes.
Eclipsing all previous forms of trans
portation in rapidity Of growth. air trans
portation during brief 20 years has grown
from the puny, uncertain Hedging of May
is, 1918, to the magnificent, eflcient. far
nung system Of today life pulse in the
blood stream of commerce and a dawning
force In the hoped-for community Of ma
uonA.
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Airnail
Continued From Page C-1.)

q further 30-day trial, regular day and
night operations began July l, 1924. Since
that time there probably never has been
a night during which an airmail or trans
port airplane has not been in fight in
the United States.
The airmail service was awarded the
coveted Collier Trophy for 1922 for hav-
ing made the most important contribu-
tions toward development Of aeronautics
in that year. In 1926, only two years
after Inauguration of night service, the
Harmon Trophy went to an airmail pilot
for 718 hours Of flying without accident
In all kinds Of weather, Al per cent OF
it by night. Airmail won the Collier
Trophy again in 1923 for its night flying.
American air transportation had begun
the meteoric climb into an undisputed
world leadership, which has not yet been
challenged by any nation or group Of ma
tions, for distance flown, service performed
or safety and reliability Of operation.
It was not the intention Of the Post
Office Department to operate the airmail
longer than was necessary to demonstrate
the practicability of commercial aviation to
the general public and thereby induce pri-
vate enterprise to enter the field and
eventually take over operation of the
service.
In 1926 several contract airmail routes
went into operation and contracts for sew
eral more routes were awarded. Congress
enacted the Air Commerce Act Of 1926,
imposing upon the Commerce Department
the duty Of fostering and regulating COM
mercial air transportation. In 1927 the
pioneer transcontinental route passed into
private hands and the Post ONCE Depart
ment began to divest itself OF the rest
Of it, service and equipment. Seventeen
Evening star., 1938-05-15
From The Stars Letter Mail
Shows ProperiyMron c. Taylor for President
Support District Auditorium.

suitable for farming, animals ready to be
caught and domesticated, plants to be
cultivated-farm capital; mining lands,
some with outcroppings Of metals and
other minerals ready to be worked
miners capital; timber lands in plenty
-lumbermen's capital; grounds and
places where manufacturing could be
done as well as plenty Of raw materials
manufacturers capital
After the capital was already there,
the first .nan came along whether Adam
or a cave-man matters not-maybe Adam
became a cave-man, for q while, any
how. He owned the whole earth, and
took possession Of all the capital he
cared to use to produce more wealth by
West, North and South to take posses
sion of whatever they cared to use to
become farmers miners, manufacturers.
They produced more wealth. first. by the
use Of the capital they had taken pos
session Of and which was already there,
and, second, by their own labor on, upon,
and with that capital.
Suppose there had been no capital:
then there could have been no labor,
because work cannot be done except on,
upon, and with tangible things. and
those tangible things, when used to pro-
duce Others are capital. Money. though
called liquid capital. Is not real capital.
1t Is no good to work on. It must be
spent for q place to work on, raw ma
terials to work upon, and tools to work
with, before labor can get busy. 1t is a
fact that labor came before money: but
was, Is and lever shall be" always first
Without capital there can be no labor.
Now, who shall own the capital? "Ah!
There's the rub!" Nature has decreed
that the shrewdest shall own 1t. probably
because they make the best use Of it.
Let's see you beat Nature with impunity
(or immunity. The private ownership
of capital came about by the operation
Of Natures laws II communistic owner.
ship had been Natures method, 1t woulc
have prevailed and hourished, wholly
or in spots at least, coincidentally with
capitalism. Instead, wherever heretofore
attempted, it died. Natures method re.
quires no supervision except the enforce.
ment Of justice communistic or othel
socialistic system, being against Nature!
laws needs mind Of superhuman wisdom
to guide it Alright; but there is no sucf
superhuman wisdom in the children ot
men. ERNEST HAVILAND HOBBS.
Evening star., 1938-05-15

Az tuc Gulto1 Ol Ane othSs
It Is the sincere hope of this writer that
members OF the House and Senate from
New York State will act with favor toward
the measures which Senator Connally and
Representative Lanham Of Texas are about
to introduce in the Congress, recommend
ing the construction of a super auditorium
In the District.
Here are measures that are similar in
nature Measures that are neither political
nor economic. They favor the acquisition
Of land for the building Of public amphi-
theater that will be of inestimable value to
citizens Of all the States as well as to ma
tives and residents in the District. They
would provide for q building where ma
tionwide and citywide patriotic, political,
recreational, religious and social events
could be held
Measures like these which advocate con.
structive things for the public service
should have the whole-hearted support Of
all lawmakers, regardless Of their party
afhliation. OF course, my appeal Is to the
delegation from New York. Of which I am
native and voter. If others from other
States feel the same way about this pro-
posal 1t would be to their benefit to ac-
quaint their Senator and Congressman OF
the fact. FREDERICK q. FROST.
Evening star., 1938-05-15

nomically, lawfully and for the best in
terests of all the people, man who is
a democratic republican. q man under
whose leadership everybody, irrespective Of
party Affiliations, could follow. man
who would bring a good living to everybody
and therefore submit for nomination for
the next president Of the United States
Mr.. Myron G. Taylor Of New York.
WILLIAM B. SEVERE
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Scene Of Enchantment
Noted at Fredericksburg.
To the Editor of The Star:

There was an enchanted air surround.
ing the little house and its walled garden
enveloping both in spring warmth not
two days old. We we're not satisfied with
q view of the gable tops and lifted the
latch OF the gate and entered. There
stood the house amid old country box
wood and Towering shrubs. The entrance
door was partly shielded by white lilac
bush growing from the center of an old
mill stone, and the walk leading from the
gate to the house was bordered with
dafIodils and iris. AS always with houses
closed on Sundays a calm prevaded
everywhere, and gradually the present
and past were one. We heard the voices
Of 'darkies" singing low and the gay
laughter of children playing in the back.
We listened, rapt in the complete beauty
of the picture to be shaken from our
reverie by real chords of Bach coming
from a piano on the second landing.
E. S. GLADMAN.
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Democracy the Natural Heritage
OF the American People.


To the Editor Of The Star:
THE fundamental principles which have
proven the greatest bulwark to our
Government are the inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Such ideals of free government have been
woven over the scores Of years into the
social. political and economic fabric OF
our daily life. They have proven life
blood to our progress among nations and
are requisite as long as We believe in and
cherish reverently the institutions which
make America the home of the free.
We read in our daily papers Of the va
rious theories and hypothesis expounded by
those who would undermine our system
and create in its place totalitarian set-up
of regimentation and tyranny. Tyranny
can exist in many forms, through politi-
cal, social and an economic oligarchy,
but regardless of its nature, the fact re-
mains that it can still be tyranny.
There are those who would tell us that
because certain authoritative states abroad
are progressing Of one might call it that
as military powers, it would be wise for us
to follow their dogma before it is too late
Such sophistical speculation and fallacious
reasoning can only come from those un-
tutored in the evolution Of government.
They fail to recognize that we as predomi-
nately an English race are embedded with
certain heritages as much a part OF our
physical makeup as dictatorial theories
are those who exist on the continent.
Our theories on social justice and eco
nomic equality are based pre-emptly on
men like Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire
and Paine. Men who believed in the ideals
of government rather than in the selfish
motives Of unscrupulous cliques. Our code
Of laws may be traced from Justinian
through Blackstone to the present day.
The great state papers Of England. the
Magma Charta, the Bill of Rights, the
habeas corpus act and the the common
law have been guiding lights in our journey
through the Cimmerian deserts Of political
| ignorance
These conditions have not been true in
other states adhering to totalitarian philos-
ophies. Liberty is much like the olive.
One must cultivate taste for 1t. In these
countries abroad whose PHILOSOPHERS are
anti-democratic, they have never enjoyed
long enough republican rule to know
whether they like it or not. Their choice
most always has never been between de-
mocracy and dictatorship, but between
good dictatorship and bad
| BENJAMIN r. STTCKNEY. JR.
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Fat Fascists Are Rebuked
By MussOlini's Newspapel

MILAN R)-Fat Fascists are smarting
under a rebuke administered by Musso-
lini's newspaper, II Popolo d'Italia, for
their unmilitary appearance.
Excessively fat members are undesirable
in the party ranks, especially when they
are in uniform" the newspaper said.
"They may be very fine comrades with
well-nourished faith. heir hearts, minds,
nerves and muscles are all Fascist, but their
bellies, no! -"
If these dear comrades really can't re-
duce their hemispherical protuberances, let
them see to it at least that they do not
appear in the front ranks"
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Parisians' Watchdogs
Found Drawing Thieves

PARIS R.-Dog- loving Parisians who
left their pets to guard automobiles parked
along Paris Champs Elysees have been
marching regularly to the police with q
peculiar complaint
When they returned from their business
they found the cars still there, but the dogs
had vanished.
More than a score Of watchdogs ranging
from Pomeranians to Russian wolfhounds.
have been stolen.
Evening star., 1938-05-15
Capital Preceded Labor
In the World Economy.
To the Editor Of The Star:

Recently correspondent quoted Lincoln
as saying that labor came before capital.
Though Lincoln turned out to be one Of
the very greatest of men, he was subject to
human error and was also great Joker.
Capital is defined by Webster as: "A
stock employed in trade, manufactures,
ETC." and by Prof. Meservey as: THAT
part of wealth which is employed in the
production of wealth."
Thus, farmers capital consists prin-
cipally Of his fields. animals, seeds, ETC.;
a miners capital, Of his mining lands;
lumbermans capital, Of his timber
lands or rights; q builders or manu-
facturer's capital, Of his grounds or place
Of manufacture and his raw materials.
Now, the earth was here before man
ever came. On the earth were Lands
Evening star., 1938-02-23
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The Man She Won
modern romance of life IN tho
Nations Capital by Washington 1Oriter.
By Phyllis Moore Gallagher
CHAPTER !

m HE lobby of the Palace Hotel crowded with people
i Behops darted back and forth; the captains bell
tnked exctedy. stout lady coided with thin gentle
and murmured apology. young woman swathed
in silver foxes stood harangung the TALL redheaded desk
clerk her ebony-tinted nails gesticuatlng.
The Washington times., 1938-03-07

couldn't know then that the we'd
ding of Marcella Drake to the
tall Baron-two people whom
she knew only by sight-would
change the whole course Of her
life. She knew only that she
was thrilled with this panorama
of romance and the resemblance
of Marcella Drake to her own
sister, Isabel.
Marcella Drake had Isabel'S
dark. inextinguishable beauty,
the same shining brown eyes,
the same lovely black hair with
a center part, smooth and lucent
about her head and twisted into
an exquisite knot at the nape Of
her neck. She thought, rather
wistfully: This is what Isabel
would love. Photographers.
Reporters. Marriage to a title
and the public ogling."
ISABEL, TOO, TO WE'D
Her heart fell a little within
her at that thought. Isabel
would be married next month to
DR.. Peter Kent, who lived next
door, and there would be no cam
eras, no photographers. There
would be a few friends at the
Methodist Church; even fewer
to the wedding breakfast which
their mother would prepare.
Isabel would look beautiful, Of
course: neither a homemade
wedding gown nor a veil Of
cheap lace could make Isabel
any less than beautiful.
But Peter Kent" Gloria
thought, has no money and
only a very small practice. Isa-
bel, being Isabel, will probably
be miserable"
For Isabel wanted things so
terribly. Wanting was a veri.
table flame which ragged in her
so devastatingly that at times a
faint chill of terror claimed
Gloria, because this mad want.
ing was so unlike her own more
placid wanting. Isabel wanted
cars, Jewels. travel, clothes like
those the leading women wore
in the movies.
PETER HAS NO MONEY
Dimly Gloria realized that the
things Isabel sighed for were
only symbols, that what Isabel
really wanted was life in more
thrilling and venturesome doses
than people usually obtained it.
Gloria could hear very clearly
Isabel's plaintive voice crying
out in the darkness of their
room: Poor men, like Peter
and Barney, fall for me, Gloria.
Rich ones would, too. Oh,
Gloria, if could only meet Q
man with money!"
ITO be cOntinued)
Evening star., 1938-07-19

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