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Evening star., 1938-08-18
RUNC|MAN TALKS
WITH NAZ| CHIEF
Meets HenIein First Time
Near Border City
of Komotau.
BACKGROUND

Viscount Runctmnn trent to
Csechoslounkta as UNOFFICIAL British
mediator betueen Prdha gorern-
ment and Sudeten German faction
Which, under leadership Of Konrad
Henlein, is demanding autonomy.
Czechoslopdkid has issued drafts of
proposed ninorities statutes de-
signed to gtUe Dnrions national
groups greater equality in gouern-
ment
By the Associated Press.
KOMOTAU, Czechoslovakia, Aug
l8.-Konrad Henlein. leader of the
autonomy seeking Sudeten German
minority. and Viscount Runciman, un-
official British mediator in the Nazi-
supported party's struggle with the
Czechoslovak government, met today
for the first time.
They discussed the fate of Czecho-
slovakia in long conference in Castle
Rothenhaus, near this border city.
Part Of their discussion was con-
Quoted with only the two present ano
nothing was disclosed officially OF the
progress of their conversations.
1t was indicated. however, that Lord
Runciman was trying to pin the Nazi-
supported minority leader down to
something like definite proposals that
would stand a chance OF being ac-
cepted by the Praha government.
Seeks Moderation Of Attitude.
PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, Aug. l8 (PN
"A foreign office official disclosed to-
day that meeting had been arranged
between Viscount Runciman, unofficial
British mediator in the troublesome
Czechoslovak minority question. and
Konrad Henlein, leader of the au-
tonomy- seeking Sudeten German mi
nority
1t was understood Lord Runciman
would plead that the Sudeten Ger.
mans take less uncompromising at
titude in negotiations with the Czecho-
slovak government over demands fol-
autonomy.
Prestige Causes Difficulty.
1t was revealed that the matter
of prestige featured dealings to bring
about the conference.
Henlein took the attitude in a mani
festo yesterday that as leader of the
Sudetens he should not make the first
call on the head of the British mis-
sion because one Of Lord Runciman' s
first acts here was to make a courtesy
call on President Edouard Benes.
The British engineered a COM
promise whereby the meeting was
scheduled for neutral territory" at
the Rothau Castle Of Prince Won
Hohenlohe
Czech Newspapers Hit.
Doubling the good will often pub
licly voiced by the Czechoslovak gov
ernment, the Sudeten manifesto criti-
cized Czechoslovak newspapers which
certainly lack this good will
Diplomatic quarters felt the stand
OF the Sudetens plainly indicated that
Vlscount Runciman, sent here by
Prime Minister Chamberlain, had
tailed to bring closer together the
Berlin-backed Sudetens and the Czech
oslovak government.
Evening star., 1938-08-18
FOREIGN

e. am, Greenwich time. today
Temperature. Wealth.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Women Forbidden to See
Musical Instrument Made

London.-A West African musical
instrument made in the dead of
night by a secret process that no
woman may witness on pain of death
was played before a London audi
ence-by an American woman
Mrs. Laura Boulton, lecturer on an
thropology at the University of Chi
cago.
The forbidden instrument is the
ochisanji, which has metal keys
made by smith working at night.
Mrs. Boulton said: "For the last
$50 years our European musicians
have been experimenting in the field
of melody but we never have more
than scratched the surface in the
field of rhythm.
Maybe just as certain forms of
our present music, such as SYM
phony and sonata, evolved from the
court dance, our future music may
have negro dances for it's ancestor"
Askov American., 1938-03-24
TAKES PICTURES IN
LAND OF SAvAGES
Explorer Spends Six Months
on Hainan Island.

San Francisco. - Nicol Smith,
young San Francisco explorer and
adventurer, has returned to his
home here from six-month ex.
ploration trip to lonely Hainan is
land of the southeast coast of Chi
ma.
Smith brought back hundreds OF
photographs, botanical specimens
and maps of the remote island. He
recorded native life on more than
1000 feet of sound film.
Hainan island is northeast of Indo-
China off the southeastern China
coast. 1t is 100 miles long and 95
miles wide. Until Smiths recent
explorations in the interior of the
island no white man had ever pene-
trated inland. The island is popu-
lated by primitive natives of Malay
origin who still hunt with poisoned
arrows.
Attacked by Water Buffalo.
Smith had several "close shaves"
with death on his latest trip, he
said. On one occasion his car was
attacked by huge water buffalo
and at another time, he said, an
airplane in which he was flying
from Hainan to Canton, to get per-
mission to take photographs in the
Islands interior, was forced to land
in the wild-tiger district of Liu Chow
in South China, miles from civiliza-
ton.
In the heart of the wild Hainan
country Smith almost died from the
effects OF severe sunstroke. On
another occasion quick action of
companion saved him from drown
ing in swift mountain river.
Smith made the only motion pic
lures ever taken of the Loi aborigine
tribes of Hainan and obtained re-
cordings of their native music. He
made the first inland maps for the
National Geographic society and OBJ
tained botanical specimens for the
American Museum of Natural His
tory.
Rare Bear Captured.
"A al z 11dlIldIl UedT, captured Oy
the expedition, died before it could
be transported from the interior and
the animal was stuffed. It was the
only bear of this species ever seen
by a white person, Smith said.
Among other trophies was the skin
of 14-foot python, killed by a men,
Der of the exploring party.
At the completion of his Hainan
island exploration Smith Travelled to
Yunnan on the Burma-Tibetan bor-
der. While there he was the first
white man to visit Kocbui, the
mystery city of ASIA" in more
than 20 years. In Kocbui, Smith
said, $4,000 children have been sold
into slavery.
In the last ten years Smith has
toured unusual out-of-the-way Sec
tions of Europe, Asia, America and
the South Seas. He has made ex-
tensive explorations in the interior
of Dutch Guiana.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Family of Women Rules
Town in West Virpinia

Friendly, w. Va.-Oficials of this
village on the Ohio river almost due
east of Marietta, Ohio, are just one
big, happy family-and all are
women!
Mrs. Elgie Williamson Rusten-
meyer is recorder and related either
directly or by marriage to all men,
bers of the woman council.
"Councilmen" related by blood
are Mrs. Ella Williamson, Mrs.
Clara Williamson, Mrs. Maud Liv-
ingston, whose mother was Will
hanson, and Mrs. Gladys William
son Knowlton.
Mrs. Mary Bowles, the other
member of council, and Mrs. John
Cline, the town marshal, are both
related to the Williamson family by
marriage.
All are descendants of John
Thomas Williamson, who first set
tied here in 1885 after stopping off
on his way west to help defend Fort
Henry at Wheeling, w. Va, so miles
north of here.
Mrs. Stella Eddy, the mayor, is
practically an outcast. She can
claim no relationship either directly
or indirectly to the Williamson clan.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Drub Lives
BY FLORENCE MELLlsH
q Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.

"VOU have forgotten the salad
L fork, Luella," said Mrs. Mer-
vim in patient tone.
Luella, whose pale, adoring gaze
was fixed on the vivid face of Alison
Cares, flushed and rose to supply
the omission.
''Luella is always forgetful," Mrs
Mervin remarked when Luella had
gone out again for the dessert, land
dreadfully slow; but, then, she is
steady and willing, so I try to be
patient with her."
''How long has she been with
you?" asked Miss Carey, the
sprightly welfare worker, who was
spending a day with her aunt in
Chiffon.
"Three years next month. Her
father died just before Amos did,
and l promised Amos Luella should
always have a home with me. He
took an interest in her because she
was the last of his kin, and he was
afraid it would be hard for her to
make her way in the world, she
was so bashful and modest Her
slowness is trying, but 1 don't feel
her keep much, for she can wear
any of my skirts shortened little,
and any Of my blouses taken in at
the seams"
AS Luella re-entered Alison Carey
gave keen glance at the angular
figure in faded percale with the
seams taken in, to the colorless
face, the pale gray eyes, the thin,
ight-colored hair.
lone of the drab lives" Alison
thought.
After dinner she offered to help
Luella with the dishes, partly be-
cause the girl looked tired, partly to
get up little conversation with her.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
European Beauties Spy
Out Military Secrets

London.-Beautiful, alluring, mod
ern Mata Harris today are being
used to an almost unprecedented
scale to obtain the military secrets
of Europe's armed powers.
Never before in the peacetime his
tory of Europe have so many beau
tiful young women been known to
be engaged in espionage.
German, French, Swiss, Polish.
Italian and Russian girls are known
to be operating.
The identity of some of these
women is known to the British in
telligence service; others are un-
der suspicion, but most of them are
merely known to exist, their identi-
ties remaining mystery.
A case in point is Countess Vie
lepolska, beautiful Polish woman
who now languishes in Moabit pris-
on, Berlin, awaiting trial on charges
of espionage against Germany.
Although the penalty for spying
against Nazi Germany is death it
is believed that the Polish countess
will be exchanged for a valuable
German agent now behind the bars
in Warsaw.
Countess Wielopolska was arrest
ed by the German secret police
aboard the Warsaw-Berlin-P ex-
press just Is minutes after the train
pulled out of the Berlin station.
In French military prison, at
tractive twenty-nine-year-old Elsa
Turch, German girl, is serving
two years for attempting to induce
French men and women to act as
espionage agents.
Before being caught and convict
ed, she was a familiar figure at
Ystres, one of Frances most i'm
portant military aviation centers.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Damage by Forest Fires
Reduced in u. S. in 1887

Washington.-The 1887 forest fire
control season has been one of
the most successful ever recorded
in the history of the country, Rob
ert Fechner, director of the civil
ian conservation corps, said.
Fechner said reports indicated the
excellent record was due largely
to favorable weather conditions, in
crease in acreage accorded fire
protection, strengthened organized
forest protection, greater number of
fire towers and the presence of CCC
men.
Reports show that during a nine
month period in 1886 there were 767
reported fires, burning 1892 acres,
compared with only 346 fires, with
a total of 1872 acres burned, dur
ing the same period in 1887.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
SIMPLIFIED MOTOR
FOR PLANES BUILT
Has Ore-Fourth the Parts of
Ordinary Engine.

Mexico City.-Joe Borneo, retired
motorcycle and automobile racer,
has just obtained a Mexican patent
for simplified airplane motor.
All details of the new motor are
kept secret for fear that somebody
in a country where patents are not
respected might steal the idea.
"I've had more than 80 years ex-
perience as a mechanic" Borneo
said, "and 1 have a Pennsylvania
diploma. For the last four years
I've put in all my experience and
earnings in developing a new type
airplane motor. My first expert
ment was a failure The second
was not so good, and now I have
the third, which has been patent
ed"
Borneo was born in Monterrey,
Mexico, of American parents. He
has lived mostly in the United
States, and has raced there, in Cuba
and in Mexico He's now back in
Mexico City, interested in pushing
his new project.
Lie IllOlOl SOUlllS llhC q liiol hiS
motor Borneo said that it is SIM
plicity itself, listing among its ad-
vantages the following:
''It can be manufactured as a
Deisel motor, or as an ordinary mo-
tor. 1t has one-fourth of the number
of parts of any other motor; with
one spark plug it makes four explo-
sions per revolution. 1t has no
gears, no connecting rods, no
valves, no crankshaft, and no gas
ket, and is therefore lighter than an
ordinary motor. 1t has more torque
than any other motor built.
''It is speedy, economical in orig
inal cost and upkeep. 1t can be
made in series, with several motors
right together. A motor can be cut
on or off at will from the others in
the series"
Borneo believes that eventually
somebody will realize the potential
tiles of the motor, and that it will
then be put into use.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
American Men Are
Buying More Clothes

New York. - Style-conscious
Mr.. America has increased his
clothes budget to almost double
the figure it reached even in the
boom year of 1929.
A survey Of sales figures for
the first ten months of 1887 by the
Merchant Tailors Designers asso-
citation, national organization of
custom tailors, shows that the
average American man Of the
business executive or profession
al type patronizing his local tai
lor, has ordered from one to
three more suits in 1887 than
he did in 1929, and has spent
from three hundred to five hun
dred dollars more in the process.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
SHORT SHORT
STORY
Complete in This Issue

"Do you like Chilton?" she began.
"Oh, yes," Luella answered, with
a touch of Indifference. "It's a
pretty place."
81 suppose you have made pleas
ant acquaintances among the young
people,"
ooh, l amt young. I'm most thir-
ty, and I don't 60 out much. I
can't enjoy company, as I'm rath-
er hard of hearing. I 60 to church.,
though"
1t was the afternoon for the
Benevolent society, and by three
o'clock II had gathered in Mrs. Mer-
wins large parlor. Miss Carey
gracious and charming in jade
green, talked to the ladies of her
work.
"Is there much vice and crime
in your district?" Mrs. Parkins
asked.
"Oh, no, mol" Alison protested.
''They are good people, mostly
hard-working-oh, so hard!-But
they have such drab lives! They see
little but grimy pavements and
dingy walls. They accept their lot
patiently enough, but they have TAX
en- on, the women in particular, an
apathetic look. But I have a plan
to put a little brightness into these
drab lives, if only l can get few of
my good friends to help me out with
some good checks. All these stunt
ed, half-lived lives appeal to me-"
she said, with an involuntary glance
at Luella in the doorway.
With her usual enthusiasm she
talked on and on in her clear, bright
penetrating tones. Everybody
seemed interested. Luella, who had
been passing cocoa and lady fin
gers in a faded striped voile taken
in rather too much at the seams,
stood listening, her whole face
alight. Her pale gray eyes were
actually bright. Miss Carey caught
her rapt gaze and threw her smile.
Alison came down early, ready for
the morning train. Luella met her
in the hall.
"That weary grill" she thought.
81 wish"
But Luella's eyes were bright
again and her plain face had the
light of yesterday afternoon.
ooh, Miss Carey!" She held out
a carefully folded bill.
"But what is this, Luella?"
81 want to help. It's so little,
but every little helps. It's mine. /
earned it picking berries after the
work was done up. I've been saw
ing it to get some new shoes, but
Aunt Martha has given me a pair
only a little run down at the heel
they just fit me with putting cot
ton in the toes. And I want to help
a little about those plans of yours
for those poor drab lives you told
about yesterday. I felt so sorry for
those women, and that's a beautiful
plan of yours. ! want to have a
little part in it. Please take it,"
Alison was holding the bill doubt.
fully.
"But you, Luella-your own life
isn't yours one of the drab ones?"
The girl looked surprised.
"Why, no. I don't have dingy
walls. I can look right up at the
sky. I weed Aunt Martha's flowers
and I see all the stylish new hats
at church Please take it," she
repeated.
Alison put the money tenderly ir
her purse.
81 will take it, Luella, and l shall
show it in all my friends clubs
and I think it will bring me some
fat checks!"
And Alison Carey was not mis-
taken. It did.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Radio Go Haywire?
"Heaviside" Blamed

Stanford University, Calf
The heaviside, a blanket of cleo
trically charged atmosphere so to
100 miles above the earth, is re-
sponsible for some of the inter-
ference in radio reception, Pro
fessor Norris E. Bradbury told
the American Physical society.
Many of the radio waves which
reach receiving sets, he said,
travel upward from the broad
casting station to the heaviside
and back again to earth. The
atmosphere of the heaviside is so
rare that no balloon could float
in it. It is far above the stra-
tosphere.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
FLEMING TOWNSHIP

FLEMING TOWNSHIP
Supervisors-Leon Beavens, John Erick-
SON, Carl M. Anderson.
Clerk .---Mr Pearl Beavens
Address: Bruno, Mimi.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
Cave of Jewels Found

Paris. - A modern "Aladdin's
cave" is reported by the Paris press
to have been found near Barcelona,
Spain. It contained jewels and
treasures valued at nearly $4,500,-
600.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
OF PINE COUNTY

Address of Game Warden: Danbury Wis.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
First District-Chas. A. Pearson, Grasston.
Second District-W. G. Ausmus. Pine City.
Third District-John Patrick. Hinckley.
Fourth District-E. B. Greenwald, Finlay-
son.
Fifth District-Oscar Eklund, Bruno.
Askov American., 1938-03-24
To Test Dairy Herds

London.-A national campaign to
eliminate tubercular cattle from
British dairy herds will begin on
January !.
The Washington times., 1938-01-27
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The Washington times., 1938-01-27

Pointing out at first that the
Washington Hoover Airport has
for a long time been trouble
some" to pilots coming in and out
of Washington, he told the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds that establishment of an
airport in Washington in the i'm
mediate future is necessary for
safety as well as for future ma
tional defense.
SAFETY ONLY MOTIVE
"The Air Line Pilots Associ-
ation," he said. "does not want
to become involved in the con-
troversy over where a new air.
port should be located. Our
only concern is for safety and
for an airport of ideal construc-
ton.
Gravelly Point is better than
the Washington Airport, but it
Is ctill not ideal. 1t still has the
same hazards that Washington
Airport has, although to a lesser
degree"
The Gravelly Point hazards, he
said, are principally the presence
of Boiling Field, just across the
river, as we'll as radio towers,
wires, and buildings in the vi
cinity.
URGES OPTIONS ON LAND
II believe" Behncke said,
"that Washington should have
All airport second to none. not
only from the standpoint Of
commercial use but also for ma
tional defense. In this respect
1t is impossible to build an ideal
airport tucked in the heart Of
the city"
An adequate and safe airport
The Washington times., 1938-01-27
Power Employees
In Mexico Strike

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 81 Q.N.S)
Thousands of workers in the
State of Chihuahua were idle to.
day following declaration Of a
strike by electric power plant en-
ployes.
The walkout halted work In
numerous mining centers, includ
ing the plants of the American
Smelling and Refining Company
Cities and towns went without
light. Refusal of the American
owned Electric Bond and Share
Company to meet demands of EN-
ployes for a new collective con
tract calling for higher wages pre-
cipitated the strike.
The Washington times., 1938-01-27

should be located at some dis
tance from the city to be made
adaptable for future expansion
He recommended that should the
decision go to Camp Springs, the
Government should either take an
option or buy property surround
ling the airport site to prevent
construction of dangerous obStruc
tions and to make possible future
expansion by holding down land
values"
C. A. MILLER TESTIFIES
The question of whether the
Federal Government should go in
business by constructing and
managing an airport for Washing
ton, as provided in the bill, was
brought up by Representative
Fritz Lanham CD of Texas, com
mittee chairman during the teSti
mony of Clarence A. Miller, chair
man of the aviation committee OF
the Board of Trade, who appeared
in support of the Gravelly Point
bill.
Lanham, pointing out that II
other cities the Government has
merely participated in airport con
struction, by granting Fedora
funds, asked whether it were ad
visable for the Government tc
take over the entire airport.
Miller said the Federal Govern
ment, because of its use Of, an
airport in Washington for Gov.
ernment activities should be ir
complete charge of the airport. He
pointed out that he personally il
not in favor of Government en-
trance into business but that in
this case Government operation
would be justifiable.
The Board of Trade representa-
tive told the committee that the
Cravelly Point site was the only
practical site for a new airport in
Washington, both from stand
poinv of the saving of time and its
adaptability for expansion.
The Washington times., 1938-01-27
RANKIN URGES
UTILITIES PLAN

QN.S). Representative Rankin
Cd of Mississippi today urged
every governor in the iva area
to follow the plan Of Governor
Browning of Tennessee, in seek.
ing public control of privately
owned utilities.
'I wish every governor in the
area would take similar steps to
promote the Administrators
program of securing the bene-
fits of iva power for the
masses" he declared,
The Washington times., 1938-01-27
School Control
BY D. G.. Heads Hit

Propose lof vesting the District
Commissioners with control Of the
Board of Education and the public
school system was condemned in
a resolution by the Anacostia
Junior-Senior High School Parent.
Teachers Association, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. William j.
Plemmons, president.
Following the lead of the men
in the association, who have Sc
cured use Of the boys gymnasium
for physical recreation one night
a week, the women are attempt
ing to secure use Of the girls gym
for the same purpose,
The Washington times., 1938-01-27

ESTON, Mass, Jan. u
0.N.SO.-Ecclesiastic history will
be made Wednesday at Weston
College when a father and son,
for the first time in the annals of
the Roman Catholic Church. will
pronounce at the same altar their
final solemn VOWS as members
of the Society of Jesus.
The son is Rev. Frederick L.
Bergen, S. j., a Jesuit priest, who
entered the. society in 1928 on his
graduation from Holy Cross. In
1927 his father, Brother John
Bergen, S. j., entered the society