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Evening star., 1938-02-03

an Air France line cutter. His in.
Juries were found to be slight.
The noted Italian flyer was on a
hight from Natal to Rome by way
OF Cadiz. Spain, when his plane en-
countered trouble SO miles of the
coast yesterday. The ship caught FIRE
and the crew was unable to escape.
A German seaplane picked up Stop
pani, injured and clinging to a hoater
which was torn from the blazing
wreckage. The body of Sergt. Jaria.
radio operator, was recovered.
Evening star., 1938-02-03
RAIL REVENUE SLASH
seen IN RATE BOOST
Newspaper Publishers Inform
l.. C. G. Paper Increase Would
Divert Traffic.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association told The Interstate
Commerce Commission today a IS per
cent increase in railroad freight rates
on newsprint would cost the railroads
$4l0,342 a year instead OF increasing
their revenues.
The association said in a brief, filed
while the commission was studying the
rate question, that a is per cent in
crease would divert newsprint ship
ments to other forms Of transporta-
ton. The railroads. 1t added, thus
would receive less revenue than under
present rates. The association repre-
sents approximately 500 publishers.
A brief filed by the State Of North
Evening star., 1938-02-03

Dakota and q dozen Of its farm and
business organizations questioned the
railroads showing Of need for increased
revenue.
It asserted past increases "have not
been justified" and that a further in
crease would pyramid" rates on the
increases allowed last October.
Evening star., 1938-02-03

$4,000. The men approached Mr..
Vollmer with the representation that
they were acquainted with friends OF
Mr.. yollmer in Kansas City and had
lost all their money on the races at
Saratoga. The victim became suspici-
Gus, it was stated, when he saw the
alleged swindlers in the company of
the jeWeler who had made the ap-
praisals.
Bureau files show that both men
have been arrested many times in
various parts of the country,
Evening star., 1938-02-03

on the streets of the Florida resort
are Lew Detrick and Louis Rabino-
witz, who claim Kansas City, Mo-, as
their home. They will be turned over
to New York authorities for prosecu-
tion under warrants charging them
with swindling Charles H. Vollmer,
wealthy Amsterdam man, in a loan
scheme.
The bureau said that Mr.. Volmer
lent the pair total Of $8,500 on Jew
elry falsely appraised at moro than
Evening star., 1938-02-03
AIR TRAGEDY SURVIVOR
IS RETURNED TO BRAZIL

By the Associated Press.
NATAL, Brazil, Feb. 3.-Capt. Mario
Stoppani, whose crew Of four were
killed when his Italian transatlantic
seaplane fell into the sea and burned
yesterday, was brought here TODAY by
Evening star., 1938-02-03
13 CLUB TO MEET
Copeland Will Be Guest at Din

ner Session Tonight.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York will be guest of the l3 Club at q
dinner meeting tonight at $50 O'Clock
at the Willard Hotel.
The program, under Craftsmanship OF
Edgar Morris, jr., will be on the subject
Of Recession" and will include talks
by William M. Rehlaender. Willard E
Brown and J. Frank Moulton.
Evening star., 1938-02-03
G-MEN ARREST TWO
IN GEM FRAUD CASE
Pair Held in Miami Have Long
Records as "Con Men," Fed
eral Agents Report.

eral Agents Report.
Following trail which led through
many States. special agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation yes
terday arrested in Miami, Fla. two
men who, the agents said, have long
records as "con men," or confidence
swindlers, and are wanted in connec-
tion with an $500 jewelry fraud
In Amsterdam, N. Y.
The prisoners. taken into custody
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

break it away and make the
same repair.
A lathe is useful, but not
absolutely necessary to repair
turnings with pieces missing.
A rectangular section encom-
passing the break is sawed out
of the turning. One end should
be sawed at an angle so that,
when the replacement wood is
clamped into place, it will
squeeze down solidly all around.
Now, with a fiat chisel or
knife, roughly shape the new
wood to the contour of the turn
ing, finishing with a wood rasp
and sandpaper.
After all actual repairs have
been made, sandpaper the parts
all over, then stain or paint and
reassemble the article.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
BY HAROLD T. BODKIN

CALL it wreck, if you want
to, but DON'T throw away a
broken chair, table or other
article of furniture until you've
checked it for possible repairs!
In ninety-nine out of one hun
dred cases the damages can be
repaired easily and the re-
paired art Gle will be one that
you can show with pride.
To better illustrate this ar
ticle, chose the badly damaged
desk chair (see picture A be-
low and proceeded to fix it.
The first thing to do in repair
ing is, if possible, to remove all
screws and to take the article
apart. Also, if any of the glued
joints appear weakened, pull
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

A young couple who receive I
a pair of Wedgwood vases as a
wedding gift evolved an effec-
tive way to use and protect
them at the same time. There
wasn't a fireplace in the new
living room with {. mantel wait
ing for the vases.
Finally he built a bookcase
with two compartments on either
side, just the right size to hold
the vases. They looked stun
ming here and the whole ar
rangement served as a center of
interest for the room.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

them apart. Now if you intend
to refinish the piece, use a
scraper and sandpaper to re-
move all old paint and varnish.
If you have a piece broken
away from the original part,
join them with bowels and glue.
Or, if the part is badly split
but not pulled apart-bettcr
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18

SEND ten cents for Handi-
craft Plan No. -, ,cI,ich gires
directions on repairing old
furniture, including the steps
outlined ADORE and three
methods OF repairing solid
WOoden seats that hare
cracked. address orders to
HandicraH Department,
TOXIN. p. o. Box 72I, Roch
ester, N. Y.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-02-18
POTTERY LENDS DECORATIVE NOTE !.
TO ANY TYPE OF ROOM
bv ELIZABETH MncRAE ROYKLN
by ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN

THE POTTER was one of the
earliest craftsmen, and down
through history ceramics have
not only been among the most
useful of the arts, but they have
had the most affectionate and
talented efforts lavished on the r
decoration.
And of all her home treasures,
a lady with house probably
cherishes most her porcelain.
Really beautiful and unusual
pieces of porcelain can con-
tribute significantly and charm
ingly to the design of a room.
We saw three old fine Willow
square platters of different sizes
on the mantel of a pleasant
Colonial living room . the big
one was at one end, the next
biggest in the middle and the
smallest one at the other end,
achieving refreshingly asymet-
rical effect. Another hostess
we visit has a priced majolica
portrait plate in the celebrated
ruby lustre that she and her
husband got on their wedding
trip to Italy. This hangs on the
wall just over little old rose
wood melodian and contributes
such a delightful accent to the
room.
And we saw recently a row of
sweet French Victorian flower
plates hanging above one of
those old fashioned white marble
mantels what a room for
Brussell's lace and horsehair!
Some Spanish pottery plates
in lovely tones of aquamarine
to deep turquoise with the pat
tern in sepias were hung over
a book case of walnut, on the
shelves Of which there were
bibelots in green-blue porce-
lains as well as books.
Perhaps the most distinguish
ed use we've seen recently of
porcelains in decoration was a
fireplace in a pine panelled
room. This was faced with
white ard blue Dutch tiles
and reminded us of some of the
rooms in the film Rembrandt"
In this same room in a deep
bow window stands very beau
tiful blue and white Chinese
porcelain lamp that is always
lighted at dusk and kept burn
ing through the evening to
make a welcoming gesture
across the lawn to friend or
stranger passing by.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

charms for Washington OBJ
servers lies in their knowledge
that his dignity and simplicity
mask a fiery spirit under care
full control. When angry he
lapses into the salty vernacular
of the hills where he was born.
Hull contended that this
country is not shipping arms to
Germany in violation Of law.
He denied that his old friend,
the present Counselor of the
State Department Judge Moore,
initiated our neutrality policy
as charged.
4 \
How about holding a press
conference, Jim?" said report
ers when the peripatetic Post
master General hit Washington
the other day after q fence
mending trip.
I'm afraid somebody'll ask
me about Pennsylvania" wise
cracked the chairman Of the
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Hague Feud
Pressed by
O'COnnelI

G.N's) Back at his desk today
after the much-heralded attack
he and Representative Bernard
F.-LO, of Minnesota, were to
make against Mayor Frank
Hague, of Jersey City, Saturday
night, but called off, Representa-
tive O'Connell (DO, of Montana,
stated today his crusade against
Hague'S alleged suppression of
civil liberties in Jersey City had
Just begun.
O'Connell plans to return to
Jersey City and speak against the
mayor May 81. Also, he intends
to appeal to President Roosevelt
and to National Democratic Com
mittee Chairman Farley to remove
Hague as vice chairman of the
national committee. He plans to
ask Chairman La Toilette, of the
Senate Civil Liberties Committee,
to investigate Hague'S refusal to
allow persons whom Hague calls
radicals to deliver speeches.
Saturdays speeches by O'Con-
nell and Bernard were called off
by officials of the International
Labor Defense Committee, who
said they feared the meeting
would be broken up by mobSters.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
HOUSE TO VOTE.
ON
RECOVERY BILL.
Passage Predicted By
Margin Of 335
By ROBERT HUMPHREYS

U.N. S. with Democratic
opposition Modified by a series
of presidential stratagems the
Administration omnibus recovery
bill will be placed before the
House tomorrow assured OF
passage.
Marking the renewal of large.
scale spending, the program will
be offered to the chamber by the
leader of the House economy bloc
Representative Clifton A. Wood
rum, of Virginia.
Although House Republicans
planned a concerted attack on the
huge measure, Minority Leader
Smell has conceded the COP ex-
poets little aid from the top
heavy Democratic majority.
FOES PACIFIED
Mr.. Roosevelt converted Wood
rum to a revival of pump printing
to combat the depression, before
the $4.512,000.00 recovery mes
sage was sent to Congress. The
Virginian, a ranking Democrat on
the House Appropriations Commit
tee, was Immediately put in charge
of drafting and handling the
omnibus measure.
Other Democrats who have
fought spending legislation on
one ground or another. have been
partly or wholly pacified by the
following developments:
l. A halt to the practice of
lump sum appropriations to the
President ended by Mr.. Roose-
welt agreeing to routing recovery
funds directly to the agencies
charged with their expenditure.
BEATEN TO PUNCH
2. Where in the past support
ers of specialized types of Fed
eral projects have sought to
employ earmarking tactics, to
dictate how the money should
be spent, this year Mr.. Roose-
welt beat them to the punch by
proposing to earmark the recov-
cry funds, so PWA would re-
ceive a billion dollars; housing,
$500 900 900; roads, $100, 900, 900;
agriculture, $175,000, 900; CCC,
$50,000,000; and flood control,
$37, 900, 900.
3. To satisfy the demands of
Representatives wanting post Of
fices and other Federal build
ings, Mr.. Roosevelt agreed to
double the present three-year
Federal building program, so
that each congressional district
will get two buildings instead
of one.
COUNT ON S35 VOTES
In addition, he proposed $685.
O00, 900 be included in the re-
covery funds to augment $685.
100000 already available this
year for Federal structures.
Administration leaders do not
believe that more than 100 out
of the 435 House members will
vote against the recovery bill on
final passage.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Air Traffic Rises
But Net Declines

NEW YORK. May 9 G.N.S0.
T gh increased air traffic
brought a 35 per cent increase in
gross income to Pan-American Air
ways Corporation in 1887, net
profit for the year was reduced to
$510,447, as compared with $685.
352 for 1896, Juan T .Trippe, presi-
dent, reported to stockholders in
his annual 1tatement today.
Net for the year was equal to
slightly more than 81 cents a
share, against $1.39 a share in
1886, on the stock outstanding at
that time. On the basis of stock,
outstanding at the close of 1887,
the 1885 net would equal SO cents
a share.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

this direction suffer somewhat
from White House interference
the President sending his Sec
retary, Marvin Mcintyre, to a
Kentucky feast for Senator Al
ben Barkley who is opposed for
denomination by Gov. Happy
Chandler, and son and secretary
James Roosevelt laying the
White House accolade upon
Claude Pepper in the Pepper
fight against Representative
Mark Wilcox for the Florida
senatorial nomination.
However, it is no secret that
the entire New Deal, from F. D.
r. on down, regards the Demo
cratic family fight in populouS
Pennsylvania with a bitter and
jaundiced eye, and that Gov.
George Earle has slipped far,
far down from his once proud
position as a Crown Prince of
the New Deal.
The Pennsylvania Democrats
can do the party leaders one
favor-which is not to drag the
White House and national COM
mittee into the primary fight.
The White House and Farley
in return will help try to sal
wage victory for the eventual
nominees out of sheer self.pres-
ervation and wholesome respect
for PennSylvania's electoral
. votes in 1910.
California furnishes a classic
example of the primary pitfalls
Farley is seeking to avoid.
California correspondents who
are stationed here keep a type
written list of Democratic can
didates for governor of that
elysium because they frankly
find it impossible to remember
all the names of the hopeful
aspirantS. That list now totals
nine.
1t is headed by Culbert Olson,
eX-aSSociate of Upton Sinclair
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
D. c. Housing Row
Goes to President

President Roosevelt returned to
Washington today to find the
Alley Dwelling Authority dispute
tossed in his lap.
John Ihlder, the Authority's
executive officer, has an appoint.
ment with the President to presenS
his side of the case. 1hlder has
been accused by Nathan Straus,
administrator of the United States
Housing Administration, of delays
which might result in deferring for
a year ten-million-dollar low rent
and Slum clearance project here.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
RoomIess
3,OOO,OOO Families
Need Space

Three million city families have
fewer rooms in their homes than
there are persons in the family,
according to report made public
today by the Public Health Serv-
ice.
One million live in dwellings
with more than one and one-half
times as many persons as there
are rooms and 100000 families live
in houses with at least twice as
many persons as there are rooms.
The report was made public as
the United States Authority pre-
pared to launch the Administra-
tion's slum clearance program to-
morrow in Youngstown, Ohio,
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
HOpkinsHits
HOOUer on
FGscisnl

G.N.SD. - WPA Administrator
Hopkins today brought up an ole
Sore-the election of the bonus
army-in rebuking former Presi
dent Hoover for condemning New
Deal spending policies as wastefu,
and leading the country toward
fascim.
Referring to Hoover's recent
visit to the Fascist countries in
Europe. Hopkins. in a radio
speech last night. said he seems
to have missed the basic fact
that Fascism came to those
countries because the masses
were not getting their fair share
of things. and we're willing to
submit to anything in the way
Of a change"
Il wonder if his stubborn re-
fusal to recognize realities, when
the house was crumbling about
his head. strengthened the
peoples faith in democracy"
Hopkins continued. Il wonder
If the tear gas with which he
greeted the bonus army was his
idea of the full flavor of demo
cracy? l say it is policies like
these which strike at the exist
ence of our form of govern
ment."
Opposing any return to direct
relief, Hopkins scored the former
president for advocating the re.
turn of relief administration to
the states.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
WAR MOTHERS
: HEAR Gen. BECK

The Army of the United States
is prepared to defend the Consti.
tuition Against all enemies, foreign
and domestic.
This was the message left today
by Brig. Gen. Robert M. Beck
speaking to 1000 American Wal
Mothers at services in Arlington
Cemetery on Mothers Day.
I'm time of peace we need but
modest forces" General Beck
said. But we are ready to ex-
pand our army enormously in
an emergency"
Mrs. Irving Fairweather, national
president of the War Mothers,
read greetings from Mrs. RooSe-
welt and Lady Nancy Astor.
Elsie Janis, wartime Sweet.
heart of the A. E. F." was enthIl.
Siastically greeted by the mothers.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
colors of various organizations
were maSsed at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

they add that j. Edgar Hoover
gave his special agents 108,O00
in pay increases last January
which were not provided for in
the budget.
This was the reason for his
shortage-not stinginess on the
part of CongresS-they assert.
Hoover cited Unforeseen emer-
gencies" as the cause of the en-
forced lay-offs. He didn't men
ton the pay increases.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Show Goes On
Senators Lose Fight
To Ban Play Scene

The three Senators who COM
planned about the WPA produc-
ton of One Third of a Nation
in New York might just as well
absent themselves when the play
is produced in Washington.
According to an advance notice
, from the Washington Civic The
ater, which will produce the play
at the Wardman Park Theater
shortly. the production will con
, tain the. much-discussed Senate
scene that aroused the ire of Sena'
tors Millard Tydings CD OF
Maryland, C. L. Andrews CD OF
Florida and Harry F. Byrd CD
Of Virginia.
The Senators asserted they were
misrepresented in the scene dur
ing debate on the Wagner-Steagall
housing bill.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Strike Ties Up
Bridge Railway

SAN ISCO, May
U.N.S0 "A strike completely stop.
ping construction of the $22, ,000,-
600 railway on the San Francisco,
Oakland Bay bridge was sched.
uled for today by the Building
Trades Councils of Alameda and
San Francisco as result of a
union jurisdictional dispute.
The Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers is disputing action of the
General Railway Signal Company
Of New York, the contractors, in
hiring members of the Brother
hood of Railway Signalmen, in
dependent union.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
DR.. DAVIS SEES
U. S, SCHOOL AID

Federal funds for education aid
in the States will be assured in
the near future, DR.. Jerome Davis,
chairman Of the National Confer
ence on Aid to Education, said
last night. He pointed to virtual
certainty Of passage Of the pend
ing Harrison Fletcher bill.
DR.. Davis was addressing the
last session of the conference and
he sought the aid of all interested
groups to insure passage Of the
measure. --...s.as.
The American Federation Of
Labor, Committee for Industrial
Organization, the railway brother
hoods and farm and teacher or.
CARNATIONS have united in sup
port of the bill, he said.
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, attended the meeting and
said his organization was support
ing the bill because it was in the
habit of being in the vanguard in
the educational movement"
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Escaped Patient
Under Quarantine

A scarlet fever patient who es-
capped from Gallinger Hospital Sat
urday and caused a police broad
cast in fear that someone else
might contract the disease was
under quarantine at his home to.
day.
The patient is 13-year-old Rich.
ard Stewart, of 137712 L st. S. e.
who escaped by pushing out a
screen in the isolation ward OF
the hospital and jumping 10 feet
to the ground, clad only in his
pajamaS. When Richard arrived
home. the Health Department i'm
mediately quarantined the house
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
u. S. AGENCIES
PREPARING FOR
R REORGANIZATION
Passage Of Merger Bill
Believed Likely
BY EARL GOODWIN

Some Government bureaus, SO
certain the reorganization bill will
be rushed to passage in the final
hysterical hours of Congress, are
prepared for the new Government
Setup.
So certain are a few Govern
ment officials close to the White
House, that some Of the preSiden
tial Silent Six, provided in the
bill as aides to the President, have
been chosen.
MENTION LEGGETT, FORSTER
Two names on the lips of close
Presidential advisers are men al
ready at work for the President.
One is the veteran Rudolph
Forster, now executive clerk, and
just back from a trip with the
President aboard the cruiser Phil
adelphia."
Another is Eugene Red" Leg
gett, acting director of National
Emergency Council, who will be
supplanted by Lowell Mellett, for,
mer Washington editor recently
nominated director of the council
by the President.
Mr.. Leggett, few people realize
has been doing a tremendous
amount of silent, effective work
for the President - without the
slightest tinge of publicity seek.
ing. Mr.. Forster'S silence, it has
been observed, is rivaled only
by that of the tabled tombs.
LEGISLATIVE POSITION
The legislative position of the
reorganization bill permits one
of two things to happen: Passage
by the Senate of two reorgani
zation bills passed by the House
several weeks before the reorgani
zation bill became a political issue
and the cry of dictatorship
had been raised; passage by the
House of the Senate reorganiza
ton bill, which was pigeonholed
but not defeated, by the House
Both Senate and House have re
organization bills before them
The Administration adherents
prefer the one in the House.
Administration leaders know q
group of congressman is working
on plan to bring the bill out in
the open and rush it through to
enactment in the closing hours
They are confident they can dc
this because of the regained pres
tige Of the Roosevelt program, as
evidenced by the signatures on
the petition for the wage-hour bill
Meantime, the President has
been advised of what's going or
in Congress. He is reported tc
be letting congressional leaders
handle the whole thing.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

day morning If elected.
Mr.. Olson, however, is re-
ported in the lead, to the
anguish of conservative Demo-
Gratis who recently were saved
from having Upton Sinclair as
governor by a miracle and who
fear the age of miracles is over.
Senator McAdoo, a hardy
perennial, is also in a brisk fight
for denomination. The Senator
is taking no chances but with
his infallible instinct for jobs
has picked his spot here in case
injustice and his rival should
triumph. The Senator has laid
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Woman Escapes
Death in Fall

Mrs. Mary F. Mann, II, of the
5700 block of Georgia Ave. N W.,
narrowly escaped death last night
when she fell 20 feet from a Sec
ond-Story window and landed on
soft turf only few inches from a
concrete sidewalk.
Members of her family said she
fell through the window while
walking IN her sleep. She is being
treated at Emergency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Similarly the woman reporter
present Friday when Secretary
of State Hull lashed out at
stories impugning the motives
of his assistants felt that she
was robbing the men CORE
spondentS of a chance to hear
some real Tennessee mountain
feudist language, rare and sui
phurouS.
The Secretary maintained his
Self-control but his brilliant
eyes and trembling hands be-