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Evening star., 1938-03-23
VATICAN APPEALS
TWICE TO FRANCO
TO EASE BOMBING
Plea Is Reiterated After
AngIo.French Protest
on Barcelona.
MSGR. READY HITS HULL,
INCONSISTENT ON SPAIN
Toll Of Attack Upon Loyalist
Capital Rises to 872 Dead.
Rebels Shift Drive.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Francois spring offensive to reach
Mediterranean seacoast OF Spain
has carried his legions ,Ufthin so
miles OF objective, threatening to
seper communications betUeen
Valencia and Barcelona, temporary
Loyalist capital. Barcelona ripped
,0ith tnsurgent bombs last Deek
during 4S hours OF raids Which took
lipes OF more than 800 persons.
BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, March 23.-Pope
Plus has made two appeals to in.
surgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco to use moderation in the all
bombing of the civilian population in
the Spanish civil war, Osservatore
Romano, the Vatican newspaper, dis
closed today.
Great Britain and France had asked
the Pope to join in appeals to Franco
after last weeks terrible bombings OF
Barcelona, the governmental capital
in which at least 872 persons were
killed. Monday, American Secretary
of State Hull expressed a sense OF
horror" at the Barcelona slaughter.
Appeal in February.
Osservatore Romano said the Pope
made "a warm appeal" to the Spanish
insurgent chieftain in February and
received "a reassuring reply"
On March 81, after new lombard
ments of Barcelona, the Pope ordered
Msgr. Antonl Utti, the Holy Sees rep
resentative IN Salamanca, to take a
new appeal to the generalissimo.
L'Osservatore Romano said, "The
Holy See has always done whatever
was possible to succor war victims and
call combatants to sense of mod
Grafton"
Previously the Vatican mad denied
reports that Franco mad been ap-
preached In line with the French and
British appeals, which were directed
to the Pope and to both sides In the
Spanish war in hope of obtaining an
agreement for abandonment of air at
tacks on civilian centers.
A Vatican news service said 1t had
no knowledge of the Vatican having
made any appeal to the Barcelona
government in connection with bomb
ings of the civilian population 1t added
that this presumably was because the
Vatican had no diplomatic representa-
ton at Barcelona.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
18TH INFANTRY BACK

Regiment Returns to o. s. After
IS Years in China.
TACOMA, Wash, March 20 R).-
The 18th United States Infantry,
which went to China during the Boxer
Rebellion, returned to the United
States today for the first time IA IS
years. They will be based ut Fort
Lewis.
Evening star., 1938-03-23

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1938-03-23

6AC
Public Development OF Tennessee
Valley watershed tUith generation of
loW-cost pouer as principal OBJ
jecttDe ,Das one OF earliest social
experiments undertaken during
Roosevelt administration. Directing
giant project has been three-man
board, split for mary ,veeks past in
bitter personal teud. nth President
and Congress each trying to ascer-
tain facts and effect settlement.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
SENATE IS GIVEN
D.. c. VOTE PLAN
}. Hamilton Lewis Intro.
duces Constitution Amend
ment Proposal.

A proposed constitutional amend.
ment to grant suffrage to the residents
OF washington was introduced In the
Senate today by Senator j. Hamilton
Lewis, Democrat, Of Illinois. His pro-
posal Is Identical to the resolution
offered in the House last week by Rep-
resentative Randolph, Democrat, of
West Virginia.
1t provides that Congress shall have
power to establish a republican form
OF government for the district consti-
tutlng the seat OF government" with
such legislative, executive and judicial
omcers, to be selected as Congress
shall determine. The proposed form
OF government also would exercise such
legislative. executive and judicial pow
ers as Congress shall by law deter.
mine.
The resolution further provides for
representation in the House on the
basis OF population, one or two Sena-
tors. as Congress may determine, and
the right to vote in presidential cleo
tions. In this respect it is similar to
the constitutional amendment Senator
Capper, Republican, of Kansas has
sponsored for number of years. and
which Is now pending In the Judiciary
Committee.
Under the Lewis resolution Con-
gress would FIX the times places and
manner OF holding elections for the
omcers Of the government Of the Dis
trict. and Of the Representatives, Sen
ators and presidential electors.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
MRS. EDA POTTS DEAD;
EX-TEACHER OF INDIANS

Mrs. Eda L. Potts. 81. mother of
Miss Marion Potts, librarian In the
Rural Electrification Administration,
died yesterday in her home, at 1903
Upshur street NV, after a long i'll
ness.
Mrs. Potts. native of Eden. Wis,
When in her early 20s taught in Gov
ernment Indian schools at Fort Ber-
thold. N. Oak. 1t was during the early
pioneer days in the section-days of
many exciting experiences. Mrs. Potts
used to relate how every once in
while the Indians would leave the post
to fight other Indians and come back
with a number of scalps. Mrs. Potts
came to Washington about two years
ago. She had spent the greater part
OF her life in Appleton, Wis. The
daughter is the only immediate sur
vivor.
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon at the residence.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
MOORE TAKES RElNS
FOR HIS THIRD TERM
New Jersey Governor Promises to
Protect Rights of Industry and
Labor in Address.
BY the Associated Press

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 18.-A. Harry
Moore. most successful candidate ever
supported by Mayor Frank Hague of
Jersey City. began his third term As
Governor today with the promise that
"the cause of labor will never be be-
trayed at this State capital"
Gov. Moore, = Democrat. is the only
man in the history of New jersey
to be elected Governor three times.
He resigned his United States Senate
seat to take Office. A native of jersey
City and close friend Of Mayor
Hague. who Is Democratic boss of the
State. Gov. Moore sat with Mayor
Hague on the platform in the Jersey
City Armory recently at Mayor
Hague's mass meeting to denounce
the c. I. O.'s attempted Invasion Of
Jersey City"
THE rights Of labor and of Indus
try alike will never 60 unprotected. !"
the Governor said in his inaugural
address today
Il believe" he said, 'the term
labor means dignity and character
and patriotism on the march to fulfill
those guarantees afforded US in our
Constitution. denounce every effort
Of betrayal of the American working
man into the hands of those who
are neither working men nor real
Americans"
Evening star., 1938-01-18
NOLAN DISCUSSES
"BAIL BUSINESS"
Holds Fingerprints and Records
Of All Persons Arrested
Should Be Obtained.

Describing his orRanixAtions drive
to provide control over the bail busi-
ness" DR.. James A. Nolan, director OF
the Warrington Criminal Justice As
sociation, last night told the Public
Order Committee Of the Washington
Board Of Trade that fngerprints and
complete criminal records should be
obtained from all persons before they
are released on bond.
Protection Of both the public and
the bondsmAn would be more nearly
realized under such procedure, he said.
Under the present system, DR.. Nolan
pointed out. criminals can elude the
law by surrendering before . war
rant Is served and obtaining bond,
frequently under fictitious name.
The bond business Is an uncon-
trolled business" he asserted. and
the American people have grown to
learn that an uncontrolled business
Is usually racket"
Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief
OF detectives, Metropolitan Police De-
also spoke on the program
held in the Raleigh Hotel. Capt.
Keck described the work of the De-
tective Bureau in it's efforts to relieve
Washington of organized crime.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
STREAM POLLUTION
PACT IS APPROVED
Representatives Of Eight States
Back Ohio River Co.
operation Move.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Jan. ia pact call
ing for the cooperation Of eight
States to combat stream pollution
was approved. with a few exceptions,
by conference of State Representa-
tives here yesterday
The compact. drafted by the Inter-
state Pact Commission a year ago,
seeks similar legislation by the States
to purify the Ohio River and its tribu-
taries
Question of the authority of State
governments to enforce legislation
compelling cities to carry out stream
publication was referred to a COM
mittee.
The group, composed of the stream
purification commissioners Of the
Ohio Valley and the Interstate Com
mission of the Ohio Basin, recon-.
mended that the compact seek en-
forcement Of legislation through gov
eminent cooperation instead OF BY
injunctions
The group will meet to consider
the revisions OF the compact in two
months. States represented were
Ohio, Pennsylvania. New York, Ten
nessee, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana
and Kentucky.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
.F|L|BUSTER BARS
$1,412,0)Q,oDOB|LL
Senate Gets Independent
Offices Measure Without
Item Veto.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

The sl,4l2. 900 900 independent Offices
supply bill is awaiting Senate action
with the Presidents item veto power
eliminated, but it was not certain
today how soon it will be taken up
for consideration in view of the fill
buster being staged against the anti
lynching bill
Ordinarily appropriation bills are
taken up as they come from commit
tee, by temporarily laying aside other
pending business. 1t may be, how
ever, that the anti-lynching fight will
cause leaders to wait a few days before
trying to take up the supply measure.
The House item veto proposal, spon-
sored by Representative Woodrum.
Democrat. Of Virginia would have ena-
bled the President to eliminate indi-
yidual items in any supply bill by
issuing executive orders which would
take effect 60 days after being sub
mitted to Congress.
Separate Action Recommended.
While there is considerable senti-
ment in the Senate for the principle
OF the item veto, some members of
the appropriations group are UNDER
stood to feel 1t should be dealt with
as q constitutional amendment or by
separate legislation, defining in more
detail the limitations on this power.
A Senate judiciary subcommittee will
approach the subject as a separate
proposition when it holds hearings
January II on two proposed consti-
tutional amendments.
The Senate Appropriation Commit
tee. therefore, confirmed yesterday the
action of its subcommittee in striking
the item veto clause from the pending
supply bill.
The committee also made number
Of changes in specific Appropriation
items in the House bill. the net result
of which added only s.. .440,950 to the
House total.
S2,763, 900 T. v. A. Increase.
The increase consisting Of 81, 763, 900,
added to the Tennessee Valley Author
ity fund to construct a dam near
Gilbertsville, KY. For q number Of
other agencies the Senate bill reduces
House figures by the following
amounts:
Motor transport regulation. under
the I. C. c., 100000; National Labor
Relations Board, q $685., 900 cut in the
allowance for salaries. other expenses
and printing; National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics. 100000; Ma
tional Archives. $4,000; Rural Eec-
trification Administration, $4,000;
Central Statistical Board, $4,000;
Civil Service Commission, 3150,000,
and Employees Compensation Commits
sion. 324,050.
The Senate committee also made q
$4,000, 900 slash in the amount the
Home Owners Loan Corp. may spend
for administrative expenses next year
by reducing the House fgure from
$2S, 200, 900 to $25,oo0,o00. This cut
does not figure in the total Of the bill,
however, because 1t is 4 limitation on
the use of the corporations available
funds. Is distinguished from = new
appropriation.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Numbers Bar0ns Undistllrbed
When Police Arrest @'Writers''
Fines and Attorneys Fees Merely Part
of Operating Expenses, Richmond
Partner in Business Declares.

with them. and said they couldn't get
any more Of our books. We had quite
q time"
Eagle was trying to disprove the
Governments contention that he had
been able to sell more than a fraction
OF the number OF tickets which an ON
cial Of the Baltimore f1rm said it had
sold him. At the outside, Eagle esti-
mated 40 per cent Of the tickets sent
out were returned with cash to cover
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue had produced evidence that Eagle
and Sampson bought numbers books
as follows:
In 1892, 1881; 1898. 100, ,ls4: 1884,
S7,600, and approximately $1,000 in
1887.
Each book contained so tickets in
triplicate.
The same Baltimore company sells
Washington numbers men enormous
quantities OF tickets. and this was one
source through which ofYicials were
able to estimate the Capital business
at 100000 a day and $50, 900 900 q
year for 800 racing days.
But Eagle insisted there was 50
much wastage in numbers slips that
he and his partner found colored
school children using them for scratch
pads and some grocers in the colored
section taking orders on them.
Says Game Can't BE Fixed.
ITS a game of chance" the elderly
gambler went on. You don't have to
win. OF course. the percentage is
there. but we've gone a year without
making money. There's nothing
wrong with it. mean it can't be
fixed. It's entirely different from
policy"
He referred to the earlier game in
which the lucky number was drawn
directly from group Of juggled balls.
He added:
DO you think policy man would
pull out a bad number? don't
think so.''
Eagle had $4,000 on deposit when
the Government raided his bank ac-
counts. 1t sought to collect S223OOO
IN tax deficiencies and penalties from
him and his partner
But. since they kept no books and
1t was hard matter to prove the ex-
act extent OF his screened business.
the claim is in process of settlement
Tor much smaller sum.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
WORLD LAW RULE
URGED ON WOMEN
Head of War Conference
Appeals at Opening
of Session.

Meeting in the face Of international
disturbances which present the mos,
serious challenge in the 13 years OF
It's history, the National Conference
on the Cause and Cure OF Wal
opened today at the Washington Ho-
tel with an appeal from its chairman
to seek the eventual supremacy of
law in the international field"
I'VE meet at = momentous time,
the conference chairman, Miss JOS
ephine Schain, told delegates repre-
senting III national women's oreaniza-
tions. Never have we come together
when things seemed more serious;
never before have the challenges been
so clear cut. There is no escape from
the responsibility which the events of
the day place on every thinking citi-
zen."
Treaty Breaches Cited.
Miss Schain pointed out that dur
ing the past year I'VE have seen treaty
after treaty violated, strife between
groups threatening the economic fab
ric Of the world. civil war endangering
the peace of Europe and one great
nation invading another without dec
laration of war"
She declared that the United States
as one Of the two most powerful Ma
tions in the world is responsible for
pioneering on . new world frontier,
the building of world system based
on law and order"
Russia Held . Dictatorship.
James q. Mcdonald, former League
Of Nations high commissioner and
former president of the Foreign Policy
Association, told the delegates that
one of the outstanding historical
events of 1887 was the advance OF
governments. He
Russia As "on the whole
q Dictatorship
Mr.. Mcdonald voiced the opinion
that the war in Spain will drag on
TOR months or longer" and that it will
continue to prove q trial ground for
world powers at the expense Of Spain
and the Spaniards.
He voiced the opinion that China is
to achieve . measure of
national unity inconceivable six
ago and that the war there is
only beginning.
He characterized the Fascist govern
ment Of Italy As = hollow shell, de-
claring that If Italy were strong
"Mussolini would not have to talk so
loudly" Solidarity between Berlin
and Rome, he said. IL not the fact that
those governments would have the
world believe. Russia also is weaken
ing. as evidenced by the purges Of re-
cent months.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Long Successor
Takes LuureLs
As FiIibusterer
b the ASsociatAd Prem


Senator Ellender, Democrat. of
Louisiana held the marathon record
today among Southern Senators who
nave been talking since January s
against the anti-lynching bill.
Senator Ellender, successor of one
OF the Senates best filibusterers-the
late Huey Long-said he might get
through some time late today"
The Louisianan officially has held
the hoor since l pm. Friday, longest
stretch OF any Senator during the
present talkfest, which entered its
eleventh day.
He hasn't talked continuously. how
ever. Both proponents and opponents
OF the measure have interrupted him
frequently and there have been several
quorum calls. These have been de-
manded whenever one of the foes
notices that fewer than the 40 Sem
ators required to transact business
are present.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
1919 Permit
Wins Leniencv
For AutOist

Herman L. Lindauer's faith in the
potency Of his 19-year -old drivers
permit WAS not entirely unjustified,
after all, he learned In Traf1ic Court
today.
The motorist. who lives at s025
Porter street NV, was brought up
on q charge of driving without a per-
NIT. He explained to Judge Edward
M. ,Curran that the old permit was
issued for an indefinite period and he
kept 1t during a residence of almost
20 years in Georgia.
Mr.. Lindauer said he thought the
license was still good: The Judge
seemed inclined to agree, for he took
the defendants personal bond not only
on the f1rst charge, but on second
count Of driving on the wrong side Of
the street.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
18NAVAL BOMBERS
LEAVE FOR HAWAII
Flight Is Hailed as Greatest
Massed Trans. Ocean Ma.
neuver of History.
Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
By the Associated Press.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. 18.-
Eighteen Navy planes undertook TO-
day the largest mass oceanic flight
Of aviation history. 2,570-mile nom
stop journey to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The first OF the giant twin-motored
patrol bombers entered the water for
a takeon from the North Island Naval
Air Station at $40 am. 11:40 am.
e. s. to, and others followed in rapid
succession.
The twin-m -motored patrol bombers,
carrying crews Of seven men and ON
GERS. are the first OF ~ the Navy has
announced will be flown this year from
the mainland to Pearl Harbor, 2,57o
miles from here.
In July or August, II more big fly
ing boats will head out over the Pa
cifsc. to be followed by another dozen
around Thanksgiving.
The flight marked the start of the
Nays sixth long distance flight from
here within the past year.
In 1887 4 24-plane fight made the
1900 miles to Seattle: there were two
l2-plane flights to Hawaii, one H.
plane hop 5000 miles to Coco Solo.
Canal Zone. followed by another De-
cember 8. involving IA bombers. then
the greatest long distance mass trans
fer of aircraft.
Ihe planes. under 1t. Comdrs.
s. H. Warner and w. G. Tomlinson
will follow the great circle course
from Point Iona to Diamond Head
near Honolulu. They face spotty but
otherwise favorable weather.
Midway between here and Pearl
Harbor, the aircraft tender Langley
is stationed 20 provide emergency
service. The destroyers Reid and
Litchfield are spotted 500 miles east
and west Of the Langley, respectively
Lit. Tom Hamilton. former Naval
Academy football coach, will pilot one
Of the planes.
The Navy first started its routine
transfer Of equipment" between the
mainland and Hawaii in 1893, when
six planes under direction of the then
1t. Comdr. Knef1er McGinnis flew
from San Francisco Bay to Pearl
Harbor.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
QUANTICO DAM PLEA
is RULED OUT OF BILL
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Appropriations Commit
tee rejected Marine Corps request for
100000 to construct a dam to aug
ment the water supply at the Quantico,
Va. Marine Corps base.
The committee introducing the an
nual navy supply bill yesterday said it
ruled out the request because the prof.
ect had no legislative authorization.
The Marine Corps proposed the dam
be built on Chopowamsic Creek, on
land to which the Interior Department
is seeking title. With that acquisition,
the Marine Corps said, a dam could be
constructed to impound zoo. 900 900
gallons Of water and make secure the
Quantico Marine Barracks water SUD-
ply.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
WALLACE OPPOSES
FREIGHT RATE HIKE
Tells !. C. c. 1t Would "Tend
to Intensity the Current
Recession"
~ the Associated Press.


Secretary OF Agriculture Wallace
told the Interstate Commerce Com
mission today that freight rate in
creases now being sought by American
railroads would tend to intensity the
current recession"
The administrators agricultural
spokesman suggested railroads actually
should reduce their rates, which he
declared to be among the factors
"hindering. rather than helping, a re-
covery In industrial activity"
Mr.. Wallace testified on an applica-
ton OF the Nations rail carriers for .
is per cent raise in rates on virtually
all commodities, including agricultural
products.
Critici1ing what he called "infiex-
ible" rate schedules. the cabinet ON
Ger suggested that the commission e.
tablish - flexible policy which would
result in freight rates lower in de-
preston periods and higher in pros
perity periods"
Higher rates, just now, Mr.. Wallace
contended, would reduce the volume of
agricultural Is we'll as general railroad
trafic. This would hold rail revenues
about at their present level. he said, If
it did not actually reduce them.
"Inasmuch rs the railroads are now
suffering from lack of volume due, not
to a lack OF farm production, but 4 lack
Of activity In construction and gen
erA industrial activity, raising produc-
ton costs for industry and construc-
ton would only serve to make the rail-
road situation worse" he declared.
He expressed the belief that higher
freight rates would inevitably drive
still higher the delivered cost of build
ing materials, would still further dis
courage housing construction and
would tend to reduce still more the
present volume OF trafic"
From the farmers standpoint, Mr..
Wallace said. the proposed rate ad-
vance would be particularly unjusti-
fed. Farm prices are on about = pre-
war level. he said, while freight rates
are about IS per cent above their
pre-war level.