Evening star., 1938-02-11
B" { staff Correspondent of The Star


Almost every square foot
of Prince Georges County
~ and alrse portion of the
District of Columbia are an open book
to DR. Samuel H. De Vault. head of
the department of agricultural eco
nomics at the University of Maryland
and an authority on Indian history and
artifacts.
DR.. De Vault has one of the most
complete private collections of India n
artifacts on the country, all the relics
having been collected as hobby.
Born on farm in East Tennessee
through which the old Daniel Boone
trail cut a swath that will not be
erased through the years of plowlng
and tllling, DR.. De Vault first started
collecting relics for his brother. Rob-
elt Nj. De Vault. along the banks of
the Clinch, Wautauga and Holston
Rivers.
II was from his first venture. about
25 years ago, that won him to his work.
Since that time he has lectured on
Indians before civic bodies, school
classes. faculties of universities and
scientific groups. He came to the
University of Maryland in 1929, where
he established the department Of agri-
cultural! economics, department he
has headed ever since.
Walks through the fields around the
university campus produced definite
signs that the Indians had been as
numerous here as elsewhere. DR.. De
Vault found that although they did
Roosevelt today was designed to meet
recommendations mace by the Presi-
dent in his national defense mesa sc
to Congress January %.
It would provide sS.8OO.00O for addi-
tiona. aircraft materiel. $6.080,000 for
gauges. dies and other aids to the
manufacture of ARMY materiel and
1000 900 toward making up deficien-
cies in ammunition.
The Budget Bureau said the money
would be distributed as follows:
Corps of Engineers. S900,000; Ord
nance Service and Supplies. Sl4.172,-
062. Chemical Warfare Service, $780,
600. continental Seacoast defenses,
1888. 300: insular possessions seacoast
defenses. S349.7l3, and National
Guard. S574425.
The money would be in addition to
that proposed in the budget TOR the
War Department for the fiscal year
starting July !.
Before todays session. House Naval
Committee members indicated they
would defer vote on the naval expan-
sion program until after the February
20 "deadline" for Japan's reply to ques-
tions concerning battleship construc-
ton.
1t might be necessary to revise the
pending bill. members said, if the
japanese disclosed they were building
battleships larger than the 35,000-ton
limit fixed by the 1896 London naval
treaty.
WdS lIttlC VApySCAbioh AiNAt
however that Toxic officials would give
Secretary Hull the desired information.
Suggests Secret Pact.
In his latest demand yesterday for
information on our foreign policy.
Senator johnson suggested that the
United States and Great Britain might
have a secret understanding of which
even Secrtary Hull did not know. Mr..
Hull earlier this week, in reply to
questions raised by the Californian,
denied that any such alliance existed.
Il fear that the Secretary OF State
and l we're taken for ride the other
day." Senator johnson told the Sem
ate. and that, with neither Of us
knowing exactly what was in the Of
fling or what had been agreed upon.
perhaps something was in the wind
which he did not know and I did not
know"
Senator La Toilette, Progressive. of
Wisconsin served notice that he would
not be deferred from asking questions
about the naval program by any
charge of lack of patriotism or any
other false accusation"