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Evening star., 1938-05-14

up. Boyle climbed into the cockpit
warmed up the motor, and finally got
away
Then the trouble started. While
Culver waited in Bustleton, BoAe got
lost and pancaked to a landing on q
Maryland farm. right next door to the
home of the Second Assistant Post.
master General. who had charge of the
new air mail service.
So far. not so good.
Meanwhile, Webb had taken of at
Belmont, pushing that pulsating Jenny
unerringly toward Bustleton. ]
grabbed his mail and loaded it into
my ship. Culver, advised of Boyle's
mishap, left for Belmont.
drank deep Of thrills and romance
that day. Washington in the green,
blue distance was the fairy city. Can
you imagine the thrill Of such a home
coming after six months away at Army
flying school?
Field Looked Very Small.
The polo field in Washington, dark
looked shockingly small from $500
feet. Imagination had time to play as
I spiraled those thousands of feet to a
landing. I TAXED up to the waiting
mail truck with such gusto and flourish
that it was promptly stripped of all
attendants.
Twenty years is long time As I
write this. great transports flying at
200 miles an hour zip past Yesterday s
wire-and-strut airplanes are museum
pieces. Today we celebrate two decades
OF air mail service.
Just 10 years ago Gene Brown, Dick
Merrill and Don Johnston inaugurated
air mail service between New York
and Atlanta for Pitcairn, predecessor
Of Eastern Air Lines. And to show
that 10 years is a long time in the
flying business, mail goes today from
New York to Miami in less time than
it took in 1928 to ny from New York to
Atlanta.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
CITY HEADS CLOSE
LINCOLN ROADN NE,
Catholic Bodies Exchange
Fourth Street Tap Link
Beyond Franklin.

Closing Of Lincoln road NE. between
Franklin street and Michigan avenue
has been approved by the Commis-
sioners In exchange for dedication Of
land for street and park purposes by
Trinity College, the Oblate Fathers
and other Catholic bodies.
The decision brings to solution 4
problem considered for about two years
by the Commissioners. A number Of
public hearings have been held on the
subject.
To carry out the agreed plan, the
city heads yesterday ordered the OPEN
ing Of diagonal street to run from
the intersection Of Franklin street and
Lincoln road NE. to Fourth street, at
a point about $50 feet north of Frank
lin street. This will be known as a
continuation of Lincoln road
At the same time the Commission
ers approved the grading for Franklin
street NE. between Lincoln road and
Fourth street. The two grading jobs
will be awarded to the Capital Exca-
vating Co. at a price of $4,500.
In another order the city heads ap-
Noved the enlargement of the inter-
section of Hardwood road and Michi-
gan avenue NE. to facilitate the flow
of traffic, and this work will be award
ed to the Warren F. Brenizer Co. for a
price Of $4,000.
The Catholic orders, it was ex-
planned, have dedicated the triangular
half block Of land, bounded by Frank
lin and Fourth streets and the new
diagonal section of Lincoln road, for
public park purposes
A strip of land about IL feet deep
along Fourth street, from Michigan
avenue south to the new line of Lin
coin road, also has been dedicated to
the District for use for widening Of
Fourth street if trafYic conditions in
the future make that desirable, off,
cials reported.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
SPEEDY APPROVAL
OF SLATTERY seen
Roosevelt Nominates Ickes' Aide
as Interior Undersecretary
to Succeed West,

Speedy committee action and Sen
ate confirmation Of Harry Slattery a
Undersecretary Of the Interior was ex-
pected in the wake of his nomination
yesterday by President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Slattery. who has q long record
OF Government service and has been
personal assistant to Secretary Ickes
since 1888, was named to succeed
Charles West.
The Interior Department chief had
complained that Mr.. West was never
in his Office and had observed to re-
porters that II like to see that the
peon|e in my department earn their
salaries"
Mr.. Vests resignation from the
$10.000-a-year undersecretaryship was
announced at the White House a short
time before Mr.. Slattery's nomination
was sent to the Senate.
Stephen T. Early, presidential Sec
retary, said Mr.. Roosevelt was looking
around for another place for Mr.. West,
a former Ohio Representative, who
has been . contact man between the
White House and Congress.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
CONGRESS IN BRIEF
TODAY.
Senate and House in recess
Story Erroneously
Said No Woman Has
Been Commissioner

In q story in yesterdays edi-
tions dealing with possible sue
cessors to Commissioner George
z. Allen. The Star erroneously
stated the District has never had
. woman Commissioner.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, ma
tional secretary of the American
Red Cross, served a recess an.
pointment as District Commits
sioner from September Is, 1920,
to March 4. 1921. She was ap-
pointed by President Wilson in the
last days Of his administration
to serve with j. T. Hendrick and
G. w. KutZ. When President
Harding took Office he appointed
Cuno H. Randolph and James r.
Oyster to succeed Miss Boardman
and Mr.. Hendrick.. and reap
!, pointed Mr.. Kuty.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
Homo Sapiens Domesticated,
Science Conference Is Told
Man Is Believed Near End of Physical
Evolutionary Possibilities Since
Bone Structure Never Varies.
Smithsonian Institution anthropolo-

Smithsonian Institution anthropolo-
gist.
In the curve of the cheek bone
alongside the nose there is a notch
which can be felt through the flesh
with the finger
1t Is almost universal in human be-
lngs, quite common in oran-outans,
and very rare in gorillas and CHM
panzees. Found in skeleton it would
be roughly diagnostic that the bone
was human.
CuriouSly enough, the arch of the
cheek bone is unnotched in the skele-
tai remains of Neanderthal men. This
is one Of the criteria for the assump-
ton by anthropologists that modern
man is not directly descended from
these wild men. but is derived from
some closely related branch of the
anthropoid stem which invaded the
Neanderthal habitat and in some way,
perhaps over very long time, elimi-
mated them.
Close to Neanderthaler.
The notch is present, however, in
the cheek bone of Pekin man. This
has led to the conclusion that the
China man represented an altogether
different species of homo" although
in other skeletal characters he was
very close to the Neanderthaler.
This assumption was challenged by
Mr.. Nicholson, Smithsonian Institu-
ton anthropologists, in a report pre-
pared for the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists. Examining
large number of these cheek arches in
the skeletal collection of the National
Museum, Dr. Nicholson was able to
flnd several from modern men which
were u1notched and did not differ es-
sentially from those of the ancient Eu-
ropeans. On the basis of these bones
alone. they might have been mistaken
for the old "semi-humans."
Now. DR.. Nicholson maintained. only
six specimens of the Neanderthaler
cheek arches are known. 1t is highly
probable. he believes that the ancient
men varied in this character lust as do
modern men. Absence of notches may
have been most common, or the speci-
mems found may have varied from the
normal. Just the same. the Pekin
man specimen may have been a vari-
alton from the common pattern of his
race
Consequently. DR.. Nicholson main
tanned. there is no justification for
setting up the ancient Chinaman as
a distinct type of animal. He could
easily. he believes, be considered as .
species Of Neanderthaler,
Evening star., 1938-05-14
WILLIAMS TO PREACH

DR.. G. Ellis Williams, superintendent
OF the Washington district of the Bal
tlmore Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. will be guest preach
er at the morning service of the COM
blned congregations of the Vienna
Presbyterian Church and the Vienna
and Oakton Methodist Churches, at
the Oakton Methodist Church to-
morrow at 1890 am.
Officials Of the churches will meet
following the services, at which Dr..
Williams also will preside. The Rev.
Lowell M. Atkinson. pastor of the
Oakton Church, will conduct the serv-
ices,
Evening star., 1938-05-14
MI. R. B. SEEKING
RULING ON POWER
High Court Action Is Taken
in Reinstatement Case
of Republic Steel.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The National Labor Relations Board
today sought an early Supreme Court
ruling on its power to recall orders-a
hotherto untested phase of the Wagner
Act.
= The ruling wes asked in the Repub-
lie Steel Corp. case ip which the board
ordered the company to reinstate 5000
workers involved in the struggle over
signed contracts between little steel"
and the G. I. o. last summer.
The United States Circuit Court at
Philadelphia denied the N. L. r. B.
permission yesterday to reopen the
case and restrained it from taking
any steps" before certifying the hear
ing records with the court. The board
Immediately asked the Supreme Court
for writ of mandamus.
Issuance Of such a writ would re-
quire the Circuit Court to defend its
position. The Supreme Court may act
on the boards petition Monday,
Authority Under Act.
N. L. r. B. officials said the Wagner
ACT gave authority to set aside or
change orders before certifying case
records to courts where its rulings
were contested.
Ihe board announced it desired to
reopen the Republic case to conform
10 the procedure the Supreme Court
neld judicial bodies should follow
when 1T invalidated last month a. DE-
partment Of Agriculture order against
Kansas City livestock commission men
Republic attorneys asserted the board
wanted to doctor up" the records.
In the Kansas City case the court
OBJECTED because the commission men
nad not been permitted to rebut find
lngs OF TACT by a department examiner
Moved to Withdraw Orders.
After the livestock decision the
Labor Board moved to withdraw its
orders In several important cases, in
Guiding the Ford Motor Co., Inland
Steel Co. and the Douglas Aircraft
Corp.
The Circuit Court of Appeals at Cow
lngton, KY, declined to allow with
drawal Of the Ford order. In an
other decision, this court refused yes-
terday to grant an enforcement order
against the Sands Manufacturing Co.
Of Cleveland.
The court held an employer could
not be accused of discrimination
when he had made repeated and Sin
cere' attempts to reach agreemen.
on labor policy.
The boards quick move toward the
Supreme Court, where it has won
every test up to date. had the effect
OF making the Republic Steel con-
troversy the pivotal case in the latest
series Of legal maneuvers over its
powers.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
BY JAMES c. EDGERTON.

written Tor the Associated Press
A man bushes a little to think
about it.
There We were. with the President
OF the United States and all the diplo-
matte dignitaries of Washington wait
ing for some bumptious army reserve
pilots to open an epoch, and not a
teaspoonful of gasoline to get things
started.
The beginnings of regular air mail
service were, in fact, a comedy of
errors, but all of us were alive to the
Importance Of the occasion and the
humorous aspects of 1t went over our
heads. We were in dead earnest.
Only 48 hours before we were due to
fly the mail in wartime airplanes
known as "Jennies," those antiquated
crates were reposing in boxes on Long
Island. They had been sent up to
Buffalo for refurbishing-which in
cluded the construction of q mail COM
partment-and had arrived late. But
We fell to. sweating to get them into
flying condition by May IS.
UOt ne20y On Time.
We succeeded We test-hopped the
Jennies, listened for warning coughs
from the motors. decided we we're
ready, and on the evening of May IA
were poised for the moment when his
tory would be made.
This was the program: Lieut..
George Boyle was to fly the mail from
the polo field in Washington, which
we used as an airport, to Bustleton,
near Philadelphia. Capt. Paul Culver
had the leg from Bustleton to Belmont
race track, near New York. Capt.
Torrey Webb was to fly from Belmont
to Bustleton on the south trip, and
was to pick up his mail there and
carry it on to Washington.
So far, so good. It was a two-way
mail service. with each fight in two
segments. Maj. r. H. Fleet stood by in
Washington with a reserve ship.
Our planes were typical of the 1918
vintage. They were sturdy, consider
ing the limited aeronautical knowledge
OF the times. Braced this way and that
with wires and struts, they were pow
cred with $50 HIP. Hispano-Suiza
motors.
May Is dawned clear, with scattered,
heecy clouds. Boyle. at the polo field,
went over his machine for q last in
spection. Zero hour was II am. Presi-
dent Wilson and the diplomatic CORPS
We're on hand. The mail was ready.
"Gasoline!" Boyle shouted. Where's
my gasoline?"
1t took 80 minutes to get it. The
President and the assembled officials
waited patiently. The ship was gassed
Evening star., 1938-05-14
GIBSON TO RETIRE
FROM U. S. SERVICE
He Refused Appointment as
Envoy to Berlin, Secretary
of State Reveals.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The forthcoming retirement from the
diplomatic service OF Ambassador Hugh
Gibson, until now Ambassador to Brus-.
sels. was announced yesterday by Sec
retary of State Hill.
Mr.. Hull disclosed that four months
ago Mr.. Gibson refused to accept the
ambassadorship to Berlin. following the
resignation of Ambassador Dodd.
Joseph Davies, nov Ambassador to
Moscow, will succeed Mr.. Gibson. His
nomination was confirmed by the Sen
ate yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
By THOMAS w. HENRY.

BY THOMAS w. HENRY.
Homo sapiens Is domesticated anil
NAL.
That explains some Of the paradoxes
archeologists are encouraging in the
study Of his ancient uncles and aunts
1t was brought out at a conference of
experts at the Carnegie Institution OF
Washington yesterday afternoon, at
which Dr. Franz Weidenreich, anato-
mist and foremost authority on Pekin
man. explained his findings.
The conference was the first step in
new program tnaugurated by DR.
John c. Merriam, president of the
Carnegie Institution. of holding con-
1erences Of the country's foremost ex-
perts on debated scientific problems
Pekin man, the so-called homo
sinanthropus. whose first remains were
found about 10 years ago, disputes
with homo pithecanthropus of Java
who lived about million years ago
the position Of being the first known
member Of the human family. The
real place Of this anomalous ape like
creature in mans family tree, how
ever. Is open to much dispute.
The China man now is represented
oy . considerable collection of bones
OF different individuals. They differ
markedly, compared with q similar
collection Of bones of modern man
This Is particularly notable in the
teeth. A large collection of sinan-
tnropus teeth casts was brought to
washington by Dr. Weidenreich. Some
specimens are quite "humanoid" while
others are decidedly ape-like with all
sorts of variations between.
A similar sort Of variability. It was
stressed by DR.. A. A. Schultz of Johns
Hopkins University. is found among
the great apes. Modern man Is cast
IN more tnvariable mold, so that a
Done from one individual is much
more likely to be an apparent duplicate
OF the same bone from another.
This might mean that homo sapiens
Is near the end Of his physical evolu-
tlonary possibilities. since evolution
Is based largely on widespread vari-
atlon. The ape-man was exposed to
FAR greater stresses of environment
which worked to effect morphological
differences.
The same phenomenon is met with
almost invariably in q comparison be-
tween wild and domesticated animals.
it was stressed by DR.. Ernest Schwarz
OF the National Museum. The differ
ence Is marked between such an
animal as the rat and the horse or
COW.
Pekin man lived approximately a
million years ago. Because some of
the bones have been found split. as
II to extract the marrow from them.
the race has been accused of being
cannibalistic. But in at least one case.
DR.. Weidenreich said yesterday, it now
can be shown that the bone was
gnawed by a hyena rather than by
another sinanthropus.
DR.. Weidenreich was insistent that
sinanthropus was a much more primi-
tive animal than the Neanderthal man.
grotesque but big-brained ape-like
creatures who lived in Europe during
the last Ice Age and directly pre-
ceded the present race Of human
beings on earth. A curious feature
Of this relationship, however, was
brought out by DR.. Truman Nicholson.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
BURNS FATAL TO FOUR
Boys Die as Lamp Explodes in
Bed Room of Home.

WATONGA. Okla. May IA UFp.-A
four-room farm home where q relief
client hoped to work his way from the
W. P. A. rolls proved a fiery death
trap yesterday to four Of his six sons.
The four brothers died in an Okla
hona City Hospital Of burns suffered
when q kerosens lamp exploded in their
bedroom. They were Clarence Hos
kins, 8; Harvey, IL; Harley, II, and
Irwin, IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hoskins, the
parents, moved to the farm two weeks
ago. and had hoped to become self
sufncient by raising chickens and gar
den truck.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
PARK GROUP REFLECTS
National Association Chooses
Same Officers.

William p. Wharton OF Groton,
Mass, was reelected president Of the
National Park Association at the an
nual meeting Of the organization, 1t
was announced today.
All the other officers also were re-
elected, as follows: Henry Baldwin
Ward OF Urbana. ILL.,, vice president;
Albert w. Atwood. secretary; James
A. Foote, executive secretary, and
Joshua Evans, jr., treasurer. The last
three named are residents Of WASH
ington.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
May Seek N. L. r. B. Change.
Ey the Associated Press,

Senator Burke. Democrat, of Ne
braska. who frequently has criticized
operation Of the National Labor Re-
iatons Act. said today he might at
tempt to change the law by amend
ments to the wage-hour bill.
The Nebraska Senator said the
Labor Relations Act should be amend.
ed to give employers the same right
as employees to call on the board to
exert its powers in labor cases"
Another amendment. he said, should
define Unfair labor practices on the
part OF employees, as well as employers.
Senator Burke's tentative proposal
added another complication to the
prospective legislative tangle awaiting
the wage-hour bill in the Senate If
the House passes it.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
Students Optimistic,

NEW YORK R.-Add outstanding
optimists-engineering seniors at Co.
!umbia University.
In student poll they said they ex-
pected to earn an annual average sal-
ary OF $1,000 within five years.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
WEATHER REPORT

t CO. ol 60 this afternoon and probably early tonight
oo" 1air not much change temperature;
tonight - ~e " "0A~'"eo'
Mayand-Rain ablv
morning; not much change in temperature
Vrgna-Cloudy probably esst
early tonight tomorrow generally fair slightly
and e~N~NNN' N"A
Evening star., 1938-05-14
Launching of Airmal Seruice
Recalled as Comedy of Errors
d. c. Jenny Waited Half Hour for Cas-
Then Pancaked Near Home of
Assistant Postmaster General.

One OF the four Army fiers who
inaugurated regular United States
airn,ail service on May IS, 1918,
here tells his otun story of that
great day.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
L0YAL|STS STRIKE
REBELS FROM AIR
so New Government Planes
Force Foes to Summon
Reinf0rcementS.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
.HENDAYE, France, May IA sur
prise attack by so new government
warplanes injected a new factor into
operations on the eastern Spanish
front today as the insurgent offensive
against Valencia gained headway.
The insurgent air force, long DOM
inant in Eastern Spain, hurriedly
called for plane reinforcements.
The government mass attack over
Cantavieja, 40 miles northeast of
Teruel came In the wake Of reports
that 800 new government planes had
been unloaded at Barcelona
18 Rebel Ships in Fight.
Eighteen insurgent ships engaged in
the Cantavieja fight and reported
shooting down seven government
planes without losing any themselves.
The government feet finally flew away
In the direction Of Barcelona.
Unsurgent bombers raided Bar
-celona twice early today and twice
yesterday, killing and wounding
about 200 persons, according to dis
patches from the government sea-
port. The raiders few in from the
Mediterranean, presumably from
the insurgent base at Palma, NAL
lorca.)
On the ground. the insurgent Of
fensive gained speed after breaking
through government defenses north
east of Teruel which had blocked Cen
eralissimo Francisco Frances troops
throughout 81 months of civil war.
-, Seizure of nearly 600 square miles
Of territory in the past three days en-
ahled the insurgents to rectify their
line curving eastward from Teruel to
the sea.
With powerful artillery fire, airplane
bombardment and infantry attacks
supported by tanks, Gen. Frances
forces ripped open government de-
fenses established in 1887 as a sub
sidiary line guarding Valencia. The
area was infested with machine gun
nests and strong trench Notifications.
~ Get Control Of Highway.
BY cracking this line and capturing
Fortanete, midway between Teruel and
the sea, the insurgents gained COM
plete control of the vital Teruel- -Albo-
cacer highway. In addition. the opera
tions Of Gen. Frances forces along the
coast were co-ordinated with those
fighting inland.
Government advices said troops Of
Gen. Jose Miaja, who has taken COM
mand of the defenses north of Valen-
ella and Castellon. had recaptured
ground near cuevas de Vinroma, be-
tween Albocacer and Alcala de Chivert.
4 deadlock had existed for weeks in
this sector.
Evening star., 1938-05-14
InSurgent Leader Dies

=, lRUN. Spain, May IA (R.-Gen.
Miguel Cabanellas. inspector general
81 the insurgent army and one of the
leaders OF the revolt which broke out
N July, 1896, died today. He was
friken with q cerebral hemorrhage
Thursday.
The death announcement said he
passed away at the villa of the Mar
quis de Larios, near Seville.
Evening star., 1938-05-14

River Report.
potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
At Harpers Ferry. Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
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green dress with lace insets and a
corsage Of yellow roses.
Mr.. Richard Dana Bennett, jr,
brother of the bridegroom, was the
best man, and the ushers were Mr.
Robert A. Ellin and Mr.. w. Writ
Ellin. brothers of the bride.
Among the out-of-town guests were
Mrs. w. F. Wagner, sr.; Mrs. L. w.
Chase and Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Wagner,
jr, of Philadelphia, Pa, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Wagner Of New Bruns-
wick, N. j.
A reception followed at the brides
home, which was attractively decorated
with palms and ferns and red roses
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett then left on
their wedding trip. the bride wearing a
navl blue suit with vintage wine ac-
cessories and corsage of roses.