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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
SECRETARY OF STATE MAKING
 VIEWS PUBLIC
Extreme Internationalism to Be Avoided Abso-
 lutely, He Says
ISOLATION IS GIVEN
 NEW DEFINITION NOW
Statements Are Made in Letter to Man Sponsor
 ing War Measure

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull declares that the United States foreign pol icy consists of avoiding extreme internationalism with it's political entanglements," and also extreme isolation" which makes other na- tions believe this nation is more or less afraid"
 The Secretary of State called the policy matter of simple common sense"
 The statements were made by the Secretary of State in a letter to Representative Ludlow who spon- sored the bill requiring referen- dunn before declaration of war is made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
CALIFORNIA IS FLOOD SWEPT
 AFTER STORM
Fourteen Dead as Swollen Torrents Inundate
 Large Area

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 12. Thousands of acres of lowiands in Northern California are inun- dated as rivers swelled out over their banks in the wake of 16-day rain.
 River bottoms from Fresno to Red Bluff are inches to feet submerged in roily torrents. Pajaro and part of adjacent Watsonville are under water.
 Flood gates were opened in the Sacramento River to divert water into a bypass area. Shortly before diverting the swollen Sacramento, 200 families were assisted to higher ground.
 Three fishermen were lost off San Diego when their fishing boat sWamped in a storm. One man was killed on rainswept highway, two persons were crushed to death in an avalanche at June Lake Other deaths were attributed to collapse of cabins and other storm-caused conditions.
 Floods are general through all Northern California lowlands. At Pajara and Watsonville, 1000 fam lilies are homeless, and the Red Cross has established station in the stricken area.
 The floods came on the tail end of terrific hurricane that swept a trail of death and destruction all along the California coast and into the deep valleys of the Sierra Ne vadas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
FOUR MOTHERS
 GET BIC SUMS
 STORK REQUEST
Baby Derby Winners Ap- proved by Supreme
 Court in Ontario

TORONTO, Feb. 12. - The Su- preme Court of Ontario has accept ed the claims of four Toronto mothers for share in the stork der by, a bequest made by the eccentric late Charles Vance Millar
 The bequest was made to go to the mother who bore the most chil- dren in 10 years after his death
 Each of the four mothers will get about s125,000 apiece for the nine children each bore during the time limit.
 The lucky mothers are Mrs. Isabel MacLean, Mrs. Annie Smith, Mrs. Kathleen Nagle, Mrs Lucy Timleck
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
NUDE KILLER IS
 FOUND GUILTY
Staying Followed Clothes less Drinking Party
 in Automobile

EMMITT, Idaho, Feb. 12-Audie James Cobnett, 9, former eco worker was convicted of second de- gree murder for shooting of 15-year- old Anna Jean Phillips.
 Cobnett was convicted of killing the school girl during a nude drink ing party in his automobile last Oc- tober 5, because he didn't want anyone else to have her"
 He will be sentenced Tuesday, with maximum life, and minimum ten years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
ICE BREAKER HELPLESS IN
 ARCTIC SEAS
North Pole Campers in No Danger as Freezing
 WeatherP Prevails

MOSCOW, Feb. 12. = The ice breaker Murman, speediest of three rescue vessels going to the aid of the North Pole campers drifting on an ice floe, is disabled in heavy seas.
 The Murman radioed it's automat- ic steering controls had been dam- aged by the pounding seas. Her position was not given, but reports last night placed her 300 miles from the drifting polar camp.
 The four scientists on the floe re- port calm weather and freezing temperatures that are minimizing danger of immediate breakup.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
HEMLOCK rows CEDAR SOUTH
 TO KETCHIKAN
Picks Up Disabled Vessel at Tee Harbor Where
 Anchored

The lighthoue tender Cedar, dis abled Thursday afternoon at Pound- stone Rock, and lowed by the Army tender Torrance, to Tee Harbor, for anchorage, is today on its way to Ketchikan in tow of the light house tender Hemlock
 The Hemlock will take the Cedar directly to Ketchikan Lighthouse Service headquarters where gridiron facilities are more adequate.
 Damage to the Cedar amounted to shattered propeller, and broken or twisted tail shaft. The Cedar was serving the Tombstone light when the mishap occurred.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
FARM BILL TO PASS MONDAY,
 SAYS BARKLEY
Opposition Arises from Re- publicans Over Dairy
 Production

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Senate Leader Alben w. Barkley predicts that the Farm Bill will pass when the vote is taken on Monday.
 Republicans Borah, McNary and Johnson are outspokenly critical of the dairy interests and opposed to the measure They claim that land withdrawn from the wheat. corn, cotton, tobacco and rice crops are to be used for dairy production.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
MAKING MOVE
 TO CUT SOVIET,
 CHINESE LINES
J Japanese Troops Being Concentrated on Routes
 to Inner Mongolia

PEIPING, Feb. 12.-Heavy con- centration of Japanese troops on routes to Inner Mongolia, renews persistent reports that Tokyo is planning to unleash an attack from Pao Touchen to cut the highway leading in Soviet Russia, wh c h is held vital to the Chin ese supply line.
 Chinese Communists and guerilla raids continue to harrass the Jap anese along the Peiping -Hankow Railway
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
Paper PaCkaged
 Milk Is Being
 Shipped, Alaska

SEATTLE, Feb. 12 The first shipment of paper packaged milk ever sent to Alaska, left today on board the steamer Baranof.
 The new containers are made from Washington wood pulp and are used once and then discarded. It is im- practicable to ship in glass bottles because of the expense of return Ing the bottles.
 The shipments of the paper pack aged milk will be made once week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
American Ship
 Captain Beaten
 By Rubber Hose
Commander of Seized Yes sel Is Mistreated by
 Spanish Insurgents

GIBRALTAR, Feb. 12.-Capt. J. E. Lewis, of the American tanker Nantucket Chief, seized by Spanish Insurgents, has reported to the American Consul that he was beat en by a rubber hose on each day of the Is days in captivity in Palma.
 Capt. Lewis has made full report of the indignities suffered to the Consul here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
EXECUTION OF
 IS IS ORDERED
More Convictions in Soviet Counter Revolution
 ary Wrecking

MOSCOW, Feb. 12.-The Provin- cial press reports Is mere death sentences on charges Of counter re- yolutionary wrecking. Six persons were convicted of causing a trolley and bus accident in Leningrad. ten for disrupting farming and two for mismanagement of Siberian lumber camps.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
RUMANIA IS
 UNDER GUARD
 OF M|LIT AIRY
Strict Censorship Also Pre- walls to Prevent All
 Opposition

BUCHAREST, Feb. 12. - With military rule and censorship pre- vailing to silence opposition, the new Rumanian Government has is- sued a fourteen-point progr a m promising new era of prosperity in Rumania
 Radical economic, social and con- stitutional reforms are promised, including organized emigration of the Jewish surplus population.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
Town Is Declared Unfair to God; Minister Is Picket

MARQUARD, Missouri, Feb. 12. The Rev. Noel Bremner is picket ing this town for ungodliness and carries a banner "Marquard Un- fair to God"
 For the past three weeks, the Rev. Bremner has been invading beer halls to preach revival ser mons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
NnUHI Base in AIeutinns Would Reduce Fleet NOau
 On Pacific, Says Rirers

WASHINGTON, Feb 12.-Major William c. Rivers, retired, told the members of the House Naval Com mittee, that naval expansion will be materially reduced if the Navy es- tablished a base in the Aleutian Is- lans, Alaska
 The Army otrlcial said the es- tablishment of a base in Alaska would permit of reduction in the Pacific Fleet and would thus enable the Government to keep a fleet ot reasonable size on the Atlantic Coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12

The Marathon race was so named because after the battle of mara thon messenger ran g miles to Athens to announce the victory to the Greeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12

South Africa is carrying out a program of tree planting to prevent malaria, as it is known malarie mos quitos breed only in pools open to sunlight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
Breaking Out h Congress that President
 Vas Once Able to Order Out
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. l2.-Con- gress barely begins to regain some of the power it lost early in the New Deal before it exhibits some of the fancy traits that make it at once the butt of cartoons and the delight of pressure groups.
 President Roosevelt once desorib- ed himself as a quarterback who called the plays, with Congress CO., operating in carrying the ball across the goal Those were exciting days in the old New Deal when Con- gress accepted the system of giving the President blanekt authority for spending the first $3,300000,000 of emergency money and followed it up by adding $4,8OO,O00,00O a year or so later.
 In the same years Congress sus- pended the antitrust legislation, written on the books over a long period of years, and accepted NRA. in the same mood it set up a na- tion-wide agricultural control pro gram Congress almost forgot, for the time, it's political and sectional difficulties. It voted the gold reval- uation authority and extended mon- etary control to the President.
 But you should see Congress now.
 l
 THE WHY OF SECTIONALISM
 The South filibusters almost in mass against the anti-lynching bill which Northern and Mid- Western Senators, with substantial negro voting blocks in their states, sup port.
 Farm legislation that slid easily through an early New Deal Con- gress has had especially hard sled ding lately because of revival of conflicting sectional interests. The South insists on a cotton subsidy and is willing to replace cotton &C., reage with soil conserving" crops. But the mere suggestion that some of these soil conserving crops might be legumes and hay crops, which could be fed to dairy stock, brought out Wisconsin and Midwestern dairy protests.
 The Wage-hour bill is staunchly supported by the New England cot- ton-spinning states because they want wages of all the spinning in- dustry pushed up to the New Eng land level. But the South attacks the idea, opposing the plan as an unconstitutional usurpa ti on of States rights. although numbers conceded frankly they opposed it because they believed it would in- jure the milling industry growing amidst the less costly labor supply of the South.
 1
 LETTERS FROM HOME
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
OPPOSES RESTRICTIONS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Chair- man Carl Vinson, of the House Naval Committee, today criticized the proposal of Representative Frank c. Kniffin, Ohio Democrat, to amend the Navy increase bill restricting operations of the fleet to an area within a line from Ber- ing Strait to the western end of the Aleutians, to Midway Island, to American Samoa, to Panama Can al, to the Virgin Islands, to the eastern extremity mainland
 This marks off a prize ring for the Navy to operate in" said Vim son.
 Kniffin said his amendment does not affect goodwill voyages, an- nual training cruises nor interfere with the Monroe Doctrine enforce ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12
LETTERS FROM HOME

Now Administration leaders are pleading for a tit-for-tat vote, ar guing that farm groups should vote for the Wage-hour bill because City Congressmen supported the Farm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-02-12

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Evening star., 1938-05-09
DENY ARCHER FEE
INVOLVES W. P. A.
Officials Say Lawyer Was Not
Paid for Legal Services With
Federal Funds.

Works Progress Administration off,
cials said today the w. P. A. was not
involved in the payment Of a $4,000
fee to Robert Archer of Bel Air, Md,
by the Hartford County Commissioners
for legal services in connection with
w. P. A. projects in the county
I'VE have investigated the matter
and find that it does not concern the
w. P. A. at ALL" a spokesman said.
Mr.. Archer, law partner Of Sen
ator Tydings of Maryland, said the
fee was paid him for personal work as
legal counsel for the county which
would have brought him much more
If done for a private concern.
He acted as legal counsel for Har-
ford County for more than two years,
while Charles. McNab, the county
counsel was i'll. Mr.. Archer explained.
He submitted bill for approximately
$4,000, or l per cent Of the $3.50 900
spent on w. P. A. projects in the
county during that time. The county
commissioners felt this was too high
and paid him $4,000 as q compromise,
he said.
The W. p. A. said none of the $l42,.
900 of the Federal funds or of the
$4,000 put up by the county for the
w. P. A. projects went for payment of
the fee. which was, paid separately by
the county to Mr.. Archer. He said
he had done considerable other legal
work for the county in addition to
that on the w. p. A. projects. but sub
mitted his bill only on the basis of
the w. P. A. work
Evening star., 1938-05-09
NEW JERUSALEM
OFFICERS NAMED
Senator Logan Will Make
Address Tonight Before
Church Session.

The Rev. F. Sidney Mayer Of Balti-
more was reelected president Of the
Church Of the New Jerusalem and all
other officers were named for a term
Of another year at the convention at
the Church Of the Holy City today.
Other officers elected were Lloyd A.
Frost. Cambridge, Mass, vice presi-
dent; Benjamin A. Whittlemore, ;,
Boston, secretary: Horace B. Blackmer
Maiden. Mass, assistant secretary, and
Albert p Carter. treasurer.
Those elected officers of the General
Council were the Rev Louis G. Hoeck,
Cincinnati. president Allen M.
Stearne, Frankfort. Pa, vice president.
and Charles N. Mason, New York
City, treasurer. State representatives
named to the council were the Rev.
Everett x. Bray, Massachusetts;
George Pausch, Maryland; John F.
Seekamp, New York; the Rev. Arthur
Wilde, Pennsylvania; William w.
Cutler and the Rev. Dirk Diephuis.
Illinois. Harry L. Cram. Maine, and
William M. Moody California.
Named to head the Council Of
Ministers were the Rev Leonard 1.
Tafel, Frankfort. Pa, chairman. and
the Rev. Frederic r. Crownfield.
Arlington. Mass, secretary.
At o'clock tonight, the delegates
will gather at the church, Sixteenth
and Corcoran streets NV. to hear
Senator Logan of Kentucky speak on
the Outlook for Religion
Yesterday the delegates held special
services at the church with the Rev.
S. J. c. Goldsack, former president Of
the New Church in Great Britain, as
principal speaker. He voiced a plea
for the carrying out of Emanuel
Swedenborgs perception of the tree
of life" in daily living to insure
happiness
Last night a service was held in the
auditorium under the auspices of the
Board of Home and Foreign Missions.
One of the speakers was Miss Mar
garet K. Montere, missionary from
Anking. China. who pronounced the
benediction in Chinese.
Evening star., 1938-05-09
A.P.PAPER HEADS
IN SESSION HERE
Senator 0'Mahoney to Talk
Tonight-The Star and
Post Are Hosts.

Two days sessions Of representatives
of Associated Press newspapers in
Maryland. Virginia and the District
Of Columbia opened this morning with
a business session at the Raleigh
Hotel.
The journalists consumed the morn.
ing in discussing mutual problems ano
means of meeting them.
The newspaper executives were to
be guests of Eugene Meyer, publisher
Of the Washington Post. at luncheon
today in his home This afternoon
was to be devoted to golf or the ball
game.
Senator Joseph G. O'Mahoney,
Democrat. of Wyoming is to be the
speaker at a dinner tonight at the
Raleigh Hotel. at which The Evening
Star is to be host
Tomorrow. the Post and Star will
join in giving luncheon for the
group.
Evening star., 1938-05-09
MAGAZINE STOCK
DATA REQUESTED
Minton Asserts S. E. G. Seeks to
Find if Rural Progress
Complied With Rules,
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Minton of the Senat,
Lobby Committee said today the Sc.
curities and Exchange Commission
had asked information on the testi.
mony of Maurice v. Reynolds, Chi.
cago, concerning the issuance of stock
and debentures for Rural Progress
magazine.
In testimony before the committee
last week. Mr. Reynolds. the publisher
read list of persons he said had OBJ
tanned 4 per cent debentures of the
company in return for loans. He also
testified stock was Issued to investors.
Chairman Minton said the S. E. C
officials indicated they wished to in
vestigate whether the issuance of the
debentures and stock certificates COM
piled with S. E. c. regulations.
The Lobby Committee, Senator Min
ton said, will continue it's investigation
of the magazine, edited by DR.. Glenn
Frank, chairman of the Republican
Party Policy Committee. Chairman
Minton charged at hearings that the
magazine was financed by Capitalists
to carry Subtle propaganda" against
administration policies.
The committee refused to permit
DR.. Frank to testify and he charged
the hearing was part of a campaign
to "terrorize and intimidate the press. :"
Evening star., 1938-05-09
ID. C.. Students
Are Included
In Who's Who

Eight Washingtonians attending
college here or in out-of town institu-
tions have been selected as outstand-
ing students for inclusion in the
Who's Who Among Students in Amer
lean Universities and Colleges.
The eight are Helen Jane Rogers,
2940 Brandywine street NV, Cornell
University; John Scott Coiner, s25
Somerset place. william and Mary:
Joseph Winfield Scott. 3s44 Calvert
street. Catholic University; Erma
Grayce Wooding. $3.50 Thirty-third
street NV, Wooster College; Frank
Leib Price. 70l Whittier street NV,
Washington and Lee University;
Edar Van l.. Fleming, 72l0 Fairfax
road. Wellesley College: Jay Loeb
Samuel, 2700 Connecticut avenue,
George Washington University, and
Mildred Louise Hearn, 1426 M street
NV. Maryland University.
Oliver K. Marshall, IT,, East Falls
Church. Va, also ,yas chosen q q
representative Of Il Citadel.
Evening star., 1938-05-09
JACKSON PRAISES
SUPREME COURT
Lauds Growing Hospitality to
Social and Economic Factors
in American Life.

Solicitor General Robert H. jackson
last night praised the Supreme Court
for Its growing hospitality to the
social and economic factors" in Amer
lean life
Speaking before the 7th annual
Washington dinner of Pi Gamma Mu,
national social sciences honor frater-
nifty at Catholic University, Mr.. Jack
son reviewed the progress made by
the Government and the Supreme
Court In clearing away constitutional
doubts with view to better under
standing of social and economic
problems
The speaker said the Federal Gov
eminent can no longer take refuge
behind constitutional doubts and
ignore the trials and tribulations of
the people"
Some European countries are ahead
of the United States in the matter of
old-age pensions and insurance, he
said.
Brief talks were made by the Right
Rev. Msgr. P. J. Mccormick, vice
rector of Catholic University; the
Very Rev. Francis E. Lucey regent of
Georgetown University Law School;
Dr. Delos O. Kinsman, economics pro-
fessor at American University: DR..
Lowell Ragatz, professor of history at
George Washington University: DR..
James j. Hayden, professor of law at
Catholic University and Dr. S.
Howard Patterson of the University of
Pennsylvania
Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah
was toastmaster.
Evening star., 1938-05-09
IRWIN P. DISNEY, II,
EXPIRES IN VIRGINIA
Retired Examiner of U. S. Patent
Office Will Be Buried
Tomorrow.

Funeral services for irwin P Disney.
y. retired examiner of the United
States Patent Office. who died Satur-
day of a heart attack at his home in
Gloucester County Va. will be held
here at 10 am tomorrow in Epworth
M. E. Church. Burial will be in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
A native of Baltimore. Mr. Disney
was educated in public schools there.
including the Baltimore City College.
Subsequently, he was graduated in
mechanical engineering at Cornell
University Returning to Baltimore,
he studied law and was admitted to
the bar there.
He came here in 1890 to begin work
at the Patent Office. He was made
a principal examiner in 1907 and In
October, 1919. was made a law ex-
aminer In July, 1880, he was made
examiner of interferences and held
the latter position until retired March
81. 1886.
Since his retirement his home had
been in Gloucester County, but hs
had frequently visited his children
in this city and at Relay, Md.
Evening star., 1938-05-09
DIVIDE ON PLAN
COMMANDMENTS
Senators Split on Special
Elections on Changes
in Constitution.

The plan to permit ratification of
constitutional amendments by popu-
lar vote in the States struck a new
snag in the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee today which may tie up the
proposal for the rest Of this Congress-
The committee postponed final ac-
ton, possibly for week. after six
out Of nine members voted for an
amendment to require the popular
vote on constitutional questions to be
taken at special elections instead of
on the regular biennial election days.
Senator Norris, Independent, Of
Nebraska, author of the popular vote
method of ratification is strongly op-
posed to the special election amend
ment. and intimated following today's
developments he is not anxious to
have the new plan brought forward
II that amendment stays in.
The Norris proposal itself requires
an amendment to the Constitution.
1t would not do away with the two
methods of ratification already al
lowed. namely, by the legislatures or
conventions. but would add the popu-
lar vote as third method which Con-
gress could designate on any particular
constitutional question.
The requirement for calling special
elections was supported by Senator
Austin, Republican, of Vermont He
was supported by Senators King, DEM
ocrat, Of Utah; Van Nuys, Democrat,
OF Indiana; Logan, Democrat, of Ken
lucky; Burke. Democrat, of Nebraska,
and Ashurst, Democrat, OF Arizona.
The three who voted against special
elections were Senator Norris and Sen
ators Nicely. Democrat. of West Vir-
ginia, and O'Mahoney, Democrat. of
Wyoming. The vote was not a COM
plete roll call and the absent members
are being polled this afternoon.
Under the Austin amendment, the
Federal Government would have to
reimburse the States for the cost Of
holding the special elections, instead
of voting on constitutional amend
ments at the same time candidates for
Congress and other offices are being
elected.
Evening star., 1938-05-09

The disturbance that was central over
Southwestern Ohio Sunday morning has
moved northeastward to Western New
York, Buffalo, 90 rs inches. and other
centers have developed over Wisconsin
and Michigan and over Eastern Virginia
and Eastern North Carolina, Houghton
E 2a;7s inches. A disturbance Of
ward over southeastern Nswfoundland; Sfo Ia d
inches. A minor disturbance is central
over Western Montana. Helena, 1896
inches. and pressure is relatively low over
Arizona and New Mexico, Phoenix, Ariz..
29.s4 inches. Pressure is low also over
Alaska. Atka. 29.2S inches. Pressure Is
high from Hudson Bay southwestward to
Manitoba and Saskatchewan and thence
southwark to the West Gulf Coast, Ches-
terfeld. district of Keewatin. 800 inches,
and Fort Smith. Ark. and Valentine.
Nebr., 1924 inches. Pressure is relatively
high along the North Pacific Coast, and
from the Bahamas eastward over the
ocean. North Head. Wash, 30.16 inches.
and s. s. Culberson. 30.12 inches. Show
ers have occurred in Minnesota and al
most generally east of the Mississippi River
and from the North Pacific Coast east
ward to Western Montana. The tenn
perature has risen in the Plains States
and the Southern Rocky Mountain region:
Ihile 1t has fallen from the Mississippi
Valley eastward. to the Atlantic Coast.
Unseasonably cold weather now prevails
Mountains