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Evening star., 1938-12-25
Gifts DeIuge Children
Of Staying Victim
Ey the Associated Press

Ly the hsSOCldleO pIeSS,
,ELYRIA. Ohio. Dec. pa sad
Christmas Eve. softened only by the
generosity of friends. was the lot
tonight of two little girls whose
father was killed as he attempted
to get them Christmas tree
Deputy sherifis took a pile of
gifts. tree and S26 cash to Geral-
dine Rousseau. H. and Sarah Rous-
seau, g. Their father. William Rous-
seau, was slain. and their mother
was shot critically yesterday as
William Case, "a. defended his
evergreens from depreciation.
Well give them the happiest
Christmas possible under the cir
cumstances," said a deputy
Case pleaded innocent to man.
slaughter, after being assured the
arraignment was a formality. end
was returned to Jail. Later his SON.
in-laW supplied bail of 81 00O Pros
ecutor Howard R. Butler said dis
position of the charge was up to a
grand jury, and indicated the case
might be considered justifiable
homicide.
Mrs. Rousseau, 90. struck by near
ly so shot, meanwhile was reported
improved Her 37-year-old husband
was killed instantly near his auto
mobile. to which Sheriff Carl E.
Finegan said the couple had tied
a small spruce.
The children were staying with
Rousseau's mother.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Pan-Ameritan ParIey
TO Be Shortest

When the Lima Conference comes
to a close Tuesday it will be the
shortest Pan-American conference
on record, according to the Pan
American Union. Opened on De-
cember 8, the conference will have
been in session only 18 days.
This is in marked contrast, Pan
American Union officials noted. with
the First International Conference
of American States, which lasted 6
months and II days. 1t met in
Washington on October %, 1889, and
did not adjourn until April 10, 1890.
The style for short and snappy
Pan-American meetings was not set
until 1888, when the seventh confer
ence, meeting in Montevideo, Uru-
quay, closed its labors % days after
it had opened All the other In
ternational Conferences of Amer
lean States have lasted a month or
more.
The second conference, held in
Mexico City, lasted exactly three
months, from October %, 1901, to
January %, 1902 The duration of
the third conference, which met in
Rio de Janelro, in 1906. was 80 days,
and the fourth conference, held in
Buenos Aires, tour years later, last
ed 49 days.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Slain Girls Family
Has Sad Christmas
By the Associated Press,

KINGSTON. Pa, Dec 24.-There
was but a pretense of Christmas
Eve cheer tonight in the home of
Margaret Martin, 10, victim of a de-
praved slayer, who was buried to-
day. nine years from the day Of
brothers funeral.
Margaret was carried to grave
beside that of her brother, whom
she watched die of childs disease
in 1929 at the age of a. He, too,
was buried the day before Christ
mas.
Friendly neighbors, whose SYM
pathy helped the girls parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Martin, through
a week of terror and fearful days
and nights. hung simple Christmas
decorations in the rooms where her
body lay this morning.
They planned Christmas dinner
for the family tomorrow.
Margaret's brother and sisters
have been staying at the home of
relatives and friends since her nude
body was found Wednesday cram
med in gunny sack and submerged
in a mountain brook near Tunk-
hammock, 30 miles from here
They will be at home tomorrow
to exchange the gifts which they
had planned before Margaret left
home last Saturday in response to
a telephoned offer of a stenogra-
piers job.
Her slayer has not been found
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Dies Witness Cleared
OF False Pretenses
p, tho Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec 24-Jacob Spo-
lansky, discharged Wayne County
deputy sheriff and one-time wit
ness before the Dies Congressional
Committee. was acquitted today of
a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Justice of the Peace Stanley A.
Grendel, who tried the case. said
there was insufficient proof that
Spolansky had taken $40 from a
tavern proprietor on promise of
assistance in obtaining a liquor
license
Spolansky averred that the charge
was preferred against him Ito dis
credit the Dies Committee and
blacken my character"
Testifying before the Dies Com
mittee on Alleged Communistic in
fuences in Michigan sit-down
strikes, Spolansky said that Sheriff
Thomas c. Wilcox had threatened
to discharge him if he appeared as
a witness. The sheriff denied at
the time that he had any such in
tention. Spolansky was discharged
recently after he had been arrested
on the charge of which he was
acquitted today.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
PART FOUR.
Failure in All Jobs,
He Now Seeks Office

BY the Associated Press.
PANA, ILL.,, Dec. 24-J. T. Slater
is a candidate for supervisor and
this is the appeal, in part, he sent
to the voters of his township:
II can't get a job anywhere so
I can make enough to get off re-
lief. ."
when one has made failure in
everything else he has tried he ought
to make good at something
"Now, if you want to vote for
some one that has made a failure
in most every walk of life, except
telling the truth, vote for me-.
II have made a failure on w. P.
A. aid also relief"
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Burke to Talk on Labor Act
Speaks in Forum Tomorrow Night
On Amendment Needs

The National Labor Relations Act
and necessary amendments will be
the subject of an address by Senator
Edward r. Burke of Nebraska in the
National Radio Forum at 1890
o'clock tomorrow night. The Ma
tional Radio Forum is arranged by
The Star and broadcast over a net
work of the National Broadcasting
Co. The program is heard locally
through Station WMAL.
Senator Burke has made an in
tensive study of the National Labor
Relations Act and its administra-
ton. During the recess of Congress
he travelled in Europe and studied
the labor laws in number Of coun-
tries there. He has very definite
ideas of what should be done to i'm
prove the National Labor Relations
Act.
Amendment of the act Is expected
to be one of the foremost subjects
for consideration at the coming ses-
sion of Congress. 1t is expected that
Senator Burke, Democrat, will SUBJ
nit his proposed amendments In
legislative form.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Probe 'Peeping Tom
Theory in Murder
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CANON CITY. Colo, Dec. "a
District Attorney E. NJ Eagleton
disclosed today he was investigating
a theory that a ''peeping tom stran-
gled Mrs. Mona Atterbury, 3l-year-
old clubwoman, in her home We'd
nescday night.
Pressing an investigation after a
coroner's jury found that Mrs. At
terbury died of strangulation by
a person or persons unknown Mr..
Eagleton reported he had learned
of at least four recent "peeping tom
incidents in the residence section
of the Atterbury home.
DR.. R. L. Atterbury, the dead
-Uomans osteopath husband, testi-
fed at the inquest last night that
he found her body at the foot of
their homes cellar steps when he
returned from call on patient.
DR.. Atterbury testified his wife
carried S12,500 in life insurance. He
said he was named the beneficiary
for $1,000 of that amount.
Dr. and Mrs. Atterbury were mar
ried year and half ago.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Republicans Gain
Full Control Of
Keystone Senate
Democrat Resigns to
.Tuke Coroner's Post
In Allegheny
By the Associated Press.

oJ the ASSOClAtoO 6Te6S.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 24-Re-
tirement of Democrat left Repub-
licans today with numerical strength
to organize the State Senate and
thus make complete their return to
power in Pennsylvania.
Control of the Senate was the
only prize Republicans failed to
wrest from the Democrats in the
November election.
P. j. Henney of Allegheny County
decided he would retain his post as
county coroner and give up the SEN
ate seat. His right to hold both had
been questioned.
His action assured the forces of
Governor ELECT Arthur H. James the
strength. 1924, to organize the
Senate-a power Democrats be-
lieved they held up to now.
Thus clear path for Republican
policies in the Legislature was
opened for the first time since
George H. Earle's little New Deal"
interrupted a 44-year Republican
reign in 1884.
The House went Republican on
the tide of James huge vote but
"holdover" Senators had given the
Democrats 1924 edge in the upper
chamber.
One of the listed Democrats, We'll
den C. Hepburn, transferred his
allegiance to the Republicans re-
Gently in statement of policy.
bringing on deadlock that could
have-and would have-been bro
ken by the vote of Democratic It,
Gov. Thomas Kennedy.
Mr.. Kennedy's authority extends
through the January 3 reorganiza-
tion and ends January II, when
the Republican-el elect, Samuel S.
Lewis, assumes the chair.
A special election to fill the Hen
ney vacancy cannot be held before
the reorganization date.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Bolivia Reported
Opening Vast Areas
To Reich Refugees
Homesteuders Offered
125 Acres and Other
Inducements
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Word was received here yesterday
that Bolivia had taken action that
might open her vast empty spaces
to thousands of refugees from Ger
many.
The Bolivian government has
passed resolution stating that the
frontiers of Bolivia are open to all
the world, sane of body and mind,
who desire to come to work the rich
lands which are granted to them
gratuitously
Rich Land Is Offered.
simultaneously it was learned the
government has decided to offer
homesteaders so hectares (about 125
acres) of land, free passage from
the Bolivian frontier for immigrants
and their families and free entry
for their household belongings and
agricultural tools. Most of the land
set aside for colonization is reported
to be rich but far from commercial
centers and the frontiers.
Jewish immigrants agriculturally
inclined could obtain specific per-
mission to enter from the ministry
of colonization.
Population About 5000, 900.
Bolivia, only landlocked South
American republic, is equal in size
to the combined States of Califor-
mia, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico, yet has a population
of only slightly more than 100000.
Farming, grazing and mining are
the chief occupations.
German, Czecho-Slovak, Polish
and Rumanian citizens already have
begun to trickle into the country.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Married Men Improved

BOSTON. Mass, Dec. "a LP).-Tip-
ping perhaps, is becoming-more or
less-a bachelors diversion.
Penal Institutions Commissioner
John j. Douglas reported a survey
showed far fewer married men were
serving drunkenness sentences than
in previous years.
There was no decrease in the
number of single men serving SIM
liar sentences.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illi-
nois, said yesterday he was consid-
ering resigning his post as Demo-
cratic whip of the Senate.
Senator Lewis said he had several
legislative measures which he wished
to push in the forthcoming session
OF Congress. He explained that as
whip of the Senate he was pre-
vented from attaching his name to
any legislation because of the i'm
piled authority the whip wields in
mastering support within party
ranks for any administration meas
ure.
Senator Lewis said Vice President
Garner had asked him to retain his
post so that the official lineup of
the Senate would not be disturbed
IN the next session. Because of Mr..
Garners request, Senator Lewis
said. he had made no final decision
in the matter.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Suntu Goes Modern

CASHTON, Wis, Dec. "a P).-
Cashton's Santa Claus went mod
ern this year. Instead of sleigh,
Santa came riding into town on the
village fire truck, calling his Merry
Christmas to the accompaniment
of a fire siren instead of sleigh bells.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Weather Report

somewhat colder at nght
tomorrow increasing probably
winds mostly westerly today
cloudy uries in west portion today some
followed
raj in and portion by night
colder night tomorrow
probably followed light north portion
and colder night
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Syracuse Editor Dies

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. "a CP).-
Harvey D. Burrill, president of the
Syracuse Newspapers, Inc, and edi-
tor of the Syracuse Journal and the
Syracuse Sunday American. died to-
night after an illness of three
months. He was 10 years old.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Readers Guide
News Summary
The Sunday Star, Dec. rs, 1898.
PART ONE.
Foreign.
Main NeDs Section.

Foreign.
Americas form solid front against
aggression. Page Al
Nazis put future of U. S. relations
up to Roosevelt. Page Al
Pope accuses high Fascists of dam
aging concordat. Page Al
Bolivia reported opening land to
Reich refugees. Page Az
Base ready for quarter mile-high
Soviet palace. Page A-3
Insurgents report big gains in Tremp
sector. Page "A
Hull lauds Lima declaration as de-
fense warning. Page AS
French reclaim land given Italy in
voided pact. Page AS
Reich providing Yule cheer for Afri-
can colonists. Page Al
National.
Roosevelt pledges ceaseless work
for peace Page Al
McCarran to seek higher wage level
for U. S. employees. Page Al
Coster- -Musica visits to R. F. c. are
revealed here Page Al
Homer Martin reported planning to
leave C. I. o. Page AS
National Guard called out in Okla
homa refinery strike. Page Al
Rookie Representative expects 1000
at dinner. Page AS
Woshinoton and Neorby
Wife returns from hospital, finds
husband dead of gas. Page Al
Rabbi Abram Simon dies of heart
attack at Shoreham. Page Al
Survey Of stores here shows i'm
provement in business. Page Al
School building program here urged
by King. Page A-16
Marriage wait rule in prospect for
Fairfax. Page A-16
Mrs. Roosevelt attends seven Christ
mas Eve parties. Page Ais
Miscellany.
Smashing the spy ring Page 40
Vital statistics. Page A-10
Obituary. Page A-10
The Holy Terror" Page C-8
Sports.
lo major games on rugged exhibition
list for Nationals Page ALL
Advance of amateur sports high
lights athletic year here.
Pages A-l2-13
Joe Harrison. with scratch TOT. rolls
record for Star event Page Ala
Top Row, Roman Soldier prove turfs
exciting bargains. Page Ais
Evening star., 1938-12-25
ShoII's Feeds Needy

More than 200 baskets of food
were distributed yesterday by Sholl's
Cafe to needy families in the city.
Patrons gave names of needy cases
and the cafe made the Christmas
distributions.
Evening star., 1938-12-25
weather Conditions Last 81 Hours.

disturbance of increasing intensity
has developed about so miles south
east of Nantucket probably moving north
eastward with lowest pressure about 1880
inches. Pressure is low over Western
Quebec and the North Atlantic States.
Lac Dore. Quebec. 29.5s inches. new
disturbance is moving rapidly southeast
ward over the northern Rocky Mountain
region. Calgary, Alberta. 1850 inches.
Pressure continues high over the plateau
region and the West Gulf States: Salt
Lake City Utah 304O inches. while q
high pressure area is moving rapidly
southeastward over Manitoba. WINNIPEG;
3O12 inches. Pressure continues to rise
over Alaska and the Mackenzie Valley,
Aklavik District of Mackenzie, 30.7s
inches During the last "a hours there
has been rather general precipitation In
the Atlantic and Gulf States and some
light snow in the lake region, the northern
plains and the upper Mississippi Valley.
Colder weather has overspread Manitoba
and Western Ontario.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah clear at
Evening star., 1938-12-25
River Report.
Harpers Ferry late yesterday.
R.port Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Record Unth 10 Pm. Saturday.

Record UntN 10 Pm. Saturday.
Highest 43. 8 pm. yesterday. Year
Lowest, IS. 5 pm. yesterday. Year
ago, "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 90 on August Is.
Lowest, Is. on January %.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises Sets
Sun, today - 7:25 am. 4:5l pm.
sun tomorrow - 7:25 am. 4;51 pm.
Moon today -,---- 9:36 am. S:44 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-12-25

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Evening star., 1938-12-25
Woshinoton and Neorby.
MiseeIIony.

Smashing the spy ring. Page 40
Vital statistics. Page A-10
Obituary. Page A-10
The Holy Terror Page C-8
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
Into the City Class

The census bureau moves a
town into the city class when its
population reaches $500. Accord
ing to that bureau, a city is an
incorporated place having $500 or
more inhabitants, or a township
or other political subdivision
which is not incorporated as
municipality and contains no area
SO incorporated, but which has
total population of 10000 or more
and population density of at
least 1000 to the square mile. Of
course, the purpose of the census
bureau is to classify population
and not to designate any particu-
lar urban center as a city or town.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Georges Bonnet,
l ' Frances new foreign minister,
has been a vigorous advocate of a
British French-American alliance.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
PROVIDENTIAL

ID you mean to stand there and
tell me that you fell from the top
of a ladder and didn't hurt your
self?"
Yes! You see, had a hammer
in my hand at the time, and broke
my fall with it," - Stray Stories
Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
New Study

New Study
Heidi you ever take chloro-
form?
She-No, who teaches it?
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12

Large needles-four- strand of
string, pearl cotton or wool-a
simple stitch! You'll knit this
blouse in no time. Pattern 1709
contains directions for this blouse
and a plain knitted skirt in sizes
1913 and 38-40 (all in one pat
term; illustrations of blouse and
stitches.
Send Is cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft
Dept, 81 Eighth Ave, New York.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
Males might Owls"

A Minnesota scientist has an
nounced that, among most insects,
males stay out at night later than
females. He discovered this while
testing the attraction of farm bugs
to various colored lights to get them
to swarm against battle plates at
night and drop into poisonous solu-
tons.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
WRONG SIDE

Better plead guilty" said Sans
lawyer. The judge will give you
only two years in jail at the out
side"
"Yaas," replied the colored man
obviously, 'de trouble is, dem two
years at the outside will be on de
inside. "-Pathfnder Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
men LOVE GIRLS
WITH PEP

IL you are poppy and full Of fun, men viii In
vite you to dances and parties. BUT, if YOU
are cross, hfeiess and tired, men won't be
interested. Men don't like "ouiet'' girls.
For three generations one woman has told
another how 10 go smiling through with
Lydia p. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 1t
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
orders which women must endure.
Make note NOW to get bottle OF world
famous Pinkham's Compound today WITH
OUT FAIL from your druggist-more than q
porting benefit.
Why not try LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND?
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
Sugiyan1o
Tells Diet
to Behave

triumvirate, this was no casual edi-
torial I'VE"
While he is fifty-eight years old,
he hits big-time politics with a
strong momentum, not a contender
for high place until 1886, and hence
not track-sore, like some of his RI
walls. He did not become a general
until 1886, after the army revolt
early in that year. He had been
vice-minister of war and head of
the military air force.
His heavily undressing face rest
ing, reckless, on a heavy torso, is
symmetrical, with one eyebrow al
ways cooked, one side watchful and
mobile. the other hardened in
the set of a Benda mask of a dicta-
tor. He is of the army caste, gradu-
ated from the national military col
lege. He represented Japan in the
1926 disarmament conference at
Geneva, remaining in Europe for
several years thereafter.
G Consolidated News Features,
WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12

l ' Frances new foreign minister,
has been a vigorous advocate of
British-F rench-American alliance.
He is regarded as
french May more in accord
Join Four with the Chamber
Poryer Pact lain policies than
his predecessors.
With the downfall Of the Left gov
eminent, the conclusion of an Anglo
Italian agreement and the appoint
ment of NJ. Bonnet, interpreters OF
European politics see an advance
toward four-power pact, possibly
five-power. with Poland in, and the
further isolation and immobiliza-
ton of Russia.
The abandonment of the
French-Soviet treaty is expected
to be an immediate issue in what
is regarded as a sharply clari-
flying outline of dominant cOnser-
vative policy i'm France and
England.
M. Bonnet, Shrewd. suave. dreSSy,
is a somewhat rakish figure. with
his hat usually on the back of his
head. but a parsonage of power and
dignity in the political forum. He
is of the younger school of French
politics. and. in that connection. one
of the best Jai Alai players in
France.
At his country place at st.
GEORGES de Didonne he snends
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
Spotlight
Hou on Jap
Strong Man

ment spotlightS several likely-look-
ing strong men" as possible sue
cessors to Premier Konoye.
The only one with apparently
clearly formulated ideas, and flu
ent line of totalitarian talk is War
Minister General Hajimi Sugiyama.
After several years of Euro
pean postgraduate studies in di-
rect action, he returned to talk
of national renovation" ''de-
cadent parliamentarianism
unity and discipline" the the
like. More than any other lead
er, he employs the standard
Technology of fascism-if that
means anything.
On May q, 1887. he gave the diet
quite a lacing and said that it would
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
All, YeSi

Someone told a film star that she
knew nothing of love.
Il know all about it," was the
reply. II was frightfully fond of
my third husband"
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12
M. Bonnet
Cuts Didos
on Estate

But, in craftsmanship, he is no rub
ber-heeled bounding basque. He
is rather a wary and adroit fencer.
When he was appointed ambas-
sador to the United States in Janu-
airy. 1887, he brought with him
years supply Of truffles and pate
de foies gras. He had to take
most of it back. however. as, in
July, he was recalled to save the
franc in the Chautemps cabinet.
He was supposed to have
saved it, but, as usual. 1t didn't
stay saved, and, in the turn of
the Ferris wheel, which is
French politics, he was down.
under and up again.
He is an economist, but also q
philosopher and author, in the cham
Der of deputies from southwest
France at the age of thirty-six and
a former minister OF budget, pen
sions and finance. He budgets
few wisps of hair carefully across
his bald pate and surveys the world
warily through gold-rimmed spec
tacleS.
TAPANS strongly authoritarian
y government with its feudal car
ry-over, has never fitted exactly into
any of the molds of ultra-modern
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12

abSolutiSm. The
intenSifying issue
of faScism which
may force out the
present govern
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-05-12

have to behave, or
I'VE will dissolve
it," Since he was
then a member of
the ruling military
Evening star., 1938-02-27

ties have never sought its aid. It
would not be surprising If there were
favorable developments soon in the
long war between the administration
and the private power companies.
1t is quite probable that next month
will witness the freeing of the political
log jam in Congress and the emer-
gence Of measures producing senti-
mental, if not great practical, bene-
fits to business. Among these Is the
tax bill.
Low Believed Reached.
The business recession has now ex-
tended over period of six months, but
with positive phases for only half this
time. BY various indexes, it has
reached bottom. That is the belief of
many observers. It's effects on the ma
tional economy are reflected in a drop
In employment, from the middle Of
October to January IS, of 100000
people, and total to date well above
100000. At the low average mini
mum of SIS . week, this represents q
reduction in purchasing power of
nearly 5000, ,000, 900 a month.
(CopyriEht. 1898. By the North American
Newspap per Alliance, Inc.)