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Evening star., 1938-02-16
Civic Theater Plav
Opens Tonight.

"GEORGE AND MARGARET" Ger
aid Savory's farce. opens tonight
at $50 at the Wardman Park Theater
for q run Of four days. Heading the
cast Of this play, which is the WASH
ington Civic Theater's benefit for it.
self, Is Maud Howell Smith, we'll
known and well-loved Washington
actress. who will play the role of Mrs.
Garth-Bander. dizzy mother of . dizzy
family. F. Cowles Strickland. the
Civic's versatile director. will play Mr..
Garth-Bander and Harry Macarthur
is also in the cast. Reservations may
be made by calling District 1900.
Evening star., 1938-02-16
Now Martha Raye
Slings the Bull.

EXECUTIVES in Paramount's Holly
wood studio have began a Ma
TONY wide search for a contented bull
to be used in a bullfight sequence in
"Tropic Holiday" the pretentious mu-
sicsl pacture now in production. with
Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Bob
Burns, Ray Mllland. Tio Guizar. Bin
ME Barnes and Porter Hall in leading
roles
Martha Raye is to play the role of
hasn't had training in this branch of
Evening star., 1938-02-16

panies and asked her father to exer-
else the promise made by R-K-O.
She is now in the studio school and
will make her motion picture debut
soon, probably in her daddy's next
picture, 1T Couldn't Happen Again."
Evening star., 1938-02-16

The jury. we think, has done . bit
better with its decision on the most
thrilling singing voice among Holly
woods high c girls. Gladys Swarthout,
It's members have concluded after due
deliberation. is the lady with the most
moving infections. After Miss Swarth-
out come Jeanette Macdonald, Helen
Gahagan. Lily Pons and Grace Moore
Maybe they won't like 1t, but that Is
the order in which the eight brave
men selected them.
Behind Miss Francis, the non -sing-
ing actresses are ranked In the follow
ing order: Joan Crawford, Greta
Garbo, Carole Lombard and Marlene
Dietrich.
The jurors, to whom you can write
nasty letters of condemnation If you
want to bother. were Gary Cooper
John Boles. John Barrymore. Fred
MacMurray, Bing Crosby. George Raft,
Randolph Scott, John Howard and
Lew Ayres. All Of them Paramount
players, they at least were not home
ward looking angels in their selections
Indeed. in spite Of the fact that the
ballot was a secret affair. the boys
defled the circumstance that Miss
Lombard and Miss Dietrich were most
dangerous with respect to slapping
distance.
INCIDENTALLY, however thrill
appeal voices came into this corner
1t may be interesting to know that it
Is the most exciting quality of either
screen females or males. Bearer of
these glad tidings is Mr.. Rufus Blair
Of the Paramount press department,
In town to discuss some of the more
occult phases of glamor with repre-
sentatives OF the local press.
Responsible for the judgment that
the voice is the open gate to the
emotions of fans of all sexes is DR.
Funston Niebuhr, psychologist, whose
name makes his judgment sound q
lot more scientific than that OF the
eight actors who picked Miss Francis
Any one who wants to practice thrill
Ing ones self in front of the mirror
might as we'll start with the knowledge
that after the voice as excitement fac
tors come hair Tin the case of uomen,,
eyes. face as a whole. figure as . whole
and last. legs. Hah!
Maybe you will want to think of the
whole thing as 'Neibuhr's folly"
which is all right with us. And per-
haps with him
ONE juvenile who ought to inspire
others to break the Hollywood
jinx is Jackie Cooper. Young Mr..
Cooper. now IT, comes to Metropoli-
tan on Friday in Boy Of the Streets, -
which. whatever else it proves. will
demonstrate that it is not an impera-
tive that adolescence and acting do not
mix. Right through the period when
most of his predecessors dropped out
Of pictures due to gangling figures and
missing teeth, Jackie went right along.
Mitzi Green. who went on the radio 80
people couldn't see her growing up,
could not do Cooper's stunt. Neither
could Madge Evans nor Jackie Coogan
Maybe there's hope for Shirley
Temple and Freddie Bartholomew
Twentieth Century-Fox and Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer certainly hope So And
30 do lots Of others in this and remote
latitudes.
incidentally. with respect to Shirley
1t might be we'll to pass along the
Evening star., 1938-02-16
Laughter May Aid Illness.

Hearty laughter may cause an at
tack of hay fever. which is often the
forerunner OF asthma; is the discovery
just reported by the Asthma Research
Council of England,
The Valley settler., 1938-12-09

TIE VALLEY SETTLER is published every friday by tho Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperative Associ- otion at Palmer, Alaska.
 Ming. Editor: Mrs. Ivan Wilson Subscription rates: $l.ooyeor by mail: 1s5O mailed anywhere: log copy This paper is issued for tho pur-- pose of giving inf ormation and news of the Matanuslzo Valley Farmers Cooportin5 Association 's work, problems, accomp shnents, and also, news of local and gon- eral interests; and to holp fost- e. the cooperative spirit of the farmers of the Mat0nusl1a Valloys
The Valley settler., 1938-12-09

WOTkS pTOD1GlaSs 0CCOnpIl SInnGnUS,
 and also, news of local and gon-
 eral interest; and to holp fost-
 e. the cooperative spirit of the farmers of the Matonuska Valloyo
 Cont from page one.
 clear profit as ono 4oo-pounG COW. It takes nearly four 3oO-pound COWS to make as much. clear profit as one 5OO-pound COW. This proven record shows why we must not
 cross-b bre ed, but stick to one breed and keep our best COWS at ell times. Always improve the herd with good proven-hord siros. An official test run on 46, 900 Guernseys show their average butter fat production to bo fraction over 500 pounds. Over enthus ia tic sales 1itorture s sOmo imes inford that this pro- duction is a fair average for the brood. Such an inference is Of course, altogether misleading. This is m average obtained only by the choicest selected animals of the breed, cared for by the most skilled handlers, under the most favorable conditions. Guernsey dairies do not generally average moro than 300 pounds of butter fat per year, and this includes good handling, careful feeding and good breeding, as is always the rule to obtain best results. ~.. Now, compare these records with those made the past year at our own Experimental Farm and we may be able to judge what can be- ex- pectod from Guernsey herds here in the valley.
The Valley settler., 1938-12-09

5
 Three average selected Guernsey COWS wore uSod for this produc- tion test. These COWS Wero fed one pound of grain to each 5 lbs or milk produced to-gother with hay and s ore silaCe.
 Cow no.
 total It's .ra11k produced 7553e2 average test 4s47 total lbs ,butter fat 337. .63 Cow no.2.
 total lbs milk produced 7O3O.2 average test 5.3 total lbs. butter fat 377>9 Cow no.3
 total lbs. .mi lk produced 7ol8.7 average test 5.37 total lbs. but ter fat 376.9 This gives concrete figures and facts under local condi t i ons. Another imp ortont item to tho dairyman is the cost of raising calves till the time of produc- ticn. For these. facts too ue rofor to the Extension Servi co. lIore is tho results Of q calf feeding experiment. which ran l66 days, winter months. Thoso calves were started on whole mi | fec from the pail. In appr oxi- mately 2l days thoy Wero eating dry feed and Wero CiVon Q dry ground grain Concentrate in addition to oat and pea hay. Following is the formula for mixed grain fed, the estimated prices figured and the weight
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30

WASHINGTON, d. c., July "a
February 25th's date is not printed
in color on the calendar, but it is
a "red letter" day to the nearly
10000 600 motor vehicles operators
in the United States. It signaIizes,
according to information made pub
lie by the American Petroleum In.
dustries committee, the 18th birth
day" Of the gasoline tax In the
United States. tax which has
cost motorists more than $1,000
100000 since 1919, and currently
costs them nearly $1,O00,00O,O0O a
year
The first gasoline tax, levied by
Oregon in 1919 to finance high
ways, cost motorist taxpayers
about s1,000,000 the first year, the
tax rate being only one cent a gal
lon. BY 1929, however, all the states
were imposing gasoline taxes. By
1882 the federal government had
imposed a duplicating tax on gas
oline, and state gasoline tax rates
were several times the original
levy.
It is estimated that the total cost
of state gasoline taxes to date has
been $6,16S, 900, 900, and that motor
lists have paid an additional $685.
$4,000 in federal gasoline taxes,
making a total of $7,144, 5S5, 900.
While the revenue has been col
lected to finance state highways, a
proportion has been diverted to
purposes unrelated to roads. It is
estimated that in 1897 nearly 20
percent was spent for non-highway
purposes.
California leads all the states
in total gasoline taxes paid, $527,-
$50, 900 since 1923. Pennsylvania is
second with s4S7, $1,000 paid since
1921, and New York is third with
S473. 172,000 paid since 1929. Other
large taxpayers include Ohio, $780,
$4,000; Texas, 1886, las, 900; nli-
nois, $S21,326,O0O; and Michigan,
$3O5, 567, 600.
California stands first also in
state gasoline taxes paid, the total .
being $446,6O4,0O Pennsylvania is
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30

second with $4zI, e2S, 900, and Ohio
is third with $z12,661, 900. New
York stands fourth with a total Of
1882, 9S7, 900, and Texas is fifth with
1892, 1882, 900.
Motorists of New York state are
the largest contributors to the du-
plicating federal gasoline tax, hav-
ing paid $90,1s5, 900 since 1882.
California, with total of sS1, Ill.,
600, stands second in the federal
field. Pennsylvania is third with
$65, 1885, 900, Illinois fourth with $780,
oil, 900, and Ohio fifth with $751;
101, 900.
Actually, the motorists Of New
York state have been the heaviest
contributors to gasoline tax income,
the state being one of the last to
impose a tax upon gasoline. Thus
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30

New York motorists have paid
1882, 1887 900 in state gasoline taxes
in eight years as against s446, 064, :
900 paid in California in IA years.
New York leads also in the d.
version of gasoline tax and other
automotive tax revenue to non-high-
way purposes, the estimated total
of such diversion through 1897 ex-
ceeding 100000. 900. This is more
than four times as much as has
been diverted by any other state.
and is equivalent approximately to
one-third of total diversions by all
states. The bulk OF the mony di-
verted in New York and other
states has gone for general pur-
poses"
Following is a table showing
total cost of state and federal gas
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30

MILEAGE AND STATUS OF
IMPROVEMENT or MONT ANA'S
ENLARGED SEVEN PER CENT
PRIMARY ROAD SYSTEM
Evening star., 1938-09-18
1892 Fire IN Port Tobacco
Re-enacted as Climax of Fair
History of Charles County From 1888
to 1892 Portrayed in Pageant
Drama in -Four Episodes.
BY BLAIR BOLLES,
Star Stan Correspondent,

LA PLATA Nd Sept 1.-THE old Charles County courthouse at Port
the edhaton
County Fair.
OF
Evening star., 1938-09-18
C0LORED VAGRANT GETS
HEAVY JAIL SENTENCE

Samuel Thompson. colored, no fixed
address, was sentenced in TRAFFIC Court
yesterday to pay fine Of 5000 or
serve 180 days In Jail on a charge Of
tampering with an automobile parked
near the Smithsonian Institution.
Judge Edward M. Curran imposed
the sentence. Thompson was arrested
Thursday and arraigned in court Fri
day, declaring he had not been ar
rested previously. A check of his fin
gerprints ordered by Judge Curran
showed that the colored man had but
recently been released from a one-year
Jail sentence for vagrancy.
Robert E. Bradley, 28, colored, of
1915 Twelfth street NV, pleaded
guilty to four charges of failing to
obey a stop sign and one Of speeding
when arraigned before Judge Curran.
He was sentenced to pay SO on each
@ The I've shAreoA
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Walker and Eugene o. Sykes as men,

Walker and Eugene O. Sykes as men,
bers.
The committee held several meet
ings last week to discuss plans for the
investigation and, it is understood. to
perfect bill of particulars to be fol-
lowed in seeking the information
needed to aid it in its findings.
Much information already has been
gathered from the files and from COM
plants registered with the body. The
preliminary work has been done under
the direction Of William j. Dempsey,
who was named as special counsel in
the investigation.
1t is understood the hearings will
begin here early next month.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
YORKTOWN MOVIE
TO Be SEEN HERE
Show Planned to Prepare
Parties for Trip to
Shrines Later.

Two movies Of Yorktown and James,
town, the first dealing with the famous
siege and CORVALLIS surrender and
the second describing the site Of the
f1rst permanent English settlement In
North America. will be shown Thurs
day evening under the auspices Of the
Of1ice Of National Capital Parks to
prepare Washingtonians for a repeat
weekend trip Saturday. October /, to
the Colonial National Historical Park,
Williamsburg, Va.
The movies will be shown at 8 pm,
IN Fort Bunker Hill Park Ampht-
theater, Fourteenth and Perry streets
NE.
The weekend trip is to leave ut &
pm. October on a Norfolk A Wash.
lngton Steamboat Co. boat and return
at m. Monday. Total cost to adults
Tor the trip will be $3.50 and for
children from S to IL, s11.
c. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
OF National Capital Parks, said today
the first trip to the historical virginia
sites proved so popular a second be-
came necessary.
This weeks campfire program at
Pierce Mill picnic ground features
DR.. Harold c. Bryant, supervisor Of
research and education, T.. S. National
Park Service, in an illustrated talk
entitled John Muir-Naturalist." AL
though blinded in early life. Muir
was one OF the worlds outstanding
naturalists. Special buses, marked
campfire program" will leave Six
teenth and Park road NV. at 7:3o
and pm.
Three nature walks are listed for
the coming week. Two, one starting
at $50 am. tomorrow and another
at 2:30 pm. Saturday. will be con-
Quoted by Ranger Naturalist Arthur
w. Shively through upper Fort Dupont
Park. Those taking the walk have
been instructed to meet Mr.. Shively
on Alabama avenue at Boulevard
street Sc.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
WIFE0F PANAMA ENVOY
' WILL CHRISTEN VESSEL
First Of Three Cargo Steamers for
Central American Line Takes
to Water Saturday.

The first of three cargo passenger
steamers being built for the Panama
Railroad Steamship Line will be
launched Saturday at the Fore River
plant Of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corp. at Quincy, Mass, the War De-
partment announced yesterday
The ship will be christened Panama
by Mrs. Raquel de la Guardia de
Boyd, wife Of the Panama Minister,
DR.. Augusta S. Boyd. Secretary of
War Woodring will be represented at
the ceremonies by Brig. Gen. George
p. Tyner. assistant chief Of the gen.
eral stan.
The new vessel is to have the most
modern OF safety appliances and to be
completely fireproof, it is said. In
addition to all the safety features re-
ouired by law, the vessel embodies
many devices which are said to make
It practically unsuitable.
The ship will have accommodations
for 2o6 first-class passengers and crew
Of 130 men. When completed It will
have cost more than 1000 900
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Convention
Continued From Page I'D

Management Responsibility to Soci-
ety.; Robert J. Watt. American
workers delegate to the International
Labor Office, "Labor's Aims and Re-
sponsibilities
Other speakers on the eight gen.
eral sessions programs will be DR..
Karl T. Compton, president Of the
Massa chusetts Institute Of Technol-
ogy; Oswald w. Knauth, president
of the Associated Dry Goods Corp.
Of New York, and w. j. Cameron OF
the Ford Motor Co.
OniciaIs to Be Heard.
Between sessions leading Govern
ment officials will discuss problems
and opportunities created by the re-
lationship of the New Deal to man.
agement of the country's industries.
These officials will talk at din
ner meeting Of the Society for the
Advancement of Management. Wash
ington Chapter, at the Washington
Hotel at $50 pm. Wednesday. Speak
ers will include William o. Douglas,
chairman of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission; j. Warren Mad
den, chairman of the National Labor
Relations Board; Arthur j. Altmeyer,
chairman of the Social Security Board,
and DR.. Harlow S. Person, consultant
in business economics and manage
ment and past president Of the Tay-
lor Society. John M. Carmody, ad-
ministrator OF rural electrification
and past president Of the Society of
Industrial Engineers, will preside.
Sponsoring the congress is the In
ternational Committee of Scientific
Management, Of which Arthur Hopf
Of New York is deputy president. The
committees American affiliate is the
National Management Council, which
includes the American Management
Association. American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers, Association of
Consulting Management Engineers, In
ternational City Managers Association,
Life Office Management Association
and the Society for the Advancement
Of Managers.
Eighteen other affiliated organiza-
tions, representing thousands of men,
bers of many fields of management,
include: American Dietetic Association,
American Engineering Council, Amer
lean Home Economics Association,
American Institute of Accountants,
American Marketing Association,
American Standards Association,
American Statistical Association, the
Brookings Institution, Controllers In
stitue of America, Edison Electric In
stitute, General Federation Of Wom-
ems Clubs, Illuminating Engineering
Society, National Association OF Cost
Accountants, National Association of
Manufacturers, National Association of
Purchasing Agents. National Farm
Chemurgic Council, National Indus
trial Conference Board, Inc, and the
New England Council.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Japan Nears Rail Line.

SHANGHAI, Sept. II. [Pl-Japanese
forces driving westward north of the
Yangtze River toward Hankow re-
ported tonight they had captured
Hwangchwan, in Honan Province. and
continued to within so miles OF the
important Peiping- -Hankow railway.
The Japanese are aiming at Sim
yang, on the rail line, from which
it is only 100 miles due south along
the railway to Hankow. They said
they captured Hwangchwan after q
five-hour attack which was reported
to have driven the Chinese into re-
treat near Loshan.
A second Japanese column operating
westward south OF the Yangtze re-
ported it had reached = point about
so miles southwest of Kiukiang
Yangtze River base Of naval opera
tions against Hankow.
Evening star., 1938-09-18

Babe Ruth. just misses being the
grand old man Of the Charles County
Fair. That distinction is reserved for
Walter H. Mudd, superintendent of
grounds. distant relative Of that DR..
Mudd who attended the hurts Of
Booth when Lincoln's assassin was
fleeing Washington.
Mr.. Mudd was guest last night at
the dinner for cattlemen given at the
fair grounds. When he was intro
duced, he made it known that it was
his 10th birthday anniversary, and
almost every day Of all his years were
spent in Charles County. Somebody
suggested that he have a drink on the
big occasion, but he remarked:
Gentlemen. when I was younger,
I used to tend bar at some Of the
saloons down this way But I want
you to know never took drink of
hard liquor in my life"
He sat down to applause and laugh
ter and reached for his tobacco, which
he chewed contentedly during the
remainder of the after-dinner. Mr..
Mudd goes to the store for his tobacco,
although Charles County and the
other four Southern Maryland coun-
ties are big tobacco producing centers.
There were rs tobacco samples shown
at the fair this year, the most that
were ever entered.
Baby Judging Contest.
A big attraction at the grounds this
morning was the baby judging con-
test. Mothers from Indian Head on
the Potomac to Benedict on the
Patuxent, from Pomonkey to Tomp-
kinsville, brought their youngest for
Dr. Eugene Peck, the county health
officer from st. Marys, the adjoining
county. to examine. DR.. Peck pro-
nounced it tie between Mrs. Richard
Elgin. jr.'s Audrey May and Mrs.
Walter Coughs Robert.
While Dr. Peck worked, DR.. Donald
Campbell. the health officer for
Charles County, looked on. DR.. Camp
bell used to judge the babies, but he
knew the mothers too we'll to take
easily the knowledge that he was the
source of the disappointment which
befalls the mothers of the non
winners.
DR.. Campbell and his three public
health nurses have been arousing the
county during the past two years to
an understanding of the value of
eradication Of tuberculosis, and of the
need for improved prenatal care.
Until not long ago." DR.. Campbell
said, 80 per cent of the births in the
county were supervised by colored
midwives There were 36 midwives
when got here, but there are only II
now. and they are carefully super
vised." The doctor runs a prenatal
clinic in La Plata, and he has the
help OF men from Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
Takes Winners Pictures.
DIR. Peck took pictures of the win
ming babies with camera he bought
Is years ago in Shanghai, where he
| taught medicine He came to St,
Marys from Garrett County in
Western Maryland.
Il got around on snowshoes up
there" he said, It is mountainous
country. 1T slowed down my average"
Despite prenatal care, lespideza
and better tomatoes, however, Charles
County still has its own air.
Easiest place in the world to live"
Mr.. Matthews holds, and he has been
around the country. That is, as long
as you don't let the crab grass get
away from YOU
Bermuda grass is worse" inter-
| jected farmer.
Yes, Bermuda grass is bad"
agreed Mr.. Matthews. And there's
| lots of it,"
Evening star., 1938-09-18
F. c. c. MAPS PLANS
FOR RADIO INQUIRY
Special Committee Ready to Probe
Monopolistic Aspects of
Broadcasting.

Plans for investigation OF the radio
broadcasting industry to determine
whether there Is monopoly are ex-
pected to be perfected and announced
early this week
The inquiry is to be conducted by
a special committee of the Federal
Communications Commission, headed
by Chairman Frank r. McNinch, with
Commissioner Thad H. Brown as vice
chairman and Commissioners Paul A.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
MANCHUkUO RISING
IS URGED BY CHANG
Appeal to Turn Puppet State Into
Graveyard for japanese Made
to Chinese.
BY the Associated Press.

HANkOW. China, Sept. 17-Gener-
alissimo Chang Kai-shek today
appealed to 3O,000,000 Chinese in
Manchukuo to join forces with the
Chinese central government and con-
vert the japanese dominated State
Into graveyard for the japanese.
His appeal was issued on the eve
Of the 7th anniversary Of the Muk-
den incident which led to the
japanese taking over Manchuria and
the subsequent establishment of a
Japanese-sponsored puppet government
there.
Evening star., 1938-09-18

Church Plans Supper.
The Kensington (Md) Presbyterian
Church will hold supper at S pm.
Wednesday at the church.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Candidate Lists
Sleep Loss as
Expense in Race
y the Associated Press.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 17.-Andrew
Bettwy of Nogales, unsuccessful Dem
ocratic gubernatorial candidate, filed
q campaign expense statement listing
the loss of three months sleep think
ing about the election" and two front
teeth and 4 lot Of hair In . personal
encounter with one OF my opponents
supporters"
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Plan Reception for Teachers.

A reception for teachers will feature
the first fall meeting Of the East Sill
yer Spring CMd) Parent Teacher A.
sociation tomorrow at 3 pm. in the
school. it was announced yesterday By
xaxtaa q enith pnhnetty ehgt1mAn.
Evening star., 1938-09-18
Fair Set for September "a.

= WARRENTON. Va. Sept. IT (spe-
ciaD.-The annual Ada Community
Fair will be held September "a, from
0 an. to 5 pm- In st. Andrews Mis-.
sion House.