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Evening star., 1938-04-02
Little Business Man Rallies
FellOlUs Behind Loan Demand
Californian Fears u. S.
Plunge to Depths
Within 90 Days.
By BLAIR BOLLES.

In the person of John Barham
Sebrell. furniture and stationery dealer
from Los Angeles, the little business
man. almost forgotten since his three
turbulent days in the Department of
Commerce Auditorium in January,
moved back into Washington yester-
day. He brought with him dire fore
bodings and platform.
Both the foreboding and the plat
form are simple The platform asks
for law providing Government in
sured loans to little business at a rate
OF per cent plus whatever rate of
insurance is necessary to guarantee
the Government against loss from the
loans and for general simplification
Of taxes. The dark prophecy Is that
unless somebody aids the little busi-
ness man. the country will plunge into
the depths within 80 days.
Little Business Organizer.
Mr.. Sebrell. q dark-haired man of
36 who was born in Sebrell, Va, and
who became an authentic small busi-
ness man Zone whose assets are less
than $l,000.000) at the age of 10, is
the organizer and president OF the
Little Business Men Of America, which,
he hopes. will soon be a Nation wide
organization. Mrs. Sebrell is carry
ing on in Los Angeles while Mr.. Sebrell
makes arrangements for the estab-
lishment here Of permanent pipe
line through which the little busi-
ness man can keep his problem be-
fore Congress.
The Government hasn't done any,
thing for the little business man." Mr.,
Sebrell reported to interviewers in his
Washington Hotel bedroom, but tax
the pants off him for the last nine
years. For nine years the little busi-
ness man has paid and paid and paid
and asked for nothing in return. Now
there's got to be change, or the
ghost is up for the whole works"
In the name OF the countrys TO-
100000 little business men, who en-
ploy IS per cent Of all labor and pay
IS per cent of all exposed taxes, Mr..
Sebrell expects to retain a Washington
spokesman who will see to it that the
L. B. M, becomes a potent force in
shaping the activities OF members of
Congress.
Misunderstood at Capitol.
'Those men up there at the Capitol
don't understand about U.s." said Mr..
Sebrell. You take Senator McAdoo-
he gets half million in a big oil
deal and hundred thousand retainer
for this or that; what's he know about
the little business man unless we
tell him?
Mr.. Sebrell. who likes statistics,
recited that the New Deal has spent
s8,67l 100000 for relief and written
off $2,5o0, 100000 in loans to biz
business.
There's 100000, o,ooo," he said,
and where Is it now? If the Federal
Government had used this sum to
insure loans to little business men,
there wouldn't have been any need to
spend 1t the way it has
Mr.. Sebrell wasn't here in January
at the little business mems confer
ence. He considers it an undienified
which did his cause no
good. Now he rallies his fellows to
action with his weekly paper, Little
Business Advocate" and stirs. them
with his slogan: Are Little Business
Men Men or Sheep"
Evening star., 1938-04-02
5000 LOYALISTS
REMAIN IN FRANCE
Soldiers Interned in Camp as
Government Decides Where
to Send Them.


By tie Associated Press.
BAGNERES DE LUCHON, France,
April 2.-Three thousand Spanish
government soldiers who fled into
France to escape the insurgents were
interned today awaiting the French
governments decision on whether
their return to Catalonia would vio-
late neutrality.
Orders had been issued for the
Spanish militiamen to be sent back
to their own country on three spe-
cial trains, but Paris abruptly coun-
termanded these orders last night and
concentrated the fugitives in camp.
French officials gave no reason for
the change of plans. Their policy
heretofore had been to permit ref
ugees to choose the Spanish faction
to whose territory they wanted to
return.
French officials had arranged for
quick repatriation to Catalonia be-
| cause of the costs of feeding and
caring for the fugitives
The French cabinet contended then
that since Generalissimo Francisco
Franco had not been recognized as
q belligerent, France was legally JUS
titled in diserming and returning the
government fugitives to their own
| territory.
Last nights abrupt cancellation OF
orders indicated the issue had arisen
| whether such move would consti-
tute an act of Intervention in the
civil war in violation of the non-inter-
vention agreement.
Besides the soldiers, there were
some 1000 other fugitives. mostly
| women, children and old men, who
had crossed the border.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
OlUrler Seeks
Right to Bathe
In O,Un Brook
Asks Supreme Bench
to ReUie,U Verdict
of LO,Uer Court.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Supreme Court justices turned their
attention today to the engrossing
question of whether William Heller
of Easton. Conn, has a right to bathe
in a stream on his own property.
Before them was q petition seeking a
review of q decision by the Connecti-
cut Supreme Court of Errors that MIR.
Heller must forego the privilege be-
cause the stream flows into a reservoir
which provides water to Bridgeport,
Conn.
Mr.. Heller was arrested on a hot day
in Judy. 1886, after he had donned a
bathing suit and dipped into the COOL
ness of a brook on his 3s-acre tract.
He contended that law under which
he was convicted was not intended to
prohibit property owner from bath
Ing in q stream on his land and, If it
did, it deprived him of rights without
compensation.
Whether the Supreme Court will
pass on the question probably will be
announced Monday.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
COERCION PROBE REPORT
LAID BEFORE GOV. EARLE
direct Testimony Of Alleged
Victims Refuted Charge,
INVESTIGATOR Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April Am
Investigator laid before Gov. George
H. Earle today a report that "docu-
mentary evidence and direct testimony
of the alleged victims" refuted charges
that Highway Department workers
were being coerced to support the
Earle-Jones ticket in the primary
campaign.
John Sullivan. director of the Civil
Rights Bureau, who was delegated by
Gov. Earle to make the inquiry. de-
clared that "inasmuch as every charge
has been refuted -" will not pursue
the investigation further"
The Governor ordered the investiga-
ton after Woodrow Wilson Jones, as
sociated with the headquarters Of 1t.
Gov. Thomas Kennedy, cited what he
said were specific instances" that
highway workers were instructed to
vote for Charles Alvin Jones of Pitts
burgh and Gov. Earle
Evening star., 1938-04-02
R|CKETT AND SMITH
LAND IN CAPITAL
Mexican Oil Deal Figures on
New York-Bound Plane Under
Assumed Names

Flying under assumed names. Fran
els W. Rickett and Bernard E. Smith.
who have figured prominently in the
Mexican oil crisis, landed at Washing
ton Airport today, en- route to New
York
Obviously anxious to avoid reporters
and photographers, Mr.. Rickett, the
British promoter who negotiated the
famous Ethiopian oil concession of
1885, and his New York stock broker
companion kept themselves out OF
sight aboard the huge American Air
lines plane throughout its 45-minute
stay at the airport
The plane, bound from Los Angeles,
landed at GAS am, more than a half
hour ahead of schedule. and resumed
its flight northward at 1890. Mr..
Rickett repeatedly was on the pas
senger list under the name Of NC
Kenna" and Mr.. Smith as Bush. :"
They left Mexico City by plane yes
terday afternoon, declining TO COM
ment on their reported 'deal'-since
denied by Mexican government off,
cials-to seek desperately needed for
eign outlets for the S40O 900 900 petro-
leum industry appropriated by Presi-
dent LaZaro Cardenas.
Airline attaches. questioned about
Mr.. Mckenna" and Mr.. Bush" ad-
mitted the descriptions of Messrs
Rickett and Smith fitted. but said
they knew nothing about them.
The press delegation on hand to
meet them was told, at first, that they
were asleep" Later. however, it was
said that they simply did not want
to be bothered by reporters and pho
tographers" The newspaper men were
not permitted to board the plane and
not so much as glimpse Of Messrs,
Rickett and Smith could be had
through any of the small windows
Evening star., 1938-04-02
STRIKE OF 5000 CALLED
ON PUBLIC PROJECTS
st. Louis A. r. L. .Ofleial Saws
Move Seeks All-Union Force
on $39O,OOO Bridge.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, April John ].
Church, secretary of the Building
Trades Council, announced yesterday
that 5000 American Federation of La
Dor workmen on public construction
Jobs IN st. Louis and vicinity would
go on general strike Monday.
He said the strike was ordered by
business agents in support of de-
mand for the exclusive employment
of union labor on the reconstruction
of a highway bridge, at st. Charles,
Mo-, a $390.000 project being financed
by State and Federal funds.
At Kanoas City, George Owens, gen.
eral superintendent of the Massman
Construction Co., the contractor, said
the work would 60 on despite the gen.
eral strike threat
Evening star., 1938-04-02
AIR CRASH PROBED

Belgian Is Killed in Plunge Of
Substratosphere Plane.
BRUSSELS, April 2 R.-The crash
Of q 100000 lotion substratosphere
plane which killed the pilot, George
Van Damme, was believed by investi-
gators today to have been due either to
loss Of speed or to q motor defect.
The plane, which fell at Evere Air
drome yesterday while about $50 feet
of the ground, was subsidized by the
Belgian government to the extent of
about 20 per cent Of its cost. The
Sabena 60. planned to use 1t for high.
speed trans-Alpine passenger service
between Brussels and Milan, italy.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
Tiny Voice Raised in Hope
Of Career IN Grand Opera
Venita Quigley Prnys and
Practices for Prin,a
Donna Role.
II want to be a prima donna -

II want to be prima donna"
There's nothing particularly un-
usual about such an ambition. Ap-
prentice vocalists. who every day lend
their soprano voices to running the
scale and compare the resulting notes
with efforts Of operate luminaries.
past and present, number in the thou
sands. But they're past five years OF
age
Venita Louise Quiglev has that am
btion and is past five, toby a
couple OF months.
Furthermore, she's a jump ahead
Of the others. Her operate debut is
a matter Of record. When the Chi
cago Opera Co. presented Madame
Butterfly here March II, this daughter
of a Home Owners Loan Corporation
messenger was very much on stage
True, she was not called on for any
vocalizng but she was on stage all
the same as Madame's doll-and lust
as proud. thank you. as she would
have been had she sung one Of the
a-ias
Debut at 3 Years.
Venita Louise has been singing pub
licly for more than year at churches
banquets and social gatherings around
Washington. A performance at a
Frances Asbury Methodist Church
social at the age of three marked the
beginning of her career.
None of this Shirley Temple Good
Ship Lollypop" stuff for her, either
It's true most of her repertoire con-
sists Of songs from the popular group
but no Swing" or baby tunes are in
cluded. And it's a matter of her own
choice.
Hardly an opera or concert of any
note staged in Washington escapes
her first hand audience.
Where does she get her talent? The
nearest answer to that one is hel
father, John Charles Quigley, former
District prize-fighter, who at presen'
divides his time between his work al
the H. o. L. c. and his voice prac-
tice. A basso, he has appeared non
professionally in a number of mu.
sical comedies here and in nearb,
Virginia and Maryland
20 Minutes Day.
Venita Louise practices about &c
minutes day under her fathers su-
pervision at the Quigley apartment
$50 E street NE. His teacher, Mrs
Frances Heartside, gives her a tir
now and then also. The two ap-
pear together frequently on enter.
tainment programs
Their next "co-starring" perform
ance will take place Tuesday night at
banquet of the Henry K. Field
Bible Class Of the Alexandria (Va.)
Methodist Church, South Venita
Louise will include among her num-
bers Il Passed by Your Window"
Each night before she goes to sleep
her father will tell you, she MUIR
murs:
II want to be prima DONNA"
Evening star., 1938-04-02
No Grace in Short Grace.

Scottish grace at mealtimes was q
lengthy affair in olden Scotland, es-
pecially at bountiful feast, in con-
trast to the short form used by the
neighboring English. AS a Scottish
elder once said when present at a
great English dinner, "Sicna grace for
sicna dinner!"
Evening star., 1938-04-02
C0NFRATERNITY RITES
MARKED BY BAPTlSMS
16 Confirmed and Z Receive First
Communion in Shrine of
Immaculate Conception.

Marking the first activity of the
National Center Of the Confraternfty
Of Christian Doctrine at Catholic Uni
versity, q ceremony was held in the
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
today at which 10 persons were bap-
tised, l8 confirmed and received
first communion
The Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani,
the apostolic delegate, was the ON
ciating prelate.
The sermon was preached by the
Rev. DR.. F. A. Walsh, professor Of
philosophy, the national director Of the
confraternity.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
Congress in Brief

ReorganiZation-Ad m mist alton
leaders press for House vote on re-
organization bill.
Maritime-Senate Labor Committee
considers proposed labor section for
maritime subsidy act.
Senate in rece1s.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
THE WEATHER REPORT

District of ColumbaLight probably
tomorrow fair moderate north shifting northwest winds
Maryland Vigna-Mosly
light frost west portions preceded by showers in portion tonight
vrgna-Geneay slightly tonight tomorrow
Evening star., 1938-04-02
5,729,948 Vehicles Sold.

There were 5,729948 new cars and
trucks sold to consumers throughout
the world in 1887, Of which 4,250,501
were sold in the United States and
Canada.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
Report for Last Fl Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. SO. pm. yesterday. Year
ago 81
Lowest. A.. am. today. Year ago. A..
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. "a. on March %,
Lowest Is. on January 2S.
Humidity for Last - Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon todayO
Highest 81 per cent at $50 am. today.
Lowest, % per cent. at 3 pm. yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
ct Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geo6etic SurveyJ
Today. Tomorrow.
High a:O1 am a:4s am
Low - 3:19a.m 400 am.
High - 9:26 pm. 1913 pm.
Low - 1888 pm. 4:43 pm.
The Sun ard Moon.
Rises. Sets.
sun, today ---- 5:53 6:3I
Sun tomorrow - 55l 6;32
Moon. today 6:42 am. s:59 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
halt hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-04-02
100000 Spent for Relief.

Sweden spent slightly over ST.
100000 in unemployment relief last
year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Heads Are Named
For Police Order

Sergeant Gordon L. Korb was
elected president, and Adrian Stricker,
vice-president, Tuesday at the annual
election and installation of officers Of
the Hamilton Chapter 38, Fraternal
Order of Police.
Patrolman George Van Lieu was
elected conductor; Patrolman Frank
Mayer, inner guard; Chester Schick,
out guard; Sergeant Herschel Haines
secretary; Sergeant Joe McFall, treas
urer, and Sergeant James O'Connor
trustee for a three-year term. De
tective Oscar Decker and Patrolmar
William Blair are the other trustees
Patrolman Clarence B. Holden was
the retiring president; Detective Her.
bert Crowthers, retiring secretary
and Assistant Chief Byron Furginson
retiring trustee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Labor Relations
Survey Is Begun

New York City (ILNS). Evans
Clark, executive director of the Twen-
tieth Century Fund, announces that
the Funds labor department IS start
ing a survey of labor relations in the
United States. Six or eight indus
tries, chosen from such basic groups
as clothing, automobiles, longshore-
men, rubber, printing, radio and cleo
trical workers, hosiery, railroads, iron
and steel and the retail trade will be
studied carefully.
The study will find first the status
of collective bargaining in each indus
try chosen prior to 1888, then its ex-
perience under N. R. A., and then un-
der the Wagner Act. The growth OF
unionism will be dealt with, and the
legal status Of unions and agree
ments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Hunting Fishing Licenses
Being Sent Out This Week

Columbus, o., Dec % More than a
quarter million 1889 hunting and
$4,000 fishing licenses are being sent
out this week by the Division of Con-
servation. Accompanying the licenses
will be nearly IL tons of metal hunting
tags, part of the 80 tons of metal which
will adorn the backs Of Ohio's hunters
in 1889. The first consignment of IL
censes will be distributed by the game
protectors and conservation officers to
the various dealers throughout the
state
Preparations have been made to
take care of any unusual demand for
hunting licenses such as that which
occurred during the current hunting
season. when it became necessary for
the Conservation Council to have
$4,000 additional hunting licenses
printed. More than 650,000 hunting
licenses have been distributed in 1898,
and the Division of Conservation is
prepared to meet demand in 1898
of 100000 hunting licenses.
Approximately 100000 hunting
and fishing licenses were distributed
during 1888, an increase over any other
year since licensing has been in effect.
Provisions have been made to issue
more than million and half licenses
for 1899, figure which conservation
authorities believe will be realized due
to the remarkable growth Of interest
in these outdoor sports.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
ROAD FIGHTS /. C. C. ORDER
PROTECTING WORKERS

Washington, d. G. (ILNS). Trus-
tees of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company don't think
the Interstate Commerce Commission
should include labor protection provi-
sions in its decisions.
The road has specifically protested
the commissions decision approving
leasing of the Rock Islands Texas
branch, the Chicago Rock Island, and
Gulf Railway Company. The !, G. G,
approved the lease providing the Rock
Island protected employees who might
suffer pay reductions or loss of jobs
through consolidation Of certain Of
fees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Labor And National Defense
(From the American Federationist)

| From the American Federationis0
| As preparedness for national de-
tense becomes a paramount issue, the
American Federation of Labor reaf-
firms its devotion to the ideals of our
republic in peace or in war. Whether
III peace or in war we demand the
right to represent wage : earners
against the forces that would curtail
our power and against those who
would subordinate human rights to
special interests.
We demand the right to participate
III national service on equal footing
with all other citizens. We do not
believe that national emergencies are
signals to overthrow all standards and
practices that have been found pro-
ductive of human betterment. We are
especially apprehensive because of the
wide publicity given to certain pro
posals for hasty and inadequate train
ing OF workers for making airplanes,
anti-aircraft defense and munitions
Industries We will protest with all
our power against any such proposal
for turning out partly-trained crafts
men who would be a menace to both
war and peace production.
There are in the ranks Of industry
and among the unemployed an ade-
quate supply of craftsmen for de-
Tense program, and in the meantime
we should be training additional
craftsmen under proper safeguard
and in accord with standards devel
oped out Of production experience.
The army and the navy are under
obligations to consult representatives
of labor before undertaking programs
that concern labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
u. S. COAL MINES
FATAL-ACCIDENT
RATE VERY HIGH

Geneva (ILNS.-The fatal-accident
rate in American coal mines is higher
than that of any other country except
Japan, says an International Labor
Office report on accident risks, sub
mitted to committee of experts meet
ing i'm Geneva to discuss Safety in
Coal Mines"
The report indicates that high pro-
ductivity does not go hand-in-hand
with safety in the coal industry of the
United States, which boosts the high
est output per man in the world.
The report, which emphasizes the
fact that the accident risk in coal
mines is far higher than in any other
industry, contains statistics of acci-
dents in the leading coal producing ma
tions. 1t discloses that between 1927
and 1885 fatalities in American coal
mines averaged AT per 1000 man
years of exposure to risk, as compared
with 4.32 for Japan; 3.07 for Canada
PIT for the Union of South Africa
2.01 for Poland; Ito for New Zealand;
1.61 for Germany (Prussia); 1.34 fo1
Great Britain; 1.18 each for Belgium
and India; 101 for France; 0.92 fol
the Netherlands: and 0.84 for Aus
tralia.
However, in all but six of these
countries, the fatal accident rate in
coal mines decreased between 1927 and
1895. The six exceptions were Japan
Canada, the Union of South Africa
India and France.
In the United States fatal accidents
in coal mines decreased from 4.43 in
1927 to 3.67 in 1885; in New Zealand
the decrease was from 1.86 to 0.47; in
Germany (Prussia), from 1.80 to 1.15;
in Great Britain, from 1.34 to 1.29; ir
Belgium, from 1.30 to 1.10; in the
Netherlands, from 109 to 0.92; and ir
Australia, from 1903 to 0.69.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Hamilton To Petition
For Housing Group

City councilmen, county commission
ers, real estate men and union men,
merchants associations and John E.
Northway, secretary of the Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce, and DR.. c. j.
Baldridge, health commissioner, were
in Columbus Wednesday to present a
petition to the State Housing Board
for the approval and appointment of
local housing authority, Fred Muel-
Ter, Hamilton architect, said Monday.
Mueller, interested in slum clear
ance in Hamilton, said this is the first
real step toward creating an authority
here TO undertake slum clearance prob
lens of the city and county.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Schools To Get S441,378
Of Hamilton Taxes

The Hamilton Board of Education
this week passed a resolution to ac-
cept rates tentatively fixed to provide
,376 for public schools during the
calendar year of 1889, This figure is
an increase of s7,191 over the 1898
figure.
w. K. Swan, County Auditor, re-
ported $285,375 would be received by
the schools for the general fund re-
quiring tax levy Of $4.27 for each
1000 valuation The schools will re-
ceive $4,000 for bond retirement on
taxes outside the l0-mill limitation.
The public schools will close Friday
until Tuesday, January 3, for the holi-
days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
Insurance Agents
Win Union Contract

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Indus
trial and Ordinary Insurance Agents
Union No. 21354 announces that con-
tract has been signed with the Balti-
more Life Insurance Company, with
offices here, covering about 20 sales
men. Under the contract the members
of the union receive five-day week,
double base pay, increase in commits
sion from Is to l8 per cent, and two
weeks vacation with pay.
This is the first company in Wash
ington, states kalpn U. Boyer, busi-
ness agent of the union, to recognize
and sign contract with an A. F. Of l.
union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-12-23
EAGLES MAKE PLANS
FOR NEW YEARS EVE

The regular meeting of Butler Aerie
No. 407, F'raternal Order Of Eagles,
was held Monday night in Eagles
Temple, South Second Street. Plans
We're made for New Years Eve
dance in the temple, Saturday night,
December 81. The dance will start at
10 o'clock.
The membership committee an
nounced that a banquet for members
and candidates will be held in Febru-
airy. An initiation for new members
will be held Sunday, January Is.
The next regular meeting will be
held Tuesday night, December 27.