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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21
THE CHOICE-LAW OR WAR

Earnest peace workers supporting
the Ludlow proposal for popular
referendum before declaration OF
war by the United States may take
heart from the circumstances OF its
defeat In the House OF Representa-
tives.
These revealed an increasing body
OF increasingly active peace senti-
ment in the United States. They also
reflected the Administrations ap-
probation of the proportions ana
tenacity of this sentiment. The pres
ident himself directly interviewed.
The Speaker of the House, with
great reluctance" to leave his post
as IAN impartial presiding officer"
took the floor to speak against the
Ludlow motion and to read letter
from Mr.. Roosevelt opposing it. In
deed, as Speaker Banknead recogn-
ICED, there was evidence of great
temporary sentiment" among Amer
leans for the war referendum idea.
The underlying sentiment is, OF
course, more than temporary. 1t
dates back to early postwar days.
1t has been reinforced by g. Senate
investigation into the munitions bus
mess that lighted some of those dark
corners out of which General Smed-
ley D. Butler got his suspicion that
war is a racket" 1t has become bet
ter educated in the ways of diplom-
acy and the state as lives and letters
of the United States wartime lead
ers have been published and anaiyz-
ed.
But it is not yet schooled in the
possibilities and requirements OF
positive peacemaking and thus, I'M
derstandably, falls back upon the
hope that there is no more or less to
keeping out of war than to make
declaration of intention not to fight.
Not even in their individual relation
ships have people developed such
deep morality as to preclude the
necessity for enforcement of law and
order. Admittedly in their collective
relationships nations have progress
ed not even this far. When they
have, war will be supplanted by law,
and nothing less than the establish
ment of law will wipe out the posi-
bility Of war.
Toward this basic need of law
among nations the Ludlow proposals
chief contribution has been to help
marshal and prepare peace sentiment
for a further understanding of the
peace-or-war problem. And this 1t
could have done probably only in
defeat.
Acceptance of the Ludlow plan
might have persuaded Americans OF
their ability to stay out Of future
war. But then it would have lulled
them into a false sense of security.
But IL defeat Of the plan be made the
starting point for program which
will guide Americans into the short
est road to peace. which is through
support Of world law, then even the
supporters of the Ludlow proposal
should feel they have scored vic
tory by making plain the amount
and intensity of public interest in the
most vital political question of these
times.-The Monitor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21
Enduring Blue

1t is believed by scientists that
the blue seen on mummy cases,
having lost nothing of it's brightness,
must be either ultra-marine or CO.
bait. Modern analyses have shown
that blue on ancient pottery, both
Egyptian and Chinese, was some
times derived from cobalt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21
a number of countries have issuet

A number of countries have issued
or have announced that they would
issue stamps concentrating the
SesQuicentennial of the Constitution
Of the United States.
Salvador. Brazil. and France are
among the countries which have al
ready released such stamps. Other
countries named in the group are
Cuba, che Dominican Republic, Ecu
ndor, Guatemala. Honduras. Mic
aragua, and Venezuela.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21
How to Kill Meat Odor

To counterfeit the rather strong
flavor many persons find objection
able in roast leg of lamb or mutton,
squeeze the juice of half a fresh
lemon over the meat before season
ing and roasting. Others prefer to
rub the roast with a cut Glove Of
garlic before baking. Another way
Is to make tiny incisions here and
there in the fat and tuck in sprigs of
parsley.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21

Unless you are willing to confess
your ignorance you will never be
able to acquire knowledge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21

Most of the splinters in the banis-
ter of life are unnoticed until We be-
sin to slide down.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21

Perhaps some people talk to them
selves because they ind 1t impos-
sible to interest any one else.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-21

The man who is unable to live
within his income must be content
to live without.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

SHANGHAI, Oct. II G.N.s).
japanese official silence today
tended to bear out Chinese reports
Of q tremendous victory-"greater
than Taierchwang'-at Teian, on
the Nanchang Railroad.
Chinese newspapers continued
to place the Japanese losses at
between 10000 and 10000 killed
or wounded.
Two whole brigadeS were prac-
tically wiped out when they were
surrounded by Chinese forces be-
tween Teian and Wuning, military
headquarters at Hankow asserted.
The Teian victory, strategists
said, will enable the Chinese to
stem the Japanese advance
around Lake Poyang, designed to
cut the Canton railroad at Nan
chang.
Reserve Of Japanese Spokesmen,
when questioned about the 1'eian
battle was reminiscent of their
persistent silence during the de-
feat at Taierchwang during the
campaign for the Lunghai Rail
road. Taierchwang witnessed the
most severe blow delivered to the
Japanese during the entire war.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

be felt as to. whether any
plebiscites will be held.
The international committee
composed of the British, French
and Italian ambassadors, met
again today and heard reports on
economic problems, which sub
committees are struggling with.
HUNGARY MOVES IN
Athird foreign nation-following
Germany and Poland-today oc'
cupied a position on former Czech
soil. Hungarian troops occupied
the railway station at Slovenske
Novenesto and the town of Ipoly
Sag by permission of the Prague
authorities.
While the Hungarians, confer.
ring with Czech officials at Koma,
rom. demanded a thick slice of
southern Slovakia, permission was
granted them to take over the two
designated points as a sign OF
Czech goodwill.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Move TO Curb
Arabs Terror
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charge of the new, firm-handed
policy of the English. ..
Troops now in Palestine or on
their way there number 21,000,
and Malcolm Macdonald, the
colonial minister, and Sir Harold
are discussing sending a still
greater number of men, especially
aviators.
The scheme of the royal COM
mission to divide Palestine into
three parts, Jewish and Arab
states and a British corridor to
Jerusalem, will be discussed when
Parliament meet again November
/; but, as a practical matter. the
plan is generally regarded as dead.
Partition has the strong opposition
Of zionists, as well as Arabs.
CRISIS SHARPENED
Events in Italy and Central Eu-
rope have greatly heightened the
Palestine crisis, since the Arabs be-
lieve that Jewish immigration will
be increased.
Organizations and individuals
in the United States and other
countries, on the other hand, have
been flooding the government here
with cablegrams and letters pro-
testing against the possibility that
immigration into Palestine may be
curtailed.
The quota now is 1000 Jews a
month. There are 400, 900 Jews and
100000 Arabs in Palestine.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
.LOYALISTS OPENCR|NESE VICTORY
NEW OFFENSIVE BELIEVED GREAT

HENDAYE, French-SpaniSh
Frontier, Oct. IL G.N.SJ.-Span-
ish government forces, in spite of
concrete moves toward peace, to-
day unleashed a strong offensive
on the Ebro River front of Cata-
lonia.
Nationalist accounts from Sala-
manca said the assault was bril-
liantly resisted" and heavy losses
were inflicted on the government,
while the nationalist lines pushed
forward.
Many government troops were
taken prisoner, said the national
lists, and three government air
planes were forced down in an air
battle.
At Barcelona, however, it was
asserted the offensive in the Ebro
district was successful, with the
enemy losing much man-power.
Another drive was launched on
the long-dormant Guadarrama
Mountain section northwest of
Madrid, where government gains
were reported.
With Italy ready to recall 10000
soldiers, the government has al
ready begun diSmissing its foreign
volunteers.
Demobilization of all foreigners
in the scentral zone-everywhere
save Catalonia-waS ordered by
Madrid Some $500 men are be,
lieVed involved.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

opinion of the officers in charge
of the war maneuvers here.
Commenting on this phase Of
the situation, Brig. Gen. Fulton
Gardner, defense commander,
said:
1T is possible. but not likely,
that such an attack would be
launched. The carrier would be
forced to approach the coast in
the night and launch its planes
under cover Of darkness for a
dawn attack.
Such an attack would be dif.
ficult to halt. However, imme-
diately the planes started bomb
ing their objective, the general
headquarters air force would
take to the air and intercept the
enemy planes as they tried to
get back to the carrier.
COST TOO GREAT
1.-THE defense ships would fol-
low the enemy planes to the car
rier, which is not powerfully de-
Tended, and would have a good
chance Of sinking the vessel.
II do not believe any foreign
power would dare to chance on
losing a ship for the question
able benefit of making such an
attack"
The first two attacks launched
on this post revealed very clearly
that some means of coordinatine
defense aircraft and defense anti
aircraft fire must be worked out
to a greater degree than now.
One group of the attacking
planes, the giant flying fortresses
the mightieSt planes the Ameri
can Army has, crossed the lanes
at an altitude ranging from 1880
feet to 10000 feet, yet the forma
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Britain Speeds Up Arms
Z1D Spife Of Peace MOCes
ASSASSIN GOT $500
FOR KILLING GENERAL

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. II
(I.N.S. 1.-Two hundred dol
lars was the price received
by Vase Josifoff, 35-year-
old Macedonian terrorist,
for killing Gen. Yordan
Peeff, chief of the Bulga-
rian army general staff, the
assassin confessed today on
his deathbed.
Josifoff shot the general,
wounded his aide-de-camp,
then, trapped, turned the
pistol on himself.
The killer said he was
paid by two Macedonians.
More arrests were expected
today.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
A1DtiCUirc1'Oft
Cams MOSSed
For MU1eeoEUerS
International News Photo

FORT BRAGG. N. c., Oct.
livery available modern
anti-aircraft gun east of the
Rocky Mountains has been
assembled here for the ma
neuverS now in progress.
Six batteries. Of four guns
each, arc mounted in a circle
IL miles in circumference,
and are Sc arranged that two
batteries will always bear on
q target
Firing an explosive three
inch shell effective to an ex.
treme range of about 10000
feet, the guns are supported
by about 12O of the high
powered 5O-caliber machine
guns, which are effective
against planes up to about
5000 feet.
For the night maneuverS
there are 27 huge search
lights, more than have ever
been assembled before at one
time.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Restrict Patents

Workers engaged in particularly
confidential occupations will be
finger-printed and possibly placed
under surveillance to see that they
do not carry plans or models OF
important inventions out Of the
factories. '-.st ~
A second, significant point to be
covered in the proposed statutes
will be restriction of military and
naval patents to American outlets.
Military inventions, airplane mo-
tors and ship plans developed by
American concerns for American
national defense have been sold
abroad to possible enemies, it was
said.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Va. Purse SnatCher
Draws Long Term

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. IL.
James Wallace, colored, drew three
five-year penitentiary sentences
on his pleas Of guilty to three in
dictments charging purse snatch
ing and burglary. in the Corpora
ton Court yesterday.
Judge William p. WoollS said
the time must be served consecu-
lively. Wallace admitted snatching
Mrs, j. L. Perry's purse on July
27, stealing 50 from the Elks'
Home on the same day, and taking
$40 and cigarettes from a store on
July 20.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Girl, H. Hacked to Death
And Tossed on Vacant Lot

In April the following year oc-
Cured the Peacox torch murder
in which the body of Dorothy Pea
cox, 20. was found in the woods
near Greenburg after she had
been slain by her young husband,
Earl.
Virginia Brannen, 23-year-old
dance hall hostess, was shot to
death by Fats" Duringer, pal Of
"Twogun" Crowley, near the
BronxWestchester county line on
what she had thought was a gay
! automobile ride one night in 1881.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
New Toledo Housing
Costs 100000

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. II GN.SO.
Toledo will profit by more than
$7.000,0O0 spent by the Federal
government in low-cost housing
when the Federal governments
program is completed. Approval of
a 81, ga, 900 project in East Toledo
has Just been made. The Federal
government also has earmarked
$3,756,000 for additional projects.
The 100000 Brand Whitlock
homes for negroes are completed.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Tablet Pays Honor
To Country Doctor

BROOKFIELD, vt. Oct II
G.N.SO a country doctor who
for Al years braved the whims OF
New England weather to care for
the sick, bringing babies into the
world, and comfort the dying. the
town recently dedicated a bronze
tablet set in a 5,0OO-pound block
of granite. Elmer E. Ellis, M. D.
our doctor from 1896 to 1887
was inscribed on the tablet.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Berlin Grips
Czech MOHOeg

PRAGUE. Oct. 11.-Ger-
many has proposed a customs
and currency union which, n
accepted, would constitute q
knockout blow to the rem
nauts of CZechOslOvakia'S
economic and financial indie
pendence.
Germany was said to have
asked that q commission Of
Czech economic experts be
sent to Berlin to discuss a
Nazi-Czech customs union,
with eventually a common
currency, probably the Ger
man reichSmark.
The Czech cabinet, in q
decree, ordered release with
in four weeks Of all members
Of the German race enrolled
in the army. The Germans
will be permitted to 60 to
German soil as private citi-
!, Gems.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Check at Plants

Army and Navy inspectors,
under this arrangement, would be
stationed at every plant to check
not only on the quality Of the
work, but also on the patriotism"
of the workers.
Government officials pointed
out in this connection that otto
Herman VoSs, one of four persons
facing trial on espionage charges,
was q mechanic at an aircraft
plant.
With the new laws in effect, the
military and naval inspectors will
go into the history of all employees,
their relatives, their friends and
financial background.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
YsUgOSUaUiGs Bids
FOr. HitIe1.'s Smile


BELGRADE, Oct. 11.-Regent
Prince PauI of YugOslavia has
dissolved parliament and reOr-
ganized the cabinet in an ap-
parent move to strengthen the
governments alignment with
Rome and Berlin.
BY forcing q general election
when opposition parties favOring
friendship with the demOcracieS
are suffering from a body blow
due to the Czech dismember-
ment, the government Of Pre-
mier Milan StOyadinOvich hopes
to get q popular mandate" for
more extensive cooperation with
Germany and Italy.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
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Continued from Page II
$50 a. m. when Alexander Ber-
amer, proprietor Of q beauty
salon, found the body.
Westchester county, scene of to-
days murder, was the setting for
the Staying of three other girls in
recent years.
It was in a desolate. dilapi.
dated house on the outskirts Of
Greenburg, WeStchester county.
that little Grace Budd, 10, was
killed by Albert Howard Fish on
q June Sunday in 1928.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
S UDET ENLAND
NOW BECOMES
PART OF Reich.
Will Be Divided Into.
Three Parts

BERLIN. Oct. II GN.S) Ger
man troops today were in complete
occupation of the Sudentenland,
and civil authorities, headed by
Commissioner Konrad Henlein,
began administering the former
Czechoslovakian borderland into
an integral part of the Reich.
In sweeping into the sections
delineated by the international
committee in Berlin, it was ad-
mitted the German army took over
some predominantly Czech areas.
1t was asserted on behalf of the
Germans, however, that those
places had been deliberately popu-
lated by Czechs since the world
war.
PLAN THREE DIVISIONS
Henlein announced that Sudeten-
land would be divided into three
parts, one to be joined to Ostmark
formerly AUSTRIA, another to
Bavaria, and the third to consti-
tute a separate province.
Members of the British legion,
war veterans especially chosen
for the task, passed through Ger
many today en- route to police
doubtful areas, pending plebiscites.
They made the trip in hundreds
even though doubt is beginning to
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Invading Planes Score
In Bold War Game Dash
Well Inside
And Lay DOWn
Smoke Screen
BY CARROLL PEEKE

FORT BRAGG, N. c., Act. IL.
A smashing attack was delivered
today by the attacking BLACK"
forces in the first daylight phase
of the aerial defense maneuvers
here.
After the night attack last night,
during which the enemy planes
managed to get through the cor
don of antiaircraft guns and theo-
retically bomb and machine gun
the post, the enemy planes re
turned early this morning.
OBSERVER FLASHES WORD
1t was shortly after this morn
ing when one of the civilian OBJ
servers in the warning net flashed
the first report that flight of
enemy bomberS had crossed the
coast line just north of Cape Hat
teras.
Immediately the defense planes,
10 of the fastest pursuit ships in
the Army, took to the air in an
effort to intercept the bolnberS.
FLYING 10000 FEET
The first bombers sighted were
flying at more than 10000 feet in
an effort to avoid detection, but
even so the warning net was work
ing we'll, and a number Of early
reports enabled defense headquar-
tiers to plot the course and give
this information to the pursuit
ships.
Today's action saw a mass at
tack by 18 bombers, including nine
of the gigantic flying fortresSeS,
all operating at attitudes of close
to 10000 feet.
LAY SMOKE SCREEN
Several flights of attack ships
crossed the line of defenSeS just
before the bomberS arrived, and
laid a spectacular smoke screen,
under cover of which the bomberS
attempted to blow up their objec-
tive, the air base at Pope Field,
headquarters of the defense avia-
ton.
With IL planes laying down the
smoke screen, this blocked out the
visibility of a number of the de-
fense batteries leaving the main
burden of defense on the defense
plans.
America is safe from attack by
an enemy aircraft carrier, in the
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
National Guard
Planned for
Defense

LONDON, Oct. II d.N.SO.
With a sweeping reorganization
program for the territorial army
akin to the national guard in
the United States-Great Britain
today speedily turned to the task
Of accelerating its rearmament.
Not only will the territorial
army be enlarged by four divis-
ions, but production Of weapons
and mechanical equipment for 1t
will be hastened.
2OO,OO CIVILIANS READY
Two hundred thousand civilians,
members of the reserve army, can
be called to duty within q few
hours, Leslie Hore-Belisha, war
secretary, said in speech at the
Mansion House, in which he re-
vealed the reorganization plans.
Reformation of the territorial
army is in keeping with the policy
Of Prime Minister Chamberlain,
who insisted that, even though
there Is a lull in the international
crisis, Britain must 60 ahead
speedily with her arms schedule.
Hore-Belisha admitted, however,
that his civilian army was sadly
lacking in equipment, and chat
measures must be taken to rush
production.
PUSH AIR DEFENSE
Emphasis will be placed on the
anti-aircraft defense regiments In
the Hore- -Belisha plan. They will
be increased to q strength OF 3D.
900 men, as against 10000 at pres
ent.
Eighteen divisions will make
up the, entire territorial, COM
pared to the IA divisions existing
in 1914.
Five will be anti-aircraft di-
visions, nine will be ordinary di-
visions on the regular army
model, three will be motorized di-
visions, and the eighteenth will
be special mobile division.
The urgency Of the rearma-
ment program was barred in the
fact that Hore-Belisha had plan
ned his territorial army reorgani"
zation for nearly year hence,
but Premier Chamberlain's reac'
ton to the Central European
emergency led to its advance
ment.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
Brings Down House

GLADEWATER, Tex, Oct. II
u.N.S0.-When Marion Goodine
does his chin.the-bar act, he brings
down the house. Marion was chin,
ming himself, hanging to the porcn
roof Of his home. The roof cam:
down With a crash. Marion wecr
to the hospital with a broken jaw
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
President Of France
Godfather 10 1900

PARIS, Oct. II G.N.S0.-Paris
boasts a man who is godfather to
1900 children. He is Albert Le-
brun, president of the Republic.
For when he became president he
offered to become godfather to the
fifteenth child born to a French
family. He did this to stimulate
an increase in nativity. Sixteen
hundred families took him up and
all his godchildren are named
after him-Albert for boys and Al
berte for girls
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

Making dolls "human" with skeletons
Of steel. These toys, SO lfelike that
they are sometimes mistaken for live
posture Of the human body. Read the
article and see pictures Of the remark
able playthinGs in the American
Weekly. the magazine distributed with
next Sundays Washington Herald
TlUnAR
The Washington times., 1938-10-11

ton was heard from the ground
and the information flashed to
the message center, the nerve CEN
ter Of the entire defense force.
The Washington times., 1938-10-11
U.S.SUPERvISION
At PLANTS,P PLAN
TO CURB SPIES
Drastic Laws Framed to
Check Espionage

NEW YORK, Oct. IL u.N.SO.
The United States Government is
planning drastic legislative steps
to curb the increasing menace OF
foreign espionage in this country,
the New York Journal and Amer
ican today said 1t had learned
from official sources.
The story added:
Following closely upon PreSi-
dent Roosevelt's warning Of the
serious spy peril in this country,
lit was revealed that new statutes
Ito limit the activities Of foreign
agencies will be drawn up at the
next Congress.
LAWS INADEQUATE
These legislative remedies, to-
gether with the coordination Of
governmental agencies into q su-
per-counter-eSpionage service. are
expected to curtail much of the
Ifar-flung operations Of alien spies.
Present laws, according to
Lamar Hardy, United States at
torney in New York, who is in
charge of the prosecution Of four
alleged Nazi spies, are totally in
adequate to cope with the Situa-
ton.
Measures contemplated by the
Administration, it was authorita-
lively stated, would restrict all
contracts for Army and Navy de-
velopmentS to only those firms
which will place their factories un-
der absolute supervision of the
Government"