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Evening star., 1938-01-07

GORDON HOTEL. 916 10th St-On beau
tllui 10th ST. location. desirable and con-
cement; ven Wel-heated rooms, single 81 TO
81 and Sl2 weekly: double rooms with
bath, twin beds. SIS weekly; 24-hour ele-
Vator and switchboard rd service
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MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

BOOKS BOUGHT, all kinds. any quantity.
Bring them or phone G David Pearlma n.
14O1 G ST NV. Met. 5415.
CASH REGISTER-Will buy National
cash register in good working condition,
Box 4O3-C. Star
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Room with semi-private bath: family
adults; continuous hot water; near cars
and buses
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CHAPTER VIII,

~ UR1NG the week following
their trip to Marville Iris
lunched every day with Roger
- at the Green Derby. Patti
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111S 18th ST. NW-Nicely fdrn. rm..
singie - up; double. Sc up; walking dis
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1341 ST. NW.-Well-heated. 2nd-noor.
II II x room: St. Also front single room,
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1S47 CALVERT NW-Laree basement
rooms, LII k. furn.. suitable for three
Rent g6 40 weekly
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FURNITURE FINISHERS,
Two, Needed at Once.
Apply 8 AM, Saturday.
P. J. NEE CO.,
745 7th St. NV.
APPLIANCE SALESMAN
Attractive proposition to
worker; radios, refrigerators,
washers, ranges, etc. Mr..
Lichtman, Marvin's Credit,
Inc, 730 7th st. NV.
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FOUND

FOUND.
ONE KEY in 310O block Of 14th st. NV.
Call Lincoln 119O.
WIRE-HAIRED TERRIER. male, black.
white and brown; no collar or tag: very
gentle; vicinity Bethesda. Bradley 1875.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
SEPARATE COTTON
BILL IS DEMANDED
Mississippian Prefers Death Of
Both Farm Measures With
Amendments.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON. Miss, Jan. 1.-Agricul-
tural commissioners representing six
Southern and Southwestern States
advocated today the divorce of cotton
from the House and Senate farm bills.
The commissioners agreed that cot
ton. like sugar. deserves treatment in
separate bill
Target for mild barrage was pend
ing legislation affecting the industry
as the commissioners underlined the
sentiments of j. F. Mcdonald, Texas,
that cotton faces the greatest crisis
in history"
Commissioner Holton of Mississippi
said he would rather see both farm
bills defeated than see them passed
with the Barlow and McNary amend
ments. He saw in the companion
amendments threat to the South's
dairying and live stock industries.
A meeting to discuss further a
separate bill for cotton was agreed on.
The date was not set.
Mcdonald of Texas said curtailing
acreage would not cure American cot
tons ills and warned that "if Congress
should enact further control legisla-
ton foreign production would be so
accelerated that within three years
the people would demand tariff bar
rier against the foreign product"
Commissioner r. j. Goode suggested
the creation of a cotton commission to
protect" the industry in Washington.
describing such project as the pos
sible salvation of the South"
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Roin-Making Sacred Bundle
To Be Ciuen Back to Indians
Museum Officials and TU0 Gr0s Nentres
to Take Part in Ceremony in New
ork-BraUes to Stop Here.

At last they're really going to give
1t back to the Indians The ceremony
will take place at Broadway and 155th
street. New York City. on January IA
TT Is the rain-making Sacred
Bundle Of the Water Busters; they
are the pale face officials of the Mu-
scum OF the American Indian. in New
York; and the Indians in question are
couple Of braves representing the
Gros Ventre Tribe of North Dakota
water Busters. a native group long
known for its ability to make it rain.
There will be a local prelude to
the conclave in New York when the
two braves, Foolish Bear and Drags
Wolf, drop by Washington on jan
uary II or IL to say how" to Sec:
retary OF Interior Ickes and John
Collier. Commissioner of Indian AZ
fairs.
The affair of the Sacred Bundle is
an involved one and according to the
most venerable sages of the Gros
Ventres has quite q bit to do with
recent droughts and grasshopper
plaques in their territory.
Though dimmed in the mists of an
tiquity and legend. the origin of the
Sacred Bundle has been traced back
200 years and may extend farther
back than that.
According to the tribal fathers. the
Sacred Bundle Hereinafter to be
known as the bundle) contains the
skulls of two Thunderbird Deities
who decided many. many winters age
to pay visit to the earth. One OF
the Deities was the child Of Gro,
Ventre woman and the other was born
to Shoshone the sages say.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
APPOINTMENTS MADE
BY U. S. AIR BUREAU
Expanded Program of Always
Improvement Is Announced
by Director of Unit.

GApduueu Program OIL AlrWayS
Improvement Is Announced
by Director of Unit.
Twenty-one new appointments in
the Bureau of Air Commerce and nine
transfers or promotions have been an
nounced by Director Of Air Commerce
Fred L. Fagg. jr New appointees in
cluded 10 assistant airways keepers,
junior radio operators and 2 clerical
appointees.
The new appointments are in line
with the expanded program Of air.
ways Improvement and extension now
in progress.
An ultra high frequency radio range
antenna system capable of handling
range signals in the 125-megacycle
band has been completed and shipped
to Indianapolis for flight tests, DR..
Fagg announced. Experiments in
the high frequency band have
been undertaken in the hope of cut
ting down static interference and
eliminating bad weather accidents.
The bureau during the last week
has issued 203 new aircraft licenses
or identification marks, 81 certificates
of airworthiness for export. 119 trans
fers Of title to aircraft. 254 airplane
pilot licenses or renewals, 81 mechanic
licenses or renewals, parachute rig
ger license renewal and 2 ground in.
structor license renewals.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
G. 0. P. AIDES SEE
VANDENBERG IN 40
Poll Of State Chairmen Regards
Him as Possibility for
Nomination.

By the Associated Press.
The Republican State chairmen of
Michigan, South Dakota, Colorado
and Florida consider Senator Vanden-
berg of Michigan the present outstand-
ing possibility for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1910, ac-
cording to . poll yesterday Of party
opinion In several sections Of the
country.
In the far South, however, an ex-
preston OF personal backing for
Thomas E. Dewey, district attorney Of
New York County, came from c. H.
McNulty, chairman Of the Republican
State Executive Committee of Florida
Il would like to see the leading con-
tender for the Republican nomination
in 1910 be Thomas e. Dewey, recently
elected district attorney, while ! think
vandenberg stands out in the minds
of Republican leaders as their NOM
inee," he said.
Seven Republican State chairmen
predicted big gains in Republican
representation in Congress at next
falls election. The business slump
and President Roosevelt's own activities
were regarded by the Republicans as
his own most effective political enemies
now. No leader thought there was
much possibility Of . strong third
party In the 1910 campaign.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
KNOX TROPHY AWARDED
TO WYOMING BATTERY
Fort Francis E. Warren Artillery
Unit Selected for High
est Rating.

Award Of the Knox Trophy for 1897
to Battery B. 18th Field Artillery,
Fort Francis E. Warren. Wyo.. has
been announced by the chief Of Field
Artillery.
The trophy, presented annually by
the Society Of the Sons Of the Revo-
luton in the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts, is awarded to the battery
of Regular Army field artillery hav-
ing the highest efficiency rating, based
on firing efficiency, tactical mobility
and proficiency in the use of field
artillery means of communication.
Competition was among "a batteries
selected to represent their respective
regiments.
Batteries in the Sd Corps Area
which participated in the competition
were Battery c, 9Th Field Artillery,
Fort Hoyle. Nd, and Battery c, 18th
Field Artillery, Fort Myer,, Va.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

History subsequently records bloody
battle between the two tribes, at the
conclusion of which the two human
Thunderbirds made a compact that
their skulls should be preserved to-
gether and intrusted to the care and
safekeeping of the Water Buster Clan
OF the Gros Ventres.
Everything went we'll and the grue-
some package of rain-making magic
kept the ground moist and grasshop-
pers away until. some time in the 90s,
one Slim Shin, senior member Of the
Water Buster Clan and guardian OF
the Sacred Bundle. died.
His death occurred when Govern
ment pressure and missionary zeal
were combining to put an end to So
called pagan rites among the Indians
So what with the pressure and zeal
the bundle lost prestige and in 1907
was bought from Wolf Chief, son of
the then late Slim Shin. by G. F.
Wilson, Presbyterian missionary.
Though not even a Water Buster
but Prairie Chicken Through his
maternal side). Wolf Chief took 1t
upon himself to make the deal with
Mr.. Wilson. who later sold the bundle
to Heye Foundation, which in turn,
as operators Of the Museum of the
American Indian G55th street and
Broadway, will give it back to the
Indians January a.
The back-to-Indians movement is
part Of a program of the Office OF
Indian Affairs to restore to the In
dians as far as possible their colorful
tribal customs and religious beliefs.
And. although not entirely relevant
neither Foolish Bear nor Drags Wolf
can speak lick of English.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Holiday Paroles
Viii End Today
| For AIubunlu1lS
BY the Associated Press.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Jan. L.
Their Christmas paroles Of two weeks
ending tomorrow. $50 of Alabama s
most worthy" convicts began trudg-
ing back to prison today along raini
soaked highways and by-ways.
Bound word Of honor" with Gov.
Bibb Graves to return at the end of
their holidays" sthe convicts appar-
emily were anxious to keep excellent
a record of reporting ION time" that
has been established over the last
10 years.
Five already had reported back at
Kilby Prison, the States largest, here.
Other prisons reported scattering re-
turns. The reporting deadline is 6
pm. tomorrow.
Hamp Draper, convict department
chief, estimated less than 20 had
failed to keep their man-to-man word
since Gov. Graves started the practice
OF rewarding convicts for good be.
havior during his first term tn 1927.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Plan for a D. c: Mayor Found
In Old Congressional Record
Proposals for Building Tomb for
George Washington, Dating Back to
1879, Are Also Uncovered.

Proposals for building a tomb for
George Washington In the Capitol
for establishing a National Capital
police force and for regulating the
elections of Mayor and other gov
ernmental functionaries in the Capt.
tai City have been found in old Con-
gressional Records by South Trimble,
clerk of the House
The study of these, the existence
of many of which was unknown. is
being conducted by H. Newlin Megill,
assistant clerk of the House. They
are being assembled. correlated. cata-
logued and indeXed for filing in the
Library of Congress
These old documents, rescued from
the cobwebs and dust of more than
a century. are beautifully hand writ
ten on large sheets Of parchment.
They give guidance on many questions
OF paramount issue today. For ex-
ample, in the Third Congress. when
Oliver Walcott of Connecticut sue
ceeded Alexander Hamilton as Sec
retary OF the Treasury, he contributed
a statement, dated April IA, 1894, deal
ing with the principles on which the
accounts of the Treasury are kept
In relation to receipts and expendi-
lures. The statement deals with the
responsibility of the controller.
Is Apropos Now.
This communication Is Of special
interest at this time in view of the
proposal in the omnibus reorganiza-
ton bill, soon to come up in the
Senate, which would abolish the Office
of controller general and substitute
a post audit Office of auditor general.
In concluding his statement Secre-
tary Walcott says: "A succinct idea
Of the duties of the officers of the
Treasury, so far as respects the dis
position of public monies and in re-
spect to account may be obtained
by considering the Secretary of the
Treasury as responsible for the iSsu-
ing of proper direction for trans
ferring and disposal of all monies in
the first instance. and that no ex-
penditures be made except in pursu-
ance of appropriations. The Treasury.
as the sole agent of disposal of all
monies once placed in the Treasury;
The comptroller as responsible that
that no warrant shall be counter
signed for which there is not an ex-
isting appropriation. and jointly with
the auditor that no illegal and i'm
Evening star., 1938-01-02
WEST POINT CANDIDATES

Two residents Of nearby Virginia
have been designated by the War De-
partment to take the March en-
trance examinations for West Point,
They are John B. Rose. jr. 34o9 FIJI
teenth street north, Arlington, princi-
pal and Jack K. McGregor, 6o4o
Wilson boulevard, Arlington, first
alternate. Thomas H. Selecman OF
Occoquan, Va, was named second
alternate.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

authorities have been blotting out the
Chinese government broadcasts, so
that the latter couldn't reach its peo-
pie. Before Marking. the capital, fell
recently the Chinese government used
to try to broadcast to the public, but
powerful Japanese stations in the
vicinity of Peking and Tientsin would
come in and drown the Chinese out.
Willy Chinese finally hit on the
scheme of broadcasting at unusual
hours, and rushing as much propa-
ganda as possible onto the air for their
people before the japanese stations
got into action. Sometimes the Chi
nese stations could operate several
minutes before they were smothered.
The Chinese people got wise to what
was going forward and used to leave
their sets tuned in for their govern
ment stations, so as to get everything
their leaders were able to say.
Propaganda for India.
The best jamming scheme your cor
respondent has heard Of Is in the
process Of being worked out by his
highness the Nizam of Hyderabad,
the greatest Of the ruling princes Of
India. He Is inaugHating radios in
all the villages of his state. and broad
casts will go to his people from his
own station.
In order to keep outsiders from in
truding, the Nizam is having all the
sets locked at a certain wave length
so that they can receive only the
Hyderabad broadcasts. He can afford
to humor any personal whims. for he
is reputed to be the richest man in
the world.
It is rather surprising to find that
high highness is interested in broad
casting. When I was in India few
years ago was told that he had $50
wives. You really wouldn't think q
chap would find much time for such
things as the radio under the circum-
stances. Still, the Nizam is pretty
smart and apparently has solved his
marital puzzle. If any.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

proper charges shall be admitted In
the settlement of accounts The re-
sponsibility Of the register is-that
records he truly made and the ac-
counts and vouchers carefully pre-
served"
In the Fourteenth Congress there
is a record of the controller generals
Office particularly significant at this
time, when Chairman Byrd OF the
Senate Reorganization Committee is
battling the administration proposal
to abolish the existing accounting
system. directly responsible to the
legislative branch of the Government.
This historic document. signed by
William Williamson of the controller S
office February.27. 1928
Proposal Made in 1880.
Then there is the proposal made
In the Twenty-flrst Congress, House
Report 3l8, relating to the entomb-
merit and statue of Gen. George
Washington. This includes a resolu-
ton approved February %, 1880, and
offered by Representative Mitchell OF
Maryland. which says that the Con-
gress of the United States unani-
mously adopted the message Of Presi-
dent John Adams an January 8. 1900,
to Congress respecting the entomb-
ment of Gen. George Washington In
the Capitol"
Large sheets of parchment covering
the first session of the Thirty-fifth
Congress under date of December 7,
1857, carry document with regard
to regulating municipal elections in
the city Of Washington. making one
years residence necessary to vote for
Mayor and other officers. The voter
must also have paid the school tax.
The Corporation of Washington" Is
given authority and power to designate
voting precincts and wards and other
wise to regulate the elections.
The very extraordinary thanks of
Congress were voted in the Forty
fourth Congress. first session, on May
81, 1876, according to another parch-
ment document brought to light:
Ordered that the thanks of the House
be, and hereby are. rendered to the
13 ladies of the Franklin School of
Washington who decorated the hall
of this House with floral tributes on
May 30" This was signed by the
Speaker of the House and attested by
George M. Adams. the clerk.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
SIGNAL CORPS CHANGE

Capt. william M. Mack, Army Sig
nal Corps, a native of the District of
Columbia, has been ordered relieved
from further assignment as a student
at the Harvard Graduate School Of
Business Administration at Cambridge,
Mass, according to the War Depart
ment.
Capt. Mack has been assigned to
the signal section, New York Gen.
eral Depot, 1t Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
DEATHS REPORTED,

Henrietta P. stormont. SO. 1928 Edmunds
st. NV.
Katherine D. oaillard, 70. 1881 Crescent
George Z. Baxter. 70. 1928 W st. Sc,
Bird Cox. 50. Emergency Hospital
Elizabeth Six. "a, I343 14th ct. NV,
Joseph G. Drake. %. Emereency Hospital
Infsnt Robert A. Becker. children's
Infant Elisha n. Davis. childrsn,s 8
.~IsMtp Hso:pintsl; n!.,, 4. ,,..
Julia Coles. 80, Emergency Hospital,
Elisabeth Hutto, 80, $3oedmen'o Hoxnitna
Evening star., 1938-01-02
BIRTHS REPORTED,

Joseph and Kathryn Conley boy.
Walter and Caroline Wyss. siri.
Thornton and Collette Owen. boy,
Ernest and Zoe schlatter. girl.
Albro and BERTHE Davidson, boy.
Joseph and Anna Marks. Girl.
Bartholomew and Elix Daily, boy.
Frank and Mary Butler, girl.
Robert and Helen Gingles, &irl.
James and Mary Lucas. Girl
Audrey and Catherine Cattaui. girl.
Harvey and Josephine Klemmer. girl,
David and Helen Smell. boy.
Robert and Irene Hamann. girl.
Georse and Forenee Phelas. girl.
Thomas and Christine Lynch, boy.
Thomas and Isabel Barrinser,. Girl.
William and Dorothy Trunnell girl.
William and Marion Stewart. boy.
Richard and Blanche Lane. girl.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
ARMY HONORS THREE
Silver Star Awarded Veterans
Private Gets Soldiers Medal.

Awards of the Silver Star to two
World War veterans for gallantry in
action and Of the Soldiers Medal to
Pvt. Charles E. Gilnick. Headquar-
tiers Battery, 4th Coast Artillery, anti
aircraft, for heroism in rescuing a
fellow soldier from drown have been
announced by the War Department.
Those cited for the Silver Star
award are Dennis S. Cook, now liv-
ing at Cottageville, S. c.. and Asher
r. Cato, now living at Monroe City
Ind.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
IN RURAL AREAS NOTED
Physical Well-Being of Those in
Smaller Towns Reported
Endangered.

BY the Associated Press.
The Department of Agriculture said
yesterday the physical well-being Of
rural America is endangered by a
serious shortage Of small-town doc
tors and hospitals.
In a number of States, a survey
showed, there is only l doctor for
every 1000 to $500 persons. The
more populous States have a doctor
for as few as 500 persons.
The rural shortage was attributed
to lack of medical equipment and
facilities. and to the somewhat higher
income and social advantages of the
cities.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
MAJ. FINLEY ASSIGNED
Officer Will Go to Philippines for
Cavalry Duty.

Maj. James r. Finley, cavalry, q
native Of Washington. has been or
dered relieved from further detail with
the Organized Reserves Of the Sd
Corps Area and from further duty at
Norfolk, Va. and assigned to duty
in the Philippines, the War Depart
ment has announced.
Maj. Finley Is to sail from New York
about March IS. He will be assigned
to cavalry duty in the Philippines and
removed from the detached ofacers'
List, It was announced.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
North Carolina's Seashore.

Included in the area proposed for
conservation as Cape Hatteras Ma
tional Seashore are some of the
most important waterfowl wintering
grounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
Also included is an island where .
small herd of deer, separated from the
mainland for centuries, still ranges.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
w. P. A. ROLLS GROW
3O,626 Increase in Week Ended
December 16 Is Reported.

December 16 Is Reported.
By the Associated Press.
Works Progress Administration re-
lief employment rolls increased 30.-
626 in the week ended December lS,
w. P. A. records disclosed yesterday.
The increase raised the total Of re-.
lief workers from 1,557,eS9 on De-
cember II to 1,588,315 on Decem-
Der 18.
w. p A. officials said the increase
reflected few of the $4,000 jobless
workers ordered added to the rolls
December by Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins.
The addition Of the 350. 900 workers
is not expected to be noted in the
lists until this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Other Editors Say
POSSIBILITY SEEMS REMOTE
The Illinois State Journan

One of our Washington correspondents, Specu-
lating on what could occur if President Roose-
vet the opposition in congress were to sur
render to the other, lugubrously admits that
the possibility seems remote He explains
"RooSevelt's hops, skips and jumps between
anti-monopoly crusade, cooperation with busi-
ness la Richberg and numerous other conflict
ing theories are gummy enough by themselves
but when you consider that practically anything
he is likely to suggest has at least a fiftyfifty
chance of being stymied on Capitol hill, it ap-
pears that even if he made up his mind, there
would be no prompt end to uncertainty"
The correspondent could have written that
an agreement in congress can't be assured of
approval at either the White House or in the
uper-government agencies which have been set
up by authority of the congress. In figuring on
what is possible at this time, it must be remem
bered that abdication of congressional and judi
cal power to new deal agencies has created a
new determining factor in legislation.
There is more or less method in the seeming
madness of President Roosevelts hops, skipS and
jumps" They serve his immediate political
purpose by keeping the other fellows guessing
Confusion in congress, however, is without even
the excuse of political expediency. 1t spells
generalization in the law-making branch of the
government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
IT'S BLIND, BUT
IT'S NOT JUSTICE

Probably there is nobody who ever
filled out an income tax blank who has
not used words no refined gentleman is
ever supposed to use. At least once a
year we renew the conviction that the
income tax blank-State or federal-is
the most terrible form of torture ever
devised by man, ancient or modern,
Oriental or Occidental.
And now and then we are almost con-
vinced that there is some legitimate
question about the sanity of the men
who gather in some dark. subterranean
witches den at midnight in the dark of
the moon to consult the spirits of the
half-world about income tax deductions.
Not that there are not enough deduct
able items. Lord, nO If you have an
average income and nothing else to do
all year, you should be able to figure
out enough deductions to prove that the
government actually owes you money.
Trouble is, these torturers who set up
the deductions are incurable Optimists.
That is, if they're consumers, they are
incurable optimists. Besides, they're
blind.
They can drive up to a gasoline fill
ing station, pay whatever it is they pay
for a gallon of gas in ther state, and
drive away still believing that the manu-
facturer or the distributor pays the tax
on gasoline. Even after big sign on
the gas pump tells them different. There
are three possible conclusions: Either
they're blind, and if so shouldn't be
driving motor cars; or they're incurable
optimists; or they're crazy-and we
don't like to call anybody crazy.
Maybe we're all wrong about this, but
what else can you think when you find
that the treasury department will not
allow YOU to deduct gasoline taxes
state or federal-Or federal taxes on lu-
bricating oil, tires, tubes, accessories, or
even new cars and trucks?
You ask, "why?"
They tell you it is because these
taxes are imposed on the manufacturer
or distributor, and not on the consumer.
Maybe we're crazy