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The Washington times., 1938-05-13
ASK NEW SCHOOL

ELKTON, Md, May ia large
delegation of residents of Chesa-
peake City and vicinity appeared
before the monthly meeting Of
the Board of Education here and
made a plea for a new high school
building in that town.
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at $551,200,.
$50 up to last
March 81; is
Q C q u irin 6
more now at
the rate Of
about 5000 a
month; h a S
sold a b o u t
9,271; is rent
ing many Of
the others at
q rental in
come of about
$1,500,0 a
month; total
defaults re
nHnhnn IN
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ingly, that he
has ordered a
new office file
for such cor
r e Spondence.
Hecalls it the
toe-file.
The most
amusing COM
m u n i cation
he has re-
ceiVed came
from Mrs,
George Bar
nett, one of
the wittieSt
W o m e n in
w a Shinpton
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

Give yourself a new lease on life!
Discover the delightful weekend vaca-
tiOn places which are within quick
driving distance from Washington.
Refer to the Tour Maps of Washington
and vicinity which are appearing every
day in the Classified Section of the
Herald and Times. And feast your
eyes ON the listing Of splendid used
ears available at good old fashioned
low prices.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
Dear Washington
Rv HELEN ESSARY

VOU may think your misery is the only of its kind
But once your trouble is known you'll find that half of
civilization is suffering from your special complaint
Speaker Bankhead says that since he subbed his and
broke against chair in his dark bedroom he's learned that
most of the world in similar totalitaran probaby
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

ment, seized boCh pan ana nre
boldly, and answered:
Thank you Mark, but pshaw,
! didn't do anything"
Funds for Probes
THREE obscure resolutions of
l. prime Importance to business
have been quietly pushed up to
the last stage of Senate consid.
Grafton. One gives the La
Toilette Civil Liberties Commit
tee. 100000 more. Chairman
Bob La Toilette wants $4,000 to
clean up pending matters, in
cluding the National Association
of Manufacturers, Bethlehem,
Republic and Youngstown Steel.
With the other $4,000 he
plans to travel through the
country this summer, probably
starting with Jersey City and
Mayor Hague. Some Senators
fear he may invade their dis
tricts during the campaign and
plan to cut his allowance, but
he probably will get about $685.
900.
No. 2 is the Bailey resolution
to investigate prices, costs; pro-
duction, etc., in commerce, for
SOS, 900. It probably viii be
blocked because Mr.. r. wants
$500, 900 for a similar inquiry.
No. 3 is the Vandenberg $780,
600 inquiry into existing profit
sharing systems. It stands a
$3.50 chance Of adoption.
The Presidents first press
conference upon his return will
make good reading when it Is
made public a few years hence.
At the outset Mr.. R. was
asked If he would comment on
the Florida elections. He pom
dered a moment, said he had
a Latin phrase In mind, but
had better use the American
translation: "The thing speaks
for ITSELF" Up piped Earl God
win, sharp commentator Of the
Washington Times, who, mind
ful Of the charges Of PWA
money spending, said: II
thought for a moment you were
going to say, 'caveat emptor, !"
(let the buyer beware).
President "Tells 'Em"
A SKED about amending the
"A Neutrality Act, the Presi-
dent replied with q noticeable
sense of humor: "Ask the State
Department" Questioned about
Mayor Hague's contest with the
left wingerS, he deity ducked
by passing the queStioners on
to General Farley and "the
local police"
But the highest light came
at the end, when a QueStioner
suggested his Anglo Italian
statement implied he favored
recognition Of Ethiopia. "You
had better reread what I said, "
responded the President.
I'm your Chicago speech, Mr.
President?" asked q none-too-
innocent voice in the rear.
you had better reread what
I said on that treaty." he re-
peated-"and at Chicago, too. It
was widely misrepreSented in
the press with creScendo force)
both of them"
AS the chaStened boys were
filing out, Mr.. r. turned to Chip
Roberts with a wink and said
"That's the way to talk to them,
amt it?"
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
UNCLE SAM STUCK
WITH 10000 FARMS
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
By PAUL MALL0N

~ ReprOduotion In o. In strictly FrOhibted)
AT0 ANNOUNCEMENTS are being handed out about this
IN but the good old u s. Government is up to its ankles
in the real estate business and may eventually be to its
neck careful survey Of obscure unpublished official
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Al VI % bHVWHs
Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton authorized seizure Of 141,-
643 houses and properties valued
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the Hitler influence AGAIN..
Mr.. Bankhead has had so
many letters from others who
have Stubbed their toes, unwill-
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

Coin fishing? TIL zen read Bob VIII
sons up the Strea m," In The Wash
ingtOn Times. Telephone RE. 1894 70,
home delivery.
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w eIiAAlSCou. Helen EssaPy
Shortly aftet Mr.. Bankhead was
laid low, Mrs. Barnett stubbed
her toe against the old mahog-
any four-poster in her bedroom.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

the fire of denying the compli.
ment, seized both pan and fire
boldly, and answered:
Thank you Mark, but pshaw,
I didn't do anything"
Funds for Probes
Evening star., 1938-05-02
HENLE|N DEMANDS
CzECHPLEB|SC|TE
May Day Speakers Insist
Upon Concessions to
German Groups.
BY the Associated Press.

6y LuS ASSOClaCcQ SIcbS.
PRAI1A, Czechoslovakia. May a.
The Nazi leader Konrad Henlein has
demanded a plebiscite so that the
3,5O0,000 German residents of Czecho-
slovakia may determine their wishes
for government.
Using May Day as springboard,
Herr Henlein and his colleagues re-
newed their demands for political con-
cessions in burst Of oratory in towns
through the German sector of the
nation.
There was only one report of dis
order, at Troppau near the frontier in
Germany, where three men we're in
jured in fighting.
Anti-Nazi Germans tried with prom
ises to support the Czechs in defense
of the nation to Offset the demonstra-
tions, which have increased in inten-
sity since the German annexation Of
Austria.
At Podmokly. another town near
the German border, Maj. JOSEPH Kess-
ler-a social democrat-asserted that
German democrats in the border re-
gion will defend the state, together
with the Czechs, with their blood"
Herr Henlein, speaking in five towns,
was welcomed with cries of I'VE greet
our Fuehrer" and Nazi salutes. He
was, however, less fiery than some of
his lieutenants, such as George Woll-
ner, who declared that National So
cialism knows no boundaries" and de-
manded that Germans be substituted
for Czechs on the police force
Another Nazi speaker, Franz Ober-
lik. said at Gablonz that the Nazis
hoped "by next fall we shall have
achieved our freedom" Both Herr
Oberlik and Herr Wollner are depu-
ties.
Herr Henlein, demanding plebiscite
on the minority issue. said demands
he made a week ago represented mot
the maximum but the minimum Of
what is necessary to solve our national
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Kaiser's Scion Weds Daughter
Of ROmanOff Chief at POtsdan,

The guests included 81 men and
women of royal blood besides the bridal
pair and their parents; 26 counts and
countesses, noblemen and noble ladies
and II commoners.,.
Each received early in the morning
12-page program. telling exactly
what to do, where to sit and when
to kneel.
There were diagrams of the various
tables in the three dining rooms.
with the name of each guest in proper
place for the wedding breakfast.
In keeping with the private family
and friendship character of the we'd
ding. no reigning houses were invited
except that represented by the Queen
Of Denmark. sister of the Crown
Princess Cecilia. The Queen attended
with the Crown Prince and Princess
Of Denmark.
There were no high members Of
the German government and the for
mer German Kaiser, Wilhelm, like
wise was absent from the wedding
of his grandson. A Protestant cere-
mony will be performed Wednesday
in the ex-Kaiser's home in Doom,
the Netherlands.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

jailed or ordered from Rome, Florence
and Naples, during Hitler's six-day
stay, and unofficial estimates fixed the
number involved at between 5000 and
1000.
Soldiers stopped automobiles enter
ing or leaving Rome and checked iden-
tification papers. Police doubled their
regular guard along the railway from
Brenner Pass to Rome, the route of
the Hitler train.
The Fascist party secretary, 1t.
Gen. Achille Starace, and a group of
Black Shirt officials are to meet the
Hitler party at Brenner. From there
on Hitler will be the guest of Mussolini
and King Vittorio Emanuele.
The Hitler train will pull into the
new Ostiense station, built specifically
for the welcome, shortly after dusk to-
morrow.
There will be fanfare of turmpets
as Der Fuehrer steps from the train,
another as he enters the station, and a
third as the procession moves away.
Trio Ride Together.
The three principals, the King, Der
Fuehrer and II Duce, will ride in a
single automobile through streets plas-
tered with the Nazi swastika and the
Italian tricolor and along route
lined by 100000 troops and probably
half million citizens.
The procession will start at Adolf
Hitler street, newly built, and end
at the massive Quirinal, where Hit
Ter will have a suite formerly as
signed to the Crown Prince.
Airplanes will maneuver overhead
and flames will light the parade route
They will squirt from terra Gotta urns,
the base of each housing a special
guard to watch for any untoward in
cident.
The King and Mussolini on Wednes-
day will take their guest to Naples
for naval demonstration; there will
be military parade and banquet back
in Rome Thursday. and on Friday a
day of festivities in Florence.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
M'NAMEE HOLDS R. c. A.
HAS FOREIGN MONOPOLY

IellS senate subcommittee OF r.
c. c. Refusal to Grant Permits
to Mackay.
Fy the Associated Press.
Luke McNamee. president Of the
Mackay Radio System, told Senate
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
today that licenses issued by the Fed
eral Communications Commission had
given r. c. A. Communications. Inc,
a monopoly in the foreign commercial
field.
Mr.. McNamee testified in support OF
a bill by Senator Wheeler, Democrat
of Montana to amend the 1884 Com
munications Act to provide that it
will be the policy of Congress ito
'prevent monopoly and to encourage
competition in direct foreign radio
telegraph communication in
the public interest"
Mr. McNamee cited the refusal OF
the F. C. C. to grant Mackay permits
to operate in Norway. Italy and
Poland in support Of his monopoly
charge.
Frank Wozencraft. r. c. A. general
solicitor, said Mackay was asking com.
petition that would put both COM
panies in the red"
Evening star., 1938-05-02
BY the Associated Press.

by Tie ASS(CldteQ fIeSS.
POTSDAM, Germany, May O.
Prince Louis Ferdinand Of the House
Of Hohenzollern and the Grand Duch-
ess Kira of the House OF Romanoff
were married in civil ceremony in
Cecilienhof Castle this morning.
The marriage clerk, who ordinarily
performs the civil service in Potsdam
City Hall. came to the castle and
the first service was read in the
castle library at IL am.
Crown Prince Wilhelm Of Prussia,
the bridegroom's father, and the Grand
Duke Cyril, father of the bride and
pretender to the lost throne of old
Russia, were the only witnesses.
Then followed wedding ceremony
in the Greek Orthodox religion of the
bride. An altar had been erected in
a spacious bay window of the great
hall of the castle. A Russian chorus
of is voices sang from an alcove to
the left of the altar.
The bride wore gown of richly
embroidered silver brocade. nearly
100 years old-a court dress OF her
grandmother, the Duchess of Coburg,
only daughter of Emperor Alexander
TT
Evening star., 1938-05-02

spokesman said an agreement "satis-
factory to all concerned had been
reached. ...
New Customs Collector.
The Japanese-dominated reformed
government Of China" at Nanking
named Ii Chien-nan superintendent
of customs at Shanghai, where before
the war approximately half Of China's
customs revenues were collected. This
was in line with Japan's efforts to
control the customs service here, which
has been opposed by British and other
foreign authorities.
(In Toxic informed sources said
an Anglo-Japanese understanding
on the Shanghai customs had been
reached in talks between Sir Robert
Craigie, British Ambassador, and
Kansuke Horinouchi, vice minister
for foreign affairs. 1t was under
stood Japan was to guarantee the
servicing of China's foreign loans
based on customs receipts.)
Clarence E. Gauss, United States
Consul General, sailed for San Fran
cisco aboard the President Coolidge.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

problems. The Nazi leader warned
other nations not to support the Czechs
as such support could lead only to
conflict.
May Day passed of without unto-
ward events in world cities where
Communists, Socialists and other left
whgers celebrated with customary
parades. speecn-making and labor
demonstrations.
Moscow had its usual display OF
military force, parading before joseph
Stain and the tomb OF Lenin. About
100000 persons marched in Leftist
Mexicos demonstration, which as.
sumed a distinctly military tone.
There was a fist fight in Bueno,
Aires, caused by a clash between
Spanish insurgent and government
sympathizers.
In London thousands Of extra DO.
lice prevented conflict between La
borites and Fascists in the largest
May Day manifestations the city ever
has known.
President Getulio Vargas in Rio de
Janeiro marked the event by signing
decree creating regional commits
sions authorized to establish minimum
wages for all workers.
Uneventful parades We're staged in
New York, Brussels, Paris and other
centers OF population.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
CRASH KILLING 70
PROBED BY ITALY
Albanian Envoy to Rome
Among Dead-PIane
Hit Mountain.
BY II. Associated Press.

os VIZ HSo'N iSoos
ROME, May 2-The worst disaster
In the history of Italian civil aviation,
costing the lives of IA airplane pas
sengers and aviators, was investigat-
ed today by the Italian government.
Gen. Aldo Pellegrini, chief of Italy's
commercial aviation, went to Formia
to conduct the inquiry.
The giant airliner of the Ala Littoria
Co. en- route from Tirana, Albania, to
Rome, ran into dense clouds Saturday
afternoon and hit mountainside near
Formia 10 miles southeast of Rome
on the Tyrrhenian Coast.
One Victim American.
The United States Consulate at
Rome said one of the victims was an
born in 1909. 1t said she carried a
passport issued in Jerusalem and was
on her way to Rome from Palestine,
having boarded the plane at Brindisi.
While authorities awaited further
information from Tirana to assist in
Identification, the burned bodies lay
in the parish church of Formia.
Among the known victims was the
Albanian Minister to Rome. Djafer
Villa. He and other passengers at
tended the wedding in Tirana last
Wednesday of King Ahmed zog to the
former Countess Geraldine Apponyi
Of Hungary
$4,000 in Gems Aboard.
Albanian authorities at Tirana said
jewelry valued at 100000 French
francs (about $370,OOo) was aboard
the plane.
The jewelry was presumed to be
part of collection sent to King Zog
and from which he selected wedding
gifts for his bride. The Jewels not
selected were believed to be on their
way back to Paris.
The consignment was said to be the
Evening star., 1938-05-02
DR.. FRANCE ON STAND
IN SUIT FOR DIVORCE
French Marriage Certificate and
Ante-Nuptial Contract Are
Presented in Court.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Asso ciated Press.
ELKTON, Md, May IA marriage
certificate and an ante-nuptial agree
ment between former United States
Senator Joseph l. France and his Rus
sian-born wife were submitted to the
court today in DR.. Frances suit for
divorce.
The agreement, written in French
before the couples Paris wedding, will
be translated later for the record.
Isaac Lobe Straus. attorney for DR..
France, said the agreement covered
financial arrangements between the
former Senator and his wife.
Mr.. Straus objected to testimony
taken in France to support Mrs.
Frances contention she did not desert
her husband, but was forced by illness
to remain away.
The attorney put DR.. France a doc
tor Of medicine, on the stand as an
expert witness to define certain medi-
cal terms. DR.. Frances testimony,
which he reinforced with exhibits of
medical books, took up most of the
morning.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
MEXICAN POLICY HIT

Representative Tinkham, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts,, charged last
night that the Roosevelt administra-
tion had encouraged the development
OF communistic dictatorship in Mex
leo and had invited wholesale con-
fiscation Of American property all over
the world.
In statement to the press he criti-
cized this Governments acknowledge
ment that Mexico had right to seize
American-owned oil properties pro-
vided the owners were compensated on
a basis of original investment, less de-
probation.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
What Is Your
News |. O.?

Each question counts 20; each
part OF tDo-part question, 10.
A score of so is fair; 80, good.
Answer on Page At.
/. Identify this newly married
couple.
2. Why was Melvin H. Gibbon,
an American aviator, detained in
Tokyo?
2. The New York Drama Crit.
les Circle chose as the seasons
best American play (a) Our
Town." (b) "Of Mice and Men,"
(c) Golden Boy"
4. What guarantee does the
United States want before allow
ing Germany to purchase helium
in this country?
S. The British Ambassador to
Moscow protested against the
Soviet governments arrest Of
Rose Cohen, a former British
Communist, and other British
subjects in Russia. True or false?
Evening star., 1938-05-02

at the nearness of a strong foreign
army.
Second is Mussolini's entrance into
friendship agreement with Britain
on April l6, and French and British
speculation that this might be the
wedge for efforts by the two democ-
racies to win Mussolini from the
German-Italian front. Both Berlin
and Rome, however, have affirmed
continued strength in their accord.
Third is the understanding reached
last Thursday by the British and
French Prime Ministers for increased
cooperation by their armed forces,
in the event of war, under a unified
command
Returns Hospitality
The visit to Italy will be cloaked in
splendor, and outwardly will be Pre-
mier Mussolini's return of the hos
pitality shown him on his visit to
Germany last fall.
Official informants say no new
treaties will be announced, but the
makeup Of the delegation accom-
panying De Fuehrer indicated the
visit would be more than purely
Representative"
Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Gaus, legal
expert of the foreign office, is a mem
Der of the party. Not socially inclined,
it seems unlikely he would go along if
there were not in prospect some type
Of agreement.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Norway to Exhibit.

Norway is preparing to hold in Oslo
its first big exhibition since the World
War. 1t will show the developments
in the trade, historical and cultural
conditions of the country. The whal.
ing exhibit will include every phase Of
that industry. The Lingard, Norway S
largest full-rigged ship, will be con-
verted into a restaurant.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
100000 Soldiers Pour Into Rome.

ROME, May 2 (P).-Troop trains
rolled into Rome hour upon hour to-
day, bringing 100000 soldiers to be or
hand for the visit of Germany's
Reichsfuehrer Hitler.
There was everywhere the turmoil
of last-minute preparation to make
the welcome to the Nazi chieftain to-
morrow night the greatest pageant in
the ancient city's history.
Parks were closed to the public and
converted into military camps. Mer-
chants refused deliveries because their
trucks could not move through down.
town streets choked by soldiers, de-
tectives and tourists.
Persons of questionable record were
Evening star., 1938-05-02
property of a leading Paris jewelry
firm and was believed insured.
Loss of Jewels Confirmed,

PARIS, May (P)-Loss of a for
tune in jewelry aboard the Italian pas
senger plane that crashed yesterday
while en- route from Tirana, Albania,
to Rome was confirmed today by the
Jewelry firm of Carriers.
The jewels were part of a consign-
ment sent on approval to King Zog
of Albania to permit him to select gifts
for his bride, the former Countess
Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. The
original consignment was valued at
20,000,000 francs (about $614,bOO) and
was insured
Carriers spokesman said further
check would be necessary to fix the
amount of jewelry aboard the plane.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Fatal Day for Family.

CRESSON. Pa. May 2 LP.-April
30 is fatal day in the Freidhoff FAM
lily. Catherine Freidhoff died April 80,
1884; a brother, Benjamin, on April
80, 1887, and another brother, Joseph,
last Saturday, April 80.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

SHdngnUt eCeT since capture OF
city BY Japanese last jail.
BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, May 2.-The danger Of
widespread terrorism revived war ten
sion in Shanghai today as reports cir
culated that thousands Of Chinese
guerrillas had slipped into the city to
harass the Japanese.
International Settlement police dou-
bled their patrols and searched refu-
gee camps for guerrillas, equipped with
firearms and explosives, hiding there
The arrest of two bomb throwers
after an attempt to blast a truck
loaded with Japanese soldiers, and
information that more than 1000 ter
rorists had infiltrated the city,
aroused police apprehensions.
5000 Declared in Shanghai.
One report said 5000 special agents
Of the National Salvation Association
and other patriotic organizations were
in Shanghai and the surrounding area
under orders to conduct a terrorism
NoAhP Pdl6A d6ulAAoC VIC OdPdllCoC.
Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued
on the Shantung front, where Japan
has been struggling to gain control of
Central China.
Latest dispatches indicated the new
Japanese offensive against Suchow
and the Lunghai Railway has been
blocked, but neither side claimed i'm
portant successes
Chinese said they were holding their
defenses along the Taierchwang-
Yihsien- Pihsien- -Tancheng line while
making strong attacks along the en-
tire line.
Friction in Settlement.
Japanese efforts to combat Shanghai
terrorists brought friction between the
Japanese and authorities of the Inter-
national Settlement.
After the attempt to bomb a Jap
anese truck, in the heart of the
Settlement, Japanese gendarmes were
placed in the Louza Police Station in
that area.
British soldiers Of the Seaforth
AAASAAoluCio fscS SAilcilt tilcu HldICllc
in and began patrolling the Nanking
road area. United States Marines
kept to the limits of their nearby
defense area, but maintained patrols
along Yuyaching road.
Later the Japanese gendarmes were
withdrawn after making a thorough
search of all buildings near the scene
Of the bombing attempt. Tension
lessened and the Highlanders re-
turned to barracks. A Japanese
Evening star., 1938-05-02

Opportunity Is Vital.
That nation is best, most prosperous
and happiest which enables its citizens
to make the utmost of themselves.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
2,0D0GUERR|LLAS
ENTERSHANGHA|
Threat of Wide Terrorism
Revives War Tension
in Metropolis.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Chinese haze resorted to guerril-
la warfare to sloD up japanese
aduance in Central China. By this
means supply lines OF enemy to
front haze been cut by capture OF
sections OF Tientsin-Pukow and
Petptng- HankoU Railways. Spo-
radio terrorism has occurred In
Shanghai ever since capture of
city BY Japanese last jail.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Hitler

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