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The times-news., 1938-12-30
RURAL MAIL CARRIED AFOOT

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. (UP).
Women carry out the postal mans
tradition that the mail must al
ways be delivered. During the
illness her of veteran mail car
rier Charles Morrison, Mrs. Ben
Cook took over the job for the
isolated district. Storms often
make the roads impossible; then
the carrier takes to horseback or
goes on foot. Mrs. Cook tried
both.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
LIGHT BURBANK CFD,0

SANTA ROSA. Cal. I'D,
Following a custom Of the ps, "a, = :,
years, the wor!d-lamous5 51s' Ssi. !.
tree, which stands rs a scS,i,g rt%
above the grave Of Luther , Ss
bank, the plant wizard, w,, - :
Illuminated for the Yulctidc ' ,
The times-news., 1938-12-30
VENGEANCE

VENGEANCE
Under the law of rctributive
justice it seems impossible that
Germany can escape awful pun
ishment for her frightful treat
ment of a helpless people. Italy,
too, And Japan.
We Americans should thank
God, every day of our lives that
we Iare not so unfortunate as to
IivG in any one of those coun-
tries.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
LIFE DAY BY DAY
9y WECKrS W4MROLnT

The condemnatory attitude OF
the civilized world toward Hitler
may yet have salutsry effect on
him.
Even our low-downest gang
The times-news., 1938-12-30

"A package left behind in a liquor store
E a customer was found to contain seven
sticks of dynamite. Prohibitionists say ii
is fair exchange.
The times-news., 1938-12-30

The Roosevelt grin is to flourish and
SeamS it would seem. FDR gets tooth
brush and soap in his Christmas stocking,
according to Mrs. Roosevelt
The times-news., 1938-12-30

we call it kicking her when she's down.
First they won't give her title, now a new
Raris poll rates Wally Simpson second-best
dressed woman in the world. -.-r a.-
The times-news., 1938-12-30

The word "Parliament" now
much in the news and on the air,
lis persistently mispronounced by
some radio reporters and commen-
tators.
The second "a" in Parliament
is silent. Recourse to good die
tionary would not hurt some ra-
dio, folk a bit, nor would it hurt
the listening public.
The times-news., 1938-12-30

that the world does not lear MN,
but despises him. That attitude is
good for the Hitler type of soul.
Some persons are pulled down
by severe criticism, while others
are pulled out of their meanness
by it. The cause of decency re-
quires that Hitler be pictured eX-
actly as he is-a vicious throw
back to the days of barbarism-
a menace to the civilization, the
peace, the progress of mankind.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
AN ASSAULT ON THE PEOPLE

Not long ago the water supply
of St. Louis was endangered by
a strike. 1t should be a grave
criminal offense to strike against
public welfare. Labor can never
win public support by such tao
ties. And labor can never go
places without public support.
Nor can capital.
The times-news., 1938-12-30

Most Eskimos do not swim, although they spend
most of their lives near the water.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
1T HAS THREE SYLLABLES

God bless her!.
Evening star., 1938-06-15

and to make new ones. When do 60,
I wish them not to regard me Is one
coming with Interior motives. but as
one coming back to old scenes and old
friends because I have wished once
more to enjoy them.
We feel deeply grateful to all in
America who have spontaneously given
Of their best to succor our distressed
people. Friends have given literally,
some lavishly, Of their time and their
money to help us. Our everlasting
appreciation goes out to them all, as
1t does to the many who have prayed
for US. who have expressed sympathy
for US, who have worked in movements
for us. who have given practical dem
onstrations of their feelings for Us,
and their realization Of the menacing
threat to the world that this aggression
in China means by boycotting all
things Japanese.
All we can give In return Is q prom
ise to try to continue the single-handed
struggle we have been engaged in for
10 months past, difncult and unequal
as 1t is, for we know that. If we do
lose, then the whole world will lose,
especially those nations which are now
enjoying the freedom of democracy.
In the fulfillment Of this determination
to fight on, we give our lives and our
livelihood, and all we hold dear. Death
by the disintegrating influences Of
bombs and shells Is uncomfortable,
Evening star., 1938-06-15

ton Of everything denunciatory said
against them. to warrant every self
respecting Christian nation refusing
to have anything further to do with
them. automatically or otherwise.
We can do no more to protect our
country and people than We are do
ing. We are fighting as well as we
know how, with inadequate equip
ment. But we will not give up. All
I hope is that we will be able to get
the necessities for our armies until
peace comes. II we cannot get those
necessities, it will be because the
democracies decline to help US get
them.
If democratic governments have not,
as is alleged, forgotten their princi-
pies, and have not abandoned their
responsibilities under treaties and in
ternational law, surely a conscien-
tious sense Of justice will, before it is
too bate, inspire them to do the right
thing by China and her people, who
have been in process of ir,molation
since July Z, 1897. That is all we
ask-that the right thing be done
by us, who are victims OF belief in
treaties, and who refused to abandon
the League of Nations and the de-
mocracies when we could have done
so had We been inclined to be op-
portunist and ready and willing to
Evening star., 1938-06-15

II Japan defeats us, then nothing
can say will affect them one way or
the other. II they know that We
are fighting the battle Of civilization
against . revival Of barbarian, while
defending our heritage. and then still
do not wish to contribute to any
relief fund. nothing I cotild do would
change their hearts or minds.
Despite the pressing and purposeful
invitations Of my friends, I cannot
believe that the American people wish
me to appear as exhibit "a" or to
act ns q sort Of before dinner cocktail
to sharpen the appetite and add verve
and zest to the "jollying" Of dollars
out Of their pockets and purses. I am
no conjurer; am no cocktail. I am
just simple-minded human being
who refuses to believe that the Amer
lea knew and loved has descended
to that level. My friends must be
mistaken.
Sees Place In China.
want to 60 to America. but the
work to be done here to help save our
country and our souls necessitates, q
In storm at sea, all hands being on
deck through all the watches. Here
Is my place, and here must stay until
relief comes in the shape Of q change
in the status Of this war which will
give US superiority over the invading
enemy or bring US defeat. Then ]
may 60 to America to see my friends,
Evening star., 1938-06-15
conceal our apostasy under the con-
yenient cloak Of realism"
win Continue Sustaining Selves.

conceal our apostasy under the con-
yenient cloak Of realism"
win Continue Sustaining Selves.
Militarily, we have sustained our
selves for over 10 months now and
we will continue sustaining ourselves.
The invaders, by. virtue Of their tre-
mendous weight In equipment, may
win battles, but they will be compelled
to stick to the ruts Of long lines Of
penetration. while We, II We have
munitions. can move about our country
ss pieces are moved about the SOUS res
Of chessboard until We win the war.
I have received many letters from
friends IN America urging me to 60
there to assist In the raising Of funds
for our sufferers. Unhappily, cannot
be In two places at the one time.
and, since America is renowned for
its unboumded generosity and its virile
reaction to suffering and injustice,
I am inclined to believe 1t is moro
important for me to stay and assist
here.
American people will give Just what
they want to give, whether visit the
country or not. II they decide that
the terrible wholesale butchery and
burning and outraging that are being
perpetrated by Japanese soldiers upon
the Chinese people do not warrant
their aid, then they will not give it.;
II many OF them feel unmoved by
the threat Of catastrophe to the world
Evening star., 1938-06-15
BY MAYLING SOONG CHANG.
mime. Chiang Kaf-shek,)

WUCHANG, China (N.AN.AD.-
When we are going to get the chance
to resume work on nationwide scale
1t Is hard to tell Japan is assaulting
us now with all her accumulated
might, exerting herself to the utter
most to try to subjugate us. see our
country being swept by fire and
swamped in blood. We cannot help it.
Out Of the history of the bar
barians Japan has taken pages. She
is applying them, embellished with re-
finements that make savagery and in
fanny sublime. 1t was Genghis Khan
who established and upheld the doc
trine of death to defeated populations
In order to prevent suppressed hatred
bursting out in time to his undoing.
Whole populations went to death un-
der the swords, the arrows and the
knives OF his hordes. He swept like
. torture through the heart Of China
Hot on his old tracks the Japanese
IRE now attempting to follow. With
new-fangled engines of war they have
reduced his primitive methods of mas
sacre and his fiery holocausts to a
science. They have gone further They
have outshone him in the subjugation
OF survivors by introducing a new
finesse. They bestow rewards" In
addition to any food or pay that may
be granted them at the end of the day,
all laborers in japanese employ are
given bonuses in the shape of narcotic
injections. To salve the agonies of
the impoverished. or the sufferings of
others who find themselves uncon-
solable under the benign control Of
the Japanese, opium and its deriva-
tives are peddled everywhere, and
facilities are provided for the weak
and demoralized to secure drugs and
SO find SurceaSe from their mental and
physical tortures
Genghis Khan Failed.
History has proved that Genghis
Khan, with all his annihilating crudi-
ties. failed to subjugate us. What
prophecy can be made regarding the
results of the sinisterly advanced
methods of the japanese?
I am moved to wonder if there is
not in the world some courageous in
ternational body of people who would,
dn the interests of humanity, dare
the ire of the Japanese, and insist
upon being present in China during
this undeclared war, freely to inves-
tigate, and to observe without tram
) mel, the processes adopted by the
Japanese both in warfare and IN the
treatment Of survivors in occupied re-
gions. Or has civilization thrown up
its hands? can't believe that. II
the Japanese made one move to pre-
vent such a body operating, they
would thus provide suficient confirma-
Evening star., 1938-06-15

especially when We. too. could 50 easily
escape by embracing the seductive
safety Of the new realism.
(copyrisht. 1888. b. the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-06-15
japanese Found Taking Pages
Out of History Of Barbarians
CengE,is Khnn's Methods EmbelIished
With Modern Refnen,ents,
Saws Nine. Chang.

This Is the last Of series OF
articles By Nine. Chang Kni-shek,
American educated ,oite OF Chtna's
cenerdlisstmo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
Snow Adds Tang
To Thanksgiving

Washington dug itself out of the today and slipped and
skidded back work after the Thanksgiving hodayhe first
white" Thanksgiving in many years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
BANDIT L0OTS
LIQUOR STORE

Menacing three occupants of a
liquor store in the 1900 block of
Connecticut Ave. N. w. with q
sawed-off shotgun, a holdup man
scooped more than 500 from a
cash register, relieved the man
ager of his billfold and fled under
cover of darkness last night.
Martin Berman, of the 900 block
of Monroe St. N. w., told police
a man dressed in dark overcoat
and gray hat entered the store
shortly after 8 p. m. and, pulling
the shotgun from a brown paper
bag, ordered him, Irma Hurwitz,
of Baltimore, and a delivery boy to
the rear of the store, saying:
"Stick 'em up and don't move.
The robber then cleaned out the
cash register and forced Berman
to hand over his billfold contain
ing about SIS, and then fled down
the street.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
Eileen TO URGE
TAXI REDUCTION

There are too many taXicab
operators trying to make living
in Washington" Chairman Riley E.
Elgen of the Public Utilities Com
mission said today in disclosing
he will ask Congress again at its
next session to limit the vehicles
to $500.
Elgen said that contrary to gen.
eral belief compulsory insurance
has not materially reduced the
number of full-time cabs and 5000
are now on the city's streets. The
likelihood is for three or four hun
dred more to be added for the
Christmas season.
Elgen said the Utilities Commits
sion has not decided on the re-
quest of a number of drivers that
public hearings be held on the
question of fare increases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
AID The Blind!
Bazaar Opens Today
Until Dec. 4

Articles of clothing, toys and
leather goods made by the blind
will be sold at bazaar beginning
today and extending through De.
cember 3. The bazaar is being held
under the auspices of the Colum.
bia Institute for the Blind, 1900
block H st. N. w. This is one of
the principal means, spokesman
stated, by which the blind of the
District can dispose of the articles
they have fashioned. For the next
four days the bazaar will be open
from 10 q. m. to 10 D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25

Prices are much lower this year
than last, and there is little de-
mand for oysters, despite the fact
that this is the height of the sea-
son.
So Washington hurls defiance
at the Oriole City-our oysters are
better? Do you challenge that
statement? Very good! We will
meet you over the table and prove
it, ram it down your Threats, gen.
tlemen, accompanied by lemon
juice, tabasco, and perhaps a wee
bit of horSeradiSh-but only bit,
for we do not care to lose that
delicate flavor of our oysters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
PHANTOM SN|PER
HAS FLED, BELIEF.

Thursday passed without the
Phantom Sniper striking again,
and police today expressed the be-
lief that the, maniac killer has
left the city.
/ The sniper, who has killed two
men and wounded three persons
in the past two weeks, started
operations on a Thursday night,
continued his shooting the follow
ing night, then was not heard
from until the next Thursday,
when he killed a man and wounded
a woman.
Because of the snow storm, the
police guards who have been pa
trolling Rock Creek Park In
search for the sniper, were re-
moved last night, and Inspector
Bernard w. Thompson, chief CT
detectives, said that since the man
is believed to have fled the city
the guards will not be put back.
Last night Park Police were on
duty, making their regular patrol
of the park, but all District and
Montgomery County officers were
called off.
Police continued their warning
to motorists not to park in lonely
places in event the sniper should
return.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
ALUMNI GATHER.
At CATHOLIC u.
HOMECOMING
Huge Bonfire to Climax
Celebration Tonight

Climaxed by a huge bonfire to
night, Catholic University's golden
jubilee homecoming got under way
today. ..
Numerous alumni were arriving
to Join in the homecoming that
also marks a high point in the
jubilee celebration which began
last month and will continue
through October, 1899.
ADDRESS BY DEAN
"Old grads" walked around the
campus today, remarking on the
growth of Catholic University
from a few small buildings on the
far outskirts of town to a great
modern educational institution.
The bonfire tonight on the
campus will set off a burst of en-.
thusiasm for tomorrow's football
game with the University of
South Carolina at 2 p. m. DR..
Ignatius Smith. dean of the
School of Philosophy. will address
the students and alumni gathered
Tor the bonfire.
For the first time in the univer-
sity's history, several young
women will act as sponsors for
the team at tomorrow's game.
They will be escorted to the sta
dunn by the presidents Of the
senior and junior classes Of the
schools of engineering and arts
and sciences.
The entire student body. will
march with the Sponsors-young
women from the Catholic col
leges-to the stadium.
After tht bonfire, alumni, led
by Richard Galliher, Washington
attorney, will hold a smoker at
|Wardman Park Hotel. Father P.
j. O'Connor, dean Of men. and
Arthur Dutch" Bergman, director
of athletics, will speak.
DANCES TO BE HELD
Tomorrow night there will be
an alumni dance at Wardman
Park and a dance for the student
body in the university library.
The sponsors for tomorrow's
game are the Misses Mary Nc
Carly, Trinity College; Elizabeth
Batchelder, Dunbarton College;
Aurelia Slattery, Immaculate Col
lege, and Mary Theresa Norris,
Georgetown Visitation College.
Their escorts will be George Kill
roy and Louis Lanman, presidents
of the senior classes Of the arts
and sciences and engineering
schools, respectively, and Louis
Shine and John McKenna, presi-
dents Of the junior classes of the
two schools.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25

2ngton oystermen are openly Scorn
full of the Baltimore bivalyes.
~ 4
nNE of the veteran shippers or
" the local waterfront explained;
"Our oysters are much better,
anyway. We don't have the
musselS on our oysters. And the
reason is that ours come from
salt water.
"The Baltimore oysters come
from brackish water. They don't
have that crisp flavor that ours
do. And the musselS will not
grow in the salt water, only in
brackiSla.
1.-THE salt water oysters that
we have taste better and are bet
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25

Despite the sleet and snow that
fell most of the day and night, the
Capital had a really enjoyable
Thanksgiving holiday. Thousands
of persons attended services in the
churches, and in a number heard
discussion Of the serious European
situation, particularly in reference
to efforts to curb freedom of
worship.
NOTABLES AT ST. PATRICK'S
Members Of the Diplomatic
Corps gathered at st. Patrick's
Church, where the annual Pan
American mass was held, with the
Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani; the
Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael
J. Curley; Bishop Peter Ireton of
Richmond, and MonSignor Fulton
Sheen of Catholic University Off
ciated.
Jews Of the city held union SER
vices at Tifereth Israel Synagogue,
and thanked President Roosevelt
for his aid in the fight against
Nazi persecution in Germany.
POOR FEAST, TOO
While in most w a shin 6 n
homes families gathered to dine
on turkey, the poor and needy
were not forgotten. Hundreds Of
baskets were distributed to homes
where otherwise the dinner would
have been a slim one.
Close to 1000 homeless men
and women were given their din
ners by the Volunteers of America,
while about $50 were served at the
Central Union Mission, 440 at the
Gospel Mission and several hun
bred at the Salvation Army.
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The question arose with the
revelation that Baltimore's famed
Oysters-and it must be admitted,
even by the most prejudiced Wash
Ington adherent, that Baltimore's
oysters have achieved world fame
SIRE not up to par this year.
.There has been an invasion Of
thesoyster beds Of parasite musselS,
ting little creatures that encrust
themselves on the oyster shells,
But a survey Of the oysters in
the Washington markets shows
none Of the parasites. and Wash
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
REPEAT PLAY
Students Give Opera
Monday Night

A repeat performance Of "The
Marriage of Nanette," three-act
comic opera, will be given by the
students of Bladensburg High
School in the school auditorium
Monday night.
The opera was given last Thurs
day and Friday and the success of
the two performances led to deci-
sion for another performance.
Lower price schedules will be in ef-
feet Monday.
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ter than the Baltimore oysters.
There's no comparison. Ours
are tastier, bigger, plumper. In
fact, our oysters are the best in
the world" g..
And there are many Washing
ton gourmets who will uphold that
claim. For washington is an
oyster eating town. Every day
boats come in, loaded down with
the Succulent bivalves, and every
one is sold.
X 4
DUT other markets are having a
ID bad year, and the oystermen
are faced with financial ruin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
BiUGLUe Battle On: .-....&...-.n.
WHAT OYSTERS
| CAN TOPOURS?
Here's a Challenge to Baltimore
AS Washington Scores First!
BiUGLDe Battle On:

A ND comes it battle to the bitter end the
A question of municipal pride Who has the better oysters
Washington BamoreG That is the question: and it is
that will be debated length by gourmets We're this
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25

La Belle France might be necessary resort to the duel
the field of honor But since this the United Sates
the question can only settled the table, with the palate
rather than the rainier pistol,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
YOUTH is SEIZED
AS He AND BRIDE
PREP ARE FEAST
Stole for Honeymoon,
Police Charge

The Blue Bandanna" bandit,
who with a companion terrorized
Washington merchants in two
weeks series of holdups short
time go, will be viewed at police
lineup tonight by about 40 per-
sons who claim to have seen him
during his many raids.
The 23-year-old college youth.
who always wore a blue bandanna
handkerchief for a mask, stole,
police say, to finance a honey
moon.
FEAST INTERRUPTED
He was arrested yesterday On a
farm near Sewell, N. j., as he pre-
pared to sit down with his new
brides parents for their first
Thanksgiving dinner together.
Detectives James E. Kane and
E. E. Thompson went to New Jer-
sey yesterday on tip from his
alleged confederate arrested in a
house in the 800 block of East
Capitol st. Wednesday, and re-
turned the alleged bandit leader
to the Eighth precinct. where he
is being held incommunicado.
According to police the young
man arrested by them yesterday
was attending a university in
Pennsylvania when he was ar
rested for petty larceny and sent
to a reform school.
MET BRIDE ON FARM
After his release from the re-
form school he went to work on a
farm near Sewell, N. j., and there
met the girl whom he married in
Maryland and brought to Wash
ington more than week ago.
After a series of holdups which
netted several hundred dollars,
the bandit duo pulled its last
LOB" at North Capitol Street and
Seaton Place Tuesday night, and
the leader and his bride headed
back for New Jersey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
POOR FEAST, TOO

"Bury Me In the Dog Cemetery
Among Iy Friends Inspiring exam
pies Of 4ffectiOnate relations and devO-
ton between human beings and their
animal friends, and how they were
repaid for it. An illustrated feature
in The American Weekly, the maya
zine distributed with next Sundays
Washington Herald-Ti
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
Citizens
To Meet Monday

Monthly meeting of the Mid
City Citizens Association will be
held at 8 p. m. Monday at the
Thomson Com unity Center,
Twelfth and L SIS. N. w. A
new permanent location for the
Second precinct will be discussed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-25
Welfare Council
To Hear John Ih|deI

John Ihlder, director of the Al
ley Dwelling Authority, will dis
cuSs low cost housing at a dinner
m ting Of the Montgomery
County Social Welfare Council to
be held at $3.50 p. m, December
6, at the Manor Club.