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The Washington times., 1938-11-09
Democrats Retain
Hold on BigCities
And South
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 U.N.S)
A resurgent Republican party.
hungry after eight successive years
Of defeat, broke into the political
green pastures today and chased
q great many Of the New Dealers
out.
The Democrats, it is true, re-
tain control Of both branches OF
Congress, but by greatly reduced
majorities, and they still retain
most Of the State governments,
In that sense, and that sense only,
they may be said to have won"
the off-year election.
In every other sense they lost it.
Lose 8 Senate Seats
ta.sEa. ets .-.
They lost eight seats in the
Senate, possibly 10, depending
upon Iowa and Indiana: they Lost
60.odd seats In the House, and IA
governorships changed hands,
with the Republicans making q
net gain Of IL. -
The certain result will be to
stiffen opposition to the New Deal
and to President Roosevelt in the
Seventy-sixth Congress which con
venes on January 3. BY combin.
ing with recalcitrant and anti
New Deal Democrats, of whom
there is a sizeable bloc in the
House, the Republicans are in a
strategic position to thwart legis.
lation, if not to initiate it.
Coast to Coast
The New Deal drubbing stretched
from coast to coast, extending
from New England through the
Great Lakes States, the grain belt,
the mountain States and to the
Pacific.
On the basis of late returns
Democratic senators were unseated
CONTINUED on Page 6, Col. II
The Washington times., 1938-11-09
VICTIMS PERISH
In BLAZING GAS
|OF ARMY SHIP
Col. Leslie MacDill
And Private Die

Lieut.. Col. Leslie MacDill,
General Staff Corps officer and
distinguished Army flier, and
Private Joseph G. Gloxner, Of
Boiling Field, were burned to
death today when an Army
combat plane crashed in Ana
costa and caught fire in the
worst aerial tragedy in the his
tory of the District.
AS the plane. out Of control,
hurtled into Thirteenth Street be-
tween s and T Streets Southeast
at terrific speed, it narrowly
missed a house, slashed down q
telephone pole, bringing a mass Of
wires into the street, struck and
demolished three parked cars.
tl1en exploded.
Cars Set on Fire
James Fiddler, mechanic at .
nearby garage, suffered burns
about the face as he seized q fire
seztInguisher, rushed up to the
blazing plane and attempted to
put out the fire.
The heat was so intense that he
was driven back. Gasoline from
the blazing plane ran into the
cutters and set fire to a number
Of parked cars.
A few moments after the plane
crashed, the fire department and
crash cars" from Boiling Field
and the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton arrived on the scene.
They extinguished the blaze, but
the two fliers had been burned to
a crisp, and it was with difficulty
that they were identified.
Women in Tears
While the plane was burning a
huge crowd assembled, and women
stood sobbing and wringing their
hands over the horrible plight OF
the fliers.
Police reserves were rushed
from every precinct in the city
while every motorcycle officer
was directed to the scene by radio.
The Rescue Squad and Emergency
Hospital ambulance also re-
sponded.
AS a crowd estimated at more
than 5000 gathered, they were
driven back by police and the
area roped off. The bodies Of
the two fliers were removed and
taken to Boiling Field, while q
board of officers was Immediately
named to probe the crash.
Two theories were advanced for
the accident, one that the motor
Of the plane failed and that the
pilot, who had taken off from
Boiling Field only a short time be-
fore, found he was unable to get
back to the field and attempted
CONTINUED on Page 7, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1938-11-09
Repub licans Gain
8 Seats In Senate
And So in House
New Deal Suffers
Worst BIOW in
Many Years

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 1.N.S.).
Republican gains In the House
mounted in MONDAY tabuIa-
tiOns to So, with a probability
that the total will be increased
by victories in still doubtful
races.
Party leaders, surveying the
voting trend, were optimistic
over chances that final Repub-
hcan gains will exceed 10 seats.
Evening star., 1938-07-03

didn't pitch you the second game
when it would be cooler"
The Boswicks made it AZ in their
half of the seventh. Morgan sat next
to US, sweating He went to bat, fouled
out, and came back to the bench. He
wasn't saying anything.
The first Camden man up in the
eighth flied deep to center. The Bos-
wicks had good center fielder named
Jenkins. He could run and make the
tough ones look easy.
Morgan walked the next batter.
The Boswick shortstop booted a pretty
hard chance on hit-and-run play and
there were men on first and third.
Paterson sent a long fly into center
field and the runner on third came in,
making it 4-3. The next Camden
batter took hold of the first pitch and
sent one of the longest flies I've ever
seen into deep center. Jenkins turned
his back on it and ran straight. He
was almost in the far corner of the
field, in front of the bleachers. when
he turned his head and, still on the
dead run. took the ball over his
shoulder. high. like good end would
catch football.
The stands exploded and Morgan
wasn't smiling when he came in. The
noise was still going on, lower and
steadier, rising as Jenkins trotted
across the infield, raising his cap. and
Morgan spoke under the noise.
That's what l get for playing with
a semi-pro outfit" he said. THAT
damn shortstop boots one and I'm
in the hole"
Il told you, VAL" Bill said. "If
Evening star., 1938-07-03
mo SUPPORT
Continvsd from poos seven

wicks still led, 3-2. The first man up
for Camden singled and Morgan
struck out the next one. He walked
both the following batters and the
bases were full again with one out.
Morgan pitched slow and careful to
Murphy. He fed him a slow outcurve
but the kid let it 60 by and it was wide
for ball one. He threw him low one,
but it was inside too far for ball two.
Then he threw him the slow outcurve
again but the kid let it 60 by for two
and one. 1t went to three and two
and then the outcMve didn't break.
Murphy banged it on line over third
and hear something choke in Bills
throat as Gilbane, the Boswick third
baseman, went up like jumping
jack and speared the ball with his
glove hand He came down on the bag
for double play.
Lucky" said.
''What?" Bill said.
Nothing"
Il thought you spoke"
NO" l told him.
Morgan didn't say anything when
he came in and sat down next to Bill
again. Bills eyes we're crinkled and l
knew he was trying to think of some
thing to say.
What do you think of the World
Series?" said.
Morgan didn't look at US. "You
know" he said to Bill in low voice;
IF I'd known it was going to be this
hot today, I'd never of said I'd pitch
for these buns, no, sir, not even for
grand"
ITS pretty damned hot. all right"
Bill said. Il don't know why Sackman
Evening star., 1938-07-03

Camden batter chopped it into the
dirt for a double play.
That's what you call pitching"
Bill said. Making guy hit slow
outcurve into a double play"
THAT outcurve was good pitching.
said.
The Boswicks got him two more
runs in the fifth. but in the first half
of the sixth, with two out and two on,
Morgan tried to blaze the fast one
that wasn't fast anymore through for
a third strike, ard DiAngelo bounced
a double off the wall in left-center,
and two runs came in, leaving the
Boswicks only run ahead. 3-2.
Il don't know why you fool around
with these guys" Bill said. "If they
beat you it'll look bad"
Might as we'll make it interesting
for the customers" Morgan said. He
made his mouth smile and sat down
heavily next to Bill. A kid came over
the rail out of the stands near the dug
out and had race with a special cop
toward Morgan. The kid got there
first and stuck score card out. Sign
this. will yuh, Val?' he said. Then the
cop grabbed him and hustled him back
into the stands. Morgan signed the
card and walked over to the stands
and gave it to the kid. The crowd
gave Morgan a hand and Bill said:
Nov, there's guy for you. How
many big timers would do that?"
Hes nice guy, all right" said.
Bill looked at me. "You make me
tired"
At the start of the seventh. the Bos-
Evening star., 1938-07-03

suit him, he would first denude your
face and head of all adornment. seat
you in a revolving chair under mer-
cilessly revealing light, and study you
from every angle. He would discover
latent possibilities you did not know
you had, and dramatize and individ-
ualize them. He might take fault and
make it the most interesting ofvirtues,
Is your mouth larger than you like?
He might point it up so that it would
become your compelling feature. Or if
it we're a wide brow which you had
struggled all your life to keep COW
cred, he might sweep the hair back and
accent the fascinating planes of your
face.
Evening star., 1938-07-03

by Sylvia Blythe

ORrY MILLION women in the United
p States are forty million potentially
beautiful persons. And we don't
mean maybe. For all your modesty
about yourself, you probably, on the
mere score of beauty. have the same
good chance that many of the top
flight stars have had.
1t is not a question of pure beauty.
There is such thing, of course -
flawless modelling of face and figure.
Perhaps you are darling of destiny
and possess this kind of beauty. With
most of US, however. nature has been
capricious, tempering our good looks
with one defect or another. and put
ting a premium on individuality and
smartness. What any mother might
we'll ask the gods to give to her
daughter at birth is smartness in every
sense of the word
1t is this endowment which has
enabled girls with defects to win fame
and fortune, while other pictorially
perfect girls remain unhonored and
unsung. Most of the stars today, whose
loveliness we envy, have had to cope
with defects. Some overcame them.
Others have turned them into assets.
Almost every one of them, like any
other woman, has stared in her mirror
at one time, gritted her teeth, clenched
her fists, and announced to her un-
prepossessing image that she was go
ing to do something about it.
Helen Hayes is smallish, and some
times considered even plain. Yet she
can hold an audience by the move
ment of one of her little fingers. You
might not like the modelling of
Katharine Cornell's triangular-sh shaped
face. But she is one of the most stun
ming women on the American stage
today.
If your eyes are small. they need
not make you feel selfconscious and
insure of yourself. Norma Shearer's
are not so large as they look. Neither
need large feet and over-wide shoul-
ders be a beauty hazard. The lovely
Greta Garbo has not found them so.
A woman need not feel disturbed be-
cause of a wide jaw-line, like the allur-
ing Constance Benefits; a flaring
mouth, like fascinating Joan Crawfofd's;
or heavy eyelids, like sparkling Sylvia
Sidney's. With so many illustrious
examples around us. we are not of this
era if we do not make a conquest of
the beauty we desire.
In the studio of Eddie SEM, make
up director of one of the leading film
companies. many star and society
woman is made beautiful beyond her
dearest hopes. If you, too. were to con-
Evening star., 1938-07-03

The guys as good as he ever was.
That made it two down with me,
second and third and the score 4-3 70 I
the Boswicks They were still whis
tling marching Through Georgia or
the Camden bench but Morgan wa:
making out he didn't hear them. He'o
gotten hold of himself and was taking
his time.
Hell make this last bum roll out
or pop up," Bill said.
Morgan had a trick that other old
pitchers have He could throw ball
with ordinary pace or speed on it and
wind up so that the batter would think
he was blazing it through. He did this
now on Murphy for called
first strike Then he threw a curve that
the kid swung at and missed. The kid
used a big bat and swung low. Morgan
threw him two more near the edges,
but the kid wouldn't bite and it was
two and two.
Then Morgan made out he was
throwing fast ball again and Murphy
swung from his heels and knocked the
ball over the left field fence. foul by
about ten feet Morgan turned his i.
back on the plate and took so lonS
about making the next pitch that the
inheld got tired from standing on it's
toes and Murphy stepped out of the
batter's box and rubbed his hands in
the dirt.
He threw the kid a knuckle-ball
that came floating up big and round -
as the moon. but it didn't have arg
stuff on it and Murphy banged
liner over third base that was foul
by foot. At the other end of the
bench Sackman moved his feet and
wet his lips, but he wouldn't do any
thing.
Morgan fiddled around again until
the crowd got impatient and Murphy
was tense. Then he threw the kid
slow ball. He swung hard and missed
and the game was over and the
Boswicks had won, 4-3.
He came slowly toward the bench
and he looked tired. but he was max
ing himself smile with his mouth and
the crowd was cheering but they
weren't crazy.
Mice game. Val," Sackman said.
He looked relieved. "You were work.
ing nice"
Morgan nodded abstractedly and
sat down.
Nice game. Val. you looked good" e
Bill said. That last guy swung like :
gate" il
Il don't know" Morgan said. Il
was going all right. but when you get n
support like l got. it bothers youx =
kept wondering what that inheld was :,
going to do every time a grounder was
hit. You guys meet me after l get'o
dressed and we'll have beer IS,
Sure" Bill said. But what do you
mean you weren't doing all right ?ny
You -"
''Oh, was all right" Morgan saidt 1s
but III be better in the spring. -,
mean today with no support and NOT
taking the game serious, didn't do a.
we'll as maybe should of. -"
you were okay, VAL" Bill said
What the hell are you talking abou,ty
- didn't do as we'll as maybe yoner
should have? You worked as hard and
you had to to win. He was okaync,
wasn't he, Eddie? ,.>
"Sure," said, you we're fine, Val. y =
The End
b
ula
Evening star., 1938-07-03

you're going to play with club like
this that's what you got to expect.
They'll make you look like bum"
Il was feeling better, too," Morgan
said Sort of getting second wind.
Bill shook his head and famed him.
self.
Sackman came down to our end of
the bench. you feeling all right.
Val?" he said apologetically.
Sure. Pm feeling fine" Morgan
said. Then, as Sackman walked away:
What the hell's the matter with
that guy anyways"
The Boswicks didn't score in the
eighth and it was still 43 in their
favor when Morgan went out to pitch
the ninth. Just before he went out.
Sackman came to him again. Don't
get me wrong, VAL" he said. Il just
wanted to know if you was all right
before | thought maybe you might
of been upset by them guys in the
Giant Office or that you might of hurt
your arm or something If it too warm
or something, I'll send someone in"
Sackman made his voice humble.
Morgan looked at him, with kind
of disguised tolerance. Hell. I'm
fine" he said. Il been kidding these
bushers along. If that infield gave me
any support. the game wouldn't even
be close" He walked out to the mound
and Sackman sat down on the bench.
''Sackman ought to stick his head
in the water cooler" Bill said. Hes
got the old Fast Freight sore"
You could see Morgan was angry.
and the way it had always been when
he was angry was that he would try
to throw everything by the batters,
just burn it right through. He tried it
now and the first pitch came back at
him so fast he could hardly get out
of the way. Then he must have re-
membered again that he wasn't fast
anymore. You could almost see him
shudder as he tried to get hold of him
self. He began to pitch again, slow
and careful.
The next batter dumped sacrifice
down the third base line and the run
ner on first went to second. DiAngelo
came up next and he wasn't afraid of
Morgan at all. but just stood at the
plate. close to it, swinging big, black
bat and smiling.
Morgan took his time and fed him
three balls, all of them little wide.
DiAngelo didn't swing at any of them.
Then Morgan burned one over that
DiAngelo naturally let 60 by. and it
was three and one Morgan walked
him on the next pitch.
"He walked him purposely, Il said.
l didn't know l said it out loud.
You're crazy" Bill said. "He
should walk busher?"
The players on the Camden bench
must have thought the same way l
way did. They became cocky and.
remembering Morgan was from the
South, lined up along the dugout
wall and began whistling marching
Through Georgia"
Morgan went crazy again and tried
to throw his fast one by. The kid at
bat damned it right back at him.
Morgan managed to knock it down
and throw the kid out at first.
That's what you call fielding"
Bill said. The guy is great pitcher"
Hes great fielder" l said. "He
used to be great pitcher"
''You make me tired" Bill said.
Evening star., 1938-07-03
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News Analysis
Italy Follows Hitler Technique
To TrOunce Weakened France
1900 by Joseph w. La Bine-

ton; business thought it rested in
less regulation. Not until last year,
when an unexpected recession
slapped convalescing industry in the
face, did both government and BUSH
ness decide it was time to face the
problem with less bias and more
objectivity. BY the end of 1888 this
new attitude is finding expression at
Washington and on the U. S. BUSH
ness front, though mutual agree
ment is still far from realization.
Washington: Governments efforts
currently center around the $500, 900
temporary national economic COM
mittee, which has just opened two
year hearing under Wyoming's Sen.
Joseph c. O'Mahoney. Though bust
ness has feared the quiz will de-
generate into witch hunt" and
anti-monopoly drive (since the JUS
tice departments trust buster, Thur
man Arnold, is a committee men,
ber) Mr.. O'Mahoney has given as
surances that his group seeks only
economic facts"
"Facts" presented thus far, by
the labor departments DR.. Isador
Lubin and one-tirne WPA Economist
Leon Henderson, purported merely
to give background but ended with
expressions of opinion which failed
to harmonic.
DR.. Lubin's report: That the 1929
38 depression cost the U. S. $113,-
900 1000, 900 in national income, plus
$119, 00O, 100000 in wages, $2O,0OO,-
100000 in stakeholder dividends,
$38, O00, 900, 900 in farm income and
43, 435, 900 in man hours of work.
Though industry can be stepped up
to meet consumer demand, it is
more important to improve the
standard of living, since U. S. popu-
lation is reaching a stationary stage.
Durable goods industries should be
stimulated to boost the average in
come by $3.50 per year.
Mr.. Henderson's report: Growth
of u. S. economic activity has been
halted, and even a return to 1925
peak (Which Mr.. Henderson be-
ieves should be regarded as a low
base, not peak) would leave 7,00O,-
600 unemployed. Unlike DR.. Lubin,
who believes insufficient purchasing
power is the cause of our ills, Mr..
Henderson places responsibility on
lessening of competition. True COM
petition, he believes, could not al
low wage increases at time when
millions are unemployed.
Even as Messrs Lubin and Hen
derson were speaking, Chairman
Mariner S. Eccles of the federal
reserve system was offering New
York bankers another U. S. idea on
business. One reason for 1875 set
back, he said, was sharp with
drawal of government spending,
which throttled consumer buying
power. Pumping for looser credit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Official Title Does Strange
Things to Mentalities Of Men
Government by Men Instead Of by Law Seems Be the
Rule; Undue Power Is Civn Into Hands of Bureau.
Gratis; Congress Should Take Heed
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg, Washington D. G.

WASHINGTON.-Iti Is a strange
thing what an official title will cause
many men and women to do. 1t is
equally strange what many of them
will attempt to do under the guise of
the official sanction which they
usurp at every opportunity. I do
not intend to include all public Off
Gals but I dare say that everyone
who reads these lines can look about
him and discover in his midst or
recall others who, as soon as they
began wearing title, developed a
"big head" got "puffed up and
otherwise assumed a highland
mighty attitude. The characters
tics may show in thousand-and-
one different ways, and we all are
more or less familiar with them.
Few persons probably would need
to be concerned if the circumstance
involved only this outward appear
ance. am sure I wouldn't care
whether some official believed HIM
self to be son of the sun-god and,
therefore, counted himself great.
But when the mental attitude of
that official begins manifesting it.
self as it so often does by usurpa-
ton of improper and illegal power;
when he regards himself as Judge
and jury, as well as prosecutor, then
it seems to me that a halt ought to
be called.
All of the above observations are
made just as prelude to discussion
of recent action by the department
of justice. More accurately, it
should be said the action was by
Professor Thurmond Arnold who
has great pride in his ability as
trust buster. He also frequently has
let it be known-with due modesty,
of course-that he possesses knowl-
edge in many fields. His career as
university professor obviously fit
ted him with great understanding of
problems and practices of business
men. Mr.. Arnold has not yet under
taken to solve the difficulties of ag-
riculture, but reckon that is only
question of time.
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any power vested in the department
Of justice for control of advertising.
I should regret it very much il
congress ever had passed law Civ
ing authority for any agency of gov
eminent to do more than prosecute
advertisers who use dishonest state
ments. That is to say, if the adj
vertising statements are crooked,
punishment ought to follow. If the
advertising is honest, what business
has government horning into it?
The reason l feel so keenly about
this sort of thing is that it is
trend in government, from the ma
tional government on down the line,
to do things indirectly-to do many
things without genuine authority of
law. We as a nation always have
supported the theory of rule by the
majority. We have legislative bod
ies-the congress, the state assem-
blies, the city councils and so on
to enact the will of the majority
into law. But in the motor case and
in dozens of others which could be
mentioned, the public official with
the "boss" complex takes things
into his own hands and usually gets
away with his perfidy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
France

In his widely quoted "Mein
Kampf," Adolf Hitler AYERS that
once nation shows signs of weak
ening, it's enemies should seize the
opportunity to press every demand.
This year he has followed that pol
icy successfully in Austria, Czecho'
slovakia, Great Britain and France.
Now his Fascist cohort, Italy, is US
ing the same tactics against France.
First French capitulation to Italy
was the recent recognition of Mus
solini's conquest in Ethiopia. This
was followed closely by French in
ternal strife, when the radical Popu-
lar Front attempted to defeat Pre-
mier Edouard Daladier's drastic re-
form program. In the midst OF this
turmoil, it was strategic for Italy's
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Palace Depression

The Palace Depression is in
Vineland, N. j. It was built by
George Daynor who, arriving in
that town with no funds, settled in
an automobile junk yard. With
out plans or tools he began con-
structing the house from discard
ed materials such as automobiles,
rocks, logs and clay. He cleared
the swampy, mosquito-infested
land and beautifed it with plant
ings of flowers and shrubbery.
After three years work the
house was opened to the public
on December Is, 1882. Thousands
of visitors come to see the place,
which is a monument to the in
genuity of man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
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