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Evening star., 1938-04-21
Violators of Fra1'king La,o
Haze Neuer Paid Penalty
Post Office Official Remembers Fe,U
Indictments IL, 81 Years Service.
Free Mail Dates to 1882.
A few years ago Caspar Milquetoast,

A few years ago Caspar Milquetoast.
the popular cartoon character, was
sent q package of seeds by his Con-
gresham. The envelope bore the
printed warning, penalty for private
use to avoid payment OF postage,
5000" SO, with regretful glance
at his own backyard patch, the 'timid
soul carefully planted the seeds in the
public park.
Had he been better informed about
governmental affairs, Mr.. MilquetoasL
would have known that the admoni-
ton referred not to the seeds, buC
to an old American institution. the
free mail privilege. He might also
have been reassured by the knowledge
that no one has ever paid the $500
penalty for misuse of this privilege
The franking privilege is almost
as old as the United States, having
been started by the Continental Con-
gress in an ordinance passed October
IL, 1882. This ordinance provided
that letters, packets and dispatches to
and from the members and secretary
while actually attending the Congress,
to and from the Commander in Chief
Of the armies or the commander of q
separate army. and to and from the
heads OF the Departments of Finance,
War and Foreign Affairs sent on pub
lie service, should be carried free OF
postage. New laws extended this priv
llege TO other Government officials
from time to time.
On July /, 1873, as a result of nu-
merous abuses, the franking privilege
was abolished and all official CORE
spondence was made subject to the
same rates Of postage as applied to
matter sent by the public.
Privilege Restored.
When this system proved unsatis-
factory, Congress began restoring the
free mail privilege In 1877 it estab-
hshed what is now known as the
penalty privilege under which official
matter Of the Government departments
is carried free OF postage and discon-
tlnued the provision for paying the
Post Once Department for this serv-
Ice as had been done since lS47.
The terms "tranked" and penalty"
mail are very often confused. The
title "franked' is specially applied to
matter mailed by members OF Congress
and is so designated because OF the re-
qulrement that the member shall place
his name or frank on the envelope
while official penalty mail gains its
name from the law which requires the
penalty for its improper use to be
printed on the envelope or wrapper in
closing the matter. Congressional
ranked mail embraces correspondence.
the Congressional Record and extracts
theretrom, public documents and other
matter which may lawfully be mailed
free OF postage by the Vice President
and members and delegates in Con-
gress. They may continue to frank
public documents until the 3Oth of
June after their term expires. Penalty
mail includes the official matter mailed
free of postage by the officers of the
executive, judicial and independent es-
ADJUSTMENTS of the Government.
Private persons need not pay post
Evening star., 1938-04-21
TINE Board of Public Welfare to-
day sought official custody Of
three children who we're dis

TINE Board of Public Welfare to-
day sought official custody Of
three children who were dis
covered, hungry and dirty, by
police last night in a basement hovel
where investigators said they had
been so neglected that the 7-month-
old baby girl weighed only 9 pounds
and l3 ounces.
The baby was gurgling happily at a
Well-fllled bottle of milk In Gallinger
Hospital today, while her 6-year-old
sister and 4-year-old brother we're
given warm food and clean clothing at
the Receiving Home.
Officers sought the mother, Mrs
Evelyn Tinsman. 25. for service of a
petition filed in Juvenile Court by the
Board OF Public Welfare Children's
Division several weeks ago, seeking
commitment Of the children to public
care because of alleged continued
neglect
Hearing on the petition had been
postponed because Mrs. Tinsman had
moved with her children from the
place where they had lived and could
not be located
Policemen Harold H Hodge and
Patrick OSullvan found the children
last night. under what Oficer Hodge
described as really pathetic" condi-
tions, in dark basement room at 1880
Ninth street NV.
The officers acted on complaint of
the landlord, M Sachs, and other
tenants of the house. who said they
Evening star., 1938-04-21
TRUCE OFFERED
ON TAX MEASURE
Plan Retaining Profit Levy
Seen Bills Hope-Is Held
Acceptable to Some.

BY the Associated Press.
Legislators who are trying to end
Senate-House dissension over busi-
ness taxes revived today a proposal
to trade approval of the House levy on
undistributed profits for acceptance
OF the senates capital gains tax
system.
One influential member of the Tax
Bill Conference Committee said:
That Is the plan which appears
now to offer the greatest promise Of
providing basis for a compromise.
1t may be possible for us to reach
some decision on the vital provisions
of the bill this week"
The arrangement it was learned,
would be satisfactory to at least some
OF the House conferees. Some Senate
members have been described as hav-
ing favored that procedure from the
outset, but they baked at proposing
it after President Roosevelt indorsed
both the corporate profits and capital
gains tax features of the House bill.
One difficulty faced by the con-
ferees was that neither Senators nor
House members appeared willing to
make the first overtures along lines
Of the trade
Agreement Seen.
AS a result, some members Of the
Senate Finance Committee renewed
their predictions that the House and
Senate would have to vote directly
on the controversial provisions.
Nevertheless, Chairman Doughton,
Democrat, of North Carolina, Of the
House Ways and Means Committee
spoke more optimistically than he has
for days over prospects of obtaining
an agreement.
I think we are going to get bill"
he said, land don't believe action on
1t will delay adjournment of Con-
gress."
He would not disclose. however. in
what direction he thought the con-
ferees might move toward breaking
their deadlock.
Senate committeeman, who would
not be quoted by name, contended
their position in the tax conference
had been strengthened materially by
a report of the Senate UNEMPLOYMENT
Committee. The report, made public
yesterday, said Senate-approved tax
provisions would be "exceedingly
helpful In relieving unemployment.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Lost: Cat Once
O,Ur,ed by King
Of the SinnleSe

Lost: A royal sacred Siamese cat
which, according to his owner, the
Siamese people believe has a persons
soul in it.
The beaver colored, black-faced cat
belongs to 14-year-old Elizabeth
Wright, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence D. Wright, 1920 Thirtieth
street NV, who has sent out an
earnest plea for its recovery.
The cat, named Praja, after ex-
King Prajadhipok who once owned
him, doesn't understand English and
is called by clapping the hands.
Praja's mate, Rhambi. mother Of a
5-week-old youngster. likewise is ter
ribly upset over her husbands disap-
pearance last April 8. Elizabeth says
Rhambi just sits by the window all
day and won't eat.
Mrs. Wright said Praja came from
the kings palace in Bankok, where
the cats are held to be sacred. The
souls of the dead are believed to enter
them. Praja and his mate were
brought over here six years ago when
they were year old.
A $40 reward Is offered and no ques-
tions asked, Mrs. Wright said. The
cat Is large, Weighing about IL pounds.
and Is partly lame N the left hind leg.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Unknown Donor
Presents Lion
Cub to Fuehrer
By the Associated Press,


BERLIN. April 21.-Some one for
got to put tag on the lion cub
Fuehrer Hitler got for his 4sth birth
anniversary, SO he doesn't know whom
to thank. The donor also forgot to
send book on feeding and care.
The obvious deduction was that the
present came from Field Marshal
Goering, Nazi No. man and known
lion fancier. But his adjutants and
press attaches said no.
At the Reich chancellery there were
hurried conferences when the donors
name was requested, and much tele-
phoning from department to depart
ment in Hitler's vast Office building.
But nobody seemed to know who sent
the lion.
They might at least have put 'di-
rections for use into the crate in
which the lion was shipped" one
chancellery official muttered, resign
edly. How are we to know whether
he is to have frankfurter or a bot
tie Of milk?"
Der Fuehrer also got enough hand
knitted socks to fit out an army divi-
sion.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
TRAFFIC DEATHS !.
|NQUESTS TODAY
Cases of William Thomas
and J. l. Stem to Go to
Coroner's Jury.

Two traf1ic fatalities, the last Of
which occurred yesterday afternoon,
will be investigated today by a cor
oner's jury.
The last death was that Of William
Thomas, rs, a w. P. A. employe, Of
2l2 Eleventh street Sc. who was
fatally injured when hit by a sight
seeing bus while crossing Fourteenth
street near the north end of High
way Bridge
Mr.. Thomas died in Emergency
Hospital a few hours after the acci-
dent. Meanwhile, police released the
bus driver, Joseph P Murray, 2s, Of
800 Sixteenth street NE. for appear
ance at the inquest.
Mr.. Thomas had been employed in
the Sewage Department Of the w. P.
A. since September, 1885.
Second Inquest.
The second inquest today was
scheduled in the death of J. Leroy
Stem, 36, school teacher of Vlgo
Park. Tex, who was crushed under
a huge, cOncrete-mlxing truck near
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Tuesday morning
The driver of the truck. police re-
ported, was George F. Wald. %, Of
1927 Emerson street NV. The truck
ran over the sidewalk and hit Mr..
Stem after the driver swerved it to
a, ,r1iI I,Se ~, ri l1tt
Police said the brakes Of the truck
failed.
Fiye-year-old Robert Gate "a M
street NE, suffered possible internal
injuries and brush burns yesterday
when hit by an automobile in the
street near his home. He was treated
at Sibley Hospital.
Boy Is Hit by Car.
Another 5-year-old boy. Jack Miller,
TOT A street NE, was slightly cut and
bruised last night when hit by car
near his home He was treated in
Casualty Hospital.
Walter Crouch, 18. of 2917 Cathe-
dral avenue NV. suffered a fractured
toe when an automobile ran over his
foot late yesterday as he was crossing
an alley in the rear of the 1900 block
of Connecticut avenue NV He was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Jackson w Barton, 38, 2032 Lee
highway, Arlington, Va. is under treat
ment in Georgetown Hospital for
burns about the hands and arms re-
ceived when a carburetor on a truck
he was repairing exploded in his ga
rage at Rosslyn.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
WHITFIELD WIFE
REVEALS DISPUTE
Society Pilot Threatened
to Disappear, She Tells
Police Inspector.
By the Associated Press.

~
NEW YORK, April 2l.--Inspector
Harold R. King of the Nassau County
police threw new light on the strange
disappearance OF Andrew Carnegie
Whitfield last night with announce
ment the society aviator had quarreled
with his wife shortly before he left
home.
Mr.. King, after a conference with
the wife, said she told him Mr. Whit
field threatened to disappear" The
officer said this statement was at
tributed to Mr. Whitfield by the wife:
Il am going away and I won't tell
you where or why. / can't tell you
when will be back. am just going
to disappear"
Earlier, members of the family had
said they knew of no reason why Mr..
Whitfield, nephew OF Andrew Carnegie,
should leave home.
Mr. King said he learned the couple
had quarreled Thursday night. Mr..
Whitfield was last seen Friday when
he left Roosevelt Field in his light
sport monoplane.
A bellhoy at Garden City Gong
IslanD Hotel reported to police he had
listened to a call Mr.. Whitfield made
to his wife at 1890 am. Friday, the
day the amateur aviator disappeared.
He said hello four or flve times and
then said I am going to go through
with my plans and then he hung up,"
Inspector King quoted the bellboy.
J. H. Whitfield, brother of the miss
ing man, clung to the theory that Mr.
Whitf1eld's "flivver" plane had crashed
in an accident
Connecticut State police and volun-
teers searched ooded areas near New
ton, Conn, last night upon reports
that plane similar to Mr.. Whitfield's S
had been seen in the vicinity.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
STRIKES CLOSE 8
DETROIT PLANTS
Bohn Aluminium Workers
Walk Out-Fisher Body
Employees Return.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT, April 21.-Strikes closed
the Bohn Aluminium g. Brass Corp. s
eight plants here today, bringing to IL
the number Of industrial units in De-
troit in which labor troubles have
stopped proou,tlon.
In Flint, 300 employees OF General
Motors Fisher Body Plant No / re-
turned to work without incident after
three-day shutdown resulting from
United Automobile Workers picket
ing campaign to collect union dues.
Fifteen hundred men employed on
the Buick Motor Co. final assembly line
were expected to resume work either
today or tomorrow when bodies from
the Fisher plant become available.
The U. A. w. agreed Tuesday to
withdraw its dues collecting picket
line at the Fisher plant when William
S. Knudsen, president of General
Motors, announced operations would
not be resumed until the practice was
discontinued. There were no pickets
and only small detail of policemen
at the Fisher plant this morning.
Union officials at Flint announced
a demonstration would be held at
gates of the Fisher plant this after
noon, but did not indicate what form
it would take.
At the Plymouth plant of the Chrys-
Ter Corp. in Detroit U. A. w. leaders
announced end of a two-day dispute
involving the protest of about 200
unionists against discharge OF union
steward. They said the men would
return to work late today. Two Ply
mouth departments were affected.
Idle Plants Listed.
The plants idle in Detroit, in addi-
ton to the Bohn Aluminium units.
were those Of the American Brass
Corp, closed since Tuesday because of
a U. A. w. demonstration against a
10 per cent wage cut; the Michigan
Steel Castings Co. and the Detroit
Moulding Co.
In the Michigan Steel Casting Co.
plant, where pickets clashed with DO
lice yesterday, skeleton crew re-
manned overnight and no additional
employees attempted to enter this
morning. A 10 per cent wage cut
precipitated that dispute.
The American Brass Co. dispute,
which began Tuesday when employees
pulled the power switches to protest
a wage reduction, involves the c. I. o.
afhliated Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers Union. Employees of the
same company at Waterbury, Conn,
voted last night to support the $50
Detroit employees.
The other industrial strikes In De-
troit involve the U. A. w.
The Walters and Mattresses Union,
an American Federation Of Labor
affiliate. threatened to call strikes in
20 independent hotels unless the
arrangements signed contracts similar
Evening star., 1938-04-21
CONGRESS IN BRIEF

l.
Relief-House Appropriations Com
rnittee hears Harry Hopkins and
Aubrey Williams outline w. P. A.
needs
Appropriations-House debates funds
for non-military activities of War De-
partment.
Naval-Senate opponents continue
attack on expansion program.
Aviation-House committee. con-
siders bill for new agency to regulate
air industry
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not be in session.
House:
Not expected to be in session.
Appropriations Committee continues
hearing on relief program, 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
SULFANILAMIDE FOUND
TO CHECK INFLUENZA
Trial of New Medicine on Mice
Indicates Prevention Of
Illness in Humans.
B, TIE Associated Press.

B. tie Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, April 2l.-A new
medicine that prevents flu in mice
was reported to the American Cheni-
cal Society here yesterday.
1t has not been tested on humans,
but the prospect is favorable. Since
it is made from sulfanilamide, the
sensational new drug made from q
red dye which has cured blood poison
ing and helped many different germ
infections in man.
The flu medicine was reported by
M. l.. Crossley. research director; E.
H. Northey and M E. Hultquist Of
the Calico Chemical Co, Bound Brook,
N. J. The new form of sulfanilamide.
they said, also prevented the mice
from catching any form of strepto-
coccus infection.
1T is 100 early" the report stated,
Ito say that this result will be dupli-
Gated in human influenza"
Evening star., 1938-04-21

trough Of low pressure extends from
southern Greenland SouthWeStward over
the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and along
the Atlantic Coast, Godhavn, Greenland.
~ a inches. and Belle Isle. New Found
land and Nantucket Mass. 1880 inches
Pressure is low over the Southern Plains.
Aollene. Tex. .9.1i inches. while dis
turbance of slight intensity is moving east
northeastward over Western ontario Sioux
Lookout. 29.1S inches Pressure continues
high east Of Bermuda and south of the
Grand Banks. while high-pressure area
IS moving eastward over the Province of
Quebec, Port Harrison. 3o.24 inches. An
other high is moving southeastward over
the Middle and Northern Plains States.
RAPID City. S. OAK. 3o."4 inches Pres
sure continues high over the Lower Mac
kenzie Valley. Norman. District of Mac
Senzie. 3o.52 inches. During the last "a
hours there have been scattered showers
in the Atlantic States. the southern por-
ton Of the Ohio Valley. the Middle and
East Gulf States and in portions of the
Middle Plains. the Red River of the North
and the extreme Upper Mississippi Valleys
Temperatures. have fallen from the Saint
Lawrence Valley soutnUestward over the
Lower Lake region ard the Oniu Valley.
Evening star., 1938-04-21

she had not given the matter much
consideration. One of the women in
the party to greet her, however, est
mated Mrs. Brooks skirts at 18
inches from the floor.
While here, Mrs. Brooks will be the
guest OF Mr. and Mrs Burr Powell
Harrison. She spoke this afternoon
over the National Farm and Home
Hour in regard to the festival to be
held April % and 20.
In the crowd which greeted her were
Harry F. Byrd. Jr., son of the Virginia
Senator. The younger Byrd is edi-
tor of the Winchester Star
Mrs. Brooks is currently singing
In the Trianon room of the Ambassa-
dor Hotel in New York
FILES IN BANKRUPTCY,
Evening star., 1938-04-21
HORN BLOWER FINED

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 81 (P.-The
toot Of an automobile horn in Buffalo
was appraised at IS by City Judge
Patrick j. Keeler.
Henry Pawlik, charged with blow
ing his auto horn in the small hours
OF the morning, was asked by Judge
Keeler:
How many times did you blow?"
"Oh, about three times" Pawlik
replied.
We'll, that will cost you IS a tootle.
And three toots makes it a total
OF $15," said the Judge yesterday.
The citizens need q rest from horn
tooters."
Evening star., 1938-04-21
CIGARETTE DIVORCE

ELIZABETH, n. j., April 81 (PJ.-
A lighted cigarette dropped down a
Wife's back in the course of an alterca-
ton over a pinochle game was held
legitimate ground for divorce today
Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal
Herr recommended a decree for Mrs.
Josephine Francis of Linden yesterday
when she cited this as an instance Of
extreme cruelty" by her husband,
Theodore.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
TREES GIVEN CHURCH
Flowers Also Presented to Be
Planted on Grounds.

SILVER SPRING, Md, April 2l
Especially presentation of number
of trees and flowers to be planted on
the church grounds marked the an
nual meeting of the congregation Of
the Church of Ascension
Mrs. S. NJ Defdnbaugh gave the
church IS Lombardy poplars and a
juniper tree, the Rev. James S. Cox,
rector of the church. and Mrs. Cox
presented 80 dogwood trees and sew
eral Judas trees, and large bed of
iris was given by Miss Ethel Will
kinson.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
FILES IN BANKRUPTCY.
Mrs. Brooks Lists Assets of 1880 and
1861 Liabilities.

by tHe ASS0CIated PTeSS.
NEW YORK, April 21.-Adelaide
Mof1ett Brooks, socially prominent
night club singer and daughter of
James Moffett, former Federal Hous-
ing Administrator, filed voluntary
bankruptcy petition yesterday. listing
liabilities at $9,691 and assets at 81, 800.
Among the assets are two Sealy-
ham dogs valued at 5000 and cups
and other trophies worth 500.
Mrs. Brooks husband, David Brooks,
died last year IN Q fall from . window.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
WEATHER REPORT


what cooler gentle mostly
showers
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Report for Last ot Hours.

Record for Last 81 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81, at 1:15 pm. yesterday.
Year ago. 62.
Lowest, 5S. at $50 am. today. Year
ago. As
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest s5. on April IA.
Lowest Is. on January 2s.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon .todayo
Highest. "a per cent at am. today.
Lowest 25 per cent, at 4:45 pm yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Racing Results
Jomoico-

B! TIE Ass ocia ted Press.
FIRST RACE-Purse. 81 900; claiming
:iyear- -olds. e furongs.
May r Howell 81 2-l IL
ShadytoWn tWrishD SIS 4-5
Cuckoo tWallp Al
Time, 1925.
Also ran-Sing Low. Sure Cloud, Span-
ish FLY. Papa Jack. Sweet Adellne, Battle
Call, Noble Scot, Memoirs and Spice Box
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-04-08
STILL ENDEAVORING TO
WIN SEAT IN CONGRESS

Failing to get elected to Congress
in 18 years of campaigning
does not discourage DIR. John William
Klemm, 80-year-old physician of Mt.
Rainier, in the least. He is entering
again in the 1888 race for Congress
man from the fifth Maryland District.
The doctor began his long term of
unsuccessful campaigning in 1920,
when he polled less than ten per cent
of the votes. This time he will have
two opponents for the nomination.
Representative Stephen w. Gambrill,
incumbent; and Joseph L. Donovan,
State Senator.
DIR. Klemm is a native of New York
State and graduated in medicine at
what is now George Washington Uni
versity. He was employed for 20
years in the United States Pension
Bureau and for Is years after that
worked at the Congressional Library.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-04-08
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
PR. ANNE CALLS PASTOR

At a congregational meeting of the
Nanokin Presbyterian Church on Sun
day evening, March 27, it was unani-
mously decided to extend to Mr.. Lloyd
S. Hindman of Burgettstown, Pa, the
call to the pastorate of that church.
Mr.. Hindman, who has been supply
ing the pulpit at "Old Manokin" for
the past month, is graduate of
Washington and jefferson College, at
Washington, Pa, and will graduate
from the Princeton Theological Semi
nary at Princeton, N. j., next May.
The president of Washington and
Jefferson College, DR.. Ralph Hutchin-
son, will be remembered by many in
Princess Anne as filling the Manokin
pulpit on several occasions in 1881,
delivering series of most inspiring
sermons.
"Old Manokin Church, founded
there in 1880 by the Rev. Francis Ma
kemie, is one of the oldest Presbyter-
ian congregations in America.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-04-08

hold furniture; Third, to Angie Book
Howard, six mahogany chairs, a dia-
mond ring and some table silver
Fourth, to Meta Lankford, of Costen
Station, radio set and five hundred
dollars; Fifth, to Eula Cullen, a set of
china; Sixth, "All the rest and residue
of my property and estate whatsoever
the same may consist, | give, devise
and bequeath to the Safe Deposit and
Trust Company of Baltimore as trus-
tee for twenty years for the use of the
Edward McCready Hospital located in
Crisfield to be used towards the care
maintenance of the free and part free
patients of the said Hospital no part
of the principle of the said funds shall
at any time be used for building pur-
poses or for enlargement of said Hos
pital unless some serious need should
arise therefor and this gift shall be
known as "The Angie L. Book Endow-
ment."
The Trust Company is instructed
to turn over the principle of the es-
tate to the Hospital at the end of TWEEN
ty years, and should the institution
not be in operation at that time the
fund is to go to the Peninsula Cen
eral Hospital.
A number of bequests were made
by Mr.. Book to be paid at his wife's
death which will substantially reduce
the estate besides bequests to num-
Der of relatives, Mr.. Book gave five