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Evening star., 1938-09-10
.US,LANDDEFENSE
TO Be BOLSTERED
Army Lets Contracts for 338
Anti-Aircraft Guns to
Cost $7,281,455.

The Government moved yesterday to
strengthen its land defenses against
invading aircraft The War Depart
ment let contracts for 338 anti-air-
craft guns, at q price totaling ST.
28l ass. At the same time the depart
ment decided not to take any chances
of having such a project wiped Out
during the construction period through
an attack on a central point, SO II
scattered the contracts to several diff
ferent plants.
While the anti-aircraft orders went
to private builders, additional orders
it was said, are being placed with
Government arsenals, bringing the
initial expenditure up to $4,000, 900
Congress has appropriated $4,000, ,00e
for such projects. with right to draw
an additional $lo,000,000.
Follows British Example.
The contracts awarded yesterday, II
was said, will have the effect ot
quintupling such defenses. which al
present number less than 10 guns
The guns will be located at big city
points on or near the East and West
Coasts.
In spreading the orders, the depart
ment followed the example set last
year by Great Britain, which decided
against putting all her eggs in one
basket. The British ministry Of wal
set out to distribute orders widely SC
that an aerial bombing of one or two
factories would not greatly interfer,
with war production.
Ordinarily, government arsenals ir
this country would have taken thu
whole order for anti-aircraft equip.
ment. The size Of the order, how.
ever, coupled with the desire for wide
| distribution of the contracts. made
this impossible.
Among Worlds Finest.
When the guns are assembled
American officers believe they will b,
among the finest in the world. The,
will have a ceiling fire of 10000 feet
shooting 3-inch shells with great &C
curacy through mechanical direction
The largest order announced wa
to the Spery Co. of Brooklyn. N. Y
amounting to $780,, 800 for directo
equipment.
Orders for over 81 .o00, 900 went to tn
New York Safe dS Lock Co., York, Pa
for $l,557,330 for mounts for anti
aircraft guns; the Eclipse Machin
Co., Elmira, N. Y, for $1,027, 900 TO
mechanical time fuses. and KeufIel 1
Esser, Hoboken, N. j., for $l,108 90
for height finders.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
c. c. c. ADMINISTRATION
IN PARKS TO BE TOPIC
State Relations and Programs
for Future to Be Weighed
by Service Directors.

A meeting Of regional directors and
key men Of the regional Offices Of
the National Park Service to discuss
administration of Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps activities in the parks
State relations and long-range pro-
grams will be held here beginning
Monday.
The meeting, called by A. E. De-
maray, acting director Of the Ma
tional Park Service, Is to be held in
the new Interior Department Build
Ing. Among the matters slated for
consideration are the inspection sys-
tenn of the parks, . survey Of the
c. c. c. program in all It's phases.
the Park Service relations with the
various States and planning and de-
veloping programs for future activi-
ties.
Among those attending next weeks
conference will be Carl F. Russell,
Thomas ]. Allen and Herbert Maier,
respective heads Of regions /, 2 and 3.
Frank A. Kittredge, director of region
I, will probably be represented BY
Associate Regional Director Perry
Gage. q
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Held on Lottery Charge.

Maryland William Banks, 46, COL
ored, Of the 1900 block Of Ninth street
NV. was held for the grand jury
yesterday by United States Commis-
sioner Needham c. Turnage, on charges
Of possessing numbers slips and opetat-
ing q lottery. Banks was arrested IN
the TOO block Of O street NV.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
By the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Ofaciak at the ONCE Of Indian
Affairs put their ears to the ground
today and failed to detect . single
vail from q wigwam over the disap-
pearing Indian nickel.
The 25-year-old Indian Buffalo
model is scheduled to give way to .
new Thomas Jefferson coin this
autumn.
The red mans silence about the
change has the Government sort Of
puzzled.
One thing that may have had some
thing to do with it Is the fact that the
Indian on the nickel is no special
Indian. He's a composite
Evening star., 1938-09-10
F. H. A. REPORTS GAINS
Mortgage Insurance in August
Totals $67. .S77.9OO

The Federal Housing Administra-
ton said today it accepted for in
surance in August mortgages totaling
$67.s77 300, an increase of IL per
cent over July and of "a per cent
over August, 1887. About 10 per cent,
1t said, covered new homes.
The F. H. A. insures loans made by
financial institutions for home con-
struction and property improvement.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
Last Swim Party.

The Capital Hiking Club viii hold
its last swim party Of the season at
the Chopawamsic Recreational Area
near Quantico, Va, on Sunday. Buses
will leave from 14ls F street NV. 1T
10 An. and return late in the After
Evening star., 1938-09-10
WRIST SLASHED
Virginian Is Taken to Gallinger
for Observation.

A man who gave the name of Will
liam B. Midyette, As, Of Richmond, Va,
was found in his room at q downtown
hotel last night with one Of his wrists
slashed after he called the desk clerk
and announced, You'll ind . dead
man up here"
Police said the man was found In .
bathtub hlled with water, bleeding pro-
fusely from the wrist cut. He was
taken to Gallinger Hospital for treat
ment and mental observation. His con-
dition Is not serious, physicians said.
Police found several notes In the
hotel room.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
The AWord List

NOONAAOH1 4n41 LU.
ellie GayleS, Treasury, and
Mrs. Ada Sangster, Vets Ad-
ministratiOn. have two tickets
each awaiting at the PotO-
mac River Line, Seventh
and Water SITS. S. w., from
which the S. S. Potomac sails
nightly, S:45.
AIRPORT POOL: Many
FederaliteS this week received
tickets allowing a cooling dip
at this refreshing spot, where
the beauties gather, open 8
a. m. to IL p. m.
MARLENE BEAUTY KIT:
Erville ROlfe, Navy, is in
vited to visit GOldenberg's
cosmetics counter and re-
ceive one of these Snappy,
fast selling "naturalS" for
keeping in the desk for face
refreshment.
HIGH ICE CREAM: Mrs.
Mabel Walden, Vets Admin
istratiOn, has a slip await
ing at this desk emitting her
to a quart of this tasty COM
modify at any High Store,
one of which is doing bust
ness at 3417 Eighteenth st.
N. E.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
"NOt a Politician

MIR. WALLACE is not q Demo
AVA cratic politician as he has
frequently announced. In fact
he was once not a Republican
politician in Iowa, before he
learned how to add better. But
there are times when a Govern
ment official must rise above
not being a politician. No one
ever rose higher or faster.
The trick was accomplished
first by committing a little
rough mayhem on the word
normal" It may safely be said
that as a result normal" will
never be the same again.
The new farm law required
the Secretary to order a corn
vote for a restriction program
whenever the corn supply ex-
ceeded a normal years domes-
tic supply" This years corn
crop has been annoyingly good,
good enough to require a refer
endum under any means Of pos
sible calculation except the one
used this week.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
F|REMEN'S FETE
Falls Church Opens
Annual Carnival

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Aug. 10.
The Falls Church volunteer fire
department opened its fourteenth
annual carnival last night. 1t
will be continued through Satur-
day, August 20.
Ollie c. Pearson, general chair
man, is being assisted by j. F.
McCauley, H. E. Sterling, H. H.
Fitzhugh, j. A. C. Fought, E. H.
Schofield, A. Mollicoat, E. Rull-
man. Leo Barr, j. Gibson, R.
Copela E. Vandermark, M.
Copeland, H. Neff, K. Elliott. D.
Royston. w. K. Wertz, r. Royston,
j. Birch, E. Ward, H. Lowry,
H. Mari, D. Honse, w. Graeff and
H. H. Moon.
Proceeds from the carnival will
go toward the departments build.
ing fund.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

Childish? Yes. But what is
the fundamental explanation?
In one word, incentive.
With the prospect of a trip
to Europe or summer vacation
in some northern American
State, I develop capacity for
work never matched under or
binary work-a-day conditions.
Under such incentive I turn
out twice, sometimes thrice,
my usual daily stint.
Somehow, the prospect Of
release from duty, the prospect
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Children 10 School
In Covered Wagon

NIBLEY, Utah, Aug. ia
horse-drawn covered wagon is still
doing active duty here, making a
round trip to transport children
in remote sections to and from
school. The covered wagon is IA
vored over a modern school bus
because of the severe weather
which leaves canyon roads impas-
sable to automobiles. During the
winter runners are substituted for
the wheels.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
b. G. Forbes Says

N THE REMOTE rural district where was
raised, the nearest railroad granted cheap
excursions one day year, the annual holiday.
I was quite lad before managing to scrape to-
gether enough pennies to ride on train.
recall as wildly as if it had been only yester-
day that wakened up between 8 and 4
o'clock in the morning of the eventful day and
could not again go to sleep. was fearful lest I
oversleep and not get started in time to walk to
the distant station. On ordinary mornings it was
different!
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

Of relaxation, the prospect of few weeks free
from the necessity of thinking thinking thinking,
buoys me up mentally fires my imagination, en-
abes me to function with uncommon zest.
Big Secret of Success
VTNHE TWO American business men Of the past
l. who created maximum number of million
aires were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie Both became perhaps the wealthiest men
Of their time.
When asked Mr.. Rockefeller, late in life, to
what he attributed, most Of all, his success he
instantly replied: ITO Others"
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

saying Mr.. Wallace thereby has
saved Democracy Capital -"
please. He certainly saved the
Democrats running for Congress
in the corn belt. For, if he
had let the figures alone, the
law would have required him to
hold a referendum among corn
farmers for restriction quotas,
and, as everyone knows, the corn
farmers have been shown in all
the sample polls to be dead set
against restriction. Such a po'
litical calamity could easily
have meant wholesale slaughter
Of Administration candidates, In
the corn belt.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

same as a railroad passenger
must go to the ticket window,
ask for a Pullman seat and re-
ceive an assigned and num-
bered chair.
At present air rates cover
mainly that class of traveller
who travels also by Pullman.
Why then do the airlines Sus-
tain the day coach principle
among average "chair-car" pas
SengerS and let them scramble
for seats inside the plane, or
as more often happens, every
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON

(world Copyright, 1888. by King Fea-
lures Syndicate, all rights reserved.
Reproduction in full or in part strictly
prohibited.) 90
A NYONE who thinks 2
"A plus 2 may not occa-
sionally equal 8 is just too
stupid to appreciate the re-
lentless energy of Mr.. Wal
lace's corn mathematicians.
1t was a hard pull. The agri-
cultural secretary's figurers had
to use a special adding machine
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

and bent PEN
ellis. In one
instance they
had to put
blindfoldS on
to keep from
provisions OF
the new farm
law. But they
did it, and
uOA1C v u v .
Repu bli can
will ever arise
to say it was
n o t W or t n
while.
In tru tn,
some here are
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Army, Navy Union

Another encampment is on the
way Wednesday evening, Ma
tional Guard Armory, at 8, dele
gates and alternates to the Ma
tional Convention of the ARM
Navy Union will meet to plan do
ings at the gathering, tabled fol
Atlantic City, August 1927. In
cidently, Treasury Recreation AS
ISOLATION will splash a moonlight
jaunt Tuesday, and Social Activ
ity Chairman Alice Coleman, MA
6400, Br. 381, is dishing the de
tailed dope.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

Mrs Mclean
to some poor mother who has had baby and
isn't able to get around. They keep the house
clean, see that the family is fed and help in
any other way they can.
They work seven hours day, but, of course,
are not allowed to give medicine or in any way
take the place Of trained nurse. Their sole duty
Is to improve the homes by cleaning them, seeing
that there is adequate food and to call doctor
when necessary. Take some poor father, who
has lost his wife and has three or four children
on his hands. Everyone knows how helpless a
man is under these conditions.
These women go there, wash the children, see
that they are sent to school, and really act like
foster mothers to the whole family. This is one
branch of the work that certainly should be
encouraged.
Instead Of having its headquarters in the
basement Of Negro church at Eleventh and r
Streets, which is given them free Of charge
they should be given headquarters, and every
single woman who has q few free hours of
time on her hands would do much better to Join
this group than to spend half day in a beauty
parlor, playing bridge or whining about her
troubles and her loneliness:
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
|F.D.R. TO BRING
SOUTH'S WOES
into CONGRESS
nee Report Tells What
Is Wrong in Dixie

GN.S) With the National
Emergency Councils 60-page re-
port on the Nations No. eco
nomic problem" a matter Of rec
ord, White House sources today
said President Roosevelt probably
will carry his attack on problems
Of the South directly to the next
Congress.
They pointed out that much of
the New Deal program, including
farm tenancy, wage-hours, crop
control and power legislation, has
already been started with the
economics of the South primarily
in view. They considered it likely
that Mr.. Roosevelt will make rec
concentrations to the next Con-
greSS aimed at correcting and
remedying the economic structure
of Dixie as well as stimulating
what the MEG report termed the
nations greatest untapped mar
ket."
EMBRACES Is TOPICS
The bluntly.written report, pre-
pared by % of the South's out
standing economists and edu.
Gators, spared no words in pic
turing the plight of the region,
but it repeatedly pointed to the
great natural resources which re-
main to be developed and stressed
a note of optimism throughout,
without making any specific rec
concentrations.
The study embraced is topics
Economic reserves, soil, water
population, private and public in.
come, education, health, housing
labor, women and children, own
ership and use of land, credit, use
of natural resources, industry and
purchasing power.
The primary need in the South
the report stressed, is adequate
income. 1t pictured the South as
an amazing paradox, blessed BY
nature with immense wealth" but
with cts people as a whole the
poorest in the country"
MIGRATION IN SOUTH
With % per cent Of the popu
lation, it has only 16 per cent Of
the machinery and tools neces
sary for making a living, while
its farmers, numbering half of the
countrys total, have only one
fifth of the farm implements.
The report pointed strongly tt
migration in the South and from
the South. 1t found that person!
in the productive middle age
groups leave the South in creates
numbers, tending to make lit
land of the very old and the yer,
young" The necessity Of Seekint
a living was blamed for the mi
grafton.
The average income in 1897 ir
the South was only $14, against
an average for the rest of the
nation of 1904, the report found
With half the farmer population
in the tenant class with little in
tereSt in preserving the SOIL" 81
per cent Of the soil in Dixie has
been damaged by erosion, while
the average income of the tenant
family on cotton plantations
amounted to only $73 a year pei
person.
Likewise, industrial wages "are
lower than elsewhere" the study
asserted. In 1887 common labor in
20 important industries received
16 cents less per hour than was
paid in other sections. The aver
age industrial wage was found tt
be $685. annually, as against 81,
219 in the remainder of the ma
ton.
Need for housing for half the
population, poor health, chile
labor, wage differentials, lack Of
credit, poor exploitation Of natura
resources, and need for educa
tional facilities in rural areas
were all stressed as primary
causes of the economic problem
THAT exists,
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

about the new unit that has
appeared in Washington, which
Is giving a service which is
20 sadly needed in this beauti-
full city Of ours.
I have heard this problem
discussed for a good many
months, but I did not realize
It was really working until I
read Martha's article.
It Is a group Of splendid
women who are called House
keeping Aides, a new branch of
the WPA. Their duty is to go
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Tardy Trifle

A Florida man was peeved re.
Gently when relatives failed to ar,
rive on the 1918 train after they
had told him they would via post
card He remembered, however.
that he had wondered why the
postcard had come from a differ.
ent town than in which they live,
and on closer inspection of the
card he found the postmark read
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

L.. L.. AcuII SOudllGy Anu,
pers on a Ii ty, is an indefinable
quality. Sort of an excess of
'oomph. . Gosh, I'm so excited I
forgot to say that the title will be
conferred on board the City of
Washington Monday night by vote
of the 1900 Interior-folk expected
by l.. Leland Acuff, manager of
the cruise, to make the trip. The
winner will win a gold wrist watch
=. . And, speaking Of Miss Popu-
larity," only one girl is in the
running where Justices Hora e
B. Long and his charming wife,
Aileen, live, and that is the little
bundle left at their door the other
day.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

lieves that you would publish Sc
riouS accusations against public
men and women without knowing
tie source of the information
and therefore its worth Aside to
Lolita Trouble: Why don't you
come up and see us sometime?
.. Your stories ring true and are
interesting, but If we don't know
you how can we tell but what you
are that Scoundrel, Lolita Bunk,
masquerading as our hero, Lolita
TRUTH"
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

teriOr'S 1DRA,
the better I like
it. Here is a
C on t e S t in
which it will
not suffice for
a gal to be
b e a u tifu ]
though dumb
She may be
b o WI e g g e d
k n o C k-kneed,
cross-eyed, or
have protuding
teeth, and still
win this award
if she has per.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
MARBLE LEASE
'COLLUSION' HINT
IS INVESTIGATED
IVA Witness Refutes
Mynatt's Story

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 10
G.N.SO Discussion of the Berry
marble case" continued to hold
the center of the stage today at
the joint congressional hearing
into activities of the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
1t was expected the testimony
of Charles G. Mynatt, special iva
investigator, that he had been in
formed of collision between high
iva officials and Senator George
l.. Berry CD of Tennessee in con-
nection with Berry's mineral
claims, would be further investi-
gated.
WARNS WITNESS
The committee crosS-examiner,
Representative Wolverton (R.) Of
New Jersey had warned the wit
ness he was giving "ibelous in
formation"
The mystery Of the source Of
Mynatt'S information was solved
with the appearance as witnesses
of w. N. Garrett, who inveSti-
gated the Berry leases.
GARRETT DENIES 1T
Garrett denied fatty that he
had told Mynatt that DR.. A. E.
Morgan, deposed as head of iva
by President Roosevelt, had ex-
pressed to him (Garrett) suspi-
cionS of collision in the leases.
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Says Boake Carter

of arrival and points of interest over which the
ship may be passing.
This is admittedly interesting to the passen-
gers. But it is an unfair addition to all the
paper work that is already dumped into the lap
of every commercial airline pilot. The average
transport pilot has to do more paper work be-
tween points of destination than he has time to
fly. Let the airlines install talking device.
so that the pilot may announce directly to
the passengers BY the time his penciled nota-
ton has been handed to the stewardess and she
hands it to 81 passengers. the place they are
supposed to view out of the window is only is
to 20 miles behind them!
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Corn Grows Faster

THE law says a normal" corn
l. supply is the last 10 years
average of consumption and ex-
ports, plus II per cent for
carry-over and reserve. Last
March, Mr.. Wallace's AAA fig
ured normal" to be 2,773 mil
lion bushels, but by July it be-
came obvious the crop was going
to be higher than expected.
A referendum would have to
be ordered for about September
is, just IS days before election,
unless something was done.
Something was. Mr.. Wallace's
dauntless figures went to work
on normal" and got her up to
1882 million bushels.
But Ceres still pursued them
Corn grew faster than the fig
ures could change normal" but
only for time. There really
was no more doubt about the
final outcome than in the ordi-
nary melodrama. The villain
didn't really have a chance with
Mr.. Wallace'S figurers.
The figurers, taking a final
deep breath, blew normal" up
to 2,913 million bushels last
Wednesday, just after the corn
crop report came out. Even at
that they saved Democracy by
only q million bushels. That
may not be many bushels to
other little piggies, but it will
certainly suffice for the congress
sional candidates.
No Referendum
WITH obvious relief, Mr.. Wal
w lace announced ther
would be no referendum. Some
who heard him thought he said
he had managed "to escape" a
referendum, but others present
thought that while this was OBJ.
viouSly what he did, it was not
what he said.
The tricks used by the
finaglers betrayed their pur'
pose as completely as a comics
sion. The last hoist they made
in normal" was the hardest
and the most illegal.
After pushing every other
consideration up as high as
they could squeeze the law into
allowing, they were still short
of their needed figure. So they
decided to start in at the begin
ming again and recompute-
doubt it at your own hazard
the average production Of corn
for the last 10 years.
They found that in two of
the years, 1894 and 1886
there had been droughts. Sc
they figured what corn produc'
ton should have been in those
two years instead Of what it
was.
One Accuracy
A PPARENTLY their only &C
"A curate calculation in the
whole business was that Con
gress would say nothing about
this at the next session, par
ticularly If the Democratic in
c11vnharta uara kherahv ra
The Washington times., 1938-08-13
Today in Films
WARNER BROTHERS

film schedule, for which you
may have received passes:
EARLE: Ewdard G. Rob
inson in "The Amazing DIR.
ClitterhOuse," plus "Schnick-
eIfritz Band" on the stage:
METROPOLITAN: Colin Tap
ley in ''BoOlO0"; AMBASSA-
DOR: SimOne Simon and
Don Ameche in "Josette";
CALVERT: Cowboy from
Brooklyn" with Dick Powell,
Pat O'Brien and Priscilla
Lane; TIVOLI: Martha Raye,
Bob Burns and Dorothy La
mOur in "TrOpic Holiday;
PENN and UPTOWN: Fred
McMurray and Harriet Hill
Hard In "COcoanut Grove"
The Washington times., 1938-08-13

November 10, 1901" and dis
covered the card had arrived just
SO years too late! A probe
revealed the card had been found
when an old poStoffice building
They look like newt They ride like
newt" That's the comment everyone
makes about the modern used cars of SO
and 81 vintage which are being Offered
by Washington's used car dealers See
the complete selection listed in the CLASH
fled Section Of the Herald and Timea.