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Evening star., 1938-09-22
INTENDED VICTIM
THWARTS BANDITS
Taxi Driver Takes Out Knife and
Goes to Work When Faced
by Gun,

Two colored men who hailed the
cab Of Theodore Harris, also col.
ored, Of 1l14 Fourth street NV,
shortly before midnight last night
found him too much to handle when
they allegedly attempted to rob him
on the River road near Bladensburg,
Md, according to police reports.
One of the men, who gave his name
as Ralph Owens, %, of GAS R streex
NV, was taken to Casualty Hospital,
where 60 stitches were required to
close numerous knife wounds. Harris
was being held in the Hyattsville Jail
as a material witness.
Harris told Pvts. Louis J. MackalI
and Charles N. Thompson Of the
Prince Georges Md County police
! that the two men got in his cab
| at Fourth and H streets NV. After
he had driven across the District line,
he said, the men forced him from
| his seat and then drove the cab
out the River road Near the Capt.
tol Airport, the cab was stopped and
the men, one Of whom was armed
with pistol, attempted to rob Harris,
he said.
Il had been doing some thinking
| while one of them was driving" Har-
ris told the police. When they tried
to rob me, I took out my penknifs-
and went to work"
When Harris went to work" the
man with the gun jumped from the
cab and ran into the bushes, and
Harris took the wounded man to the
Bladensburg fire hall. whence he was
removed to the Washington hospital
in the Bladensburg rescue squad am
bulance.
Despite an all-night search. police
had not arrested the second man.
Evening star., 1938-09-22
CzECH-SUDETEN
FIGHTS RESUMED
Serious Clashes Occur on
Borders as Nazis Take
Over Control.
Ey the Associated Press,

BERLIN, Sept. 22.-DNB German
official news agency reported today
from Schoemberg, Germany, that Sc
rious clashes occurred at noon between
Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes
and Sudeten Germans near the border
village OF Liebenau.
The dispatch said there were deaths
on both sides, but the number Of IA
talities was not given. Twenty persons
were said to have suffered bullet
wounds.
A DNB dispatch from Baeren-
stein. in Saxony near Chemnitz, said
there were some deaths and several
persons wounded when q hand gren-
ade was tossed into a German crowd
at Weipert, just across the border in
the Sudeten area Of Czechoslovakia.
Germans from Baerenstein had gone
across the border to fraternize and
parade with Sudeten Germans, cele-
brating the prospective cession Of Su-
detenland to Germany.
After the grenade throwing Sudeten
athletes began a counter attack on
persons considered guilty thereof
DNB said there were clouds OF smoke
over the village. presumably from
burning houses.
Evening star., 1938-09-22

bers Of the Free Corps" in civilian
clothes and wearing swastika arm
bands were showered with flowers as
they marched into the towns.
Sudetens Have Police Power.
All police activity was in the hands
Of the Sudeten Vigilance Corps. which
C7echoslovaks previously had out
lawed, and war veterans wearing Ba-
varian hats decorated with tufts of
wild boar bristles.
Czechoslovak troops, police and Gus
toms and treasury guards marched
along the road to places of assembly.
They went solemnly and sadly, look
ing neither to the right nor left.
DNB-German official news
agency-dispatches to Berlin from
Rumburg, Sudetenland, said most
Of the Czechoslovak Army detach-
ment there had departed during
the night. The agency said heavy
explosions were heard south of
Rumburg. indicating Czechoslovaks
were dynamiting as they retreated)
Administration Of Eyer was handed
over to Sudeten Germans this morn
ing. Asch. where Henlein has his
home, worked faster and had Czecho-
slovak of1cias out before midnight
last night.
At Eyer. police and gendarmes gath
cred in the police station courtyard
this morning while Sudeten Vigilance
Corps men stood guard.
Authority Transferred Peacefully.
Peaceful transfer of authority was
effected after negotiations during the
night between Sudeten Germans and
army and police officials.
The Czechoslovak army detachment
agreed to remain in barracks, un.
watched by Sudetens, throughout the
night and start evacuation by midday
Similar negotiations went on through
out the Sudeten territory.
= The Eyer municipal government was
placed in the hands of four men-twc
newspaper men, one doctor and one
lawyer.
Sudeten authorities said this was
typical of the provisional government
IN all Sudetenland. Plans had been
made carefully ahead of time.
Evening star., 1938-09-22

pointed chief of the Air Corps. BY
this time he had won his two re-
manning ratings-airplane pilot and
airplane observer-and attained as
well-rounded an experience as any
officer in the Air Corps.
In 1888 Gen. Westover commanded
the Air Corps maneuvers at March
Field, Calf, during which practically
all of the modern concepts of the
employment of air forces were tried
out. His summary of the lessons learn
ed during this maneuver Is regarded
as a valuable contribution to the
advancement of the tactics and supply
procedure of the Air Corps. He also
participated in the command post
exercises in New Jersey in 1884 in
the capacity of commanding general
of the temporary General Headquarters
Air Force, created for that purpose.
He succeeded Gen. Foulois as chief
of the Air Corps on December Is.
1895. AS chief, he has participated
in the creation of the permanent
General Headquarters Air Force, new
spearhead of the aerial defenses Of
the United States, and has assumed
personal charge Of the great pro-
curement program of the last three
years to build that force up to combat
strength.
Asked Adequate Airport.
Gen. Westover took an active part
in the long quest for an adequate air
port for Washington AS member Of
the District Airport Commission, he
was appointed chairman of q commit
tee in charge of the technical details
OF selecting a site. In this capacity,
Gen. Westover, conducted for the COM
mission a survey of all Of the avail
able airport sites and submitted his
report upon the suitability OF each
of them from a technical standpoint.
The commission, largely upon the
basis of this survey, recommended the
development of the site at Camp
Springs, Md, and bill authorizing
construction of an airport there, passed
by the Senate, failed in the closing
hours of the last session Of the House.
Gen. Westover is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Adelaide Bainbridge West
over, who was notified of the generals
death by instruction Of Secretary OF
War Woodring yesterday evening at
her home, 3l33 Connecticut avenue,
NV. He also leaves two children,
Second It. Charles B. Westover, Army
Air Corps. and Mrs Patricia Freuden-
thai, wife Of 1t. wilhelm C. Freuden-
thai, Army Air Corps, now on duty at
Boiling Field.
1t, Westover was graduated last year
from the Military Academy ut West
Point and now is taking flight instruc-
tion at the Air Corps Training Center,
San Antonio, Tex.
Sergt. Hymes. crew chief of Gen.
Westover's airplane. received his pro-
motion to technical sergeant only last
Saturday. Sergt. Hymes was not an
airplane pilot and new with the general
only IN the capacity Of observer and
mechanic, the War Department said.
Evening star., 1938-09-22
HIKE SLATED FOR SUNDAY

The Capital Hiking Club will sponsor
q 3-mile jaunt from Great Falls, Va,
to Difficult Run Bridge Sunday. The
trip will pass many historical spots,
including the locks of George Wash
ington's Potomac Canal and the RUNS
Of the old Matildaville Jail.
Reservations may be made by calling
West 1246, branch 607. by pm.
Saturday. Buses will leave 14l6 F
street NV 1T 2 pm. and return at
pm. Robert shosteck will lead the
hike,
Evening star., 1938-09-22
M'ADOO DENIES REPORT
Wouldn't Accept Post on Maritime
Commission, He Says.

Senator McAdoo, Democrat, Of Cali
fornia defeated for denomination in
the recent primaries, said today there
is no foundation for reports that he
is to be appointed member of the
Maritime Commission.
The Senaor not only said there was
no basis for the reports, but indi-
Gated he would not accept "even If the
President paid me the compliment of
offering the appointment"
Mr.. McAdoo, whose long career has
included q term as Secretary Of the
Treasury and director general Of rail-
roads during the World War, lost the
Democratic nomination to Sheridan
Downey. pension advocate. in the
senatorial primary.
Evening star., 1938-09-22
ROOSEVELT AND CAMP
WILL CONFER TODAY
Defeated Georgia Candidate to
Visit White House in
Mid-Afternoon.
az thA AccDciotaJ preSS

81 the Associated Press. :,
President Roosevelt arranged a con-
ference today with Lawrence S. Camp,
administration candidate who was de-
feated in Georgia's recent Democratic
senatorial primary.
Mr.. Camp, Federal district attorney
in Atlanta, ran third in the three-man
race, won by Senator George, fire.
quent administration opponent.
The President gave Mr.. Camp an
emphatic Endorsement on q speaking
trip through Georgia prior to the pri-
mary.
Mr.. Camp was scheduled to talk
with Mr.. Roosevelt in mid-afternoon
Evening star., 1938-09-22

The, storm of tropical orisin that was
central a short distance east OF Cape Hat
teras Wednesday morning moved very
rapidly northward to Vermont and from
there northwestward to Southwestern
Quebec with diminishing intensity, Doucet
29l inches. The center of this storm
passed inland with undiminished intensity
near @ New Haven, Conn. at $40 pm.
Wednesday when the barometer fell to
2Sl0 inches. The storm was attended by
heavy rains in New England New York
and portions Of the Middle Atlantic States.
and by strong shifting gales over a wide
area. The greatest ;24-hour rainfall re-
ported was 344 inches at Atlantic city.
N j., and the highest reported wind velocity
was 81 miles per hour from the southeast
at Boston, Mass. Pressure remains low
from Alaska eastward to Iceland Reykjavik.
Iceland. d 29.15 inches: Kodiak. Alaska.
e2H inches. and Chesterfield. District of
keeWatin. 20 % inches. Pressure is high
over British Columbia and from Nevada
ana Southern Utah east -southeastward TO
the Gulf and South Atlantic States. and
over the ocean east and northeast of
Bermuda. Kamloops. British Columbia and
DURANGO. Colo, 3O16 inches: Shreveport
La: and Cape Race. Newfoundland 30 IL
lnches. The temperature has fallen in the
ATLANTIC States. while 1T has risen in the
Plains States, the Upper Mississippi Valley
ana the upper lake region.
River Report.
Potomac River very cloudy and Shenan-
doah River muddy at Harpers Ferry; Po-
tomac River slightly muddy at Great Falls
this morning
Evening star., 1938-09-22

due for retirement in November.
The War Department also announced
assignment of Maj. Gen. Percy P.
Bishop to command the 7th Corps
Area, with headquarters at Omaha.
Nebr., relieving Maj. Gen. Stanley H.
Ford, who Is under orders to assume
command of the 9Th Corps Area,
Chicago.
Gen. Bishops orders are effective
in October on completion of his pres
ent tour Of duty as commanding gem
eral of the Philippine division, with
Evening star., 1938-09-22
Sudeten Soldiers Released.

BERLIN, Sept. % Rl.-Telephoned
advices from Eyer today said that
Czechoslovak military authorities or
dered the release from service Of all
soldiers Of German nationality.
The informant did not know whetf1-
er this applied throughout the ma
ton, but said 1t was a definite order
for the Eyer, Sudeten German dis
trict.
Evening star., 1938-09-22

District and the
CO ast Artillery
School at Fort
Monroe, Va, in
December, accord
ing to War De-
partment orders
made public to-
day.
Gen. Smith will
transfer to his
new post on com
pletion of his
present tour Of
foreign serv ! C e,
succeeding Maj.
Gen. John w.
r,,I,A1r -,l /,
Evening star., 1938-09-22

headquarters at
Fort Mckinley,
near Manila.
Gen. S m i t h,
who is SO, COM
manded the 306th
and 336th Field
Artillery during
the World War.
He attended the
Army War Col
lege here and
S u b S e q u entity
served in the Of
hoe Of the chief
Of Coast Artillery
and as adjutant
general of the
Evening star., 1938-09-22
WEATHER REPORT

District OF CoumbaFa
and warmer gentle to moderate to westy wind
Maryland Virginia
tonight tomorrow fair
Evening star., 1938-09-22

District of Columbia National Guard.
Gen. Bishop, 81, served in the ofice
OF the chief Of Coast Artillery here
from 1914 to October, 1917 and as
secretary Of the general staff in 1918.
Evening star., 1938-09-22
COAST ARTILLERY
COMMAND SHIFTS
Brig. Gen. Frederic Smith
to Take Charge OF
Third District.

Brig. Gen. Frederic H. Smith, U. 8. A..
now commanding the Pacific sector In
the Panama Canal Zone, will assume
command Of the Sd Coast Artillery
Evening star., 1938-09-22
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
Groom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 66, pm. yesterday. Year
ago, II.
Lowest, 4s, $50 am. today. Year ago
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 98. on August Is.
Lowest, Is, on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.
Highest. "a per cent, at am today.
Lowest, 40 per cent. at IL am. today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetc Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High ------- 6:22 am. 7:14 am.
Low ------- 12:44 am. :3S a IN.
High --- 1852 pm. TIA pm.
Low ----------- liz pm. l:3S pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today 554 6:07
Sun. tomorrow 5:56 sos
Noon today 4:3O am. $40 D. m
Automobile ligits must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-09-22
PreciDitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
Capltel kcurrent month 10 dael:
Evening star., 1938-09-22
Tide Tables.

FURNISHED by United States Coast an
GeOdetic SurYeYl
Evening star., 1938-09-22

Automobi1e lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
Do You WANT A JOB Z?

OARRET SMITH, author of this weeks in
formative article How to Avoid Job - and
Ten Ways to Land One. ;" has been principal
of high school, superintendent of hospital,
a newspaper reporter, night city editor,
and special correspondent He has written
many articles and short stories for the better
magazines, and is responsible for at least one
hit in the movies. a popular picture based on
Evening star., 1938-06-12

The IDEA In the little story printed
below, certain key words have been omitted.
The position of each omitted key word is in
dicated by blank The puzzle is solved by
finding the proper key words to put in the
blank spaces. When the required key words
are properly filled in. the story as whole
takes on meaning Answers are on Page 10.
METHOD or SOLUTION Each blank
represents single letter of word, Three
blanks like this: indicate three-let-
ter word four blanks like this:
indicate four letter word etc. The first key
word. TO, already is filled in in capital letters.
To form the second key word use all of the
letters in the first key word. T and O, and
add one additional letter The order of the
letters may be changed. The same procedure
is used to form the succeeding key words. Like
this: NOT DON'T NOTED STONED.
Now, let's go:
OswAD O. HAzENsNOOTz buoyantly stepped
into the street. He was going 70 his first
job So he was a ne 'er dow a dreamer,
eh? Well he would show them Here was one
time he was firmly resolved to - the
mark. Truth is. he had the soul of ----
Evening star., 1938-06-12
A BLANKIE TO TEST YOUR BRAIN

but how could you expect anyone in his hick
town to recognize temperament? His was in
world of higher thoughts. but the exigencies
of life had cut him down to mere Office boy.
As he walked into the Office his boss said,
Oswald. do you know where the bank is:"
Yes" answered our hero. Its opposite
the railway -"
That's right" said his employer as he
laid out number of bills on the table. Nov.
listen carefully. want you to take this money
to the bank Here are the slips and am going
to show you just how to fill them out. I'm in
a terrible hurry, but this matter is very i'm
portant. so be extremely careful" He there :
upon proceeded to explain each and every
detail
After few repetitions. Oswald felt that he
was quite we'll -. He spent a
full hour meticulously following the instruc-
tions he had received Then he gaiy strobe
forth to the bank, confident that he had done
job WE'LL
At the bank the teller looked over his
papers and said, Pretty good for you,
Hazensnootz! Everything in order but
you have forgotten one little thing - the
Evening star., 1938-06-12
hey Had hei
Worries / 90
y WILLIAM BURNETT BElUoN

century. The law forbade those in religious
orders to frequent cafes and bars. although
barmaids gulped great quantities of beer and
wine Businessmen complained of government
control. The politicians - those who were
out promised lower taxes if they got in"
The ancients had their depressions and their
recessions. Each was the worst yet Rents,
wages and prices fluctuated. Hysterical or
panicky people boarded money. Some lost
courage and gave up; many committed suicide.
When prosperity returned, after few years.
almost everyone agreed that it would last
forever
Pretty sobering stuff this archaeology.
When l discovered that the Babylonians
made the same predictions that we make -
and were wrong - l wondered just how much
the human race had really learned in 5000
years. l asked DR.. Dubberstein if the world
were getting better or worse.
For reply. he quoted the late James Henry
Breasted Professor Breasted founded the
Oriental Institute at the University of Chi
cago, with branch in Egypt, and thirteen
field expeditions digging in the Near East at
the same time The Oriental Institute,
financed chiefly by Mr. Rockefeller, is the
worlds greatest single laboratory for the
study of the rise of civilization. DR.. Breasted
once said:
''Man's course is a rising line.'
Sometimes. DR.. Breasted found. the line
drops sharply. like bad day on the stock
market. Then it starts back up, moving more
slowly, but always to a higher peak. Over the
last 5000 years - 2, 500 of them the property
of the historians, and $500 the property of
the archeologists - mankind has been on the
move upward.
That is no consolation for man who is out
of job. 1t won't help when the landlord
raises the rent Troubles at home and war
abroad make pessimists. But through it all
man is shaping a better world. Life will be
easier for our descendants than for u.s. just as
it is easier for US than for our ancestors.
The next time your despondent friend tells
you that the outlook couldn't be worse -
that things are going to pieces - you can tell
him you heard all that fifty centuries ago.
The Babylonians had the same headaches
and no aspirin
Evening star., 1938-06-12

ing = about crooked politicians -
about ladies sitting at the bar
~ Or perhaps it's war. or sit-down
strikes.
Does it console you to know that the Baby
lonians had the same troubles? The world is
still going In fact, its getting better all the time.
Who says so?
The men who know They are called archie
ologists. Their business is to dig down into the
ancient past They shovel away the sands of
the ages. They discover how our ancestors
lived in the days before men began writing
history.
Herodotus, the father of history, lived only
their troubles for at least three thousand
wears before that. They had no pencils or
pens. They impressed signs on moist clay
tablets They carved on cedar coffins. They
chiseled into lasting stone. They burned on
durable wood These records survive. They
are being dug up today in the Near East
from Egypt to Persia. That is the cradle of
civilized life - where society first set up shop.
For ten years Professor Waldo H. Dubber-
stein, of the Oriental Institute. has been de-
ciphering truckloads of clay tablets found in
ancient Babylonia. In them business records
were baked as far back as 5000 BIC.
When DR.. Dubberstein reads about some
thing new" in the papers, he smiles. He
knows better. The other day he showed me
newspaper that said sit-down strikes started
in Italy just after the World War. There was
one in Thebes Egypt, in 1179 BIC" he told
me- The workers in the royal cemetery sat
down for three days. They refused to bulge
until they were given fifty sacks of grain.
King Ashurbanipal, who died in 626 BIC,
legislated wages both for skilled and unskilled
labor Many kings tried to fix prosperity by
fixing low prices. The workers disputed over
hours of labor; they demanded salary bonuses
Collective bargaining seemed to function
although it had hard going
The silver standard. old-age pensions 20
per cent interest rates, stock market manipu
lation - back in Nebuchadnezzar' time the
citizens of Babylon talked about them, legis
lated about them Women then had as much
freedom as at any time until the twentieth
Evening star., 1938-06-12

his lovable magazine character ''Old Hutch"
He is graduate of the University of Roches-
ter; lives in Painfield, New Jersey, in white
brick house flanked by one of the states prize
gardens His work in preparing our article on
terviews with some of the country's foremost
employment managers. The facts he gives
you are facts And there is someone in almost
every American home who might profit
by them. NJ.
Evening star., 1938-06-12

The ond desepfions Of oil eoroeter fko oepeor
short ories seriois ond emefon orfees in TINS WEEK
MAGAZINE ore wholly fictitious Any Of which
hoppens 70 be fhs fhot Of person, living
decd, is entirely eoineidsntoI.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
CAN YOU 2

CATCH silver fish, also called bristletails, with
hook, line and sinker?
No. The RARELY OF silrerhsh knOun as bristle-
tails are insects common about the house and
injurious 10 books
GET Florida cat to catch rat?
Hardly A Florida cat is a catfish
MAKE peacock lay eggs?
No. II is the bedAen Which lays the eggs
FIND mustaChe on the neck of bird,
Yes. A stripe Of color about the neck Of bird is
called a nlustdche in zoology.
Evening star., 1938-06-12
FE1EKt133Z MAGAZINE

Poss
They HAD Their WORRIES Too. 2
..t by WILLIAM BURNETT BENTON
MAN lRAPpeR. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
A Short Story BY PATTERSON DIAL
Hivsf,ofed BY Leslie L. Benson
JUMP. MOTHER. JUMP. Observation-Disclosures. S
BY CLARA SAVAGE LrI1LEDALE
CHESTER GOES HoLLYwoOD. ............. 8
by GRACE MACK
Hivsfrofsd BY G. De zsyos
WHAT trout WOhT TEAT................ 7
BY ANDREW S. WIh6
STRANGER THAN MAN.. 7
BY CARL kULBeRG
How 70 AVOID A Jos.
And Ten Woys to Lond One
BY GARReT SMITH
CAN You SAY IT IN AMERICAN? ........ 10
BY MAY MAHOkeY
On THE MAP. Observation-Disclosures. 10
Evening star., 1938-06-12

Po9e
CoMs Your CURLs HIGH. II
BY MARTHA lEAViTI
The Bull ID-UP. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ~
BY RoseRI HYDE
Hlvstroted by L. kinmel
ITS YEARS OId-SnLL GONG STRONG 4,
by ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS
WHAT OF II? Observation-Disclosures. -
byR. W. Dawson
QUEER DUCKS. AREN'T We?. ?.............. -,
by KATHLEEN MAsIERsoh
TEREsA's DAY Our. -
Then Clsndo Forrsi Tokss Over the Kitchen
BY GRACE TURNER
MY GARDEN TAUGHT HTME-............. IS
by JOHN ALLEN MURPHY
Cover Design by Joseph F. Keroon
Evening star., 1938-06-12

BUTTON up your limousine?
Yes A coarse uoolen coat used by the French
mdgon drirers is called q limousine.
EAT an alderman for dinner?
Yes Alderman is often used as a humorous
name for turkey.
MAKE ladybird warble an aria from
''Pagliacci'?
No. A ladybird is kind of beetle.
CLIMB whifiletree and pick whiff1e:
No. A nhi6aetree is part Of a magon, to mhich a
horses tSaees are fastened.
Evening star., 1938-07-13
Question of Timing.

Question of Timing.
TO OUR MINDS, the bidding by
North and South on today's hand
was correct. South was right in per-
sisting with his two-suit hand In spite
Of North's repeated denials. However
As We have frequently seen happen
with hands Of this type, South mis-
timed his play, with the result that
by the time he had his spades estab-
lished, he found himself out Of trumps
South, dealer.
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