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Evening star., 1938-06-09

FORD 1887 de luxe club coupe, as h,p-:
built-in radio and many extras Beautiful
original maroon finish. We know quite
well we have to offer better car for less
money to maintain a large volume OF
business. This is one of the real BARGAINS
we offer. and the reduced price is S4s5.
with 1909 guarantee and very convenient
terms. Superior Motors. 14th and SITS.
Evening star., 1938-06-09

PACKARD 1885 de luxe 4-door trunk Sc
that makes an accurate description sound
exaggerated. Honestly, the perfect black
finish. the absolutely perfect upholstery
the chrome trim like brand-new, in short,
everything about this car is as perfect as
any brand-new Packard could be- For this
week only, $539. The Trew Motor Co.,
1926 14th st. w. 14th and Pa. ave- Sc,
14th end Chaplin SITS. NV. District 1915,
Atlantic 4340
Evening star., 1938-06-09
SPECIAL BARGAIN!

Due to unusual circumstances will sell
large waterfront lot with nice shade trees
on chesapeake Bay. Wide sand beach.
views up. down and across the bay. Con-
eenient to city. Price only $1,000. Small
payment down. balance on easy monthly
payment plan. Don't miss this bargain.
First time offered Worth much more
Call MIR. FOX Dupont 5147 after 8 pm
or District 2l24 DAYTIME
Evening star., 1938-06-09
SUMMER CAMPS.
OFFICES FOR RENT.

TALL TIMBERS CAMP FOR BOYS. TALL
Tinbers. Nd. open July 1st. Investigate OF
naH
Evening star., 1938-06-09

OLDSMOBILE 1884 4-door sedan, radio:
former owners fine care: original blue
hnish;, clean interior: fine tires; S325
Pohanka Service. 1925 goth st. NV.
Evening star., 1938-06-09

OLDSMOBILE ''S" 1886 Convertible road
ster; radio, heater; original, attractive
green finish is like new; tan leather uphol-
stery; rumble seat: very sporty and me-
chanically will pass your most rigid in
spection; $3.50. Pohanka Service, 1l26
goth st. NV. District 9141
Evening star., 1938-06-09

FORD 1894 VS. Tudor sedan: low price at
S219; O.. K. motor. fine rubber: very clean:
truly a BARGAIN. Uncle Joe will make it
easv for you to buy Cherner Motor Co.
1871 Fla. ave. NV. North 1855.
Evening star., 1938-06-09

OLDSMOBIIIE 1888 2-door touring Per-
feet blue, finish. runs and handles like
d,y d,yyear,old. .Sa car. Marked down for days
TO you. Mandell Chevrolet CO. 1900
Nichols ave. Sc. Atlantic 44O2
oLDSMOBILE 1885 6-cyl. 2-door touring
vince. you that this clean, beautiful car is a
real honest bargain: blue finish, hydraulic
brakes. Sold with L. P. Steuart's written
Evening star., 1938-06-09

FORD 1898 Tudor: excellent VS. motor.
tires and finish; price reduced for quick
sale Today's super special, Sl59. Cherner
Motor Co. 11Sl Fla ave NV
Evening star., 1938-03-26
STOCKS BATTERED
BY FRESH SELLING
Many Slump 81 to 81 a Share
More to New Low Levels
in Closing Furry.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 26.-Heavy
selling again battered the stock mar
ket today and forced many shares to
new lows for the past few years
despite better buying support.
An early rally ran into increased
offerings as traders and investors
took advantage Of the bulge to tighten
holdings. Steel, copper and other
groups heading the recovery were un-
able to maintain their early gains
and numerous losses Of 81 to about 81
supplanted advances.
Trading was fast during the brief
two-hour session, contrast with the
usual quiet weekend trading in Wall
Street. The wide break in share
prices yesterday, carrying the market
to the lowest average levels in three
years. filled brokers' board rooms with
large crowds for a Saturday.
United States Steel, American Tele-
phone, Allied Chemical. Anaconda
Copper, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler,
Montgomery Ward and other out
standing shares broke to the lowest
prices Of the 1878 bear market or
longer, when the rally failed to hold.
Additional selling also hit bonds
hard, particularly rail and other do
mestic corporate obligations. Major
|, commodities mostly were lower, too,
but the storm center Of the selling
TaS In security markets.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
C0nuict Reads 65O-WOrd Blast
At Society, Then Goes to Chair

side we're moral protests. I felt that
society had treated me rottenly.
+ II saw around me a lot of lucky,
Indifferent people, outside of prison
only by the laws of chance"
IF only had had single under
standing friend when was young" he
exclaimed. IF my mother hadn't died,
if my father had been pal, with just
a minimum chance I could have made
q comfortable place for myself in the
world"
Jones expressed belief that in the
near future "a more humane method
of penology will be evolved"
Walter Barnes, 10, who assisted
Jones in the hold-up and received a
life sentence for second-degree mur-
der, informed the State Clemency
Board week ago he killed the pool
room operator. But the board refused
to believe him.
Jones, who originally accepted re-
sponsibility for the actual killing, also
placed the blame on Barnes within the
last week.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
ROOSEVELT GETS
RAILROAD REPORT
Proposals to Speed New
Set-ups Believed Included
in Program.
By the Associated Press.

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. March 26.
President Roosevelt studied the re-
port of his Committee on Emergency
Railroad Legislation today, but with
held details on its recommendations.
The report was prepared by Chair
man Walter M. w. Splawn and Joseph
B. Eastman and Charles D. Mahaffie
Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and sent here by airmail The
President said it would be made pub
lie next week in Washington.
When he created the committee 10
days ago he said he wanted complete,
definite and factual" proposals that
could be taken up for immediate ac-
ton by Congress. At that time he
described the situation as critical"
Observers regarded it as virtually
certain that the report proposes some
method of speeding reorganizations Of
the financially distressed carriers in
view Of Mr.. SplaWns statement that
more than 80 per cent of railroad
mileage now is being operated under
court protection and receiverships.
with more threatened by bankruptcy.
Mr. Splawn also had given a hint
OF what the report might say on con-
solidations by disclosing that all
participants in the White House con-
ference that led to appointment of the
three-man committee agreed that
major" railroad economies could be
accomplished only by compulsory
mergers.
The railroad report may be one of
several received at the temporary
White House for consideration during
the Presidents Today stay here.
The President is looking for results
of study OF the world phosphate
situation so he can write a message
on 1t before he starts back to WASH
ington. A report on bank holding
company regulation also may be re-
ceived in time for preparation of an
other message
The President is devoting much of
his unofficial time here to infantile
paralysis foundation affairs. Tomor-
row he will dedicate a little white
chapel, built since he was here q
year ago, for use by the 116 patients
and foundation guests.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
CHILD DISAPPEARS
FROM ELKTON, VA.
Mildred Meyer, 7, Is Hunted
by Town Police and
Citizens.
Special Dispatch to The Star,

ELKTON. Va. March 26.-Town
police and local citizens were conduct
ing vigorous search today for Mil
dred Meyer, 7-year-old school girl who
disappeared mysteriously on her way
home from school yesterday afternoon.
Town Chief of Police c. w. Short
said kidnapping was not suspected as
the child's family was not wealthy.
The girls father, Arthur Meyer, was
last employed as truck driver, ac-
cording to the officer. He left here
Thursday to visit relatives in Luray
and was not aware OF his daughters
disappearance. police said The father
was expected home today, however.
Mildred's mother asked police help
when the little girl did not return
from school. A check showed class
mate had walked part of the way
home with her A block from the
Meyer home the classmate left Mil
dred to 60 to her own home. Police
could find none who had seen the
child since.
Ekton's tWo-man police force, aided
by large number of local residents
last night canvassed the homes of all
friends of Mildred here and searched
all vacant houses in a futile effort to
ind a trace of the girl. Chief Short
said there are no nearby woods in
which she might have become lost.
There are several other children in
the Meyer family, Mr.. Short said.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
JAPANESE NEARING
D|CTATOR|AL RULE|
Diet Passes Bill to Place
All Power Industry in
Government Hands.
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
TOXIC. March 26.-Japan took a
long stride toward a dictatorial gov
ernment today as Parliament passed
measure placing the nations entire
electric power industry in the hands
OF the government.
Passage eliminated So hours of con-
tinuous debate, which at times ex-
ploded into acrimonious exchanges and
scuff1ing on the floor of the Diet Par
lament. -
Gen. Sen Sugiyama, war minister
ana one OF the bills strongest pro-
ponents, declared the concentration of
authority was necessary in case Of
war.
Extra Day Granted.
The two houses Of Parliament were
deadlocked over the electric power bill
Friday as adjournment neared, but
passage was facilitated by an extra
days grace which Emperor Hirohito
granted In an imperial rescript
Under a government threat to dis
solve Parliament if the measure failed
the Diet gave joint committee of
the House of Peers and the House of
Representatives final decision on the
bill. The committee reached a COM
promise, which the government ac-
cepted.
The finance ministry at the same
time announced revision of its foreign
exchange regulations
New Regulations.
Starting April government per-
mission will be necessary for the fol-
lowing transactions:
Purchase or sale of foreign exchange
IN Japan; sale of Japanese yen, the
unit OF currency, in foreign countries;
remittance of cash to foreign coun-
tries; export Of securities coupons in
foreign currency. issuance of letters
OF credit, and telegraphic transfers of
money.
A finance ministry statement de-
clared the purpose of the regulation
was ito stabilize the market by con-
trolling exchange transactions.
Passage of the electric power bill
came after the imperial rescript, waved
aloft majestically. had quieted political
turmoil in the Diet.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
.REORGAN|z|NG BILL
FOES GIVE UP HOPE
ConCede Votes Are Lacking
to Order RecommittaI
to Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

Defeated consistently on proposed
amendments, some Senate foes of the
administration Government reorgan-
iZation bill conceded today they lacked
the votes to kill the measure.
A vote on motion to recommit the
bill to committee, step which would
effectively pigeonhole it, has been set
for 3 pm. Monday. If the motion
fails. there will be a vote on passage
of the measure at pm.
Some opponents of the measure said
privately that unless there was shift
of sentiment by Monday. the recon-
initial motion would fail. Senators
Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic
leader. and Byrnes. Democrat, of South
Carolina, author of the bill, confidently
predicted its passage.
Clark Is Hopeful"
Senator Clark, Democrat. of Mis-
souri,. an opponent, asserted. however,
that he was very hopeful" the bill
would be shelved.
Two portions of the bill-creation Of
welfare department and authorize
ton for employment of six presidential
assistants-already have been approved
in the House.
Mr. Byrnes said it was possible that
the Senate bill might be substituted
for one of these measures and sent di-
rectly to conference between Senate
and House of Representatives. This
would expedite final action.
Enactment of the broad reorganiza-
ton program would give the admins
tration its fourth major law of the
session. Already. the farm. housing
and emergency relief bills have won
legislative approval.
Tax Bill Buffeted.
Another of President Roosevelt's
recommendations-regional planning
has slight chance of enactment. A
House committee only recently began
consideration of it.
Messages from President Roosevelt
still are expected on proposals to put
Government controls on the bank
holding company structure and an
anti-monopoly program. He also is
expected to send a message on the
world phosphate situation.
Nevertheless, congressional leaders
still are hopeful that the session will
end between May IS and June /.
The White House suggestions. they
said, can we'll be considered in the
next session. The election-year ad-
journment drive, they asserted, will
make it almost impossible to take
them up in the current session.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

Despite the rain and wind, however,
the fragile blossoms have not been
injured materially and tomorrow
display is expected to be perhaps the
finest in history. with hundreds Of
new trees in bloom
Workmen of the National Capital
Parks today were cleaning out the
small Rejecting Pool near the Lincoln
Memorial and affixing nozzles to the
spraying system. 1t was planned to
turn on the rainbow fountain at the
pool tomorrow for the benefit of the
thousands OF visitors expected here.
Both blossoms and park will be in
the pink OF condition for the week
end visitors, it was announced by C.
tSee BLOSSOMS, Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Cherry Blossoms at Height;
Fair Weather Due Tomorrow
Display Expected to Be Finest in History
as Thousands of Visitors Thr0ng
Tidal Basin.

With the. japanese cherry blossoms
at the height of their beauty and a
forecast of fair weather tonight and
tomorrow, thousands of Washing
tonians and visitors from many States
today began the annual trek to the
Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park.
expected to reach its climax tomorrow
Some of the petals were falling this
morning as stiff breeze ruff1ed the
waters of the Tidal Basin and plucked
at the blossoms. The winds fresh
from the northwest, were expected to
die down late tonight, however. giving
place to fair. calm weather tomorrow
Not much change in temperature was
expected, with minimum of about
~ degrees tonight.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
BY the Associated Press.


COLUMBUS, Ohio, March ga
convict who admittedly never had the
courage to live decently" left behind
today q 650-word indictment of So
ciety and the penal system which sent
him to the electric chair.
Everett Jones of Springfield, Ohio,
amazed a score OF witnesses in Ohio,
Penitentiary's deathhouse last night
when~1n a subdued but firm voice, he
read for five minutes from prepared
statement.
Then he calmly received the su-
preme penalty in the electric chair for
shooting to death Robert Lindsey,
poolroom proprietor, in = hold-up last
July 4.
"Ohio, I am product of your pris-
'ons," read Jones, who spent 10 of his
80 years in penal and correctional in
stitutions.
who can blame me?" he asked.
'The very fact that I hated these
things shows I was fundamentally de-
cent. The robberies committed out
Evening star., 1938-03-26
16 Lost in Gale.

TROMSOE, Norway, March 26 (P.
Sixteen persons were known to be
dead and many others were missing
today after gale off Northern Nor
way sank several fishing boats.
"A Norwegian government fishery pro-
lection vessel today rescued 81 men
from the sealing ship Isfjell, which
had drifted in pack ice for five days.
The Isfjell lost her propeller Monday
in q hurricane.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
BY the Associated Press,

oJ tLc hsSoCldteQ TEcSS.
MEXICO CITY, March 26.-The
Mexican government undertook today
to float domestic bond issue for l0O,-
600, 900 pesos ($22,222,222 at the pres
ent rate of exchange Of $50 pesos to
the dollar) to help pay for expro-
priated foreign oil properties.
The decision to float the loan was
made after meeting Of "a State Gov
ernors with President Lazaro Cardenas
and Minister of Finance Eduardo
aSuareZ.
The Governors pledged per cent
of their yearly budgets to assist the
Federal government with its petroleum
Indebtedness, but the domestic loan
was approved as the best means of
paying for the oil properties, valued
at s450,0OO, 900.
The bonds will be issued sometime
next week and will pay no interest
for the next 10 years. At the end
of that period q moderate interest
will be fixed on the bonds, the govern
ment announced.
AAAC 3"CAASdA 6OSCA AAlCAlO dlSU tIlC
to improve its financial position by
billing two of the companies whose
properties were appropriated for ST.
900 900 in back taxes.
1t was claimed the Aguila (Royal
Dutch She'll and Huasteca-two of
the largest foreign oil companies op-
Grating in Mexico before the expro-
priation-owed this amount in taxes.
Aguila was charged with failing to
pay $1,400,000 absentee" taxes on
funds sent out of the country in 1884
and 1885, and Huasteca was billed for
100000 allegedly due in absentee"
and income taxes.
The companies declared the gov
ernment's move was an effort to re-
duce indemnification for properties
seized.
Meanwhile, Vicente Cortes Herrera,
administrator of the appropriated oil
industry, said he had not yet received
Japanese offer to purchase Mexican
oil.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Accord Reached.

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 26 (P.-
Lithuanian and Polish delegates meet
ing at Augustow, Poland, have reached
an agreement on postal, highway and
aerial communications, Railway COM
munications were being discussed to-
day.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Tackle Fells Robbery Suspect.

BALTIMORE, March 26 (P.-Stan-
ley Trott, %, was held for the grand
jury today under $4,000 bail on q
charge of robbing the James Lacey
plant of $500 in pay roll envelopes
Trott was captured by Albert H. Ref
schneider, plant superintendent, who
brought him down with flying tackle.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Rites for Bishop Cook.

WILMINGTON, Del, March 26 (R.
Funeral services for the Right Rev.
Phillip Cook, bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, will be
held here in the Cathedral of st. John
Monday at 2 pm. Burial will be In st.
Anne's Cemetery, Middlctown, Del.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Italy's Conquest Recognized.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 26 (P.-
The Bulgarian government today ex-
tended de facto recognition of Italy's
conquest Of Ethiopia when King
Boris III accepted new Italian Min
lister with credentials from the King
of Italy and Emperor Of Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
HIGHWAY DEATHS DROP
Traffic Fatalities in Virginia
Decline by 1.5 Per Cent.

RICHMOND, Va, March 26 (P).-
Virginia's highway deaths dropped
from 796 in 1886 to 1856 in 1887, repre-
senting is per cent decrease, while
traffic fatalities in the United States
increased per cent.
D. M. Baldwin, State safety engineer
for the Division of Motor Vehicles, said
the Virginia decrease was better than
the percentage indicated in view OF
the substantial gains in motor vehicle
registrations and gasoline consumption
last year."
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Van Dyke Seriously Ill.

BALTIMORE, March rs R.-Johns
Hopkins Hospital said today Warren
Van Dyke, Pennsylvania secretary Of
highways, was still seriously Ill. of a
heart condition.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
French Cut Arms Supply,

HONG KONG, March rs R).-
French 1ndo-China authorities are
refusing to permit movement of war
materials to China over the railway
into Yunnan Province.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Summary Of Today's Star

Medical Society welcomes" probe of
G. H. A. controversy. Page A-l8
Projecting windows hit by Fine Arts
Commission. Pare Ais
Laundry wage session Tuesday to seek
decisions. Page A-18
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Sandbax Unexplained.

He said he stopped the car, and went
back to try to help the injured woman,
but became frightened and drove back
to the fire station, where he was sup
posed to be on duty.
The woman was found unconscious
by a milkman about an hour later.
Beside her lay two blood-stained stones
and a sandbag improvised from a
mans sock, which had broken in two
pieces. .- ..
Lands was said to have told police
he made the sandbag as protection"
against hold-up men. He could not
explain its presence on the street.
Samples Of the sand in the bag match
the type of sand found in a box at
the fire station, police say. Other COM
parsons are being made between Mrs.
Lands blood and that on the stones
and sandbag,
Evening star., 1938-03-26
SENATORS STUDY
WAY TO 'UNFREEZE.
HOLDING CAPITAL
Easing Taxes on Personal
Firms Might Turn Cash
to Stockholders.
SHIFTING OF LEVIES
POSSIBLE, GEORGE SAYS
Gift and Estate Assessments Are
Removed From House Bill
by Committee.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Business has been uirtually undn-
imous for past tUo years in its con-
demnation of administration theory
of taring undistributed corporate
profits and treating all capital gains
as ordinary income. In response,
House this t0inter approved modi-
fcations of both, but retained prin-
ctple in each case. Senate Finance
Committee has Doted out undis-
tributed profits leuy and further
modified capital gains treatment.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
MEXICO PLANNING
T0FL0AT OIL LOAN
$22,222,222 Would Be
Sought to Help in Paying
for Seized Properties.
BACKGROUND

Merico i0eek ago seized ii Amer
tcan and British-ow oil
companies as elimination OF long
labor icar in ,chich $1,000 Merican
icorkers sought pay boosts and i'm
proved conditions. Merico, facing
problem of marketing oil output
abroad, is expected to receiue offer
from japanese to purchase 500, 900
barrels yearly.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

FOREIGN.
Japan takes long step toward dicta-
torial rule. Page Al
Chinese turning tide of warfare against
Japanese. Page Al
French workers march to back strike
demands. Page Al
Mexico planning to float loan to pay
for oil firms. Page Al
Burning of 200 Chinese towns charged
to Japanese. Page A-4
Japan assures U. S. Alaskan salmon
fishing will end. Page Al
Rearming studied over week end by
Chamberlain. Page Al
Catholics in Austria ordered to sup
port Hitler. Page AT
Reorganization bill foes concede pas
sage by Senate. Page Al
Hull plan to aid political refugees
greeted in Europe Page A-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Crowds throng Tidal Basin to see
cherry blossoms. Page Al
Mrs. Blanche Lands dies of injuries
received in beating. Page Al
Girl, 7, disappears mysteriously at
Elkton, Va. Page Al
Evening star., 1938-03-26

The Senate Finance Committee
today rejected the amendment Of
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania to
allow increased deductions for
charitable institutions in individual
and corporate income tax returns.
The proposal was designed to raise
the allowable charitable deduction
by individuals from IS to 20 per
cent of net income and by corpora
tions from 5 to 10 per cent.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
WEATHER,

VT u WrHV1e3 bUIcdU EUEecdSLJ
Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much
change in temperature; lowest tonight
about ~ degrees. Temperatures today
Highest, SO, at / PM: lowest, 43, at 1
am.
Full report on page AZ. -.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

tSee BLOSSOMS, Page A-7.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-20

rose from the floor twice ana
fought the negro knockout artist
to a stand-still He not only lasted
the full Is rounds, but ne man
gled Henry's lower lip so badly
that 10 stitches were required
Armstrong was so sick and grog,
gy at the end that he staggered
to the wrong corner.
Armstrong took the title on a
split decision. The decision was
Just. But the crowd thought other
wise. One of the greatest demon
STATIONS in Garden history was
staged when the decision was an
nounced. The fans shook the cir
ders with their booing, stamping
and cat-calls. They rained straw
hats, torn papers and cigar butts
into the ring.
Ambers lost the title, but the
upside down kid became a public
idol for the first time. No longer
was he regarded as the weakest
champion ever to wear the light
weight crown-no longer a dane:
ing powder-puff palooka. In one
brief hour he became a great box
office attraction. Now, without
the title, he aid WE'LL will cash
in on popularity and probably re-
gain the crown before the outdoor
season,