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Evening star., 1938-06-09
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

by u. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Wage and Hour Bill Conference
Committee, faced with a threatened
fllibuster by large group of Southern
Senators. today considered rewriting
the compromise plan approved yes
terday.
That compromise would put q mini
mum wage of 40 cents an hour into
effect at the end of seven years, with
provision for exemptions in industries
which could demonstrate that such a
minimum would substantially curtail
employment opportunities therein.
New proposals were for further ex-
emptions, depending on economic con-
ditions affecting the industries, the
cost of living and living standards.
II the Southerners can have written
into the proposed law these additional
exemptions. 1t Is understood they viii
be satisfied. Indeed. the seven-year
time limit will mean little if these ex-
emptions are to run along indefinitely.
Hope for Agreement.
Senators Pepper of Florida and El-
lender OF LOUISIANA, the Southern Sen.
ators on the Conference Committee.
expressed hope satisfactory com.
promise would be reached. The con.
ferees are continuing work this after.
noon.
At meeting earlier today II Demo-
cratic Senators from the South had
put their foot down squarely against
any wage and hour bill that DEFINITELY
and without the possibility of excep-
lions fixes minimum wage OF 70
cents an hour.
These Senators formulated bro.
posal Of their own, providing for dir.
ferentials and exceptions, which they
later submitted to the Conference
Committee
IF they (the Conference Commit
tee) do not accept this proposal, there
Will be lot Of talking on the bill In
the Senate" commented Senator El-s
lender.
Iris was just mild way of saving
there will be filibuster against the
Dill II the Conference Committee per-
sists in bringing out measure which
makes no provision for differentials
and CLOSES" the upper end of the
2o-4o-cent minimum wage by statute.
Oppose 4o-Cent Minimum. .
The Southerners are not opposed to
25-cent minimum wage or to writing
that low level into the law. They are
not going to permit passage of q law
which fxes-at any time in the fu-
ture-a Accent minimum wage with
out any possibility of exceptions.
Senator Pepper, acting as spokes-
man for the group after its meeting in
the Senate ONCE Building this morn
ing, said he would propose to the con-
ferees that a minimum wage scale Of
70 cents an hour be made effective for
(see CONGRESS, Page A-s.1
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Brasil's ENJOY to Return Home;
Not Expected Back at U.S.. Post
PinienteI BrandaO Incllrs
Vargas Displeasure
by Work Here.
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The new Brazilian Ambassador to
the United States, Senior Mario de
Pimentel Brandao is leaving Saturday
for his native country after having
represented the Vargas government in
this country for only few weeks.
While the official explanation of his
departure is that he wants to avoid
the torrid Washington summer, in
ofhcial quarters it is believed that the
Ambassador will not return to his post.
having incurred the displeasure of his
government for the manner in which
he has handled Brazilian American
affairs.
The political relations between the
two countries remain excellent Both
President Getuno Vargas and his
minister of foreign affairs. Oswaldo
tSee BRAZIL, Page A-e.)
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Bombing of Cities,
Military Necessity,
Fascist Editor Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, June 9. - virginio
Gayda, authoritative Fascist edi-
tor, declared today that Spanish
insurgent. bombings of "so-calied
open cities" were "a necessity"
The recent raids on Barcelona,
fote Gayda in his newspaper,
Giornale d'Italia, destroyed, inn
fportant government aerial REIN
forcements. He went on:
New proof is offered the civil
lied world Of the necessity of
Spanish Nationalist (insurgent)
bombardments aimed at destroy
ing the wings Of war assembled
by the Reds (Spanish govern
ment) with foreign aid in so
called open cities" q
Evening star., 1938-06-09
Congress Will End
Session on Tuesday,
Barkley Believes

~ the Associated Press.
Senator Barkley Of Kentucky.
the Democratic leader, predicted
today Congress would adjourn
about Tuesday"
After talking with President
Roosevelt, Senator Barley re-
piled to question about adjourn
nnent prospects:
Not . chance this week. I
think We will quit about Tuesday,"
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B. & 0. Appeals.

BALTIMORE, June (P.-An ap-
peal from an assessment of $4,l31, ,245
levied by the State Tax Commission
against portion of the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroads rolling equipment in
Maryland was filed in Circuit Court
yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-06-09
PLANES HELPING, HUNT
BANDITS IN ARKANSAS
Three Guard Craft Join Posse in
Search After Gangmen
Avert Capture.

BY the Associated Press.
LEWISVILLE, Ark, June 9-Three
National Guard planes, equipped with
two-way radios, today Joined in q
hunt for q gang of outlaws believed
hiding IN the desolate Bodcaw Bot
toms. 20 miles south Of here along
the Louisiana border.
The bandits, credited with bank
robberies at Bradley. Ark. and Min
den. La, In the last two days, eluded
. posse OF so heavily-armed officers
last night, but were believed trapped
m . densely- wooded section.
Evening star., 1938-06-09


FOREIGN.
Brazil's envoy. to return home: not ex-
pected back. Page AL
Plot to threaten Nufield with surgery
In extortion barred. Page Al
Fresh bombings spur Britain to air
patrol plan. Page Al
Chinese evacuates cities, government
Is moved again. Page Al
NATIONAL.
southerners threaten filibuster against
wage-hour bill. Page Al
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY,
p. G. business reasonably satisfac-
tory" bankers told Page A-3
Judge Newman to increase penalties in
speeding cases. Page B-1
Millions voted to begin work on build
ings In District. Page B-1
FINANCIAL.
Bank clearings jump. Page Ais
Bond changes small ltable). Page Alt
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poets were arrested and released.
BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, June 9.-The body of
kidnapped James Bailey Cash, jr., was
found today and G-men announced
the recovery of the $4,000 ransom
end the arrest of suspect, but indi-
Gated the case still was not completely
solved.
I'VE have the kidnaper or one Of
the kidnapers," said J. Edgar Hoover.
director of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, in discussing the arrest
of Franklin Pierce Mccall, husky a.
year-old truck driver, who. he said,
admitted writing the three ransom
notes and collecting the money.
Mr.. Hoover declined to say whether
authorities were seeking possible con-
federates He. also turned aside ques-
tions as to whether any others were
In custody.
1.-The investigation will actively con-
tinue," Mr. Hoover announced, adding
that the F. B. 1. field Office in Prince
Mr.. Hoover said DR.. Thomas Otto,
who accompanied Federal agents when
they located the 5-year-old victims
body minutes after midnight this
morning less than a mile from his
home, believed he had been dead when
left there.
The ransom money was discovered
aboat 200 yards east.of the body.
No Evidence Of violence.
Climate and humidity caused rapid
decomposition" he said 4The body
was found face up. There was no
evidence of violent injury"
A coroner's jury impaneled by JUS
tice of the Peace s. L. Kendrick af
Homestead viewed the remains at an
undertaker's there, inspected the
thicket where it was found and called
at the home of Mr. Cash, senior. Then
1t adjourned until Saturday afternoon
without returning verdict.
Mccall, former tenant in the Cash
apartment house, was taken into Gus
tody week ago by Sheriff D. c. Cole
man. Tine sheriff said he attempted
to imphcate M. F. Braxton, unem-
ployed Princeton carpenter, by identi-
flying him as a man he said he saw
slip the third of the ransom notes un-
der Mr.. Cashs door two nights after
the abduction May %. Mr.. Braxton
and his relatives were held for ques-
tioning, but later released.
1t was understood that while most
Of the ransom money was recovered,
few of the 1900 bills of small de-
nomination were missing.
Despite the possibility that others
besides Mccall might be involved,
State Attorney George A. Worley went
before Circuit Judge Arthur Gomez
and had call issued for a special
grand jury to convene Monday morn
ing.
Sheriff Coleman said Mccall, with
out any show Of emotion, led Mr.
Hoover, himself. and a squad ot
agents to the dense thicket where
the dead boy had been left, without
an effort at burial. Little remained
but the skeleton and fragments of the
pajamas of the boy
When it was explained what condi-
tion the body was in the boys father
decided not to look at it. Friends of
the family said they planned an early,
private funeral
1t was Mccall who called Mr..
Cash's attention to the third ransom
note two nights after the abduction,
saying he found it on the floor of Mr..
Cash's apartment and that the kid
naper apparently had slipped it under
the door.
Sheriff Coleman, suspicious because
the note had been wadded into ball,
arrested Mccall June /. After ques-
(See KIDNAPINC pana 49,
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By the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, June 9.-War's fury to-
day was causing mass migration
from three great cities. adding in
Vulnerable thousands to an estimated
30,000,000 refugees already homeless
as result of Japan's gigantic sweep
across China.
Relentless bombings since May 28
at Canton had caused an estimated
100000 to fee to the coast and the
interior, packing all available convey
ances. Railway stations around Cam
ton were targets for Japanese bombs
today.
Thousands more were fleeing south
(Sea CHINA Dare & -.
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WAGE F|L|BUSTER
THREAT MAY NET
NEW AGREEMENT
Conference Group Weighs
Revision of AssaiIed
Compromise Plan.
REWRITING WOULD ADD
FURTHER EXEMPTIONS
Proposal Seen Appeasing Bloc of
Southerners-7-Year Limit
Would Mean Little.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Waoe-hour legislation has been
making difficult toay through Con-
gTess for better part OF one special
and ttoo regular sessions. Southern
opposition in House boomeran1ed
TO result in passage there this
spring of more extreme measure
than had been approved in Senate
last year. Differences hape been
largely compromised in conference,
although new obstacles to final en-
octment are feared w1len conterees
report to respectiue branches.
Evening star., 1938-06-09
BULLETIN.

Ambassador Joseph Grew, at
Toxic. asked the japanese govern
ment today to take urgent meas
ures to stop bombing of non-com-
batant property in China. The
State Department said Mr.. Grew
was instructed to apprise the Japa-
nese foreign Office of an attack Of
Japanese planes upon the Lingen
University campus yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-06-09
Summary, Of Today's Star

Oil supplies up slightly. Page Ais
Stocks edge up table,. Page Ais
Curb specialties gain (table), Page Ais
oncials study bond market, Page Ais
SPORTS.
Giants take two from Cubs and go
back into lead. Page C-1
Speculator seer Is sure Schmeling will
kayo Louis. Page ca
q. s. Open has Il strong contenders
Is play starts. Page C-3
Evening star., 1938-06-09
CHINESE FLEEING
THREE BIG CITIES
Government Also Is Moved
From Hankow as Japan's
Army Approaches.
BACKGROUND

oAC AChGhOUND-
Japan has carried aerial Ddr-
fare into South China to cut of
arms supplies going to Chinese
armies oDer Canton -Hdnkow Rail-
Ddy. Canton has been bombed
every day since May BR, ,1ith toll
soaring to more than 5000 killed
and toounded. japanese meanwhile
continue to press toward Cheng-
chou and HdnEotD, provisional seat
OF Nationalist government.
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(See SPAIN, Page A-I3.)
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Nearly All Ransom
Is Located Near
Kidnap Victim.
CRUMPLED NOTE
TIP TO SHERIFF
Arrests Truck Driver
a When Suspicious
Are Aroused.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Young James Bailey Cash, ir.,
,ods kidnapped from his bed on the
eUening OF May 2S. A $4,000 ran
som Das demanded, Which toas paid
{ hree days later by the father, toho
deposited it along lonely road tndi-
Gated By kidnaper. The boy ioas
not returned as promised and
Dide hunt ,oas begun, participated
in by F. B. I. agents, police and
thousands OF Florida citizens NTH
out apparent results. Several sus-
poets Dere arrested and released.
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WEATHER.

~. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast,
Cloudy tonight; probably showers to-
morrow; not much change in tempera-
ture; gentle winds, mostly southeast.
Temperatures today Highest. 50, at
pm; lowest, "a, at SIS am.
Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-06-09

(See CHINA, Page A-5.)
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(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-3.)
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(see CONGRESS, Page A-s.)
Evening star., 1938-03-27

TINE exhibition in the Pennsyl-
vania Museum of Art, Phila-
delphia, which celebrates the
Il bicentenary of Benjamin Vests
birth, is one of the most noteworthy
of the current year, if not many years.
The 60 paintings by West included
therein have been drawn from the COL
lections of IA museums, l8 private col
lectors and few dealers. Included in
the collection are some of his most
Evening star., 1938-03-27
ART INTEREST is SUSTAINED
Exhibits With Wide Throughout Country Well
as in Observation-Disclosures Work Calls Forth High
Prase-Glackens Skill Shown

medium Of colored pencil, crayons or
pastels. Many, If not the majority,
were made for Golfers, some were for
book illustrations, the origin Of few
is now unknown. But all speak for
themselves and in no uncertain man.
ner.
Subjectively, they are in many in
stances very amusing. That the artist
has a keen serse of humor no one see
ing these drawings can doubt Take
for example the old woman sliding
down chute in an amusement house.
Il went down that there slide faster
than the Empire express" or the pic
ture of the three circus performers on
an elephant in the sawdust ring, en-
titled We all Rugged and kissed each
other and cried" or again the illus
tration for "Martyrdom a la Mode"
which recalls the night the Senator
and went to hear one OF Graham's S
speeches" all of which are extraordi-
narily funny.
With equal skill the illustrator is
at times pathetic-even tragic. He
shows the seamy side OF life with
great vividness; he pictures the un-
lovely but without uncharitableness
or offense. Those he pictures are real
people, common people homely people,
but not such that one turns away with
disgust for the human race There is
no loathing or scorn on the part of
the artist. 1t is the tendency to
present the vulgar and disgusting as
types Of the common man" that mas
so harmfully pervaded present-day
painting to the distress of many and
the confusion of not a few. But this
tendency does not show itself here.
Its roots are Of shorter RroWtn---its
seed soWn in the days Of the de-
preston.
WE HAVE every reason for pride
In our American school of illus
tration, born before even the half
tone process was invented. and when
wood engraving was in vogue, reaching
its greatest height in the 1905 and
the first decade Of the present century.
With the invention Of new reproductive
processes and the changing tide of
life in the goth century, illustration
lost its hold and illustrators their
means Of livelihood. Magazines such
as the Century and Scribner's and
Harper's Monthly, which had done so
much to upbuild the arts of illustra-
ton and wood engraving, were forced,
for the sake of economy. to abandon
Illustration, and practically for
double decade illustrators were forced
to work for advertising firms or ac-
cept contracts from magazines which
bid for popularity. In recent years
there has been evidence of a return
to illustrated books and magazines
OF better quality The Limited Edi-
tion's Club has turned the tables by
giving several commissions for book
illustrations to artists who have not
heretofore been illustrators. The art
OF Illustration may yet return and
attain to new heights.
Meanwhile, the Department of Fine
Arts Of the Library OF Congress has
established a National Portfolio of
Evening star., 1938-03-27

Spring Show Offered by Japanese Cherry Becomes Attraction
OF Growing Power Its Beauty Gains Admirers Among
States and in Other Lands. y

always a fete day upon which Nature
sends out an invitation finding q nat
ural acceptance in the heart of man.
Another manifestation of the rev.
erential awe in which the beauty of
the trees Is held is the manner in
which vandal hands are stayed from
the destruction they are accustomed
to wreak upon natures loveliness. The
trees are protected by law, as are all
the ornaments In Uncle Sans spacious
gardens. They are, however, more
thoroughly protected by the sense OF
reverence in which they are held.
The natural law Of self-preservation
stops many q hand that might be
tempted to touch. one Of the blossoms.
Omcials report that the cherry trees,
although among the rarest, are among
the most easily safeguarded Of WASH
ington's natural beauties, 50 numerous
are their volunteer protectors.
II there exists favorite among
them by even the slightest margin it
probably Is the pink double blossom
Of the Fukurokuju tree. This tree, de-
irving its euphonious. joyously sym
bolical name from the japanese word
for Happiness. Is the last to bloom.
Its radiant loveliness supplements
that Of the two other species Just as
the latter passes its climax.
THE first Of the trees to bloom, and
In the most favorable setting, Is
the species known as shirayuki, pro-
nounced Just as it is spelled. The BIOS
som Of the shirayuk tree is white.
The happy location Of this species is
the rim Of the Tidal Basin, that ar
tificial, circular lagoon which stands
as tewel-like ornament In the center
of beautiful Potomac Park. Snow
tiake" is the English equivalent Of
''Shirayuki.
In contrast with the luscious loyeli-
ness Of the pink-blossomed Ftlkuro-
Evening star., 1938-03-27

The paintings done under the in
fuence and guidance of Knaths are
almost all in his genre. In some in
stances the painters have profited by
his advocacy of extreme simplifica-
ton and have developed compositions
in which structure Is reduced to a
skeleton-not a bad exercise, tending
to the increase of strength-but in
others there is seen straining for
abstraction which leads nowhere and
conveys no meaning. Abstraction, to
be worth anything at all. must have
a background of knowledge, not merely
of contemporary achievement, but the
tradition upon which it is built. A
successful work Of art is the product
of close partnership, composed on
the one hand of the artist who Gre
ates it, and on the other of the lay
man to whom it is exhibited. Between
these two there must be some real
medium of understanding or the work
might as we'll not exist. Non OBJ
iective art-the extreme of abstrac-
ton. is, however. the toy Of today
a thing to be played with, but by few
comprehended.
Aida Conover's works in varied
media which occupy the walls Of the
rear first floor gallery at Studio House
are ineligible, clever and quite out
Of the ordinary. Not only does she
command one, but several, modes of ex-
preston. An amusing experiment is
picture Of mushrooms done not in
pigment. but materials, real birch
bark, real leaves, pressed; a bit of
wax and a touch of color-and, sur
prising as it may seem. the effect
produced is by no means bad. But
this, too, was for amusement More
serious and better bespeaking the
skill and gift of the artist are water
color Of Georgetown, October Day,
very colorful and characteristic; three
humorous figure compositions in cray
on and ink of Reception at Art
Gallery" and one entirely imaginery
and satirical, in tempera, entitled
THE Explorers Club" in which the
audience attending lecture is al
most entirely made up of animals
from the wilds, very gentle and ex-
ceedingly interested in drawing
which is exhibited of a human skele-
ton. Deep Sea Diver" a lithograph,
and Summer Squall," wash draw
ing, also have much to commend
them.
1t cannot be said that any of these
works possess sheer beauty either in
subjects portrayed or in the manner OF
portrayal, but those by Miss Conover
are clever, outstanding, ineligible,
and have, what is more. CLINT of
merriment, which is something that
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kuju and the more delicate pink bloom
OF the Ariake-third of the species
there Is a stately serenity about the
white -blossoned tree that Is uni
versally appealing. Incidentally, the
word "Ariake" translates literally into
dawn"
The cosmopolitan character Of the
congregation that parades before this
altar of natural beauty Is most en-
phatically expressed on that middle
Sunday Of the two weeks period Of
their lives when the blossoms are at
their zenith.
On this day Washington's attractive
ness to tourists reaches its height every
year. In the parade of motor cars
around the circular driveways Of the
park can be counted license plates
from evey State in the Union as we'll
as from many foreign countries. The
bulk of them, to be sure, are from
States nearest to Washington, but hun
dreds Of cars from New England, the
far South and the Middle West are to
be noted in the parade. Huge buses
carry to the scene thousands of others
who have come by train, plane and
boat.
GO GREAT has the number of out
side cars become that the propor-
ton Of those which are contributed to
the parade by Washingtonians steadily
grows smaller The past two years
have seen sidewalks extended to the
farthermost reaches Of the blossoming
garden of trees, and many thousands
have concluded that this is the best
at times the quickest-way to see the
beauty Of the trees. Bride paths, too,
carry their heaviest equestrian trafnc
on this day, and many notable in the
Nations public and social life selects
the vantage point Of the saddle from
which to view the blossoms.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
By Mary Jane Moore.

lust to the south Of that spa
cious plot upon which mans
~ genius has reared an architec-
turally new Washington" old
Mother Nature is transcending his
achievement in the creation of beauty.
Quietly she goes about her task Of
renewing life in the most famous group
of ornamental trees in the Western
Hemisphere. These are the japanese
cherry blossom trees which border Po-
tomac Park, whose edges are skirted
by the sleepy river that gives 1t name
They are now bursting forth in a vast,
billowy cloud of pink and white buds
which constitute the crowning glory Of
Washington In springtime.
Unanected by the massive grandeur
of the new temples set geometrically
in the great green garden Of the
Mall, the cherry blossom scene Is
ready for the annual obeisance of hun
dreds Of thousands. To 1t, at the
height of its glory at Eastertide, will
come President and potentate, prince
and peasant-the great and small
whose ranks are augmented every year
as the fame OF the trees widens.
When the Anal count Is taken WASH
ington's annual Cherry Blossom Fes-
tival is expected to rival the inaugural
in the size of the multitude which it
attracts to the city OF all the recur-
ring fetes to which the Nation lends
its attention, this one stands unique
in its character Of spontaneity.
7 OVERS Of the japanese cherry
blossom trees have come to recog-
nize the unspoiled naturalness Of this
annual festival An effort to modify
it, to infuse the occasion with the
slightest implication of exploitation,
would meet with vigorous opposition.
It remains, therefore. always informal;