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Evening star., 1938-02-06

issue immigration Visas to aliens for per-
manent residence who have no near rela-
tives here should be enacted We have
enough unemployed and dependents and re-
lief seekers already. Our first sympathy
and consideration should be for our own
100000 unemployed and millions on
relief. Ohio is right in eliminating aliens
from relief rolls. Each country should
care for its own Our own citizens, whether
native or foreign born, should be given
preference in employment and relief. Every
other country of consequence does it.
The Department of Labor officials are
opposed to the needed Reynolds -Starnes
bill. Its officials have not only opposed such
needed legislation, but have been urging
legislation that would break down existing
inadequate immigration restrictions bv au-
thorizlng the changing of temporary non
quota and non-mmgrant admissions of
visitors, students and the like into Quota
admissions for permanent residence, and
that would even repeal existing deportation
statutes 1 quote the exact words of the
ker1-CoOlldge bill, now pending: ANY
alien hereafter convicted of a
crime involving moral turpitude"! All
canons of criminal law construction war
rant the opinion that the enactment of
such wording would repeal existing law
Geporting previously convicted aliens.
The Department of State points out that
from October l. 1880, to June 80. 1887,
approximately one and one-quarter million
aliens who might have been admitted - .
did not enter the United States to add
to the ranks of the unemployed Ger
tainly such administrative discretion ought
to be put on more substantive basis of
law as urged by President Hoover in
1880 and 1881 in his annual messages. 1t
certainly would have become law long since
but for the strenuous opposition of Labor
Department officials who clearly want the
law weakened instead of strengthened. as
shown by their opposition to meritorious
bills, by their staying" the deportatons
OF perJurors forgers, dope peddlers. prosti-
tutes and killers and by their support
of discretionary legislation to nullifv the
law. PH JAMES
Evening star., 1938-02-06
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

w YE HAVE with us the STRINGS of
\N/ the coming political year-the
cQnteSfs in 1Ihicln third af he
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possible hour of annual leave in order to
have longer vacation back home.
Owing to the fact that Government work.
ers would be rested up we'll over the week
end, an eight-hour drag on Monday would
not result in any decrease in efficiency.
Therefore, 1t is my opinion that it would
be to the convenience and advantage of
every one in the Government service if one
hour of WORK. could be added to Monday
and one hour of work taken from Sat-
urday. 1t would not decrease the efficiency
Of the Government employees, and it would
result in considerable convenience to every
one concerned. Let's all do what We can
to bring about this change.
ALLEN w, WEIGH.
Evening star., 1938-02-06

PLStttI Z.
corsets and use perfume" defeated him for
reelection AS matter of fact. it was
not a whispering campaign at all. The
charge was made openly Davy Crockett
included it in his humorous biography of
Van Buren. Nobody took any stock in it.
however. The best illustration of this is
that practically no mention is made of it
IN letters Of the time. And in the news
papers, where anything went, it was ig-
nOred.
True, some attention was given to the
accusation made by Representative Charles
Og!e of Pennsylvania on the floor of the
House to the effect that Van Buren, ate
from gold spoons and had English servants.
The accusation was untrue, but the pro and
con of it was discussed for a while but by
the time the log cabin, hard cider hit the
country, it had been forgotten. The new
slogan blotted out every other issue. In
fact. as the weeks passed into months, the
emotional orgy for Harrison mounted to
such fever heat that the powerful Demo-
cratic organization which Jackson and Van
Buren, had built up buckled and broke, and
Van Buren went down to defeat
submit, Mr.. Editor, that Mr. Hix is old
enough now for sonnet body to take him aside
and provide him with few elemental facts
about American history
HUGH RUSSELL FRASER,
President, the Andrew jackson
Society of Tennessee,
Evening star., 1938-02-06
A Plea for Change
In immigration Laws.
To the Editnr of The Star.


WITH reference to the splendid letter in
your column on the oath, of j. D.
Mason, calling attention to the marked
brevty of immigration information and
statistics in the annual reports of Secretary
Perkins, in striking contrast with those of
her predecessors may call attention to the
press release of the Department of State
on January 7, entitled Immigration Visa
Statistics" showing that last year. $3.50
immigration visas were granted to new
immigrants, only "31 per cent" of which
were members of the immediate families
of relatives who are American citizens and
aliens lawfully resident in the United
States The other 81 per cent We're there
fore new seed immigrants having no near
relatives here and inevitably We're job hunt
ers or relief seekers
Existing law should be changed. Some
such bill as the new Reynolds ds-Starnes bill
which would merely direct consuls not to
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Correcting Mr.. Hix
Produces an Interesting Letter.

To the Editor of The Star:
Is dlfhcult to write with restraint on
subject with which one is familiar and
concerning which gross misrepresentation
has been made, but John Hix in his usually
reliable Strange AS 1t Seems" feature
steps so far out of the bounds Of truth when
he says that "a whispering campaign which
rumored that President Martin Van Buren,
wore corsets and used perfume defeated
his reelection in 184O" that 1 ask space
to refute is as absolutely and unqualifedly
untrue.
Martin Van Buren was defeated for re-
election as President of the United States
because of popular slogan, "Tippecanoe
and Tyler, Too" and the dramatization of
the Whig candidate, William Henry Har-
rlson, as symbol of the log cabin, hard
CIDER" pioneer.
In fact despite the depression of 1887
which hit the country a month after Van
Buren, took office and which was followed
by another recession in 1889, the Demo-
cratic party was so we'll organized and
so strong that it was generally conceded
Harrison had not much chance until the
editor of a Baltimore Democratic news
paper made the blunder of writing this
sneer: If Gen. Harrison was given
pension of $4,000, he would be content to
spend the rest of his days in a log cabin,
drinking hard cider"
From that moment on Van Buren, was
doomed man. The Wings took up the
sneer and changed it to mighty tribute.
Almost overnight William Henry Harrison
became the log cabin, hard cider candi-
date" That story is we'll known Monster
parades were formed, featuring log cabins
and cider barrels. Harrison's military ex-
ploits were hailed, and suddenly the coun-
try got picture of man of the type of
Old Hickory. AS matter of fact of course.
Harrison did not live in a log cabin and
as Hamilton County, Ohio, Circuit Court
clerk he received in salary and fees about
$4,000 year. Yet the slogan caught like
Wlldflre. Soon an emotional frenzy seemed
to take possession Of the people Webster,
speaking for Harrison on Long Island, got
so excited Cor intoxicated) that he apollo
elzed for not having been born in a log
cabin and threatened to fight any man
Who dared to assert that he (Webster) was
not log Goblin, hard cider enthusiast
Parades were interrupted by drunken
marchers, reeling from the effects of some
tnlng stronger than hard cider
Yet Cartoonist John Hix announces
soiemnly the following nonsense: "Whig
supporters of William Henry Harrison
started the old American custom of voting
against candidate instead of for one, and
adopted the campaign song, ivan, Van is
a Used Up Man"
Now the song referred to happens to have
been minor ore in the campaign, most
OF the songs used celebrating the endless
Joys of the log cabin, hard cider life. And
as for voting against Van Buren, the people
were actually voting for Harrison. John
Hix might have had sensational cartoon
and still kept within the bounds of his
torical accuracy if he had said: "A para
graph written by Democratic editor in an
obscure Baltimore Democratic newspaper
defeated President Martin Van Buren for
reelection"
But, according to Mr.. Hix, "a whispering
campaign that Van Buren actually wore
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Asks for Longer
Saturday Afternoon.

SATURDAY Afternoon.
To the Editor of The Star:
THERE is one slight change in the dis
tribution of the working hours of
Government employees that would like to
see brought about. 1t would not affect the
efficiency of the Government service one
iota,, yet it would most certainly be advan-
tageous to the thousands of Government
workers, especially during the summer
months. The adjustment which I would
like to see brought about would be the
reduction of the number of working hours
on Saturday from four to three and the
increase in the number of working hours
on Monday from seven to eight.
OF course, some occasionally take an
hour or two annual leave on Saturdays,
but there are many, and am one Of
those: who have friends and kinfolk at
distance and therefore like to save every
Evening star., 1938-02-06

TINE American farmer must raise his
family on an income of about
Evening star., 1938-02-06
Accuses the President
of "Mushy" Thinking.

To the Editor of The Star:
MUCH nonsense has been uttered accus-
ing Roosevelt of desiring to make
himself dictator of this country. 1t is
amazing to what extremes hate can drive
reason. Had Roosevelt had any such am
bition, he could have easily achieved it
when he first entered office. This is known
to every one.
To those not blinded by personal bias,
Roosevelt presents simple, if not an edfy-
ing, picture. He belongs to that mushv-
thinking group of social welfare advocates
who like to go Summing Their SNUG
complacency receives a thrill from viewing
the by-products Of our economic system
in their novels and squalor The French
have a name for such people. Having de-
livered basket of groceries and house.
full of sunshine, they can return home Well
pleased with themselves. However we'll
meaning such people may be, their activi-
ties do little but muddy the water and OBJ
struct needed corrections of maladjust-
ments in our economic set-up. For such a
person to reach the White House is an un-
paralleed calamity for the country. Be-
sides the squandering of billions of dollars.
little can be expected. R. c. CARROLL.
Evening star., 1938-02-06

II those l8, or practically all of them,
win denomination in the coming primaries
and especially if they win easily-that
will mean that control of the Democratic
party is to remain with Mr.. Roosevelt and
the New Dealers
Evening star., 1938-08-29
MAFEE EXECUTION
IS STAYED FOR PLEA
Janitor Convicted of Murder of
Mrs. Anderson Wins Second
Delay, to November 4.

William McAffee, colored janitor
convicted Of the first-degree murder of
Mrs. Henrietta B. Anderson. SO, to-
day won second stay OF execution.
He was to have gone to the electric
chair September 9. Justice F. Dickin.
son Let's, in District Court. put the
date OF to November 4. Previously.
it had been postponed from July to
September 9.
The postponement was granted In
view of the appeal taken by McAnee's
attorneys to the United States Court
of Appeals, which still has the case
under Amusement.
The murder occurred in Mrs. Ander.
sons apartment, at 1888 L street NV,
where the woman was beaten to death
with furnace shaker. McAffee. also
known as Major, was janitor of the
building
McAffee's counsel, Robert I. Miller
and Joseph A. McMenamin, appealed
the District Court verdict on the
ground that the judge failed to inform
the jury that 1t might return a verdict
OF not guilty; that the court took the
case out OF the jury's hands; that the
prisoner was subjected to mental
cruelty by the police and that his con-
fession was taken from him in
voluntarily.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
FUNERAL TOMORROW
FOR GEN. BEARSS
Retired Marine officer Was Killed
in an Automobile Accident
in Indiana.

Brig Gen Hiram I. Bearss, U. S. NJ.
C., retired, who was killed Saturday in
IN automobile accident in Indiana, will
be buried probably tomorrow at Peru,
Ind, his home, the Navy Department
was informed today.
Gen. Bearss, a native of Indiana, had
one of the most distinguished military
careers in fighting service. and held
the highest military honors awarded
by the United States and European
governments for distinguished service
in three wars. During the World War
he commanded the 102d Infantry,
SD Brigade. of the 26th Division
IN France and was decorated by the
United States. France and Italy for
his personal leadership in an attack
during which he was cut off with his
staff and fought his way out with pistol
and grenades.
His capture of almost impregnable
enemy positions in a cave-lined cliff
over a river in the Philippine Islands,
January 10, 1902, is regarded as one
OF the military highlights of that cam
palgn. He and his men made their at
tack on position which the natives
had spent three years fortifying, in
the face of tons of falling rock dropped
by the natives from prepared platforms
from over approaches lined with poison
spears. concealed pits and other OBJ
stacles under heavy fire.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
POLITICAL THREATS
ARE DEFIED BY FISH
Republicans in Dutchess County
Have No Fears, He
Declares,
By the Associated Press.

by Inc Associated fIeSS.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Aug. 29.-
Representative Hamilton Fish, Re-
publican. of New York said yester-
day that Republicans Of Dutchess
County, President Roosevelt's home
district, "have no fear Of political
threats, reprisals or coercion"
Liberalism, backed by coercion and
compulsion, is orthodox Nazi doc
trlne," Mr.. Fish declared in an ad-
dress at Dutchess County Republi-
can meeting near here.
Il do not believe that the flame OF
liberty has burned so low that the
American people have lost faith in
our free institutions and prefer some
un-American type of dictatorship and
the election of rubber stamp members
of Congress"
Asserting that he was speaking in
the shadow of the headquarters
of the New Deal purge of constitution
al Democrats" Fish said the slogan
of the radical New Dealers
against all who oppose the collectivism
and class hatred of the New Deal is
off with their political heads"
Evening star., 1938-08-29

The disturbance that was over Western
Ontario Sunday morning is advancing
northeastward being central over North.
inches. with trough extending southeast
ward to the Saint Lawrence Valley and
thence northumberland to Mort hern
Lake Huron. Sault Sainte Marie. Mich.
;ius0 inches. Pressure is relatively low
off the South Atlantic Coast Hatteras.
n. C.. and Jacksonville, Fla. 800? inches.
Pressure is also relatively low over South
eastern Kansas Wichita. 1896 inches.
Another low-preSsure area of slight IN
tenSity is moving eastward over Southern
Saskatchewan. Swift Current. ~ "a inches.
Pressure is high on the Nova Scotia coast.
Halifax. 1920 inches. with wedge ex-
tending southwestwsrd to West Virginia.
Parkersburg 3O.IU inches. Another high
pressure area is moving eastward over
Western Ontario. Sioux Lookout. 30 22
inches. During the last - hours showers
have occurred in the Lower Ohio the
Middle Mississippi and Lower Missouri
Valleys the Southern Appalachian region.
in portions of the East Gulf and Southern
Plains States and al widely scattered points
in the Rocky Mountain region and South
ern Plateau. Temperatures have fallen
in the Northern Plains States and the
Northern Upper Lake region and have
risen in Eastern Montana.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
STORM DELAYS COBB
IN SPEED MARK TRY
Pools of Water on Salt Course
Puts Off Assault on 345 M.P.H.
Record to Tomorrow.

By the Associated Press.
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah.
Aug. ga rainstorm today postponed
John Cobbs attempt to break the
world land speed record of 345.49 miles
per hour set Saturday by Capt. George
E. T. Eyston.
The storm left large pools of water
on the race course.
Reid Railton, designer of the car
which Mr.. Cobb has described as the
fastest in existence, said if the weather
cleared it might be possible to run to-
morrow.
1t was before Capt Eyston made his
record breaking run. when the mark
was only 3l1 AZ miles per hour, that the
37year-old Mr. Cobb made the predic-
tion for his car. II he takes over the
record Capt. Eyston stands ready to try
to win it back.
Mr.. Cobbs car, the Railton, is OF
radical design. Powered by two 1880
horsepower broad-arrow type, super
charged Napier Lion engines, it has
beed described as everything from a
teardrop to a button. Formerly en-
tirely silver, its sides were painted
black to facilitate the electric eye
timing device used by the American
Automobile Association.
The Railton, entirely streamlined
weighs 1000 pounds, only half tha,
of the Thunderbolt 1t is four
wheeled. as compared with the Thun-
derbolt's eight.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
NE|CHB0RL|NKED
IN SHOOTING CASE
Man Says He May Have
Slain Farmer While Trying
to Train Dog.

A neighbor of Milton Miles, 20, who
was found shot to death last night
in a turnip patch on his farm near
Fairland, Md, suggested to Mont
gomery County police today that he
may have hit Mr.. Miles accidentally
yesterday afternoon while trying to
cure dog of gun-shyness by firing
over its head.
Paul Stromberg. 80, who voluntarily
offered his story to Investigators, said
he was using a 22-caliber rifle for mis-
dog-training. Police released Mr.
Stromberg, but sent his gun, which he
took to headquarters, to the Depart
ment of Justice for a ballistics exam
ination, which probably will be CON-
pleted this afternoon. The fatal bullet
also was sent to the department
Mr.. Stromberg lives about 300 yards
from the spot where Mr.. Miles was
fatally wounded as. apparently, he was
picking turnip greens. A bullet had
pierced the farmers right side directly
under the arm and gone through his
lungs, lodging beneath his heart The
Stromberg home is on hill near the
old Silver Spring-Laurel highway. The
turnip patch where Mr. Miles was
found is on another hill directly across
valley from the Stromberg residence.
Sergt. Leroy Snyder of the Mont
gomery County police, who is in
vestigating the case with Officer
rho ri no l,a
bullet is found to have been fired from
Mr.. Stromberg's rife, the latter prob
ably would be booked on a technical
charge of manSlaughter.
Neighbors recalled a similar shoot
ing which occurred less than 10
years ago, about a mile from the
scene of yesterdays tragedy. At that
time. Herbert Wright, owner of a
general store in Fairland, stepped
around the corner Of his store and
was shot through the head by friend
who was firing at targets.
Mr. Miles body was found by
Russell and Herbert Dustin, brothers,
who had gone to the farm to visit the
farmer and went into the field to
search for him.
We saw him lying on the ground
Herbert Dustin said today, and
thought he was asleep. called to him
before I went over and saw blood run
ming from his mouth. He was lying
doubled up on the ground. and when
We turned him over, we saw he was
dead"
The visitors notified the victim s
mother, Mrs. Remus Miles with whom
he lived on the farm Mr.. Miles was
rushed to the Montgomery County
General Hospital at Sandy Spring by
the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment, but was pronounced dead on
arrival
His uncle, w. T. Miles. who lives
short distance from Milton's home.
said the victim was quiet sort of
boy" and ito my knowledge he didn't
have an enemy in the whole world"
Evening star., 1938-08-29
JOHN ROOSEVELT
BEGINS $18 JOB
Presidents Youngest Son Begins
Career as Stock Clerk in
Boston Department Store.
" tn. Associated Press,

&9S Gls ASSoCldted freSS.
BOSTON, Aug. 29.-His two months
honeymoon at an end, John A. Roose-
welt. youngest son of the President,
settled down today to business career
with job as a stock clerk-at sl8
. week-in Boston (Filene's) depart
ment store
A tall young man with a familiar
smile. John had orders to report for
work-through the employees entrance
where he was to punch time clock
not latter than $40 am.
However, John reported about an
hour earlier He paused briefly at the
door as news cameras snapped, but
good-naturedly declined to pose.
No foolishnesS this time" he said,
this Is serious business"
And for a half hour after sales
clerks have left for the day. John
will continue to push a merchandise
truck through the long aisles of the
store, replenishing stocks for the next
days business.
In September he will be initiated
into night work-when the store starts
Its winter program of advertising
classes two evenings a week. John
has said he wanted to make adver-
tising his life work.
When he announced his choice of
a career, he said he didn't want to
take advantage of his fathers position.
That was why, he said, he turned
down the offer OF a job with an ad-
yertlsing agency.
He told his new employers he wanted
no favors or special privileges. The
management assured him he would
get none.
His one-hour lunch period won't
permit him time to go home for lunch,
but at night he will join his bride, the
former Anne Lindsay Clark, in a
Brookline apartment in a building
where rents average 500 a month.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
SEvERSKY SEEKS
j. s. AIR RECORD
Reaches Kansas City in d
Hours IS Minutes on Hop
to Los Angeles.
Ry the Associated Press.

3S tilc EAnSoSiotco 'toS'
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 29.-Maj. Al
exander P. De Seversky, airplane
manufacturer. landed at Kansas City
in his low-wing plane at 1852 am.
Eastern standard time. today,
hours and Is minutes after he left
Floyd Bennett Field, New York, on
an east-west speed flight. He con-
tinued his flight at ll:22 am.
lE. S. t..
He covered the approximately 1,150
miles at more than $50 miles per
hour and expressed confidence he
would set new East-West record of
9l2 hours. The present record of IL
hours 80 minutes Is held by Roscoe
Turner.
II am quite sure I can set a new
record because I am told l will have
way" said the bronzed flyer.
Il consider I made excellent time
up to here because 1 was fighting
head winds all the way"
He refueled with $50 gallons of
gasoline and said he planned to make
no other stops. His trip here was
made at an altitude of $4,000 feet.
The flyer lost 20 minutes more
than he had contemplated at the
Kansas City Municipal Airport. He
had planned to refuel in 10 minutes,
but his complicated series of tanks
required 30 minutes of work.
The silver-colored. low wing convoy
fighter plane carried 500 gallons of
gasoline.
Evening star., 1938-08-29
PROLONGED WAR
IN EAST FEARED
Hostilities Will Continue Unless
U. S. Stops Supplies to Japan,
Report Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Indefinite prolongation" Of hos
tilities in China was forecast by the
Foreign Policy Association Yesterday
unless the Western powers. particularly
the United States, stop furnishing war
supplies to Japan.
This conclusion was reached in a
review Of political and economic con-
ditions in Japan. 1t was prepared
Tor the association, a private research
organization, by T, A. Bison.
The writer said there was a sdb-
stratum of anti-War sentiment in
Japan. evidenced by "the mounting
toll of arrests" but added:
Nevertheless, such popular dis
illuslonment with the war as may exist
does not yet appear to have reached
threatening proportions
Mentioning economic disabilities as
the only other factor which might halt
"Japan's program of military con-
quest" Mr. Bison said there was no
prospect that this would be decisive
in the near future SO long as Japan
could get war supplies from the West
ern powers.
He observed that the chief sup
pliers were the great democratic
powers and gave these figures on the
sources of Japan's war material pur-
chases in 1887; United States. 544
per cent. British Empire IT'S and
the Netherlands Indies, IA,