davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1938-07-04

row at leaSt
Il feel as though I'd already been
on this trip" Merton declared. "Sav.
this travel stuff sure makes good read
ing"
After dinner Mary produced an
armful of newspapers. From Phoenix
and Denver and Salt Lake and other
Western cities" she laughed 81
rather thought we'd be thinking of a
transcontinental trip this summer.
and knew you'd want to read about
the people and events in the places
we were going to so I sent for them. "
"Marvelous!" Merton cried, enthus-
iastically. Mary, you think of every
thing!"
He spent the evening poring over
the newspapers. Sunday morning he
was up early and reading some more.
Mary looked at him expectantly when
he came out to breakfast. Her pulse
quickened little
We'll, Mary, the fact is that. &C
cording to those newspapers, things
in Phoenix and Denver and Salt Lake
are pretty much the same as they are
In Boston, New York and Chicago.
I mean, about the same things happen,
and the same kind of people are there
Merton drank his orange juice. Con-
dltions are worse, if anything" He
stirred his coffee. And. you know,
after reading that travel stuff 1 ac-
tually feel as though I'd already taken
the trip We had planned"
Mary cracked open a soft-boiled
egg. 1t might be smart If we STAYED
here and rested this summer, saved
our money and took trip abroad next
year-where things are really diff
ferent"
Say" Merton stopped chewing his
toast. That's a good idea. Come to
think of it, isn't that what we planned
to do?"
Mary smiled. Darling. that's ex-
actly what We planned to do. There's
only one change I want to make in
our plans. When next summer comes
around. let's not read single soli-
tary travel folder or newspaper that
Will tell anything about where we
plan to 60"
Merton swallowed his toast and took
another bite. There was a doubtful,
and suspicious expression in his eyes
as he looked at his wife. But he
smiled and felt that all was, actually,
we'll.
tCopyright 1881
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WISE EASKSB SBR|TA|N
TO AID REFUGEES
Palestine Must Be Opened
to Emigres, He Tells
Zionist ParIey.
Hy IL e Associated Press.

DETROIT, July 4-Dr. Stephen S.
Wise Of New York told the 4lst an
nual convention of the Zionist Or
ganization of America yesterday that
the forthcoming International Refugee
Commission conference at Evian,
France, would be "a dismal failure"
unless Great Britain opens Palestine
to mass immigration by Jewish
refugees from Germany and Austria
The address marked the retirement
Of DR.. Wise as president OF the Or
ganization. Following his talk the
delegates adopted resolution urging
the establishment. of a special COM
mission by the international refugee
conference ito deal with the task Of
facilitating settlement of Jews in
Palestine" in view of "Palestine's
availability as a major center Of
Jewish migration"
The resolution praised the "hu-
manitarian concern" of President
Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull and declared the American
Government has again invoked its
glorious tradition of defense for the
defenseless and right for the victims
Of intolerant might" at a moment
when Large parts Of the world are
enveloped in darkness and when de-
mocracy is assailed by all forces that
seek to beat down the ideals of social
justice and equality"
DR.. Wise, who Is member of the
Refugee Advisory Committee, warned
the governments of Eastern and Gen.
trail Europe that they must not in
terpret the action of the intergovern-
mental conference as any encourage
ment Ito carry on their programs Of
Jewish appropriation and expulsion"
He referred briefly to Adolf Hitler,
commenting that the rebuilding Of
Palestine must be the answer to the
indictment of racial inferiority."
A successor to Dr. Wise will be
chosen before the convention closes.
Evening star., 1938-07-04
BY WILLIAM c. McCLOY.


From all indications, 1938's mid
term congressional elections will be
more bitterly contested than many
presidential elections have been in
years gone by.
These midterm elections, especially
in the middle of a Presidents sec
ond term, are Of crucial Importance.
In addition to determining the make
up Of the next Congress, they serve
as sort of straw vote, forecasting
with amazing accuracy the trend Of
the presidential struggle two years
later
In little less than five months the
United States will elect 435 Repre-
scfstatives to Congress and IS United
States Senators, constituting the en-
tire House and the usual one-third of
the whole Senate elected every two
years, plus, this year. the filling OF
three vacancies caused by resignation
and death
At the moment, both House and
Senate are overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic and, for the most part, in &C
cord with the administration. No
matter how many of the Senators
newly elected will be opposed to the
President politically. there will not
be enough to affect his control of
that body. But the election of the
435 members of the House is another
matter. The changes here are more
apt to be indicative of the real ttn-
per of the electorate. In the past
Presidents seemingly popular and Sc
cure have experienced severe jolts
Evening star., 1938-07-04
FOOTPRINT CLUE
FOUND IN Staying
Man Now Believed in Auto
as Hollywood Cameraman
Was Murdered.
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD. July 4.-Discovery
Of another mans foot print in the
car that carried King D. Gray to his
death confused today the police theory
that the movie cameraman was slain
by jealous woman
The imprint on the rubber floormat
was clear and was made about the time
Gray was shot last week as he sat in
his coupe in front of the Hollywood
post Office, reading a Dear Daddy
letter from Miss Frances Bleakley in
New Castle, Pa.
1T is still possible he was killed
by jealous rival" said 1t Miles Led
better. I'VE know he led a double life
with one woman and might have done
the same with Others"
Parafin tests of the victims hands
proved conclusively that he did not
take his life, police reported.
There remained the possibility he
had been waylaid by robber, though
partly-filled bottle of wine in the
car indicated to Investigators that
more likely ne was accompanied by
some one.
The 52-year-old camera expert, mar
rled and the father of two sons, had
been described by friends as a quiet,
non-drinking type.
A close associate, William Mobiles,
disclosed today that a previous at
tempt on Gray's life was made in
1888 when his car stalled on a Mojave
Desert highway.
Mobiles said Gray told him that he
was bent over the engine when he saw
the shadow of an upraised arm behind
him. He was knocked unconscious
without ever knowing what hit me-"
The cameraman never divulped
whom he suspected of the attack,
Mobiles said.
Evening star., 1938-07-04

when they received the midterm ver-
diets of the voters during their sec
ond terms.
1t is no coincidence that the first
President to receive such a setback
was the first President of the United
States. Washington was elected for
his second term by the largest vote
ever cast for any President-unan-
imously. Because Of this, Washing
ton tried to maintain a nonpartisan
administration. This he found i'm
possible and, just before he left Of
flee. he frankly said so.
The war between France and Eng
land had developed two factions in the
new Nation-one favorable to the Brit
ish and the other favorable to the
French. The crisis came when a
treaty-called the Jay treaty in Amer
ica and the Grenville treaty in Eng
land-came before the Senate for rati-
f1cation during the middle of Wash
ington's second term. The French
faction denounced it as nothing more
than an alliance between Great Britain
and the United States, the terms of
which were distinctly favorable to
Great Britain.
But Washington was determined to
keep out of the European wars and
ready to accept what he could get and
give the war-impoverished new Nation
chance to grow strong. His party
the Federal party-had safe major
ity in the Senate when the treaty first
appeared before the midterm elections,
and he forced it to a discussion in
executive session" After 10 days, the
Federalists compelled the adoption Of
the treaty by vote of 20 to 10 and
also decided to keep the treaty from
publication. But Senator Mason Of
Virginia, a member Of the Jeffersonian,
or Republican, party that was opposed
to the Federalist party Of Washington
and Jay, took his copy of the treaty
to Benjamin Franklin Bache, who
promptly published it in the Aurora
The wave of popular indignation
Evening star., 1938-07-04

that followed was tremendous-as the
Federalists had feared when they de-
cided to keep the treaty secret. The
pro-French faction was enraged. Even
the neutral Americans felt Jay should
have obtained better terms. Public
indignation centered on Jay only at
first. He was burned in efigy through
out the country. When Alexander
Hamilton tried to defend him at
public meeting. Hamilton was howled
down and stoned by mob.
After seven weeks of delay, Wash
ington signed the treaty. The rage of
the public then turned to him. The
man who had been unanimously elect
ed President for the second time was
deriSively called "the stepfather of his
country" Some extremists demanded
his Impeachment. When the congress
sional elections in the middle of WASH
ington's second term were concluded,
the FederalistS had smaller majority
in the Senate and had been reduced to
sentatives.
While, under the Constitution, only
the Senate was called upon to ratify
the treaty, the Republicans in the
House insisted that, before the treaty
could be carried out, money for Ger
tain expenses would have to be ap-
propriated. Therefore, the treaty
came up in the House and was
vehemently debated. The Republican
majority was determined to ditch"
it there.
Then occurred one of the strangest
events in parliamentary history.
Fisher Ames, chronic invalid, rose
In the House and spoke in defense Of
Jays treaty. DR.. Priestly, the dis
coVerer of oxygen, visiting English
man, described Ames' speech as the
most bewitching piece of parliament
tary oratory have ever listened to-
and Priestly had often heard Pitt, Fox
and Burke at their best in the House
Of Commons
Ames' speech appealed directly to
the Western members of Congress-
the rugged. homespun frontiersmen
who were beginning to appear in our
legislative body among the sophiSti-
Gated merchants of the North and the
suave planters of the South. Arnes
pointed out that, whatever Jay had
done or failed to do in drawing UP
this treaty, he had at least succeeded
in abolishing for all time the Western
forts held by the British during the
Revolution as rallying places for
Indian raiders and which still served
for forays against the settlers of the
! West. The suppression of these
Evening star., 1938-07-04
ACTS BRINGS PEACE,
NJ. R. B. HEAD SAYS
1,l73 Strikes Settled and 556
Averted by Boards Moves,
Madden Asserts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
j. Warren Madden, chairman of
the National Labor Relations Board
said in an article published yesterday
that the Wagner Act had proved an
instrument for industrial peace.
Some critics of the act have con-
tended it has caused strikes and labor
disputes rather than reducing them
the purpose Congress set forth in the
legislation.
Writing in The Democratic Digest
publication Of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, Chairman Madden
said lib strikes had been settled
and 556 threatened strikes averted
by board action.
Evening star., 1938-07-04

sporadic Indian outbreaks was more
important to these Westerners than
the politics Of lawyer-politicians in the
protected cities of the East and South.
They refused to muddle Washington's
plans by messing up the Jay treaty in
the House of Representatives.
But the new Congress was not too
grateful to Washington at the time.
He just escaped a vote Of lack of con-
fldence in him by the House by .
narrow margin, after-as he said him.
self-he had been attacked ''in terms
so exaggerated and indecent as could
only be applied to Nero. a notorious
defaulter or common pickpocket."
Topyright, 1888, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1938-07-04

Sne met Merton AZ tne door. he
kissed her and patted her cheek
Darling. you look lovely. What q
day! Did you ever feel better in your
life? And get this: Today I start my
annual two-week vacation. Made ar.
rangements with the boss this morn.
ing. Cram everything We own into q
bag, while 1 get the car into shape
We're off for fortnight of free
dom, with never care in the world!'
Mary smiled. Inwardly she sighed
For two years it had been like this
Last year and the year before Merton
had arranged with his boss for his
annual two weeks when the first rea
day of summer appeared on the
scene. Wanderlust to Merton was like
a drug. When he developed itchy fee,
he forgot everything else.
He forgot, for example, that three
years ago they had decided on a rea
vacation to be enjoyed four years
hence. They would let their annua,
fortnight accumulate until they hac
two months in the kitty. They would
lay aside each summer the money
they would have spent, until they had
enough to go abroad on good steamer
under the very best of conditions.
That was Mary's dream, a dream
that Merton agreed to whole hearted.
ly. He would cooperate to the very
best of his ability. The only trouble
was that when the second summer
came around Merton forgot all about
their plans and had to be reminded
And when the third summer came
along it was the same Wanderlust
was in Merton's blood. 1t was worse
than drug.
But Mary was bright. Today she
kissed Merton and smiled at him, and
her eyes Sparkled Marvellous" she
exclaimed. "Oh, Merton, you do think
of the most exciting things! Come in
the living room, and We'll lay out an
itinerary"
Merton was excited. He pored over
the maps that Mary produced from
the drawer beneath the bookcase
Fascinated. he read through the travel
literature and national park folders
Well go to Yellowstone!" he ex-
claimed. Two thousand miles. Why
that's an easy drive for two weeks, We
can have darn near a week in the
park and to visit interesting sight.
along the way"
L wish" said Mary. wistfully, that
We could 60 to the Grand CANYON.
We can" Merton cried, "And
Evening star., 1938-07-04

visit Phoenix and
Denver and Salt
Lake and ali those
big Western cities.
I've wanted to see
what they were
like"
you map us out
a route" Mary told
him, "and I'll get
things re a d ""
Merton got out
pehcil and paper
and checked and
r e c h e cked and
compared and re-
compared. BY the
time he had read
through all the
folders it was din
ner time.
I'VE couldn't get
started today If we
wanted to-" Mary
said. Wed better
wait till tomor-
Evening star., 1938-07-04
Epworth League Assemblies.

MASSANETTA SPRINGS. Va.
July Fp.-Approximately $50 young
people were arriving here today for
the oath Annual Epworth League As
sembly Of the Baltimore Methodist
Conference. The assembly, under the
direction of Herman S. Norman of
Roanoke as dean, will continue until
July II.
Evening star., 1938-07-04
DAILY SHORT STORY
ALL is WELL
IRON their liy

IRON their liv-
ing room win
dow Mary Waters
watched her hus-
band, Merton, COM
ing up the walk.
1t was Saturday,
the monday sun
was bright, the air
clear and sweet to
the nostrilS. Mer-
ton walked brisk
ly. At the gate he
stopped to whif
the first rosebud on
the vine that grew
there. A sm IL e
played about his
lips. He waved,
cheerily. to Henry
Black, a neighbor
Mary sighed. She
knew the signs.
She knew what to
expect. She was
roo J1y for ~
Evening star., 1938-07-04

the Battle Creek country and came
back with the hides of 10 bears and
one cub, representing a months work.
The company estimated the bears
killed 300 sheen
Evening star., 1938-07-04
Brings EN- Back Dead.

RAWLINS, Wyo LN.-Hired by a
live stock company to rid its range of
predatory bears Jim Holder went into
Evening star., 1938-07-04
Midtern Congress Contests
Of Unusual Bitterness Seen
Election of 435 House Members and IS
Senators in Nest Fiue Months Held
of Crucial Importance.

This is the first OF series OF
articles discussing the midterm
elections, expected to haze a Ditally
important bearing on the future Of
President RooseUelt's admintstra-
ton. The ,Driter, peteran polit-
ical correspondent, Will tell hou
and Why seDeral Presidents saU
their policies repudiated at the
polls in the congressional elections
during their second terms.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
TUPPER APPOINTED
CHIEF STATISTICIAN
Takes New Position in Bureau
Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce.

Ernest A. Tupper, graduate of
Georgetown University. and since 1884
chief of the Division Of Foreign Trade
Statistics in the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, has been ap-
pointed chief statistician for the
bureau, it was announced today by
Alexander V. Dye, director of the
bureau
Mr.. Tupper's duties will be techni-
cal and advisory, including examina-
5ons OF the statistical and research
activities of the bureau, with a view
toward maintaining co-ordinated pro-
eedure in monopoly studies to be un-
dertaken by the bureau at the request
OF the National Economic Committee.
Prior to his entrance into the de-
oartment, as assistant chief of the
Division Of Economic Research, Mr..
Tupper had been a research associate
IN the Department of Industrial Re-
search and member of the faculty of
the University of Pennsylvania. He is
native of Lowell, Mass.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
LACK OF POWER HELD
PLANE CRASH CAUSE
Emergency Declared Lacking in
Fatal Take-off at Billings
Field.

The lack Of emergency power when
the plane stalled at low altitude while
taking off caused the fatel crash on
the Northwest Airlines at Billings,
Mont. July 8. the Bureau Of Air Com
merce Investigating Board reported
yesterday.
The plane took off "in stalled con-
dition from which the pilot attempted
to recover by use of full emergency
power while within the boundaries of
the airport Emergency power was not
available to the pilot because of i'm
proper adjustment to stop which had
been placed on the quadrant of the
propeller pitch control levers, pre-
venting the levers from going to a
full low pitch position" the report
said
AS result. the plane stalled and
fell on the right wing and crashed
l,100 feet beyond the runway. fatally
injuring Mrs N. S. Mackie of Evan
ston, III. The pilot, co-pilot and
seven other passengers were not SER
iously injured.
Evening star., 1938-07-28

try Of Jews by such process than by
permitting them to run around free"
This Jewish leader favored seeking
visas now only for Jews unable to
stand the rigors Of concentration camp
life
Government financial help thus far
is $2,400,000 in foreign exchange
turned over to the Jewish Aid Associa-
ton and its Palestine office. but for
this foreign exchange the Jews had to
pay twice its value in German marks.
Transfer OF monies has virtually
ceased now, but Jews with fortunes up
to $4,000 marks 1870 .000) in the past
could transfer so per cent OF their
wealth into foreign exchange If they
were more wealthy they could transfer
only 80 per cent and II per cent had to
60 into fund to supply about $3.50
each to poor emierants.
Brandt, terming his mission private.
has made no statement. but will report
his findings on August to the London
refugee organization.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
AUTHOR OF 'TIPPERARY
SUCCUMBS IN ENGLAND

b. the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 28.-The man who
wrote the famous British war song.
TITS Long, Long Way to Tipperary, ~
died today in Birmingham at the
age Of so.
He was Jack Judge, a fsh salesman.
who became British vaudeville head
liner. He had been in Ill health for
some time
His publishers retired him on a life
pension, saying Judge had written "a
soldiers anthem which actually helped
win the war
Publishers Of the song said Judge
was aided in writing it by Harry
Williams, another vaudeville actor,
who died about eight years ago.
Judge. however, did not mention
Williams in letters and interviews
relating the birth Of the song and
the publishers said Judge collected
the royalties, earning thousands OF
dollars.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
GOLD CLAUSE CASE
AGAIN is REVIVED
New York Attorney in Another
Attempt to Collect $16,931
on $4,000 Bond.

By the Associated Press.
One OF the famous gold clause"
cases decided by the Supreme Court
in 1885 popped up again today.
John M. Perry, New York attorney
made another effort to compel the
Government to pay him Sl6,93l on a
$4,000 bond payable in gold of the
1918 value.
He contended the Treasury should
pay him the larger amount as a re-
suit of dollar devaluation.
His petition was dismissed by the
Court Of Claims on the basis of the
Supreme Court decision that he had
not proved any damage and hence
was not entitled to an amount larger
than the face value of the bond in
present-day currency.
He told the Supreme Court if it
would grant review he would pre-
sent facts "conclusively establishing"
losses.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
BEAUTY WORKERS
PAY SCALE 0. K D
Protests Are 0verru|ed and
Wages Ordered Into Effect
September 26.

With only one minor change, the
District Minimum Wage Board to-
day ordered into effect on September
rs the scales of sic wages fixed
recently for wonaAA employed in the
beauty culture Industry.
The board overrode a flood of pro-
tests voiced by beauty shop proprie-
tors at final public hearing July
IL, when protests were made hy some
employers that they could not meet
the minimum wages without having
to discharge some of their employees.
Under the order issued today ex-
perienced beauty shop operators must
be paid no less than $l8 week for
a standard work week of from 50 to
4S hours. For part-time workers a
minimum of SO cents an hour was
prescribed and for overtime work,
beyond 48 hours, not less than so
cents an hour.
This latter rule emphasizes that
beauty-shop operators are not covered
by the mandatory features of the Dis
trict's ong-standing law limiting work
weeks for women to 48 hours.
For cashiers. telephone operators,
appointment desk clerks and other
clerical workers the board fixed a
minimum rate of SIT a week for 36
to 48 hours and placed the part-time
and overtime rates at not less than
40 cents an hour
Maids and cleaners were given a
minimum rate of $l450 a week and
part-time and overtime rates of not
less than 35 cents an hour.
The one change made by the board
in its original order of June 9 was
that it struck out a provision apply
ing to students of beauty culture
schools the prescribed minimum rates
for apprentices. The board decided
this subject was adequately covered by
the Cosmetology Act, which forbids
students to make charges on the pub
lie until they have completed 1900
hours of training and have obtained a
license from the Cosmetology Board
The Minimum Wage Board has
ruled that apprentice beauty shop op-
orators shall be paid not less than $l3
a week for five months. not less than
SIS during the next four months and
thereafter shall be paid the $l8 min
imum for experienced operators.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
California B00ns at Word
Shasta Dam Work Is to Start
Star staff Photos.

house population of 1850: Summit
City 800 Buckeye ESQ Most of these
residents had some means. but the
economic status of the one to two
thousand camped along nearby roads
ranged upward from nothing. Some
had only the trees for shelter.
Twelve miles away and hundreds Of
feet down, near the river-level rail
point OF Coram. nearly 100 men toiled
in temperatures of l20 degrees on the
new railroad temporary diversion TIM
mel
The cost Of the Central Valley prof.
ect in this area alone has been esti-
mated at ss0.000.000, including the
s35.900,000 dam, for which the con-
tract already has been let, and a 500
100000, 37mile rail rerouting Job.
Between 5000 and 1000 men prob
ably will be EMPLOYED.
Evening star., 1938-07-28
CONFERENCE TO CLOSE
A. M. E. Church Sessions Will
End Todou

A. M. E. Church Sessions Will
End Today.
The annual two-day Potomac Dis
trict Conference of the A. M. E.
Church went into it's final sessions
today at the St. Paul Church, 423
Eighth street SW.
DR.. Henry M. Shields. presiding
elder of the district, conducted the
sessions. Others leading discussions
were DR.. Charles H. Wesley, dean of
the College of Liberal Arts of Howard
University; the Rev. John F. Bond,
the Rev. J. R. Nelson and the Rev. J.
B. Boston.
Among speakers appearing on the
program were Jefferson F. Coage, DR..
John R. Hawkins, financial secretary
Of the A. M. E. Church; George A.
Robinson. Joseph Seldom and Bishop
M. H. Davis Of the Second Episcopal
district.