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Evening star., 1938-12-30

to CZecho-Slovakia to check Central
Europe's cancer. Thirty-two coun-
tries delegates met at Evian to see
where refugees could go. And
President Roosevelt went from coast
to coast-attending Gettysburgs
18th and the Northwest Territorys
l50th anniversary ceremonies, re-
viewing the fleet at San Francisco,
and beaming blessings on candidates
whom his foes called rubber
stamps"
Rail Fares Boosted.
Dixie. Economic Problem No. L."
clamored for freight-rate revision.
I. c. c. decided Eastern railroads
could charge coach passengers more.
DR.. Arthur Morgan, T. v. AS ousted
kingpin, sued for his pay. Elmer F.
Andrews became wage-hour chief.
Rumania's Queen Marie, Justice
Benjamin Cardozo and Samuel In
Sull died. But no notable got more
attention than did John Warde, 26,
a little man who got out on a ledge
II stories above the sidewalks of
New York and smoked cigarettes
there for II hours before hurting
into oblivion.
Palestine Jews fought Arabs the
way American frontiersmen battled
Indians. Photos showed Roman
rulers proving their fitness by hop
ping through fiery hoops, and Italys
press began batting Jews.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
March

Herbert Hoover, touring Europe,
found every problem save the auto
parking problem acute"
Political Poser No l was Austria
And Adolf Hitler, the corporal who
mad kept on fighting, finally to win
the World War, boldly extended
Germany's frontier clear around
Austria's 32,377 square miles and
6,76O,233 people. But Americas ex-
envoy to the Reich, William E. Dodd,
predicted: Great Britain won't do
anything if Germany invades
Czecho-Slovakia."
Warbirds left 872 dead, 1000
wounded, 10000 homeless in BARGE
Iona on a single week end. Japan's
Parliament passed "fascistic" mo-
blllzation bill. Russia tried and exc
cuted more bigwigs. Mexico seized
foreign oil properties valued at
$400,000,000. And Brazils police un-
covered a cache of Nazi daggers.
Floods in California. .
scores died and damage was set
at $60,000000 when rains sent floods
ripping through Southern Califor-
MIA.
Richard Whitney, expresident of
the New York Stock Exchange, pied
guilty to thefts that shocked Wall
Street. -
T. V. AS quarreling directors were
summoned to the White House. And
the President ousted Chairman Ar
thur E. Morgan for failing to sus-
tain grave and libelous charges of
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Of Outstanding News Events Which Made Hsfory in 1893

chagrin, became Broadways first fall
WOW. s
Japan Takes Hankow.
Japan took Chinas "old Chicago
-Hankow. Canton, metropolis Of
South China, fell, too, despite yarns
that ubiquitous guerrillas were
teaching orang-outangs to flip hand
grenades, and Toxic went on slam
ming the well-known open door," i"
despite Americas squawk. The Pres
ident derided Representative Mar
tin Dies un-Americanism inquiry.
John L. Lewis said he'd quit his Job
If William Green would step out of
A. F. Of l.. Homer Martin and Henry
Ford shook hands.
The railroad stricke scheduled for
October ! was averted by appoint
ment Of three fact-finders.
Auto factories called men back to
work. And amidst lay-offs and a
deluge Of inquiries and argument,
the new Wage-Hour Law admins
tered by Elmer F. Andrews went
into effect. The Yanks won the
World Series. "Never, said Sur
geon General Parran, had the Amer
lcan people been healthier.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
November

Republicans went woo, wool" at
the voters and won. Elections hoist
ed their United States Senate stand
ing to % "a gain of 81, their House
strength to ITO "a gain of 82), and
gave 'em II out Of 80 open guberna-
torial jobs.
Front pages were enlivened by
new faces, such as those of Sena-
tors-elect Taft of Ohio and Downey
OF California and Governors-elect
Saltonstall of Massachusetts,, Van
derbilt of Rhode Island, James of
pennsylvania, He'll of Wisconsin and
Stassen of Minnesota.
Mlchigan's Murphy and other lib
erals lost. Downed. too, was Cali
fornia's $780, Thursday dream.
Democrats still were supreme-in
New York they defeated Dewey-but
Republican Program Protector Glenn
Frank found "the drift toward q
virtually one-party Nation" stopped
and the stock market perked up the
day after the election.
Shot Heard Round World.
The day before America balloted
Herschel Grynszpan, II, Jew, shot
ana Killed a German Embassy aide
Evening star., 1938-12-30
September

"Out of this nettle, danger, we
plucked this flower. safety" Thus
Neville Chamberlain summarized
September's sorry story.
Repeatedly the British Prime
Minister few to Germany. Reso-
lutely the Nazis asked for more and
more. Resignedly the old world
mobilized.
Bomb shelters were dug In Lon
don parks. Civilians tried on gas
masks. Frances Maginot Line was
manned. German ships were called
home.
Maine went Republican.
The issue was simple: Could Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler help himself to a
chunk of Czecho- -Slovakia? Both
sides drew their guns. Propagandists
spouted atrocity stories France and
Russia had promised to help the
courageous Czechs. Britain sup
posedly stood behind France. But
Hitler could-and did-"free' the
Germanic peoples of Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
Roosevelt Asks Peace.
Twice President Roosevelt pleaded
for peace. Chamberlain, Hitler,
French Premier Daladier and Italys
II Duce went into q jam session.
Then Chamberlain flew home with
a bit Of paper. posed like a movie
hero beside his plane, and boasted
he had preserved peace with
honor"
Czecho-Slovakia paid for it. At
midnight, September 30, Germans
goose-stepped into the little de-
mocracy. and Poland and Hungary
yipped for their shares.
Der 5Fuehrer disclaimed further
European territorial aims. But jok-
ers said: Have you heard the lat
est? Hitler just gave the world "a
hours to get out"
A NaZi putsch in Chile cost three
score lives and failed.
Hurricane in New England.
New England, meanwhile, was
flayed astonishingly by a tropical
hurricane gone haywire. When
communications were restored the
Nation heard the death toll was TOO,
the damage 1000, 900, and head
lines blurted: Long Island Resort
Towns Wiped Out; IL Feet of Water
In Providence; Canal End of Cape
Cod Hard Hit; New Haven Train
Wrecked; Liners Delayed, Yachts
Destroyed: Millions of Trees Down;
Food Shortages and Fires in Many
Areas; Sightseers Barred; Red Cross
Seeks Funds. Federal agencies
dashed to the rescue and began
weeks Of rehabilitation work.
Two tornadoes ripped into his
toric Charleston, S. c.. killing 26.
But not all weather news was bad:
Rains so cheered Western farmers
that Springfield, Colo, the dust
bowls capital" held a county fair
for the first time since 1880.
Jimmy Roosevelt underwent an
operation. Senators Walter F. George
and Millard E. Tydings, scheduled
for "purging," were among those re-
nominated. The sensational Hines
case in New York ended In . mis-
trial. The 500 Thursday pot boiled
in California.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Nav

To 13 high school graduates in
Arthurdale, w. Va, a New Deal
model town, President Roosevelt
talked taxes.
Previously he had raised the ques-
ton of taxing Government bond
holders and jobholders. Business
men, on the other hand, had spot
lighted another issue, the undis-
tributed-profits and capital-gains
levies, and Congress finally had
passed bill to modify them.
In his commencement address.
Mr.. Roosevelt announced his de-
cision to let that bill become law,
but he wouldn't sign it.
Primaries had begun. The Presi-
dent wouldn't talk about them. But
his son spoke for Florida's Senator
Claude Pepper Che wonD, Secre-
tary Ickes criticized Oregon's Gov.
Charles H. Martin Che LOST, and
Jim Farley urged PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats to nominate Gov. George
H. Earle for Senator Che won in
May, but lost in November) and
c. I. O.'s Thomas Kennedy for
Governor Che LOST. Peppers VIC
tory popped up the Presidents S
partisans. But in Pennsylvania s
primary, G. o. p. Generalissimo
Hamilton saw "the handwriting on
Evening star., 1938-12-30

| ladier, surviving stroke Of indus
trial paralysis, vowed that Rome
never would get an inch of French
soil.
Whatever else the world may
now have been made" said An
thony Eden in America, it has
clearly not been made safe for
democracy"
What America does or fails to
do in the next few years." said
President Roosevelt, "has a far
greater bearing and influence on
the history of the human race for
centuries to come than most Of us
who are here today can ever con-
ceive."
North, Central and South Amer
ican statesmen studied steps at Lii
ma to make democracy safe from
the rest of the world.
Swindler's Suicide.
CASTOR B. Means, modern Baron
Munchausen," died in prison. ST.
multaneously the mask was ripped
of modern Doctor Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde"-Frank Donald Coster,
who's Who" celebrity who head
ed McKesson & Robbins, Inc,
worlds third largest drug firm,
really was Philip Musica, notorious
prewar swindler and ex-convict.
"Coster" killed himself, his broth
ers were jailed for joining his gil
gantic gyp game and headlines
summed up: $35,O0O,0OO Paper
Loss Noted in McKesson- Robbins
Securities; Mussica Turned Boot
leg Machine to Arms Smuggling;
Widow Learns Costers Story for
First Time.
James Roosevelt became a movie
biggie. Commerce Secretary Roper
quit and Harry Hopkins became
Secretary of Commerce. Cardinal
Mundelein said Father Coughlin
wasn't Catholicism authorized
spokesman.
And while "All This, and Heaven,
Too" led best sellers, and bands
played MY Reverie" the worlds
navigators scanned almanacs for
1899.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
By the Associated Press.
January


,, There was dearth of prophecy
when the iron tongue of midnight
: tolled 1885. arrival. Jitterbugs
shouted "Bei Mir Blst du Schoen,
but outside the night clubs business
stagnated. Nice work if you can
get it" was a popular phrase-Spe-
cial Census -Taker John D. Biggers
estimated 100000 Americans were
unemployed, and big businessmen
went silently to Washington, in jan
uary, like small fry entering the
Woodshed with father.
Interior Secretary Ickes and As
sistant Attorney General Jackson
(who then was expected to run for
Governor of New York; had been
booting business "bourbons." Men
of means fought N. L. R. B. and
fumed about that man in the White
House" But before the month
ended there was truce talk. And
Economist Leonard P. AyreS fore
saw an upswing by summer.
Another year, another warp" Eu-
rope thought. Unusually bright
Northern lights one January night
made peasants thing Der Tag" had
dawned But Germany was jolted
by the marriage of carpenters 28-
year-old daughter to Field Marshal
Werner Won Blomberg, SO. Spanish
loyalists took Teruel, their first
great victory for months. And Nip
pom nibbled on in China, but PROM
. ised to be Uncle Sans pal in '38.
: Planned Bigger Navy.
America prepared to build big
{ ner Navy.
, The House of Representatives
buried the Ludlow war referendum
plan, 2O9 to 1873. The Senate became
: entangled in an anti-lynching bill
fllibuster. The Supreme Court was
, kept in headlines by Associate JUS
. tice Sutherland's retirement, the ap-
, pointment of Solicitor General
: Stanley Reed to succeed him and
Justice CardoZo's illness.
. Jersey City's Mayor Hague spurned
q Senate seat to continue his war
Z on Reds" Glenn Frank agreed to
d. head the G. o. P. Program Com
mittee.
, 'Heigh, Ho, Heigh, Ho -"
, "Snow White and the Seven
! Dwarfs" delighted most everybody.
Stay-at-homes tuned in on Tos-
canini or read THE Citadel" The
Arts or Northwest Passage" 1dlers
in corner drug stores discussed the
22-day fast of Dean Israel Harding
Noe of Memphis, the Ely Culbertson
divorce. Barbara Stanwyck's scrap
with Frank Fay over an adopted
son and the capture of the kidnaper
of Charles S. Ross of Chicago.
Seven died when Pan-American
AirWays' Pilot Edwin c. Musick
crashed near Pago Pago, Ameri-
can Samoa. and 10 died in an air.
liners tailspin near Bozeman, Mont.
Kurt Schuschnigg was deaf to
1taly's efforts to lure Austria out of
the League. The United States got
curiouser and curiouser about Mr..
and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson whom
the Russians had in Jail.
And January 81 in Holland a ST.
gun salute announced the birth of
Princess Juliana's baby, Beatrix
Wilhelmina Armgard, destined some
day to rule 100000 people.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
October

BY October this year folks said
could bel" Of almost anything.
Orson Welles' broadcast of q Mar
tian invasion of New Jersey scared
scads of citizens into an emotional
doy-foy.
Germany, Hungary and Poland
were chawing chunks of Czecho-
Slovakia. Alfred Duff Cooper, un-
able to swallow the Munich peace,
quit Britains cabinet-but London
BARRIERS said Hitler mustaches were
becoming fashionable. Russians
called Col. Lindbergh liar and Nazi
lackey; Germans decorated him.
Viennese threw stones and flying
glass cut Theodore Cardinal Innitzer.
"Hellzapoppin," to the critics
Evening star., 1938-12-30
February

Last February, five years after
the Relchstag burned, ex-Corpl.
Adolf Hitler had far mure power
than kaiser. But in Germany's
churches and army there still were
independent spirits.
OF the clericS, the most defiant
was the Rev. Martin Niemoeller. He
was tried for treason and left in Jail.
OF the generals, the star was War
Minister Won Blomberg. He and a
dozen satellites were busted"
simultaneously, Hitler shook up
his diplomatic department and
roared at Austria and British For
eign Secretary Eden. In Vienna,
Chancellor Schuschnigg promptly
appointed a Nazi, Arthur Seysz-
lnquart, to his cabinet. In London
Prime Minister Chamberlain ac-
cepted Eden's resignation.
United States Secretary of State
Hull, meanwhile, denied Uncle Sam
mad any war alliances with John
Bull. The Japanese refused to talk
about battleships they were building
Chlnese airmen bombed Japanese
soil for the first time in history.
Arrangements were made-but not
carried out-for selling United States
hellum to Germany.
Little Business Meets.
AS doughty as miniature auto
racers, 1000 little business men met
and those of them who could make
themselves heard clamored: Loosen
credlt, tax chain stores, revive N.
II. A., protect bosses, etc.
A new A. A. A. was created, The
antl-lynching bill was shelved,
United States Steel renewed it's
pact with c. I. O., United Mine
Workers expelled Bill Green. who
was busy lambasting labor's Nom
Partisan League as C. /. O.
dummy" bent on forming farmer
labor party. Harvey S. Firestone
and O. O. Mcintyre died.
The crime of the month was the
kldnaplng of Peter Levine, IL, of
New Rochelle, N. Y, whose head
less body was found on the shore
OF Long Island Sound three months
later.
But the winters great adventure
saga ended happily in February.
-Four Russian weather observers
who had drifted southwark from
the North Pole for months on an
ice foe were rescued just as their
noe began to crack up off Green
lands rocky coast.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
the wall for the New Deal and its
radical and crackbrain allies"
"Wedding" nf the DictatnrS

radical ana cTackDrdln allleS.
wedding" of the DictatOrs.
The League of Nations conceded
Ethiopia to Italy And it looked in
May as though war might pop out
any day. but the Czechs mobilized
and wishful thinkers figured Hitler's
bluff had been called.
Mexico's President Lazaro Car
denas won petty war from Gen
Saturnino Cedillo and severed
diplomatic relations with Britain
while squabbling over oil. And
Brazils President Getulio Vargas,
with pistol in hand, saved himself
and his palace from allegedly
faScistic Green Shirts"
For the first time. United States
town, Farmingdale, Long Island,
was blacked out in a war try-out.
Our Town" became the Pulitzer
prize play. Norman Thomas had
been hustled out of Mayor Hague's
Jersey City and two Congressman
failed to deliver well-ballyhooed
speeches there
William McChesney Martin, jr.,
81, was chosen as chairman of the
New York Stock Exchanges gov
ernOrS.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
August

A concealed as we'll as undeclared
war had simmered for years along
the frontier between Russia and
Manchukuo. Just where the bound
ary lay, geographers could not say.
And in August, 1898, so many bombs
burst on hill called Changkufeng
near that uncertain frontiers east
ern end, that the whole world wor-
ried, and wondered. 80.
Was Russia, China's friend, d.
verting Japan from the war in
China? Or was Japan, Germany's
friend, distracting Russia from the
crisis in Czecho- -Slovakia? Or were
both sides frontier forces merely
fighting to avoid being moved to
bigger and bloodier battlef1elds?
Few could say. But Toxic and
Moscow diplomats compared maps,
ordered an armistice. and agreed
to let commission draw the line
between Russia and Manchukuo.
August IS was expected to be
der Tag" in Europe. 1t wasn't.
Germans marched as to war, and
ousted q British passport officer
from Vienna for espionage.
TT will soon no longer be posi-
ble," Secretary of State Hull broad
cast, "for some nations to follow
the way of force and for other ma
tions at the same time to choose
and follow the way of reason"
Lindbergh Is Feted.
Moscow flyers feted 'Lindy" Ger
many's big landplane crossed the
Atlantic. The Hawaii Clipper, with
Is aboard. was missing in the
Pacific. Frank Howks died in q
crash near Buffalo. Dan Dodge,
Million heir bridegroom of a phone
girl, drowned after mishandling
dynamite.
The alleged baking to death" of
four Pennsylvania prisoners was
probed.
Father Divine's angels" moved to
a new heaven" near Franklin d.
Roosevelt's Hyde Park place. Sena-
tors Alben w. Barley, Bennett
Champ Clark and Ellison D. Smith
were among the many moving into
election finals, and those who were
beaten in preliminary polling in
cluded Senators James P. Pope and
William G. McAdoo.
The Harlan County (Ky) labor
conspiracy trials Jury couldn't
agree The Dies inquiry came to
the fore, with J. B. Matthews in
PRODUCING alleged Communist "fel-
low travellers" and suggesting that
reds might even be hiding behind
Shirley Temples swirling skirts. And
radio listeners dialed in on "In-
formation Please"
Evening star., 1938-12-30
April

Late one gray, rainy day, the
democratic House of Representa-
tives delivered what Speaker Bank
head had warned would be a "lethal
blow to the Roosevelt administra-
tion. 1t voted, 204 to 1876, against
reorganizing tie United States Gov-
ernment.
That same month the President,
in his 18th f1reside chat, sprang his
IS 000, 100000 spending and lending
assault on the recession.
Konrad Henlein demanded in
dependence from the Czechs for
Sudeten Germans. And in Poland
and Hungary, as we'll as Germany,
there was yammering about Czech
frontiers.
Through Aprils mud and blood.
Spanish insurgents sloughed their
way to the Mediterranean, sever
ing Catalonia from the rest of the
loyalists' land, and Caudillo Franco
figured the war nearly won. In
China, Japan took a licking at
Taierhchwang.
Liberty in Europe.
Liberty in Europe is being mur-
dered,' laborite lamented in Lon
don. "The Prime Minister is the
undertaken, waiting to bury the
corpse" But Commons refused.
359 to 152, to censure Mr.. Cham
berlain. Reichsfuehrer Hitler, mean
while. let Germans, including ex-
Austrians, vote for him-and was
SO per cent successful.
Jackie Coogan sued his mother
and stepfather for $4.OOO.OOO
Albanian King Zog married a
half-American Hungarian countess.
Henry and Clara Ford celebrated
their golden wedding. DR.. Francis
E. Townsend was excused by the
President from 80 days in Jail for
contempt of congressman.
N. L. R. B. ordered the previous
summers steel strikers reinstat-
ed. Pickets collecting dues closed
auto plants. Michigan's Gov. Frank
Murphy sped home from Florida
to settle power strike. President
Roosevelt put the railroad problem
up to Congress- And Wisconsin,s s
Gov. Phil La Toilette unfurled a
banner with a strange device-an
tx" inside a circle-in the hope
OF rallying progressives together
under it,
Evening star., 1938-12-30
December

Toy soldiers sold briskly this De-
cember, On the thin ice of peace
Italy had stood by Germany while
Der Fuehrer kayoed Austria and
Czecho-Slovakia. And as Christmas
approached, both the great Fascist
military partners extended their
propaganda claws-Italy toward
Tunisia and other French domains,
Germany toward little Lithuania's
Memel and the Rumanian and Rus
sian Ukraine.
Paris and Berlin agreed to be
good neighbOrS, but Premier Da-
Evening star., 1938-12-30

In Paris. And in Germany super
pogrom ensued, SO shocking that
President Roosevelt could scarcely
believe that such things could occur
In Goth century civilization" Nazis
cursed their critics and fined the
Jewish people $400, 100000 for
Grynszpan's gunmanship.
American Ambassador Wilson was
called home to report on the Reich's
rioting, and Der Fuehrer yaIlked his
envoy back from Washington to ex-
plain Mr.. Roosevelt's queer atti-
tude.'
Uncle San, and John Bull naean--
while signed a trade treaty. King
George said he and the Queen would
be in Washington next June. Both
English-speaking powers tackled the
German-Jewish refugee issue. After
abandoning plans for splitting up
Palestine, Landlord Chamberlain
suggested sanctuaries for the Jews
In South America and Africa, and
the idea Of letting them have land
that Germany used to own made
Berlin's blood boil.
The Ramparts We Watch
BY Armistice Day the world was
blowing about $4,000 900 900 a year
to beat plowshares into swords and
Monroe Doctrine fences were being
mended. Cubas Colonel-in-Chief
Fulgencio Batista was honored in
Washington MeYico oorood 70 ho
gin paying next year for land taken
from United States citizens. And
Secretary of State Hull, with dele
CATION that included ALT Landon and
John L. Lewis daughter, sailed for a
pan-American pow-wow.
Germany and France agreed to
let their well-fortified frontier stand.
Britain's goodwill deal with Italy
went into effect.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

dishonesty and want of integrity"
against his fellow directors.
Robert H. Jackson became So
licitor general. Thurman Arnold,
Folklore of Capitalism" author,
succeeded him as head trust buster.
And the obituaries of Col. Edward
House, Gabrielle d'Annunzio and
Clarence Darrow were published.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
June

America read my Son, My Son!"
and THE Yearling"
Five-year-old James Bailey "Skee-
gle" Cash, stolen from his Prince
ton, Fla, home, was found dead
after $4,000 ransom had been paid
and soon Franklin Pierce Mccall,
21, truck driver, was found guilty
in the kidnapping. New York's G.
man Leon G. Turrou resigned after
doing the sleuthing for Uncle Sam
that led to 18 persons indictment
for espionage.
A wage-hour law that the Presi-
dent called the most ar-sighted
program ever enacted for workers
benefit, except perhaps for the So
cial security act, was whooped
through. Congress adjourned. And
% hours later Sen. Royal S. Cope
land died.
Labor trouble halted Ringing
Bros.-Barnum & Bailey's tour.
Homer Martins faction suspended
five United Auto Workers Union
officers. Townsendites rallied in Los
Angeles. Wheat was the cheapest
it had been for five years and q
record harvest was foreseen.
Sheppard Frowns on Reports. =,
Campaign Checker-Upper Shep-
pard frowned at reports that Dep
uty w. P. A. Chief Williams had
urged relief workers to keep their
friends in power. And Iowas Sem
ator Guy M. Gillette beat New Deal
Representative Otha Wearin in a
headlined Democratic senatorial pri-
mary.
The Chicago, Milwaukee 81 ST..
Paul's crack "Olympian" passenger
train cracked up in Montana and
Al persons died. A California gold
prospector found wreckage of a T..
w. A. airliner that had been lost
since March.
The Yellow River overfowed and
halted the Japanese. Canton was
bombed numerically.
Spanish loyalists allegedly threat
ened to attack German and italian
towns. More British ships were
sunk. Lloyd George likened Eng
lands rulers to "a bevy of maiden
aunts fallen among buccaneers. 1"
And Nasis scribbled a June jingle
on frontier posts, addressed to Czech
President Eduard Benes:
Edward, save up your pence,
For Adolf soon will be over the
fence!
Evening star., 1938-12-30
July

In 3 days, 10 hours and min
utes Howard Hughes g. Co. flew
round the world. But July's jol-
lest junket was the comic strip
style, surprise sky-solo of Douglas
California Here I Come" Corrigan
from New York to Dublin. Hughes
had the best available assistance
and equipment; Corrigan sneaked
to glory in q jalopy.
Viscount Runcinan was ordered
Evening star., 1938-12-30

chagrin, became Broadway's first fall