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ocation which Japan's army -domi-
mated government has offered the
United States at Tientsin, Shanghai.
Annoy, Swatow and elsewhere is
far more serious than Tokio's mere
saber-rattling over the California
school issue and coincident griev-
anceS generation ago. Retransfer
OF the fleet to the Pacific has pro-
vided Japan food for grave thought.
All concerned realize 1t is the one
factor which gives the war lords
pause in their drive to impose "the
new order in Asia" With Anglo
French sea power pegged in Europe,
the American naval ensign Is today
the sole emblem of democratic
rights in Far Eastern waters, so
far as any ability to enforce those
rights is concerned. This is fully
understood in Japan.
Should the Fleet Move?
Z This observer encounters the belief
IN Washington that measure
stronger than mere words" yet
method short of war; would be to
order Admiral Bloch to take the
United States Fleet, say, to Pearl
Harbor, and later to Manila, if
Japan continues those violations of
our China rights against which we
have protested vainly for two years
The Japanese militarists who have
been "intolerably insulting" British
subjects are punctiliously consider
ate Of United States citizens in the
Tientsin area. Toxic plainly is
anxious not to aggravate the tension
In American relations All this sug-
gests that the japanese Army clique,
which has utter contempt for mere
words" would sit up and take notice
the moment Bloch's battleships and
aircraft carriers were en- route to a
Pacific anchorage nearer Chinese
waters than San Pedro.
History of Press Gallery.
George o. Gillingham, who edits
the National Press Clubs Goldfish
Bowl when not publicizing T. v. A.,
reproduces an account of the press
galleries of Congress by Paul j.
McGahan Of the Philadelphia In
quirer. McGahan, the politician
sans pareil of the Capital scribes,
calls himself third termer, because
he's serving for the third successive
time on the Standing Committee of
Correspondents, d which he was
formerly secretary. Paul's historical
epistle narrates that in 1858, at the
time Of the Thirty-f1fth Congress.
the press gallery accommodated only
between 80 and 40 reporters. At
present there are SIS accredited
members. Some so have been on
duty rs years. Newspapers repre-
sented now aggregate 3l5. Most
recent development Is radio press
gallery in both houses, balustraded
of from the regular press facilities.
The fight for official sanction Of the
broadcasters' repertorial rights was
led by Fulton Lewis, jr., former
correspondent and now commenta-
tor of M. B. s. He is president Of the
Radio Correspondents Association,
organized in May. The vice presi-
dent Is Albert L. Warner, c. B. S.,
former Washington correspondent
OF the New York Herald Tribune.
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Dr.. Rasmussen to Study
At Swedish University4

The Rev. DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen,
pastor of the Luther Place Memorial
Church, will study for months this
fall at the University of Lund in
Sweden.
For several years DR.. Rasmussen
has studied during his vacation
period at Columbia University in
New York. but this year decided to
go to Sweden. At a congregational
meeting yesterday, following the
morning church services, it was
voted to allow him to take his vaca-
ton in September and October and
with the two additional months,
October and November, without pay.
DR.. Rasmussen is to 60 to Gettys-
burg Theological Seminary to teach
in September, 1910. A question as
to whether he will continue to come
to Washington to preach on the
week ends will not be decided until
that time.
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most of the responsibility managing large
department.
He lives extremely comfortably large Washington
Greenwich Conn and the Thousand Islands, although claims be
still that he reads from
and can't bear to for at the best places
New York. He Of time kind
interested small college York hobbies
financing students
about youth saying that that world
them living" Altogether
to his secret in few words
Work is important politics. stick the Job
doing. get kick out of that and that's enough for me-
(Reaed
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IIltllllOll " ''-' ''''~'
coran, Cohen, Howe, Hopkins, Moley
TugWell, Berle or some other men,
bers Of past or present New Deal
brain trusts. Instead. the President
unhesitatingly replied: Theodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson,"
T. r. stopped" Japan.
1t was little more than 81 years
ago that Japan was making a nui-
sance of herself with this country,
in connection with certain restric-
tions in the San Francisco public
schools and Californian agitation for
exclusionist land laws. Feeling ran
high at Toxic. War talk was in the
air in both countries. To check it,
President Theodore Roosevelt de-
cided upon methods short of war,
but measures stronger than mere
words" He sent Admiral Fighting
Bob Evans and the United States
Fleet on trip around the world
They lifted anchor at Hampton
Roads December 16, 1907, visited
Australia and tarried in Japanese
waters for several weeks. T. RS
diplomacy accomplished its purpose
The japanese piped down. The Cal
ifornians. continued their efforts to
combat the yellow peril" There
was no war. Most chroniclers ad-
init, in the words of William Starr
Myers History of the Republican
Party" that "Roosevelt's brilliantly
conceived and executed plan of send
ing the battleship fleet around the
world was of striking effect in the
cause Of peace, little as his pacifist
opponents suspected it." The Presi-
dent said the cruise was "a practice
voyage" He did not want to ex-
pertinent in wartime; desired AL
failures, blunders and shortcomings
to be made apparent in time of
peace"
The Navy Now in the Pacific.
When Franklin Roosevelt last
April suddenly ordered the United
States Fleet, which expected to re-
main in the Atlantic for some time,
to return to the West Coast, he took
a step analogous to that of Theo-
dore Roosevelt in 1907, under not
dissimilar conditions. What is now
being asked, and perhaps being pom
dered in Washington, is whether
full imitation of T. RS strategy
may not be In the offing. The prov.
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City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner, Knights of Columbus,
Mayflower Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting, Alpha Chapter. Kappa
Gamma Sorority, Raleigh Hotel
7 pm.
Meeting. Knights of Columbus,
Fourth Degree. Mayflower, Hotel
8 pm.
Meeting, Tau Beta Phi Sorority
Mayf1ower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Lincoln Camp, Sons OF
Union Veterans of the Civil War
Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Columbia Heights Busi-
ness Mems Association, Sholl's Cafe
1915 pm.
Luncheon, Washington Paper
Dealers Association, Raleigh Hotel
1890 pm.
Luncheon, Dartmouth Club, An
napolis Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Institute Of Electrical
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Contractors, Carlton Hotel, 1890

Contractors, Carlton Hotel, 1890
pm.
Luncheon, Insurance Managers,
Hamilton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Civitan Club, Mayf1ow-
er Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Optimist Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Men of the Trees, Carl
ton Hotel. pm.
Meeting, Georgia Avenue Business
mems Association, $500 Georgia ave-
nue., s pm.
Meeting, Sigma Pi Sigma Sorority,
Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting. Legislation Committee,
American Legion, Mayf1ower Hotel,
pm.
Meeting, Syrian Washington Club,
Willard Hotel, $3.50 pm.
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panSlve m Cd
and encouraged
intimate CONVEX
S a t ion. r h q t
gave his aquatic
guest courage to
ask, during a
rest period at
the pool, which
men have had
the greatest in
huence on the
Presidents po-
litical thinking.
The visitor ex-
p e c t e d M r .
r 90 S e v cit to
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Bryan U. Quartet
To Give Recital

A male quartet of the William
Jennings Bryan University Gospel
Singers from Dayton, Tenn, will
give a recital tomorrow night at
g o'clock at the Non-Sectarian
Tabernacle, 6440 Piney Branch
road NV.
Members of the quartet are
Forrest Ford, Dean Geary, Edward
Paul and Ty Pray. Miss Julia Anna
Yancey, assistant professor of music
and art at the university. is the
director and accompanist. The public
is invited.
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suming, sensible and easy to get on
with. He has always been a tremen-
dous aviation enthusiast, dashing
about the country in big private
plane, and thus, when the Civil
Aeronautics Authority was set up,
'le was thought of and asked to be
chairman. He put the authority on
a good working basis, and moved on
to his present position. in which, due
IN the ro0r health of HonkinS he has
Evening star., 1939-06-26
The Capital Parade
Edward J. Noble Held Only Happy
Businessmen in Administration

BY JOSEPH ALSOP ROBERT KINTNER
welheeled
service In the New Deal will do well
Noble esaver
He the
to be happy though in the Roosevelt administration
feature of the New
Deal like P.
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apollS last week
to appear before
the national con-
vention of the
Townsend Old
Age P en- sion
Clubs. Mr.. Nye,
according to the
n e " S reports,
devoted . good
portion Of his
speech to q de-
n u n c ! alton of
war, and I sup
pose he devel-
oped his favorite
thesis that what
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a recrmnation the wealth dort
remedial political action dangerous unwise and unpatriot
The time for WITCH burning
that the solution economic difficulties
and that slogans and ideas calculated
than the economic from which all suffer It's
told
so not to shock them unduly, but firmly.
lie News FEATURE 1nc3
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adjourn shortly
or whether both
h ou es shall
merely vote to
take a recess un-
til September Is
and resume leg
tslative work.
Business and
industry, as well
as persons en-
gagged in essen
tial professions,
have no more
than a tWo-Week
or four week
holiday. Yet the
~rexx,,,~ -,
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the economic activity of all our
people; CD corporate business cannot
expect to operate at the same rate
of profits or under conditions of
stability so long as millions of Amer
leans are destitute or jobless; 80
the economic sovereignty of America
must. temporarily at least, be vested
in the Government Of the United
States, in order that necessary
changes shall be made with the
consent of the people: and 90 polit-
Evening star., 1939-06-26

washington bubbIlng over with en-
thusiasm, convinced that the Pres
ident and his followers will be glad
to learn the doctrine of moderation
toward business. They leave, bruised
and vituperative, as Kennedy did,
or stay on, as Hanes is doing in the
Undersecretaryship of the Treasury,
because, although their efforts to
influence general policy have come
to nought they have found a job
they think it their duty to do. Even
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slide in profits and employment which today slowly
and unseadiy recovering. ~
Two major lessons emerged from this experience
that the profits of handful of wealthy
or permanent Of American business
New Deal
recovery in 1887
but the major factors of
New Deas Judiciary reform bw dominating
the profits
these
are interfering with profitable business
Searching for the Cause
The fault obviously lies much deeper hearings tempo
y Natlon Economic Committee been
to discover the factors which the
system. -
1t obvious that loose talk of business dangerous
IN business
system cannot recover on diet of slogans You
apple somachache
adjusted the old basis
shift to another
Here the New Dealers should candor Since
IugWe left the administration in 1885,
Federal Reserve Board has faced the Nations
The administration whole. like hoping
for candy-coaed political pink pill
and painlessly
Bold Analysis Needed
What needed bold fundamental
facts Cd no prosperity will last which
Evening star., 1939-06-26

they their bathtub other signs JOY and
of mind.
they general policy
a dslikes,
result that he smiling amaby his occasionally sadic
henmen Mobiles that worried about budget
balancing the habits the Relations Board other
the immediate purvew his And thus he is
only the intimate Hopkins Thomas
and all the others brutal less fortunate
capitalists.
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Genus, American Executive

public spirited
John I1ane he completely his situation to make the
fellows
side
the best the American business experience produce.
intelects
the administration he remains typical His
his amiabe with distinct
the salesman it, his emphasis serce when he becomes little
efficiency practical good sensea these
added portrait american
history appropriate being old story
boy making good
He 5o-odd in Gouvernur y where his
father retail coal business He had
thing struggle to get education working his way through Yale
various
solicitor Finally he landed Cleveland with
industry
$4,000 Whether the esave
be quantities in the United
Noble selling genius he made huge fortune in
evers 1928 the sold for sOOO00O in cash
his still
managing it from the Department of Commerce
Secret of Success
problems presented company his control
brought him the New Dealers and
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Washington Observations
Dispotchine Of U. S. Fleet to Pearl Horbor
And Manila Suggested to Curb japan

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Not long ago President Roosevelt
asked an old Washington friend to
join him for a swim at the White
House. Mr.. Roosevelt was in an ex-
Evening star., 1939-06-26
I'VE, the People
Snoopy Slogans Calculated to Increase
Ruther Than Appeuse Economic Pones
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Among the mandates" election popular
conmsno 10 restore business prosperity This order taken very
seriously by the New Dealers wide variety
from printing to the A-to accomplish this purpose
cnlei defect IN TINS policy that did define
TO discover what 1t meant by prosperity"
TO many Americans obvious that business"
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HE opinions OF the rtters this page their o,on not
ecsssar Ths stars Such opinion. presented IN The
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Senator Nye
Makes Cogey
Pension Talk
Words Add Pressure
On Congress for
Some Enactment
BY CHARLES G, ROSS,

Senator Gerald P. Nye, Repub-
Hcan, OF North Dakota, who goes
about the country a good deal max
Ing speeches, flew out to Indian
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SUCK Exchange and That pros
perity" meant the profits OF these
corporations. From this point of
view, 1887 was the New Deals eco
nomic masterpiece. The big business
corporations made profits on a huge
scale, some Of them earning even
more money than in the banner
year of 1929. This spectacular
achievement was followed by the
sharpest business recession ever re-
corded In our history-a toboggan
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Congress
Recess
Urged
Few Weeks Holiday
Would Take Care of
Heat Argument
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The whole course of recovery, If
not of public policy for the next
several years, revolves around the
question of whether Congress shall
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Searching for the Cause
Bold Analysis Needed

What statement of the fundamental
facts Cd prosperity will which welfare and
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Pay Boosts
Voted State

Daily Dispatch Esuicau,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
nv HENRY AVERHI,

Raleigh, March 28.-The Senate
calendar committee maintained its
record of approving every official
salary increase asked of it, except
for Commission of Agriculture w
Kerr Scott
And even in his case there were
obvious signs of relenting, members
themselves pointing out the gross
inconsistency Of the committees ac-
ton in refusing to increase the Scott
stipend while at the same time CAL
most in the same breath) hiking pay
for Parole Commissioner Edwin
Gill and providing very short there
after for Traditional pay" of $1,000
annually for Utilities Commissioner
Stanley Winborne
There were also signs that the
committee can't stand against the
pressure Of superior court judges
who. are seeking $4,000 annual "ex-
pense money in place of the $1,000
now allowed them
The committee has reported UNI
favorably a bill to increase the Scott
salary and the judges expense bill;
but has reported favorably on a
measure allowing the governor to
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Slovaks And
End Parleys

Budapest, Hungary, March 28.-
(AP)- Boundary negotiations be-
tween Hungarian and Slovak COM
missions were broken off today as
fighting broke out anew along the
disputed frontier between Slovakia
and Hungary's newly Car
patho- Ukraine.
The negotiations were interrupted
suddenly when the Slovaks decided
to return to Bratislava, their capital.
Artillery engagements broke out
again in the Lahore river valley, and
at least two men of the Hungarian
forces, which marched into the dis
puted area last week, were reported
killed. Although clothed with full
power to enter into an agreement
with Hungary, the Slovak delega-
ton refused to accept the terms Of
fered by Hungary before first con-
sulting with their government.
One report here was that the set
Element suggested by Hungary was
dictatorial and involved cession to
Hungary of a large section of the
Slovak state formed a fortnight ago
when the Czechoslovak state col
lapsed.
I The Slovak commissioners said
they would return to Budapest after
consulting with leaders in Bradshaw.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Worst Fighting
For Five Months
Raging In China

Shanghai, March 28.-(AP)-
The most intensive fighting of
the past five months i'm the China
war is in progress 100 to $50
miles southwest and southeast
Of Harlow as the consequence of
a major Japanese offensive. Both
Japanese and Chinese accounts
today indicated that casualties
were very heavy.
Late last night the Japanese
army announced it had finally
taken Hanechng in a SEven-day
4G-mile drive. Chinese insisted
the attackers were checked north
of the city.
The Chinese acknowledged
that hand tO-hand fighting con-
tinued. They said they accounted
for more than 1000 japanese
casualties. Japanese said that in
three days of the offensive 81
700 Chinese were killed and no
captured.
In northern HOnan province,
west of the Peiping HankOw rail
way, Chinese estimated they
caused 1,5OO casualties in 40 en-
gagements in the past two weeks.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Eight Women Are
Nabbed In Poland
AS Propagandists

Warsaw, Poland, March 3d.
(AP)-POlish authorities arrest
ed eight women at BydgOsz to-
day on charges of spreading false
news about Polish treatment of
Germans. ID. N. B., official Ger
man news agency, published a
dispatch yesterday from BydgOsz
which said German women and
children were beaten on the
streets for speaking their mother
tongue. Polish authorities said
such stories were exaggerations.
Rallies were held throughout
the country to stress the peoples
readiness to defend Poland a.
gainst aggression, and the press
reported many contributions to
the nations defense fund from
organizations and individuals.
including an unidentified fam
lily in Los Angeles, Cal.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Firm at Winston
Buys CountyAnd
City Obligations

Raleigh, March 28.-(AP)-Wil-
liam B. Greene Company, of Win
ston-Salem, bought ST., 500 of Ran
dolph and Town of Marion bonds to-
day at Local Government Commits
sion sales.
The Scottish Bank of Lumberton
bought $4,000 Lumberton street i'm
provement bonds at premium of
1925, with interest at 1-2 percent.
j., Revenue anticipation note sales in
Guided, 500 Bailey, to the National
Bank of Wilson at par with six per-
cent interest.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Measure To Finance
disqualification For
Auto Victims Killed
School Machinery Bill
Gets Favorable Sen
ate Committee r e.
port; B 9th Houses
Hold to Ban on New
Bills After Last Mid
night

Raleigh, March 28-(AP)- The
House today, 53 to 38, tabled and
killed the Senate bill to provide hos
pitalization for any person injured
in an automobile accident with funds
to be obtained by adding 80 cents to
the cost of automobile licenses.
Injured persons would have re-
ceived So a day for FL days toward
paying their hospital expenses.
The Senate received from its edu-
cation committee a recommendation
that it enact the important school
machinery act just as it passed the
House. The bill sets up the pattern
for operating all public schools.
The House sent to the Senate the
Seeley bill to permit citizens of
Morehead City to decide at the polls
If they want to .legalize pari-mutual
betting and horse and dog racing.
Whisky Bill FrOwned On.
A second unfavorable report was
given by the Senate Finance Com
mittee to the measure by Represen-
tative Quinn, of Duplin, which was
designed to prohibit wholesale Ship
ments of tax-paid whisky into dry
counties.
Twenty-one counties were includ-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Cox Claims
Sabotage On
immigration
Georgia D moor at
Says Labor Depart
ment Tampering With
Legislation; Action
Delayed on Release of
Government : L o a n
Cotton

Washington, March 28.-(AP)-
Cox, Democrat, Geor
gia, accused the Labor Department
today of trying to defeat" the inn
migration law He made the state
ment at hearings before the House
Rules Committee. of which he is a
member, on resolution directing
the immigration committee to study
all immigration, naturalization and
deportation laws and investigate the
of aliens into the United
States.
The Rules committee had endors-
ed the measure previously, but re-
considered it after opposition deve-
Hoped in the House.
Cox said there was talk that the
Labor Department was responsible
for the resolution. Representative
Schultz, Democrat, Indiana, author
Of the measure, and prospective
chairman of the inquiry, said the de-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28

Madrid, March 28.-(AP)-
War-weary republican Madrid
surrendered to triumphant ma
tionalist Spain today, and the
savage civil war which fright
ened Europe for nearly three
years was all but over.
White flags of surrender, mingled
with nationalist emblems, broke out
throughout the city early today as
leaders of the national defense coun-
Gil fled Not shot was fired when
listless soldiers of the defeated re-
publican regime laid down their
arms.
Capitulation in the conflict, which
lasted two years and eight months,
and cost hundreds of thousands of
lives, came on orders of Colonel
Adolfo Prada, the republican army's
new commander. General Jose
Miaja, Savior of Madrid" and his
war minister had gone to Valencia.
1t seemed certain that no attempt
at resistance would be made.
An estimated 10000 jubilant fas-
cists celebrated in the streets of this
city, which had been under siege
since November 6, 1886. Madrid's
famous fifth column" Generals
simo Francisco Francois sympathiz-
ers, who risked their lives to spy
for him during the war, came into
the open
Released from the strain of war.
people rushed frantically about the
streets, dancing and embracing each
other. Nationalist troops by noon
had not formally taken over the
center of the city
General Franco was expected to
make triumphal entry after "clean
up" operations.
The surrender followed long and
secret negotiations with the nation
aiist commander by national de-
tense council, which was formed to
succeed the republican government
of Premier Negrin after Franco had
pushed the Catalonian army into
France following his capture of Bar
celona.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-28
Britain Yet
Striving To
Stop Hitler
Chamberlain 7 e | | S
Commons, However,
Political D e " e | o p
ments Make Further
Progress Impossible in
Trade Talks Wit h
Germany

London, March 28-(AP)-Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the House
of Commons today that the govern
ment was actively continuing their
negotiations with other governments
on measures to keep Adolf Hitler
from further aggression This devo1-
opment came after the government
had formerly announced to a cheer
ing House Of Commons that "poli-
teal developments made further pro-
gress impossible" in trade talks with
Germany.
Oliver Stanley, president of the
Board of Trade, in discussing the
agreement recently reached between
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