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Evening star., 1939-06-02
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
In recess.
Banking subcommittee hears
Chairmen Jesse Jones OF r. F. C.
and Jerome Frank of s. E. c. tes-
tify on loans to small business
1890 am.
Banking subcommittee considers
extension of administration none
tary powers. 2:30 pm.
Labor subcommittee continues
hearings on national health pro-
gram. 10 am.
Labor subcommittee hears wit
nesses on bill to outlaw labor spying
1890 am.
House.
Debates bill to create post of
undersecretary Of commerce.
w. P. A. Investigating Committee
resumes testimony. IL am.
Foreign Affairs Committee dis
cusses neutrality legislation. 1890
am.
Labor Committee resumes hear
ings on Wagner Act amendments
10 am.
Ways and Means Committee re-
sumes tax hearings 10 am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not be In session.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Treasury Gives Data
On 1887 Income Tax
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury said yesterday a rec
ord total of 6.350,148 individuals filed
Federal income tax returns on their
1887 income. OF the total, 1871 ,44a
returns were taxable and 297B, ,7O5
were not.
No figures have been made public
yet on 1888 returns, but the 1887 re-
turns represented an increase of l7.e
per cent over 1886.
The 1887 returns showed wages
dividends and other income of the
reporting individuals totaled $21,-
238,574, 1853. Of which $l5,264 1862 All
was taxable, producing $1,14l 618,7 ,744
of taxes.
Although Federal income tax rates
range from per cent to 10 per cent
the average effective tax rate on the
taxable returns was rs per cent
compared with 8.5 per cent the pre-.
vious year.
The tabulation showed the aver.
age tax rate was brought down b,
an increase in 1887 of persons barely
coming within tax liability whose
income was exempt the previous
year.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
0'Conor Fills Posts
On Sanitary Board,
Ignores Backers
F. B. Smith Named to
Part Position;
Boswell Chairman

Ignoring the pleas of his primary
supporters in Montgomery County,
Gov. OConor of Maryland today
disclosed to his associates that he
had appointed organization Demo-
Gratis to posts on the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Frank B. Smith of Mount Rainier
was notified of his appointment as
part-time member of the COM
mission, post held for several years
by Emory H. Bogley of Bethesda.
Mr.. Smith had the backing OF the
Democratic State Central Commit
tee Of Prince Georges County, of
which he is member. 1t is re-
ported the post also was strenuously
sought by the Democratic faction in
Montgomery County headed by
James II. Pugh, which backed Gov.
|O'Conor in the primary. while the
county Democratic organiza ton sup
ported Mayor Howard w. Jackson
of Baltimore.
The Sanitary Commission admin
listers the sewer and water system
in both Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties and is composed of
residents of both counties.
At the same time Mr.. Smith was
notified of his appointment, j.
Donald Clagett of Silver Spring was
notified that the Governor had
designated him as the full-time
member of the commission post
he had held since the Ritchie ad-
ministration.
Perry Boswell of Mount Rainier
also was notified he had been
designated as chairman of the
commission. He has been acting
chairman since he succeeded T.
Howard Duckett on May /.
Evening star., 1939-06-02

tions for which provision has been
made in the Anglo French proposals
They do not want those diplomatic
consultations to be of such a nature
as to impair the automatism of the
Anglo-French-R Russian mutual as
sistance. They will have something
to ask, too, about the arrangements
of a military character which ought
to be made within a minimum of
time. They cannot forget that the
exchange of military missions prom
ised by Laval four years ago never
materialiZed.
Third, the most serious Russian
demand is likely to concern the
Baltic states Estonia and Latvia
According to the Anglo-French pro-
posals they ought not to be assisted
(like all other European states that
desire to uphold their neutrality
unless they first should have taken
the initiative to ask for help.
Let us assume that they do not
forward any request even if their
territory has been invaded, and that
under the guidance Of some min
lister like the Czecho-Sl Hacha
and Sirovy, they come to terms with
the aggressor. Would not the
strategic situation be changed to
the disadvantage of Moscow?
Moscow, to ward off such a peril
must be accorded some right stC
intervene whenever it has reasbn
to be afraid that a key, position is
about to be lost. The Russians re-
gard Estonia and Latvia in the same
way as France and Great Britain
have always regarded Belgium and
Holland. Estonia and Latvia are
at their doorstep. They cannot con-
template that they should pass under
German sovereignty.
There is a good deal to be said
for that Russian argument. At the
same time it can pave the way to
conquest pure and simple and may
cause trouble with Poland.
1t is hardly doubted in Paris that
in the end, France and Great Britain
will have to give way. Otherwise
the Anglo Turkish and Franco
Turkish treaties would crumble
down so that no lasting eastern
front could be set up and the west
ern powers would have to apply to
Hitler for the granting of second
Munich.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
1887 Errors Hold Up 1888
Farm Checks, Hatch Saws
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico told the Senate yesterday
farmers were being subjected to
unfair and unjust treatment" be-
cause of technical errors in making
benef1t payments under the admin
lstration crop control program. He
charged that benefit checks on the
1888 program were being held up
because of errors in 1897 payments.
Senator Hatch said the farmers
found it difficult to comply with
complicated regulations on acreage
reductions, soil-building practices
and other requirements in 1887.
After checks approved by local
and State committees had been sent
farmers, the Senator said, Govern
ment auditors in Washington de-
cided some farmers were overpaid
and arbitrarily demanded refunds
before making 1898 payments.
Delays in payments, Senator
Hatch said. were destroying the
faith Of farmers in their Govern
ment."
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Weather Report.
Furnished by

FURNISHED
Coumbia-Coudy rising
followed
and gentle shifting
continued cool tonight partly cloudy
not so cool followed by showers; Sunday fair
Virginia-Coudy cool,
the thunder.
afternoon Sunday warmer followed local
thunder showers in west portion.
Vignia-Local
Evening star., 1939-06-02
D. S. M. Is Awarded
To Ponuy Officer

A Navy Cross which had been
awarded to 1t. Arthur F. Anders,
second in command of the gunboat
Panay, sunk by Japanese lombard
ment airplanes in the Yangtze River
18 months ago, today was returned
to the Navy Department.
The cross had been awarded to
1t. Anders for his heroic action in
taking over command of the gun
boats crew after the commander
had been put out of action and
bringing most of them to safety
after he had been wounded himself.
The Navy Board of Awards later
reconsidered its action and awarded
him the more priced Distinguished
Service Medal in lieu of the Navy
Cross. The D. S. M. was presented
to 1t. Anders recently in a ceremony
aboard the battleship Mississippi.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
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Evening star., 1939-06-02
W.P. A.-Bui|t Lake
To Profit Owners Of
Club, Probers Told
House Committee
Renews Inquiry Into
Tennessee Cuse
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The owners of the Rustic Club
in timberland area near Nashville,
Tenn, confidently expect to profit
we'll for themselves through the
w. P. Adult Marrowbone Lake, on
which Silt ,525.47 in Federal funds
and $26 ,09l.78 in State money have
been spent. Harry S. Barger, special
investigator, told the House Appro-
priations Committee today.
The committee this morning re-
newed its inquiry into the operations
of the Works Progress Administra-
ton following an 11-day recess.
When Marrowbone Lake is filled
the 100-foot-deep shoreline owned
by the State will be covered with
water, and the new shoreline will be
contiguous, in part, to the 200-acrs
property of Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Rawlings, the clubs proprietors, In.
vestigator Barger reported. He said,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawlings intended
constructing the lake themselves
through putting up a dam when
they bought their property six years
ago, but they found lake making too
costly venture.
Blocks Small Stream.
The dam, Mr.. Barger testified,
blocks the flow of water of
stream smaller in width than Rock
Creek He showed the committee
members a photograph he took Of
a real estate dealers sign by The
lake site, advertising home, cot
tage and camp properties" for sale
by the Wrenne Realtors in Nash
vile.
Mr.. Barger also was ready to tell
the committee about enhancement
of private property values in con-
nection with five other lake projects
in Tennessee. His disclosures are the
result of two weeks inquiry In the
State, to which he was dispatched
by the committee with an aide
when his previous testimony about
land profits was called into ques-
ton.
Unlike his previous testimony, his
NAoSAcoulC CD poOds "Cic IlOg llllhpu
with profits to politically prominent
Tennesseans.
OF No Use for State.
The Marrowbone Lake project. he
said, was undertaken at the in
stance of the Tennessee Department
of Conservation as a fish and game
and recreation project The own
ers OF property in the neighborhood
decided the 100-foot strip of land to
give the State agency the shore
line. He said that if the agency
could not use the lake for it's con-
templated purpose-a recreation
area-it would come into the con-
troll of the private property owners
in the neighborhood.
When he heard the States 100
foot strip would be covered by
water, Representative johnson,
Democrat, of West Virginia asked:
There can be no possible use.
can there, for the State if it doesn't
own the land?"
Mr.. Barger agreed.
Investigators from Illinois were
to report to the committee after he
finished.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 2.-Headed by
Johnstown, winner of the Kentucky
Derby and Withers Mile, eight
three-year-olds today were named
for the list running of the $4,000
Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park
tomorrow
In addition to William Woodward s
big colt, the rich stake drew John
Hay Whitney's Heather Broom,
Gilded Knight from Mrs. H. s.
Phipp's Wheatley Stable, Wood
wards Challenge, A. G. Bostwick's S
Belay, William. Ziegler. jr.'s, Time
Sheet, Hal Price Headley's Hash and
j. E. Widener's unbeaten Knicker-
booker.
Johnstown, Gilded knight, second
to Challedon In the Preakness, and
Challenge will run coupled as the
Evening star., 1939-06-02
tomorrow,

Pressure continues low. but rising over,
and east Of Labrador, Belle Isle Newfound-
land, 90 So inches. and 1t is relatively low
OF the virginia Capes, Cape Henry Va.
5000 inches. Another disturbance is
moving orth-northeastward over the
296s inches, with a trough extending
south -southwestward to the Rio Grande
Valley, Del Rio. Tex. 29.72 inches. High
coast. st. Georges. Bermuda, 30.ls inches.
and another hiEh-pressure area is ad-
vancine slowly eastward over Northeastern
inches. with wedge extending south
southeastyard over New England. Pres
sure Is also high over British Columbia.
Calgary. Alberta 5000 inches. During
the last "a hours showers have occurred
in the Plains States the middle and
States the Ohio Valley and in the Middle
Atlantic and South Atlantic States. Tenn
peratures have fallen in the Middle At
tain region
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Family of Dr.. Morse Associated
With g. u. Since Its Foundinq
D. c. Physician Great
Grandson of Student
$50 Years Ago

For longevity Of continuous asso-
Citations with Georgetown University
the record is said to be held by the
family of Edward Clarke Morse,
M. D., 'l8, of 2O23 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, which has contributed
students in succeeding generations
throughout the $50 years Of the
university's existence.
A native Washingtonian DR.. Morse
Is great-grandson OF Philemon
Charles Wederstrandt of Maryland,
the second student to enter the
college after its founding by his
kinsman, Archbishop John Carroll OF
Baltimore. At the age of 20,
Wederstrandt served on the frigate
Constellation as one of the youngest
heroes in the first Navy of the United
States during the quasi-war with
France in 1899.
Only Two Students.
He registered at Georgetown Col
lege short while after the arrival
of the first student, William CASTOR
of North Carolina. For a month
they were the only students.
Wederstrandt was born March 7
1779, at Blakeford, an ancestral
plantation in Queen Anne County
on the Eastern Shore, still one OF
the show-places in Maryland. He was
the son of Conrad Theodore Weder-
strandt, originally from Sweden, and
his wife, the former Mary Blake
She was second cousin of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton. His grand
mother. Sarah Darnall, was a first
cousin to Archbishop Carroll.
The Blake family had accompanied
the Leonard Calvert colonists to
Maryland in 1884 and the estate,
where Wederstrandt was born, was
one of the grants made by the lord
proprietary, known as Lords Grant
Entering the Navy in the first class
of midshipmen, Wederstrandt rose
to be a commander. He was in the
historic first action of the new Navy
when the Constellation captured the
hard fight off the southeast OF
Puerto Rico on FeDfuary y, lI9U.
Later he took conspicuous part In
the expedition against the Tripoli
and Malay pirates, and when rigor-
Gus service impaired his health in
1910 he resigned his commission
Married to Helen Smith a few years
later, at Popular Grove, near Balti-
more, he settled down to farm life
But not for long. When the British
fleet attacked Baltimore in 1914 he
volunteered for his last service with
the old Navy.
The sea lured him, however, and
he entered upon a career in the
merchant marine. Finally selling
his vessel he retired to sugar plan
tation near New Orleans, where he
died on March IL, 1857, at the age OF
Evening star., 1939-06-02

by Franco British guarantees.
Doubtless in perfect good faith, but,
to dagger sharp suspiciousness,
what had Lisbon to do with the
agreement, and-at least primarily
with Danzig?
Nor was that all. It is a cardinal
principle of the Kremlin's policy
that the U. S. S. r., France and
Britain should unite on terms of abb
solute equality-"full mutual reci-
procity,' as the Russians call it..
The U. S. S. r. prides itself upon
hard boiled objectivity,' but, in
matters of armour propre, it is
sometimes as touchy ahnut -saght
as any debutante. and ones contribu-
tory cause of Litvinoff's downfall
was that the Kremlin felt he had
insufflciently maintained Soviet
prestige abroad.
Reply Not Unreasonable.
So Molotoff made an answer
which is specifically not unreason-
able. why should we be bound to
automatic action by four commit
ments to five nations when you have
no such undertakings to make on
our behalf? Do you call that re-
ciprocity?"
1t may be argued that Molotoff s
speech is not the Russian reply to
the Franco British proposals, and
Paris has been uttering squeaks OF
optimism to the effect that the reply
when it came, would be more salts
factory. Which I venture gravely
to doubt.
1t does not, however, follow that
the negotiations are doomed to
failure. Far from it, provided the
French and British make an effort
to see things from the Russian
viewpoint and meet them halfway
on what, after all, is a relatively
minor matter. If it gratifies the
Russian demand for reciprocity
to include Latvia, Estonia and Fin
land on the same guarantee basis
as Poland, Rumania, Greece. Tur-
key and Portugal-even though
those Baltic neighbors of the U. S
S. R. want no such compromising
protection-well, what is another
commitment or so among so many?
What matters now is to get the
main peace pact signed, the main
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Johnstown Heads 8 Entries
For $5O,OO0 Belmont Stakes

Trainer James Ftzsimmons entry.
Unless the mile-and-a-half going is
muddy. Challenge probably will be
scratched. Challedon was not eligi-
BILE for the stake.
AS the result of winning last Sat-
urday's Withers in a common gal
lop. Johnstown is expected to go to
the post as the odds-on-favorite.
He again will have Jimmy Stout in
the saddle, while Leon Haas will be
up on Gilded knight. .-
Johnstown, a front runner, drew
the No. l post position, with :Heath-
er Broom, trained by Earl Sande
and third in the Derby, in No. 2 and
Gilded knight No. 3. Knicker-
booker, surprise winner of the Met
ropolitan Mile for his third triumph
In as many years, drew the outside
stall.
Evening star., 1939-06-02

78, man who left tradition to his
country and to his college.
Dr. Morse is the son of Mrs. Alex
ander Porter Morse of this city. His
father, a native of Louisiana, was a
member of the first class to gradu-
ate from the Georgetown Law
School in 1872. A prominent attor-
ney and Confederate veteran, the
late Mr.. Morse had held responsible
positions in the Government serv-
ice. Valley View Farm on Foxall
road was their country estate for
many years.
His grandfather on his mothers
side was DR.. Daniel Boone Clarke,
class of 1857, at Georgetown Med
ical School, one of Washington S
oldest and best-known residents
Two grand-uncles. William F. Clarke
of the class of 1888 and Richard H
Clarke, A. B.. '46; A. NJ, '49: LII. D.
1872, also were Georgetown stu
dents. The former became a Jesuit
priest.
One of Old Families.
The Clarkes were one of Mary
lands oldest families. Robert Clarke
who came to the Colony in 1887
was privy councillor to Lord Balti-
more and an agent to the Jesuit
fathers, Andrew White and John
Altman Gravenor, in their dealings
with the Indians.
So with this background OF
Georgetown tradition DR.. Morse can
claim close partnership in the uni
versity's sesquicentennial celebra-
ton.
He was president of his medical
class in 1918, serving after gradua-
ton in the Medical Reserve during
the World War. Shortly afterward
he married Miss Alice Beuregard
OF New Orleans, a granddaughter
of Gen. Beuregard, the Confederate
hero.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
AIexundrion Appointed

Dallas Llewellyn Peyton of 1903
Prince street. Alexandria, Va, has
accepted an appointment as second
lieutenant in the Quartermaster Re-
serve Corps of the Army.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Pilot to Lie Down

Alex Henshaw plans to pilot an
airplane alone 10000 miles from
London to Australia while lying
down, and expects to complete the
feat in less than two days.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Series Complete

All 10 Of the symphonies and
symphonic compositions fea-
tured in The Evening Stars
music appreciation campaign
now are available at the special
booth in the lobby of The Star
Building. The booth is open
each weekday from am. to
6 pm, but is closed on Sum-
days.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Report for Last "a Hours,

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hiehest. sb, 3 pm. yesterday Year
Lowest. 81, 8 Am. today. Year ago So
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 95. on May 81
Lowest, II, on February 20.
Humidity for Last Fl Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
HIGHEST, 81 per cent at 4 am today
Lowest, 81 per cent, At noon yesterday
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun. today 444 T:27
9un tomorrow 4;44 T:2S
Noon. today --- 500 pm. 5:14 am
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In tnches in the
Evening star., 1939-06-02
River Renorf

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy
at Harpers Ferry. Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Suryey)
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GHOST Girl.

Here is another Chicago version
Of the Ghost Girl story. All parti-
cipants white:
A fellow dancing with beautiful
girl in Northside joyspot noticed
that she felt cold as ice. When
they finished dancing he almost had
the chills, Told his partner about
his unusual experience. Partner
danced with her-same result.
Upon taking the girl home one of
the boys insisted she wear his big
heavy overcoat. She did and turn
ed the collar high around her neck.
On the way she wrote a note for
them to deliver to her mother whom
she hadn't seen in three years. When
they arrived at cemetery gate boy
stepped out, opened door for the
girl to alight-she was gone. His
coat was sitting up stiff and straight
as though some one was still in it.
They hurried to the mothers ad.
dress and were told the girl had
been dead three years from influ-
enza. Always so anxious to show
her charms, never dressed warmly
Result the flu, and death.
Q. L. Spencer, Ritz Hotel, 4oe
Oakwood Blvd, Chicago.
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HIS father owned q chain OF hat
III stores in New York. and sent
his son to Trinity School in Mama
roneck, New York, and had him
"prepped" for Yale at Heathcote
Hall. Rye, New York Everything
seemed set fol the young mans
career as an engineer But he said
no to Yale, and started instead in
Wall Street. hoping for a career as
financier. One year later, he was
in the Navy, and ii was at the
Great Lakes Training Station that
his musical talent was discovered
Instead of being put into active
service, the war for him was just
series of musical shows. In a few
years he had qualified for member.
ship In the American Society OF
Composers, Authors and Publishers,
which had just begun to assume an
important place in the musical life
OF America.
His first professional theatrical
success was the musical comedy.
Tive Little Girls In Blue" with the
song, "Oh, Met oh, My! Oh, You'll"
as ita feature. Two years later
came ~WiIdfoWer" with "Bambo.
lima, tilsn mo. No, Nannette" with
'Tea For Two" and Il Want To Be
Happy (lyrics for the latter two by
Irving Caesar) Other productions
that followed INCLUDED Hit The
Deck" with .Hallelujah" and
Sometimes I'm Happy, Great
Day featuring the songs Great
Day" and Without a Song
His first movie job was to create
the music for the first Astaire-
Rogers musical, called Flying
Down TO Rio" After several months
of intensive work. he broke down
and was sent TO recover his health
In the hills OF Colorado
His friends in ASCA2 ed in the
4 world Of the theatre were happy to
learn recently that he had fully re-.
covered and was again preparing to
continue his career as a songwriter
His eastern home is In West
chester County, he fishes IN New
Jersey. and tries to spend his win
ters in New Orleans at the Loyola
University music school
His name is
sustuiloA 1usou!A
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STSHE recent festive season no
q doubt has left your food budget
trifle the worse for wear. So it's
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