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Evening star., 1939-02-08

Of the American people on the fact
that political factions feel Federal
judgeships are part of the patron
age" Of political warfare, and that
men appointed for life who are
supposed to administer justice to all
are part of the spoils system OF
present-day politics. This in some
respects is a blatant denial Of the
spirit of constitutionalism and would
long ago have been barred by public
opinion had there been palpable
instances such as have 5ust occurred
in Virginia and Louisiana to &C
centuate the whole system OF select
ing Federal District Court judges.
The Senate has assumed an emoar-
RAISING and awkward position by
allowing political considerations to
become so influential, and so has
the President. The only constructive
solution, therefore, is to apply the
power of the Constitution, which
says Federal judges may be ap-
pointed by the courts of law" An
act of Congress could vest the ap-
pointing power in committees Of
Judges of the United States Court
of Appeals having. If necessary, due
regard in total number each year to
some statutory principle of selection
from a bipartisan roster furnished
by the local bar associations.
(Copyright, 1939)
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luton by Senator Nicely, by which
the Senate will be opened by prayer
on every calendar day, instead Of
only on Legislative" days as in the
past. The latter are fiction by
which the Senate may free itself
from things diurnal, as effectively
as did Joshua. But, since the Sem
ate is entitled to good SIG prayer
on every real, not flgurative, work.
ing day, 1t is going to get it. Pos
sibly as tribute to Chaplain Phil
lips prayers, the vote on Senator
Neely's resolution was unanimous.
While both parties in the Senate
have on many occasions claimed di-
vine guidance and inspiration for
their side, Mr.. Phillips, although a
Republican, appointed by Calvin
Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly
non-partisan. He is distinguished
Episcopalian clergyman, rector Of
the Church of the Epiphany, and
has discharged his Office with SIM
pie eloquence and dignity.
Chaplain Phillips, 60 years old, is
a native of Springfield. Ohio, edu-
Gated at Wittenberg College and
the General Theological Seminary.
He engaged in special studies at
oxford in 1910 and 1911 and has
served pastorates in Cincinnati,
Chicago. St. Louis and Philadel-
phia. His children are named Faith,
Deacon and Sallie Hews.
(Copyright, 1939)
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Rare Books and MANUSCRIPTS
Shown by Bar President
(Copyrisht, 1887

ma and. in revised form, The Re-
volt of Islam," 1914 and 1918; "Adon-
ais" 1921.
OF the literary relics of the tragic
career of John Keats, Mr.. Hogan
chose for showing: "Poems," 1917;
"Endymion" and Isabella first
editions in original covers; likewise
the pathetic letter which the poet
wrote to his sweetheart, Fanny
Brawne, when he realized that, be-
cause of his failing health, they
never could marry.
Equally appealing to the imagina-
ton are the letter which Lord Byron
wrote to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, requesting a special license to
wed Anne Isabelle Milbanke, De-
cember is, 1914: the license itself,
dated January 2, 1915, and "Childe
Harolds' will and testament, signed
July 20 the same year. Mr.. Hogans
books by Byron include: Hebrew
Melodies" 1915; The Prisoner of
Chillon," 1916, and Don JUAN" in
six volumes, 1919.
Both the Kilmarnock and the Ed
inburgh editions of Robert Burns
Poems" were displayed. With them
appeared the first draft Of "Auld
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Transamerica Counsel
Refuses 10 Show Records
BY the Associated Press.

Counsel for Transamerica Corp,
5000, 100000 California holding con-
cern, refused yesterday to produce
the company's records for 1927 and
1928 at the request of counsel for
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
The commission is examining
charges that the company filed false
and misleading" financial state
ments.
o. John Rogge, S. E. c. counsel,
called only one witness to the stand,
w. L. Andrews, treasurer of Trans
america. He had little opportunity
to testify, however, as most of the
session was devoted to wrangling
over accounting procedure and the
relevancy of evidence.
Mr.. Rogge contended the commits
sion's order called for all records
from 1927 to date" He asked the
witness to produce the records Of
Bancitaly Corp. for 1927 and 1923
on the grounds that they related to
the compensation of A. P. Giannini,
chairman of Transamerica. Banc-
italy Corp, the predecessor of
Transamerica, no longer exists.
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Washington Observations
Playing Politics With U. S. Foreign Policy
Is Dangerous From Many Angles

Gus career of a typical corn-belt
statesman from Iowa, who sets out
to win reelection to the Senate
against an INSCRIPTIONS rival, the
Governor of his State. The heroines
of the story are Uncle Lancy,s"
three orphaned Iowa nieces, whose
unconventional campaign stunts
win the day for him in a climactic
finish that would have put Huey
Long to the blush. Miss Hueston,
like her three main characters, was
born in an Iowa parsonage; like
them, she went to Washington to
live, and like them, she has had a
front seat at the national circus.
During the 1888 campaign, the
authoress visited number of West
ern States, to observe at close range
the latest catching devices in
voked to entice the glorious and
gullible electorate. Judging by the
books illustrated blurb, a bathing
beauty act was one of the come-on
tricks to which the rival senatorial
candidates resorted.
X
Senate rejection of Floyd H.
Roberts as United States district
judge for Western Virginia was
more than a slap at the White
House. 1t was essentially a symbol
of the Senate's affectionate regard
for Carter Glass. The near-unanim-
ity of an 8-to-1 vote was also due,
old Senate hands say, to the rather
unusual circumstances that the
nominee in question was personally
obnoxious" not only to one of the
Senators from his State, but to both.
Generally, an Objectionable Federal
appointee's non confirmation is
asked by single Senator.
Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Of
Texas, limeiighted afresh by the
pending unpleasantness between the
Senate and the White House, re-
mains incorrigibly dry, despite re-
peal which is more than can be said
of many a former prohibitionist.
Whenever the chairman of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee and author
of the eighteenth amendment is in
vited by a Washington hostess at
dinner or a cocktail party to have
one. Sheppard lifts the glass in
gallant salute and says: Drink to
me only with thine eyes!"
Those two ranking major generals
Of the United States Army who are
out in front for appointment as
chief of staff when Gen. Malin
Craig is retired for age next August,
are both heroes of what's known in
the Army as The Crime of '98."
In that Spanish American War year,
the Army gave lieutenants' commits
sions to a lot of young civilians.
Among them were the present Maj.
Gen. Hugh A. Drum and Maj. Gen
John L. De Witt. AS The Crime of
'73" became a popular Bryan
Mckinley campaign slogan two
years previous, the Army coined
The Crime OF '98" as a wheeze for
expressing the chagrin of West
Pointers over the wholesale intrusion
of raw young "cits" in the regular
establishment. Gen. Drum is now
commander of the I'd Corps Area
at Governors Island. Gen. De Witt
is commandant of the Army War
College In Washington.
(copyright. 1939)
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Commonwealth Southern iqudated Meanwhile
monwealh Southern Supreme
Court which doubt Wendell
president And when the negoiatos ended
haggng making Wike accepted
the
For Hopkins utilities problem
been settled will be harder him
peacemakes olive wreath labor field His estmable
reconcile the A. I. O. several years
schoomarm persuade two charges to stop
periods in spite of all Miss Perkins persuasive telephone calls
boys"
The President himself the
others which he Hopkins The last serious
at A. F. of LC O. peacemaking undertaken about six
months by exceedingly tacfu able and amiabe young
official in whom the White House placing increasing
Being former businessman great believer in personal contact
the official bent all his energies bringing John Lewis
and William Green together He argued he pleaded
he warmly emotional and darky prophetic StiGreen
fatty refused talk and although Lewis agreed
representative would venture
nothing.
then presidential advisers wrought their best with
around Lewis Sidney Himan the c. l. o. Daniel
Tobn leaders been appealed
the appeals have borne fruit.
Hopkins labor situation he will have three
advantages Both and Green like him. His position
authority.
months become clearer clearer that
abor rank file These the rances the New
the labor schsm
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spect European policy neutrality
into 1917and does not preclude the Of
balance of-power diplomacy in both Europe and Asia.
would stupid to that frontier the
River which anchukuo from the Soviet Union
frontier the Rhine because 1t
Germany Frontiers fulcrum for
the balance which wish maintain but be identified
with the balance itself
designed maintain greatest peaceful
neutrality possible period of 9O45 backed
Japan against Russia because Russia seemed to be dominating Asatlc
politics. recently tended China and Russia
against threatens to dominate Asia
backed France and Great Britain with
increasing oceincludng ineventionagans
After the armistce the allied
left the saddle, shifted
diplomatic economic sympathies Germany Italy
Germany Italy sufficiently disturb the
into accord with England and France At time
and Italy buffer States against
the another regard these dmoc
buffer against the Fascists We would
and Italy democratic societies. highly
moral reasons to justify our so doing.
What defend boils down policies
freedom military either the Atlantic
Pacific; control of the hmus of approaches
either the canal which
ishmus We would follow the policies If
pletey altered institutions
totaliarian government.
Since republic, acuated by democratic
find easier deal with nations which either
principle We deal
military relationships British democracies which
difficulty dealing
ary of respective political institutions And the
friendship for Soviet Union with
the will and ability of the Red
balance to Japan in Asia and to Germany in Europe.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Some of the rarest and most in
teresting books and manuscripts of
their kind in the world have been
on private exhibition in a Washing
ton home the last few days. They
are the property Of Frank j. Hogan,
president of the American Bar As
sociation. and have been shown to
invited friends at his residence at
1920 Massachusetts avenue NV.
First of the volumes displayed was
the Lyrical Ballads" of William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, including in its contents
the original printing of the latter's
Ancient Mariner" 1t bears the
date 1893. and associated with it in
the same glass case were Words
worth's white Doe of Rylstone,
1915. and George Coleridge's Bio
graphia Literaria," 1917.
The 1914 edition of Sir Walter
SCOTS "Waverly' is another of Mr..
Hogans treasures. 1t appeared CO.
incidentally with Shelleys "Refuta-
ton of Deism: A Dialogue" also
exhibited. Other first printings from
the pen of the atheist bard" are:
The Cenci," 1919; 'Laon and Cyth-
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Lang Syne" in the form of letter
to Mrs. Dunlap.
Among prose works selected by
Mr.. Hogan from his collection for
exhibition were: Charles Lambs
Works 1918. 10 years before Ella;
William Hazhtt's characters in
Shakespeare Plays" 1917; Jane
Austen's Emma" 1916, and Mrs.
Shelley's "Frankenstein."
Serving as footnote to the dis.
play was Oscar Wilde's sonnet, pro-
testing against the sale OF Keats
letters.
Mr.. Hogan has been accumulating
rare books for many years. His spe-
cialized library contains more than
$500 titles, including q copy Of
Shakespeare First Folio.
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John the New Dealers have their consolation They
Joseph Padway the
A. L. and submitted but Green and
They assert that the heads
big A. F. Of international unions not consulted and
opposed to the amend
Stories being told OF rmon-
the A. F. of l.. Miami meeting
unusual job considering his former
Beelzebub winning the respect of the
him. It remains to be whether ne
enough inspire only the respect but also the awe OF
unless he frighen sde the
cannot look forward to immediate success
(Oopyrghted,
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Norrogunsett Boy
Naval Base Boosted

Plans for proposed naval base
at Quonset Point in Narragansett
Bay were outlined last night by Sem
ator Theodore Francis Green and
Representative Harry Sandager,
both of Rhode Island, at a meeting
of the Rhode Island State Society
at the Roger Smith Hotel.
Senator Green said that Narra-
gansett Bay provides one of the
worlds greatest natural harbors and
strategically it would be one of the
first points of attack on United
States shores.
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y
this desperate and dangerous game,
the minority has willing allies IN
some anti-New Deal Democrats, who
view without alarm anything that
sabotages the Roosevelt cause. 9th
er motives, of course, are assigned
for the vendetta against the Presi-
dent. Taking the country down
the road to war;" "entangling al
liances," secret diplomacy" and
other misdemeanors are ascribed as
the reasons for the hulabaloO
churned up over the French air.
plane deal. But, as AL Smith might
say, you can slice it as thin as you
please; it's still baloney. It's poll
tics, and ruthless politics, at that.
4 X X +
It's perilous politics, too. BY di-
viding congressional sentiment, hith-
erto pretty solid for the defense
program, its prompt and complete
enactment has unquestionably been
put in jeopardy. Equally certain is
it that the hand of American dlplo-
macy in Europe, notably in Berlin
and Rome, has been crippled by what
the Fascist controlled press is able
to depict as disunited America
and one which no longer universally
supports her President in his stand
for democracy against dictatorship.
If the administration has any plans
to seek modification or repeal of
| the Neutrality Act, its chances Of
success are undoubtedly far lower
today than they were before the
isolationist-pacifist group, fomented
by both Democratic and Republican
would-be candidates for President
In 1910, cleared for action over the
specious airplane issue. Prospects
for passage of the Ludlow war ref
erendum have suddenly perked up,
too.
In New York an eminent French
man has just arrived. To Ameri-
can friends he imparts the con-
viction which he says Is held
throughout the European democ-
racies-that as long as Roosevelt is
President of the United States,
therell be no war with the dictator
ships, because the latter are per-
suaded that American moral in
fluence and economic support in
such a conflict would be with France
and Great Britain and against Ger
many and Italy. The same French
man foreshadows that the Fascist
powers, under Nazi leadership, will
be found ranged against Roosevelt
in 1910, should he aspire to third
term, or against any Democrat who
bears the Roosevelt label. In that
event, Woodrow Wilson's experience
In 1916 will have been repeated
The so-called German vote and
pro- German vote in that campaign
were openly against Wilson and
covertly modified on behalf of
Hughes. although the Republican
nominee personally made nothing
savoring of bid for German" sup
port.
Another novel of Washington
political life, THE Honorable Uncle
Lancy." is published by the Bobbs-
Merrill Co. today. The author is a
Washingtonian, Ethel Hueston, who
has a score of books to her credit
Her latest deals with the tempestu-
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Scout Drive

The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association is sponsoring a
membership drive for Boy Scout
Troop 40 in the Columbia Heights
area in connection with National
Scout Week this week. An exhibit
by the troop is on display on upper
Fourteenth street. The troop meets
Friday nights at 7:30 pm. at st.
Stephens Church at Sixteenth and
Newton streets NV.
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The Capital Parade
T.V A. Deal Leaves Hopkins Free to Seek
End Of c. !. O.-A. F. L. Fight

at his meetings with business advisory
Harry Hopkins little speech He warning
the business his secret and swearing that his
words leaked would them And then nmang
had direct authorization the White House
settle the labor and utilities problems
Like his elevation to the secretaysp of the choice
White rather building him
fortunately Hopkins already sorn his
glory. Valley Authority
Commonweah and Southern its valley plants
last legal
utilities problem settled before Hopkins
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Amnesio Victim Receivers

An amnesia victim regained his
memory at Gallinger Hospital late
yesterday and identified himself as
Allen Brown, 38. of Baltimore. His
father, George Brown, came here
to return his son home. Allen
Brown told police he didn't know
who he was when he was taken to
Gallinger early yesterday morning.
Evening star., 1939-02-08

President ROOSe-
welt over foreign
policy. The op-
position is out to
discredit F. D. r.
at almost any
cost-to torpedo
the third term
business, and to
SOW mutiny in
D e m ra t c
ranks on a scale
designed to di-
vide the enemy
and insure Re-
publican nation
al victory two
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Oeen 1OTIndlly
disclosed, and it
does no credit to
the method, GUS
tomary though
1t be un d e r
r e p u b ! | C a n
and Democratic
admin strait ons,
whereby Federal
jud ges ar e
Sc e c t e d in
America.
The President,
on the one hand,
feels he has the
right to nOnl-
nate WhOneVer
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ular daily sched-
ule. Last year,
the occasional
prayers by the
official chaplain,
the Rev. ZeBar-
n ey Th orn e
Phillips, cost the
Go v e n m e n t
$420 a prayer.
Now the rate for
each will be
about SIG, as
Mr.. Phillips gets
81 $50 a year.
The c h a n g e
W a S b r o u 6 h t
about, by a. reSO.
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He and the President have dis
cussed the business-G Government
relationship in great detail. Hop
kins may perhaps have urged the
Importance of a utilities settle
ment, but that Is about all the
part he can have played. For the
rest, when the President put the
Idaho lame-duck, Senator James
P. Pope, on the T. V. A. Board,
he told him very emphatically
that the T, v. AS dispute with
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The open door Freedom Of
world trade); 60 Disarmament,
and a. Self determination (po-
litical, economic and social in
dependence of nations.
These principles were perhaps
an over-simplification, particu-
larly as regards the first point.
From the time of George WASH
ington we have tried to maintain
the detachment and basic neu-
tralitv of the Americas with re.
Evening star., 1939-02-08

TO assign any particular point
in Europe, Asia or Latin America
as our frontier is the bunk. 1t
is the bunk to limit or even to
define the means by which we
shall support the particular
country which may, from time to
time, be outweighed in the bal
ance of power. The whole world
is our frontier and has long been
so regarded, even as during the
Niuil lIIar thu H1aric Tn, mira
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is healed the jig is up Tor tnem.
Meanwhile, in addition to all
the old subjects of controversy, a
new and especially embittering
one has been added, in the shape
of the A. F. of L. amendments to
the Labor Relations Act. These
are furiously opposed, as every
one knows, by the c. I. o. and
the administration, which puts
the administration in the posi-
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|HeudIineFoIk
And dWhut
They Do
Rev. zeB. 7. Phillips
Now Proys Daily
For Senate
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.

The United States Senate, possibly
"standin' in the need of prayer"
does away with piece work suppli-
cation and puts praying on the reg
Evening star., 1939-02-08
We, the People
Whole World Hos Been Frontier Of U. S.
Since the Civil War
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

President Roosevelt and words-1ies"
TO dismiss the that said that frontier
dspace neutrality-suspicious. foreign
policy, restated
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Not even the Republican high
command at the Capitol, I suppose,
would deny that the G. o. P. Is
playing 1910 politics with a ven-
geance in the present melee with
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Public Sees
Po|iticuIFeu
In Judgeships
Might Well Wonder
Why kon-Portisun
Choice Won't Do
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

The story of the friction between
the two Virginia Senators and the
President relative to the naming of
Federal district judge now has
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eHE opinions OF ,oriters this page their oD
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-01
Seven Injured in
Auto Accidents on
North End Roads

Seven persons suffered slight in
juries in the Brawley district in
traffic accidents in the last IL
hours, Highway Patrolman Walter
Walsh said Wednesday.
At l am. Wednesday five per-
sons were injured when car driv-
en- by Orval A. Burns, %, Ell Gen.
tro, crashed when he tried to
"straighten out a turn" two and a
quarter miles north of the inter-
section of the Holtville- Central
Valley highways.
The other accident occurred at
500 pm. Tuesday 200 feet north
of the Brawley main canal south
west of Brawley when a passenger
grabbed the wheel of a car driven
by j. B. Poirier, 28, Ell Centre,
Walsh said. The car overturned
in the borrow pit, injuring two per-
sons slightly. Miss ESta Ericsson,
81, and Mrs. Kenneth Willingham,
both of El Centre, were injured.
Mrs. Betty Ruston, l8, Edwin
Ruston, 10, Shirley Minshew, IT,
Robert Minshew, 10, and the driver
all suffered cuts and bruises in the
early morning crash. Mrs. Evelyn
Burns, another passenger, was un-
injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-01

IlroI one 10 arrive JneTe lOunQ no
trace of the freighter or its crew.
The search continued in heavy seas
The Coulmore's distress calls last
night indicated that it had been
attacked by submarine. But this
was not definitely confirmed. Brit
iSh naval circles discussed the pos
sibility that German surface
raider-perhaps a pocket battleship
made the attack.
The United States, trying not
only to save the Coulmores crew
but to obtain all possible informa-
ton on naval operations near these
shores, mobilized all available res
cue ships. If the Coulmore reported
its position correctly, the attack
occurred inside the American neu-
trality zone proclaimed by the Pan
anna conference.
The cutter George M. Bibb, first
to arrive at the position given in
the SOS, reported moderate
southerly gale was blowing and
that it was continuing it's search
northward lin very heavy seas
The Bibb expected to make con-
tact before noon with a coast guard
flying boat which left New York
shortly before 7 am. Another coast
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-01
States Split Up
Over Thanksgiving
By UNITED PRESS

The states were evenly divided
Wednesday on whether to observe
Thanksgiving on Nov %, as pro-
claimed by President Roosevelt, or
on the traditional date of the last
Thursday of the month.
The governors of 90 states, re-
porting in a survey, said they would
support the president. They in
cluded California. Twenty three
others said they would hold to
tradition and proclaim Nov. 80 as
the Thanksgiving date. The gov
ernors of Texas and Colorado said
their states would observe both
dates.
President Roosevelt asked the ma
ton in a formal proclamation yes
terday to set aside Nov. % to give
thanks to the Ruler of the universe
for the strength which He has
vouchsaved us to carry on our daily
laborS" and for the peace this ma
ton enjoys "in world of turmoil" ="
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-01
Winnie Ruth Judd Had Key to Ward
Lost Months Ago, Official Says

PHOENIX, Nov. l. CUP)-Dr.
Louis SAKE, head of the state hos
pital for the insane, said today a
stolen ward key enabled Winnie
Ruth Judd, the trunk murderess, -
to make her sensational escape from
the institution last week.
"a key to her ward which we
had listed as lost months ago was
found on her person when she re-
turned" DR.. SAKE said. The tiger
woman apparently had stolen the
key and kept it hidden until she
found an opportune moment to
flee, he said.
Authorities previously had ex-
pressed the belief that Winnie Ruth
had either inside or outside help or
was able to flee because of negli-
gence on the part of the hospital
staff.
Meanwhile, the blonde murdereSS