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Evening star., 1939-01-21
Pound Urges Recording
Of Common Law

Many Government administrative
agencies ignore established legal
precedents in attempting to decide
each case that comes before them
on its apparent merits. Roscoe
Pound, dean emeritus of the Har-
ward Law School, charged last night
In urging recodifcation of the COM
mon law
He spoke at Catholic University,
delivering the last of series of lee
lures sponsored by the university
Law School as a part of its partici-
patton in the c. U. golden jubilee
celebration.
He said simplification of the COM
mon law through recodification was
necessary to make more understand
able the complex mass of judicial
rulings, statutes and administrative
precedents and rules. He urged a
reorganization along the lines of
"the old natural law codes"
Pointing out that religious prin-
ciples are the basis of common law,
Dean Pound traced the development
of modern jurisprudence from its
beginnings in the divine law"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Yeggs Fail in Effort
To Crack Safe With
Acety|ene Torch
Two Bondits Take $65
From Liquor Store;
Purses Snotched

An attempted safe cracking at a
paper store in the 600 block of K
street NV. was discovered early to-
day, following the armed robbery
Of liquor store and two purse
snatchings last night.
Joseph Freedman, manager of
the paper company, told police
yeggs entered the store by saving
the bars from real window and
burned the combination of the
safe with an acetylene torch in a
futile effort to crack the strong box
Police said the Office was ran
sacked but nothing was reported
missing.
Two white bandits, one brandish-
ing revolver, forced Morris Ack-
man, manager of liquor store at
HOO Ninth street NV, to sur
render $65. The proprietor was
ordered to lie on the floor back of
the counter and the thugs escaped
in waiting automobile.
Mrs. Rosa w. Hogeland of the
Westchester Apartments told police
two youths snatched her pocket
book, containing more than $50, as
she walked on Cathedral avenue
near her apartment last night.
Another purse-snatching was re-
ported by Miss Edna Fox, Federal
Housing Administration employe,
who said she was robbed of 81 last
night in the 1900 block OF R street
NV. Miss Fox, who lives at 1880
Sixteenth street NV, said a white
man holding a revolver seized her
purse and fled through an alley.
Meanwhile, two alleged members
Evening star., 1939-01-21
State Election Urged
For A. A. A. Committees


DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 21-
Iowa Farm Bureau convention dele
gates yesterday urged that members
of the State A. A. A. Committees be
elected by farm program CO.
operators as step to hold "bureau-
cratic control from above to an
absolute minimum"
While the convention indorsed the
principles of the A. A. A. farm pro-
gram, it adopted unanimously a
resolution which stated in part:
I'VE believe much progress
could be made in the direction of
Improving the whole situation by
the co-operators' electing the State
Agricultural Conservation Commit
tees, who in turn shall be vested with
the power to appoint and remove
fieldmen.
IF any program of the magnitude
Of our present agricultural program
is to be successful part of demo-
cratic government, the democracy of
its administration must be zealously
guarded"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Break in Deadlock
Between japanese
And Chinese Near
Defenders Expect Drive
Against Shiuhing,
West Of Canton
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associate Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 21-After
long deadlock marked only by spo-
radio fighting. both Chinese and
japanese reports indicated today
that renewal of warfare on a ma jor
scale was near.
From Chungking, Chinese military
authorities frankly admitted they
expected increasing activities in the
West River sector, near Canton, to
develop into an offensive against
Shiuhing, important military base
40 miles west of the South China
metropolis.
From there the japanese would
be in position to carry out their
long ng-threatened invasion of KWangsi
Province.
Thirty miles northeast of Canton,
fighting Vas becoming more intense
near Tsungfa where the japanese
were trying to advance northward
along the Canton-Hankow railway.
Reinforcements Near Pakhoi.
The Chinese were reported moving
heavy reinforcements to the vicinity
of Pakhoi, on the southwestern coast
of Kwangtung Province near French
Indo-China anticipating a Japanese
attempt to land troops.
While continuing their widespread
mopping-up campaign in Shansi
Province, North China, the japanese
indicated an offensive against
Shensi, the Communist stronghold
to the west, would be begun soon.
The Chinese expressed belief the
Japanese would attempt to skirt the
strongly fortified town of Tungkwan,
at the extreme southeastern corner
of Shensi, and cross the Yellow River
near Pingmin, to the north.
From Sian, capital of Shensi, the
Chinese reported they had sur
rounded the town of Hotsing, in
Southwestern Shansi, cutting off
Japanese reinforcements with heavy
casualties. They also reported con-
tinued attacks against other Jap
anese-held stations on the Shansi
railway.
Japanese Drive on YOchow.
Reports from Chungking said
strong Japanese reinforcements were
moving toward Yochow, Yangtze
River town 122 miles upstream from
Hankow, preparatory to resuming a
drive southwark along the Canton
Hankow railway.
The Chinese again were active in
the HangchoW sector, 100 miles
southwest of Shanghai. They re-
ported they had recaptured Fuyang
20 miles southwest of Hangchow
and Yuhang, IS miles west of Hang
chow. Fuyang and Yuhang were
the deepest points of Japanese pene-
tration into the interior after the
invaders dramatic capture of Hang
chow more than year ago.
The Chinese also said they had
recaptured Changching. in North
Chekiang Province, controlling the
south shore of Lake Tai.
Meanwhile, nearly one-fourth oi
Chungking's population was said tt
have left the city since Sundays
air raid and subsequent japanese
warnings that more raids were com.
ing. Chungking, Chinas provisional
capital, is in hitherto untouched
territory on the upper Yangtze.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Reich Slap al U. 5.
Seen in Funk Naminq
As Reichsbank Head
New Official Noted for
Animosity Toward
This Country
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A high Commerce Department
official said today that Germany's
appointment of Walther Funk as
Reichsbank president was a slap at
the United States.
Officials who recently made sur
vey of the German situation in dis
cussions with Douglas Miller, former
United States commercial attache
at Berlin, said DR.. Funk was noted
for his animosity toward the United
States and DR.. Hjalmar Schacht,
former president, for his friendliness
to this country.
No Real Bearing on Trade.
However, department experts said
the change had no real bearing on
German American trade, both be-
cause DR.. Schacht has been only a
figurehead for a long time and be-
cause Germany already has been
doing everything it could to curtail
trade with this country.
The reason Germany has been
trying TO curtail purchases in this
country is tWofold, officials said
She wants to be independent of sup
plies across the Atlantic which
might be cut off by blockade in
case of war, and she desires to pun
lsh this country for the boycott of
German goods by American Jews.
Officials disclosed that at least for
a year DR.. Schacht had had little
influence with the NaZi government
and seldom even appeared at the
Relchsbank. They said he was kept
in the Office of president only be-
cause of the prestige of his name
among foreigners. They also ex-
planned that even If DR.. Schacht
remained in the Reichsbank it
would mean little to American trade
because powers of the bank have
been restricted mostly to internal
matters such as currency circulation
Displacement Held Inevitable.
DR.. Schacht's displacement was
regarded here as inevitable because
1t was said, extreme Nazis did not
like his orthodox economic theories
and because DR.. Schacht, prior tc
1929, was closely associated with
Jewish bankers, who helped him be-
come Reichsbank president before
Hitler came to power.
The same officials said that DR.
Funk, a former newspaperman, was
genial Nazi who believed implicitly
in the German system of barter
trade.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Three Snow Trains
Leave Capital Today

Eleven inches of fine snow at Deer
Valley, Pa, today attracted skiing
enthusiasts from the Nations Cap
ital for a week end of winter sport
The B. & o. Railroad ran train
service to the resort at 8::35 this
morning and two other trains were
scheduled to leave during the day
one at lis pm. and another at II so
pm. Round trip fare on the lis
is $50 and on the 11:50, $3.50, the
railroad announced. Return trains
will arrive here late tomorrow eve
ming.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Tifereth Congregation
To Honor New Officers

A banquet honoring newly elected
officers will be held by Tifereth
Israel congregation tomorrow at
$50 pm. at Sttnsbury Hall.
Installation ceremonies will be
held for Samuel Rod, president;
Louis Kraft, vice president; Jack
Kraft, treasurer; Philip Goldsmith,
recording secretary; Harry D. Gold
stein, financial secretary, and Joseph
Cherner, Morris Kraft and A. c.
Sells, trustees.
Members of the Executive Board
are Joseph Cherner, Abe Bleicher,
DR.. Joseph Goldstein, Joseph Bull
man, I. April, N. Summers, 3. Ber-
enter, A. c. Sells, Rosenfeld, David
Rothberg, M. Kaplan, S. Beloff, S.
Bulman, L. Raffel and I. Wolf.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Sale Of Japanese
War Bonds Halted
In Hawaii byS. &c.
Islands Court Forbids
Society From Soliciting
Funds From Members
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The sale of a japanese bond issue
intended to raise funds for the war
against China has been halted in
Hawaii at the request of the Secur-
tiles and Exchange Commission,
which complained that the bonds
had not been registered as required
by law.
The commission announced last
night that the United States Dis
trict Court for Hawaii had for
hidden the Doshi Kai, otherwise
known as the Patriotic Bond Sub
scription Society, to solicit subscrip-
tions for the bonds in the islands.
Bonds totaling about $166,OO0 al
ready had been subscribed, the COM
mission said, and subscribers al
ready had paid about $4,000, which
officials said would be returned.
The bonds are known in financial
circles as The Chinese Incident
Issue"
Consent to immigration.
The injunction was consented to
by the society and by it's principal
officers, who were named among the
defendants, the S. E. G. announced.
The commission charged that the
japanese government was offering
publicly the issue of emergency
bonds and that the Doshi Kai, it's
officers and agents were soliciting
subscriptions to the bonds through
the mails in Hawaii without previous
registration under the Securities Act
of 1888.
The commission said small group
of persons influential in the Hilo
Japanese Association-an associa-
ton of japanese residents of Hawaii
called mass meeting of the asso-
citation on october 18, 1898, for the
purpose of telling members of a
plan for soliciting subscriptions to
the emergency bonds.
Society Organized.
At the meeting, the plan was in
dorsed, committee of 80 was ap-
pointed to canvass Japanese resi-
dents of Hawaii and an island wide
mass meeting was called for Novem-
Der 6, the commission said. At this
second meeting, the Doshi Kai So
ciety was organized to enlist SUBJ
scribers to the bonds.
According to the commission's
complaint, solicitation then started
throughout the island. Subscription
blanks were used conveying a power
of attorney from the purchaser tc
the society and authorizing it to
buy japanese bonds in Japan.
Those named as defendants in the
injunction proceedings were Kangc
Kawasaki, Minoru Murikami, T. r
Saiki, Tomoji Matsumura and "2e
other Japanese"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Raft Refuses Film Role,
Is Dropped by Studio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 21-George
Raft and Paramount Pictures we're
quits today, but who did the quitting
was a matter of conjecture.
Raft, a product of the sidewalks
of New York, who doesn't like viii
lain roles, announced he was refus-
ing the lead in Magnificent Fraud"
1t was the latest of a series of re-
volts which the ex-boxer and dancer
has staged against being typed" as
an actor.
The studio reported that it is
quitting Raft, who Cancelled his
$4,25O-per-week contract which
would expire the middle Of next
month,
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Hiking Trip Tomorrow

The Capital Hiking Club will spon-
sor hiking trip through historic
Annapolis as the feature of an out
ing to begin tomorrow, when a spe-
cial bus will leave 1416 F. street
NV. at $50 am. The hike will in
clude visits to the Statehouse. the
executive mansion and the Naval
Academy.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Cinderella Heiress
Of Rupert Millions
Undecided on Plans
Former Chorus Girl Hopes
To Do Some Good With
Her Third of Fortune
By the Associated Press.

~1'SoS4"sNN
NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-A 37-year-
old former chorus girl who did what
everyone would like to do-woke uI
and found herself a millionaire
hasn't decided what to do with the
vast fortune left her by Col. Jacob
Rupert.
Some good, hope" smiled Helen
winthrop Weyant, a trim chestnut
haired woman with a pert face and
well-kept figure.
However, she has no plans for the
future-because she hasn't had a
chance to catch her breath yet. But
she has no thought of matrimony.
Her blue eyes were still bewil-
dered at yesterdays news that she
had been bequeathed one-third Of
the $3O,O00,O0O to $70,O00,O0O estate
of the 71-year-old bachelor sports
man, whom she described as very
old friend
II feel awfully honored." she said.
IT am surprised-and a little fright
ened. I knew nothing about it. not
even when I saw him the night be-
fore he died"
Third Owner of Ball Club.
Neither the actress nor her at
torneys know exactly how much she
will receive-but she is third
owner of the wealthy world cham
pion New York Yankee baseball
club, and has an equal interest in
one of the worlds largest breweries
and in an accumulation 6 Manhat-
tan real estate greater than anyone
else has piled up except the Astor
clan.
Heavy State and Federal inheri-
tance taxes will chop off more than
half the estate, but Miss Weyant
was expected to receive more than
$4,000 900. She also will receive
a tax-free bequest of 100000 cash.
The other two-thirds of the estate
go equally to two nieces of Rupert
Miss Joseph Holleran and Mrs. j.
Basil Mcguire, both of Greenwich,
Conn.
Miss Weyant and her co-heirs
won't have to worry about admin
istering their empire in baseball and
beer. A quartet of business asso-
ciates was named by the little COL
onel as executors.
Puzzled by Inheritance.
Bewildered by her sudden promi-
nence. Miss Weyant said she herself
could not understand the beque~t.
Il had no idea that l was going
to be remembered in that way. Col
Rupert was an old friend of my
family and I have known him since
I was child
She said a mutual fondness for
animals had cemented the friend
ship between them. In recent years
she said she had served as hostess
for Col. Rupert at week end par
ties on his Garrison, N. Y, estate.
Miss Weyant, who gave up the
stage in 1929, said her only hobby
was music She lives with her
mother and her brother, Rex, an
assistant travelling secretary for the
Yankees.
Coming here from Winthrop,
Mass, in 1920 after graduation from
high school, she appeared as a
chorus girl in Three Cheers" with
Will Rogers and in The Merry Ma
1ones" with George M. Cohan. Her
last appearance was with Eva LIE
Galliennes Civic Repertory Theater.
Evening star., 1939-01-21

Of the shotgun bandit gang were to
be arraigned today in Police Court.
Seven robbery charges were placed
against William Charles Wright, n,
OF Arlington, Va, following police
headquarters lineup last night.
Albert Edward Smith, 80, of no fixed
address, Is charged with five cases
of armed robbery.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Reich-Uruguoy Pact Signed

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 2l (P.-
Germany and Uruguay signed a
new trade treaty today designed to
increase commerce between the two
countries In general lines the
agreement followed a previous pact
signed November 7. 1885. The 1885
treaty provided that Germany would
take 5000 tons of Uruguayan meat
in exchange for German industrial
products.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Six Lean Years Shrink
9. 0. P. Vocabulary. Too

DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 81 P.-
Those six years "out of power" have
played havoc with the political
terminology of Iowas Younger gen.
Grafton of Republicans.
A. c. Gustafson, chief clerk of the
States predominately Republican
House of Representatives. sent
page boy to House committee TODAY
to see if quorum was present,
The boy stunned the committee
chairman by asking: ''Is Mr.. Quorum
here?"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Rose Culture Is Topic

The relation of soils and fertil-
izers to rose culture will be. dis
cussed by E. H. Rappe, research
chemist, before the Takoma Horti-
cultural Club meeting Monday at
8 pm. at the Takome branch of
the Public Library, Fifth and Cedar
streets.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Leftist Revolt Crushed,
Ecuador Announces
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
QUITO, Ecuador, Jan. 21.-The
government announced yesterday 1t
had thwarted Leftist revolution
which was to have been launched
Thursday night.
THE government learned Of and
prepared against revolutionary
coup" said an official statement.
Nothing came OF the attempt. All
parts OF the country report COM
plete calm"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Legal Fraternity Dance

Alpha Rho Chapter of Sigma Delta
Kappa, legal fraternity, will sponsor
a subscription dance next Saturday
at 10 pm. at the Wardman Park
Hotel, officials announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-01-21

Workmen receiving relief In Bel
glum are decreasing in number.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01
Seniors asked What Thew
VIII DO With Future Life

ant factor, but unfortunately we
can do little about 1t. We came
into the world bundles of inherit
ed tendencies, some Of them we re-
ceived from our fathers and moth
ers, and some from ancestors a
hundred years back.
And we can make no request
concerning our early environment.
1t is one thing to be born into a
home with beautiful surroundings,
with modern conveniences and com.
forts, with opportunities for the
best physical, mental, and spiritual
culture. 1t is another thing to be
born in a howell, deprived Of every
aid Of self improvement, where the
atmosphere is crime-laden.
THE Declaration Of Independence
to the contrary Notwithstanding,
we are not created equal. Our
initial equipment, our environment,
and opportunities are vastly differ
emit. Yet with all due regard to the
facts concerning heredity and en-
vironment, it Is not the whole story.
while we may have nothing to
say about our environment, we do
have much to say about what we
will do with It.; which tendencies
shall be conquered, and which de-
veloped. You may have little to
say about the forces that are to
play upon you, but you can deter
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01
Stearns County &
4-H Club Activityss

Plans are rapidly taking form
for the annual county Farm Bur-
eau and All club picnic to be held
at st. Johns University at College
vile on Thursday, June %. Almost
the entire forenoon program will
be devoted to All events. The
Farm Bureau organization will, as
before, furnish free coffee, cream
and sugar for the noon day lunch.
This will be dispensed from the
All stand located on the west side
Of the athletic field on the campus.
The afternoon program will be
headlined with the talk of Newton
G. Gaines, Of the University of
Nebraska. Mr.. Gaines is an out
standing speaker on farm subjects
and Stearns county people will be
fortunate in having an opportunity
to hear him. All farm families in
GLIDING Farm Bureau members are
urged to attend the picnic that day
The Farm Bureau organization
at the present time In Stearns coun-
ty has the largest membership that
It ever had. In the organization
drive carried on in the fall Of 1889
more than 1000 members were sign
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01
Public School
Graduation
Tonight
Seventy Boys and
Girls Will Receive
Diplomas
10. ]. JERDE SPEAKER
Kenneth Forsberg,
Salutatorian-Marie
Mischke, Valedictorian

Commencement exercises of the
Public School will be held tonight
Thursday, June LIST, at eight o'clock
in the Junior High School auditor
ium. Seventy boys and girls will
receive their diplomas as members
Of the class Of 80.
o. J. Jerde, of the State Teachers
College, ct. Cloud, will deliver the
commencement address. Mr.. Jerde
Is fine speaker, and is well-known
here, having appeared as speaker
at various functions in the past.
The program for tonight's COM
mencement is as follows:
Processional-Orchestra.
Invocation-Rev. p. ]. Jansen.
Soft Shadows Falling"-Trio.
Salutatory-Kenneth Forsberg.
Trombone Solo-Ruth Westhoff.
Valedictory-Marie Mischke.
"Glad Prayer"-Girls' Glee Club.
Introduction Of Speaker - Supt.
w. A. Kohl.
Address-Mr. o. J. Jerde.
"Swallows"-Girls' Glee Club.
Presentation Of Awards: Com
mercial Department Badges. Miss
Lucy Hunt; Activity and Citizen
ship Medals, Mr.. e. w. Olson.
Presentation Of Class-Supt. w.
A. Kohl.
Presentation Of Diplomas-Dr. J.
r. Dubois.
"Star Spangled Banner" - Aud
fence.
Benediction-Rev. r. J. Mott.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01
FIR. Kambsem Will Sing
First Solemn High Mass

1927, to begin twelve long years of
spiritual and mental training for
the Priesthood at the Josephinum
College in Columbus, Ohio. Since
1881 this College has had a new
home at Worthington,
The Pontifical College Josephin-
UNI, where the newly ordained
priest received his full training, is
under the direct supervision Of the
Pope in Rome, through the Apos-
tolic Delegate to the United States.
1t was Archbishop Cicognani, the
present representative Of the Pope
in this country, who appointed
Father Kampsen for service in the
Diocese Of st. Cloud at the start of
his theological course four years
ago.
Many will remember the newly
ordained as former baseball pitch
er in this part Of the state. How
ever, with the completion Of his
training, and his recent ordination,
he begins work Of a completely
different character in this Diocese
Of st. Cloud.
Following the solemn celebration,
which many priests, seminarians,
as well as relatives and friends win
attend, a dinner win be served in
the parish hall. The Solemn High
Mass will begin at $50 Tuesday
morning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01
Plan New Super
Service Station
House, Built 40 Years
Ago BY Alex Jameson,
Now Being Razed

Workmen started razing the large
house, located next door north of
the Cities Service Oil Station, in
preparation to erection Of a super
service station on the site. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sig Carlson, who conducted
a tourist home in the house for
a number of years, are now located
in the Dobbs building on Third
Street.
The new super-service station
will be erected by Fred Schwartz,
who is now operating the Cities
Service in this city. The new struc-
ture will be modern in every de-
tail, and will be valuable addi-
ton to Main Street.
Colt Pastian purchased the house,
now being RACED, from the Cities
Service company, for the lumber.
This house was built 40 years ago
by Alex Jameson, who, with his
family, resided there for time.
Some years ago George OGara
purchased the property and erected
service station on the corner.