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motion as the remarks of John l..
Lewis, before the House Labor
Committee last Thursday. While
commenting on the Wage-Hour
Law, the CIO boss attacked the
enemies" of labor, and then de-
nounced Vice-President Garner as
a "poker-playing whiskey-drink-
ing, evil old man." Later the same
day Congressman Johnson of Tex
as made short statement in the
House declaring that he and his col
leagues from Texas resented this
attack on Mr.. Garner as uniusti-
fable. With the exception of a
dozen members, the Congressman
stood up and applauded the Tex
ans tribute to Garner, rejecting
the hostile reaction to the Lewis
assault.
APPEAL FOR PARTY HAIR
MONY-On the home stretch of
this session, the Administration is
making valiant efforts to prevent
the wide open break which has
been threatening important New
Deal legislation. On Friday even
ing the Democrats staged a eau
Gus, but resolution indorsing the
lending and housing measures was
amended before its adoption.
Speaker Bankhead appealed to his
party colleagues for more harmony
and better support of administra-
tion legislation, but reports reflect
ed a breach among Democratic
Congressman which may likely
persist not only during the balance
of this session, but next year also.
LABOR RELATIONS INVESTI-
IGATION-Th House of Represen-
tatives has created a five-member
committee to investigate the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board. This
investigation is expected to de-
termine whether a new board
should be created to administer
the Act and what effect the
boards ruling and practices may
have had on employer-employee re-
lations.
THE HATCH BILL-The Hatch
Bill which is designed to take re-
lief out Of politics was passed by
both the House and Senate and
forwarded to the President. The
House vote was 242 to 133. This
measure makes it a crime for any
person to "intimidate, threaten or
coerce" so as to interfere with the
right of any other person to vote
as he pleases. Makes it a crime
for any governmental administra-
tive official to ''use his official au-
thority for the purpose of inter-
fering with or affecting" the elec-
tion of any candidate for Federal
office. Makes it a crime for any
person directly or indirectly. to
promise any employment, position,
work or other bentfit" made possi-
BILE by any act of Congress as re-
ward for any kind of political &C
tivity." Makes it a crime for any
person to deprive, attempt to de-
prive, or threaten to deprive, by
any means" any person Of "any
employment, position, work, COM
pensation or other benefit provided
for or made possible by any act of
Congress appropriating funds for
work relief or relief purposes, on
account of race, creed, color or any
political activity"
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CONSIDERATION ACT OF
,oao-The Lea transportation Bill
...sad ~. the House last Wednesday
sfter defeat of motion to recon-
r,it the legislation to the Inter
~ ..to commerce Committee by q
III If 273 to SO. The Senate had
s1ready passed the Wheeler Bill
and the two measures will now De
80 " conference. The Lea Bill
.Ioces water carriers for the first
lime under the I. C. c. regulations
an tbe same basis as rail and truck
carriers and would repeal author
~ for reduced government rates
overland il grant carriers. The Wads-
worth amendment to the bill per
mits each type Of carrier to reduce
rates, after due allowance for com
nensatory return, overhead and
service costs. Western Congress
man feared that this revision
would permit abreakdown of the
long and short haul provisions, and
succeeded in enacting a clause
specifically providing that it should
not in any way effect the fourth
section Of the Interstate Commerce
Act.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
The Congressional Record for this
session passed this week the A.
OOO-page mark, rejecting a large
volume of speeches and appendix
materials. These $4,000 pages
would equal about $4,000 pages of
the average novel, or about 80 az
erage books, according to a capital
columnist. This furnishes some
idea Of the huge amount of reading
necessary to keep abreast of con-
gressional proceedings. Of course,
the appendix of the Record con-
tains a wealth of material on di-
versifed subjects, and the approx
imately $4,000 copies printed daily
during the session are widely cir
culated throughout the country.
CAPITAL PARKS - Visitors to
the National Capital are impressed
ith the beautiful appearance Of
the citys parks and trees. The
District of Columbia has an area
of 1924 square miles, or 44,317
acres. Of this area, about one
eighth is devoted to 718 parks with
a total acreage of 5,918. There are
scores Of small parks, but the prize
is Rock Creek containing 1,747
acres. This park follows for miles
the creek, which is sluggish and
muddy, but it affords a retreat for
thousands of citizens. 1t also has
excellent paved roads for motor
ing. Rock Creek is notd for its
bridal paths, and Senator Borah
mas frequently made use of these
facilities to enjoy his favorite
mounts.
JOHN L. LEWIS - Fed bomb
SHELLS have landed in the capital
curing the past several years
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HE RUNS THE WORKS
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mands for labor and will provide
the incentive for outside agencies
to invest additional funds. New
highway construction will put
more men to work, in more places,
faster and with greater returns for
the worker and taxpayer for each
dollar spent than any other public
enterprise.
''As to the new endeavor that
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preparations.
$50 far as industry is concerned,
we shall make every effort to ac-
quaint all phases of industry de-
pending on road building for a live
lihood with our plans as far in ad-
vance as can be determined
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BRIEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
Brief News Items of People
We Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Major-Gen. Julian L. Schley,
chief army engineer, has ordered
reports on the Mahon River in Del
aware reviewed to determine if i'm
proving it is advisable.
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Harry X. Heite Again Postmaster
Word was received at Dover last
week that President Roosevelt had
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Vice-ChanceIIor Sworn In
Chancellor w. w. Harrington ad-
the oath of Office Tues
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Seaford town council has decided
to start proceedings to collect the
So capitation tax from a large list
of delinquents who have escaped
payments for several years.
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! Chief Justice Daniel j. Layton
observed recently his sixtieth birth
day anniversary. James M. Tun-
nell, Sr., Democratic national COM
mitteeman, also was go years old.
Both are residents of Georgetown.
A voluntary petition of bank
ruptcy was filed on behalf of John
r. Hudson, a poultry dealer and
trucker of Milton, by his attorney,
Isaac D. Short, II, of Georgetown,
in the U. S. District Court recent
ly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Carey, of
Coatesville, Pa, are receiving con-
gratulations on the arrival of
fine son in the Coatesville Hospital.
Mrs. Carey will be remembered as
the former Frieda Barcus of Ches-
wold.
Four young people on sailing
cruise off the Delaware Breakwat-
er late one afternoon recently were
rescued by the Lewes Coast Guard
when their craft capsized a few
hundred feet from the Queen Anne
Pier at Lewes.
The Delaware Unemployment
Compensation Commission reports
that, of 235 claims filed last week,
204 of the applicants were found
to be eligible. The commission
sent out 1,472 payment checks to-
falling S13,331.
Joseph M. McVey has been ap-
pointed president of the scholar
ship committee named by the
board of trustees of the University
Of Delaware in June. He is for
mer president of the Alumni Asso-
citation Of Delaware College.
Thomas E Steele, poultryman,
living at Springfield Cross Roads,
five miles from Georgetown, has
four-legged pullet, II weeks old,
which is attracting much attention
in that section. The fowl, which
has four short joints, is active and
healthy.
A total of 81 employees of the
Soil Conservation Service working
in Delaware have been inoculated
against Rocky Mountain spotted
fever, Dr. E. F. Smith, acting ex-
ecutive secretary of the State
Board Of Health, reported recently.
The only two cases of the disease
reported this year in Delaware
have recovered, DR.. Smith said.
Delaware farmers received last
year S707 SOP in farm-aid and CROP
control programs, it was announc-
ed by the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration. The total amount
spent in the year ending June 30
was the sum of $685., ,104 .483 for
the nation. Expenditures in the
current fiscal year are expected to
exceed that amount by consider
able margin.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel B. Moore
of Dover, are being congratulated
on the birth of son, James Bal
mont Moore, born on Friday. They
have three other sons and a daugh-
ter.
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The Delaware Unemployment
Compensation Commission reports
that, of 235 claims filed last week,
204 of the applicants were found
to be eligible. The commission
sent out 1,472 payment checks to-
falling S13,331.
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Chief Justice Daniel j. Layton
observed recently his sixtieth birth
day anniversary. James M. Tun-
nell, Sr., Democratic national COM
mitteeman, also was go years old
Both are residents of Georgetown.
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Four young people on a sailing
cruise off the Delaware Breakwat-
er late one afternoon recently were
rescued by the Lewes Coast Guard
when their craft capsized a few
hundred feet from the Queen Anne
Pier at Lewes.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Carey, of
Coatesville, Pa, are receiving con-
gratulations on the arrival of a
fine son in the Coatesville Hospital.
Mrs. Carey will be remembered as
the former Frieda Barcus Of Ches-
wold.
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Joseph M. McVey has been ap-
pointed president of the scholar
ship committee named by the
board of trustees of the University
of Delaware in June He is a for
mer president of the Alumni Asso-
citation of Delaware College.
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Thomas E. Steele, poultryman
living at Springfield Cross Roads
five miles from Georgetown, has q
four-legged pullet, II weeks old
which is attracting much attention
in that section. The fowl, which
has four short joints, is active anc
healthy.
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A voluntary petition of bank
ruptcy was filed on behalf of John
R. Hudson, a poultry dealer and
trucker of Milton, by his attorney,
Isaac D. Short, II, of Georgetown,
in the U. S. District Court recent
"
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dolllike wooden image of the Virgin
to whom all Cartagena used to pray
for deliverance from bloodthirsty
buccaneers. Every year on February
2 nearly every one in Cartagena
still makes pilgrimage to La Popa
with lighted candles, or at least to
the cross halfway up the steep in
cline, to do homage to the memory
OF the Virgin in the fiesta de la
Candeleria," after which there is
a bull fight in the town.
Our modern ship of discovery
landed its cruise passengers in Car
tagena early one Sunday morning,
our steamer making it's winding way
through the Boca Chica or Little
Mouth to its picturesque land
locked bay. Long ago Cartagena s
citizens filled up the Boca Grande
or Great Harbor" with stones to
prevent the recurrence of such
maurauding expeditions as those of
Drake and Morgan.
Cartagena's entire population
with the exception of ourselves
seemed to be on it's way to mass,
and many of us reverently Joined in
services in the Church of Santo
Domingo the cathedral and the
Church of San Pedro Claver. The
women were picturesque in their
white and lace mantillas, while the
men were almost universally attired
in immaculate white suits, and the
children looked for all the world like
gay butterflies in their colorful Sun
day best.
The Church of San Pedro Claver
adjoins the Jesuit monastery which
also bears his name, and the stone
steps to the upper rooms where he
died have been worn thin by the
generations of those who preceded
IN paying homage to this godly man
who was canonized by Pope Leo
XIII $50 years after his death. Dur
ing his lifetime he baptized 100000
slaves and bought many who were
i'll from the holds of slave vessels
and kept them on a little island in
the harbor. The Negroes who be-
longed to Claver were christened
Jesus, and today thousands of their
descendants are still called Jesus.
as you can see by the names on the
little shops.
G0urds for Sale.
Don't fail to bring home a native
gourd from Cartagena, fashioned
into a bowl and decorated in all
manner of fascinating designs. They
are for sale on the city's ramparts
and near the Cathedral, and you'll
be sorry when you get home that
you haven't tucked as many into
your hat box as it will hold.
Barranquilla next to Curacao and
Aruba, of all the places in our
geographical journeyings, interested
my banker husband the most-be-
cause of it's commercial oppor-
tunities. Located upon the Mag
dalena, fourth in rank among the
rivers Of South America with its
length of over 1000 miles and some
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town University in 1913 and Ii. M,
from the same school in 1914. While
studying law he was associate edi-
tor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
In 1914 Justice Laws was appointed
assistant United States attorney for
the District of Columbia and held
that post for six years. In 1922 he
became a member of the law firm
that was later known as Cromelin
g. Laws, where he engaged in the
general practice of law until his ap-
pointment as justice of District
Court in June of last year.
During the is years of private
practice he was chairman of the
Grievance Committee of the Dis
trict Court of the United States for
the District of Columbia, and later
a member of the Committee on Ad-
missions and Grievances of the
same court. For the last three years
he has been member of the Board
of Managers of the local Y M. G. A.
and in 1888 was president of the Dis
trict of Columbia Bar Association.
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c. U. Gets $S5,000
Psychiutry Grant

Catholic University announced
yesterday its receipt of a grant of
$85 900 from the Rockefeller Founda-
ton for its Department OF Psychol-
ogy, effective with the beginning of
the 1939-40 academic year.
The purpose of the grant is the
introduction of courses and research
IN psychiatry into the psychology
department, of which the Rev.
Thomas Werner Moore, o. S. B., has
been head since it's foundation.
Henceforth this division of the uni
versty will be known as the Depart
ment Of Psychology and Psychiatry.
Remedial teaching will be given
to children of normal or supernormal
mentality but having some special
educational defect. With the center
located in the same university
building with the department, psy-
chiatrists will be able not only to
advise the type of remedial teaching
required for individual children, but
also to supervise it under their own
direction. There are also to be IA
cilities for treating the mental prob
lens of adults.
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Z From Nearby
And D. Awarded
A. U. Scholarships
Scholastic Ability,
Character and
Leadership Weighed

Final scholarship awards an
nounced yesterday by the College of
Arts and Sciences of the American
University include the names of IL
students from the District of Col
umbia and nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
DR.. George B. Woods, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, in max
ing the announcement indicated
that the awards were based on
scholastic ability, character, leader
ship and participation in school
activities.
The District students who received
the honor were: Dorothy Bixby,
453l Harrison street NV, Central
High School; Catherine Wilkie, 900
Savannah street Sc, Eastern High
School; Reuben Cohen, 2415 Mime
sofa avenue Sc, Anacostia High
School; Doris Graham, "a S street
NV, Mckinley High School; Rich
ard Bond 1922 Blair road NV,
Roosevelt High School; James Sat-
tier, 806 Rittenhouse street NV,
Roosevelt High School; Doris Ka-
node, BIB North Eighth street. Ar
lington, Va, Western High School,
William Mcmillan, 1914 Belmont
road NV, Western High School,
and Paul Berry, 4701 Woodway lane,
Woodrow Wilson High School.
In Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School the award went to Marjorie
Pitt of 5000 Delaware street, Chevy
Chase, Md, and to Judson French,
131 Chamberlin avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md.
The regional scholarship for the
State of Tennessee went to Carol
Kennedy. 1879 Thirty-fifth street
NV, who recently left her home in
Tennessee to become a Washington
resident.
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EDUCAT TIONAL.

Donovan and their two sons, Herbert
A. Donovan, jr., and Richard s.
Donovan, have returned from Re-
hoboth Beach, Del, where they took
a cottage during August.
Mrs. c Pembroke Petit, who has
been with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Edward Stewart in Jvor, Va. d,
for few weeks, has returned hcme.
Mr.. Charles Pickett, jr., of Fairfax
and Mr.. Charles Henry Smith, jr.,
Of Alexandria have left to spend a
fortnight in New York.
Miss Charlotte Young of Fairfax
and Miss Patricia Page Of New
Orleans, La, have left ior the latter's
home, where Miss Young will spend
two weeks.
DR.. and Mrs. Lennig Sweet are
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BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.


Of all the places where the voy.
aging Columbus is known to have
unfurled the flag of Spain on hi!
four voyages to the continents Of
North and South America, the pres.
ent Republic of Colombia is the only
one to bear his name. 1t is also
the only one in South America tc
enjoy the distinction of beins
Graded by the waters of both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Less we'll known is the fact thai
its 400-year-old walled city of Carta.
gena pronounced Kar-ta-h ma
has of all the cities in the Western
Hemisphere the closest historical
link with Mount Vernon, patriotic
shrine of our first President.
In l740, when Cartagena was still
Spains colonial stronghold in the
Caribbean, Admiral Vernon of the
British Navy attempted to take this
then mighty city. second only ir
New World Importance to Lima anC
Mexico City as storehouse of rich
treasure. Thereby he hoped to re-
peat the feat of his countryman
Sir Francis Drake, who captured
and pillaged it in 1885, Admira
Vernon hoped to win fame and for
tune for himself and his followers
as well as make of it a British pos
session. He was in command of 19(
ships and the largest aggregation oil
E,nChSh TO
waters at that time. Included
among them were 1000 recruits
from the American colonies. Heac
of the Virginia contingent was Gov
SpottSWood, who upon his death was
succeeded by Capt. Lawrence Wash
ington, older half-brother of George
Washington.
Had Victor Medals Prepared.
So confident of success was Ad-
mlral Vernon that prior to his de-
parture from England he caused
medals to be struck of his Spanish
opponent, >le-eyed, one-legged, one.
armed Don Bios de Lesso, kneeline
with his sword in surrender, to thi.
inscription, Spanish pride pulled
down by Admiral Vernon"
Admiral Vernon and his followers
despite lengthy siege, failed tx
take Cartagena either upon this
expedition or upon a subsequent one
a year later. But his name lives
on in the New World in a manner
that he could never have antici-
pated. Lawrence Washington be.
queathed to his younger half
brother George, destined to become
commander in chief of the armies
of Britain's revolving colonies anG
first President of the Republic into
which they emerged, his broad acres
upon the Potomac River and the
stately mansion he erected upon
them and named Mount Vernon in
affectionate memory of his one
time commander, Admiral Vernon
To Mount Vernon the great and the
humble of our own and other nations
have since worn a reverent foot
path.
Cartagena lies between two lofty
eminences, San Felipe and La Popa
San Felipe is crowned by massive
fortress whose underground passages
led all the way to the cathedral and
to La Popa. Its towering fortifica.
tions that successfully def1ed Ad-
miral Vernon and his Virginia con-
tlngent under Lawrence Washing
ton for Sc days were built when the
men who had sailed this way with
Columbus were still living.
Monastery on Hill.
Upon the neighboring hill which
dominates the landscape as La
Popa, "the Pope stands an ancient
Augustine monastery now used as
Weather Bureau station. In it.
chapel is carefully cherished the
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expected to return tomorrow from
three weeks vacation at Cape
Cod.
Col. Robert Ofey, who has spent
the summer in Fairfax, has left for
New Jersey to visit relatives.
Mrs. Francis P. Miller and her
two sons, Andrew Miller and Robert
Miller, are expected to return early
next week from Sutton Bay, Mich.
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Fairfax
Social
News
Miss Lucy Blake
Returns From
California
Special Dispatch to, The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, September O.
Commissioner of the Revenue and
Mrs. James U. Kincheloe and their
daughter, Miss Esther Kincheloe,
have as their guests Miss Virginia
Frazier, who has spent the summer
at Jacksonville, Fla, and two of Mr.
Kincheloe's nephews, Mr.. Linwood
Kincheloe and Mr.. Wildman
Kincheloe of Crewe, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayt Clark, who
have spent the past week at Ocean
City, Md, are expected to return
tomorrow.
Miss Lucy Blake has returned
from three weeks trip to Cali
fornia.
The Rev. and Mrs. Herbert A.
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DIR. Jack A. Ladson
Will Marry Miss
McGill Sept. 16

SANDY SPRING, Md, Sept. q
Invitations have been received for
the marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Nicholson McGill daughter of Mrs
Alexander McGill of Baltimore, to
DR.. Jack Arthur Ladson, son of DR.
and Mrs. Thomas A. Ladson of
Olney. The wedding will take place
September l6 in the Second Presby-
terrain Church in Baltimore
Mr.. Francis Robson is in Ponac
City, Okla. visiting Mr.. Arthur Mills.
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin I. Weinin-
ger have returned from three-Week
motor trip through New England
They were accompanied home by
Miss Eleanor Fenton of Columbus,
Ohio, who has been attending camp
In Maine and who is their week end
guest.
Mrs. Brockett Muir entertained 40
guests Wednesday afternoon with a
tea at her home, Fair Hill, at Olney
Mrs. G. B. Coles and her children
of Moorestown, N. j., are the guests
at Norwood, home of Mrs Coles
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton A.
Bancroft. Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft,
who have been spending the sum-
mer at their camp in the Catskills,
are expected to return after Labor
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic L. Thomas
and their daughters, Miss Jean
Thomas and Miss Cornelia Thomas,
have left for Lake Candaigua, where
they are visiting DR.. and Mrs. Karl
WILSON,.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Miller and
Mrs. Brockett Muir left today for
Plattsburgh, N Y, where Mrs. Muir
will join her mother for a visit and
Mr. and Mrs. Miller will spend a
week motoring through the lake
section of New York
Miss Estelle Moore entertained in
formally this afternoon with a small
tea in honor of Mrs. Brook Moore
who returned this week after spend
ing few days in Augusta, Ga.
Miss Dorothy Andrews of Charles
town, Md, returned to her home yes
terday after being the guest of Miss
Helen Gray Miller of Ashton this
week She was accompanied home
by Miss Miller, who will be member
of house party over Labor Day.
Mr. j. w. Bird, jr, arrived yes
terday from New York and left to-
day, accompanied by his aunt, Miss
Betha Wilson, for Wilson, N. c., to
spend short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Myer have
returned from their wedding trip
and have moved into their apart
ment in Sandy Spring.