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Evening star., 1939-01-30
.HeudIineFoIk
And What
They Do
Burmon Had Spent
Lost Dime When
He Sold Story
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

At the old beanery for the hired
help in the New York World Build
ing few years ago there was quite
stir and stew of ambition. Swap
ping dreams, one Maxwell Anderson
was going to write a play; Louis
Weitzenkorn had the same idea;
big, jovial Phil Stong had written
l6 novels, to the quite considerable
Indifference Of all publishers, but
Mr.. Stong said all this was Just a
little practice workout and he prom
ised to deliver later on. Swartny,
saturnine James Cain thought he
might have the making of a book
or two in his system, but said little
about 1t. Young, whippy Dudley
Nichols, a demon reporter, trained
as an engineer, had writing career
neatly blue-printed. Paul Sifton,
burned up by social injustice, was
going to write few plays and tear
the lid off things in general. Ben
Burman, whom Phil Stong could
carry around in his pocket, was
going to be bell-ringing novelist.
The whole dream book came
through as advertised. The above
playwrights, novelists and Holly
wood big shots probably could have
bought the then sinking world with
their collective resources of today
although Mr.. Sifton, after pulling
two or three lurid Broadway plays,
now is sunk voluntarily in the some
what undramatic Federal Wage
Board, as its assistant director.
The spot news of this chronicle is
that Mr.. Burman has been honored
with the Southern authors award
for his recently published novel,
BLOW for Landing" This is the
highest literary award In the gift OF
the South, in which non-fiction also
was judged. His previous books in
clude Steamboat Round the Bend"
which became Will Rogers last
screen play, and several other Mis-
sissippi yarns. He has more or less
of personal copyright on river
tales.
Mr.. Burman once told me how his
dream was almost sidetracked. He
quit the World to become an
| author-with no luck, and, at long
last, only a dime. The fragrance of
freshly baked buns in a shop win
dow dethroned his reason and he
shot the dime for four buns. Back
in his garret he found letter from
a magazine, saying they liked his
"Minstrels Of the Mist" which they
had had for months, and which he
had given us as lost. Would he come
upand consult with them on a minor
change? He would, but lacked car
| fare.
He had seen pretty girl In a
nearby studio. He didn't know her,
but he told her his troubles. She
was similarly situated, but staked
him to three 2-cent stamps. He
raised a nickel on them at sta
tionery store, saw the editor and
got not only check, but a big hand
on his story.
And, naturally, he returned and
married the pretty girl, who there
after illustrated his books as they
traversed not only his pet river,
but Damascus, the Sahara Desert,
Bagdad and other such mother lodes
of literary raw material.
Copyright. 1939J
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our protestations that democracy
must be preserved. do not think
the Clark attitude family reflects
national sentiment. The "ShoW
Me" States entry for the 1910 Demo-
cratic presidential nomination says
that "if there's nothing in the law
to prevent plane sales to the
French" he will seek to put some
thing into the law" He does not
favor leaving such discretion to
any one, including the President"
In Mr.. Clark's opinion, 'The admin
istration's course would seem very
definitely to line us up with the
French" If there is to be "any such
alliance, the people should be in
formed of it," Senator Clark ap-
pears to be making an early bid for
the "keep-us- -out-of-war" vote.
Some of his critics wonder If he is
afflicted with an irrepressible anti
Woodrow Wilson complex.
Col. Clark fought with conspicu-
Gus gallantry in France in 1878
He went from clerkship on the
House rostrum to full colonelcy In
the A. E. F. He shares the wide
spread anxiety Of the American peo-
pie to escape any more embodiment
over there" But, in the name OF
reason and political common sense,
If not in the name OF the democracy
we so vociferously acclaim, isn't 1t
a bit far-fetched for us to prevent
other democratic nations from OBJ
tanning the sinews Of self defense
In the United States-for cash on
delivery? After all, France is not at
war. She is straining her every
nerve to keep out of war. She
doesn't dream of resorting to war
except in case of attack. Her plane
purchases here are exclusively to
enable her to resist Italo-German
aggression. Putting the thing on a
purely selfish, solely domestic, basis,
isn't it the part of ordinary business
wisdom to welcome large-scale
foreign orders for our aircraft in
dustry, which is in serious depres-
sion, and, at the same time, to keep
its production in high gear to turn
out rapidly the planes our own
Army and Navy sorely need?
II any doubt existed that this
spirit Of 76" Congress would kick
the stuf1ngs out of Roosevelt legis-
lative proposals whenever so minded
the Senate's concurrence in the re-
lief cut shows such uncertainty Is
gone with the wind. Even though
the administration bit the dust by
only a single vote, the fact that
dear Alben" Barkley could muster
only Al Democratic votes, out of a
total of 81 present and cast, tells
the story of what the New Deal Is
up against for the next two years
of it's existence. The fate Of the
w. P. A. measure was sealed long
before last week. That the White
House would run into stormy wealth
er was foreshadowed months in ad-
vance of the congressional elections
which decimated Roosevelt strength
in both houses. The moment F. D. r
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these
My first sympahes with the people of the United States"
speaker boldly presuming that the mothers Of
America might be interested in his opinions Robert Rice
North Carolina. He deserves
study political type. there national
portrait gallery would to include his likeness the
mounebank statesman of day. He has
the Ightest lowest estimate
his responsibilities of member of the Senate.
gained
the old the first Reynolds for the Senate which was
Cameron Morrison Cam Morrison rich man. VINO
lived richly Reynolds got himself into the Senate by touring
arriving his hotel in Rolls Royce and marching
He used to red carpet on
platforms the high spot IN his speech
whipped small jar of caviar out OF his pocket
Carolina about Cam Morsons
favorite food
pains tell you Bob would yell "Fish
shoWin amt OF
Red Russian fish at that
they doahs for this little arful Now fellow
high mighty good North Carolina hen
you?"
The plain people Reynolds
rather non-eSsential reasons.
since In period
living
often the alien within gates To hear
exceedingly difficult to avoid anywhere
Capitol suppose that the deportation Of aliens would
his other subject travel to which
given
themselves than Bob Reynolds The sound
when uttered by himself delightful to him. and
speaking mind sitting around the Senate
occasional and except for little grabbing on
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attic still good to be thrown
old Franklin the packing
harmonum In useful
household naofor the things
needed which sentiment prudence with
holds junkman and the auctioneer.
stalls found yourself in the
dirty hayeed. Across
gable grmy cobwbs much OF
shaft of poked luminous rod diagonay
ionboed crossbeam which supports the roof
Along c and watch the slow drops
ccng Ned and Happy eat their midday oats You push
armfu the chute hear the surprised wcker
the horses confront this unexpected dessert away on North
the bells of wood sedge the sh yes OF
schooboys doing their Flexible Flyers and then the
That will be Potter his
old Hopkins.
everywhere in mysterious mounds and valleys.
dimy guessed boxes and bundles rusty sewing
machine tumbled in moth-eaten buffalo robe
hangs wooden plank nailed between two beams There
stir and rustic in the hay Rats? cloud
and the loft becomes dark and little frightening Per-
better climb down the ladder again and see lunch
ready.
Something and friendly passed out Of America when
Granted that
the the loft well worth
talors still two vesga buttons above the
pious Of the days when
their Tapping coattais before mounting their
Part of frightened insecurity which cza
which automatically
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Hague to Appeal c. !. o,
EquoI Riqhts Decision
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. 3d.
Mayor Frank Hague plans to ask
the United States Supreme Court
February 6 to review a Federal
Court decision which granted the
c. I. o. and other organizations
equal meeting rights with other
groups in the Democratic leaders
bailiwick.
Charles E. Hershenstein, city
counsel to the Mayor, said yesterday
the full court would be asked to
grant writ of certiorari.
Mr.. Hershenstein said stay would
be asked, too, of the Third Circuit
Court of Appeals decision upholding
the original decision.
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Your Income Tax
No. l.
HOW TO AVOID
COMMON ERRORS.

The period for the filing of income
tax returns covering the calendar
year 1898 began January l and ends
at midnight Of March is, 1889. To
file early is of mutual benefit to the
Government and the taxpayer.
Within this period are filed annually
millions of individual income tax
returns, large proportion of which
report income subject to the tax.
The latter contain a considerable
Of errors, which if un-
corrected by the audit would result
to the disadvantage of the tax
payer. Many are errors of compu-
tation easily discovered on the face
of the return, which usually is ac-
companied by payment of more
than the amount of tax due. In
other returns it is readily discernible
that the taxpayer has failed to take
advantage of the personal exemp-
ton, credit allowed for dependents,
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Railroad Sues Former

GENEVA, N. Y, Jan. 80 R-A
railroad reversed the usual custom
today by suing a farmer for dam
ages because the wheels Of q train
were fattened trying to stop from
hitting a herd of COWS.
Edgar Davis sued the railroad
when train killed several Of his
COWS. but a jury found mo cause for
action"
The railroad Immediately filed its
counter suit for damages.
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or deductions from gross income to
which he is entitled.
To avoid these and other errors
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
urges careful reading of the in
structions accompanying the forms
for filing the returns. Additional
information, if needed, may be OBJ
tanned at the Office of a collector of
internal revenue, deputy collector or
an internal revenue agent in charge.
A taxpayer who applies to revenue
officer for assistance in preparing
his return should take with him a
copy of his prior year return. Also,
as further aid in the preparation
of a correct income tax return for
the year 1888, the bureau has pre-
pared a series of short newspaper
articles. of which this is the first,
advising the salaried man. wage
Garner, professional and business
man-in fact, every class Of individ-
ual taxpayer-of the requirements
and privileges as interpreted under
the latest regulations, rulings and
decisions relating to the income
tax law.
Bus transport in Burma is grow
ing raDidly-
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University Carolina a OF
prosecuting attorney.
he lawyer The happy contrast between
his senatorial probably
his unang good cheer Fortunately for him. the plain people of
North Carolina being
vaudeville November
until 1945.
a ow significance
certainly escaped him It is simply that things can't be bad
the United States the people State willing sacrifice
their franchise joke Bob Reynolds entertaining that
seldom doubts whether the joke worth $4,000
Alliance
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trust laws has winked its eyes about
letting the members of its own
political party extort money for
political funds from some of those
self-same corporations. The goal
clean governments still long
way off though the progress just
made by the Senate is really de-
serving of all praise.
Copyright, 1e39.)
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won't even help
others to avoid
It," The Mis-
sourian's disap-
proval Of the
sale of American
planes to France
admits Of no
other construc-
ton. 1t is about
as typical an ex-
hibition of dog
in = the manger
foreign policy as
this observer can
conceive. And
it is grotesquely
Inconsistent with
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for public opin-
ton-one of the
greatest in re-
cent years, for it
Is not often that
a political insti-
tuition of a ny
kind practices
self and
self
Politics in re-
lief started in
the Senate when
its membership
insisted that w.
p. A. directors
had to be con-
Grr,o5 hy the
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Burglar Leaves on Request

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 80 (P).-
Harry Persang told police he and his
wife were awakened early today by
a burglar in their bedroom.
II told him we had nothing of
value and asked him to leave" Mr.
Persang said.
The intruder thought it over for
minute, then left.
Evening star., 1939-01-30

coloration. He might have sug-
gested a natty, high-living travel
ing salesman, If he had not been
exercising his senatorial privilege
of waving his arms about and
believing such statements as:
my heart is big enough to en-
gulf the world. I am in sympathy
with the prosecuted peoples OF
the world, but I want my position
to be understood throughout the
length and breadth of America.
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prOtect our people from tne eco
nomic waste Of disease, then do
we need the old hayloft and all
that it implies.
I do not mean the sort Of
hayloft which specializes in hay.
You can still find that on any
good-sized farm, scientific as all
get out and very sanitary. mean
the dirty old loft above the fam
lily stable, the place where there
was room for everything too old
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sells or scraps whatever is old,
broken or no longer conspicuously
useful. There is no hallway house
between the parlor and the junk
man, no honorable dusty repose
for the old things which we no
longer need but which we might
yet find useful in q pinch. The
barn itself has gone and hay is
no longer on the general market.
1t is understood that goods are
expected to wear out with the
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the SIDE, he doesn't troubIe NM
self with common senatorial
chores. Most of his life is given
to eating, drinking and playing
the ladies man, to junketing and
performing antics for the news
cameras. For him, the life Of a
Senator is the life of Reilly, and
Washington a regular land of
Cockaigne.
He can well appreciate his
DreSent comforts He WAS a star
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We, The People
Need for oId-Foshioned HoyIoft Seen
In View of Present Insecurity
By JAY FRANKLIN.

We probably wise Nation abandon the and
a locomoon.
choice the matter But the need hayof survived old
Dobn Particularly when Of the Spanish rebels
stong through Catalonia Of wealthy Senators ony announcing
national
writer's
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necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented IN
The Stars effort to gve all sides of questions OF interest to It's
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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fashion that created them modern nothing
So contend that 1t is the that much
is the hayloft and that America will know peace
security until that old habits and
institutions aside cheap
and afectonate instead scrappng hand
Evening star., 1939-01-30
The Capital Parade
Reynolds Is Roted as Senator
With Loudest Voice, Liehtest Heart
By JOSEPH ALsOP and ROBER

By JOSEPH ALSOP ROBERT KINTNER.
galleries treated
spectacle floor in the midst of desert Of
empty TALL ghtytaiored individual with small
obSter-pink
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Washington Observations
Objections to French PIone Purchases Seen as
Dog-in-Moneer U. S. Foreign Policy

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark
would have the United States say
in effect: This country is so un-
alterably opposed to war that we
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ReIiefPoIitics
Purge Forced
By Public
Enforcement of Law
Is Next Hurdle
To Be Cleared
Rv DAVID LAWRENCE,

The Senate of the United States
has purged itself. 1t has voted a
strict ban on the use Of relief money
for politics. This Is a great victory
Evening star., 1939-01-30

Bus transport in Burma is grow
ing rapidly.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
BRIDGE RAMP URGED

The Federation of Business
Mems Associations, meeting last
night in the Hamilton Hotel, in
dorsed a resolution by the George
town Business Mems Association
urging construction of ramp at
the south end of Key Bridge to
permit continuous flow of traffic.
Richmond B. Keech, vice chair
man of the Public Utilities Com
mission. told the meeting there
are twice as many taxicabs in the
district as in Chicago, Pittsburgh,
and Philadelphia combined. Legis-
lation, he said, will be sought en-
powering the commission to re-
duce the number by refusing to re-
issue licenses which lapse or are
Cancelled by court order.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
1900 CATHOLIC
EDITORS PLAN
SESSION HERE
Mission Crusade to
Feature Press Month

Approximately 5000 editors of
various Catholic publications from
every section Of the United States
are expected to convene here next
month for the, first Catholic Stu
dents Mission Crusade ever held
in Washington.
With all business sessions of the
conclave scheduled to be held at
the Catholic University, the Press
Month" will officially open Jan
uary 20 at the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception, with
a Catholic Press Mass" to be held
at 1890 a. m.
PLAN PRESS EXHIBIT
Presiding over the extensive pro
gram will be Msgr. Patrick Nc
Cormick, vice president Of Catholic
University. Advance publicity and
press releases to all Catholic pub
locations throughout the country
are being handled by Father John
Murphy, o. F. M, publicity chair
man for the event.
Exhibits to be shown the visit
ing delegates will be prepared by
more than 100 Of the publications
participating in the conference.
SPLIT IN FOUR UNITS
The months conference will be
divided in four weekly units. The
first weeks discussions will be cen
tered around the pamphlets to be
exhibited, the second week will be
given mostly to discussion Of
Catholic books published in the
United States, the third to Catho-
lie magazines, and the third week
to Catholic newspapers of this
country.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
MORE NURSES
ARE Demanded
BYsOU7HWEsT
Budget Bureau Slash
Scored by Group
BY A. ]. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

Action of the Budget Bureau in
recommending only 10 nurses for
the Health Department in the 1910
District supply bill when the Com
missioners and Health Officer
George C. Ruhland had requested
100 as q minimum was protested
vigorously last night by the South
west Citizens Association, meeting
in the jefferson Junior High
School. E .'.
It was pointed out that unless
there is a considerable increase IN
the nursing staff, the new health
center scheduled for the South
west will open without adequate
personnel.
MORE POLICE ASKED
The association also supported
Major Browns request for so addi,
tional police, which was approved
by the Commissioners, but was
slashed from the bill by the bu'
reau. 49,.
Parent-Teacher Associations at
the Bowen and Greenleaf public
schools made an urgent appeal
to the association for funds to
provide special foods for 100 url'
dernourished children. It was ex-
planned that the physical condi-
ton of the children prevents them
being included in the free lunch
groups.
On motion by President Harry
s. Wender, the association COM
mended. Senator Overton for his
efforts to establish an equitable
appropriation for the District
from the Federal Government.
APPROVE PARKING METERS
Approval also was voted on
parking meters, and the group re-
Quested that they be extended to
other sections of the city. Major
Brown, superintendent of police,
told the members that similar re-
quests had been received from
merchants in all sections Of the
District.
The association, as a special fea-
ture, observed the fifth ami
versary of the reopening of No. .
Police Station. Brief addresses
were made by Major Brown, In
Spector B. A. Lamb, Capt. oscar
Letterman, and Lieut.. Bagby
King Of the precinct. Moving
pictures showed activities of the
Police Boys Clubs and the club
house at Point Lookout. Md.
Emphasizing the Boys Club
movement in reducing juvenile
delinquency, Major Brown re-
vealed. that in 1888 there were
$50 arrested for various crimes,
whereas last year the number was
only %.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 20
G.NSO.-Believed to have been
her victims guest at tea, a woman
was sought today as the hammer
slayer of Mrs. Carrie Roming, S.
year-old restaurant owner.
The police theory that a femi-
nine hand welded the weapon
was strengthened by an analysis
of clues in the strange case.
From these it also was deduced
that the killer was well known to
Mrs. Romig, that she was stronger
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Sanford Reappointed

Reappointment of Thomas D.
Sanford as U. S. Attorney for the
middle district of Alabama, was
sent to the Senate yesterday by
President Roosevelt. It is subject
10 confirmation.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Amateur Photo Exhibit at Willard

Twenty pictures taken by Wash
ington amateur photographers
will be shown at the Kodak Elk.
hibit at the Willard Hotel, Janu-
ary $3.50, it was announced today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
ADVERTISEMENT A
Permanents Sl.OO

Milady can get a permanent wave,
complete, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, for only $1.0O at Madora'S
Shop, 619 F Street N. w. This
bargain price will be in effect
three days. The regular price of
this wave is $3.50. Only best ex-
pert operators. MET. 1888.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
HAROLD ROMTC
Slain WOnaave's HusbGnd
Acme Photo.

than average, and that she may
be left-handed.
Police based their belief that the
slayer was a woman on the dis
covery of an expensive linen hand
kerchief with distinctive red
border, and that only cigarette
stubs marked by lipstick were
found at the tea table.
Mrs. Romig had held her visitor
in such high regard that she got
out her best china for the oc-
casion and the two had chatted
for more than an hour, judging
from the number Of cigarettes
smoked, according to police.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

A committee, headed by H. H.
HarrisS, is selecting the 20 from
groups Of five prints submitted by
members of the city's numerous
camera clubs.
Interest in the exhibition is cen
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

tering on 200 photographs by cam
era amateurs in Turkey, Peru,
Egypt, South Africa, India, Eng
land, Holland, Germany, Switzer-
land and the United states.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Eddy Talks Sunday

Sherwood Eddy, lecturer and
will speak at the All
University Religious Service in
Andrew Rankin Chapel, Howard
University, at IL a. m. Sunday.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Elevated
By Guaranty Trust

NEW YORK. Jan. 20 G.N.S0.
William A. McGregor, formerly
second vice president, has been
elected vice president of the Guar
anty Truss Company, it was an.
nounced today.