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Evening star., 1939-04-16
Battle of Pianos
| Will Decide
| Stamp Issue

Andre Kostelanetz, the orchestra
conductor, and Jerry Livingston
successful composer Of popular
songs. are preparing to do battle
with pianos-to determine whether
Stephen Foster of Reginald de Koven
is most worthy to be honored with
special stamp issue.
Kostelanetz is Foster man; Liv-
ingston serves under the banner of
de Koven.
1t seems-according to a COM
munication that reached The Star
last night, that Kostelanetz sue
ceeded in interesting Representative
Green, Democrat, of Florida in the
Foster stamp, and the resultant pub
licity in the Congressional Record
swung Livingston into action. He
is supported by Representative Mer-
ritt, Democrat, of New York.
So now, it is alleged, the two
philatelic-minded musicians are 60
ing to muster a couple of pianos on
Capitol Hill and play the works of
Foster and de Koven in an attempt
to swing congressional support for
the stamp issue.
The statement did not say what
date all this will take place.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Hitler Opposition
Subject of Lecture

- DR.. Adolf Sturmthal, Austrian
writer, who is lecturing on inter-
national relations at American Uni
versity, will discuss who Opposes
Hitler Inside the Greater Ger
many?" at public lecture Tuesday
night at the Friends Meeting House,
2111 Florida avenue NV.
He appears under auspices of the
washington Committee of the In
ternational Relief Association, a
non-partisan organization devoted
to the helping of families of political
and racial prisoners in Fascist
countries.
Executive secretary of the WASH
ington Committee of the I. R. A. is
Mrs. Madge Lorwin.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Anderson Committee
Seeks D. A. R. Par|ey
To Lift Hall Ban
CoIored Group Holds Up
Question Of Pieketing
As Protest Gesture

The Marian Anderson Citizens
Committee will seek a conference
with officials of the Daughters of
the American Revolution in an
effort to have the organization lift
its ban against use of Constitution
Hall by the colored race. it was an
nounced last night by John Lowell,
jr., secretary of the committee.
In the meantime, the committee
is holding in allegiance the question
OF picketing. which was under con-
sideration as gesture Of protest.
This decision. according to Mr.
Lowell, was reached at meeting at
the Twelfth Street Y. NC. A. last
night. The committee, following up
petition already sent to the D. A.
r, 1t was explained. proposes to
form a delegation of its own men,
bers and prominent citizehs and ask
for the conference.
He said that the committee never
had decided officially to picket the
D. A. R. Convention as the result
OF Lhe dispute that was stirred
when the organization refused to
rent Constitution Hall for a con-
cert by Miss Anderson.
Edgar Brown, president of the
United Government Employees, a
colored group. said last night that
additional strength was being mus
tered against the picketing plan
Opposition to the demonstration
was expressed at meeting of the
Appearance Committee of the Co.
lumbia Lodge of Elks last night,
he said, and he added that the
lodge itself was due to vote against
1t at a meeting tomorrow night.
The United Government EN-
ployes are holding a mass meeting
at Shiloh Baptist Church at
O'Clock this afternoon, and Mr..
Brown said an opposition resolu-
ton would be offered there also.
The U. G. E. has already taken q
stand against the proposal.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Talks on Foreign News
On Radio Todoy

Spot news by experienced OBJ
servers on the foreign situation. and
European reaction to President
Roosevelt's message yesterday to
Hitler and Mussolini. will highlight
radio programs today.
H. I. Baukhage, National Broad
casting Co.'S commentator. will
hold 5-minute interviews on the
foreign situation with Senators
Bridges and Pepper, Representa-
tive May and others over Station
WRC and the red network, at 2:3O
pm.
In another broadcast of timely
interest. Mr.. Baukhage will par
ticipate in a four-way interna-
tional discussion via radio, with
Howard Marshall. British radio
commentator and writer, from
London; William Byrd, Paris cor
respondent of the New York Sun
and as yet unnamed speakers from
Rome and Berlin. This program is
to be heard over Station WMAL
and the blue network at $3.50 p.m.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Model Plane Contest
AT Hyb|a Valley
Attracts $50
Chevy Chase Entrunt Wins
Prizes in Small and
Large Bore Glasses

More than $50 entrants, their ages
ranging from IA to 40, competed TO,
honors in the model airplane en-
durance contest sponsored by the
National Capital Gas Model Club at
the Hybla Valley Airport near Alex
andria, Va, yesterday.
Harry B. Pitts of 2 Backbone
street, Chevy Chase, Md, was the
only entrant placing in both the
small-bore and large-bore motor
classes, taking fifth place in each
class.
The winners in the small bore
classification were: First, Jack Per
inc, 800 Concord street NV; Sec
ond, Joseph E. Boodly of Norris
vile, Pa; third, Walter c. Weaver,
1920 Massachusetts, avenue Sc;
fourth, w. F. Lindsey, Buckroe
Beach, Va; fifth, Harry Pitts, and
sixth, Richard Backora, % Hamil-
ton street NV.
Winners in the large-bore class
were, first, w. B. Kuykendall,
Rosemont avenue, Alexandria, Va;
second, Theodore w. SCHNEIDER
Baltimore; third, Frank Mitchell,
313 Monroe avenue, Alexandria;
fourth, Fred Sutton, Norfolk, Va;
fifth, Harry Pitts, and sixth, John
Beebe, 7 Rosemary street, Chevy
Chase.
Nine clubs were represented at
the meet and entrants came from
Virginia, the District, Maryland
Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
Jersey, Winifred Scott, president OF
the local club, announced. Prizes
were awarded by Corr's Model Sup
ply Store.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Seton Durr and Honnoh
Talk to Women Lowers

Seton Darr, president of the Dis
trict Bar Association, and Paul F..
Hannah, vice chairman of the
Junior section of the American Bar
Association, were the speakers at a
luncheon given by the junior section
OF the Womens Bar Association at
the Admiral Club yesterday.
Mr.. Darr spoke on the need for
q survey to find aids for litigants
unable to provide finances for de-
tense, and Mr.. Hannah spoke on the
recommendation of the American
Bar Association for a change in
legal procedure.
The appointment of Miss Marie
Scanlon, as vice chairman of the
junior section of the Women's Bar
Association, was announced. Miss
Helen Goodner, chairman of the
junior section, presided.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Womon's Body Held Dissected
By Experienced Anutomist'

"The limbs were severed cleanly,
as though by q surgeon" DR.. Wood
said.
This statement heightened SINH
larity of the case to those of Cleve-
lands Mad Butcher OF Kingsbury
Run"-skilled dissector blamed for
a dozen similar slayings there.
Pathologists were summoned to
determine If the woman, believed to
have been between 16 and rs years
old, had been a prospective mother.
Other clues uncovered by more
than 100 police engaged In the
search included two pairs Of pa
jamas and two blue slips found in q
fourth parcel last night. Dozens OF
persons, many of them relatives of
girls reported missing here in recent
months, viewed the clothing without
recognition.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Coxey Would Like
To Head New March
To Washington
General to Be IS
Tomorrow; Criticizes
U. S. Economic Stotus
By the Associated Press,

6y the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 15.-"Gen-
eral" Jacob S. Coxey, who cele-
brates his 85th birthday anniversary
tomorrow, made some caustic re-
marks tonight about the economic
status of the Nation, and said he
would like to march" again on
Washington to expound his own
economic views.
'"The bondholding class is sapping
the life blood of the people," he
observed.
Until the bondholder receives no
interest on his money, we can
never have an equitable distribu-
ton of the worlds goods"
Gen. Coxey has plan to "abol-
ish interest" and thereby solve un-
employment, wage disputes and
home foreclosures. Basically, it's
the same plan he proposed when
he set out on Easter Sunday, As
years ago, for Washington with an
army of unemployed at his heels.
But the plan has been ampNfied
through the years.
Briefly. he proposes that:
States and subdivisions deposit
25-year non-interest bearing bonds
with the Federal government as
security for money to finance pub
lie improvements; that the Federal
Government print legal tender to
the extent of the bonds and turn
1t over to subdivisions, deducting
one per cent for the cost of printing
the money; and that bonds be re-
tired annually at the rate of 4 per
cent, without interest, retiring the
money at the same time.
If my plan isn't adopted, the
country is going to go into. worse
conditions" the General" asserted
On his next march," Gen. Coxey's
army will be small-just three other
persons-a committee of the Hoboes
of America, Inc. Gen. Coxey, char
ter member of the hoboes' organiza-
ton, attended sessions of that body
this week and helped draft a reso-
luton favoring government own
ership OF railroads. The hobo COM
mittee expects to present the reso-
luton to President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Two Women and Youth
Die in AUTO Crosh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 15.-Two
Richmond Women and a Hanover
County youth were killed tonight
in a collision between a station
wagon and a coupe miles south of
Hanover Courthouse on Route 2.
The dead were Katherine Fridley,
"a; Virginia McCrary, Is, and Clyde
Hale, 10.
Critically injured in the crash
were Frank Kelley, 21, Of Hanover,
who was in the coupe, and Clyde
Rogers of Richmond, who was in
the station wagon with the women.
The two men were under treat
ment at Memorial Hospital here.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Open Meeting PIonned

The Interior Department Local,
United Federal Workers of America
will conduct an open meeting at 8
pm. Tuesday in the auditorium Of
the North Interior Building.
Cedric Fowler, assistant publicity
director Of the c. I. O., will speak
on the issues challenging labor. A
motion picture, whats in a Dress, /"
Will be shown. It Is 4 dramatiza-
ton Of the trade union organization
within the clothing industry.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Walter Rudy, Maryland
Motors Chief, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
e MT. AIRY, Md, April 15.-Walter
r. Rudy, Maryland commissioner OF
motor vehicles, died at his home late
tonight from cardiac asthma. He
was II.
Mr.. Rudy died after brief at
tack and before physician arrived.
He was appointed by former Gov.
Harry w. Nice four years ago and
would have gone out of Office May l.
Prominent in Republican circles
for half century, Mr.. Rudy became
q member of the State Central Com
mittee in Carroll County in 1900.
He had been chairman of the Coun-
ty Committee since 1908, but never
held elective Offices.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Y Boys Secretaries
To Meet Tomorrow

Delegates from the District of
Columbia, Delaware and Maryland
will attend a conference from 10
am. to pm. tomorrow of the
Association of Boys Work Secre-
taries of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in the Central Y.
M. c. A. Building, 1896 G street NV.
Ward M. Barrick, city-wide boys
work director of the local Y. M.
G. A., will preside.
Among things to be discussed at
the meeting will be group excursions
for boys to the Worlds Fair from
the District, Delaware and Mary
land areas. Plans also are to be
made for the Tri-State Older Boys
Conference to be held here next De-
cember.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 15.-Dr.
Charles W. Wood, eastern district
coroner, said tonight an experienced
anatomist" dissected young woman,
parts of whose body were found last
night and today.
Latest of the gruesome discoveries
were two newspaper wrapped pack
ages containing the lower part of
the torso, the abdomen and hips.
Howard Clark, patient at the City
Hospital, found them and q blood
stained housedress in a bramble
thicket back of the hospital late
today.
The newspapers were dated April
6 and II. A hand and parts of the
legs found last night in sewers two
miles from the hospital were wrapped
in newspapers of April 2.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Green Hits Arrest
Of Vets as Warrants

Aroused by reports that war vet
erans are being jailed here on va
grancy argos, Representative
Green, Democrat, of Florida, yes
terday called on James v. Ben
nett, director of the Bureau of
for the names of any veterans in
prisons, Justice Department, asking
carcerated at Occoquan as vagrants.
He sent a copy of the letter to
w. P. A. Administrator HARRINGTON
IN which he pointed out that relief
appropriations carry provision for
veteran employment, and declared
that wherever veterans were under
vagrancy charges, these should be
n1ted and the men offered emplov-
ment through the w. p. A. and other
channels.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
French Envoy Sees PIeo
Slowing Up Dictutors
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April '15.-Count de
Saint-Quentin, French Ambassador
to- the United States. said today he
believed President Roosevelt's ex-
pressed views on international ag-
gression would mo doubt" slow up
the drives of the dictator nations
toward imperialistic conquests.
The Ambassador came to New
York from Washington to preside at
the Federation de L'Alliance Fran
caise annual literary exercises.
He said that because the United
States is a world power, "in no coun-
try can the people remain Indifferent
to American opinion"
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Kroskin Appointed

DR.. Lewis H. Kraskin, president
OF the District of Columbia Board
of Examiners in Optometry, has
been appointed chairman Of the
Public Health Committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia Optometric So
ciety.
The committee plans free eye clin-
les for underprivilesed children and
adults.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Body Of Man Left
By Driver at Store
In Maryland
Several Persons Hurt
In Traffic Accidents
In District

A Maryland man was killed last
night. apparently by a driver who
ned after depositing his body on
the front porch of store at Piscat-
away, Md. Several other persons
were injured in District and nearby
traffic accidents.
Elwood Hart, Is, of Piscataway,
was taken to Providence Hospital
by two men who said they found
him unconscious on the porch of
Bosweil's store, a short distance
from his home.
Police said his body apparently
had been dragged there from a spot
. few yards away on Floral Park
road. He was pronounced dead on
arrival at the hospital.
Physicians said Mr.. Hart died OF
compound fractures of both legs
and multiple internal injuries.
Pedestrian Is Knocked Down.
A pedestrian was knocked down
and injured while standing on the
curb at Georgia avenue near Ken
: nedy street NV. by a car which
went out of control after collid-
Ing with another automobile.
Carl E. Majors, 33, of 56O8 Geor-
gia avenue NV. was struck by an
automobile operated, police said, by
John A. Becht, Is, of 5S16 Sixth
street NV. His machine careened
to the curb after colliding with a
car driven by Leo Lopresti, IS, of
Front Royal, Va, investigators re-
ported.
Mr.. Majors was treated at Wal
ter Reed Hospital for a broken leg
and minor cuts and bruises and
later removed to Gallinger Hospital.
Both Mr.. Becht and Mr.. Lopresti
were charged with reckless driving
Woman Is Struck.
Virginia S. Breen, 35, of 2l4 Mas
sachusetts avenue NE, was ad-
mitted to Casualty Hospital with
severe head cuts and hip injuries
after she was struck by an automo-
bile near her home. Police said the
driver was Posey L. Price, Al, of 419
Second street NE
Others treated for slight injuries
sustained in accidents were Mildred
Blakey. %, of 1929 I street NE. and
Emerson Asken, 40, colored, 21l9
M street NV.
Pinned Beneath Car.
Payton Kea of 806 Forrest drive,
Hyattsville, Md, was injured when
he was pinned beneath his auto
mobile after it overturned on Uni
versity lane near New Hampshire
avenue in Prince Georges County.
Police said Mr. Kea. who is
about 20 years old, was driving the
car, in which there were six other
passengers. Companions told po-
lite that car had forced them off
the road
Mr.. Kea received head injuries,
and was taken to Washington Sani-
tarium. He was removed from
beneath the overturned car by mis-
companions, none of whom was IN
jured
In another accident two youths
received painful face and head
lacerations when their car crashed
into light pole at the end of Boni-
FAINT street at Dale drive, in Silver
Spring, Md.
William O'Connor, 10, of IS U
street NE, and Jack Pearson, 18,
Of 73l Madison street NV, were
treated at Washington Sanitarium
for decorations received from shat
tered windshield glass.
Montgomery County police said
that James R. Feeney, 18, of 45O
Delafield place NV, driver of the
car, was unhurt. He told police
they ran into the pole as they came
to. the end of Bonifant street, which
they did not realize was a dead-end
road,
Evening star., 1939-04-16

the lawyer, investigator and other
outside" help.
Broadly, the investigation is in
tenoed to cover two subjects:
1.-The extent Of violations of the
1925 District Milk Control act.
2-Whether milk and cream for
fluid consumption. produced outside
the so-called Washington milk
she'd" should be allowed to come
into the District under proper regu-
lation.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Typing Exhibition

Miss Stella Willins. champion
typist, will give an exhibition in
the auditorium of the National
Press Club tomorrow at 2 pm. for
students of the Washington School
for Secretaries.
Evening star., 1939-04-16

People Of the United Kingdom are
drinking more tomato Juice than .
year 40.
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Chickens Should
Be Laundered'
For Fair Display

Send your chickens to the
laundry if you expect to show
them at the community, county
district or State fair" advises C.
F. Parrish, poultry specialist OF
the State College Extension Ser
vice.
Net literally, of course, but the
birds should be laundered at
home if they are dirty, Parrish
says Wash the chicken with soap
and water, being sure to rub
with the feathers" and not
against them. Afterward, all soap
should be thoroughly rinsed from
the feathers.
The Extension specialist men
toned other items in connection
with the fitting of birds for the
show ring: Show birds should be
seleced for type and color. They
should be placed in wire coops a
part Of each day to get them
tame and coop wise"
All birds should be examined
carefully for defects. If they are
too light in weight, a little corn
meal added to the mash will help
to fatten them. Parti-colored
birds should be conditioned in
the shade. The adding of S per-
cent o. P. linseed oil meal to the
mash will give luster to the fea-
theirs Show birds should be plac-
ed in deep straw as part of the
fitting process.
After the laundry job is done,
the shanks, comb, wattles and
beak should also be cleaned ard
shined. A little olive oil, mineral
oil, or vaseline on a cloth will
serve as the cleanser and polish
er.
Parrish also offered another in
teresting bit of advice to poultry
owners. He suggested that a
"lengthening of the day" will
help to hold old hens in produc-
ton through the fall months.
Turn on the lights in the poul-
try house about 4 o'clock in the
morning and thereby increase
the laying day to 13 hours, and
the old hens usually will res
pond, he said.
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Blackburn is Mr.. divers sister

Blackburn is Mr.. divers sister.
Miss Opal Oliver, who has
been taking nurses training at
Winston-Salem Baptist hospital
returned to her work there Fri
day after spending a few weeks
here visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake Oliver.
Miss Ruby Denny, who has a
job in West jefferson, visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. F,
Denny over the weekend.
Mr.. w. M. Jones, of Chestnut
Hill, visited his brother, J. c.
Jones Sunday.
Rev. w. E. Denny, Of this place,
filled his regular appointment at
Healing Springs Baptist church
Sunday morning and preached at
Fairview in the afternoon.
The Landmark school has be-
gun with an extra good enroll
ment and we hope we can keep
it up. We have very capable
teacher, Mrs. Edith Livesay, of
Grassy Creek.
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LANDMARK AND OLD
FIELD CREEK NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Barker
and family, also Mr.. and Mrs,
Ance Barker and family, all of
Delaware, have been visiting
friends and relatives in the coun-
ty during the past two weeks.
They left for their home Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. c, C. Denny and
children, Gerald, Kenneth and
Janice Kay, visited Mrs. Denny's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c, Jones
Sunday and attended the decora-
ton services at the J. R. Brine
gar graveyard Sunday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan Oliver,
and children, of Jefferson, were
the dinner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs,
Webb Blackburn Sunday. Mrs
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Gwyn Canbill's
Horse Wins Two
Prizes In Show
Accomplishes The "Impossi-
BILE" at Galax Fair Horse
Show. Is 6 Yrs. Old.

Gwyn Gambill's fine horse,
St2rmount, did the more or less
impossible" in the horse show
at the Galax fair last Thursday
afternoon by winning first place
in the hunters class and then two
hours later taking third place in
the Virginia-bred three-gaited
class.
There isn't one show horse in
a thousand that can win in both
of those classes in the same day."
one qualified observer comment
ed.
"That horse was certainly in
rare form and its owner should
be mighty proud of him" a judge
was quoted as saying.
There were a large number OF
some of the finest horses IN the
country at the Galax show, too,
including Lady Durham, the con-
sistent winner of prizes.
Mr.. Gambill, whose chief hob
by is horses, purchased Star
mount about year ago. This
horse is six years old and was
born in Virginia. 1t is a hand
some looking chestnut sorrel.
Claude Cole rode Starmount
to victory and won a total OF
$500 in prizes.
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Leading European Nations
Are Again Engaged In War
PASTOR EXTENDS HIS
BEST WISHES TO POWERS

Rev. M. D. Hart, pastor of the
Tuckerdale Baptist Church, this
week issued a statement, thank
ing Elmer Lee Powers for the
fine work he has done in the
community and extending his
best wishes to Mr.. Powers as he
enters Mars Hill College to stu
dy for the ministry.
The pastor pointed out that
Mr.. Powers was superintendent
of the Sunday School and presl-
dent of the B. Y. P. U. "He is a
splendid worker among the
young people and is loved by
both young and old in our
church and community" he said.
. eve are proud that we can
give to Mars Hill a ministerial
student of the outstanding char
acter and ability that Mr.. Powers
possesses and we wish for him
much success"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
ARTHUR HURLEY HAS
LEASED MAX'S CAFE

Arthur Hurley, who has been
connected with the City Cafe
and Hotel here for the past seve-
raj years, has leased Max's Cafe
from Ward Phillips, who plans
to move to North Wilkesboro III
few days to look after the set
Element of his brothers estate.
Mr.. Hurley was born and rear
ed at Beaver Creek and is wide
ly known in the county. He ex-
tends a cordial invitation to all
of his friends to visit him in his
new place.