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Evening star., 1939-01-01

was a planner. founder and up
builder of the city. Andrew Jack
son threw himself with enthusi-
asm into the work of adequately
bridging the Potomac, urged the
allowance of a Delegate in Con-
gress to the District, and in his
administration, with his co-opera-
ton and sympathy. the Nation
came to the financial relief of
the community bankrupted in
performing the Nations task.
Discrimination between the later
Presidents. from Lincoln to
Franklin Roosevelt, all of whom
have been friends COR at least not
unfriends) of the District. might
seem invidiouS. But it is only
justice to record that Grant, the
man of deeds, not words, had the
opportunity which he effectively
utilized to lay broad and deep
foundations of Washington as
truly the Nations city, while
Coolidge, Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt will be recorded in his
tory as among the great master
builders-probably the greatest
in the last half century-of
Washington the City Beautiful.
Great men from all sections, in
Congress as well as the White
House, have delighted to labor to
make the Capital worthy of the
Republic. Clearly there is noble
work for any statesman in iden-
tifying himself conspicuously
with the upbuilding Of the Ma
tion's Capital.
In these days of easy divorce,
trif1ing causes of dispute often
disrupt the family partnership,
but in the Capital-making part
nership between Congress repre-
senting the Nation and the
people of Washington, divorce,
though sometimes suggested, now
on one side and now on the other
in a spasm of discomfort, is
neither feasible nor desirable.
What the Constitution of the
United States has thus joined
together is not to be put asunder.
Since, then, these partners are
to live and work together in Cap
ital building, let them by mutual
consideration, forbearance, SYM
pathy and regard live together
happily and work harmoniously
and effectively to the end that
through their joint labors a mag
nificent Capital may be devel-
oped, which every Washingtonian
may with patriotic enthusiasm
claim as his home and of which
every American may be proud.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Syrian Parliament
Calls for Revolt
Against France
Urges Government to
Take All Power Into
Its Own Hands
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
DAMASCUS, Dec. 31.-The Syrian
Parliament, reused by Frances de-
cision to pigeonhole the 1886 treaty
promising Syria independence, urged
the Syrian government today to
take power into its own hands.
The parliamentary action, in a
unanimously adopted resolution,
meant that the government was
asked to revolt from the rule which
France holds under a League of Ma
tions mandate.
Parliament refused fatty to nego-
tiate with French Senate commit
tee which Premier Daladier decided
to send here to suggest new agree
ment with the Syrians.
Under the proposed agreement
Syria would have large measure of
independence. but with the French
in control of military and police
functions
The new pact, which France seeks
because of uncertainty created by
Italian colonial agitation, would be
a substitute for the 1886 treaty
Syria ratified but which the French
Parliament has not.
The Syrian Parliament asks the
government to watch over Syrian
rights, confirming its independence
and its unity and to take urgently
all energetic measures with the
view to seizing all power without
delay" said the parliamentary reso-
luton adopted today.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Attacks on Business
Not Abandoned,
Differ Says
Hopkins Appointment
Is Criticized by
Representative

Attacks on American business by
the New Deal will continue under
the administration of the Depart
ment of Commerce by Secretary
Harry L. Hopkins, Representative J.
William Otter of Pennsylvania, Re-
publican, predicted last night.
Mr.. Otter, vice chairman of the
Republican Congressional Commit
tee. said he did not believe Presi-
dent Roosevelt would heed the
mandate of the November elec-
tions"
Warfare Not Abandoned.
"The old warfare on business and
enterprise is not abandoned" MIR.
| Otter said The appointment of
Harry L. Hopkins to be Secretary
OF Commerce is the real clue to
the New Deal program for the
next session. The ringing demand
OF the voters at the polls last No.
vember for a more sane and orderly
system of national government ap-
parently has made no impression
at the White House"
Mr.. Otter has been designated a
member of the House Steering Com
mittee, which will shape major
legislative policies for the Repub-
lican minority in the Seventy-sixth
Congress.
Appointments Indicate Course.
1--WE had all hoped that the ad-
ministration would harken to the
voice of the American people, as it
was heard from coast to coast last
November at the polls" Mr.. Otter
continued. But nothing that has
happened since election justifies
hope for more moderate and more
constitutional course. The appoint
ment of Mr.. Hopkins and the con-
tinued discussion of Gov. Frank
| Murphy of Michigan as prospec-
tive Attorney General indicate the
course President Roosevelt has set
for this session.
"Mr. Hopkins never has been in
position which required him to
meet pay roll on Saturday night,
and by temperament he mistrusts
the whole scheme of American
enterprise"
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Guffey Pays $50
Bet to Tydings;
Details Vague
By the Associated Press.

Senator Guffey Of Pennsylvania
paid Senator Tydings of Maryland a
$50 election bet when they met yes
terday at the Senate's Democratic
caucus.
Both were vague about details Of
the wager.
Mr.. Tydings told reporters it was
on "the size of a majority some-
where"
Mr.. Guffey said he had forgotten
all about it but guessed it was on
whether the Democratic candidates
for Governor and Senator would win
in Pennsylvania. They didn't.
A third version was told by a man
close to Senator Tydings, who de-
clined to be quoted by name. He
said the bet was on whether Tydings
would win denomination despite the
opposition of President Roosevelt. He
did.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Legislative Program
For States Drafted
ByC.I 0.
Limiting Use Of Guard
In Labor Disputes
Heads List

With the same general objectives
as are contemplated in their Federal
legislative program, the Congress of
Industrial Organizations last night
sent out to all its affiliates and local
officials drafts of legislation desired
in the States.
Topping the list is a model bill
designed to control use of the Ma
tional Guard in strikes. the measure
calling for public hearings by Gov
ernor before the Guard may be
called to the aid Of civil authorities,
restrictions on number of Guards
men and length of time they may
be employed in such capacity, and
financial liability for damages
awarded by civil suit against the
Guard.
In support Of this proposal, the
G. I. o. announcement stated that
since 1877 at least 100 workers have
met their deaths at the hands of
Guardsmen. while the number of
wounded men and women runs into
the hundreds. The National Guard
has not only been used to break
strikes, but also to break the re-
sistance of farmers against the
greedy policies of distributors of
food products"
The program also gave prominence
to legislative guarantees of collec-
tive bargaining rights for employees
OF firms holding State contracts and
restrictions against use of deputy
sheriffs and private detective agen-
cies in labor controversies.
In addition, there are measures to
limit the authority of the courts in
issuing injunctions, to prohibit evic-
ton of workers on strike or unem-
ployed, to set up State labor rela-
tions board and State wage-hours
acts and to regulate payment Of
wages.
Other items in preparation in
clude bills to promote low-cost hous-
ing, to improve and extend unem-
ployment compensation laws, to es-
tablish State civil liberties bureaus
and to repeal State criminal syn
dicalism bills and other repressive
anti-labor measures.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Misses Robbit, Boos Bird

DECATUR, Ala, Dec. 81 LR.-
c.. G. johnson, laboratory director
Tor T. V. A., went duck hunting, shot
at rabbit and bagged a partridge.
Luckless on the duck expedition
johnson jumped rabbit In an open
field as he started homeward. He
fired at the rabbit and missed hut
covey of quail flushed at the shot
johnson found he had hit a bird
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Cummings Leaving,
President Soon
To Fill Vacancy
Cabinet Member Is
Praised for His
Achievements
& Underwood Photo

With Homer S. Cummings leav-
ing the Attorney Generals Office
tomorrow noon, indications yester-
day we're that President Roosevelt
would Immediately name his sue
ceSsor.
The White House revealed that
Mr.. Cummings resignation, sub
mitted several weeks ago, would
become effective tomorrow Earlier
in the week, President Roosevelt
had indicated he might have an an
nouncement of an appointment then.
The 68-year-old Connecticut law
yer, on whom fell the major bur-
den of defending New Deal legisla-
ton. was praised yesterday by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for "the magnificent
way" he has carried the department
through difficult period with con-
stantly increased efficiency and i'm
proved morale"
Helped U. S. and People.
The President, in a letter to the
retiring cabinet member, said he
did not know of ANY comparable
period of achievement in the record
of any of your predecessors.
He said Mr.. Cummings helped
the Government and the people as
a whole in suggesting legislation
along many lines" AS a result of
his endeavors, the President con-
tinued, American homes are safer,
interstate crime has been checked
and great strides made in improv-
ing judicial procedure.
Your loyalty and your faith. as
you know" the President wrote.
have been of the utmost help to
me and the people. of the country
appreciate it."
He said he reserved the right to
call Mr.. Cummings back for "fre-
quent consultation and advice"
Earlier Mr.. Cummings had written
the President: my heart and my
faith have been with you every
moment of the time"
Makes Recommendations.
AS final legacy of his tenure, Mr..
Cummings yesterday recommended
to Congress constitutional amend
ment requiring all Federal judges
to retire at 10.
His recommendation was con-
tanned in his annual report for the
year ending last June 80. In it he
also submitted to Congress, with his
approval. recommendations of the
Judicial Conference, headed by Chief
Justice Hughes, for establishment
of 13 new Federal judgeships.
No successor to Mr.. Cummings has
been disclosed at the White House.
Most prominently mentioned, how
ever, are retiring Gov. Frank Murphy
of Michigan and Solicitor General
! Robert jackson.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Japan Is using whale meat as a
substitute food.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
6. u. Medical School
Will Hold Promenade

Debutantes from Boston and New
York are expected to be present at
the annual promenade of the
Georgetown University School of
Medicine next Friday at the Hotel
Washington at 10 pm.
Several prominent local physi-
clans have been invited to attend,
and the guest list will be headed
by the Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.,
president of the university, and the
Rev. David V. McCauley, S. j., dean
of the Medical School.
Leading the promenade will be
J. Parran Jarboe and Thomas F.
Mcmahon, prom chairman, and
William H. Devlin, class president,
and their guests.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Arlington Red Cross
To Elect Officers

The Executive Committee Of the
Arlington County Va) Chapter,
American Red Cross, will elect ofi-
GERS for the year at q meeting Mon
day at 8 pm. in the Red Cross
headquarters. 2517 Wilson boulevard.
George A. Collier Is the present
chairman.
1t was reported that the chapter
now has more than 5000 members,
which represents an increase during
1888 Of so per cent over the pre-
vious year.
Distribution Of 996 garments to
needy were noted in q report sub
mitted to Mrs. Mildred Bray, ex-
ecutive director.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Big Names in Politics
In New Mexico Heard
In W. P. A. Trial
Government Expects
To Close Its Case
Tomorrow
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Feb. 8.
Names potent in New Mexico
politics were heard today in the
W. P. A. mass-conspiracy trial in
Federal Court as the Government
neared the close of its case, with
final evidence expected to be in to-
morrow.
High lighting latest testimony was
that Of William H. Kinler, w. P. A.
criminal division investigator, that
he had interviewed former Gov.
Clyde Tingley in the investigation
which led to the Federal grand jury
Indictment of 70 persons, IS of whom
are now on trial under one blanket
indictment charging they diverted
the relief organization to their
political use.
Read into the record by Defense
Attorney A. T. Hannett, was part of
Mr.. Kinler's official report made
after an investigation of New
Mexico's w. P. A. last spring.
At the close of yesterdays session,
District Attorney Everett Grantham
said he expected to complete the
Governments case tomorrow. Pres
entation of the defense case was ex-
pected to take about week or 10
days.
Healy again figured prominently
in the testimony when E. A. Rose,
former Albuquerque w. P. A. zone
supervisor, said the former State
administrator reinstated five of eight
Albuquerque workers discharged last
April on the recommendation of
Federal agents.
Healy was described by another
witness, Ralph O'Rourke of San
Francisco, also w. P. A. investi-
gator as cooperative but lust a
little reluctant" to make recon-
mended discharges of workers.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

GOLDEN WEDDING-Mr. and
Mrs. ]. D. E. E. StOver of 1904
Eleventh street NE, who re-
Gently celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary. They
have been residents of the
city about 40 years. After
teaching in the public schools
of his native State of Pennsyl-
vania four years Mr.. Stover
entered the service of the
Adams Express Co., retiring in
1882.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Plan Lincoln Day Ball

The third annual Lincoln Day
ball, sponsored by Republican organ
izations of the District, Maryland
and Virginia, will be held February
II at the Raleigh Hotel. William
H. Mondell is in charge of arrange
ments for the affair.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Rabbi SegoI to Speak

Rabbi Henry Segal will speak on
Jews and the Tilling of the Soil
tonight at o'clock at the B'nai
Israel Synagogue After the service,
Maurice Robbins will lead forum
discussion on liberalism or Con-
servatism-Which Shall the Jew
Choose Today?"
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Dance Is Announced

The public utilities division of the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion will hold dance tonight in
the Carlton Hotel with the COM
missioners as guests of honor. A
Miss Public Utilities" will be Sc
lected.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
H. H. Kelly to Be Speaker

H. H. Kelly of the Bureau of
Motor Carriers, Interstate Com
merce Commission, will address
members of the Washington Safety
Society at pm. next Wednesday
in room 1929 of the Department
of Labor.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Langley Junior High
Class Of 146 Graduated

Diplomas were awarded to 146
students Of the Langley Junior High
School at February graduation ex-
ercises there last night. Robert A.
Maurer, vice president of the Board
of Education. presided.
The majority of the graduates
will attend nearby Mckinley High
School. Graduates and the schools
they will attend are:
Evening star., 1939-02-03
| II Graduated
|At Webster
| School

Principal Maude E. Alton present.
ed graduation diplomas to II gradu-
ates of the Webster America nization
School at informal ceremonies to-
day. The students, all of whom will
attend Central High School, come
from China, Italy, Greece, Poland,
Russia, Germany and Austria. They
are:
Chan. Richard Dali. Libby
Karath, James Jacob, Gertrude
Bortulussi, Ugo Perau. Ingeborg
Millios. Spfros Sangmeister Ruth
Zis. SpiroS Fleischer. Bertha
Jacob. Harry Kornei. Lucy
Bindeman, Sarah Fraenkel Erna
Slavin. Ester Marano Goldie
Moy, Ernest
Evening star., 1939-02-03

Ground was broken at Lufkin,
Tex, early in 1899 for the South's
first newsprint paper mill.
Evening star., 1939-05-27

the loaded window are gold linen
draw curtains.
VlIuSinn NJ Vacfp@SS

the loaded window are gold linen
draw curtains.
Illusion of Vastness.
The living room windows, with
larger than usual glass squares, are
framed in misty blue draperies the
same color as the end walls, and
beige glass draw curtains which
match the side walls. There is a
huge plate glass mirror over the
fireplace that gives an illusion of
a room that is both very wide and
very long. AS the outlook from the
room is into the Forest Preserve, the
repetition of tree pattern in the
mirror makes an interesting effect.
The dining room, in dusty pink,
has rose pin-dot curtains with val
ance and tiebacks of gold foil that
catch the sparkle of the brass and
crystal center fixture. The wood
work is in dusty pink and the tone
is repeated in the downstairs bed
room that opens off the dining
room, where this tone, used for the
ceiling, contrasts with the soft blue
toned walls. Rose and blue chintz
curtains and matching spread with
provincial furniture completes the
muted color scheme.
The all-white kitchen has an ap-
pie green band about a foot wide
over the sink and stove line to con-
trast with the primrose yellow cur
tains and bench covers in the break
fast nook.
Green Wall Bedroom.
The master bedroom is a SYM
phony of green walls and gold twist
Evening star., 1939-05-27
Leisure Of Livinq
Feature Of CHICAGO
Exhibit Home
10000 Have Paid
To See Life Magazine
House Edition
Special Dispatch TO The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, May 27.-The Colonial
colors and atmosphere of yesterday
muted for leisured living, are fea-
tured in Chicago's edition of the
Life Magazine house that Royal
Barry Wills designed. Located 20
miles west of Chicago's Loop it
attracted over 10000 paid visitors
In the month it was open.
The white-painted doorway with
its hand-hammered hardware opens
from stone terrace, and, stepping
into the hall, one sees a garden
vista from the distant living room.
The entire downstairs is carpeted in
a dusty beige twist and this also is
used on the white winding staircase
On the left of the entrance is
the study, hand-hooked rug CIV
ing glimpses of the polished inlaid
oak flooring. The walls are knotty
pine, lacquered and rubbed down to
interesting dullness The built-in
bookcases and the wooden valance
over the window are scalloped. At
Evening star., 1939-05-27

ed yarn carpet-the same gold tone
repeated in the draperies and bed
spread. Modern blesched walnut
furniture Is used. The large clothes
closet and storage room are painted
gold.
In another bedroom femininity Is
expressed In the white point d'es-
prit cascades used for windows and
bedspreads, with q bathroom done
in the same tone of peach as is the
clothes closet. Walls are misty blue
with a green carpet serving as back
Evening star., 1939-05-27

suitable for finishing a wood kitchen
table top? Is there any better way
to finish the top?
Answer-Water glass would not
be satisfactory for this particular
purpose. A linseed oil treatment
would be much better. Soak thor
oughly with linseed oil for two or
three hours, then wipe dry. After
two days rub with coarse cloth,
such as piece of carpeting. Repeat
the application occasionally. FIRE.
quent rubbings will give you an
attractive and durable finish on the
wood top.
(Copyright, 1880
Evening star., 1939-05-27

in beige and one in burgundy. This
darker color is repeated in the up
holstered 18th century furniture.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
OLSON SEEKS new
CONFERENCE
In PORT TIE-UP

SAN FRANCISCO. = FP) = Gov.
Culbert L. Olson has asked formally
for one more conference with the
Dock Checkers Employers Assn. and
the striking Ship Clerks Union (CIO).
If the waterfront tieup is not settled
by the conferees, Olson will ask the
legislature to legalize emergency
state operation of the port of San
Francisco.
The governors fact-finding commit
tee had proposed that the union post
pone its demand for preferential hir-
ing for the monthly clerks, negotiate
on all other points, and If no agreement
were reached within "a hours, resume
work under the 1888 contract An i'm
partial committee named by the gov
ernor would then study the whole
problem, including preferential hiring.
Both sides turned down this proposal.
The union had also told Mayor
Angelo Rossi that if he would publicly
ask the employers to accept the u. S.
Maritime Labor Boards request that
they arbitrate all points and reopen
the port the union would hold a secret
ballot on continuance of the strike, as
the mayor had demanded Rossi re-
fused the offer.
Further trouble looms in the strike
vote now being taken all along the
coast by the Natl Marine Cooks &
Stewards Assn. (CIO), because of
stalling in negotiations. If the stew
ards vote to strike, the walkout will
start before Christmas.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-Ana attempt
| by the House committee allegedly in
vestigating the NLRB to show that
NLRB member Edwin S. Smith had
tried to induce Filene's, a Boston de-
partment store, to boycott merchan-
disc from the Berkshire Knitting Mills
near Reading, Pa, in 1886, failed here
as Smith took the witness stand.
Smith was called as a witness after
Rep. Healey %, Mass.) objected to
the Introduction as evidence of letters
written by Smith while Smith was not
present. The hearing recessed while
a telephone call brought Smith hurry
ing to the capitol
He told the committee that the labor
board, in its first years, followed a
practice adopted by it's predecessor,
the first National Labor Relations
Board, of engaging in mediation &C.
tivities. This practice, he admitted.
was outside the legal scope of the
present board and was habit and
tradition" inherited from the old
board of which he was a member.
Admitting, in response to questions,
that this was practice not called
for in present labor relations law,
Smith said that when the new board
was established there was hang
over of the practice of mediation from
the old act and that regional direc-
tors, particularly in the Philadelphia
office, concerned themselves with con-
Citation.
In line with this, he said, he wrote
Louis KRISTEN, president of Filenes
the circumstances surround
ing the Berkshire strike and saying,
Il do not know whether you will care
to make any approaches on this mat
ter to the Berkshire management nor
do l know what volume of business
Filene's does with Berkshire. | do
most certainly feel that any stand
which you adopt would be listened to
with the greatest respect by the Berk-
shire company"
Smith, prior to his appointment to
the old labor board, was personnel
director of Filene's.
My letters to Mr.. KRISTEN on the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

"These findings are remarkable for
several reasons" Fortune will say.
I'm the first place they yield the
strange coincidence that of people CIV
ing definite answers more than 500
would prefer democrat-which is
within 10 of the actual democratic
majority in the presidential election
of 1885,
''This is an unhappy parallel for re-
publicans to contemplate. Worse, by
every breakdown and cross tabulation
with the exception of students, who
give Dewey the highest place., Roose-
welt is the most popular of the eight
possibilities-even with the prosper
GUS and with the executives"
Geographically, the national aver
age of 30.69o for Roosevelt is obtained
from sectional averages ranging from
1879 in the northwest (where repub-
lican strength is greatest) to 49.4%
in the southeast. The middle west is
1850 or Roosevelt, the northeast and
mountain states 269% each, the Pa
cific coast 1880, and the southwest
40.3%.
Dewey made his best showing not
in his own territory but on the Pa
cific coast, where 1870 of the voters
favor him as against 1879 in the
northeast.