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Evening star., 1939-10-22
FROM THE SHADOW OF DEATH
Continued from pooe seven

married forty-four years. Some time
later. Reading and Stella Charnaud
married. He was seventy. she was
thirty-seven. His son was his best
man."
But they were still in work harness.
Their honeymoon was cut short by the
great economic crisis of 1881. solved in
Britain by a political truce and the
formation Of the national government.
Reading was the new foreign secretary.
In the next year his wife was called
, upon to- run the Personal Service
League. This was voluntary organi-
zatlon to persuade the "haves" to help
mitigate the miseries and joblessness
OF the "have-nots. She showed how
even the poorest could help. She ex-
hibited to an audience a baby's
jumper. warm. soft, practical She had
made it out of her own discarded
stockings.
AT this time she was getting gifts
galore. but she was more interested in
working out basic principle. 1t was to
Create community spirit, sense of
active personal service. Gifts from
those who could afford to give - this
was charity, temporary thing, and it
was not enough; she wanted to create
something more lasting.
Lord Reading died. She gave up
their big Mayfair house and went
travelling. She crossed to America,
drove $4,000 miles. studying the real
America. The vlrility of American
youth, its readiness to tackle any lob,
impressed her
The shadow of new world war
heightened and darkened But it was
difficult to wake up complacent Britain.
even after Hitler forcibly absorbed
Austria. How could democracy keep
pace with an efficient and ruthless
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always packed. Audiences ranged
from 800 to 1900, and there were
plenty of questions and heckling. At
one meeting fat old lady shouted: {:
What about women like me? I'm
seventy. We can't drive ambulances,
and who's going to make bandages all
day long? Not mev'
I'VE can use you" responded Lady
Reading. I'VE need gossipy, comfort
able women like you to run our COM
plant bureaus"
Lady Reading put city evacuation
in the forefront of her program. BY the
time the big crisis came she had
Evening star., 1939-10-22

autocracy when it came to organizing
the people for war? Air war demanded
civilian defense measures. Women
were involved as much as men. But
women remained uninterested.
Air Raid Precautions at that time
was one of the jobs of the Home Office
- the Ministry of the Interior. Sir
Samuel Hoare was Home Secretary,
and he went to the widow of his friend
Lord Reading and asked her why
women were not responding to the
ARP. call. Time was getting short.
lt~was necessary to get some move
ment going well in advance of events.
Could Lady Reading do anything?
There was no money. no power. no
kudos - and all the brickbats on
earth if she failed. Hoare knew all
about the brickbats!
Lady Reading saw the seriousness
of the situations One could not admit
that war was inevitable - and yet
women had to be awakened and
trained as though for inevitable war.
And there was not even fund to pay
expenses! Lady Reading reached for
the phone. called four friends. Five
women in one small room - that was
how the "Women's Voluntary" defense
army started. The date was June, 1898.
1t was not question of finding
women to replace men needed in fac
tories and fighting services Most of
the jobs were essentially women's
jobs, especially those connected with
the mass dispersal of school children.
the blind and the ill from the big
cities. Lady Reading got representa-
tives of seventy women's organiza-
tions together. They made the
blueprint. On it you find thirty-eight
categorles. They range from child
welfare workers. nursing. communal
Evening star., 1939-10-22

catering. mass feeding. leisure time.
education. maternity and transport, to
canteen workers, gas decontaminators
and telephone-switchboard operators.
Then the blueprint had to be made
into something tangible. 1t was the
toughest sort of job. Difficult authori-
ties had to be persuaded, organizations
established, liaisons fixed. enthusiasm
created, public spirit aroused - and
just the right area leaders picked. One
bad pick could ruin everything in
whole area.
Lady Reading toured the country
making speeches. Her meetings were
Evening star., 1939-10-22

around 100000 women trained to
receive and handle the emigrants. In
the first week of the crisis the London
hospitals put in call for $500 nurs-
ing auxiliaries. The WIS. found all
but thirty. Not bad for a volunteer
service on sudden call in an abrupt
crisis.
The WIS. has trained nearly
10000 women ambulance drivers
and they can drive in the dark. The
procedure was to take them in patches
on moonlight nights to a private park,
and turn them loose, thirty at time,
in convoy. No lights, and gas masks
on. Three miles, then reverse in con-
voy at a whistle
Some percentages give a sidelight
on the way calls run for specialized
women workers in war. At mid
August thirty-three per cent of the
WIS. were trained for ARP,
thirty-one per cent for evacuation
services; thirteen per cent for hospital
services. eight per cent for nursing
auxiliaries.
They are organized in twelve groups,
with twelve group chiefs and 10000
leaders" Only forty-nine of the lot
are paid.
On the membership lists are
duchesses and dustmen's wives, coun-
tesses and charwomen. There are :au,
political groups or class distinctions in
the WIS. Everything goes by merit,
acquired or natural. One of England's
most distinguished women. patrician
wife of one of the old-nobility diplo-
mats. volunteered late. At the time of
writing she is still addressing enve-
lopes in the general Office at London
headquarters.
At headquarters they don't give
orders. They stimulate and energize.
Red tape, routine and passing the
buck" are strictly discouraged. The
(Continvsd on pogs ~
Evening star., 1939-10-22

QUESTION 70 MRS. MooaG,
Can busy housewife find time to
give her skin proper care, Mrs. Moore3
ANSWER,
Eyes. Ponds 2 creams make it very
easy-inexpensive, too! I can get my
skin really clean and fresh with their
Cold Cream. Besides that, this famous
cream now contains Vitamin A, which
is certainly important to know"
QUESTION 70 MRS. MOORE,
Why do you think it's important to
have Vitamin A in your face cream2
ANSWER.
Il studied about vitamins in feeding
my children. That's how learned
there's one that's especially important
to the slkin-Vitamin A. Skin lacking
it gets rough and dry. And now
can cream it right into my skin
with Ponds Cold Cream.''
Evening star., 1939-08-20

done business with Buchalter is a
marked man. Anybody who gives
him aid or comfort along the under
ground railroad of crime is in dan
ger. For the F. B. I. is waiting to
spring the trap, not on Buchalter
alone, but the men who are in on
big-time crime anywhere. They
want crooked lawyers, politicians,
bail bondsmen-anybody who lives
an outwardly respectable life, but
who protects crime
Ask J. Edgar Hoover about it,
as I did the other day, and he'll
tell you. only he'll use the diction-
ary word for the big fix" corrup-
ton"
Foundations ROtting.
The maladies which lawlessness
inoculates into the social order will
rot the foundations of our Nation"
said the head Oman. The worst
of these is corruption. Corruption
begets corruption. Without it or
ganized crime could not exist
Kansas City was one opening
wedge for the Nation wide drive.
1t took long time to drive that
wedge.
For years the G-men knew some
thing was rotten in Kansas City.
Back in 1888 three big time hood
lums tried to rescue Bank Robber
Frank Nash from several officers
of the law and smeared the annals
of crime with the notorious Kansas
Nash were murdered right in front
of the Union Station.
But local crime is no concern of
the F. B. l., unless some Federal law
is violated. So j. Edgar Hoover and
his G-men bided their time.
A Chance at Last.
On the morning of December Ia,
1886, Federal Judge Albert l.. Reeves
handed them golden opportunity on
a silver platter. Find out who
tampered with the votes of citizens
in the last national election" was
the gist of his order to the Federal
grand jury and the G-men.
Hoover was primed and waiting.
He moved in truckload of scien-
tific apparatus -spectroscopes, mi
croscopes and the like-and the men
who knew how to use it. Tom
Pendergasts henchmen must have
laughed. Imagine trying to Jail
anybody with lot of fancy gadgets!
But those gadgets did their work.
Evening star., 1939-08-20

They found fraudulent ballots. They
found the latent fingerprints of
Pendergast henchmen on those bal
lots. They threw the fingerprints
on screen in Federal Court. Wit
nesses began to talk. At last the
big fix was on the way out. Late last
year the last of 256 election fixers
were sentenced in Federal Court.
The Summary.
Now look what's happened since
Tom Pendergast is a number in
LeavenWorth, convicted of income
tax evasion, the quickest way to get
him. His lieutenant, R. Emmett
OMalley accused of bribery in a
huge insurance rate fraud, is in
LeaVenWorth with the boss"
E. Mont Reilly, Pendergast's Re-
publican crony, is under indictment
for forging city pay rolls. H. F..
McElroy, Pendergast's city manager.
is under indictment for embezzle-
ment of public funds.
Angelo Donnici, Pendergast ward
heeler, the Mayor of Ninth Street"
mas been convicted with So others
OF running $4,000, ,OOO-a year mar
cotlc ring, supplying the whole
Southwest.
Charles Carollo has been indicted
as the car of s2000O,OOO gambling
syndicate. At least, that's what
Judge Allen c. Southern said the
gamblers took from Kansas citizens
and their guests every year
Kansas City showed the G-men
and their allies what can be done
when they get at the big fix. 1t
sharpened their taste for a bigger
and better shot at the underworld
And they're starting off with Lepke
for bait.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Hopi Priests Prepare
For Snake Dance for Rain
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MISHONGNOVI, Ariz, Aug. 19-
Fasts. prayers and rattlesnakes are
depended on by the Hopi to end
their worst drought in 20 years.
The fasting and praying proceeded
today by Hopi snake priests in their
subterranean kiva. There, too, are
deadly rattlers gathered from the
dusty plains. Wednesday at sun
down the priests will take them atop
the rocky mesa on which this an
cient village perches and do snake
dance before dispatching the rep
tiles to the tribal gods with suppl
cations for rain.
Few white men ever have been
admitted within the sacred portals
of the underground chamber. Those
so fortunate emerged with tales Of
beautiful sand paintings arranged
by the priests while they tasted of
prayers to gods of the underworld. of
anoirtment of the snakes and bodies
Of the dancers with strange prepa-
rations.
The Hopi claim it has not failed
10 bring rain for hundreds of years.
Grotesquely costumed and vividly
painted. the snake priests dance
around the plaza, bearing snakes in
their arms and mouths.
When each snake has been car
ried three times around the dancing
arena 1t is cast into circle of sacred
meal
Then the dancers gather up arms
full of snakes, race in the four di-
rections and liberate their little
= brothers. bearing the prayers of the
Hopi into the nethermost regions.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Reich Flyer Who Landed
In France May Go Free
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
VERDUN, France. Aug. lotto
Pecheigner, young German aviator
who lost his bearings and landed his
Nazi warplane in the French Mag
mot line area near Verdun, was
brought here tonight for prelim-
mary trial.
He was expected to be released
in a few days, however, for French
officers said they were convinced
that he had made mistake in di-
rection.
Pecheigner landed miles from
Montfaucon, north of Verdun, just
as regiment marched out of the
Maginot line for it's week end relief
yesterday.
Said one French officer: 1--WE al
most mobbed him. He was the most
bewildered young man have ever
seen."
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Specter Of 1910
May Produce Peace
In Next Session
Fate Of Many Democrats
To Be Tied Closely to
That Of National Ticket
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Some seasoned Democratic lead
ers are predicting that the practical
problem of reelection which faces
so many Democratic members of
Congress in 1910 may serve to
narrow the breach in the partys
ranks during the next session.
Although a Democratic -Republi-
can coalition worked effectively
against much administration legis-
lation during the last session, they
said it may be more difficult to
continue such a working arrange
ment next year.
Most of the House members and
several of the Senators who op-
posed President Roosevelt's policies
will be running for reelection, it
was pointed out, and they are likely
to face Republican opposition just
as vigorous as that confronting
down the line New Dealers. 1t was
reasoned that this might tend to
break down legislative cooperation
between Republicans and anti-ad-
ministration Democrats.
National Ticket a Factor.
Some leaders contended the fate
of most Democratic legislators seek
ing reelection would be tied up
closely with that of the National
ticket. Thus, they said. political
expediency would enforce support
of the Presidential nominee,
whether he were supporter or an
enemy of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Some informed party workers
consider it possible that both the
administration and it's Democratic
foes may cooperate toward max
ing the next session brief and in
confining the legislative program
to a minimum of controversial is
sues.
In speeches since adjournment,
some Democratic legislators have
tended to emphasize broad party
principles and to attack Republi-
cans rather than to discuss legisla-
ton which has brought party dis
agreements.
May Defer Squabbles.
This has raised the hopes Of
middle of -the-road leaders that
the increasing proximity of the
presidential campaign would whet
the desire for political self f-preser-
vation to the point that Democrats
would defer intraparty legislative
squabbles until after 1910.
1t generally was agreed, however,
that any efforts to hush Demo-
cratic pickering next session would
| fail without at least the assent of
Mr.. Roosevelt. Should the Presi-
dent engage in outspoken criticism
of those who have opposed him in
the past, it would be only natural
for his foes to use the congress
sional sounding board for counter
attacks.
Some well-advised leaders said,
however, that even if Democrats
should remain split during the next
session and should have a bitter
fight over the presidential NOM
nation, most of them still would
be likely to seek places on the party
band wagon after the national
ticket had been chosen.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
BY MORGAN Nj. BEATTY,
ASSnriataS prose GtaA uyri+&r

Associated Press Stan Writer.
The G-men and their allies are
drawing bead on the daddy of all
the rackets!
They're after the crime behind
crime.
They've got their eyes on the
big fix.
Without this worst racket few
illegal short cuts to wealth could
survive. Crime would disappear as
an organized force. The criminal
would revert to his old furtive,
hunted. way of life. unprotected by
crooks in high places. The light of
truth would return to that wise old
saw, Crime does not pay"
The first objective in Nation
wide drive is one Louis Lepke)
Buchalter, bulbous-noSed New
York parasite who has been
charged with selling protection to
legitimate business for years-at the
point of gun and at the end of
the arc of bomb.
$4,000 on His Head.
Between them, Thomas E. Dewey,
New York's racket-buster, and j.
Edgar Hoovers Federal Bureau of
Investigation have put a price of
100000 on Lepke's scalp. Some folks
have the idea that political Repub-
lican Presidential Candidate Dewey
and Democratic Attorney General
Frank Murphy, Mr. Hoover's boss in
Washington. are rivals for custody of
Buchalter. It's true, the capture and
conviction of Buchalter would be a
political asset. The principals deny
any such rivalry and insist they are
cooperating with each other. But.
rivalry or not, the public benefits in
the chase for a criminal. OF that
there can be no doubt.
The F. B. I. admits that Mr..
Buchalter is wanted in the worst
way. Mr.. Dewey says he's the most
dangerous industrial racketeer in the
Nation.
But that's only part of the story.
AS a matter of fact. Lepke is not
deux ex machina in the national
underworld.
He's Bait for a Trap.
Right now he's just so much bait
"a big, fat, juicy lump of bait in a
trap set clear across the country.
Jaws of the master trap stand agape
in many cities, perhaps among them
Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans,
Boston, Miami, Philadelphia, San
Francisco A New York Federal
grand jury has set itself up as a
clearing house of crime, armed with
hand-truck load of the encyclo-
pedia of the underworld sent Up
from Washington.
Anybody in the underworld any,
where in the country who has ever
Evening star., 1939-08-20

plete canvass of all divisions within
a few days of the opening of the
roll call on September 49," and that
IT feel certain that we will achieve
our quota of 5000 Red Cross men,
bers lin the professional group, an
increase of 1000 over last year"
Mr.. Prettyman, former corpora
ton counsel for the District, plans
this year to issue weekly bulletins
to each division of his unit.
Mr.. Morris also announced that
the Roll Call Committee will hold
open house at l725 I street NV.
from to 6 pm. Tuesday to COM
memorate the 18th anniversary of
the Red Cross.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Collector Gets 1899
Auto That Still Runs
. the Associated Press.

~ the ASSOCIATED PreSA.
CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-Edward T
Trainor has added one-lunged,
wooden axle Brush, built in 1899
and still running. to his collection
OF ancient automobiles.
The car has two speeds-forward
and back-and can make Is miles
an hour without a tail wind. Mr.
Trainor bought 1t from farmer
in Homer, ILL.,, who said it hadn' t
been used for 35 years.
It's a hobby with Mr.. Trainor
an automobile parts dealer. He
also has 1908, SIX passenger buggy
wagon which boasts this sign:
Hold your horses. we are not
responsible for accidents"
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Track Meet Features
Week S Playground
Program
Marble Tournament,
Circus and Health
Show included

More than 1000 boys are expected
to compete in the city-wide track
meet sponsored by the District Rec
reation Department Tuesday in
Central High School Stadium at 10
am. as a feature of the week 5
varied playground program.
The playground week will open at
Z pm. tomorrow when the Lund
marble tournament is held at
Wheatley School, Montello avenue
and Neal street NE. R. j. Lund of
the departments supervisory staff
is sponsor of the event. Also sched-
uled for tomorrow are community
dance at Francis Junior High School,
Twenty-fourth and N streets NV,
at 8 pm. and play, entitled "On
Wheels" at Monroe Playground,
Third and G streets NE, at pm.
Besides the track meet Tuesday,
"open house day" will be celebrated
at Garfield Playground. Twenty
fifth street and Alabama avenue
Sc. at $3.50 pm. The program will
include doll show, singing games,
q bolo contest and Softball.
Nursery School Circus.
Scheduled for Wednesday are
nursery school circus at Barry
Farms Playground, Nichols avenue
and Sumner road Sc, at 1920 am:
a wading pool health show at
Georgetown Playground, Thirty
third street and Volta place NV,
at 2 pm; bathing beauty contest
at Chevy Chase Playground, Forty
first and Livingston streets NV, at
4p.m., and water pageant at East
Potomac pool at pm.
A girls sectional track meet with
youngsters competing from the
Northeast, Southeast and Southwest
sections will be held at Rosedale
Playground, Seventeenth and
Kramer streets NE, at 10 an.
Thursday Also listed for Thursday
are a baking contest judging at
Stoddert School, Thirty-ninth and
Calvert streets NV, at 2:30 pm;
a pet show at Palisades Play
ground, Dana and Sherrier places
NV. at pm; water carnival
at Hamilton Playground, Thir-
teenth and Hamilton streets NV,
at 2:30 pm; track meet for col
ored boys at Brooks Stadium Of
Dunbar High School at 10 am, and
a watermelon eating contest at
Brightwood School, Thirteenth and
Nicholson streets NV, at $3.50 PM.
with boys from Brightwood and
Shepherd Schools competing.
Cultural Exhibitions.
The summer cultural activities eX-
hibitions will be held in the play
ground at Western High School and
at Buchanan School, Thirteenth
and E streets Sc, Friday from $50
to II am: at Stuart School, Fourth
and E streets NE, and Carberry
School, Fifth and D streets NE, at
II am; at Stoddert School from l
to 2:30 pm, and at Hayes School,
Fifth and K streets NE. and Corco-
ran School, Twenty-eighth and M
streets NV. from 2;2O to 5 pm.
Other events Friday include the
northern section field day track
meet for girls in Roosevelt High
School Stadium at 10 am; boat
race in the wading pool at Langdon
Park Playground, Mills avenue and
Franklin street NE, at 3 pm; an
exhibit of summer work at Grimke
School, Vermont avenue and T
streets NV. from 2:30 to $3.50 pm,
and the first of a series of weekly
dances at Banneker Recreation Cen
ter, Georgia avenue and Euclid
street NV, at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Firemen Rescue Kittens

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10 (P).-
Firemen chopped their way into a
blazing house today when they
heard cries they feared were those
of a child
Instead of child, they found
Midnight" tabby cat, meowing
beside her brood of week-old kittens
Firemen rescued the kittens, then
found the flames.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Busting the Big Fix
Worst of All the Rockets Now Is Torqet
Of Nations Law Enforcement Men
RACHGROUND-

BACKGROUND
With the end OF prohibition
and gdngsterism, Americans sat
back to enjoy long Ddcdtion
from crime, only to be rudely
shocked by the racket era. Re-
cent disclosures in Ne,D York,
Kansas City and Louisiana shoU
it to be still Dith US. And Federal
officials haze begun another Ma
ton -,0ide drive on crime.
The A. p. feature SerDice asked
J. Edgar HooUer and others about
the crime situation and obtained
amazing statistics and facts.
Morgan M. Beatty here analyses
these and other records.
Evening star., 1939-08-20

nounced yester-
day by Edgar
Morris, general
chairman of the
drive. Mr.. Pret-
tyman's accept
ance of the ap-
pointment marks
the third sue
cessive year he
has directed the
unit.
With his ac-
ceptance, Mr..
P r e t t y m a n
stated his unit
will bend every
effort to COM
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Divorces Wife at o5

KISS1MMEE, Fla, Aug. 10 (P.-
"Never will I marry again If I
live to be a hundred" said Hiram
Shaw when divorced from his 35-
year-oId wife.
Mr.. Shaw. a Union veteran of
the war between the States, is e5.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
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Evening star., 1939-08-20
Pretfyman Made Official
OF Red Cross Roll Call

Appointment Of E. Barrett Pretty
man, Washington attorney, as chair
man of the Professional Unit of this
years Red Cross Roll Call, was an
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Eieht-Hour Day Protested

Both workers and employers in the
Philippines declare the provisions of
the country's new s-hour law too
rigid, and are urging its revision.