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Evening star., 1939-02-16
Reception Is Given
For legislators

Miss Betty Jensen, daughter Of
Representative and Mrs. Ben F.
Jensen; Miss Helen Williams, daugh-
ter of Representative and Mrs.
George S. Williams, and Miss Doris
Brownlee Martin, I'd, daughter Of
Representative and Mrs. Thomas
Ellsworth Martin. assisted in the
reception given last evening for the
members of the congressional set
who reside at the Fairfax Hotel.
Spring flowers and palms were
used in the Lord Fairfax room
where the affair was held and the
reception was followed by dancing.
There we're about 400 guests, in
cluding many friends Of the con-
gressional residents of the Fairfax.
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Miss Venemann Bride
OF MIR. McFadden.

The marriage of Miss Virginia
Lockwood Venemann to Mr.. Duncan
Bruce McFadden of New York is Of
much interest in nearby Maryland
and Virginia. The ceremony was
performed Saturday in the Pinkney
Memorial Church in Hyattsville, the
rector, the Rev. Arthur LIE Barron
Ribble, officiating in the presence of
a small number of members of the
two families and intimate friends.
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Mrs. DanfOrth
To Be Tea Hostess

Mrs. Josephine Danforth, one of
group Of artists whose water COL
ors are being exhibited at the studio
Of the District of Columbia League
Of American Pen Women, will be
hostess at the art tea in the studio
on Sunday from 4 to 6 pm. Mrs.
Inez Sheldon Tyler, president; Mrs.
Ethel Davis. art chairman, and Miss
Katherine Wootten, art tea chair
man, also will receive. The exhibit
will be shown until March /.
Mrs. Phronsie Marsh Filmer, non-
fiction chairman for the league. an
nounces that at a meeting in the
studio at 8 pm. Friday original ar
ticles will be read and an award
given to the one judged best.
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Marlers Entertain
At Dinner

The Canadian Minister and Lady
Marler were hosts at dinner last
evening, when their ranking guests
were the Swiss Minister and Nine.
Peter, and Senator and Mrs. Wallace
H. White, jr. The party was planned
in compliment to Mr. and Mrs. j. w.
Mcconnell of Montreal, who have
been guests of the Minister and Lady
Marler. Mr.. and Mrs. Mcconnell
are leaving today to return to
Canada.
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Senator, Mrs. Davis
Have House Guest

Senator and Mrs. James j. Davis
have as their guest for few days
Miss Bertha de Hallebranth, who
has many friends here. where she
has been a frequent visitor. Miss
de Hallebranth. accompanied her
brother, DR.. Roland de Hallenbranth,
to washington to attend the din
ner which the Hungarian Minis
ter and Nine. Pelenyi gave Tuesday
evening. Dr., Hallebranth makes
his home IN Atlantic City, where
his sister spends much of her time
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State Society Dance

The Arizona Society of Washing
ton will hold a banquet and dance
this evening at the Shoreham Hotel,
celebrating the 40Oth anniversary of
the entrance of the white man into
Arizona.
Bishop Julius w. Atwood will offer
the invocation and Senator Key
Pittman of Nevada will speak.
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On Lecture Tour

DR.. Stanwood Cobb has left for
Montreal to give series of lee
lures before college and high school
faculties there. He will lecture at
the Faculty Club of McGill Univer-
sity, and while in Montreal he will
be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Suther-
land Maxwell.
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Alumnae Reunion

The Alumnae Association Of the
Academy of the Holy Cross will hold
reunion and party at Dumbarton
College next Tuesday night. Miss
Gertrude McNally is general chair
man.
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Ex.Minister Arrives

The former Netherlands Minister
to the United States, Chevalier van
Rappard, has arrived from New York
for brief stay here. While in
Washington Chevalier van Rappard
Is staying at the Carlton Hotel.
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Curley Club to Dance

The Curley Club will hold an In
formal dance and party for the
benefit of its scholarships fund.
Arrangements are being made by
Bert Mattingly. James Corbett and
William Boyd. -
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Lithuanian Envoy
To Be Guest

The Lithuanian Minister and
Nine Zadeikas will be guests of
honor this evening of the Travellers
Club which will celebrate the 21st
anniversary of Lithuanian Inde-
pendence. The celebration will be
held in the Music Building at the
Catholic University at BIS o'clock.
The Minister will make the principal
address and there will be a brief
program of music by Mr.. Alexkosas
Vasilianskas, tenor, accompanied by
Miss Pitcovage.
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Weddings
Of Recent
Interest
Mrs. Sampson Has
Issued Cards
For Daughter
Interest
Continued From Page B-30

Mr.. Wimsatt is a descendant Of a
long line of distinguished ancestors
of Maryland and Virginia. He is a
grandson of the late Chief Justice
James McSherry of the Maryland
Court of Appeals and the late Will
liam A. Wimsatt of this city. He
was graduated from Catholic Uni
versity in the class of 1885.
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Cohen Rubin Wedding
Sunday Afternoon.

The marriage of Miss Regina
Rubin. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Rubin, to DR.. Robert L. Cohen,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Abe L. Cohen,
took place Sunday afternoon in the
home of the bridegroom's parents in
George Washington Park in Alexan-
dria. The Rev. Charles William
owsky officiated in the presence of
the two families and about Is guests.
The bride was attended by her
two sisters, Miss Miriam Rubin and
Miss Ruth Rubin. and was given in
marriage by her father.
Mr.. Sidney Cohen was his BROTH
er's best man, and his other BROTH
ers, Samuel, Sylvan, Bernard and
Martin Cohen, held the traditional
Jewish canopy over the bridal
couple during the ceremony.
A reception followed the ceremony
and later DR.. and Mrs Cohen left
by motor for Southern bridal trip.
On their return they will live in
Arlington County.
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Cancels At Homes

Mrs. Crowther, wife Of Repre-.
sentative Frank Crowther, has dis
continued her Tuesday afternoons
at home until later in the season, =,
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inevitably to coagulate into ghtknt insiders
known the Harvard clique"
There much unfvorabe members of the
Foreign Service Personnel Board
terships and ambassadorships- and got the jobs
With the transfer of Secretary Of State Carr to
diplomatic post and the appointment
head OF the board
made Recent
however, reveal that the surface
In the first place the rate of is
and
representation insufficient Generally speaking
afford accept promotion
he has independent income spectacle of
democracy which is forced
its interests abroad.
In the second the big incomes and
confined pretty generally to the North and the
that those who appointed
Of the Nation usually have attended
Princeton andwat is far njuousmust
cal experience Of the working living conditions the
Americans Congress expressed the intention consideration
geographical distribution selecting candidates.
foreign whole should the country
whole This has not been done.
population North Carolina has only 10
the should
the university training
foreign officers 90 graduated Harvard So Yale
and so from Princeton Only graduated from the University
North Carolina which universities
There is nothing particularly vicious in all this
between wisfu legislation
The clearly establish
West Point for diplomats something
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Washington Observations
Talk Links Parker Of North CoroIino, Hoovers
Rejected Nominee, for Brondeis' Scot

returned from a protracted of1icial
tour of inspection at Manila and
throughout the archipelago. He left
Washington September /, 1898.
In addition to surveying conditions
in Luzon and the southern islands,
Gen. Burnett gave Guam a brief
once over. With President Quezon,
his American military adviser, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, and other high
officials of the commonwealth, he
discussed all Philippine questions
with which the War Department is
currently concerned. Then the gen.
eral spent three weeks in Japan,
where he was stationed for IL years
as American military attache and
where both he and Mrs. Burnett re-
tain a host of friends. On the way
home, the Insular Bureau chief left
his ship long enough for squint at
Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Although our Berlin Embassy
functions in Ambassador Wilson's
absence under a Charge d'Affaires,
Prentiss B. Gilbert, the brunt of
American representation in the Nal
capital nowadays is borne by Ray
mond H. Geist, United States Con-
sui General. That is due to the fact
that for many months, particularly
since the November anti-Semitic
horrors, the time of American off,
cials has been almost exclusively oc-
cupied with Jewish refugee matters.
Mr.. Geist, neWspaperman by profess
sion and Harvard graduate, has
earned the high respect and COM
mendatlon of departmental superiors
at Washington for the courage and
effectiveness with which he has
stood up to the Reich authorities,
both on refugee questions and those
affecting the rights of American cit
liens. After the World War Mr..
Geist was food commissioner in
Austria and adviser to the old Vienna
government in matters of public
feeding.
One of the foremost legal authori-
ties in Washington, who rates as an
expert on Supreme Court procedure,
has initiated a quiet agitation in
favor of oath reform" He thinks
a witness in a court of law, instead
of merely intoning"I do, after clerk
or baliff more or less nonchalantly
swears him to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth" should be required to repeat
the oath, as evidence that he realizes
his solemn obligation. When a
President of the United States is
sworn into office by the Chief JUS
tice, the incoming Chief Executive
repeats his oath. The jurist in
question calls the notarial system
in particular, a travesty. He be-
lieves ways and means should be
evolved for requiring both notaries
public and other ordinary admins
traitors of oaths to know more about
the things they attest.
~ +*
Jefferson Caffery, our Ambassador
to Brazil, who arranged to spend the
tail-end of his European American
leave in Washington, while Brazilian
Foreign Minister Aranha is here,
completes this month his 18th
successive year in the foreign
service-a typical career man, who
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Actor Bennett Loses
Thumb b-Pinching Suit
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Federal
Judge John c. Knox solemnly ruled
yesterday that grown man who
knew no better than to insert his
thumb between the hinge side of a
door and the jamb on which the
door was being fitted must suffer
the consequences, though they entail
the loss of role in Broadway pro-
duction, which was allegedly the
case.
He gave this opinion in dismissing
a suit for 100000 brought against
a hotel by Actor Richard Bennett,
father of Constance, Joan and Bar
bara of the movies.
Bennett complained the hotels
carpenter smashed his left thumb in
the. manner indicated above and
that he was, perforce, absent from
rehearsals of "On Borrowed Time
thereafter. The role of Cramps
was won during his convalescence
Bennett said, by Dudley Digges.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Legion Head Sees U. S.
SoIidIy for Arms Plans
By the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 15.-People
Of the United States stand more
solidly behind measures for their
country's defense now than probably
at any other time since the World
War, National Comdr. Stephen F..
Chadwick of the American Legion
said today.
Mr.. Chadwick, back at national
headquarters here from tour of the
Midwest and East, said the current
National Defense Week-between
Lincoln's and Washington's BIRTH
day anniversaries-found the Ma
tion's defensive morale the highest
in 20 years.
The reason is, he said, that Amer
leans have seen how Ethiopia, China
and Czecho-Slovakia lost out in
dealings with warlike powers having
strong military forces.
The black haired, 44-year-old
Seattle lawyer, elected to head the
Legion last fall, saw as the Nations
chief defense need a reservoir of
trained manpower.
World War veterans in the Legion,
he said, themselves a year past the
military service age, have under
taken to see to this need by urging
young men to take military training.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

whelmed Senator Clarence C. Dill,
and made his one-time pupil a
Senator in his place, in the election
of 1884.
And now the name Of Senator
Schwellenbach of Washington is the
first out Of the box In speculation
as to the probable successor of the
retiring Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, If the Washington
Senator is named, he will weight the
scales of justice more heavily on the
left, as his highly particularized
liberalism is deeper in that zone
than was the Little America" doc
trine Of Justice Brandeis, who would
housebreak the monopoly dragon
rather than kill it.
Running for Governor Of WASH
ington In 1882, Mr.. Schellenbach in
cluded in his platform proposal to
take over idle land and factories
and operate them for the unem-
ployed," two years before Upton
Sinclair's E. P. I. c. was unveiled.
He has been vigorous champion OF
public ownership of utilities, has
fought in the Senate for the right to
picket, has repeatedly opposed the
shipment Of scrap iron as war ma
terial and has been an alert defend
er Of the w. P. A.
He is "A years old, 6 feet tall and
weighs 100 pounds. After a stretch
Of soldering in the World War he
became active in American Legion
politics and was first advanced in
his political career with Legion
backing. He was born of German
parentage in Superior, Wis, and
grew up in Tacoma. His father died
when he was child and he sold
papers to support his mother. After
the war he entered law practice in
Seattle. He is slow and deliberate
in speech, grave and impressive be-
hind his heavily trimmed spectacles,
but. after leisurely windup, he is
a stem-winding orator, as Mr.. Dill
may testify with mixed feelings OF
pride and regret. He was married
to his secretary, Miss Anne Duffy
in 1885.
tcopyrisht. 1e3eJ
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who is dean of the Iowa State Uni
versity Law School. The tale that
a Republican might get the Brandeis
vacancy concerns Judge John j.
Parker Of the United States Circuit
Court for North Carolina. Parker
was nominated for the Supreme
Court by President Hoover but was
refused Senate confirmation. With
retirement of Mr.. Brandeis, the Su-
| preme Court consists Of an equal
number of Democrats (McReynolds,
Black, Reed and FrankfurteD and
Republicans CHughes, Stones, Rob-
erts and Butler. To appoint Re-
publican would tip the political bal
ance toward the G. o. P. side by a
margin of one, besides which it
might leave the court with q less
reliably assured liberal majority
than F. D. r. would want. The out
standing non partisan Supreme
Court appointment in our day and
generation probably was President
Taft's nomination of Democrat Ed
ward Douglass White as chief JUS
tice in 1910.
Il X X II
Administrations look upon the
Senate Military Affairs Committees
11-to-5 vote against publishing con-
fidential testimony on national de-
fense as a victory for President
Roosevelt's foreign policy. 1t is re-
garded in particular as vindicating
his approval of warplane sales to
France and Britain. The commit
tees decision does not mean that
White House conduct Of interna-
tional relations will escape an airing
and probably blistering attack in
the Senate itself. Democratic Presi-
Dental Aspirant Senator Clark Of
Missouri, who cast the sole Demo-
cratic committee ballot against Sc
crecy, is almost certain to carry
the fight to the floor That he will
be joined by his co-foe of Roose-
veltian diplomacy, Senator Nye, Re-
publican, of North Dakota. is almost
equally assured. Since the blowup
over the French airplane transac-
tions, public sentiment has pretty
we'll crystallized along bipartisan
lines in favor of American aid, "by
methods short of war;" for the
democracies. But opinion is general
that the President unnecessarily
bungled the incident, especially in
his attack on the press. resulting in
confusion and controversy that
might easily have been averted.
\ + X
Brig. Gen. Charles Burnett, q. s
A., chief of the 1nsular Bureau of the
War Department, which has juris-
diction over the Philippines, has
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on the theory that the average
man will see a considerable differ
ence between the ins and outs and
will merely 60 on exchanging at elec-
tions one for the other in the blind
hope that somehow and some day
the solutions to our economic ills
will appear automatically from some
still unknown source of magical
power.
(Copyright, 1939.)
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AS things stand it is much though expected
their pockets
warships Army the gasoline
military aircraft.
Finally, though difficult
foreign
shall handled Government
him with
really country
represent
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tha credits to belgerents American business vested
IN the outcome while the
aggravated American feelings Germany
Every advocating the embargo also
advocates extension of the Neutrality
clauses These forbid the practices which made
time forcing beigerents
to lay their cash the barrelead and to their
chases in their ships.
All this being question isn't
done? Whether fight this will horribly
European conflict The world of which
part would become completely dsoganzed and
to live in the midst
clauses would
democracies is clear gain United States
Yet nothing being done. fault undoubtedly
the Presidents He chose in the message the state
Union, to speak in hints then
failed
to become enbroied a long petty
legislative branch 1t still late
thing His case is extremely strong for repeal of the
which nothing
nightly frankly explained people
they might be convinced although his embrogo
sowed disrust of the President
Meanwhile is understood that Senator Key Pman chairman
the Foreign Relations Committee has told
before taking
will make sentiment against the embargo clauses that
strategy to wait
crisis expunged
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such a suggestion
Is current in local
Federal judiciary
circles, although
S p e c u ! a tion
ranges primarily
around Demo-
cratic possibili-
ties like Ste
phens of Utah,
Bratton of New
Mexico, Rutledge
df low a and
Fl u t c h eSOn OF
Texas, all United
States district
Judges eXceD t
Mr. Rlltledge.
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tCopyrisht, 1e3e.)

has survived the vicissitudes of half
dozen political administrations
and risen from a State Department
clerkship to blue-ribbon ambassado-
rial status. Probably Mr. Caffery
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Republican nomination will
attraction All three
Congress They
them they they
their colleagues, like Hiram johnson of California
Perhaps the end, nothing be it's
for the the State
shrinking foreign
intelligence
debaters command.
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but for the ex-
pert coaching Of
Clarence G. Dill.
1t made him an
orator, In the
Un yer sity Of
and
later in law and
politics. Possibly
Mr.. Dill later
wished he had
left the youth to
stew in his own
exuberant syn
tax, for 1t was
Mr., SchWel]en.
b a c his oratory
W tch over.
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The Capital Parade
Repeal Of Neutrality Acts Embargo Clauses
Seen Aid in Preserving European Peace

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT
Is the considered private opinion
cia that repeal the arms embargo clauses of the Neutrality
would reduce the chance
perhaps AS he indicated his
state of the Union the President shares the opinion
The the opinion
require the President to embargo exports of
breaks out The democaces
marks for Fascist but
because they deficient
bodness cheap so long Hitler
first clash Neutrality Act will
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ian-American conversations to give
Secretary Hull's staff tip or two
about how to deal with the royal
visits Washington is about to re-
ceive.
(Copyrisht 193o.)
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ners, besides be-
ing a new means
Of replenishing
chests, now have
become instru-
mentalities for
the release of
In v e c tive and
criticism.
Time was when
the birthdays of
these two great
American Pres
tdentS Wer6hon-
ored by recol-
lection of their
! n d / v idua |
&C chieVements
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sciences PONtlQueS OF Paris, or the
old Konsularakademie of Vienna
and give Senators and Repre-
sentatives appointments to this
diplomatic training school where
the candidates could sink or
swim on their own merits. And
we would start paying our diplo-
mats allowances, above their
present salaries, which would be
sufficient to cover the costs of
representation to which they
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SldCUUe UUUKS.
There can be no doubt that,
whatever is done, it will take a
long time. Senators Bennett
Champ Clark, Arthur H. Vanden-
berg and Gerald P. Nye are just
waiting for a chance to put on
an isolationist circus on the Sen
ate floor. Senator Clark is an
active candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination in 1910. Sena-
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We, the People
Remedy for Lack Of Representation
In Foreign Service Held Up to Congress
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

When Woodrow problems Of the
World War he found diplomatic
adversares OF his liberal regime that he forced
part extramua
prominent It not too much that foreign
down during the World
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ton. The Rogers Act Of 1924
established the United States
Foreign Service, and greater at
tention was paid to the selection
and training Of the men who
represent us abroad. But the
measure did not go far enough
and, during IL years of Republi-
can domination, the bulk Of our
foreign diplomacy rested on the
international flnanciers, while
our foreign representatives tended
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or arms supply. Repeal Of the
acts embargo clauses will not
only remedy this situation, but
also serve as a safe gesture of
support for the democracies.
Repeal of the embargo
clauses need not, however, mean
return to the situation pictured
two years ago by the Senate
Munitions Committee. The trou-
BILE in the World War, as revealed
in the committee hearings, was
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nscsssary s TIE Stars Such opinions presented
The Stars eDor to gve all sides questions to It's
readers although such opinions nay contradictory aon0
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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Note Luckinq
In Politics
Neither Porty Offers
Realistic Way Out
Of Difficulties
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Whatever else the political parties
may have learned from each other
IN recent years, it is apparent that
Lincoln day and Jackson day din
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By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Will President Roosevelt establish
New Deal precedent by appointing
a Republican to succeed Justice
Brandeis? improbable as it sounds,
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japanese Form Census

Japan is taking a census of all
agricultural workers, their pay and
the machinery and equipment they
use.
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Scotch Poor Few

Opened to sell milk cheaply to
the poor, a milk depot in Aberdeen,
Scotland, has closed for lack of
patronage.
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|HeudlineFoIk
And What
They Do
SchweIIenbuch Leons
Farther to Left
.Thon Brundeis
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Young Lewis Baxter Schwellen.
bach tried for three years to make
the Tacoma High School debating
team, and might not have succeeded
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