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Evening star., 1939-01-13
Airport Continues
Until Grave||y Point
Work Is Finished
No Plans Yet Made
For Use Of Property
Solomon Says

Washington Airport will continue
in operation as an air transport
terminal at least until the new
Washington National Airport at
Gravelly Point is completed and in
operation, it was announced today
by Samuel j. Solomon, vice presi-
dent of National Aviation Corp. of
New York and manager of the local
airport.
No plans have been made for the
fate of the present airport after
the big Federal air terminal is COM
pleted. Mr.. Solomon said. Formula
ton of such plans will depend upon
future developments, he said.
Commenting on reports that con-
gressional investigation of the local
airport situation. including the
financing and legal aspects of the
Washington National Airport. may
be requested. Mr.. Solomon said:
I'VE will take no part in any agi-
tation for an investigation. We will
do nothing which will interfere in
any way with the development of
the Gravelly Point airport. II the
Federal Government is convinced
that the Gravelly Point site will
answer the needs of the National
Capital, and there seems to be no
question about the Governments
opinion, we do not want to do any,
thing to stand in the way"
Mr.. Solomon said that his company
is not now considering any definite
plans for future abandonment OF
Washington Airport or for break
ing up the airport property and
disposing of it for building and COM
mercial developments. In the past,
he said. offers have been received
for portions of the airport prop
erty for various purposes, ranging
from construction of a large apart
ment house group overlooking the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
and the Potomac River to a race
track.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
| Man Hangs Self
To Keep From
| Being Burden
a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

BY Stan correspondent OF Inc star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 13.-Be
lieving himself to be a burden o.
his stepchildren and desponden
over prospects of having to leav
Alexandria. an 84-year-old mai
ended his life here yesterday b.
hanging himself with an electri
light cord.
He was N. w. Stephens, who live
with the family of his stepson q
100 Groves avenue.
His stepson, Raymond Grif1tt
was committed to veterans hospi
tai at Perry Point, Nd, about tw
weeks ago.
Mrs. Griffith told police M,
Stephens and her family came t,
Alexandria about two years ago fron
Missouri. Mr.. Stephens, who was
chronic sufferer from neuritis, foun,
relief after arriving at Alexandris
she said. When Mr.. Griffith wa
sent to the hospital Mrs. Grifhtl
discussed plans for returning +
Missouri
Mr.. Stephens was respondent an,
spoke of suicide several times, polio
were told.
Last night, Mrs. Griffith found tn
body of Mr.. Stephens hanging from
a water pipe in his room. DR.. Llew
ellyn Powell, Alexandria corone,
pronounced him dead from strangu
lation and indicated no inques
would be necessary.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Band Concerts

BY the United States Navy Band
at 3 pm. today in the Sail Loft,
Navy Yard. 1t. Charles Benter,
leader; Charles Brendler, assistant.
Program.
March. 'The Footlifter"- Fillmore
Overture. Russian and Ludmilla,"
Glinka
Song for cornet, "serenade,"
Schubert
Musician Oscar Short.
Hymn, abide With Me" Monk
Song, Thoughts of Thee"
Mrs. Gillett
Valse, Morning Journals Strauss
Flight of the Bundle Bee"
Rimsky- -Korsakow
Intermezzo, "Nola" -Arndt
March, Distant Greeting Foring
March. Captains Call" Ellis
"The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine
Band at pm. today in the Marine
Barracks Auditorium. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; William F. Santel-
mann, second leader.
Program.
'"The Marines Hymn"
March, Cadet Days" Bucher
Just a Gem" m".T Tobani
March, Troop l Post March,"
Metschl
Cripple Greek" Struggled
SlaVonic Rhapsody, No. l."
Friedemann
Gavotte," from "Mignon" Thomas
"Loin du Bal" Gillet
La Bananier" Gottschalk
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Estate of $500, 900
Left by w. A. Martin

An estate of 100000 was left by
the late William A. Martin. real
estate operator. who died in Reno,
New, August 16 and resided in the
District for short time in 1892, a
request to transmit his will for pro-
pate flled in District Court yester-
day disclosed.
Attorney Ringgold Hart, who rep
fesents the estate here, said the will
OF Mr.. Martin was left in a safe
deposit box at the Union Trust Co,
mere, and the court was informed
that $150,00O in Federal Farm Ioan
Bank bonds was also left with it.
One-third of the income of the
estate goes to the widow, Mrs. Jen-
ME M. Martin, while the remainder
Is left to my friend, Mabel Strein
OF La Grange, N. Y" described as
q business associate of the realtor.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Chronic Alcoholism Is Traced
To Subconscious 'Sissyhood'
Psychiotrist'Finds Feeling Of Inodequoey
Prompts Drinking as "He-Mun' Proof

be cured. But they almost always
relapse and whenever they are dis
missed from mental hospital 1t is
with the expectation that they will
be back again in short time
Trying to get at the inner mental
mechanism of the alcoholic, DR..
Chassell points out, is exceptionally
difficult because the charming fell
low usually lies and becomes ex-
traordinarily abusive whenever the
mind doctor probes into something
that hurts.
A thorough understanding of
"sissyhood," DR.. Chassell says, would
go far to explain the character of
chronic alcoholics. delinquents. and
many victims of dementia precox.
Girls Can Be "Sissies."
ITO be a sissy" he says, "does not
mean to be girl. for girls can be
sissies, too Perhaps a boy may
even be effeminate without rating
as sissy. While the term refers to
a kind of immaturity, it must be of
a special type, not chronological,
since plenty of and 4 year olds
have nothing of the sissy in them.
Even nursery school children use
this term as the ultimate in scorn,
perhaps alternating with the chant:
Just little baby The victim re-
sents the judgment of inadequacy
from his peers, and unless he is
pretty hopeless will make a genuine
effort to wipe the strain from his
character by accepting dares and
fighting.
Such children are likely to be
easily teased. They have a very
vulnerable self-regard and are easily
hurt with the arousal of unmanage-
able and impotent rage. In a new
group they are quickly picked out
and attacked. 1t is likely that they
unconsciously behave as individuals
who do not really belong, who do
not understand or participate in the
group mind. AS they get older they
sometimes attempt to use snobbish-
ness as a protection, or they may be
boastful of their exploits, or they
may, after the first inevitable hu-
initiation, retire into a day dream.
A mothers darling may be promptly
recognized by the brotherhood as no
sissy. It Is evidently not a question
simply of being over-protected,
mammals boy, but of the absence of
a certain rapport with the group"
Misapprehension Basic Factor.
The basic factor, DR.. Chassell be-
lieves, is "a kind of infantile misap-
prehension of the social situation as
something to be approached with
great anxiety and insecurity and in
which the other actors are regarded,
not as. persons, but as potentially
friendly or hostile fairy-book crea-
lures. There is a picture of the
world as a place in which terrible
things are always happening, 10
meet which one must become some
vague sort of superman.
THE nation of masculinity is a
caricature, aided by our cultural
heritage of stories of the Wild West
Indian fighting, gangsters, etc. From
this Is generated secondary crav-
ing to get back into the good moth
sr's arms, which, in its turn, must
be suppressed.
The psychology of the "sissifying
mother" DR.. Chassell says, remains
to be written"
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Monopoly Committee
To Resume HEARINGS

The Federal committee studyin,
monopolistic practices in the Amer
lean economy will resume hearing
Monday, with the Patent Office
the Department Of Commerce sched
uled to present some background
information on patent law ant
usages.
Patent Commissioner Conway P
Coe will direct presentation of tn,
testimony.
In its initial set of hearings II
December. the Monopoly Committe,
dealt with patent practices in thu
automobile and glass container in
dustries.
The new phase of the hearings
expected to require most of mex
week. after which there will b,
another short recess before the com
mittee turns to other subjects.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
New Tax Program
For D. T.. Goes 10
King Today
McGehee Criticizes
Sales Tax Exemptions
As Revenue Leaks

Page proofs of the Districts new
$12,0O0.0OO tax raising program are
scheduled to be submitted today to
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, who also is men,
Der of the Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Internal Revenue Taxa
ton which supervised development
of the plan.
The report. however, will not be
made public until it is formally sub
mitted to Congress. The deadline
fixed by the last Congress for filing
the report is January Is. which falls
on Sunday. If neither the Senate
nor House is in session tomorrow,
there is a likelihood that formal
submission of the report will be
delayed until Monday.
Criticizes Exemptions.
Meantime, Representative Dan R.
Democrat, of Mississippi,
an active member of the House Dis
trict Committee, gave his indorse-
ment to the 2 per cent sales tax
understood to be recommended in
the report, but objected to a pro-
posal to exempt medicine, and food
not sold in public eating places,
as we'll as any article selling for less
than 25 cents.
Mr.. McGehee said the sales tax
should be all inclusive and not pro-
vide for any exemptions. He pointed
out that Mississippi, which has a
sales tax, learned through expert
ence that exemptions cut sharply
into revenue potentialities, and
abolished them.
The tax experts who framed the
new tax program for the Joint Con-
gressional Committee estimated that
the exemptions provided in the pro-
posed District sales tax would reduce
revenue potentialities about $1,000
900 year.
May Fight Exemptions.
Mr.. McGehee was one of the orig
lnal proponents of the present busi-
ness privilege tax on gross receipts
which will die automatically at the
close OF the current fiscal year. June
30. He said if the special subcom-
mittee of the House District Com
mlttee which handles the tax pro-
gram approves the exemptions it
now contains, he would urge the full
committee to remove them.
Mr.. McGehee also predicted the
proposed tax on incomes in excess
of $4,000 would be killed either in
the committee or on the floor of the
House. Twice in the last two years,
he recalled, the House refused to
consider an income tax for the
District.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Choral Society Holds
Annual Meetjno

The Washington Choral Society
held its annual meeting yesterday at
the home of Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howard and received reports from
Director Louis A. Potter and the
standing committees.
The society, now composed of al
most 200 singers, is preparing a
presentation of Beethoven's "Missa
Solemnis" and Bach's Passion Ac-
cording to st. Matthew" the latter
to be offered at Washington Ca
thedral March 20.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
D. c. Vote to Be Topic

The second weekly forum of the
District of Columbia Voters League
will be held Sunday night at the
Third Baptist Church; Fifth and @
streets NV. Topic of the forum,
scheduled to open at 8 o'clock is to
be Relation of Phase of the Eco
nomic Problem to Voting in the
District" and Prof. Doxey Wilker-
son OF Howard University will be
among the discussion leaders,
Evening star., 1939-01-13
ChangesStudied
To Cut Job|ess
Pay Data
Recommendation for
Lower Tax Not
Included

Fifteen amendments to the Dis
tr1ct's Unemployment Compensation
Act-one of which is designed to re-
duce the amount Of bookkeeping re-
quired by employers and the admin.
lstrative agency-were being consid.
cred today by the District Commits
sionerS.
The changes, many of them tech
n1cal, were recommended by John
A. Marshall, director of the Unem-
ployment Compensation Board. If
approved, they will be submitted to
the Budget Bureau with a request
that they be forwarded to Congress.
Missing from the list of proposed
amendments is any provision for
reduction of the payroll taxes on
employers, requested repeatedly by
employers on the ground that the
employment reserve fund has grown
to more than $100OO,OOO-a sum
vastly in excess of required benefit
payments. Benefit payments so far
have amounted to less than
$4,000, 900.
Later Proposal Promised.
In explanation, Mr.. Marshall said
studies now were being made of the
question Of payroll taxes and that
some proposal would be submitted
later.
Changes in the present system OF
calculating benefit payments are in
cluded in the present list of amend.
ments. In some cases there would
be minor increase in benefit pay
ments and in others there would be
decreases.
Mr.. Marshall has proposed that
benefit payments be determined BY
merely taking one-thirteenth of ar
individual workers wages for thu
quarter year, or 13 weeks, in which
he earned his highest pay, in the
base period governing his eligibility
to benefit payments. At present
the law requires reports so that the
board may know what the individual
was paid and the number of hours
worked in each week he was EN-.
ployed in the l04 weeks prior to thu
week in which he was last employed
Held to Be "Burdensome."
This present system was referred
to as "burdensome detailed report.
ing The proposed change woulc
require the board to know only thu
total amount of wages earned by thu
lndlvldual in each quarter year.
Under one proposed change tn,
benefit payments would be mad,
equal to so per cent of the individ.
uals full-time weekly wage, as as.
certained under the law, but in n,
case could be more than SIS a week
The unemployed person now re.
ceives 40 per cent Of his forme
weekly wage, plus 10 per cent if h,
has a dependent spouse. plus an ad
dltional 5 per cent for each depend
ent relative, subject to the SIS limit
| However, Mr.. Marshall found tha
in some instances, due to presen
rules for calculation of benefit pay
ments to persons partially employed
the payments may be maximum
SIT a week. Mr.. Marshall callet
this contrary to the whole setup
unemployment compensation laws.
Some claimants would receiy,
Slightly greater payments. under an
other proposed change, which woult
allow the deduction of up to 50 from
earnings if they were received from
odd-job employment.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Social Security,
Retirement P| an
Link Opposed
AIcorn Critical of
Merger Involving
Civil Service

Government employees generally
would prefer to keep the civil serv-
ice retirement plan as separate
system than have it brought under
"'the administration or scope" Of the
Social Security Act, in the opinion
of Robert H. Alcorn, chairman Of
the Joint Conference on Retirement
of Civil Service Employees.
Mr.. Alcorn expressed this personal
belief today, commenting on pro-
posals being considered in Congress
to link the civil service plan with
the social security system.
The latest suggestion came from
Chairman BuloW of the Senate Civil
Service Committee, who yesterday
; asked the Civil Service Commission
and the Social Security Board to
consider the possibility of retaining
for old-age benefit purposes the en-
ploye contribution that is now re-
turned to Government worker
when he leaves the Federal service
before reaching retirement age.
Previously. bill had been intro
duced in the House by Representa-
tive Voohis of California to CO.
ordinate the Federal retirement and
.social security laws.
Would Limit Expansion.
Mr.. Alcorn said he would call a
meeting soon of the Executive Com
mittee of the employees joint con-
ference to decide what position to
take toward these suggestions. Mr..
Alcorn emphasized he favors ex-
tending the social security law to
cover groups not now covered, but
believes the civil service retirement
system can be handled better as it
Stands.
Senator Bulow's letter on the sub
ject yesterday follows:
For more than year I have been
studying the possibility of proposing
legislation that would provide for
the continuance in an old-age an
nuity account. either in the Civil
Service Commission or by transfe'
to the Social Security Board, o.
amounts deducted from the salaries
OF classified employees for retire.
ment rather than the present policy
OF refunding with interest, such de-
auctions when an employe leaves
the Government service for any
reason.
Cites New Job Possibility.
THE purpose of both the Civi1
Service Retirement Act and the
Old-Age Security is to provide finan-
cial security in old age, but at pres
ent when classified employe leaves
the Federal service, either immedi-
ately or perhaps in later years, to
accept position in private industry
where he will come under the Social
Security Act his civil service retire.
ment deductions with interest are re-
turned to him and usually spent. It
Is my thought that, in some manner,
these deductions should be retained,
draw interest, and together with
sums credited to the individual
under the social security program, go
to make part of the annuity the
individual will receive when he
reaches retirement age.
There will no doubt be some ad-
ministrative problems in working
this out, but I am hopeful that they
can be overcome. I trust that this
brief explanation has explained the
thought I have in mind and will
greatly appreciate it if at any early
date may have the benefit of the
commissions reflections and sugges-
tions in this connection. I am also
presenting this matter to the Social
Security Board for their considera-
ton and suggestions.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The chronic alcoholic is. in most
cases, Sissy" trying to prove he is
q "he-man."
This conclusion from case studies
has just been reported to the Will
liam A. White Psychiatric Founda-
ton in Washington by DR.. Joseph
Chassell, psychiatrist of the Shep-
pard and Enoch Pratt Hospital at
Towson, Nd, one of the country's
best-known institutions for mental
cases.
BY Sissy" DR.. Chassell means an
almost indefinable consciousness OF
lack of adequacy to face the world
which is subconsciously recognized
by the victim and quickly sensed by
others-especially children. 1t does
not mean, he stresses, especially
girlish behavior on the part of a
boy or necessarily being tied to
mammals apron strings-a condition
known to psychiatrists as the
golden curls syndrome," and which
would probably lead to a quite
different sort of mental disbalance
If any. A woman alcoholic may also
be a "compensating sissy"
Traced to Over-Protection.
Mothers usually make alcoholics,
DR.. Chassell explains in the founda-
tion's journal, Psychiatry, not by too
much love of their children. but by
over-protection and domineering
without love. The over protection
prevents the child from developing
psychic adequacy to face the world
At the same time the clearly sensed
lack of mother love, which children
crave, leaves one without any shelter
from the storms of the world. Alco-
hol acts as substitute in both ways.
Getting uproariously drunk seems
an easy way to show the world that
one is a real man. At the same
time, according to psychoanalytical
theories, 1t acts as a physical coun-
terpart for the denied mother love.
The soothing bottle" takes the
place of the soothing mother.
No alcoholic, of course, ever rea-
sons it out this way. The whole
mechanism, DR.. Chassell explains, is
buried deeply in the subconscious-
so deeply that up to the present it
has been impossible to get at it and
the alcoholic has been the most
difficult sort of patient for the psy-
chiatrist. Even now, DR.. Chassell
doesn't know what to do about 1t.
Pronounced in America.
The SISSY complex" is accentu-
ated in America, he believes, by the
pattern of American traditions. Col
leagues coming from Europe have
told him that they never noticed
their children, boys and girls, trying
to prove that they were not "sissies, -
but they developed the attitude
quickly when they started to play
with American children. =
Finding some adequate treatment
for chronic alcoholism, he stresses,
is second only in Importance, in the
field of psychiatry, to finding cure
for dementia precox. Only in ad-
vanced stages, he says, can there be
demonstrated any actual physical
changes, such as are found in other
mental diseases. The alcoholic is
usually q charming fellow. easy to
talk with, fairly intelligent, appar-
emily anxious to listen to reason and
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Division Veterans to Dine

The ninth annual banquet of
Washington Post No. 20, 29th
Division ASSOCIATION, World War
veterans, will be held January 81
at the Harrington Hotel. Men from
the District of Columbia, Maryland
Virginia and New Jersey who served
IN the division are members of the
organization.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Cigarette ExpIodes,
Severely Burning
Lips of Boy, 8

Charles Fry, 8, of the 1900
block of Fourth street S.W. was
treated at Gallinger Hospital
yesterday for severe lip burns
suffered when a loaded cigarette
exploded in his face.
Police said the cigarette was
given the child by playmate
in the 400 block Of I street S.W.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Postmaster Bill Offered

Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat,
wyoming introduced yesterday
bill to extend civil service retiremen
benefits to first, second and thir,
class postmasters.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-04
Lake View Ripples

Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Petersen OF
Lake Eleven, spent Monday evening
at the Gust Pearson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Eells and
baby, Mrs. Ivar Rostberg and Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Trapp of Grindstone Lake
spent Sunday afternoon at the May
nard Without home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Borchard spent
Tuesday evening at the Gust Pear
son home.
Mrs. c. w. Sawatzky and daughter,
Ruth, and Mrs. w. F. Borchard spent
last Thursday afternoon with Mrs
Sylverton Loftness. The ladies helped
Mrs. Loftness plant some raspberry
gooseberry, currant and rose bushes
for which she was very grateful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Pearson spent
Friday afternoon at the Maynard
Without home. Mrs. Aug. Swiderski
also called there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylverton Loftness
were Sunday afternoon visitors at the
Peder Loftness home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Sundin and chill
dren, Fridolf Bonstrom and Mrs Peter
Backlund, all of Grasston, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anton Peterson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Carlson and son, Jimmy,
were Sunday visitors at the Gust
Pearson home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-04
Ogenaa
(From Another Correspondent)

SS1~O~~&SeeS<
Mrs. George Hastings, who is able
to be up again now, spent Sunday
at the Emery Huntley home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Huntley and
Albert Hunt spent Sunday afternoon
at the Ralph Pike home.
Mrs. Martin Andersen went to Du-
luth Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Gerber.
Lester and Cecil Thieling motored
to the Cities Saturday. Enroute home
rock went through their windshield
and Cecil got glass in his face and
hands. They returned to the Cities
to have the glass removed.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Streese and son
spent Sunday at the Bostrom home
Florence Bostrom is now employed
at the depot in Danbury.
Mrs. D. Grove has been on the
sick list the past few weeks.
Thomas Ryan spent a few days
recently with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Ryan.
Mrs. Joe Beaufeaux is staying with
her mother this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Thayer called
at the Benson home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Benson and chill
dren and Cecil and Lester Theiling
called at the Swan home Sunday eve
ming.
Mrs. Curtis Lyon has been ill the
past week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-04
Sand Creek

Regular meeting of the Farmers
club will be held Wednesday, May
10, at $3.50 p. m.
MIR. and Mrs. liner Carlson spent
Tuesday of last week in Minneapolis
Henry Olson of Chicago, came Sun
day for a visit at the F. Jorgenser
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Harris visited
last Thursday afternoon at the Oar
Svardahl home.
Yarmen Jorgensen, Henry Olsor
and Holgar Larson were callers at the
Engebo home last Thursday evening
Mrs. C. Soderquist left last Thurs
day evening for a visit with hel
daughter, Mrs. Axel Swanson, in Min.
neapolis.
Mrs. G. Svardahl and children Wis.
tied Sunday afternoon with Mrs. w
A. Christensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Engebo visited
Sunday evening at the Dan Svardah
home. Mr.. and Mrs. D. Harris were
visitors at the c. Svardahl home thai
evening.