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Evening star., 1939-02-19
Navy's Newest Seap|ane
Awaits Early Tests
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Feb. 18.-The
United States Navy's newest battle
ship of the air, patrol-bomber
developed at the Glenn L. Martin
Co. plant here, rode at anchor today
preparatory to the first of a series of
tests.
Officials of the company said the
seaplane, which will carry crew of
seven, was developed after three
years of experiment. 1t is designed,
they said, to provide two-purpose
weapon for bombing and for me-
dium-range patrol work.
The ship, equipped with two en-
gines, is 78 feet over all and has a
wing spread of lib feet. It has three
gun turrets. one in the bow and
two amidship of either side of the
hull. Retractable pontoons are To-
Gated midway between the hull and
the wing tips.
Details of the speed, range and
planned armament of the ship were
not disclosed, and company off,
cials did not indicate when the first
test flights would be made.
Plans, they indicated, call for hull
tests on the surface of the water,
with test flights planned at some
later date.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Farley Advocates
Murturing' Business
To Create Jobs
Speaks at Delayed
Jackson Doy' Dinner
In Miami
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 18-Postmaster
General James A. Farley advocated
"nurturing" business tonight as "the
only means of obtaining more COM
fort for the have-nots"
I'm no other way can the jobs be
supplied, and joblessness is our big
gest handicap today" the chairman
Of the Democratic National Com
mite said in a speech prepared for
delivery at jackson Day" dinner
Other administration officials ap-
peared at the delayed Jackson
Day observances throughout Florida,
which were postponed from January
by order of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
Mr.. Farley said nurturing business
did not consist in giving additional
opportunity to exploit those who
have already been exploited into
penury'
Says Jobs Are Increasing.
Mr. Farley said capital and labor,
industry and agriculture must rise
together.
eff private industry holds back, -
he said, the Government must sup
ply the lack of wages in one form
or another. but bare subsistence
wage is not enough to do the job.
Business Is coming to an apprecia-
ton of this self-evident fact. 1t is
moving-too slowly perhaps-but
gradually the slack is being taken up.
I haven't the statistics at hand. but
generally we know that employment
is increasing, and that the big in
dustrieS are progressing"
The committee chairman said he
had no misgivings about what Is
going to happen in 1910, but that he
could take nothing for granted.
Roosevelt Sends Telegram.
Mr.. Farley prefaced his remarks
by reading telegram from Presi-
dent Roosevelt expressing regrets
that he was unable to participate
more directly in the Jackson Day
dinners.
"Once more I desire to remind the
faithful" the telegram read in part"
that the chief duty of the Demo-
cratic party is to make democracy
work. The present administration
Is following in the Jackson tradition
and therefore will not recede from
its determination to advance the ma
tional unity by promoting the Sc
curity and happiness of the greatest
number of the people,
Evening star., 1939-02-19
By the Associated Press,

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. ia
monument to George Washington,
on the Virginia side of the Potomac,
leans toward the sun all day long.
Still unfinished, the high, terraced
structure IS being erected by the
Masons. who will gather there from
all parts of the country this week
to pay homage to Washington. He
was the first master of the Alexan-
dria Lodge, No. %.
II don't know why it leans toward
the sum-" confessed Grand Secretary
J. Claude KEEPER. "It- just does"
Engineers who planned the struc-
ture knew it would lean that way,
and made allowances.
Will Never Be Finished.
Lacking a solid foundation, the
S33-foot monument floats-its base
= heavy spiderlike network of steel
rods bound together with cement
and buried 120 feet deep in soft
blue clay.
Like many cathedralS, the memo
rial will never be finished. After
the Masons raise $780, 900 to finish
the project and establish l,000,-
900 endowment fund, alterations or
improvements repeatedly will be
made.
4 tough engineering problem re-
Evening star., 1939-02-19

Austrian origin, he Joined the Com.
munist party in 1882 and passed out
campaign handbills. He resigned
in 1888. In ruling on his case, the
Circuit Court recalled that the de-
portation law was enacted during
the jittery period after Russia went
Communist.
Much water, socially and politi-
cally, has gone under the bridge
since 1920" the court said.
"The evidence for Strecker makes
him out small bourgeoise, a mer-
chant. with little capital, some
canniness and apparently no quar-
rel with the Government of the
United States"
Even if the court holds that an
alien can't be deported just be-
cause he is Communist, Bridges
foes can still press their claim that
he advocated violent overthrow OF
the Government. But Secretary
Perkins says that is just water front
chatter.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Threat 10 Existence Of
Colleges Is Seen
By Dr.. Gaines
Head of W. and /. u.
Addresses Alumni
At Dinner Here

Developments in recent American
history constitute unique threats
against the usefulness. if not the
very existence of independent COL
legeS, DR.. Frnacis P. Gaines, presi-
dent of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, told the local alumni of the
institution at banquet in the May
flower Hotel last night.
Warning that the elimination of
independent colleges would be step
toward totalitarianism, DR.. Gaines
said: "The best guarantee for the
freedom now enjoyed by public in
stitutions Is the existence of inde-
pendent colleges"
Nothing could be more devastat-
ing to intellectual freedom than
complete liberalization of the entire
learning process in its higher
reaches, where not only knowledge
but the philosophic evaluations must
be among the ends sought" he
added
Four Threats Listed.
Chairman of the National Com
mission on Public Relations of the
Association of American Colleges,
DR.. Gaines, listed four threats to
the existence of private institutions.
He included continuing deprecia-
ton of financial investments, the
vast outlay of Federal money for
buildings and equipment of public
universities to the exclusion of
private ones, the proposal to abro-
gate the established precedent of
tax exemption for private colleges
through inclusion of colleges under
the Social Security Act and pro-
posed legislation asking the expendi-
ture of $4,000, 900 in Federal funds
for support of public education in
high schools, junior colleges and
teachers colleges.
Introduced by Glass.
DR.. Gaines said that in the last
four years total enrolment at
Washington and Lee had doubled,
about 100000 had been spent in
building improvements, teachers
salaries had been raised and the
greatest number of student appli-
cations in the history of the uni
versity had been received.
In addition to the alumni present
the guest list included parents of
numerous District students now at
tending the university, as we'll as
number of principals and head
masters of Washington and nearby
high and preparatory schools.
DR.. Gaines was introduced by
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia.
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal,
an alumnus of the university and a
native of Lexington, Va, site of
the school, acted as POSTMASTER.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Strecker Guinea Piq
In Move 10 Deport
Harry Bridges
Supreme Court Verdict
In Lengthy Dispute
Expected Soon
BY PRESTON GROVER.

Possibly the unluckiest COR the
luckiest) man in the country today
is Joseph George Strecker of Hot
Springs, Ark, who is being used as
a legal guinea pig to decide whether
Harry Bridges, West Coast c. I. o.
longshoremen's leader, shall be de-
ported.
The Supreme Court has Strecker's
case in hand and a decision will be
uown soon. But the big game is not
lnconsequential Strecker, but con-
sequential Bridges.
The law says any alien advocating
overthrow of the Government by
force must be deported. The JUS
tice Department in prosecuting
Strecker argued that communism
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Soviet to Try Rodiomon
In Arctic Flyers Hunt
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Feb. 49, Radioman
M. M. Voznesensky will go on trial
next Saturday on charges of sab
otaging Arctic radio communica-
tions in connection with the hapless
flight Of Sigismund Levanevsky over
the North Pole.
Levanevsky, then Soviet Russia's
most famous flyer, left Moscow
August IL, 1887, with crew of five,
but disappeared In a proposed flight
to the United States. Voznesensky
was radioman in the far northern
Tikhaya Bay bay of Silence) sta
ton.
He now is accused under an ar
ticle of the criminal code which
provides the death penalty. The
indictment said he failed to relay
messages from Levanevsky, failed
to give Levanevsky meteorological
reports and finally gave false
weather reports to searching planes.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Michigan Democrats
Name Porritt Chairman
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich. Feb. 18.-Charles
G.. Porritt of Detroit was chosen
State Democratic chairman at the
party's spring convention today, de-
feating a candidate sponsored by
followers of former Gov. Frank
Murphy and United States Senator
Prentiss M. Brown.
The States little new deal" had
advanced William j. Delaney OF
Grand Rapids as a compromise
candidate for the Craftsmanship, but
opposition to Porritt wilted on the
first ballot.
Porritt was recognized as the can
didate of the faction headed by
State Highway Commissioner Muir
ray D. Van Wagner, and identified
as a representative of the right
wing" Of the State organization.
After his election Porritt, for
mer member of the State Public
Utilities Commission, said his first
act would be to invite all Democrats
back into the party"
Despite early reports that they
might fly to Michigan to take part
in the convention, both Attorney
General Murphy and Senaor Brown
remained in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

massive swinging frames of teak
are part Of the wreck of the sailing
ship Lady Kennaway, which brought
lo3 Irish girls to the colony during
a shortage OF wives. BY the sale Of
building lots for the purpose Of
"ouying' mates for the men, $9,155
was raised in 1857, the plan to i'm
port girls wholesale having the ap-
proval OF the Secretary of State.
Inc Lady Kennaway landed the 153
colleens safely, but was wrecked In
storm two days later.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Warfare Is Sporadic
On Chinese New Year
BY the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 Sunday
While 4OO,oO0,o0O Chinese todav
celebrated their new year, sporadic
fighting went on over most of the
country without any major changes.
1t. Comdr. Charles r. Jeffs, COM
mander OF the United States gun
boat Oahu, and 1t. Comdr. r. S,
Stafford, commander of the British
gunboat Ladybird, reached Kulinp
summer resort near the YangtZe
River, to supervise evacuation of
marooned foreigners there in an
ticlpatlon of a Japanese attack
scheduled for Monday.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Rhodochrosite Found

Entrance to an ancient mine 10,-
600 feet up in the Andes at Cata.
marca, Argentina, being gained
through a passage almost filled with
water, miners are again finding rho.
dochrosite, which is used as a deco.
ration for hairbrushes, cigarette
cases and other articles.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Flying Boot Commander

Capt. j. c. Kelley Rogers, the
1rishman who made the first night
flight from Kisumu, Somaliland, to
Durham, South Africa, last year, will
command the flying boat which is
expected to inaugurate the expert
mental airmail service across the
North Atlantic this wear.
Evening star., 1939-02-19
Doors May Honor Girls

Main doors of Grey Hospital in
Kingwilliamstown, Cape of Good
Hope, may be dedicated to the girls
who became pioneer wives and
mothers of the city and district. The
Evening star., 1939-02-19

Gas-oil may be used to run omni-
buses in Paris.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Bankers And
Rose Winners

The Bankers weathered a seventh
inning rally to defeat the Christians
8 to 5, and Rose came through with
to 4 verdict over Purol Pep in
yesterdays games in the citv softhall
league.
The Bankers took an earlv lead
over the Christians when Pritchett
tlrst man up in the ball game. slam
med a home run to right field. The
Christians scored four tallies in the
second on walk and four hits. The
Bankers added two in the fourth and
three in the sixth
The final Christian run came in
the last Of the seventh when Sam
Watkins, Banker hurler, allowed
five free passes to first base.
Rose had little trouble in turning
back Purol, W1tn Edwards pitching
the victory and Kearney catching
Adcocll pitched for Purol, with
Knight catching.
Jacoby Williams started on the
mound for the Bankers, with Wat
kins finishing up. Weldon was be-
hind the plate. Vickery did the pitch
ing for the Christians, with jackson
doing the receiving.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Vance County Weekly
Extension News
sponsored by J. County Agent; Richardson
Assistant County Agent; and Hattie T. Plummes
Home Demonstration Agent

Ruth Hoyle, Lucille Gupton, Mag
dallne Ellington, Norma Harris, Dena
Adcock, Reese Tucker, William Gill.
Floyd Barnes, Robert Amos Tillotson
and Leila Fuller attended the All
Short Course at State College this
week. Annie Mae Dickerson was
there on Thursday to take part in
tne Pageant of Progress. Thomas
Fox, Ed Fox, Henry, Julia and
irene Dickerson, Goods Ellington,
Louise Duke, Rosaleigh Floyd and
Marjorie Blum went over on Friday
to join the other group to put on
musical program. Mrs. Sturges Col
Inns played the accompaniments. J..
L. Richardson and Josephine Rar1es
spent the entire week assisting with
the program. j. w. Sanders and Hat
tie F. Plummer went back and forth
to assist with some parts of the pro-
gram which they had been requested
to help put on. The latter two with
Josephine Ranes will spend next
week at the college attending the
Annual meeting Of Extension Work.
ers which will be held in connec-
ton with Farm and Home Week.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Fancy Doings
At Creystone
Sunday, $3.50

After taking on Louispurg this af-
ternoon in a Tri-County league con-
test, the Greystone Rockies cast
their eyes towards another iormid-
able foe, Ca-Vel, team that ap-
pears there Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 O'Clock in an exhibition con-
test.
The contest promises to be a
thriller, with plenty of excitement.
Lefty Briggs, hard hitting right
fielder, heads the galaxy Of stars
from Ca-Vel, and Curly Bissett,
heavy hitting, fancy fielding first
baseman of the Rockies, will lead his
contingent into the Tray.
Big Hank Feimster, fire ball
hurler and the delight OF the fans,
ladies included, is slated to do the
hurting for the Rockies, with de-
pendable Dunk Poole behind the
plate.
Ca-Ve1 needs little introduction
here. 1t was on this nine that Enos
Slaughter, heavy hitting st. Louis
Cardinal outfielder, got his start
and there is plenty of baseball talent
on the nine from which Slaughter
graduated.
Fans are to be treated to some
fancy baseball when these teams
get together
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Record Year
For B. Ills.

Raleigh, July 29.-1939 will be a
record breaking year for the build
ing and loan associations of the
State if the present loan volume con-
tinues during the second lB'lf of the
year at the same rate maintained
during the first six months Of 1899,
according to Martin F. Guardian, OF
Raleigh, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Building & Loan
League.
Weather conditions retarded loans
during January and February OF this
year, but every month since then
has shown a decided increase, ac-
cording to Guardian.
A total of $12, 100000 in loans was
made, the average loan being ST.
500. More than $5,0OO,000 was loan
ed out in construction of new homes
and $2,817, 900 was used for pur-
chase of new homes. Many homes
were repaired or remodeled through
these home lending institutions for
approximately $4,4O0,O0O was loaned
out for repairs, remodeling, refinanc-
ing and other miscellaneous pur-
poses.
IL Is cSCIIIldISO CIldC IIIc OullUlIlS,
savings and loan associations are
making between two-thirds and
three-fourths of the small home loans
of the state. These loans were financ-
ed through the savings of more than
125,O0O North Carolina shareholders
who have been saving in increasing
amounts for the construction of
homes or for other worthwhile pur-
poses, such as old age, vacations and
efc
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Poe Speaker
At est Farm,

Raleigh, July 29.-Dr. Clarence
Poe, editor of the Progressive Farm
er, will be the principal speaker at
the 10th annual farmers field day
at the Upper Coastal Plain Test
Farm near Rocky Mount, Thursday.
August 10, Commissioner of Agri-
culture w. Kerr Scott announced to-
day.
Exhibits featuring agronomy, to-
baccO grading, farm machinery, and
tobacco diseases will be presented by
State College, N. G. Experiment
Station and State Department of
agriculture specialists. agricultural
Research" will be the theme of the
meeting over which Thomas J. Pear
sail, Rocky Mount farmer, will pre-
side as chairman for the day.
DR. Poe's address will be on fTwo-
Arm Farming: Add Animal Produc-
ton to Plant Production"
Commissioner Scott will speak on
"A Review of Progress in the North
Carolina Department of Agricul-
ture'; DR.. Luther Shaw, State Col
lege plant pathologist, on Peanut
Diseases; DR.. C. K. Middleton,
State College plant breeding special
lst on Peanut and Plant Breeding
Studies" Visitors will be welcomed
by Director of Test Farms F. E. Mil
Ter and trips to the fields will be
supervised by r. E. Currih, Jr.,
assistant director in charge of the
test farm.
Edgecombe County Agent J. c.
Powell will be chairman for con-
tests with Gus T. Lancaster, Edge
cOmbe county farmer, vice chairman
A horse and mule pulling contest
viii be in charge of Paul L. Fletcher,
livestock marketing specialist of the
State Department of Agriculture and
a horse shoe pitching contest will be
IN charge of w. w. Bullock.
Mrs. E. P. Van Landinoham, Edge
combe home agent, VIII 1;e- chairman
Of the ladies' program, featuring an
address of welcome by Mrs. S. T.
Jones, president of the Edgecombe
County Council. Rocky Mount and
an address by DR.. Jane S. McKim-
mon, assistant director, State Col
lege Extension Service. Mrs. w. w.
tagles of Crisp will give recogni-
lon to special guests.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Farm And Home Meeting
Next Week At N. c. State
Every Corner of State
TO Be Represented at
Annual Event; Big
Men on Speaking Pro-
gram.

College Station, Raleigh, July 30
Farmers and farm women from
o,.a,, nook and corner of North Car
Alma viii gather on the State Col
Iear campus Monday as the Seth an
nrIal Farm and Home Week makes
rs official opening.
REGISTRATION books will be opened
Of q m. and will remain open
throughout the day. Delegates will
he assigned rooms in the State Col
lege dormitories, with any overflow
n be taken care of in Meredith Col
lege d0rmitories.
State College officials said they
have everything in readiness for the
arrival Of the visitors tomorrow. A
vell-balanced program of recreation
and instruction has been mapped out
with a large variety of classroom
subjects offered.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey heads the
list OF speakers which also includes:
Oscar Johnston, president of the Ma
tional Cotton Council; T. B. Hut
cheson. head of the V. P. I. agronomv
department.: DR.. E. V. McCullum
head of the School of Hygiene and
Public Health, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity: and Paul D. Sanders, editor
the Southern Planter.
Joint sessions of men and women
will occupy the first part of each
morning, except Thursday, while the
two groups will meet separately dur
ing the remainder of the morning.
Farm and Home Week officials be-
lieve this years convention will at
tract a record-bro~ king attendance
even though this season is one of the
busiest times Of the year on the aver
age farm, especially in Eastern North
Carolina
Hundreds who cannot remain the
entire week are planning to attend
for one or more days.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Investors
See Little
To Hope For
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, July 29.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Investors issued a
statement recently which got fairly
good play on the newspapers finan-
cial pages but which practically
didn't break at all into their news
columns. Of course, the average
reader chucks his papers financial
section into the discard with scarce
can't be blamed for it, either. Finan-
cial editors are 100 per cent special
lists, who handle their stuff too tech
nically to appeal to financially un-
educated folk, like most of us. And
we don't understand it very we'll if
we do try to read it.
However, this particular statement
was interesting, provided you had
the resolution to wade through it.
The A. F. of l. undertook to prove
that we can't expect to have appre-
ciably better times under our present
load of taxation. 1t makes out quite
a convincing case in favor of its con-
tentiOn. The statements prime pur-
pose is to harrow up the feelings of
investors, but it makes the incidental
point that unless investors are rea-
sonably prosperous the general pub
lie can't be.
For instance:
The A. F. of 1. gathered it's in
formation from the records of 1853 of
the countrys major corporation.
These corporations, it reports, didn't t
do so we'll in 1888 as in 1887 Con-
sequently their 6,500,000 stockhold-
ers got smaller dividends. That, the
statement argues, in part accounts
for the 1888 recession. All those
stockholders (mainly no plutocrats
whatever, but people in moderate
circumstances) had to economize.
The corporations likewise had to
economize. They did it by reducing
the number of their workers. In 1888
they averaged 17,6O1 apiece, as COM
pared with 21,141 in 1887. This
meant that labor was crimped also.
Two Thirds Taxes.
The A. F. of I. agrees that Ameri-
can industry has had some money
left over after paying its operating
expenses not counting taxes.
It's had pre-tax profit of a Ger
tain number of dollars-running in
to billions. Then, however, it's had
to reckon that the tax collector would
gobble GIG cents out Of each $1-bill.
leaving only 1874 cents to be handed
out in dividends. Nor would the di-
vidend recipient have received as
much as 1874 cents if his corporation
hadn't cut down. on labor. Otherwise
its labor would have cost more and it
still would have had to dig up 61.8
cents per 81 in taxes. The difference
would have come out of the stock
holder.
Put it either way-the A. F. of 1.
figures that the tax collector is the
nigger in the woodpile.
Now, the outstanding economic
complaint of today is that the po-
tential investor doesn't like to invest
in private enterprise because, be-
fore he gets his dividend, so much is
taken out of it by the revenue bu-
reau.
To be sure the investor has an al
tentative. He can put his money into
federal state or municipal securities
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29

which are tax free. They pay low
interest rate-but since they're un-
taxed perhaps in the long run they're
more profitable Hence the. demand
for tax on these non-taxed Sc
curities. The theory is that such a
tax would dive money out of federal,
state and municipal bonds back into
private investment.
Possibly it would. Yet, if so, how
would federal, state and municipal
governments be able to continue fl
nancing themselves? OBJ v 10 usly
they'd have to boost their interest
rates to compete with private bor-
rowings. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guar
dia, of New York City, president of
the national mayors organization,
saws this would "bust" every muni-
cipality in. America-not to mention
federal and state governments. And
probably there'd be an undesirable
reaction upon private investments if
ali our federal state and municipal
credits went flooey.
One Good Thing.
There's one good thing about it.
Taxation ought to be, not oppres-
sive. but conspicuous. If folk don't
realize that they're being taxed they
don't resent it. If it begins to hurt
they holler.
Just what good their hollering is
going to do isn't so apparent, though
With more than $4,000, ,OOO, ,OOO
national indebtedness already chalk
ed up and fresh billions mounting
it would look like a long time be-
| fore levies are modified.
The American Federation of Inves-
tors doesn't explain that. h