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Evening star., 1940-03-14
Indian Engineer
Is IsArraigned in
Briton's 5 Staying
Former Administrator Of
Punjob Shot in Protest,
Prisoner Declares

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March IA 37-year-
old British Indian engineer, Ma
homed Singh Azao, was arraigned
today in heavily guarded Bow Street
Court, charged with the assassina-
tion Of Sir Michael ODwyer, a re-
tired Indian administrator.
The stocky defendant smiled as
Detective Inspector Swain testified
that Azad, after the killing last
night at Caxton Hall, had said:
Il did not mean to kill him-I
just did it to protest"
The prisoner was remanded in
custody for a week after he waived
questioning the officer.
The assassination overshadowed
war news on Londons front pages
and evoked in one editorial a hint
that it might start an outbreak
of Indian terrorism in Great Brit
ain"
Gandhi Indirectly Blamed.
The Daily Telegraph indirectly
blamed the Indian Nationalist
leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi, for
the the gunfire that broke up q
meeting of the East India Asso-
citation, killed ODwyer and wounded
two others.
The newspaper said, in part:
I'm India Mr.. Gandhi talks OF
the virtues of passive disobedience,
but it has often happened in the
past that his opposition to the In
dian government has been trans
lated into acts of violence by those
who profess adherence to his po-
litical principles"
Most newspapers, however, re-
garded the shooting as an isolated
incident.
The assassin was overpowered by
police before he could escape from
the hall when he fired four pistol
shots after ODwyer finished
speech of "reminiscences. The for
mer Lieutenant Governor of the
Punjab died almost Immediately
from a wound in the chest.
Bullets Craze Others.
One bullet grazed Lord Zetland,
secretary of state for India. Others
struck the arms of Sir Louis Dane
and Lord Lamington, both former
British administrators of Indian
provinces.
ODWyer was Lieutenant Gov
ernor of the Punjab when Brig.
Gen. R. E. H. Dyers' troops on April
13, 1919, fired into mob at AM
ritsas, killing 400 persons. ODwyer
always defended Dyers' order.
ODwyer once called Gandhi "the
biggest imposter that ever fooled
the credulity of people or fright
ened cowardly government"
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Dr.. Smith Will Retire
As St. Margaret's Rector

The Rev. DR.. Herbert Scott Smith,
after Al years as rector of st. Mar
garet's Episcopal Church. has noti-
fed the vestry of the parish of his
intention to retire soon after April
2, that being the anniversary of the
beginning of his rectorship at st.
Margaret's.
During his long ministry DR..
Smith has served but one parish,
having come to st. Margaret S
Church practically from the semi
nary at Cambridge, Mass. The parish
has had but one other rector, the
late Rev. DR.. Richard Howell.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Dr.. Henderson to Speak

DR.. E. B. Henderson, head Of the
department of health and physical
education of the Washington public
schools, colored division, will be
guest speaker at meeting of the
Fairfax County (Va) Council of
Colored Parent Teacher Associa-
tions at 8 o'clock tonight at the
Mount Calvary Baptist Church,
Fairfax. The program is being ar
ranged by Mrs. Elsie Tynes, princi-
pal of Floris School,
Evening star., 1940-03-14

ference ut Atlantic City this spring.
This was decided upon by the
denomination's Location Commit
tee at q meeting at Columbus, Ohio,
Tuesday, DR.. Elmer Clark, editor
Of the World outlook, missionary
periodical, said last night. The
recommendation will be brought
Evening star., 1940-03-14

before the General Conference for
action.
Nashville is the home Of the for.
mer Methodist Episcopal Church
South Board Of Missions. The
Northern branch's board Is In New
York and the Protestant branch's
In Baltimore.
Evening star., 1940-03-14

NEW YORK.-DURYEA TO
BE TRIED-Chester B. Dur
yea, who slew his father in
1914, was back yesterday after
26 years to stand trial on a
murder charge. Duryea had
been released from Mattea-
wan State Hospital for the
Insane by court order. Wom-
ems clothing, said Duryea, has
changed a lot since 1914"
"A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1940-03-14
Methodists Agree on
Single Mission Boord
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. March H.
Establishment of the combined
Board Of Missions of the three for
mer branches of Methodism in New
York is expected to be sanctioned
when the new United Methodist
Church holds its first general con-
Evening star., 1940-03-14
KIDNEYS
MUST REMOVE
EXCESS ACIDS
! Help IS Miles Of Kidney Tubes
Flush Out Poisonous Waste

1 11oIP 10 MiIe6 OF Kidney UoeS
Flush Out Poisonous Waste
If you have an excess of acids in your
blood, your Is miles of kidney tubes may be
overworked. These tiny filters and tubes are
working day and night to help Nature rid
your system of excess acids and poisonous
waste.
When disorder Of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood,
1t may cause nagging backache. rheumatic
pains, leg pains. loss of pep and energy. get
ting up nights. swelling. pufiness under the
eyes, headaches and dizziness.
Kidneys may need help the same a. bow
els, so ask your druggist for Doan's Pills.
used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help
the Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poison
Gus waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Evening star., 1940-02-09

still wonder why those same dairies
put up the price Of cream a week ago
by two cents a half pint. The milk
marketing agreement increased the
cream cost to the dairies only two
thirds of cent a half pint. The
same agreement had no effect on the
cost Of milk to the dairies. which
remains at about 7.6 cents a quart.
A differential between the store
price and the home-delivered price
of milk is economically right and
proper. Out Of the price paid for
milk sent to homes by dairies comes
the cost Of the elaborate service
involved in delivering that milk.
This service is absent when milk is
purchased from stores, but until
Tuesday the difference in cost to the
dairies of the two types OF retailing
had no reflection in the consumer
price
Even yet there is no requirement
that the glass bottles the milk comes
in be returned to the dairies. The
quart bottles cost the dairies four
cents each. A deposit, protecting the
dairy's interest in the bottle, would
enable it to pass on to the consumers
the savings in the amount now spent
on new glass containers.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Mr.. Browder's Defect

Although he took advantage, with
usual Communistic inconsistency, Of
every liberty afforded candidates for
public Office under the democratic
form of government he so blatantly
opposes, Earl Browder, general secre-
tary of the American Communist
party, was able to muster less than
fourteen per cent of the 22,707 votes
cast in the three -cornered election to
fill the vacancy in the House caused
by the death of Representative Will
liam I. Sirovich. The winner was the
Democratic nominee, M. Michael
Edelsteln, who polled 1882 votes,
and the runner-up was the Repub-
lican candidate, Louis ]. Lefkowitz,
with 6,665 votes.
Among the several kinds OF liberty
of which Candidate BroWder avalled
himself in waging his campaign was
freedom under bond after his con-
viction in open court on charges
of defrauding the Government with
forged passports. With the help OF
free speech and free press, both OF
which would have been denied him
in Communist Russia, he sought to
set himself up as a victim of demo-
cratic persecution" But his SELF
conceived martyrdom left most OF
the voters cold. although the election
district, abutting on Washington
square, contains Communist party
Headquarters and has plenty of op-
portunity to hear Mr.. Browder dis
course on the wonders of collectivism
a la Moscow. Mr.. Browder got only
5000 votes.
Mr.. Browder's name was entered
in the presidential election of 1886,
and he received only 80,1o1 votes out
of a total of 45,563,063 cast. But,
according to the Communist Daily
Worker, the New York congressional
election was to be the first real test
of the peoples reaction against the
"new war and hunger program OF the
Roosevelt administration. The So
called test was a fair one, thanks to
the rights of suffrage extended by
American democracy to Communists
as well as Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, but the result will fail to
satisfy the not always fair-minded
Reds and fellow travellers who operate
under the banner of Comrade Brow
der. The outcome is eminently salts
factory, however-and not at all sur
prising-to the vast majority of
American citizens.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Third Purty

Third parties have always Jared
poorly in American politics-a fact
we'll illustrated by the ignominious
flop of the latest one, the Christian
Front. Even though supported by
an active membership of at least
seventeen patriots, and with such
convincing arguments for the oppo-
sition as bullets, bombs, and even a
sword, the great putsch failed, post
poning indefinitely the glorious day
when America shall be really free
under the leadership of a fuehrer.
And now that the President does not
have to run from the White House,
the public will have to wait a little
longer to tell whether he intends to
run for it again.
Some free advice is given to future
third parties intending to throw
either hats or bombs in the ring. II
possible they should work hard to
increase their membership beyond
seventeen, as that number is too few
to take over all public utilities, Gus
tom houses, railroads, etc, as
planned by the Christian Front. It
would also be well to delete from
their platforms planks calling for
the liquidation of Congressman.
Even Joe Stain and Hitler tolerate
Congressman Of a sort, and new
comers to the dictatorial ranks
should refrain from trying to teach
the old masters new tricks.
Evening star., 1940-02-09

To the Editor Of The Star:
You recently published letter by Mr..
Lewis Bailey, dated January 26, rela-
tive to snow removal from our city
streets This subject should be of in
terest to all citizens who take pride in
the welfare and beauty of their city.
Removal of snow by use of the un-
employed. as suggested by Mr. Bailey,
would require small army of men and
cost many thousands of dollars if applied
to the entire city, cost that would be
far in, excess of funds available for such
work.
Other large cities do make use of their
unemployed to remove snow from the
streets but only in the downtown busi-
ness section and Washingtonians should
expect their Government to do this, too.
But in the outlying residential sections,
to which this work cannot be extended
because of lack of funds, I would sug-
gest a way in which the individual
citizen can very greatly aid in more
quickly Kidding the streets of the snow
and slush.
When snowfall comes, 1t is shoveled
from sidewalks to the curb and snow
plows push it from the street to the
curb also. The thin coating left in
the street is soon dissipated by traffic
but heavy bank of snow is left piled
up on either curb that soon becomes an
unsightly mass. If the individual citizen,
after the second or third day of snow
fall, would have this bank of snow moved
and scattered in the street 1t would melt
much more quickly and would rid the
city of this unsightly dirt collector and
germ breeder. WILLIAM d. CASSIN.
February 6.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
THIS AND THAT
Bp Charles Z. Trace1Dell.

Writer'S" by Herbert Faulkner West, and
1.-THE Private Lives Of Birds" by Henry
Smith williams.
Il 4 ~
Tracks in the Snow" a. one title puts
1t!
We all have had q chance to see
tracks In the snow this winter, not only
here, but all over the country, even in
the sunny South.
Bird tracks, animal tracks. and mans
tracks
And the least interesting Of these
are mans tracks.
Dog tracks in the snow are not much
better, for those fellows have a way Of
coming along with their hind legs, obit-
Grating their real tracks, leaving just q
gully in the universal whiteness.
No, the smaller animals and the birds
make the best tracks for observation
purposes.
And they do it only when the field Of
snow is left unsullied by the other
walkers.
Snow is country thing, some one
has said, and it is very true; snow sullied
with dirt and oil. smashed and deflled,
is not what we think of when we think
of snow, snow, the beautiful snow"
-
There are only certain types Of snow
which give really good animal tracks.
The fall must be firm enough to hold
the animal, yet soft enough to take q
good impression.
Then how beautiful are tracks in
the snow!"
Each creature makes its own pattern
Of claw or foot.
But this is not ALL There is pattern,
too, in the placement of the various
claws and feet, and in the way they
follow after one another.
These observations so intrigued the
poet Of the piano, Debussy that he wrote
one of his famous preludes, the sixth,
entitled "Des Pas sur la Neige." or Foot
steps in the Snow"
Faint tracks" says Alfred Cortot, the
great pianist, describing this number,
still showing after the departure of the
absent friend, each one sadly awakening
the memory of happiness that is gone"
Fortunately, the average animal or bird
track in the snow has no such melan-
choly connotations.
1t simply means that creature full
OF health and life has been that way.
No footprints, these, in the sands of
time. as Longfellow put it, but simply
the impression OF little feet going about
their business in this world.
The best time to see snow tracks is
Immediately after the ending of a fall.
Then the landscape is unsullied, un-
trodden, spread out for the slightest
impression.
A little thing. the pattern of some
birds track in the snow, but sometimes
1t makes such great impression upon
the heart and mind of the beholder that
it is never forgotten, but held always as
a sort of sacred memory.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Connecticut Recovery

The flight of industry which IN
recent years has been converting
PROSPEROUS New England manufac-
turing centers into ghost towns IS
being reversed so far as Connecticut
is concerned, with the result that the
Nutmeg State has nearly as many
industrial plants as in the lush days
of 1929, and actually has more wage
earners than a decade ago.
According to the New Yor'- Times,
which sent a reporter to find out
why a neighbor prospers at time
when industry is abandoning New
York, the metamorphosis has been
brought about through the efforts OF
Connecticut's Governor Raymond E.
Baldwin, Republican elected in 1888
on a platform calling for friendly
government" t"-friendly to business,
industry and labor.
AS concrete evidence of friendly"
administration, it is explained, Gov
ernor Baldwin balanced the budget
without sacrificing essential services
or increasing taxes other than those
on liquor. Implementing his effort
was the tax situation in Connecticut,
which does not have sales, personal
income or dividend levies.
It is easy to see what a powerful
appeal such conditions would have
for an industry casting about for a
new site. With the Federal tax bur-
den ever on the rise, industry neces-
sarily must look elsewhere for relief
il it is to be had, and State that is
able to offer the inducement of
thrifty administration and a plan
of taxation that does not tap every
visible source OF revenue has advan-
tages that would tend to outweigh
other considerations. The migration
of New England industry was in
duced principally by the lure of cheap
labor in the South, but Connecticut
is quick to emphasize that its rebirth
is not being accomplished at the
expense of workers, pointing out that
the wage differential is only ten per
cent under New York, from which
State some of the plants are coming,
and that lower living costs compenA
safe for this.
New York has been giving detailed
consideration to the industrial de-
cline without reaching definite con-
clusions as to the causes, although
labor conditions and heavy taxation
are looked upon as the principal fac
tors. These items may or may not
Evening star., 1940-02-09
New Horizons

roT many years important StrldeS
have been made in the adjoining
States to add to the dignity of the
National Capital as we'll as to en-
hance their own values. These
efforts have been realized to a sur
prising degree within the past few
years over an area Of many miles.
Included have been the Mount Ver-
non boulevard, the great develop
ment of parks and forests in the
mountains Of Virginia and Mary
land, improvement and beautifica-
ton of highways, particularly in
Virginia; advances in planning and
zoning in Montgomery County and
progress on the memorial parkway
plan north of the city.
Thus, many of the recommends
tions of the Committee of One Hun
dred for the Federal City for the
coming decade are to some extent a
continuation of the past program.
Realization of modern and beauti-
full parkway connecting Washington
with Baltimore and entering the
Capital through Anacostia Park is
near at hand. Work is progressing
on the development of extensions Of
this park, as we'll as of Rock Creek
as far as Kensington. Similar prog
ress is taking place in the Cabin John
valley. Improvement of planning
and coming in Prince Georges Coun-
ty, while not far advanced, is of a
nature which will develop within
a few years. Regional planning in
nearby Virginia, involving many
serious problems, is like possibility.
But other items in the program of
the committee call for much serious
study before the day arrives when
they will be impossible. Most spec
tacular, of course, is the proposal to
set aside approximately hundred
thousand acres Of Maryland's coastal
plain, particularly in the Annapolis
Washington area, for wild-life
refugees, forestry management and
strip parks. Availability of this
land, which may be taken for
granted now, could be lost within a
generation through growth and de-
velopment under uncurbed private
control. Second to this is connection
of the memorial parkway along the
Potomac with the scenic highways
which traverse the parks of the Blue
Ridge. While the committee sug-
gests study of a possible boulevard
to Richmond, such a project is well
within the realm of probability. The
existing highway, main link between
the North and South, is overtaxed on
it's northern seventy-flve miles. Be-
low Fredericksburg, Route Two offers
an excellent nucleus for a parked
drive, although other routes may be
more suitable for the purpose.
These are far reaching ideals, yet
vital to the full development of the
Federal City in keeping with the
majesty of the Nation. Other gen.
erations have left their mark, but
no one since George Washington and
Major L'Enfant has laid down def
mite program for full realization Of
all factors of the city's needs over a
long period of time as has the Com
mittee of One Hundred.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
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bear the name and address OF
the ,ortter, although the use OF
a pSeudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!

win their races, but Curtis Giddings and
dozen other powerful colored runners
performed creditably on college teams.
From the time of the early Christian
centuries track and field games have
stirred millions of humans and helped
create the feeling OF oneness of the
human race, and served to make men
forget their hates and injuries of war.
Today in America we still find these
games with their thrills and good sports
manship helping to Christianize the
hearts of men in way that probably no
other agency in democracy has ever
done. E. B. HENDERSON
February g.
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Letters to the Editor
Complete Record Of
Candidates Sought.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The many people who are f1oundering
in sea OF pro and anti thirdterm
propaganda should consider the situ-
alton in as intelligent light as possible.
our democracy via the two-term limit
route, so why, at time when most Of
the rest of the world is mentally, morally
and emotionally unbalanced, should We
embark on plan that definitely leans
toward dictatorship?
To encourage the idea that any one
man is indispensable to our democracy
Is ridiculous and a man going into or
continuing office with this impression
would be unfit for the dangerous days
ahead.
Granting the very fine leadership
during its first year, the New Deal does
not appear to be an Indispensable asset.
II we apply horse sense to the Nations
debt, does it equal sound and safe Gov
ernment? 1t does not. If business
cannot be run by such methods can we
run Government successfully by them?
We have the greater part of the worlds
gold buried in hole in Kentucky and
yet. until recently anyway, our Govern
ment was still buying it at s35 per ounce
from countries Russia for one) which
were producing it at cost of only about
$500 per ounce. If that is good business
or intelligent Government, fix up a nice
padded cell for yours truly right now
Most people know something of the
remarkable record of Thomas Dewey, and
If he were able to do one-half as we'll in
the White House as he has done in the
court houses we would be in good hands.
But what of the other candidates? We
know very little of them. The news
papers could be of great assistance to
the voters in helping us to choose the
right man by publishing complete and
unbiased record of each candidate.
MRS. M. S. SNOW,
February 2. Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1940-02-09

Birds Jared unusually well In the book
world during the year recently ended.
The Library Committee Of the Audu-
bon Society Of the District Of Columbia
has chosen the following list Of volumes:
'"The Golden Plover and Other Birds, ,"
by Arthur Augustus Allen; "Conserva-
ton Guide" of the Garden Club Of
America; Among the Birds in the
Grand Canyon Country" by Florence
Merriam Bailey.
"Koonwarra," by Charles Barrett
dealing with Australian birds); Life
Histories Of North American Wood
peckers," by Arthur Cleveland Bent;
'Thoreau," by Henry Seidel Candy.
Handbook Of Nature Study" by Anna
Botsford Comstock; Food Habits Of
North American Diving Birds" by'Clar-
ence Cottam; Hawks in the Hand: Ad-
ventures in Falconry and Photography"
by Frank and John Craighead.
wild Country: A Highland Ma
turalists Notes and Pictures" by Frank
Fraser Darling; "Feathered Folk of an
Estuary" by G. B. Farrow; Studies Of
the Eastern Ruffled Grouse in Michigan" !"
by L. w. Fisher.
Natural History of the Birds of Gen.
trail and Eastern North America" by
Edward Howe Forbush and John Richard
May.
Birds of Oregon" by Ira N. Gabriel
son and Stanley G. Jewett; "Conserva-
ton in the United States" by Axel
Ferdinand Gustafson; Tracks in the
Snow" by David Haig Thomas.
"The Geese Fly High" by Florence
Page Jacques; "The Migration Of Ameri-
can Birds" by Frederic Charles Lincoln;
Il know an Island" by Donald Matthias
Lockley; Food of Game Ducks in the
United States and Canada" by A. G..
Martin and Francis Morley Uhler;
"Wildlife of the Atlantic Coast Salt
Marshes" by Waldo Lee McAtee.
wyoming Bird Life" by Otto Nc
Creary; Birds in the Garden and How
to Attract Them" by Margaret Nc
Kenny; Field Book of Animals in
Winter" by Ann H. Morgan; 1.-The Book
OF the Pigeon" by Carl Albert Naether;
1.-THE Watcher at the Nest" by Margaret
Morse Nice; "A Gathering OF Birds" by
Donald Culross Peattie.
X X \
"A Field Guide to the Birds" by Roger
Tory Peterson; THE Junior Book OF
Birds" Peterson; Laboratory and Field
Manual of Ornithology," by Olin Sewall
Pettingill; Birds" by Gayle Pickwell.
THE Bird, the Gun and the Dog" by
Ledyard Sand; Canadian Land Birds"
by Percy Algernon Taverner; Feathers
and Fur on the Turnpike" by James
Raymond Simmons; Animal and Bird
Painting" by Charles Walter Simpson.
"Bicknell's Thrush" by George J. WAL
lace; "Manka, the Sky Gipsy." by D.
J. Watkins Pitchford; THE Nature
Evening star., 1940-02-09
Milk Price Cut

Certain outmoded aspects of milk
merchandising in the Capital may be
on their way out. if the decision Of
some Washington dairies to put the
price of milk sold in stores below the
home-delivered price has real signifi-
canoe. Perhaps the next step will be
the establishment of a bottle deposit,
with a further reduction in the retail
price. These two features of milk
marketing are old stories In many
cities.
Washington milk consumers can
feel grateful to the dairies for the
milk cost reduction, even while they