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Berlin German La MOnt). The
American parent company retained
ownership of 81 per cent of its
German affiliate, but as later de-
veloped, 1t was the affiliate which
exploited the La Mont patents.
Since that date German La
Mont extended patent rights to an
English holding company-La Mont
Steam Generators, Itd-and also
to a French patent-holding firm.
Through these companies, all Ger
man controlled, the basic La Mont
unit was made available to coun-
tries throughout Europe and to
Japan. Everywhere but in the
United States the La Mont system
was a tremendous success.
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The Capital Parade
Murphy Takes Bench Amid Hoze Of Speculation
Over His Conditions Are Awful Comment


clustered of the Supreme Court Of the United States
Murphy mental remains behind plague puzzle
person Capital
oentatous py Murphy Attorney
figure There can be no doubt
much
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Washington Observations
Dewey's orotorieoI soIvo on Foreign Policy
Has Much Smoke, but No Metal

about Western Hemisphere solidar-
ity, especially relations with Latin
America and Canada? On all these
counts Dewey to date is an enigma
plus.
Perhaps he has only meant at this
stage to touch lightly on foreign
policy. He may plan to elaborate
his views later. For the moment
it looks as If they might be inspired
by two distinguished members of his
confidential board of advisers, Col.
Teddy Roosevelt and Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms, both of
whom rate as incorrigible isolation
lists. Here's hoping I'm wrong about
that.
Boy Lobbyist and Borah.
Some IA years ago Senator
Borah's abiding good neighbor at
titude toward the Nations Capital
was exemplif1ed while appropri-
atoms for the District Public Lii
brary were pending in Congress.
One day Borah found out that
lobbyists sprout at tender age in
Washington. He heard from 10
year-old Joshua Evans, Sd, son Of
Joshua Evans, jr. Capital banker
and of Jessie FAINT Evans, a mem
Der of The Star editorial staff.
Young Josh" apprised the Idahoan
of his interest in $2700 appropri-
alton for the children'S division of
the Mount Pleasant Branch Library.
The Budget Bureau had approved
the item, but Watch Dog" Martin
Madden. chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, opposed
1t. AS a result of Borahs interview
ton. undertaken at young Evans
instigation, Senate rider to the
appropriation bill was attached
while the latter was before the
Chamber. 1t thus made appropri-
alton history. but the Senator
phoned Young Josh" that the up
per branch having done its part,
Josh would himself have to look
after the House conferees. The
appropriation eventually was au-
thorized. Evans, an adolescent in
fantile paralysis victim was cured at
Warm Springs. only later to be
fatally injured in a motor accident.
War Keeping Yanks at Home.
Neutrality is not only keeping us
out of war, but keeping Americans
at home on scale unwitnessed for
20 years. AS result of the "im-
perative necessity" rule now rigidly
enforced at the State Department,
only 1880 passports for foreign
travel were issued or renewals grant
ed in 1899. This is the lowest total
since 1919, when the number was
1882. After that passport issuances
averaged annually well over $4,000;
the peak was 203,174 in 1880. The
1889 slump began with outbreak of
war. During September, October,
November and December, the
monthly average fell to 1000.
r
soliciting" in the d. Of J.
Attorney General Bob jackson,
addressing the Federal Bar Associa-
ton the other night, fresh from his
new oath of office. sprang a couple
of good yarns. He said a Kansas
high school girl recently wrote him
while he was still Solicitor GeneraD
that her class was making a study
of the Department of Justice and
would like to have "all available free
| material on soliciting in the Depart
ment of Justice" The A. G. ex-
planned that any humiliation from
this incident was overcome a little
later when another girl wrote home
about her visit to Washington and
referred to Jackson as "the Celestial
General"
X X X
Trade Agreements Defense.
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HE opinions OF the rstsrs this page on
necessary RE- stars Such opinions are presented IN re
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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81 ,O0O, 900 for Tests

pense, Secretary Hull's December
speech before the American Farm
Bureau Federation at Chicago in
defense of the trade agreement pro-
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action himself
political his that the nvesti
had produced Federal But doubt remains
which will not be removed from the minds OF friends Bob
Jackson takes the position as his predecessor.
dilemma would
McNut He them
President they might home
Release bythe orth Am
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gram. Lucas calls it "a masterpiece
of logic, clarity and sound reason
ing upon current economic world
prohlemS."
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ByVote on
Dies Probe
BASIL Ballot
Rebukes Foes in
Left Wing
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

There is more than ordinary sig
nificance in the overwhelming vote
by which the House of Representa-
tives decided to continue the COM
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Third-Ternn
Riddle Alone
Intrigues
6. o. P. Big Three
Lack Issue to
Coptivote Voters
BY CHARLES G. ROSS.

Judging from the reports that
come to Washington on the state Of
the public mind, there is just one
political question which is agitating
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white hope chose ''e"'''' '"""" '''
America in a Troubled World as
the title for his maiden utterance
on foreign policy. Addressing the
Womens National Republican Clubs
in New York City, Dewey proved to
be vague, platitudinous and indef1-
mite. His discourse was as nehulous
in what it said as in what it omitted.
After you heard it by radio or read
it in the papers you were like the
Ir;shman in the story. who confessed
"he was just where he was before,
only more So
Definite Only About Soviet.
Only concerning Soviet Russia.
whose recognition by President
Roosevelt Mr.. Dewey considers "a
conspicuous and most unfortunate
departure" did the district attorney
approach the categorical AS to the
rest of the vast range of foreign af-
fairs. in which America today has
so vital an interest, he was mum as
any oyster, except for some glitter
ing, outworn generalities. He would
have the United States search for
the moment when we might, with
out ENHANCEMENT. use our good Of
fees to effect genuine peace" But
he parts with no foggiest inkling as
to what those good Offices" should
be or of his concept of "a genuine
peace" He hardly INDUCES in
novelty in identifying himself with
the moth-eaten view that I'VE shall
send no American to die on the bat
tlef1elds of Europe On the ques-
ton of how to play our part in SAL
vaging distracted civilization. with
out recourse to war, young Tom Is
a Sphinx.
X \ X \
Is Dewey Isolationist":
About the closest the brilliant
Manhattan racket buster comes to
showing his international colors is
a yelled hint that he's an isolation
list. Dewey says he learned to re-
spect in his youth in the Michigan
COuIlGiy IlldC SOOu hulCIlCdll 1ldtiSC,
the porcupine, who goes along trav-
cling a straight path and minding
his own business, never picking a
fight. but leaving nobody IN any
doubt of his ability to take care
of himself if somebody else starts
one" Does Dewey consider an
ostrich attitude toward possible tri-
umph of the totalitarian powers in
the European war intelligent mind
ing of our own business? Does he
not look upon perpetuation Of eco
nomic peace through reciprocal
trade agreements "minding our own
business? Does the young Lochin-
var from out of the Wolverine West
not believe that the maintenance
of national defense on what George
Washington called "a respectable
posture" is one of the cardinal ways
of "minding our own business
What does the Attorney for the
People" think of the problems con-
fronting Uncle Sam in the Far
! East? What are his ideas, If any
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dents mind changed Murphy named to the court Being
named he entered serious phase of agitation
He began tell his friends that he would delay taking his
seat the bench conditions
sadly declared Jersey City, Chicago other
gentle art municipal corruption He had
Jimmy Cromwell Hague,
legation thus greatly assisting the political
wish the
scorpions Federal indictment
staying the Justice Department
duly meed This left the Muphys
secve Attorney Generaelect
could not be trusted to do his job properly.
Mental Agility
The circle Murphy fairly large Inevitably
Murphy talk found its
Muphys public
wait awhile before taking his judicial
distinctly
brought about still third alteration the
After reading
told Jackson that he greatly
statements He had
evidence justify Federal indictments
else Conditions might be awful indeed thought
Vestlgatlon had disclosed ofenses Federal
To all this Jackson simply replied that
he like Murphy make
Justice Department. of he considered aonable
earnestly repeated that he knew
conference made this denial public simultaneously damp been
put Mphys plan to delay assuming the judicial
big damper The President
the bench Immediately
the White House Murphy publicly
easily he had denied
impressions of his private talk
Present for Mrkuff
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few hours the President let MURPHY
know he would be Buffers successor.
With the rich gates of his new legal
cloister gaping suddenly before him,
the poor man seems to have been
quite distracted.
First he intimated to all and
suhdry that he felt unworthy of
the court place, did not want it and
was pressing the President to change
his mind. AS the pressure was ex-
tremely gentle, however. the Presi-
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position, He has behaved With good
sense, maintaining a somewhat grim
but discreet silence even to his
closest friends.
Yet Murphy's talk. even though
now denied. still leaves pending the
question of the awful conditions
in Jersey City. Chicago and else
where. Unfortunately, the Demo-
cratic organizations in these cities
have already pledged their delegates
to the third term. Murphy started
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-24
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1t was stated in this place on Mo-
vember that when Thomas e.
Dewey began taking the country into
his confidence, he would disclose
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Other Novies Act
BY 1888 tests of the L


nneny satisfactory and the Nazi
install in all ships Both the British and French Nav
1885 100 of the units had been installed the German
Nyes EVERYBODY it seemed was interested in the boiler
Everybody but the United States Navy for 1888 Comd La Mont
his invention the Naval Boiler Laboratory
understanding Robinson
the ne m gaS ing r no0nn onn n was hor
had been available commercially for nine years. and belief that
replaced
Admiral Harold but restored to the post by Secretary
Favor La Mont Boiler
successful that Navy engineers OF La
performance tests But again Navy bureaucracy
said no"
Although passed
ehncans had able devise Secretary Edison in
policy Navy Department
defense involved
Navy evolved entirely and
ecien unit superior the La Mont boilers being used Europe
proposition the Navy this
II will build destroyer boiler so cent of the weight of
to me Whatsoever unless my boiler passes all Navy
Instead Navy right ahead installing boilers produced by
old Babcock & Wilcox of New York Babcok Wilcox
reputable supplying Ameri-
can naval boilers for more than 80 years.
81 ,ooo, 900 for Tests
Navy expenditure 100000
type, to
Wilcox design these boilers tried the German
Navy early be discarded replaced with La Mont
uni Either obviou with this fact the Navy
men the utmost variety being conducted
stroyers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
reported Navy considering purchase Of La Mont Gold
tp boerusng patents design ideas
basis the
This President Secretary of the Navy Edison
their modernize United Navy
bureaucracy.
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Present for McNutt

singular goings Clearly
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Senator Lucas, Democrat, of ILL
nois has had issued as public docu-
ment, but not at Government ex-
Evening star., 1940-05-31

Harry Woodburn at Solomons from
whom Hawk picked up a bit of fish
ing information, and he passed some
to us. We tried that method of
catching rock in which a live soft
crab is attached to a drift line, and
Capt. Hawk said that in all his 26
years of fishing throughout the
country he never had seen that be-
fore. He plans to try it in Florida,
where he believes it will be a great
success.
Cumming Popular in Florida.
Right now, he said, the Florida
anglers just are getting on to the
method of cumming for bluefish, a
system used in Chesapeake Bay as
far back as we can remember. Those
that knew the trick made a killing
this last winter, he said. In re-
turn for the crab trick. Capt. Hawks
suggests that anglers in this area
try using the so-called fish finder"
method of catching hardhead. That's
the thing surf fishermen around
here use for channel bass
The hook, instead of being
above the sinker, is placed at
the end of the line.
The line then is passed through a
swivel to which is attached the sink
er. Thus there is no sinker making
a direct drag on the line, and the
faintest nibble or touch on the bait
is felt. The angler gives a jerk and
1t means meat on the table. II
should work, especially this early in
the season, when some of the fish
still are bit doubtful of the bait
Capt. Hawk, incidentally, caught
himself about 20 hardhead using
light bass tackle and had the time
of his life. Many's the time in Flor.
ida, he said, when he didn't enjoy
catching sailflsh as mitch as he die
the hardhead at Solomons. Aftel
the trip, Capt. Hawk amazed 8
gathering OF captains with display
of casting. Business around the
Woodburn dock stopped for IS min.
utes, while Hawk showed the boys
how it's done in Florida.
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the bay proper, not up in the rivers
and coves, and it shows that with in
creasingly warm weather the fish
are moving outside.
Another spot which reports
its first hardhead of the sea-
son is Rock Point, Md, just
down the Potomac a bit.
The hotel there opened yester-
day, but beating that official OPEN
ing by few days were the croakers
which started this time last week.
This is spot. incidentally, where
rowboats may be had for fishing as
we'll as power boats.
Boat captains here and there are
trying to land their first rockfsh
of the season, and the edge goes to
Capt. Walter Chesaldine of River
Springs, another Potomac River
spot. Harry M. Jones of Leonard
town trolled with him Tuesday and
the pair landed seven stripers
weighing from 2 to 7 pounds.
Gets Paid for Fishing.
Here's ajob you might relish. Capt.
o. l.. Hawk, former Florida fishing
guide. makes a living by travelling
over the country Just fishing. He
is employed by a manufacturing
concern to demonstrate its anti
backlash casting and surf reels, and
Capt. Hawk does this best while
actually fishing. He also gives cast
ing exhibitions, such as that held
on Wednesday evening at the Lin
coin Memorial Pool.
No man, it seems. no matter
how vast his fishing expert
ence, ever learns all the tricks
of the sport, and Capt. Hawks
Is a case in point.
We took him fishing with Capt
Evening star., 1940-05-31
New Yacht Classes Make Debut Racine Season OPENS on Cesapea
Alexandra Dinghy Wins Rough
Race to Gunston Cove; Meet {
To Be Resumed Tomorrow 70,

across the finish to new honorSI
Fourth and fifth in the series were
Lynn Eldridge's Skeptic and Vice
Commodore George bankers Cats
Paw. -
Flighty First to Finish. M
Another dinghy covered itself with
glory in being the first boat to cross
the finish line. She was the Flighty-
sailed by 1t. Jim Alger, U. S. c. G.,
and Mrs. Alger. ~
With rain continuing through the
evening, a roast ashore at the
Pontoon School was shifted to
Capital Yacht Club here. The
regatta will conclude Sunday with q
return race upstream from Gunstno
Cove, also of II miles.
Paul Myers cruiser Argosy q
Capital Y. c. was Race COMMITTEES
boat.
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Canoe Sailors Staqe
Special Series Of
Three Contests
Race Tomorrow, Sunday
On Iz-MiIe Course
OFF GroveIIy Point

A special three-race series for
sailing canoes will be held tomorrow
and Sunday over a 1la-mile tri-
angular course off Gravelly Point.
The regatta is under auspices of
the Washington Sailing Club and
winds up its spring series of races
held off Georgetown.
Opening race is set for 2:30 pm.
tomorrow, while Sunday will see
events at 1890 am. and $3.50 pm.
Last years capsizings recalled, ar
rangements have been made for
partol by the harbor police and
local boats of yachtsmen. The Race
Committee will work from a speedy
outboard.
With the start just off the Vir-
ginia shore, spectators can view the
races from a sandy beach or from
the sea wall opposite the tourist
camp.
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Motorboat Owners
Presented Tips on
Preventing Fire
Three Factors Stressed
In Sofety Regulations
Given to Thousands

A continued safety drive among
owners of motorboats is being con-
Quoted by the National Board Of
Fire Underwriters and affiliated
groups. Thousands of copies Of
fundamental safety regulations are
being distributed to owners through
the mail, yacht clubs and other
media.
Three vital factors are stressed in
the handling of fuel and the opera
ton of power plants aboard motor
craft. These are, first, that not q
drop Of gasoline or any gasoline
vapor be allowed to get into the en-
CINE compartment; second, that no
spark or fame be allowed in the
engineroom that can be avoided !;
third, that all engine compartments
be so ventilated that all vapors or
gasses which may have gathered
there be quickly removed.
The board for years has recon-
mended efficient bilge ventilation
and backfire traps on all carburetors.
These requirements are now included
in the new motorboat law, enacted
this year. Among other safety fea-
lures, the board issues suggested
rules to be followed in fueling mo-
torboats. These call for all filling
pipes to gas tanks to be on the
outer deck, so that any overflow may
run overheard. All engines, motors
and fans should be shut down and
the fires put out. Doors, windows
and matches should be closed and
no smoking permitted while the fill
ing operation is going on. ,
Copies of these fundamental regu-
lations may be obtained from E. D.
Wright, room 1914, 80 West street,
New York City.
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CoNegians' Cupboard
Regatta June 1890
Al Seneca Lake

The 18th running OF the national
intercollegiate outboard champion
ships has been awarded to Geneva
N. Y, and will be held on Seneca
Lake the week end of June 1890,
Everett B. Morris, executive secre-
tary of the Eastern Intercollegiate
Outboard Association has an
nounced.
The titular regatta for college and
school drivers at Geneva will re-
place the New York State outboard
championships which for a number
OF years have been held at the up
state city in early July.
The 1910 college championships
will celebrate the 10th anniversary
OF the Eastern intercollegiate Out
board Association and will mark
the return of this fixture to an up
per New York lake.
The first titular event in 1890 was
held on Skaneateles Lake, and the
college drivers returned there for
the next two years.
In 1888 the races were staged at
Lake Hopatcong, N. j., and during
the following two years at Worcester
Mass.
In 1886 the title regatta was moved
to Richmond, Va; 1897, Saratoga
Lake; 1888, Otsego Lake, and 1889
Lake Montauk, Long Island.
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West River Shippers
Will Start Week|y
Races on June 9
Penguin Dinehies Listed
: For First Time; Smith
Elected Commodore

West River Sailing Club has de-
c1ded to open its summer season OF
weekly races on June 8.
They will continue each Sunday
with breaks only for regattas at
Gibson Island, Miles River and Ok
ford. On the racing card for the
first time will be the penguin
dinghies. Other classes are comets,
20-footers in two divisions, alba
trosses and 16-footers.
At meeting last Saturday the
club elected Carroll Smith, Gales
vile, Md, 20-foot skipper, as COM
modore; Dick Hartge, designer,
builder and sailor extraordinary, as
vice commodore; Jack thinner of
Washington, treasurer, and Eldridge
Zang, secretary.
Among Washingtonians voted to
membership in w. R. S. C.. were DR.
Harold S. Young, Lee Harrison and
Bill Hanson.
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Sea Scouts Are Shurino
In Busy Week End

A busy week end was in store for
Corinthian Yacht Club sea scouts
as they joined in Potomac River
Sailing Association activities in and
around Gunston Cove.
Nearly 20 of the seafaring lads
beat P. r. S. A. by a day in staging a
long distance of their own from
Washington, on past Gunston Cove
to OccoQuan Bay. The event began
Wednesday evening and lasted
through the night.
Today and tomorrow will be spent
in sailing back downstream as far
as Quantico. They hope to return to
the cove Sunday in time for the ira
ditional race back to Alexandria.
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Catch Of 86O-Pound
Broadbi|| Hangs Up
Angling Record

NEW YORK, May 31.-A worlds
rod-and-reel record for broadbill
swordfish has been established by
w. E. S. Tuker, off Tocopilla, Chile,
according to word received by the
American Museum of Natural His
tory from Michael Lerner, who now
is in South America making a two
month scientific study of the big
game fish off Peru and Chile.
Tuker's fish, which weighed $50
pounds. betters by 1S pounds the
previous record held by George
Carey. Tuker formerly had held
the record with an 837-pounder. All
three of these record fish were
caught off Tocopilla.
Tuker's latest record-breaker was
hooked in the eye, which apparently
paralyzed the fish, for it was landed
within Is minutes. Some sailfish
have been so hooked that they were
landed on the lightest of tackle in
three or four minutes.
Members of the Lerner expedition
have been catching giant squid, or
cuttlef1sh, some of which have
weighed as much as 100 pounds.
Lerner says these fish are particu-
larly vindictive when hooked. Not
only DO they object to being caught,
but they seemingly delight in
drenching their captors with their
lnk-llke fluid. The cuttlefish first
are attracted by the use of lights
and then caught on jigs bristling
with hooks. When lifted to the sur
face they promptly squirt ink into
the anglers faces.
But the members of the expedi-
ton, being scientists, speedily over
came the difficulties by wearing
grapefruit" masks, which protected
their heads and eyes from the at
| tackS
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'0utboard Week Set
By National Body
For June 8-16

The second annual observance of
"National Outboard Week" has been
scheduled for June to 16, James
w. Mulroy, secretary of the National
Outboard Association, has an
nounced.
Outboard clubs, dealers and manu-
facturers of outboard motors and
boats, will participate in the Ma
tion-wide campaign.
Lets Go Boating" will be the key
note of the drive to get more Amer
leans out on the waters
Posters, window streamers and
stickers for envelopes will emphasize
this point during National Outboard
Week, which, appropriately enough
winds up on Fathers Day, June 16