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MUSSOLINIJEERS
Call for Self-Sufficiency
Jibes U. S. for Late Labor
Law Enactment.
BACKGROUND—
Economic rehabilitation of Italy
was Mussolini's first promise to the
nation, and he now claims his em
pire has 50 per cent of her require
ments in iron and a limitless sup
ply of manganese and bauxite.
Italy already has started exporting
aluminum and II Duce claims self
sufficiency in petroleum will be
attained by 1938. Conquest of
rXthiopia last year uas undertaken
to obtain raw materials, impartial
-<observers agree.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, May 15.—Italy will make
herself economically self-sufficient
even if she has to work "25 hours a
day," Premier Benito Mussolini pro
claimed today.
He called this program a guarantee
of peace and a surety of “the life,
the future and the power" of the
Italian people.
• The premier laid down his dictum
ijefore cheering members of the Cor
porative Guild, which includes rep
resentatives of all phases of Fascist
IJfe. at their annual meeting in the
Julius Caesar Hall of the old capitol
Rilldlng.
£ Apparent Reference to l'. S.
e*Il Duce's black-uniformed audience
•pplauded his Ironic references to
(ttnocracies, which, he declared,
wished Italy to abandon her self
iiifflciency program "for we know
0nt what.”
- He provoked a demonstration by
(h apparent reference to the United
states when he spoke of a country
which "prohibited collective labor
tjtmtracts until month ago."
•» (Presumably he referred to the up
holding of the Wagner labor relations
by the United States Supreme
Court. Mussolini has set up a “cor
porative" system under which strikes
Ee forbidden and arbitration of la
r disputes is compulsory.)
r Sees Peace Guarantee.
“ Standing in the shadow of the
Statue of Julius Caesar, II Duce de
clared:
” “Economic autarchy (self-suffi
ciency) Is a guarantee of peace which
we firmly desire. It is an impediment
to war. • * *
“For us it is impossible in a world
Crmed to the teeth to abandon such
0 policy.”
Although he asserted his economic
policy would not “diminish the volume
of world trade,” political sources said
they felt his speech indicated Italy
was not in a mood to make active con
tributions to solution of the world's
economic difficulties.
By contrast, Count Galeazzo Ciano,
Mussolini's foreign minister, told the
Chamber of Deputies Thursday that
Italy would co-operate in any effort
lor world economic betterment.
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
SPREAD IN POLAND
4 1 '
*
Bomb Wrecks Building in War
saw—Mob Beats Many, Smashes
250 Windows.
By tfif Associated Press.
WARSAW, May 15—The bomb
ing of a Jewish building In Warsaw?
and rioting against Jews in Grabow,
Lodz Province, today marked the
apread of anti-Semitic disorders in
Poland in spite of nation-wide police
precautions.
A bomb exploded at the entrance of
the Jewish community building in the
capital, damaging the building but
pausing no casualities.
A mob that collected in Grabow
after a Jewish shopkeeper had knifed
B Gentile competitor beat all Jews
It could And and smashed 250 windows
In Jewish homes. Frightened Jews
barred their houses until the riot sub
aided.
- Also in Brzesc—the wartime Brest
tiitovsk—some 30.000 Jews remained
hidden in their homes while a large
Cjnw’d followed the coffin of a po
liceman whose stabbing by a Jew
yesterday precipitated serious disor
ders.
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130.000,000 BRAZIL LOAN
; FOR COFFEE CONTROL
-
i»aper Issue to Department Avoids
* Necessity of Taxes Under
15-Year Plan.
&T the Associated Press.
I RIO DE JANEIRO. May 15 —The
fexilian government today loaned Its
partment of coffee 500,000 contos
pproximately $30,000,000) to help
qpntrol world coffee prices.
•< Fernando Costa, president of the
fjpffee department, said the loan would
not necessitate additional taxation,
Silt would be made in -paper money
ifcid backed by 15-year, 6 per cent
fcvemment bonds.
'4 It was estimated the loan will in
flate Brazil's currency by 12 per
bant. Total paper money circula
tion recently was estimated by offi
cials at 4,000,000 contos ($240,000,
tfl}0).
Costa’s statement said 30 per cent
of the output of each plantation must
be delivered to the coffee depart
ment for withdrawal from the mar
ket, and another 40 per cent must
be sold to the department at a price
of 65 milreis (about $3.90) per sack
of 132.2 pounds. The average mar
ket price Is 80 milreis. The remainder
of the crop may be sold by the
planters without goverment control,
though they must pay a government
tax of about $2.70 per sack.
FOUR DIE IN COLLISION
Two Others Hurt in Ohio Auto
Train Crash.
HAMILTON, Ohio, May 15 (JP).—
Mrs. Mary Belle Campbell, 54. and
three of her children were killed and
two other children critically injured
late today in an automobile-train col
lision at a crossing 12 miles northwest
of Hamilton.
The dead are Lena Campbell, 19,
driver of the Campbell automobile;
Paul Campbell, 13, and Martha Camp
bell. 16!
The injured were Martha’s twin,
Mary Campbell, and Vinie Campbell,
8. Physicians said both suffered skull
fractures and their condition was
critical.
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Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, May 16, 1937.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
NATIONAL.
Sxtension of “nuisance taxes” is be-'
lieved likely. Page A-l
C. I. O. gives steel firms 10 days to
sign. Page A-l
Flexible tariff studied as part of new
farm bill. Page A-l
Court bill foes aocept "no compro
mise” challenge. Page A-l
8upreme Court may give social secur
ity rulings tomorrow. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
D. C. tax study now veers toward
parking meter plan. Page A-8
Arlington services to feature Memorial
day program. PageA-29
New mammal house at Zoo is opened
to visitors. PageA-23
Board of Trade holds 43d shad bake
at Bay Rridge. Page B-l
Occupational education may be stud
ied here soon. Page B-l
Newman seen likely successor to Judge
Hitt. Page B-l
Welfare Board urges revision of D. C.
health laws. Page B-l
Senate contempt case goes to trial to
morrow. Page B-l
Senators plan auto Inspection bill
hearings soon. Page B-l
Montgomery County high schools to
award 406 diplomas. Page B-3
“Partner” detective system here now
in effect. Page B-4
SPORTS.
War Admiral wins Preakness by head
from Pompoon. Pa** A-l
War Admiral takes Preakness by head
from Pompoon. Page B-fi
Simmons' homer gives Nats 5-to-4
edge on Red Sox. Page B-6
Leaf Hanger takes tricolor in show at
Arlington Hall. Page B-7
Episcopal team retains title in "C”
Club track meet. Page B-8
Bureau of Lighthouse service is real
aid to navigators. Page B-9
Evening Star tennis tournament draws
heavy entry list. Page B-10
Snark takes Metropolitan Handicap in
stirring finish. Page 5-11
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Lost and found. Page A-3
Obituary. Page A-l*
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Civic news. Page D-4
Military and veterans'
news. Pages D-5-7
j Women s Clubs Page D-6
j Parent-teacher activities. Page D-6
I Cross-word puzzle. Page D-7
Resorts. Page D-8
Winning contract. Page D-9
Public Library. Page D-9
Stamps. Page D-l®
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-11
Well-known folk. PageE-6
Barbara Bell pattern. PageE-10
Shipping news. PageE-11
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News feature*. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-8
Radio programs. Page F-3
Amusements. Page F-5
Dick Mansfield. Page F-6
Automobiles. Page F-6
Children’s page. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
Trade irregular. Page G-l
Stocks quiet, mixed. Page G-l
Wheat and cotton gain. Page G-l
Stock table. Page G-2
Bond table. Page G-3
Curb table. PageG-4
Educational. Page G-5
Classified advertising. Pages G-5-17
Trafllc convictions. Page G-18
City news in brief. Page G-18
Vital statistics. Page G-18
Sendee orders. Page G-18
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HORSEBACK COURIERS
INVITE 13 GOVERNORS
Riders in Colonial Garb Bear In
vitations to Constitu
tion Fete.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. May 15.—Three
couriers in Colonial garb set out to
day on horseback to invite the Gov
ernors of the 13 original States to
the celebration September 17 of the
150th anniversary of the signing of
the Federal Constitution.
, The couriers bore invitations print
ed by Mayor S. Davis Wilson on Ben
jamin Franklin's original hand press
at the Franklin Institute.
The institute opened a display of
mementoes of the time of the sign
ing of the Constitution at the cere
monies at which the invitations were
printed.
Philip C. Staples, president of the
institute, said it had been founded
“to preserve the ideal and traditions
of one man who was instrumental In
framing of the Constitution.”
Philadelphia's four months’ fes
tival commemorating the framing and
adoption of the Constitution was
opened yesterday at Independence
Hall.
BREAD STRIKE ENDS
PENDING NEGOTIATIONS
Union Drivers in Pittsburgh to
Work While Talks Go For
ward on Wages.
Br the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. May 15. —Pitts
burgh's bread strike ended today.
Union drivers ior major baking
companies agreed to go back to work,
pending negotiations for higher wages.
About 450 wholesale drivers went on
strike Wednesday. Later 4,000 house
to-house drivers said they would join
the strike in 30 days.
But when picket lines were drawn
around the baking plants the home
delivery drivers refused to go through
them. Major companies stopped pro
duction and distribution of Pitts
burgh’s 1,500,000 loaves was held up.
TO MEET HERE
■ .
Astrologers Select Capital for
1938 Convention.
NEW YORK, May 15 (^Ph—The
American Association of Scientific As
trologers tonight selected Washington
as the convention city for 1938. Next
year’s meeting will be held in May.
Before adjourning the astrologers
ordered the collection and tabulation
of 1,000,000 horoscopes “for the pur
pose of obtaining research and scien
tific data" and designated Ernest A.
Grant of Washington to direct the
work.
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TRUCE REJECTED
BY FILM CRAFTS
Fundamental Demands on
Union Shop Not Guaran
teed by Producers.
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 15.—
The striking Federated Motion Picture
Crafts refused tonight oilers of a
truoe which would have returned them
to work next Monday.
Pat Casey, labor conciliator for the
producers, informed federation leaders
tonight “the producers have been and
are willing to negotiate the matter of
a union shop along with other de
mands."
But a reply made public by the Ex
ecutive Committee of the F. M. P. C.
following a mass meeting said:
“The strike committee, after full
consideration of your communication,
deeiree to Inform you that your letter
does not concede the fundamental de
mands of a written guarantee of 100
per cent union shop recognition for
all crafts now on strike.
Assurances Lacking.
“Your letter gives no assurance that
workers who left their Jobe during the
strike shall return to their jobs im
mediately in the same status as of
April 4.
“Upon compliance with these two
basic demands the strike can be ter
minated Immediately and negotiations
opened not later than May 24 for
settlement of wages, hours and con
ditions."
Casey said in nis letter that leaders
of the striking machinists and culinary
workers already had agreed to call
their unions back to work Monday on
the basis of verbal promises that union
shop would be negotiated, along with
other demands.
Statement by Schenck.
Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of the
Producers’ Committee, issued the fol
lowing statement:
"A proposed form of contract with
the Actors’ Guild, making effective
guild shop in the signatory motion
picture studios, was considered in its
final form by the producers at a
called meeting tonight.
“The position of the various studio
executives will be submitted to a com
mittee representing the Actors’ Guild
tomorrow in advance of a guild meet
ing tomorrow night.”
Individual Demands.
Bach of 10 striking unions affiliated
with the Federated Motion Picture
Crafts presented individual demands
to the producers last night. All of
them re-emphasized the F. M. P. C.
demand for a union shop, but for
the first time, definite wage and hour
schedules which each union wants
were Included. These schedules were
not made public.
Silk Wage Rise Asked.
PATERSON, N. J„ May 15 </P>.—
Carl Holderman. New Jersey director
ot the Textile Workers’ Organizing
Committee. C. I. O. affiliate, told
cheering silk workers today the union
had decided to revise upward the
minimum wage demand for workers
in local mills.
“The extent of organization
throughout the silk-producing field,
the speed with which T. W. O. C.
is growing in this field, as well as
other “warrants,” he said, “a change
in the national policy."
The new demands will be announced.
Holderman said, in a few days. The
original demands called for $15 a
week for weavers, $12 for winders, $18
for warpers, $18 for twisters, $22 for
loom fixers, a 40-hour week, time and
a half for overtime, a week's vacation
with pay and a general 15 per cent
Increase for those whose wages were
over the minimum.
St. Louis Hotels Tied Up.
ST. LOUIS, May 15 (/P).—Guests
lugged their own baggage, made- their
own beds and with apparent good na
ture put up with other limited services
today In eight leading St. Louis hotels
affected by a strike of union chamber
maids, bellhops, cooks and other
employes.
Hotel managers and their assistants
ran elevators and attempted to fill In
as best they could the gap left by the
walkout of an estimated 2,000 workers.
The president of a national hotel
company assisted In preparing and
serving breakfast m a hotel kitchen.
With their helpers on strike, head
chefs turned out whatever dishes their
larders made possible, but union
drivers, In sympathy with the hotel
workers, ceased delivery of all sup
plies, except milk.
Manager Gordon (Mickey) Coch
rane and members of his Detroit base
ball team were forced to make beds
and clean up their own,rooms at a
strike-bound hotel. They ate break
fast at nearby drug stores and ham
burger stands and then went to a
downtown restaurant for lunch before
this afternoon’s ball game.
CZECH NAZI PUTSCH
DOUBTED BY LEADERS
Strong Police System Can Keep
Rebellion Down, Praha
Hears.
By the Associated Press.
PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, May 15.—
Government leaders, confronted by
recurrent reports of an imminent Nazi
putsch, expressed confidence today the
strong Czech system of police and
constabulary could quell any threat
ened rising in Czechoslovakia's Ger
man-inhabited border atrip In which
3,000,000 Germans dwell.
Danger of a putsch, they asserted,
was more rumor than fact, but It
served to keep the government alert.
They refused to share the alarm
periodically expressed In other Eu
ropean capitals, where Czechoslovakia
Is referred to as the probable next
battle ground of the Europe-wide con
flict between left and right, which Is
tearing Spain apart.
Praha officials attributed most of
the alarmist putsch reports to German
efforts to create the impression abroad
that the German districts are close to
open revolt.
They believe there are enough So
cialists and Catholics among the Ger
mans In Czechoslovakia to break up
any subversive attempt that may be
made by the German majority group,
which has a “fuehrer" In Konrad
Henleln and Is organized on Nazi lines.
Chester Conklin's Wife Dies.
HOLLYWOOD, May 15 (*>).—Mar
herita Rouse Conklin, 45, who was
taken in a wheel chair to her wedding
with Comedian Chester Conklin three
years ago, died last night. She Injured
her spine when she fell on a stage
during a violin recital 30 yean ago.
I
Speed Work on Rushmore Memorial
The heads and shoulders of President Washington and President Jefferson, sculptured in
the solid granite of South Dakota’s Black Hills, receiving the finishing touches as workmen
begin work on the last figure, that of President Lincoln. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, re
cently announced that he expected to have the major work on the Mount Rushmore Memorial
completed by next year._ —Wide World Photo.
Girl Suffers Fractured Skull
Wlwn Horse Falls With Her
—— . .. 1
Margaret Sours, 29, of
Merrifleld in Critical
Condition.
Miss Margaret Lois Sours, 19, em
ploye in the office of a sales agency
here, was near death at Georgetown
Hospital early today with a fractured
skull and possible Internal injuries suf- j
fered yesterday afternoon when a rid- !
ing horse fell with her while crossing
K street in the 2800 block.
Miss Sours, daughter of Elmer H.
Sours, Merrifleld. Va., was on her way
to Rock Creek Park with a young es
cort when the accident occurred. The
injured girl was taken to the hospital
in a private automobile. Members of
the girl's family hurried to the hospi
tal from Merrifleld.
Miss Sours, a graduate of Central
High School last year, had been living
in Merrifleld and commuting to worx
here.
The girl suffered injuries to her
right leg in addition to her other hurts.
Hospital physicians described her con
dition as extremely critical.
MAY BE TOKIO MAYOR
Gen. Xazushige Ugaki Nominated
by City Council.
TOKIO, May 15 (>P).—Gen. Kazu
shige Ugaki. former minister of war
and governor-general of Korea, today
became the prospective next mayor
of Tokio. The general, who failed
recently in his attempt to form a
national cabinet, was nominated for
that poet by the Tokio City Assembly,
which gave him 13 votes to 3 for
Isoo Abe. leader of the Social Mass
party.
The nomination must be confirmed
by the home ministry. Ugaki would
succeed Torataro Ushizuka, in office
since 1933.
(Some of Japan's most distinguished
statesmen have served as Mayor of
the capital, a post which frequently
has been the stepping stone to high
national office.)
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Southern Singing
Feuds Attracting
66Fasola99 Hordes
By the Associated Pres*.
ATLANTA, May 15.—There’s a
“mighty bit of feudin’ ” going on in
the South today, but it's being shot
out with musical notes, not bullets.
The “fasola singers’’—thousands of
them—are practicing their “quavers"
and “semi-breves” for the Summer
singing conventions that will start
many persons of the rural South “go
ing to town” with their shape-note
song books.
Instrumental accompaniment is
banned at these singing bees.
“Fasola singing” (the name comes
from the first of three of the only four
notes named in their scale: Fa, sol,
la and me) came to the rural South
from early Itinerant singing masters.
Some of the native successors com
piled song books of favorite selections
and set forth their own “rudiments."
Their followers clashed over singing
methods and formed classes which to
day jealously cherish their own books.
Puzzling to readers of modern mu
sic are the shapes of the notes. In
stead of the common, rounded notes,
most “fasola” books use a diamond
shaped note to designate “me," a tri
angle for “fa,” round for “sol” and
square for ‘la.”
MARGARET LOIS SOURS. !
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LOST TIME SCHOOL
RIDE FATAL TO 5
Express Train, Late, Hits
Auto at Crossing on Way
to Extra Class.
By the Associated Press.
MILTON, Vt., May 15—A Wash
ing ton-Montreal express train and a
school-bound automobile collided at
an unprotected grade crossing here to
day, killing the driver of the car and
four school children who sacrificed
their Saturday holiday to make up
"lost time" at their books.
The dead:
John C. Vasseur. 37, driver of the
car; Rene Larochelle. 11. and her
brother. Howard, 13; Earl Murray, S,
and Earl Puller, 14. all of Milton.
They were the only occupants of the
automobile, which was reduced to Junk
and its parts strewn along the track.
Even as the crash occurred, brothers
and sisters of the Larochelle children,
watching from the windows of their
home a quarter of a mile away, saw
the big locomotive catch the auto
mobile on its front end and pitch it
forward in bits.
As the express ground to a stop, the
train crew picked up the bodies of
the Victims. Still alive, young Murray
was whisked to a hospital in Bur
lington, a dozen miles away, where
he died.
State officials and police opened an
immediate investigation. They re
ported a light rain falling might have
partly obscured vision at the crossing.
Engineer John W. Newton of the
Central Vermont Railway said he
sounded the train's whistle as it sped
toward the crossing.
Investigators said the train, an ex
press from Washington and New York
to Montreal, was running 45 minutes
late.
They concluded that Vasseur's
knowledge of the train schedules had
led him to believe the express had
passed and that the dark sky and
falling rain had contributed to the
accident.
New Mica Deposit* Fonnd.
Large deposits of mica and lime
stone have Just been discovered In
Travancore State in India.
Herring Forum Speaker
SENATOR TO DISCUSS WHAT TO DO ABOUT FARMER.
What should be done for the Amer
ican farmer will be the subject of an
address by Senator Clyde L. Herring,
Democrat, of Iowa in the National
Radio Forum tomorrow night at 8.3*
p.m , Eastern standard time. The
National Radio Forum is arranged
by The Washington Star and broad
cast over a coast-to-coast network
of the National Broadcasting Co. and
over WRC locally. '
A former Governor of Iowa, Sena
tor Herring's home is in Des Moines,
the heart of the corn belt. He served
two terms, 1933-1935 and 1935-1937,
as Governor.
He is familiar with the farmers'
problems and has definite views on
what should be done to keep agri
culture on an even keel in this
country.
After ranching several years in
Colorado, Senator Herring got some
first-hand information on farm life
when he moved in 1906 to Masse na,
Iowa, where be conducted his own
farm. • »
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SENATOR CLYDE L. HERRING.
IN BOM‘MET’
Weede and Thomas Receive
Ovations on Appearance
in “Pagliacci ”
NEW YORK. May 15 <&)■—Two
young Americana joined tonight in i
"stopping the show” at the staid old j
Metropolitan Opera House where they
made their debuts in “Pagliacci.”
Robert Weede of Baltimore, who'
already had gained a vast New York 1
audience as leading baritone at- the
Radio City Music Hall, caused a delay
of several minutes before the curtain
could be raised after his appearance as
Tonio, singing the prologue.
The applause stopped only when the
crowd, which filled the auditorium to
overflowing, realized that the program
note saying no encores were to be al- ,
lowed must be taken seriously.
A similarly noisy ovation was given
Thomas L. Thomas, Scranton. Pa.,
baritone, who sang the part of Silvio.
A delegation of some 1,400 of his
fellow townsmen, headed by Mayor
Stanley J. Davis, who chartered a
special train for the trip honoring
his debut at the Metropolitan, made
its presence evident at every oppor
tunity.
At the close of his love duet with
Nedda, sung by Ruby Mercer, a bit of
unscheduled comedy was introduced
into the tragic piece. A roar of ap
plause started as the lovers ended
their song and embraced. They at
1 tempted to hold the embrace until
there was quiet for them to continue
the normal course of their acting,
but finally were forced to separate in
obvious confusion, stand apart until
the applause subsided and then come
back together to complete the scene.
The entire performance, in keeping
with the policy of the Metropolitan's
popular-priced Spring season, was
given in lively style, with emphasis
! on the acting as well as the singing.
Miss Mercer, with her unstockinged
legs and enthusiasm for her seduc
! tive role, would have made diamond
tiara's tremble if there had been any
in the golden horseshoe tonight
(there were not).
Weede threw aside restraint in his
clowning as the treacherous Silvio.
He appeared for the second act
in a battered opera hat that might
have seen service in such a jazz
band as that in which Sydner Rayner,
who tonight took the tragic part of
Oanio, once played in New Orleans.
After the performance admirers of
the young singers swamped the back
stage area until Thomas was led
away to a hotel where a reception
In his honor had ben arranged by the
Scranton delegation.
More than 100 persons from Balti
more formed a delegation especially
honoring the first appearance of
Weede at the Metropolitan.
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SOVIET LAUNCHES PROBE
OF MINE LABOR UNREST
Investigation. Commission Sent to
Don Basin, Chief Pro
ducing ytrea.
By the A«soci»ted Press.
MOSCOW, May 15—State Prose
cutor Andrey Vishinsky sent a spe
cial investigating commission today
into the Don Basin, important Soviet
coal are*, where there has been a
recent shake-up of executives.
Press reports have disclosed wide
spread unrest in the Don Basin with
thousands of miners missing work
regularly or leaving in search of
other employment in protest against
working, living and wage conditions.
Don Basin production is from 15
to 20 per cent below its quota. The
deficiency is keenly felt because its
superior anthracite coal Is used in
Russia's key industries as well as
for export. It supplies 65 per cent
of all Russia’s coal.
The Teas (official) News Agency
announced it was authorised to deny
report* that A. P. Serebrovsky, vice
commissar of heavy industry in charge
of base metal production, has been
arrested. Serebrovsky, former head
of the gold trust, is reputed to be
one of the Soviet's finest mining en
gineers.
JAPAN PROBES THEFT
Polish Diplomatic Documents Re
ported Lost in Korea.
TOKIO, May 15 <#).—Japanese
police in Korea today were investi
gating reports of the disappearance
and possible theft of important
Polish diplomatic documents. Dis
patches from Seoul said a diplomat
attached to Poland's Ibnsulate general
in Shanghai lost the documents while
in a dining car on a train between
Seoul and Pusan, Southern Korea.
He was said to have been en route
to Tokio to confer with the Polish
Minister.
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W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
I and Things.
ENGLISH.
AFTER hearing Mr. Wilford Con
row. national secretary of the
American Artists’ Professional
League, describe some of the
traps and pitfalls one encounters by
speaking American-English in Eng
land, or Engliah-English in America,
we wonder how the ardent Anglophiles
who went over for the coronation ever
will get fed, housed, and maybe buy
a few native trinkets to bring home as
souvenirs.
In Rhode Island, U. S. A., for ex
ample, the word "flat” means a flat
iron, Mr. Conrow says. In New York
It means the cheapest kind of a walk
up apartment. In Kalamazoo it
means a flat tire. In London It
means swanky, expensive living quar
ters. Thus if one of our ambassadors
of curiosity now visiting the British
Isles should want to press a dress, rent
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a room in a tenement, or get a tire
fixed, there'd be no way out of it but
to lease a costly apartment first and
carry on from there.
The thing can get even more ex
pensive in Instances where nations are
involved. Mr. Con row tells about an
expert who went to England during
the war to study their excellent camou
flaging methods. Wired back that the
basis of English camouflage work was
"scrim.” The American Army prompt
ly ordered 40 carloads of scrim. It
arrived here in Washington. The
officer who received it called up Con
row and said "What are we supposed
to do with 40 carloads of lace cur
tains?”
Turned out '‘scrim” in English-Eng
lish is a sort of burlap. In American
English, it is lace.
Got a snipe? (American slang.)
* * * *
CONCISE.
Our Mr. Neuman Sudduth, who
is responsible for all the art work
that appears on The Star’s drama
pages, sometimes grows restive
when he can't find any one around
the office to tell him what pictures
are umnted for the next day. Oc
casionally there are days when the
entire drama department is scat
tered around town looking for cin
namon toast or something, and Mr.
Sudduth has to wait and wait.
No waster of words, he went into
the drammy office on one such day
this week, scribbled a little note
that covered the subject quite
thoroughly:
"Gentlemen,” he wrote, "art is
slow, etc.-”
* * * *
TECHNIQUE.
vyHAT makes pickpockets pick on
certain theaters in Washington
and leave others more or less alone?
Headquarters detectives think they
have the answer (they olten think ao).
It lies in the pitch of the floors, the
aisles. When a man walks down a
slope, say the sleuths, the motion
slacks the tension across his hip
pocket, his wallet therefore becomes
so much the easier to pluck.
Also, a point they forgot to mention,
he is usually concentrating so thor
oughly on trying not to fall down in
the dark that an expert could swipe
his hat. coat and gloves without the
victim realizing what had happened
until he stumbled into a seat.
* * * *
MONUMENT.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
ICKES. who is vigorously opposed
to the construction of the proposed
Bennings slaughter house, was hold
ing a press conference. It was the
day of the cornerstone laying at the
Langston housing project, not far
from the slaughter house site. A re
porter asked Secretary Ickes if he was
going to lay a cornerstone for the
abattoir.
“Yea,” Ickes said, “and I have a
name for the slaughter house, when
and if it is built. It will be known as
the Tydings-McCarran Memorial.”
Senator Tydlngs and McCarran are
among the legislators who have ap
peared to be in favor of the abattoir.
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TRAILED.
Larry Linthicwn, the church
newt editor of The Star, had a
visitor walk into his office the other
day with an item for the church
page and stand about talking it over
a few minutes The office door
opened and in walked a lady,
whereupon the visitor began to
blush, stammer, hem and haw,
finally ducked out the door.
The lady said to Mr. Linlhicum:
"Who is that man?” She was told.
"Well, he followed me down
Eleventh street as I was coming
here and tried to flirt with me. He
kept passing me, stopping at show
windows while I went by, passing
again, and all that, and once he
almost spoke. It certainly never
occurred to me he was on his way
to this office.”
"I don't think he believed you
were coming here, either,” said Mr.
Linthicum sagely, deciding that
he'd probably better put their re
spective contributions on opposite
sides of the page.
* * * *
TRAPPED.
Vl/E'VK heard many a atory about
™ visitor* to Washington who be
come lost In Government buildings
and had to be rescued by Indian
Scouts or St. Bernard dogs or some
body, but never before have we en
countered a tale of an architect who
designed a building and then couldn’t
find his way around it.
Our hot tipsters, who hang around
the grapevine all day waiting for
some Inside news or a couple of grapes
to show up, tell us, however, that
Waddy B. Wood, the Washington
architect, who Is doing the new Inte
rior Department structure at Eight
eenth and C streets, was seen wander
ing around the place the other day
on a futile search lor the seventh
wtag, which houses the Branch eC
CATHOLICS FUR
Closing of Seminary on Im
morality Charge Stirs
Church Circles.
BACKGROUND—
Catholics in Germany, while
escaping heretofore the wrath
Hitler vented on Jews, have felt
his mailed first. Monks and nuns
have been in his toils for alleged
violation of a currency export ban.
Recently, official encouragement
has been given a so-called "Ger
man Catholic” (away from Rome)
movement, and has been viewed as
an attempt to drive Catholics into
some form of state church.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 15.—The closing of
a Catholic boys' seminary in Heiligen
stadt by Naai state police was inter
preted in some quarters today as the
opening of a police campaign against
Catholic educational institution*
throughout Germany.
Catholic circles were particularly
aroused because the Gestapo action
coincided with nation-wide publicity
given trials of priests and lay brothers
on charges of immorality And because
of official recognition of Gen. Erich
Ludendorff's pagan "German god"
movement.
No Arrests Revealed.
The Heiligenstadt Seminary, where
secondary school youths prepared for
later priesthood training, was shut
today because, the police said, of
“wretched moral conditions prevailing
among youthful inmates."
Whether any of the students or '
priests had been arrested was not
known. The official German news
agency, however, reported many of
the boys and faculty members were
being interrogated.
More than J 000 lay brothers and
‘‘numerous’’ priests are on trial or
awaiting trial on charges of improper
conduct, official German figures dis
closed. There have been S3 reeerv
convictions.
Catholic Attorneys Protest.
Catholic attorneys have stated tha
information for the Nazi "immorality"
prosecutions was ta“en from Catholic
archives seized by police during ear
lier trials of monks and nuns accused
of violating money transfer restric- •
tions.
These records, they said, show tha?
many of the “immorality” defendants
already have been punished by the
church Itself.
Recognition of Gen. Ludendorfls
movement, while It was not taken to
indicate that the government is going
definitely neo-pagan, was regarded as
an effort to win the general over to
active support of the government.
EARHART TAKE-OFF
SATURDAY FORECAST
St. Louis Air Show Director De
ports Information From Avia
trix's Adviser.
B> the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, May 15.—James Ewin-,
Rowan, managing director of the St
Louts Air Show, said today he had
been informed Misa Amelia Earhart
would take oil from the West Coast
next Saturday, if weather conditions
were favorable, on a second attempt
to fly around the world.
Rowan said his information came
from Paul Mantz. Mias Earhart'* tech
nical adviser at Burbank, Calif., with
whom he spoke over long-distance tel
ephone.
Mantz was a member of the crew
of her "flying laboratory” when Mi's
Earhart flew to Hawaii on the first
leg of her projected globe-girdling trip
a few weeks ago. He was not aboard,
however, when the plane craahed on
an attempted take-off there for the
second leg of the flight.
He telephoned Rowan to aay he
would not accompany Mias Earhart,
but would compete in the international
aerobaitc contest to be held here In
connection with the air show. May
29-31.
ICE JAMS CONTINUE
FAIRBANKS FLOOD
Half of Residences Abandoned,
but Outside Aid Not Imme
diate Need.
By the Associated Frees.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, May 15 —
Three-fourths of this Interior Alaska
town remained under water today as
ice jams continued to dam the floor'
ing Tanana and Chena Rivers.
Mayor E. B. Collins said the city
was in no immediate need of outside
assistance, but hoped the flood would
arouse action on the long-sought Fed
eral flood control project.
Although the temperature dropped
to 26 above sero last night, the streams
continued to rise slowly from meltinc
snows. The lower valley was virtuailv
bare of snow, but the mountains end
the upper Tanana Valley were sendinv
their run-off into the ice-blocked
streams.
An aerial survey by City Council
man Irving Reed and Supt. Nash of
the Alaska Road Commission Indicated
ice was clearing rapidly from the
Chena here and Its neighboring Yukon
tributary, the Tanana, but that flood
ed Fairbanks was not yet out of dan
ger.
The flooded sections of the city were
under water a few Inches to several
feet deep. About half the residences
were abandoned and the homeless
householders sleeping In public build
ings and hotels. The water had re
ceded from Its record crest, set yes
terday.
Doffers Continue Strike.
RETDevriXE. N. C , May 18 OP —
A strike of doffers in the spinning
room of the Edna Mills continued to
day when another conference of strike
leaders and officials ended with lit
tle progress toward a settlement. The
doffers walked out when they became
dissatisfied with their wage and hour
schedule.
Plans and Design of the National
Park Service.
Trick is that Wing No. 7 runs only
on the second floor (we don’t know
HOW that can be), a feature that
baffled Mr. Wood. Tired of looking
for the key to his own Invention. h«
Is said to have abandoned the search,
telephoned the offlne and completed
his business over the win.
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