Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TFRIDAY, JANUARY 15 16 Mertz’ Greatest -~ @ January Sale Custom Tailored Suit—Topcoat Overcoat Medium and heavy fabrics . also lightweight Spring 100% fabrics; all wool. Values to $29.50 Hand $1 7 50 tailored to order. Pick from a wide range of guaranteed 100% all-wool fabrics—then get perfection in fit—honesty in tailoring— with every detail the same as our regular prices. Mertz & Mertz 405 11th St. guaranteed H. J. Froehlich Manager ~ | fight against slowly rising backwaters, Hello. FOH(SI Here's the news that's keeping us on our toes —at all 3 stores—at all hours of the day. HUNDREDS OF $25—$30—8$35 NEW SUITS and O'COATS 75 Open a Budget Account Pay only $4.75 cash, balance $1.50 a week, or $3 twice a month. Home of Smith Smart Shoes | oriey’s Worth or Msaey Back DJ.Kaufman~ 1008 PENNAAVE (744 PENNA. AVE. BOUTHEAST CORNER _I4TH & EYE RELIEF 15 RUSHED - AS LEVEES BREAK All Conveyances Mustered to Save Hundreds in Mis- sissippi. B the Associated Press GLENDORA, Miss., January 15— Relief workers today commandeered all available conveyances to remove hun- dreds of residents from the Tippo Basin of Tallahatchie County, swept last night by a wall of water that broke through the main eastside levee system of the swollen Tallahatchie River. Water reaching a depth of eight feet in places poured through the crevasse into the already flooded basin, forcing & hasty retreat of families that had re- mained in the area in hope the levee would bold after a four-week fight against the stream’s steady rise. 5000 May Be Moved. W. R. Gray, levee commissioner in the district, said possibly 5,000 persons would have to be removed. | * The break occurred across the swollen | river from Glendora, which has been | waging a struggle to keep its levee in- tact and save the town from complete inundation. With the situation some- what relieved by the opening on the opposite_bank, boatmen brought many of the Tippo refugees here. Glendora is still menaced and partly under water. A slight break in the levee last night sent additional water into the business section. More than 50 inland Mississippi villages and towns are continuing the streams abnormally swollen by weeks of heavy rains.i Higher Water Expected. Forecasts from the upper watersheds have indicated even higher stages may be expected on the swollen streams. A similar, but less critical, flood sit- uation in North Louisiana appeared un- changed early today. High waters in Tennessee had fnun- dated 50,000 acres today in eight west- ern counties, Pairols carrying shotguns guarded levees last night to_ prevent recurrence of dynamite blasts that burst dykes and sent great volumes of flood water over a farflung area in the Tallahatchie | River Valley early yesterday. Two levees, both hard pressed in | holding surging rivers within _their channels, were blasted about midnight | by groups of unidentified men, whose purpose, apparently, was to divert the overflow from their own lands. Blasters Driven Away. In cne instance, six of the blasters were surprised by guards soon after | they had fired one stick of dynamite. The guards shot at them and they fled, leaving 12 sticks of dynamite that | failed to explode. That blast tore a gapping crevasse in the Magruder levee near Glendora and | water pouring through it has flooded farm land between this town and Swan Lake. Laborers were working today to close the breach. A 50-foot_hole was blown in another dyke near Eden, 11 miles from Yazoo City. Eight thousand acres of fertile plantations were inundated and a shal- low flow of water crept through several streets in Eden. The damage to prop- erty was small and therc was no loss of livestock. | - ARGk . |CRIPPLED CHILDREN | PRESENT “SAFETY FIRST” | Weightman Parent-Teacher Meet- | ing Entertained by Youngsters in Varied Program. Pupils at Weightman School for Crip- | | pled Children, under direction of the | principal, Mrs. Beulah Drake, presented a play, “Safety First,” last night at a| meeting of the Weightman Parent- | Teacher Association. Those who took | part included Gertrude Kern, Jerry Coi- lins Leo Swann, Joseph Whittington, | Julia Phillips, Burnette Harting and | Milton Kirk, and these were jolned in a { following_the playlet, by Jane Davis, Hazen Hussong and Elizabeth i | Bell. " Jerry_Collins_offered a_ vocal Solo, using Cohan's Bicentennial song, | “The Father of the Land We Love.” | Edwin F. Hill, vice president of the Washington Kiwanis Club, which was instrumental in the passage of legisla- tion which_established the School for Crippled Children, spoke at the meet- ing, telling of the club's interest in the school and its part in its establishment Mrs. Joseph Saunders, State president of the District Congress of Parents and Teachers, also spoke. Colombia has removed import duties on articles for church use. song. Answers Call of Drums AUTHOR REVEALS INDIA OF TODAY. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. | IFTEEN years ago, the distant | drums of a marriage feast. heard in the hills of India, beat a| fascinating tattoo in the head of a titian-haired little Amer- | jcan girl traveling through the Orient her parents. w“:s ve “vears passed, the girl mar- ried and lived in London with her American engineer husband, but despite | the barriers of years and miles, she could not silence the sound of those drums, which seemed to thrum a mer- ciless summons, “Come back to India.” Today the drums reverberate in one | of the most revealing, challenging and | outspoken analyses of India and India’s | “big, little man.” Mahatma Gandi, that | has yet come from the pen of an In- dian student, written by the little Amer- fcan girl traveling in India 15 years ago, | now Mrs, Patricia Kendall of Virginia and New York. | Gandhi Held Insincere. | In Washington, arranging for a Vvisit to London, to negotiate with publishers for the English publication of her book, | Mrs. Kendall was frank and outspoken | in her summary of the Indian National- | ist leader as “the shrewdest politician { in the world today,” interested purely in personal glory and recognition and insincere in his avowed concern for the peoples of India ‘ “Since the time when, as a girl of 15, T first visited India” explained the authoress, “I have been interested in India and her history. I have read and studied for vears every phase of Indian life and history. I have made several trips to the country, traveling from one end to the other for several months at | a time. I have mingled with the farm- ers and with the leaders,.and have watched the rise of Gandhi with ' inter- est, until now he has put India on the world’s front pages and has made the | world India-conscious.” Half of People Deny Him. “The remarkable thing” continued Mrs. Kendall, “is that more than half of his people emphatically deny him. More than three-quarters of them know nothing of him except that he esting. $45 and $39 Suits . . $60, $55 and $50 $75 and $65 Suits . ... .. $35 and $33.75 Suits . ... Extra Trousers....... sizes. MRS. PATRICIA KENDALL. promises them exemption from ta and equality with the white T2 ces, leaders of the parties and factions with which Indian politics are fissured and split today await his guiding gen- eralship. “And do you realize that with all his preaching of ‘pay no taxes,” Gandhi has never yet offered an explanation as how the government can be run without them? He has never in any way offered a constructfve program to tie Indian people. In addition, he is contradictory. He preaches a ‘non- violence campaign,’ and vet in_address- ing the villagers of Aat, vehemenl inciting the people to break the salt which imposed a 7-cent tax on citizens of British India, he urged them to action far {rom non-violent, telling them to ‘resist the confiscatior of salt from your grips with all your | might till blood is spilt.’ " “Gandhi is a remarkable man,” ob- to speed up the Semi-Annual Clearance Sale. have ‘‘sales” just to have a sale. events—held for a serious purpose—in January and July— in which Mode merchandise is offered at sacrifices in price which make sure of quick results. We’ve just made another deep reduction which you’ll find intensely inter- Our Coats .. $70, $65 Coats .. $90, $85 Coats .. $39:1 34325 All Glenbrook Suits, Overcoats and Top Coats $45, $40 Coats .. Only 5201 Lot of Flannel and Linen Street Vests Models that are new; effects that are smart. $8, $9 and $10 values. ........... Evening Clothes either assortment. Handkerchiefs served the young, attractive woman, who, in seeking information for her writings, has courageously ventured into the highways and byways of In- dia’s plains and mountains, rubbing shoulders with seething millions of the country’s caste-ridden populace. “He is remarkable and he is shrewd,” she continued, “but he is intonsisten As & man, he is a picturesque charac- ter, a strict disciplinarian. His per- | sonal life is interesting—but hardly important. He has hypnotized the East with his Mahatma demeanor, and | he has magnetized the West with his | catch_phrases and his biblical quota- | tions.” | ““Mr. Gandhi” added Mrs. Kendall, “has neither constructive capacity nor prophetic vision. He has never offered a definite plan or program or constitution. | His tools are barter and compromise. | His weapons are a disarming smile, | other men’s creeds and the ability to | give the other fellow what he wants.” In collecting material for her book, | the young American authoress declarcs | that she found true many of the charges | | launched against Hindu customs of | child marriage, infanticide, phallic wor- | ship and other phases of the religion which have degenerated and held back vast numbers of India’s population, Enthusiastic Over Work. Young, pretty and refreshingly en- thusiastic over her work and her future ambitions, Mrs. Kendall hardly repre- sents the picture of an astute and pro- | found student of political economy and “ateruutional history, which has been revealed in her recent publication. The tragic and early death of her - | husband four years ago left her free to! Yet his jealous rivals and the vaiious | answer the call of the drums heard in | | the hills of India as a girl. Her_journeyings since that time have Che Collier Jnn Regular Dinners, 75¢ Special Club Steak axo Chicken Dinners, $1 CLUB LUNCHEONS | SERVED DAILY Sensational Cutting We don’t s are two fixed All Fashion Park Suits, Overcoats & Top Coats $55 and $50 .75 and $60 and $75 133 3431 3531 and $35 $ 265 are exempted in All : $1.95 | always been alone, and she tells you i that while she has traveled as much as |20 days and nights on Indian trains the country she has never known what it is to be afraid Despite her writings, frankly reveal- ing many unflattering truths of India and Indians, Mrs. Kendall declares that some day she will again answer the summons of the Indian drums. “Of course, 1 will return some day,” she replied. “I don't know when, but some day I will go back there.” RADIO LOTTERIES HIT Bill Introduced by Representative Davis Before Congress. A comprehensive radio bill which would ban radio discussion of lotteries was under consideration by Congress to- | day, following its introduction yester- day by Representative Ewin L. Davis, Democrat, of Tennessee. A secong bill will follow shortly, Rep- resentative Davis said, which will go deeply_into the field of radio advertis- ing. Its far-sweeping provisions will probably bring exhaustive' hearings be- | fore it reaches the floor of the House, he predicted. USED—NEW RADIO SALE! i Il 4 ID As Low as $19.50 : $1 Delivers! 95c A WEEK 1010 H Street N.E. Llncoln 8391 Open Nites throughout the depth and breadth of | SEES BUSINESS UPTURN A definite upturn In the business out- look for 1932 was pointed to by Vincent F. Callahan of the National Broadcast- ing Co., speaking before the Advertising Club of Washington at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday, when he cited an in- crease that will total between 40 and 50 per cent in the volume of radio ad- vertising booked for the coming year There has, however, been a shortening |in the announcement period by 25 per | cent and a vast increase 1n the number of 15-minute programs, he added. Wililam T. Plerson, program director of WMAL and vice president of the Ad- vertising Club, told of the work of the program director in securing the wide variety of talent demanded by present- day radio audiences. | Le Roy Mark, owner of Station WOL, discussed the work of the local station |and a brief talk on the Community Chest was made by Rev. John K. Cart- wright of St. Patrick’s Church. A . Kahn Jne. Arthur J. 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