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BUSIESS LEARS BANK BL EVLS Recognizes Dangers of Po- litical Control of Credit Facilities. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. American business has begun to recognize the dangers of a central bank to the credit operations of in- dustry. Not only has the new president of the Chamber of Commerce, Harper Sibley, called upon Congress to reject | the pending bank bill, but business leaders generally are pointing to the proposed measure as likely to raise considerable doubts about the pur- poses of the National Government in seeking to control the use of deposi- tors’ money. Typical of these expressions is one by Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board of General Foods Corp., who says the banking bill concerns business even more than it does the bankers. He declares: | “The banking bill is not alone a political instrumentality affecting our bankers, but every individual and every corporation and every business, large and small. All depositors’ money will be politically controlled, meaning that the Government, if this bill be- comes law, can control all the de- posits in banks representing the thrift and savings of the American people. Political Money. “Government, through a central bank, can use these funds for any po- litical purpose. In other words, it be- | comes political money, controlled by | the politicians. 1 believe also that a politically controlled banking system means the end of our two-party system. “It is my judgment that the real | reason why the Government wishes to | exert an autocratic power over the Federal Reserve System is because the | Government is afraid it might find itself in a position of asking for further co-operation from our banks in the purchase of Government se- curities. The banks already hold about 50 per cent of Government ob- ligations. These bonds represent de- positors’ money and it may be that this responsibility should not be fur- ther extended by our banking group. ‘The creation of a central bank, there- What’s What Behind News In Capital Relief Crowd Floored by Decision to Push *“Quoddy”” Project. BY PAUL MALLON. HE crowd around the relief bar- rel here has been moping since the news got. out that the Pas- samaquoddy Tidal Power proj- ect was among the first on President Roosevelt’s new list. They cannot understand how it happened to get up there. It is hardly a secret that Mr. Roose- velt's own project purveyor, Harold Ickes, once turned the project down as uneconomic. When it was origi- nally suggested, the Ickes P. W. A. crowd declined to go into it on the ground that it would cost too much money in comparison with returns expected. Also, they contended that the project is so isolated that there is no mearby market for so much power. Furthermore, it violates some of the fundamental principles of re- lie projects laid down by the new Walker - Hopkins - Ickes control board. In that county of Maine, a late check-up indicates there are 1158 versons on relief, whereas the project anticipates employment of seven to eight thousand persons. Hence, it is not exactly located where the unem- ployed are. Similarly, it will require | 18 months to complete, which ignores the general rule about all relief jobs being completed within one year. Influences at Work. ‘What the mopers have apparentl: overlooked is the fact that Mr. Roose- velt’s old Summer home is also near the Bay of Fundy. In fact, his Cam- pobello tottage has long looked out over the Passamaquoddy Bay area, where the new dam will harness the ocean tides. (). wuool PEE./ I3 fore, 1s to dictate to our free institu- tions policies on which they should renll{ exercise an independent judg- | ment.” 1 Bankers Testify. Testimony by leading bankers has lready been given before the Senate Subcommittee on Banking. Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the Chase Na- tional Bank, expressed his opposition last week. Today James H. Perkins, chairman of the National City Bank, has come to testify in opposition to the famous title 2 of the bill, which contains drastic changes in our whole banking system, The principal criticism is that forced loans, such as started Germany’s cen- tral bank on the inflationary route in 1923 may be a part of the administra- tion policy. In other words, banks | feel that if the Government is to take full responsibility for the investment of depositors’ money, especially with Federal deficits growing larger each | year, the public should not be unaware of the meaning of the whole move- | MR Insiders say it was the President himself who overruled Mr. Ickes' old objections and ordered the project to proceed. Apparently the President takes a more forward looking attitude than his strict allotment chief. He has long been personally interested in the idea. While the dam is expected to generate an amount of power equal to all that Maine now consumes, it is quite likely that new industries will |come into the area when cheaper | electrical fuel is provided. Also some ecomomic objections have been evaded by changing off one-third of the proposed $30,000,- 000 cost to national defense and one-third to relief. Thus two- thirds of the cost will not be fig- urled into the rate base for power sales. Equally influential in the decision is | the ancient dream of men for event- { [ | | | | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935. British War Hero ARTS FEDERATION OPENSCONVENTION Encouraging Future for Ar- tistic Projects Reported by President. F. A. Whiting, president of the American Federation of Arts, opened the twenty-sixth annual convention of that organization this morning in the ball room of the Mayflower Hotel with more than 100 delegates from all parts of the country in attend- ance. In a review of the past year, Mr. ‘Whiting stated that much of great importance happened in the world of art and that signs show an en- couraging future. He cited, as out- standing facts, that “a new civic museum is nearing completion in Boise, Idaho; a half million dollar community arts center in Colorado Springs has been begun; the new art museum quarters in San Fran- cisco’s great War Memorial cpened, and that announcement is made that Mr. Rockefeller will give $2.500,000 for a new Cloisters branch museum in New York City.” These instances, Mr. Whiting said, “indicate that even in these times of slow recovery from depression, funds are still available for artistic enter- prises, provided they can be presented in so alluring a manner as to fire the imagination of those who still have funds for such purposes.” Government'’s Interest. In the establishment of the Na- tional Planning Board in Washington, | the president of the federation saw | an awakened governmental interest in the arts. He sald: “If this board can be continued and supported for a sufficient time, influencing decisions and plans for regional and local plan- ning boards and commissions, the effect on the future of America can be profound.” He asked the delegates to see that Congress is educated to the significance of the broad interest in park development, regional and national planning, controlled Govern- ment building, and wise selection of decorations for public buildings. Proposal of Congress to establish a department of science, art and litera- ture, with a secretary in the cabinet, met with adverse favor in the presi- | dent’s report at this time because, as Mr. Whiting stated, “in my opinion, the proposal is not widely conceived and should not be indorsed in its pres- ent form. I fear bureaucracy in the arts, especially if in the hands of the politicians.” Further legislation of interest to the Federation of Arts is a new copyright law covering protection for creative works of all kinds. A committee from the federation has been in consulta- tion with officials of the State Depart- ment, and members today expressed the hope that America would eventu- ally participate in the “Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.” It was pointed out at the morning Copyright, A. “LAWRENCE P. Wirephoto. OF ARABIA” On a motorcycle similar to the one on which he was fatally injured. S COL.T.E.LAWRENCE DIES OF INJURIES “Uncrowned King of Arabia” to Be Buried in Simple Ceremony Tomorrow. By the Associated Press ‘WOOL, Dorsetshire, England, May 20—Messages from many lands | poured into this rural community today expressing sorrow at the death | of the colorful “Lawrence of Arabia.” Despite his acclaim throughout the empire, the funeral of Col. Thomas |E. Lawrence, who emerged from hazardous war-time adventures, only to be fatally injured in a cycling accident, will be extremely simple, in session that 150 foundations are now keeping with his wish. operating in America, with a com- bined capital of nearly $1,000,000,000 and an annual expenditure of prob- ably $80,000. Music, it was said, is It will take place tomorrow in the village church at Moreton, near the cottage where Lawrence sought seclu- sion under his adopted name, T. E. the only art with a foundation. whose | Shaw. income is devoted entirely to its ad- | vancement, Radio Programs. Refused Decorations. So anxious was Lawrence in life to avoid all acclaim that he refused the cer and took instead the burnoose of the Arab. His first step was to gain the confidence of Emir Feisal, the Arab leader in the field, who had been plagued by military reverses. By a driving two-year campaign of flattery, bribery, intrigue and accom- plishing the *“impossible,” Lawrence led the Arabs to the gates af Damas- cus in the Summer of 1918, and then swept the Turks clear. Much of Arabia was his. In two years the re- | volt was accomplished. Participated in Conferences. | After the war he took part in the ! diplomatic conferences at London and | Paris. A fighter on the field, he be- | came disillusioned and bitter with | what he saw, and in 1919 went back to Oxford as a fellow. He stayed there until 1921, when he agreed to enter the colonial offices as an ad- | viser on Arab affairs. There he was largely instrumental in making Feisal King of Iraq. Still unconsoled over the diplomatic break- ing of his pledges to the Arabs, he | abruptly left official service in 1922 and hid himself as a common soldier in the Royal Air Force the following year under the name of “Shaw.” Plagued by publicity, he left the air corps for & brief time for service with the tanks corps, but returned in | 1925 to remain as “Aircraftsman Shaw” until his retirement in 1935. In the meantime he had spent four years on a translation of the “Odyssey” into English verse. TALK WITH VA SOUGHTBY HILER French Minister Is Cool to Overtures From Berlin, However. (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, May 20.—Pinched by | Prench encirclement. Reichsfuehrer Hitler again is seeking to ease the discomfort of Germany’s position through a frank talk with Plerre Laval, Prance's foreign minister. With all exits seemingly closed by France's diligent diplomatic ma- neuvering, it was disclosed today Der Fuehrer is hunting high and low for & way out of the dilemma with which his foreign policy is con- fronted. It is sald he would like to point the way to that as yet unseen door in his Reichstag speech to- morrow. With the assistance of Joseph Beck, Polish foreign minister, Hitler suc- ceeded in getting Laval into a two- and-a-half-hour conference at Kra- kow with his principal alde, Gen, Her- mann Wilhelm Goering, ministrer of aviation. But the Frenchman later slipped out of Poland through Germany with rather emphatic indications that he has no intention of returning to this side of the Rhine. “There is not much chance that Laval will give Hitler the satisfac- tion of an interview,” quarters close to the foreign minister said. “The conversation with Goering was instructive, but that’s aboit all.” Ever since Hitler came to power he has tried to entice Prench states- men to come to Berlin, but has met with the stock reply: *“Come to Geneva and talk with all of us there.” Laval, however, has believed for a long time in direct negotiations with Germany. Soon after he became foreign minister there were indica- tions he might see Hitler if it became Found Dead Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | | SHIRLEY EVANS. GIRL’S BODY FOUND UNDER TON OF DIRT NEAR APARTMENT (Continued From First Page.) of course without success. 1 worried throughout Sunday and today I went to the foundation contractor and asked him if his men had filled in the children’s cave. Body Is Uncovered. vanna, immediately put two men to “The contractor, Lawrence di Gio-| CITIES ASKING AID MAY FACE PROBES Work-Relief Agency Hints “Poverty” Pleas Will Be Investigated. By the Associated Press There were indications today that | Pederal investigators will check up on the resources of cities which say they are too poor to contribute any- thing toward the cost of work-re- | lief_projects. | The threat of such investigation, it was said reliably, is counted upon to discourage communities from taking false ‘“pauper’s oaths.” Leaders of President Rooseveit's $4,000,000,000 works program have announced that 100 per cent grants will be made to cities which have no funds available and have exhausted their borrowing power. Rush of Pleas Feared. Some officials expressed fear a few days ago that this policy would bring a rush of applications describing dire local conditions. The latest word is that Harry L Hopkins, the works progress admin- istrator, plans to handle this prob- |lem in a manner similar to that em- | ployed in the past in dealing with State governments. He has had studies made of wealth, public in- debtedness and tax rates in the States. This information has been used in working out amounts which the States nave been called upon to contribute. Hopkins has disclosed that iocal of- ficials will not be allowed to ad- minister work-relief money in cities digging. In 10 minutes, after these | two—Jimmy Gesuele and Nick Gio- | vanni—had turned about a ton of earth, the body was found. It lay pressed against the cement, hunched | over as if struck without warning” | The child’s mother, Mrs. Pauline | Bvans, was dressing when notified of the discovery. Her husband, Willlam politically possible. Saar Vote Changes Ideas. Informed quarters say this inclina- | tion has faded since the Saar plebis- | cite. Laval, they say, | Saar problem with Germany in the | hope that the Nazis would “settle | down™ after the territory’s return to | the Fatherland. Instead, it is said, the Saar victory was the signal for a whole series of ‘uulbursu distasteful to the French. | Whatever stand Hitler intends to | take in his Reichstag address, he is keeping his own counsel. | FRENCH INCREASE SEA FORCE. Move Naval Strength to North Sea, Says Report. | (Copyrisht. 1935. by the Assoctated Press.) PARIS, May 20.—France was re- liably reported today to be reinforcing 'her sea frontiers as well as her out- posts on land, and to be quietly mov- |ing her naval strength toward the | North Sea from the Mediterranean. ‘The move corresponds with France's action in transferring thousands of troops from the Italian frontier to her fortifications on the German border after the Reich announced her rearmament policy and Franco- | Italian friendship was sealed in the Rome accord. Within the past six months the navy's second squadron, which is re- sponsible for protection of the coast settled the | Evans, told her the news. She broke into frenzied weeping, and it required the efforts of her husband and her mother, Mrs. Mark Biery, Allentown, Pa., to care for her. “1 want to go out there.” she cried wildly. “I want to do something.” Comforted by the others, she re- gained her composure, but she re- peatedly broke into incoherent refer- ences to a colored watchma “If it was an accident.” she cried, “why did that man wave a brick at me?” Presses for Details. She pressed for details of the find- ing of the body, how deeply it was | buried and how it lay. | The father, composed, nevertheless betrayed incredulity at the news. “Is it true?” he asked of all who came to the three-room apartment. “Did you see her?” Shirley’s pet bulldog, which sprang to the door whenever it opened dur- | ing the two-day hunt for the child, moped about the house. The Evans family, far from wealthy, had doubted that their child had been seized for ransom. A strange man who had, a day before Shirley's dis- appearance, terrified her playmate, Elaine Halstead, was suspected of hav- ! ing attacked her. The Evanses re- mained optimistic, however, according to a neighbor, Mrs. W. C. Bickroy, who attended Mrs. Evans over Sunday. which do not bear a share ot the cost. Federal employes will be in | charge | A billion dollars worth of projects, |approved by the Works Allotment | Board. still waited today upon formal approval by President Roosevelt and determination of the wage rates to be paid relief workers. Wage Scales Studied. Officials said so-calied ‘“security” wage scales were submitted to the President by Hopkins for study over the week end. Previously, reports that Hopkins had considered rates 30 per cent less than wages prevailiag in private industry aroused a storm in Congress. Senator McCarran, Demo- crat, of Nevada threatened to make a speech denouncing such a schedule It was said that Mr. Roosevelt ‘mlzm announce approval of the in- itial batch of projects, and a deci- sion on the wage rates at one time The usual Monday meeting of the Works Allotment Board was called off. A meeting was planned Thurs- day. Meanwhile, authoritative sources disclosed that hundreds of country farm agents will be asked to co-oper- ate with the rural resettlement and rural electrification administrations in the work-relief program. They are expected, among other things, te pro- mote an interest in electrification among farmers. . $460,000,000 NAVAL BILL HIT BY NYE Senator Pictures Uncle Sam | “Taken for Ride” by National Defense ‘‘Racketeers.” LA GUARDIA ISSUES PROGRESSIVE CALL ment. | ually making the ocean work for them | The difficulty about the problem is | by harnessing its tides. The experi- that the administration insists it will | mental phase was considered to be ot use drastic powers unless neces- | Of great importance in overbalancing The past year witnessed a marked development in the use of dramatic | presentation on radio programs, the president’s report stated, citing that | decorations which France and Great | Britain desired to confer on him for | his achievements in Arabia. He en- | listed as a private in the Royal Air from the North Sea to the Gulf of Gascogne, has been more than doubled. There are After the war he wrote “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” his own story of the Arab revolt—a story he was driven | indications that the sary, and yet the very existence of | inflationary power or control over | banks makes business men hesitate | to make commitments and bankers disinclined to make loans to business In the face of uncertain conditions. Discounted Idea Previously. ‘The suggestion of Secretary Mor- genthau that all the stock of the Federal Reserve Banks be bought by the Government has been concurred in by the President, and, while it is ‘possible that the idea was advanced as & threat to offset banker opposition to the pending bill, there are Senators end Representatives who would like to see such a provision attached and will doubtless press for it. This pro- gram Is very much in line with the srgument of Father Coughlin, who has been insisting on a central bank, but with directors politically chosen from 48 States. Although for many months the ad- ministration concealed its objective and denied that any central bank plans were in the making, the nation- allzation of banking and the control by the Government has at last become openly an integral part of the New Deal. (Copyright. 1835.) STRIKING PRINTERS RIOT, INJURING FOUR Non-Union Men Taken to Hospi- tal After Clash in Spring- field, Mass. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 20.— Four non-union printers were in- jured, two so badly they were taken to a hospital, in a strike riot in front of the Republican plant last night. One of the men at the hospital has & possible fractured skull, the other contusions and possible internal in- Suries. One of the strikers was arrested, charged with breach of the peace. Vandals early this morning ob- tained entrance to the composing room of the Union, one of the four papers affected by the strike, cut the belts on linotype machines, damaged some keyboards and destroyed some ads that had been set the night be- fore. The two morning papers. the Republican and the Union, were pre- g to continue publishing with the help of non-union men. The strike situation remained un- ehanged. Members of the Typo- graphical Union continued orderly picketing at the two plants and at some newsstands. The union’s monthly meeting was held at Central Labor Union Hall yesterday afternoon. Af- ter the session President Kenneth Taylor reported that there appeared to be no prospects of an early break in the situation, ——— PRISONER ESCAPES AGAIN KINGSTON, Ontario, May 20 (#).— ‘Three prisoners, one of them wanted in the United States for escaping from the Virginia State Penitentlary, sawed their way out of the Frontenac County Jail yesterday, and last night two were still at large. Leo Dionne, 31, arrested Wednesday in connection with a service station . robbery, was recaptured half an hour | after the break. | Squads of police searched the dis- ! trict for Archibald Hyatt, 31, who was i fighting extradition to the United States, and Bernard Leavey, 28. * objections. (The engineer behind the scheme is Dexter Cooper, brother of Hugh Cooper, notel American en- gineer, who pioneered in Soviet Russia. A Republican Congressman who worked with the White House in promoting the project is Brewster of Maine, & man who fought the In- sulls.) And as a final inspirational con- sideration do not overlook what the Republicans have so often said: “As Maine goes, so goes the Nation.” Labor’s Laugh Best. The best laugh of the month was that of the labor groups when the Senate suddenly passed the Wagner labor board bill. As most insiders knew, that bill was not supposed to be passed, at | least, not so soon. All manufacturing lobbyists knew it occupied a place on the Senate calendar behind the N. R. A. bill. This was satisfactory to them. The N. R. A. bill was sup- posed to take up three weeks of the Senate’s time. By then the banking bill would be ready for consideration as well as the holding company bill and the social security legislation. This would have delayed the Wagner bill indefinitely. But the Senate dizzily passed the N. R. A. bill in three minutes in- stead of three weeks. It had nothing to do except to consider the Wagner Dbill. And once it was considered, it could not be stopped. While there is much undercover opposition to it, only 12| Senators dared to stand against such a politically advisable piece of legis- lation on the final roll call. Thus the opposition was caught flatfooted. After that the Senate took a three- day vacation, possibly to prevent any more serious similar mistakes. As a result of the Senate's action, prospects of the Wagner bill are re- versed. The underlying situation in the House is the same as in the Sen- ate. If the bill gets to vote, it will go through whooping. FPurthermore, it occupies such a preferred status as a result of premature senatorial action that the opposition probably cannot keep it from a vote. Mr. Roosevelt will sign it. At last two labor leaders are privately quoting the President as having said he would. The bill will afford union labor its greatest opportunity for unionization. Fight Believed Useless. Close observers have wondered why the Republicans put up no greater show of resistance against the latest New Dealish moves in the Senate (the T. V. A. strengthening ts, N. R. A. and the Wagner bill). They talked a little, but made no real fight. Privately, the Republican leaders will tell you they saw no reason to waste their breath. They knew that nothing their slim minority could say or do would make any difference. The fine art of business appears to have been developed amazingly by a certain Southern shirt factory (a In the first place, it bor- rowed money from a governmental agency to build a plant or addition. Then it borrowed Government girls from a nearby vocational school con- ducted by the Interior Department. As apprentices these giris were not to receive the code wage for the first six weeks, so_the factory staggered its in six-week shifts. Thus, it procuced shirts for cheap apprentice wages. Thus, in a way, the Government furnished the chisels for chiseling. That is, it did until the Government recently found out about it. g (Copyright. 10369 i | | | ! music had already attained a leader- ship in this field. Definite control of radio advertising announcements was advocated. Rene d'Harmoncourt reported on “Art in America,” sketching in detail a series of radio programs that had been given Nation-wide broadcast dur- ing the past year. The response to these programs was tremendous, Mr. d’Harmoncourt said. During the first five weeks of the program more than 4,000 letters were received. Among the Washington delegates to the convention are Mrs. Ralph Graves, Miss Annie F. Abbott, the Arts Club; R. M. Kauffmann and C. Powell Min- nigerode, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Mrs. Stephen Bonsal, Dumbarton House Museum; Dr. Giles E. Dawson, Folger Shakespeare Society; James L. Well, Howard University, department of art; Dr. Leiscester B. Holland, Li- brary of Congress; Miss Elizabeth Muhlhofer and Mrs. Margaret S. Zimele, Society of Washington Archi- tects; Mrs. Susan B. Chase, Mrs. Frances Hungerford Coombs and Mrs. Zona Keplinger, Washington Water Color Club: Duncan Phillips, director of the Phillips Memorial Gallery. —p. MIDINETTES ON STBIKE Police Stop Parade of Dressmak- ers’ Second Girls. PARIS, May 20 (#)—Police today stopped a march of 1500 striking midinettes, who sought to demonstrate on the Rue De La Paix, the tenter of the Paris style world, in an effort to get their working sisters to join a movement against the reduction of salaries. The police had several scuffies with the dressmakers’ “second girls,” and dispersed the parade. The strikers, who came from seven of the principal dressmaking houses of Paris, voted to continue their strike until their latest wage cuts are re- scinded. By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates $460,000,000 naval appro- ) | priation bill. Banking Committee continues hear- ings on Omnibus bank bill, . House. Consider miscellaneous legislation. Ways and Means Committee opens hearings on N. R. A. extension. Military Committee reopens T. V. A, ill. begins hear- Commerce ), ings on river and harbor bill. Subcommittee continues hearings | Ing on new banking legislation. Houses Holds memorial services for mem- bers who died during the Seventy- fourth Cangress. Streets and traffic subcommittee of hearings sibility bill at 10:30 a.m. 1/ | Force after the World War under his assumed name, and when his identity was discovered requested transfer to | the tank corps. | Only a few friends, government rep- | resentatives and members of the fam- ily will attend the rites. Burial will | be beside the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Knowles, the parents of his man servant and friend, Pat Knowles. The funeral arrangements ban flowers and official mourning. It may ! be that there will not even be mili- assuring almost singled-handedly the ern campeign in the World War. Eulogized by Press. The press heaped eulogies on the “uncrowned king of Arabla” as a | genius and scholar who rated with ) | Gen. Gordon, the hero of Khartum. | bother me.” “The vague memory of this un- crowned king will endure as one won- ders about our days when the very names of men who seemed at the time so much more important lie livion,” said the News Chronicle. Viscount Allenby, Lawrence's com- manding officer in Palestine, ssid he gave his aide a free hand in Arabia and that Lawrence “delivered the goods’ for Great Britain. Winston Churchill said that with Lawrence's death “we have iost one of the greatest beings of our time.” Lawrence’s death occurred at 8 am. terday after every medical resource had failed to revive him from the coma in which he had lain since his skull was fractured in the cycle accident a week ago. If Lawrence had lived his brain would have been irreparably dam- aged, the brother disclosed when he left the hospital after the night- long vigil. “It would have been a tragedy if he had recovered,” he added. Legendary Hero. It fell to the lot of Col. Lawrence to become a legendary hero while he yet lived. Strange mixture of fighter and scholar, poet and soldier, “Lawrence of Arabia” set the seal of his-flam- ing personality indelibly upon the history of Turkey and Arabia in his passionate and nearly legendary part in the revolt of the Arabs against Turkey. Thrown into the maelstrom of the World War as an obscure figure in the war ministry, he emerged a master strategist, a driver of generals, and a remaker of the map of the world by his deeds over the sun-burned sands of Arabia. Lawrence gained his first intimate knowledge of Arabia in the years just before the war as an Oxford student. He toured Syria on foot after gradua- tion, learned colioquial Arabian dia- lects, pursued his search for archeolog- ical knowledge, and in 1911 accom- panied D. G. Hogarth on an expedi- tion to Jerablus, on the Euphrates. Dispatched to Egypt. Lawrence, below standard height, on the outbreak of the war was shunt- ed into a post in the geographical sec- tion of the war office, and was sent to Egypt by Kitchener soon after Tur- key’s entrance into the war. In the great game of checkmat- German-commanded Turkish t, La through his knowledge of the country and the peoples. Impatient with the cumbersome operations of officialdom, Lawrence took matters into his own hands and went into the desert to see what he could do. In going he left behind his position of British staff and intelligence offi- ) success of Great Britain's Near East- | buried forever in the dust of ob-| (3 am. Eastern standard time) yes- | to rewrite after losing the original | 1 400,000-word manuscript in a railway |station. He had only a few copies printed. enough to realize the cost of | their printing through the sale. Later he was persuaded to permit publication of “Revolt in the Desert,” | which remains one of the best ac- counts of his remarkable desert cam- paign which freed Arabia from the Turks and which was indispensable | to the conquest of Palestine by Pleld | Marshal Lord Allenby—to whom | tary honors for the man credited with | Lawrence showed the way to Damas- | cus. He retired to a cottage in Dorset, | the country of Thomas Hardy's Wes- sex novels, where he sought peace after 10 years in the R. A. F. On a | stone tablet over his door visitors en- countered a Greek inscription which, freely translated, meant, “Don't | Lawrence was born in Wales Au- | gust 15, 1888, the second of five | brothers. Lawrence never found the privacy he loved. Ironically enough, his own dislike of personal notice was largely responsible for the tales that had “Lawrence of Arabia” almost con- tinually in the headlines during his service with the Royal Air Corps. Bernard Shaw in 1927 described | Lawrence as “i mystery man, the wonder man * * * who authentically and unquestionably in his own way and with his own hands exploded and smashed the Turkish dominion in Arabia and joined with Viscount Allenby in Damascus at the head of the Arabia liberated, allied to Britan- nia just when Britannia wanted him.” Lawrence, then known as Shaw, was on duty in India in 1928 when reports circulated that he was mov- {ing about in disguise studying Bolshe- | vik agitation. He was also reported watching the Pan-Asiatic Congress, called by Amanullah of Afghanistan | at Kabul, where an uprising later cost Amanullah his throne. Recalled to England. The reports were denied by Law- rence’s representatives in London and by the government, but the tales per- sisted to such an extent that he was recalled to England. In 1930 the Moscow government published indictments in connection with the trials of eight Russian engi- neers for alleged counter revolution- ary activities. in this, too, and again the govern- ment had to issue an official denial. Syria, Turkey and Irag. During this period, ~ pursuing his duties as a private in the seaplane station of the R. A. F. at Plymouth, where fellow soldiers were forbidden to address him as Lawrence or mention Arabia to him. He was in the headlines again in 1930. Despite the official secrecy, it was revealed that this time he played & prominent part in the rescue of survivors in a seaplane crash at Ply- mouth, England, in which nine men lost their lives. Lawrence, as always, remained silent. - The story of the Arab revolt was rehashed once again in December, 1933, to add to reports that “Afr- craftsman Shaw” had originated a daring stunt designed to increase the efficiency of British bombing plane gunners. Theft Brings Year Sentence. LURAY, Va, May 20 (Special).— Elmer Aleshire, 18, of Rileyville was sentenced to 12 months in jail Sat- {urday by Trial Justice John H. Booton. He pleaded guilty to the theft of a revolver from Rev. J. Manuel, also of Rileyville. / further augmented after the naval maneuvers off Morocco the first two weeks in June. Last Fall Prance's west coast fleet consisted of one cruiser, two divisions of destroyers and a squadron of sub- | | been added one battleship, two new destroyers and four torpedo boats. In addition 25 submarines have been returned to the fleet, including one which is the largest in the world. CHEFOO GREETS “GOBS” CHEFOO, China, May 20 (#).— | Prosperity arrived for Chefoo today in the form of a part of the United States Asiatic fleet, which will be based here for the four Summer months. Twelve destroyers, one submarine mother ship and the flagship U. S. S. | Augusta arrived from Japan, accom- panied by a squadron of submarines from Manila. They brought an ava- lanche of “gobs” anxious to stretch their legs ashore. Chefoo has been preparing for many months for the arrival of these men laden with American dollars. Stems 25 Inches Long. Daffodils with stems 25 inches long were picked recently in Callander, TRAFFIC TIPS by the NAMONAL SAFETY COUNCIL The Chance Taker. When it's speed or safety, choose safety. When it’s adherence to the right of way or safety, choose safety. The driver who takes chances must nor an injury nor a death whenever a But it does strength of the squadron will be still | Urges Them to Rally to Platform That Will Solve Present | Disaster. | marines. * Since November there have | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 20—Progressives | of the Nation were called upon by | Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York last night to “rally to the support” of a “real, honest-to-goodness platform | that will have the courage to state in plain language an economic plan that | will solve our present distress.” | “We have been snared too many times,” he said in a radio address in honor of the first anniversary of the founding of the Progressive party in Wisconsin. “We will be courted by all parties within a few months. All political parties suddenly get the religion of | progressivism on the eve of a cam- | paign. | “Progressives have been criticized in the past. and sometimes with justifi- cation, for clinging to parties with conservative ideas and stand-pat tives to get together. We know what they stand for. Let them stand up | and be counted. “I am sure that Progressives | throughout the country will answer | the call. The fight is on—Progres- | sives stand by!” MRS. CHARLES MURPHY HEADS WALDORF P.-T. | Mrs. Allison Ryon Vice President and Miss Lucile Bowie Secre- tary-Treasurer. Special Dispatch to The Star. | WALDORP, Md, May 20.—Mrs. Charles Murphy was elected presi- dent of the Waldorf Parent-Teacher Association at its May meeting in the school. Other officers chosen are: Mrs. Allison Ryon, vice president, and Miss Lucile Bowie, secretary and treasurer. | The principa:, Miss N. Eva Turner, announced that the closing entertain- ment for the 150 pupils enrolled in the school would be held June 11. It was stated the association had pur- chased library books costing $20, six dozen knives and forks, some dishes and card tables. The program was interspersed with songs, led by Mrs. Holbrook, the piano. MRS. ROOSEVELT’S VISIT Will Speak at ‘“People’s Univer- sity” Exercises and Inspect Soft Coal Mine. By the Associated Press. BELLAIRE, Ohio, May 20.—This city of 7,000 prepared today to wel- come Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will be the principal speaker at grad- uation exercises for 150 students of 'Ograms. “Now is the time for all Conserva- | with Mrs. Louis Ryon at | AWAITED BY OHIO CITY| By tha Associated Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind. May 20—A picture of Uncle Sam “taken for a ride” by national defense “racketeers’ was drawn yesterday by Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, in a | speech here condemning war profits. |, The chairman of the Senate Muni- | tions Committee took a special thrust | at the $460,000,000 naval appropria- tions bill. His address was before a meeting arranged by the local Minis- terial Association The measure, Nye said, “Is the largest ever known in peace time” and comes on the heels of an Army supply bill setting a peace-time record Along with these, he said, is pending a maritime bill, “which is only another name for ship subsidy, which calls for the availability of millions for build- ing of a merchant marine.” As a remedy, Nye proposed enact- ment of legislation such as has been drafted by his Munitions Committee for taking profits out of war. He also urged adoption of neutrality measures for preventing American money of munitions from going into a war zone and to “abandon the neces- sity of protecting Americans who in- sist upon going into the war zones.” DR. J. A. B. SINCLAIR DIES | Brother of D. C. Woman Once | Taught at University of Va. | MIAMI, Fla, May 20 (®—Dr. |J. A. B. Sinclair, 55, medical ex- { aminer for the Opa-Looka Naval Air | Base and the Veterans' Administration of Bay Pines. Fla.. died yestegday. Dr. Sinclair taught anatomy at the University of Virginia at the age of |19. He was in command of the | Naval Hospital at Sitka, Alaska, from 1909 to 1911, resigning to enter pri- vate practice at Portland, Oreg. Survivors are Miss Annis Sinclair of Washington, D. C., and Dr. Bessie | Sinclair French of Chicago, sisters; Judge G. Burnley Sinclair of New | York, a brother; Mrs. Shan Holloway |of New York, a daughter, and his mother, a brother and two sisters FEATURES 'HOUSEHOLD ARTS BY ALICE BROOKS. All about embroidering.. . ., patterns . . . color sugges- tions . . . and things to make. Section B, Page 12 part of the program includes a tour of an un d soft coal mine. dergroun: The “university” is a self-help or- . | ganization of unemployed and working adults. Classes in more than 40 sub jects have been conducted. Mrs Rosevelt will hand the diplomas to the 150 graduates. A A regular feature in Che Star