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MANCHUKUO SET 0 DEFEND BORDER Japanese-Advised State De- termined to Use Force - After Mongolian Clash. By the Associated Press. ‘ TOKIO, December 20.—The Japa- nese-advised state of Manchukuo is determined to use force to protect its fromtiers against Mongolian “en- croachments,” a Rengo (Japanese) news agency dispatch from Hsing- king reported today. JThe Japanese correspondent said o frontier clash occurred December 19 between Japanese-Manchukuoan troops and a Mongolian-detachment on territory of Manchukuo. A communique issued by the Japa- nese Army headquarters in Man- chukuo said a Japanese officer, com- nmianding Manchukuoan border guards west of Lake Bor, was engaged in post- ing guards December 19, when his force encountered 70 Quter Mongolian soldiers, armed with machine guns, on the Manchukuo side of the border. A Japanese cavalry detachment nearby, the communique said. joined i the fighting and compelled the Mongolians to flee across the border, abandoning 20 rifies. No Japanese- Manchukuoan casualties were re- ported. _The official Tass News Agency had reported from Ulan Bator, Mongolia, ta Moscow that 200 Japanese-Man- chukuoan troops invaded the Mon- golian Peoples Republic, killed a Mon- gblian officer and several soldiers. “The Russian news agency recalled & recent reported threat of Mongolian occupation by the Japanese and Man- chukuoans. Soviet officials did not comment on the clash, but foreign observers were convinced they were watching the situation closely. What's What Behind News In Capital President’s New P. W. A. Policy Reopens Pork Barrel. BY PAUL MALLON. largest half of President Roosevelt’s P. W. A. policy story was not told. All the President said was that he would not again ask Congress for a lump sum. He would seek specific appropriations for specific projects next year, about half a billion dollars’ worth in all. None of the Government mimeo- graph machines was turned on to herald what this meant in the way of restoring Washington normality. The Ickes publicity machine in particular was lamentably silent. 1f it had spoken, it would have groaned that the Ickes P. W. A. system is dead and done for, the theory of congressional authority over public works is re-established, the old “pork barrel” may now again be opened on the floor of the House and Senate, after an absence of three years. Note—For the benefit of readers born since 1932, it may be advisable to point out that the pork barrel sys- tem is the one for all and all for one idea. That is, a Congressman gains support for his own pet Federal ex- penditure pork in his own particular district by supporting similar pet projects desired by his brother Con- gressmen for~ their districts. THERE'S ENOUGH NG BTAR, WASHINGTO SOUTH MAY GAIN CONTROL ON HILL Fight in Primaries Will Be Whether People Want Real Democrat. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘There's one phase of the current ex- citemen* about plans to re-elect or defeat Preident Roosevelt which seems to be getting scant attention. It is what kind of a Congress is going to be elected in November, 1936. The editor of a large Southern newspaper, who happened to be here the other day, called my attention to one or two aspects which doubtless have been overlooked. “Folks in the North,” he said, “are all agitated about whether Mr. Roose- velt is o~ is not going to be re-elected. Now, personally, I am against the New Deal, but it so happens that my State inevitably will cast its electoral vote for Mr. Roosevelt. Likewise, it will be the duty of my paper to support him for re-election as against any Republican named, no matter how good he is. We couldn't run a South- ern newspaper any other way. Congress Not Blameless. But I am one of those persons who believe that the New Deal could not have become what it is today without the votes of Congress. If Mr. Roose- vell has made mistakes, Congress is as mugh if not more to blame for having given him such wide powers. “In my city there will be a primary election next year to nominate a Democrat. Now, mind you, .I said ‘Democrat’ and not ‘Socialist’ The people of my district will have an opportunit. to decide whether they want ~ Socialist to win the Demo- cratic primary or whether they want {to choose a real Democrat. That's | going to be the issue in the South, D. O, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935. .~ Blind Senator, Hit by Car, Near Death TWO FOUND SLAIN IN CHIGAGD ‘WAR “Pepe” Genaro, Former Ca- pone Mobster, a Victim. Women Give Clues. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, December 20.—An unle | dentified man was found slain early | today a few hours after Joseph “Pepe™ | Genaro, 47, one-time Al Capone mobe ster, bad been shot to death in gangland fash- | fon. 1 ;| The second vic- | southern 28 tim's body—that of a man about 36—was discov- ered in a prairie |at the citys edge. The man appar- ently had been clubbed or shot to death. His ankles were bound with a Tope Joseph Genaro Chief Deputy Coroner Victor Schlaee ger hurried to the scene on the chance the second killing was a sequel to Ge- naro’s. That Genaro had re-entered the bootlegging racket was the first theory investigated by the police. Taree street executions in 24 hours on November 16 were laid to this boot= legging revival. Woman Gives Clue. | . In Genaro’s apartment police seized | Mary Koran, 28, who furnished the | address of another flat in which the raiders arrested Eveiyn Lagore, 24; | Miss “Batsy” Clark, 30; Otto Graziano, 23, and Frank Costello, 42. Miss Clark told the police she had lived with the slain man. The others said |and we're going to hold the Con- g | gressmen who pledged themselves to | the 1933 Democratic platform to a | strict accountability for having voted | for legislation that departs from it and for having embraced instead the Socialist party platform of 1932.” What this Southern editor says about the impossibility of supporting & Republican in the South brings up a very practical matter which oppo- nents of the New Deal are ignoring. | they were his friends. Two men riding in an a ikxlled Genaro last night with | as he stood in a tavern vne | versity of Chicago. | cents in his pockets Deputy Police Chief Walter Storms recalled that Genaro’s brother Jot was machine-gunned to d 21, 1931, and ordered ldames Belcastro, ki T | the bombers.” Jol No. 1—L. G. Humphries of Hyattsville, with his damaged car after it had struck and seriously injured Senator Thomas D. Schall, blind Minnesota Senator, last night at Cottage City, Md. Humphries is pointing to headlight, damaged by impact. No. 2—Senator Schall, photo- graphed in front of the Capitol with his dog Lux, which led him KILLEEN ESTATE VALUED AT $2,650 Gambler Had Only $900 Cash| When Slain, Widow Says in Petition to Court. He had The announcement also neglected to explain why the Executive-allocation | system of expenditures was being abandoned. Any Congressman can tell | you. The dozens who have returned | so far have been swearing under their | est of ‘king of ‘The fortune of Edward V. Killeen, ‘Washington gambler chieftain, long thought to rank high among those amassed here outside the law, had dwindled to $2,650 when he was slain by Mrs. Lillian Maddox at Brook- mont, Md., November 23. This was revealed today when his widow, Mrs. Florence M. Killeen, was named by Justice F. Dickinson Letts of District Supreme Court admini- stratrix of his estate. ‘The gambler had only $900 in cash when he died, she said. The rest consisted of jewelry, his automobile and some “prize chickens,” valued at $300. No mention was made in Mrs. Kil- leen’s petition of the yacht in which Killeen is said to have hidden from BG underworld foes. Through her at- fftneys, James A. O'Shea, John H. nett and Alfred Goldstein, Mrs. een told the court her husband had a contract with the Northampton Bréwing Co., brewers. She said she did not know the exact stipulations of the agreement, but believed that it provided for the payment of $400 a month to Killeen “for relinquishing any rights he may have had to sell beer in this territory.” The contract still had nine months to run when Killeen was killed, she asserted. Besides his wife, Killeen left three gisters, Misses Sue and Mary Killeen and Mrs. John F. Costello; a brother, Willlam P. Killeen, and two nephews, | George Emmett Killeen and Juhn! Patrick Killeen. Snow (Continued From First Page.) long. Sun broke through the clouds sporadically and melted the snow. | Baltimore and Annapolis had light | falls last night, but warm sunshine drove temperatures upward and the &now did not stick. Snow which the Weather Bureau had been promising Washington for two days finally arrived last night, drifting slowly down in tiny flakes which melted almost as soon as they struck. The snowfall was the first noticeable one in the District this Winter., It stopped before midnight. Outlying sections received a more lib- eral sprinkling. Fair and colder weather, with a minimum temperature of about 22 de- grees, was forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The coldest in the past 24 hours_was 20 degrees, registered be- tween 7 and 8 a.m. today. "Nine deaths were attributed indi- rectly to sub zero weather in other parts of the ceuntry today. Five died in automobile accidents on icy high- ways near Indianapolis. Two perished in Chnicago, one in Maryland and one in Western Pennsylvania. Thefirst bolloon §53 mail wos conceived "ot the Siege of Paris (1870-71). SHOPPING DAYS 7O CHRISTMAS Tn'flnt transmission of mail by air in s human contrivance took place during the siege of Paris, 1870~ 91, when balloons were used for this . The first flight from the city was made on September 23 by & bag breaths that Mr. Roosevelt would never again get a lump-sum appropria- tion through Congress. You may re- | call he had difficulty last year. This year he would certainly have been | defeated on the lump-sum idea. Even his own crowd of liberal Democratic Gnngressmen ported him on that. Pickings to Be Lean. | The reversal of P. W. A. policy was proffered go graciously that some of the Congressmen began to look Mr. Roosevelt’s gift horse in the mouth. | They found several teeth missing. The fact is that Messrs. Roosevelt and Ickes, in the last two years, have started nmearly every large Federal public works project they considered to be worth while. They have reached virtually the bottom of the edible pork barrel. It will not break their hearts to let the Congressmen chew on the rinds that are left. < Also, their recommendations this year will largely be for second year appropriations to carry on the par- ticular projects which they have al- ready singled out to be started (Passamaquoddy, Florida, Canal, etc.). Yule Spirit Helps Laval. It may be incredible, but the main inside reason why Laval is still pre- mier of France today is because Christmas is coming. At least, the best-informed diplo- mats here wiil cross their hearts, or whatever they use for hearts, on their Parisian tip that Laval got a 304-to- 252 vote of confidence from the Cham- there is an old Prench custom against spoiling the holidays by overthrowing a government. It was not Santa Claus, but some one else in authority in Paris, who told them prior to the vote that the custom would be re- spected. That is why Laval was willing to put the question. The French have no such cusiom about the New Year. Official inside betting here strongly indicates that the Radicals will celebrate that occasion prematurely by severing M. Laval’s official head unless he drops the Ethiopian peace plan in the meantime. Private diplomatic reports from Italy on the Italian boot by the League of Nations last October are beginning to pinch. Mussolini has a strict censorship against publication of anything along that line, but trustworthy authorities say he is having difficulty getting cer- tain food and other supplies, aside from actual war materials. Also, he is paying bootleg prices for what he is able to get. League sanctions prohib- ited exports of key products, such as scrap iron, rubber, horses and other transport animals to Italy, and pur- chase of anything from Italy. A bevy of Republican presidential candidates was being introduced at a gathering the other night attended by many of them. Names of all those commonly mentioned in the public prints were called, except one. They forgot Senator Dickinson of Iowa, who failed to arise and point out the over- sight. S. E. C. Vacancies Disturbing. The problem of two new appoint- ments to the Securities and Exchange Commission is causing consider- able inner perturbation. Commissioner Matthews will resign about the last of January. No one has been appointed to ex-Chairman Kennedy's place. The two appointments could change entirely the complexion of the major New Deal regulatory body. When @ horse-track bookmaker for brokers was put on the stand at the S. E. C. Meehan hearings the other day, he answered the first question regarding stock market transactions by saying: ‘“That is not. my racket. Ask me about horses.” The commissioners were not interested. First and second presidential choices of Ohio delegates to the next Repub- lican national convention are already supposed to have been made by the powers that be. The first choice I8 to be Representative Bolton, and the second another well-known favorite son, (Copyright, 1985.) a indicate that the sanctions strapped | publican and Democratic candidates for Congress is likely to be in most instances a clear-cut pro and anti- New Deal affair. If Mr. Roosevelt carries with him a substantial num- ber of the pro-New Deal candidates, Republicans or Democrats generally in the North, the balance of power in the next Congress might easily be held by the Democrats from Southern States. Under such circumstances, the pri- mary campaigns in every Southern portance to those who believe two opposite philosophies of government are going to be offered to the people and not just two rival candidates or parties. The primaries in the South are equivalent to elections, for who- ever wins the Democratic nomina- tion is assured of election in the No- | vember elections. Thus, the primary is the important affair, after all. Talk of Independents. In political circles, much talk is heard about the possibility of enter- ing independent candidates in many Southern districts in order to give the people an opportunity to express themselves on the issues involved in the New Deal. Various organizations are trying to line up the anti-New Deal sentiment, and it is to be noted | even enter the presidential prefer- ence primaries as against Mr. Roose- velt. | duplicated in many other States. (Copyright. 1935.) GIVEN VETERAN, 89 | Theodore Johnson Was With Gen. Sherman on the “March to the Sea.” Theodore Johnson, Civil War Vet- eran with Gen. Sherman on the “march to the sea,” who would have celebrated his 89th birthday anni- versary February 13, died Monday at Mount Alto Hospital after a long ill- ness. He was buried with full mili- tary honors yesterday afternoon in Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Johnson, a native of Sussex County, N. J.,, had resided on Military road near Fort Myer for a quarter of a century. He had been ill two years. Rev. Ben Mahan, pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle, conducted pre- liminary funeral services at the Cham- bers Funeral Chapel and also offi- ciated at the grave rites. A rifle salute was fired by a squad from Fort Myer. Rejected for enlistment at first be- cause he was too light in stature and too young, Johnson succeeded in gain- ing admission to Company H, 33d New Jersey Volunteers, because his older brother refused to go to war without him, the man told his friends. Mr. Johnson had no close relatives after the death some months ago of his son, Edwin T. Johnson of this city. He was a member of the Full Gospel Tabernacle. i o | The fight in the North between Re-' would not have sup- | Whether they happen to be Western | State become of transcendent im- | that, in Georgia, Gov. Talmadge may | It is unlikely that this will be | P. T. Norton, Jr., With Se-! curities Commission, Dies in Houston. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., December 20.— P. T. Norton, jr,, 29, of Fort Worth, | junior attorney for the Federal Securi- | ties Exchange Commission, plunged | from the tenth floor of the Rice Hotel | !today. dying a few minutes later. Norton registered at the hotel Wed- nesday. He was in the city on Gov- ernment business. Richard N. Mather, also of Fort Worth and the senior attorney with ! the Securities Exchange Commision, said: | “I talked to the boy about 1 o'clock | this morning and he was in good spirits. He was not despondent. first I knew of the tragedy was when | the assistant manager of the hotel | notified me.” Mather said that Norton was grad- uated from the University of Texas and received his law degree at the George Washington University. He had been with the Securities Ex- change for several months. P. Tennent Norton, jr., lived here at the Park Lane Apartments with | his brother Hammond, who still re- | sides there. He was an attorney on | the staff of the general counsel of | the Securities and Exchange Commis- sion about three months, beginning in July, then being transferred to the Fort Worth division. After gradua- | tion from the George Washington University Law School, where he re- | ceived & bachelor of law degree, Nor- ton was admitted as a member of the District bar. He also received a doctor of jurisprudence degree from George- town University. Norton was a native of Calvert Tex., and gave his birth date to the 8. & E. Commission as 1908, CAPT. JOHN G. W’COY EXPIRES IN GEORGIA Funeral Services Will Be Held Monday at 10 A.M. at Fort Myer Chapel. Capt. John G. McCoy of the Chemi- cal Warfare Reserve, U. 8. A, a for- mer resident of this city, died yester- day at Fort Benning, Ga. the War Department announced today. He was 48 years old. Born at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., November 20, 1887, Capt. McCoy was the son of the late Lieut. James E. McCoy, 7th Infantry; a nephew of the late Brig. Gen. Edward Moale, U. 8. A, and & grandson of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon, U. 8. A, and Col. James C. McCoy, U. S. A. both deceased. His home here was at 1756 N street. He is survived by a son, Davis, and & daughter, Leonie, of Fort Benning. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 am. at Fort Myer Chapel, fol- lowed by burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Makes a New Friend | of the Senator. The | ;. Schall (Continued From Pirst Page.) said an operation will be necessary if and when the injured man rallies suf- ficiently. En Route to Residence. Senator Schall and Leen were en| route from the Senate Office Building | to the Schall residence, Wyncrest, at Berwyn Heights, Md., in the automo- bile of Harold Birkeland of Minne- apolis, an old friend and house guest With them was an- other friend, James Laughlin, also of Minneapolis. When the party drove into Cottage City, Birkeland stopped the car while the Senator and Leen alighted to pur- chase some sandwich bread and meat from a grocery across the boulevard. ‘The Senator wished to make the pur- chases personally so that sandwiches could be prepared for Laughlin and Birkeland, who planned to leave for Minneapolis early this morning. The Senator and Leen were struck as they reached the center of the boulevard. Humphries was en route from Washington to his home when the accident occurred. The fender knocked Leen free of the car, but at least one wheel must have passed over the Senator’s leg. Both men were rendered uncon- scious. Birkeland and Laughlin warned other automobiles away from where the Senator lay in the middle of the highway while the ambulance of the Bladensburg rescue squad was on the way to the scene. Fear to Lift Senater, They were afraid to lift the uncon- scious Senator lest the effort cause him additional injury. The men placed a coat under Mr. Schall's hesd and guarded him until the ambulance ar- rived some 15 minutes later. Leen re- gained consciousness in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The accident occurred about 200 yards this side of the Peace Monument at a point, police said, where automo- biles can be seen for at least several hundred yards in either direction. The rescue squad ambulance en route to the scene was delayed by scores of automobiles which had halted in the busy thoroughfare, and by throngs of curious who col- lected about the spot where the Sena- tor lay. Humphries reported to Justice of the Peace W. A. Bobb at Cottage City. He was arrested on a technical charge of reckless driving by Policeman Ar- personal bond for appearance before Justice of the Peace Herbert A. Mof- L3 cured in 1908, when an electric shock | from a cigar lighter paralyzed the optic nerve. l Bad luck in the form of accidents seems to have dogged the Schalls ever‘ since. Mrs. Schall, who met the pres- | ent tragedy with courage, recalled the | series of accidents today. | She said that a son, Thomas David, | jr.. was so badly injured in an auto- mobile accident while a midshipman at Annapolis five years ago that he | was unable to return to the academy. A daughter, Padget Ann, has suf- fered fractures of the collarbone, both legs and the spine in various acci- dents. Another son, Richard, fractured| both ankles last June in an airplane | crash at Dover, Del., airport. “It seems as if our family simply can't keep out of accidents,” Mrs.| Schall said with a sigh. Only last Summer Senator Schall| took up horseback riding and fre-| quently was seen galloping over the| bridle paths near Laurel, Md. He had | trained his memory to recall the va- rious turns of his rides through the country and enjoyed the sport hugely. | Faithful Dog Dies. Prior to that, the Senator’s steps| about Washington often were guided by Lux, a “seeing eye” police dog with a $10,000 education as a leader of the blind. Lux, however, died of a broken | heart in the Spring of 1933 while the | Senator was away from home attend- | ing the funeral of the late Senator | Walsh of Montana. Senator Schall | remained away for several weeks and on his return Lux was dead. Receatly friends in Minnesota pre- | sented the Sepator with Lux, 2d, b\.\tl this dog femains in a kennel in the Middle West. Senator Schall has been a vehement | enemy of the “New Deal” making speeches and issuing statements at- tacking the administration and its policies. Only yesterday he assailed the Roosevelt reciprocal tariff pacts as “star chamber treaties.” A former newsboy, bootblack and circus roustabout, Senator Schall first came to Washington in 1916 as an in- dependent in the House. At that time he had been blind for mine years. In 1918 Senator Schall was on a ship which was torpedoed while taking him to France on a mission for the Government. The ship limped into Brest after great difficulty. Mrs. Schall, who accompenied her husband, 'was decorated for bravery displayed on this occasion. In 1924 Schall defeated the Farmer- Laborite Senator, Mangus Johnson, and has since been a member of the Senate. WOMAN HELD IN JAIL AFTER BANK ROBBERY Posse Captures Suspect 3 Miles From Minnesota Depository in Car Believed Stolen. By the Associated Press. ALBERT LEA, Minn, December 20—A prisoner authorities describe as Minnesota’s first woman bank rob- ber was in jail here today. She identified herself as Mary Lyon of South Bend, Ind. County Attorney Elmer R. Peterson said she confessed about the city for some time. No. 3—Scene of accident, with | dotted line showing how Senator walked around the rear of his car, | was struck by Humphries' machine and knocked several feet. —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. PURPOSEOF T.V.A. 1S HEARING ISSUE Government Tells Supreme Court Aid to Navigation Is Primary Aim. By the Associated Press. Final Government arguments be- | fore the Supreme Court on the T.| V. A. narrowed today to the question whether its primary purpose was to| aid navigation. There were private expectations of a division between liberals and con- servatives on the court when a de- cislon is reached. “If the primary purpose was to de- | velop and sell power, it would be in- valid,” said Solicitor General Stanley Reed of the law. James M. Beck, a former solicitor general, carried the burden of final attack on the constitutionality of the act on behalf of 14 preferred stock- | holders of the Alabama Power Co. Aid to Navigation, Reed, who collapsed recently while upholding the validity of the Bank- head cotton production control act said T. V. A, was started “in good faith” to assist navigation. The Government's position is that the power sold from Muscle Shoals is | produced incidental to navigation im- provement. After nearly four hours of discussion | yesterday, the Government had 20 minutes of its allotted two hours left in which to defend its venture into the power business. During arguments yesterday by Forney Johnston, Birmingham, Ala., attorney for the stockholders, and by John Lord O'Brian, New York attorney for T. V. A, justices shot many ques- tions at the lawyers. Justice 'McReynolds, known as a | | “conservative,” appeared to challenge the T. V. A. lawyer to defend the right of the Government to sell surplus power produced by Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, He asked: “Do you think the Government can spend an unlimited amount of money to produce electric power and sell it all over the country in competition with private industry, unregulated and beyond the power of State con- trol?” “I think that's correct,” O'Brian Treplied. “The price may be high or low,” McReynolds said. “It may break up every public utility in the State.” “That is not the purpose.” | “That's the effect,” McReynolds commented. “Can the Federal Gov- ernment do that?” Right of Suit Challenged. On the other hand, Justices Bran- deis and Stone, who are known as “Liberals,” inquired into the right of minority stockholders of the power company to bring suit which led to the Supreme Court test. They sought to enjoin performance of & contract under which the company was to sell lines to T. V. A. for transmission of power. | Justice Brandeis asked Johnston on what “allegation” and “court findings” the lawyer based his state- ment that rights of minority stock- holders had been threatened. MORROWS FOUND GROUP| Mrs. Lindbergh in Corporation for Education of Children. DOVER, Del, December 20 (A).— | The United States Corp. Co. filed a | charter with the secretary of state yesterday for the Elizabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan Foundation, Inc., with Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Con- stance Morrow and Dwight W. Mor- row, jr, all of Englewood, N. J. as ‘ineorporators. “The charter has no capitalization. The objects and purposes of the to break the gan and told police Belcastro was plotting his murder. Waitress Barely Missed. The slugs which felled “Pepe” last night narrowly missed Miss Jessie Warner, a waitress. In Genaro's body coroner’s aides found 25 slugs. The victim, whose re= cent means of livelihood were unknown to police, wore a frayed overcoat Genaro, who could neither rea write, was acquitted of a m charge in 1927. The police unsuc- cessfully tried to connect him with the murder in 1925 of n Mike Vinci and in 1929 with a s bloody twentieth ward napings and sluggi: His true name was Joseph Anneriono. ARLINGTON COUNTY DISPENSARY OPENS Staff of Residents Named for 60- day Trial Period of Liquor Store. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va. December 20.— Strongly opposed by many county residents since it was announced last week by the Alcoholic Beverage Con- trol Board, the Arlington County liquor dispensary opened its doors this morn= ing at 3131 North Wilson boulevard. John H. Martin and R. K. Turner, | representatives of the A. B. C. Board, were temporarily in charge of the store until the new personnel becomes familiar with its duties. This perma- | nent staff is comprised of the follows ing county residents: Ralph E. Reme ington, Stanley T. Mortimer, Prederick | Glass and Charles York. | _The dispensary, fully stocked with 12,300 cases of liquor, will remain open tfflr at least a 60-day “trial period.” Members of the board, following protests by letter and delegations, de- | clared that if residents of the county found the store did not “improve con- | ditions™ they would be glad to hear complaints at the end of the two- month period. They would then close | the store if it was found that such | action was justified, it was agreed. | The board has maintained that the dispensary will prove effective in com= | batting the sale of bootleg liquor in | the county, which investigation re- vealed was being carried on to a con- | siderable extent. | Although there has been talk of circulating a petition asking for a | special referendum early in the new | year to decide the issue, church mem- | bers and business men 0 have pro- | tested establishment of the store were apparently willing to await results of the 60-day trial period suggested by the board. '|Irvin S. Cobb Says: Whole Week Without Special Stamp Cred- ited to Yule Rush. WESTWOOD HILLS, Calif., Decem- ber 20.—Owing to the Christmas rush, our Post Office Department has let an entire week slip by without turning loose any special stamp commemo- * rating somebody for something. . That means a - double-header i next week. If you're going in for new United @ States issues, you'd better fig- ure on an addi- tion to the little home-nest. You won't be able to get your collec- tion in an album; youll need a bowling alley. Because, when we run out of people or places or events to name stamps for, Big Chief Farley can draw on the alphabet and still be in the fashion. My guess is the N. R. A. memorial stamp will be printed in black, and feature a picture of Gen. Hugh Johne corporation, as stated in the char- ter, ate exclusively for the charitable education of chlidren. ? son standing on his head. « right. 1935. by the North American Py wibaber Allianice, 1nc.)