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CORGORAN PLANS ~ BIENNIAL EXHIBIT Fifteenth Showing of Con- temporary Oils to Be Held March 28-May 9. ‘The fifteenth Biennial Exhibition “of Contemporary American Oil Paint- “ings will be held at the Corcoran “Gallery of Art from March 28 to May 9 of next year, the gallery announced today in circulars mailed to leading artists and art organizations of the country. Cash prizes totaling $5,000 and the + coveted Corcoran gold, silver and +bronze medals will be awarded art- ‘ists whose works are adjudged out- standing. These are known as the ‘William A. Clark prize awards, initie ated by the late Senator Clark of . Montana at the first biennial exhibi- tion in 1907 and later perpetuated by him through an endowment. The exhibition will be confined to original oil paintings by living Ameri- can artists not before publicly ex- hibited in Washington. The last day for receiving entries will be March 2 in New York and March 8 here. The trustees of the gallery an- nounced that while they are “in full | sympathy with any proposal which has for its aim the encourl[!ment[ and aid of artists, the gallery is not in a position to pay a rental fee for any pictures in this exhibition.” This announcement, it is understood, was prompted by the recent movement by a certain group of artists to com- pel galleries to pay rent for exhibited | pictures. “It is the hope of the trustees.” the tircular said, “that the exhibition will cover comprehensively the field ot oil painting as practiced today by _American painters: that, in its scope | and quality, it will stand as high as| any similar exhibition which has ever | been presented, and that the Ameri- | can painters will keep it in mind with a view to submitting to the jury of selection their strongest and most recent work.” The personnel of the jury will be | announced later. More detailed in-{ formation about the exhibition will | be included in another circular to be issued about Januarly 15 next, it was | CURB ON FLU SEEN ¥ WITH NEW SERUM Rockefeller Institute Researcher Says Immunity Lasts 6 Months. B the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH. October 9.—New hopes for the development of a serum to check influenza were advanced in a paper presented yesterday before the Medical Society of Pennsylvania by Dr. Thomas Prancis, jr, of the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Prancis described the successful cultivation of the influenza virus in | cultures of living embryo chickens' ! tissue and asserted that repeated in.: rJections of this virus produced im- ‘mune bodies in volunteer humans. The elements of immunity have “Jasted more than six months, he said. # Dr. Prancis was careful in qualify- | fithe immediate implication of his | k., saying his tissue-cultivated | #¥irus has not yet been tested directly | #by exposure of persons inoculated to | #khe disease, # He said: | # “But if the production of anti-| ~Bodies (the standard measurement of | sAnfluenza immunity) is of any sig-| Mmificance at all it would seem ef- | pdective at least in reducing the se- ! erity of the disease.” French (Continued From First Page.) B #fforts to Testrict their meetings in | historic Alsace-Lorraine today. | Amid threats of virtual eivil war | in the border provinces, the Com- | “Inunist party declared it was proceed- ¥ng with plans to hold widesprerd demonstrations there. “ Fears of open strife immediately | vere current. A party communique flatly repudi- | ated previous semi-official reports to | the effect only 10 meetings would be | held in Alsace - Lorraine. It stated | the original number planned—127— ‘had been reduced to 56 by regional .organizations, not by the Central Committee. The communique said “the Com- munist party declares it never agreed to limitation of the right of reunion.” Claiming 50,000 followers in the border provinces, the party asserted it refused to curtail its activities “be- cause such is the desire of Fascists acting on orders from Berlin.” | ‘The abrupt party statement blocked the efforts of Roger Salengro, minister of the interior, to reduce potential dangers of the week end campaign. The Communists kept the exact times and places of their proposed meetings secret, but stronz forces of police were on guard throughout the district. Rightists, angered over an official | n on “provocative” rallies, plastered | sites of the proposed Communist | meetings with posters which de- nounced the sessions as “under Mos- cow’s domination.” Communists, on their part, retorted Fascist activities of Col. Prancois De Rocque’s Social party resulted | from “an order from Berlin.” The extreme Leftists announced plans to take all party chieftains and their entire parliamentary delegations into the region for the rallies Satur- | day and Sunday. Sites for the meet- | ings were not announced, but were; expected to include Strasbourg, Nancy, | Mulhouse and Colmar. The gatherings will be heavily guarded, the government declared in disclosing plans to send large de-| tachments of mobile guards and police to the provincial cities. Opposing the sessions, residents of the region warned that frontier inci- dents might result. They joined in a statement, asserting: “The Communists know well that in eoming to the Rhine frontier to proveke trouble, they will provide the pretext that Hitler (the German -chancellor) is awaiting. Communism and Hitlerism are both regimes of brutal forces under which all liberty +4s banned. We want neither.” AR ‘ Golf Ball Lands in Pocket. ATLANTA - (@) .—Judge Jesse M. Readers' Guide and News Summary — The Evening Star—Oct. 9, 1936. NATIONAL. Income tax collection rise laid to re- viving trade. Page A-1 Train kills man sought in slaying of wife. Page A-1 Los Angeles fete to greet frst power from Boulder Dam. ¥age A-4 Dirigible takes 73 business leaders on ride over six States. Page A-9 China Clipper fueled for hop to Mid- way Island. Page A-13 Wife of “dead" veteran hopes he will return home. Page A-14 Aviator sought in dismembering of woman's body. Page B-15 Lost yacht fails to answer mid-Pacific radio stations. Page B-17 Cardinal Pacelli greeted in New York on arrival from Rome. Page A-3 FOREIGN. Spanish Loyalists waver before rebel attack. Page A-1 27 nations studying charges of Soviet on Spain. Page A-1 French Communists defy Blum to re- strict meetings. Page A-1 POLITICAL. Roosevelt visit expected to swing Ne- braska from doubtful list. Page A-1 Msgr. Ryan challenges Father Cough- lin, backs Rooseveit. Page A-9 Al Smith to devote two more speeches to why he took walk. P A-4 Landon arrives in Chicago for ad- dress tonight. Page A-1 Roosevelt plans parleys at Dubuque and St. Paul. Page A-1 California registration shows Demo- crats in majority. Page A-7 | Knox visits Richmond Monday; Peery to take stump. Page B-8 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Virginia convict slain In fourth dash for freedom. Page A-1 Many entries expected at Indian Spring Horse Show. Yage A-2 Police Department and court systems challenged in suit, Page A-2 Senator King seeks data on Hybla Valley Zeppelin base. Page A-2 “Corruption” affidavits sent to Senate committee, Page A-4 D. C. Federal tax load exceeds popu- lation share. Page A-3 23 more reports submitted in fiscal relations study. Page B-1 Rent attachment proposed to collect delinquent taxes. Page B-1 Annual report on business of city's public utilities. Page B-1 Taxi control law prospect better, Roberts reports. Page B-1 | J. F. Donovan falls in attempt to get Pprison release. Page B-1 | Peace convention maps laws to stave | off United States war. Page B-6 | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Alice Longworth, Page A-2 This and That. | Answers to Questions. hington Observations. | David Lawrence. Paul Mallon. | Dorothy Thompson. | Jay Franklin. Constantine Brown. SPORTS. G. W.-Ole Miss game starts big grid | week end. Page D-1 Brescia seen as chopping block for Louis. Page D.2 | Figures show Hubbell belongs on base ball pedestal. | Foot ball scouting system is no longer frowned upon. Page D-3 Chevy Chase team seen as winner in big golf tilt. Page D-4 MISCELLANY, Washington Wayside. ‘Young Washin, Irvin 8. Cobb says. Traffic convictions. Nature's Children, Bedtime Story. Winning Contract. Vital statistics. City news in brief, Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. FINANCIAL. Carriers lead bonds up (table). Page A-1 Store sales gain sharply. Page A-1 Stocks again advance (table.) Page A-18 (table). Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-2 Page A-14 Page B-3 Page B-17 Page B-18 Page B-18 Page Page Page Page Curb specialties climb Rail loadings hit 819,126. Security offerings increase. ’ HOOVER-SMI.TH SUPPORT OF LANDON IS ASSAILED New Deal Foes Have “Nothing in Common Save Chagrin,” Sen- ator Clark Says. Senator Bennett Clark, Democrat, of Missourl said today of Alfred E. Smith, Herbert Hoover sand other ad- vocates of Gov. Alf M. Landon for President that “none of these mal- content allies of the Du Ponts and Morgans can now find words to say worse things about Mr. Roosevelt than they have repeatedly in the past said about each other.” In a statement issued by the Demo- cratic National Committee Clark said: “One of the most refreshing bits of comedy connected with the present campaign is the spectacle of Al Smith and Herbert Hoover, Jim Reed (former | Democratic Senator from Missouri) and Bainbridge Colby (former Demo- cratic Secretary of State) standing united with arms entwined, actuated by nothing in common save chagrin and disappointment of personal am- bitions, hatred of a successful rival and a conviction on the part of each that no policy could be honest which he did not enunciate and no adminis~ tration eould be patriotic of which he was not the head.” The National Scene viction. But, that there is ing for relief estimates for ,Wood stood on' the No. 12 tee at East ,Lake Country Club when along came . golf ball and plopped into the judge’s ‘hip pocket. It was not an unplayabls Jie, but the driver and the jurist agreed it would be better to lift and drop than to try .nxhui shot. -} Page A-10 l Page D-2 | Page B-19 | BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. INCINNATI, October 9.—We are told by Becretary of Commerce Roper that business activity is only 10 per cent under 1929, and that employment is at its highest level since 1930, State- ments and figures on re-employment differ so rads ically that they do not carry any degree of con- arise: Why is there no corresponding reduction in the sums the administration allegedly is spend- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1836. GUEST CITIZENGHIP WEIGHED BY COURT Justice Baily Orders Briefs in Case of Man With- out a Country. ‘The political future of Winston Guest, stalwart young polo player who aspires to public office in New York, was in the hands today of Justice Jen- nings Bailey of District Court, who has been asked to settle the question of Guest's citizenship, Guest contends that the refusal of immigration authorities to declare him & natural-born citizen, or at least a naturalized citizen, is seriously im- peding his political career, Despite the fact that he was born in England of a British father, the polo star contends that his citizenship fol- lows that of his American-born mother. Mrs. Guest was separated from her husband in 1919 and re- turned with young Winston to the United States, where she was repatri- ated by a Federal court. All-Day Argument. The case was argued all day yester- day before Justice Bailey, who finally took the matter under advisement and asked attorneys to submit briefs, Chief Assistant United States At- torney David A. Pire, representing Secretary of Labor Perkins and Immi- gration Commissioner Daniel W. Mac- Cormack, made it plain that those officials “hold no grudge” against Guest. = “Indeed, he is-the type of man they would welcome to citizenship,” Pine said. “But they believe that he is not | entitled to citizenship, and to grant it to him would set a dangerous prece- dent.” 3 One of Guest's attorneys, Harrison | Tweed, told the court, “I don't think the immigration authorities want to send this man out into the world with. | out a country, I think they eventually | will change their ruling.” Faces Uncertainty. | Prof. Edwin Borchard of Yale. na- | tionally known authority on declara- | tory judgments, who was another of | Guest's counsel, said an adverse de- eision by the court would “doom Guest to a life of uncertainty.” | Together with Attorney George W.| | Dalzell and Wilbur Stammler, they { asked Justice Bailey for a declaratory | judgment that their client is a nat- | ural-born citizen and for & writ of | mandamus commanding immigration | authorities to change the records in | which Guest was listed as an alien ' when he was brought to America at the age of 13 by his mother. If the court cannot hold him to be of American birth, the attorneys would have it order that he be granted a certificate of “derivative citizenship” | growing out of the repatriation of his | mother while he still was a minor, Neuh:alily (Continued From First Page.) | investigating commission into Portu- | gal, asserted gateway for alleged mili- | tary assistance to Fascist insurgents | seeking to overthrow the Madrid gov- | ernment. | 2. Pormal charges from Madrid. | backed up by an almost identical | Soviet allegation, that Portugal, Italy {and Germany are violating the | }P'rench-sponmred neutrality agree- | | ment. Indications Portugal would not | allow an investigating group within | her borders were published in the | newspaper Diario de Noticlas at| Lisbon. Russian Warning Held Bluff. The newspaper declared “official | | circles” regard as “bluff” the Russian | warning of prospective withdrawal | | from the non-intervention accord—in ! | the event alleged Fascist aid is con- tinued. | Portugal, the newspaper said, would not allow “any form of foreign control or supervision.” The Earl of Plymouth, British chairman of the committee, was the first to arrive at the foreign office for the secret session. Other representa- tives, including the Russians, came in | a short time later, | “We have stated our stand.” one of | the Russian delegates said grimly. “It is up to the committee to do | | something about it now.” Portugal sent a delegate. Dino | Grandi, Italian Ambassador to Great | | Britain, appeared for the Rome gov- ernment. Germany was represented by Prince Otto von Bismarck, chan- | cellor of the Germany Embassy in London. Britain Peacemaker, Great Britain again assumed the role of European peacemaker. London quarters expressed belief British persuasion could prevent col- lapse of the neutrality agreement, keep Russia represented on the com- mittee, and checkmate a Soviet warn- ing to send relief forces to help Madrid turn back the advancing insurgents. With the Spanish and Russian charges placed before the session, some quarters held it possible the German and Italian delegates might fling back counter-charges of non- intervention violations. One neutral diplomat termed Mos- cow's move “propaganda” designed to placate world Leftist opinion, some of which has been most critical against Russia for not hurrying to Madrid's aid. —_ Argentina Building Hospitals. Argentina is launching its five-year program for construction of 18 tuber- culosis hospitals and 12 sanitariums, the total cost to be $2,020,000. granting for the sake of argument & definite increase, the questions of the unemployed? And why do | jumpers and park riding horses are | the schedule at 10 o'clock. The show | the fpture expenditures include more billions for such relief? Mr. Roosevelt gaily proclaims the doctrine that the national income will so increase in volume that there will be mo difficulty collecting the mgnfluh—miyhmmeela—l “outlays. Business will have to be as active as Jesse Owens to make good that happy theory. (Copyright, 1936.) New Envoys’ Tasks Delicate Signor Fulvio Suvich, new Italian Ambassador, and his wife, who arrived here yesterday. Fernando de los Rios, new wife and daughter, sentative of the loyalist government. Spanish Ambassador, with his He also reached here yesterday as repre- It has been charged re- peatedly that the Italian government actively is aiding the Fascist Spanish in their revolution against the government. —A. P. and Underwood Photos. FORT MYER TEAM 10 RIDE IN SHOW Many Entries Expected at Indian Spring Event Tomorrow. Py a St2ff Correspondent o. s'ne Star. FOUR CORNERS, Md., October 9.— With many entries expected from Washington, Maryland and Virginia, | the Second Annual Horse Show of the | Indian Spring Hunt Club is to be held here tomorrow in the ring at Colesville pike and old Bladensburg road. i Marrian Curran, master of the hunt | and chairman of the meet, said today that he expects a number of horses to | be entered in this event that have never before been seen in show rings in this vicinity, while virtually all of | the veteran stars of this sector also will be on hand. Fort Myer Team Expected. Classes for ponies. hunters, open included on the program, with the | events for juvenile riders inaugurating is to run throughout the day, with a | brief luncheon recess. Among the equine performers to compete in the meet will be many of the foremost hunters in Virginia, Maryland and the District, while it is expected that the Fort Myer Horse Show team also will send a capable representation to the show. Valuable prizes are offered for the winners of eacih event and a hand- some championship trophy will be awarded to the owner of the horse scoring the greatest number of points. Classes Listed. The morning program includes two saddle classes and two jumping classes for ponies and an event for park riding horses. A brief luncheon recess will follow. Included on the aiternoon schedule are the following competitions: Junior hunters, ladies’ hunters, open | hunters, knock down and out, hlndy} hunters, hunter hacks, working hunters, pairs of hunters and junior Thorsemanship. Points will be awarded toward the championship trophy in every class | except that for pairs of hunters, Cur- ran said. | Spain (Continued From First Page.) —_— sectors around the city, inhabitants of the capital were heartened by re- ports of successes in the far north. In Oviedo, Bay of Biscay city held by insurgents under Col. Aranda since the war atarted, government troops were re| virtually to have taken the city in hand-to-hand street fight- ing. ‘Rapidly spreading flames led to be- lief the city was being fired. BARCELONA RAID REPORTED. Second Plane Attack Occurs on ported to have been caused by air raids yesterday on Alicante and Ma. lags. : Germany Purchases Strap, Germany is the largest purchaser of obtained from the Injured by Car BABY REPORTED IN “FAIR” CONDITION. MARTHA ANN ROBERTS, Nineteen-month-old daughter of William T. Roberts, 40, of Tampa, Fla., who was injured in the chest, back and side yesterday when her father’s automobile started acciden- tally. knocking her against another machine. The mis- hap occurred while the child was playing behind the car, which was parked in the 100 block of G street mortheast. _She is in Casfialty Hospital. BODY OF WOMAN FOUND IN 8 INCHES OF WATER Husband Finds Mrs. Bram Sword of Lebanon, Va., Who Disap- peared During Night. By the Associated Press, LEBANON, Va, October 9.—The body of Mrs. Bram Sword, about 60, was found early yesterday in 8 inches of water in Little Cedar Creek, near her home. Sherifft Arthur Combs said Mrs. Sword's husband found her missing about 4 o'clock, when he arose to go to work. The officer said Sword at first be- lieved his wife had arisen early to cook breakfast, but upon being unable to find her, conducted a search that led to a neighbor'’s home and to his son's home nearby. At neither' place was anything known of Mrs. Sword's disappearance, the officer continued, so Sword was returning to his own home, when he discovered his wife's body in the small Vansittart Sees King. LONDON, October 9 (). —King Edward received Sir Robert Vansit- tart, the permanent undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, at Buck- ingham Palace today and was be- lieved to have received s full report on "thn Spanish non-intervention ais- pute. ALEXANDRIA MAN KILLED IN CRASH Woman’s Death Increases Toll by Two—Truck Pins Victim Beneath. Virginia added two more victims to its 1936 trafic toll yesterday after an Alexandria man was killed on the Alexandria-Washington road, and the wife of a Federal official died of injuries received in an accident Sep- tember 30. d The woman, Mrs. Roger B. Mc- ‘Whorter, 362¢ Davis street, wife of hospital Wednesday nighi. She and her husband were en route to Court- land, ,Ala., to sttend the funeral of her father when the mishap oc- curred near Buchanan, Va. Mc- ‘Whorter, also injured, is receiving treatment at the same hospital, and attendants described his condition as “satisfactory.” Pinned beneath his light delivery truck when it overturned after scrap- ing a larger truck late yesterday, George K. Bon- ner, 24, of 116 North Fairfax street, Ale: dria, former night manager at Child's Restau- rant on New York avenue, was killed. Bonner was & native of Kilmarnock, Va. Other Driver Arrested. State Police- man C. B. Press- ley arrested Elliott T. Byrd, 31, col- ored, 100 block of L street, driver of the other truck, on a charge of invol- untary manslaughter. Byrd was held overnight in the Arlington Jail pend- ing a coroner’s inquest today. The body of Mrs. McWhorter was sent to Courtland. where funeral serv- ices were to be held today. Besides her husband, Mrs. McWhorter is survived by a son, Robert, & student at Mer- cersburg Academy. A coroner’s jury was to conduct inquests today into the deaths of Sergt. Roy F. Miller, 28, crack exhi- bition rider at Fort Myer, and Mrs. Mary E. Walker, 90, Grafton Hotel. Miller was killed almost instantly Wednesday night when the automo- bile in which he was riding rolied over several times at the Virginia end of Memorial Bridge. Mrs. Walker died in Homeopathic Hospital the same night of injuries received when struck by s street car September 12. The deaths raised the District’s 1936 traffic toll to 63. Several other persons, one a police- man, were injured in mishaps in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia during the last 24 hoyrs. Motor Cycle Policeman William R. Greenfield, 40, eleventh precinct, suf- fered hip, knee and arm injuries when he crashed into the rear of an sutomobile which he was pursuing. |.The accident is said to have occurred | when the car made a left turn into |Ridge road from Alabama avenue | southeast. Anthony Fimiani, 20, of 913 Third street, listed as driver of the ma- chine, was charged with speeding, failing to make a hand signal when turning and having no tail light. Four men were injured, two erit- | ically, in mishaps in Arlington Coun- ty late yesterday and last night. Rosser F. Kane, 72. Bealton, Va., is in a critical condition at George- town Hospital with a fractured skull and possible fractured neck, received when hit by a car near Cherrydale. Police held the driver, Walter Leache, 23. of 11 Rock Creek Church road under a $2,000 bond pending the outcome of the elderly man's injuries. Georse K. Bonmer. |BORAH URGES MONEY | CONTROL BY CONGRESS Idaho Senator Assails Power of Private Banking Interests to Regulate Volume. By ne Associated Press. MOSCOW, Idaho, October 9. —Sena- tor William E. Borah, Republican of Idaho, assailing the power of private banking interests to regulate the volume of money, advocated yesterday the formation of a monetary author- ity under control of Congress. The Senator in a campaign address here last night did not amplify his prescription for the monetary system. “Depression came as a resuit of price failure, and that because of monetary conditions.” he said. Denouncing the gold standard. he continued: In 1929 there was about enough monetary gold in the world to run the automobile industry in the United States, and the resultant scramble left all the metal in the hands of England, France and the United States, Trade dropped to nothing.” Borah indorsed Federal Government relief expenditures, asserting “the Government had to come to the aid of those who were destitute.” GAS TAX CONFERENCE ELECTS NEW OFFICERS By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, October 9.—C. F. Joyner, jr. assistant director of the Virginia Motor Vehicles Division, was elected president of the North Amer- ican Gasoline Tax Conference ves- terday by delegates attending the eleventh annual convention. Joyner, who served as secretary for the past year, succeeds A. A. Hotch- kiss of Topeka, Kans. San Prancisco was selected as the 937 convention site, the date of which will be named later. Other new officers are Arthur Pugh, Wisconsin State tax administrator, vice president; H. P. Leatham, Iowa State treasurer, secretary, and Walter 8. Reddy, director of the gasoline tax division of the-Michigan State Department, treasurer. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World, What- ever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE mfli’ FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month, Call National 5000 and service will start at once, the chief engineer of the Federal | Power Commission, died in a Roanoke Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. REFUELING. met the other day at North- ampton street and Nebraska avenue, one bound for town and the other speeding toward the suburbs. The driver of the southbound bus came to & standstill with brakes screaming and called to the other | driver to stop. Passengers aboard took and wondered visibly if something had gone wrong. The hailed bus stopped and backed up. “Would you like some candy?”. the southbound driver shouted. Picking up his change-carrier, the northbound driver left his vehicle, crossed Nebraska avenue and selected several chocolate creams from a box his friend produced. After this pause in the flow of trans- portation, both busses were off at top speed once more. * ¥ ¥ % RESENTMENT. Brice Bowie, popular circuit court clerk at Upper Marlboro, al- most became the cause of a court room aitercation, entirely wun- awares, when the October term opened. One of Bowie's many loyal friends heard a stranger say: “This court clerk’s a prothonotary “I was about to take a poke at that fellow,” Bowtes friend con- fded, “but 1 decided to look in the dictionary first. Now I'm glad I didn’t hit him. . x % CONTEMPT. TWO men against one woman in & fight—it doesn't seem fair—but | the lady won anyway. | In traffic the other day, near the | town's most elegant department store, | & traffic officer held up his hand to | stop pedestrians and waved the lone | motorist in view—driving the smallest | make of car in existence—to come ahead. A majestic young woman walked | directly in its path in violation of the | signal and the driver had to slam on his brakes. “What's the idea?" yelled the traffic officer. “Trying to kill yourself?” shouted the driver. “You looked as if you were dream- ing.” the young woman said haughtily to the policeman. And then, sweeping | the minute vehicle with her eyes, “and 1 failed to notice any car.” % ¥ % ETERNAL. ! R. THOMAS F. MURPHY, Census Bureau division chief, probably knows more about religions and the convictions of followers of each sect {than any one in the United States. He is, for the second time, assigned | to supervise statistics on religions com- piled at 10-year intervals by the bu- | reau, and will soon announce what | new in the way of religions has sprung . up in America during the last decade. This census deals with religious or- | ganizations only, Dr. Murphy says, and is in no way an inquiry into the affili- | ations of individuals. Last time Dr. | Murphy checked up, 213 denomina- tions were discovered, and the number is likely to be larger now. Of this number, classifications, based on major resem- blances of belief and ritual. Fifty- eight kinds of religions—the more dividualistic faiths—were listed as sep- The Lutherans had 22 types of de- | nominations; the Mennonite bodies, 17; the Presbyterian, 9, and the Bap- | tists, 18. Explaining the nature of these classifications, Dr. Murphy says that the Baptist list, for example, in- cludes “General, Separate, United, | Spirit Predestinarian” Baptists. The | phrase “two-seed,” he says, indicates | one seed of good and one of evil, the good seed, of course, emanating from God and the evil seed from the devil. Dr. Murphy knows all sorts of things like that about America at worship. * ok ¥ x RED FACE. SPR!ADXNO a dragnet of opera- tives around Washington parks to ask loitering persons what they are thinking about would reveal that their thoughts are as diffused as those of folks found musing in Oregon forests, is our contention. A professor from the University of Oregon, who recently made his first visit to the East, disagrees with us. He is impressed with whirling around eircles in automobiles in Washington— with the quantities of men and women rushing up and down in elevators— with the business deals negotiated in cocktail bars. ith an trates what the professor regards as an essential difference between life at the Nation's Capital and in the West- ern woods. Back home he noticed an Indian he knows leaning against a tree, head bent in thought, An hour- and-a-half later he found the Indian in the same position. The professor asked what was troubling him. The Indian replied, “Heap black horses got white faces. No white horses got black faces.” If it weren't for the police, who would probably have all of our opera- tives in jail charged with accosting strangers, we think we could match the professor’s story any day in the Executive City. Sl SRR Noted Physician Dies at 74. ATLANTA, October 9 (#).—Dr. Horace Grant, 74, retired physician and capitalist, who several years ago gained wide attention as an organizer of the National Order of Pipe Smokers, l ARING along, with every ton | | I of metal aquiver, two busses | their noses out of their newspapers | 155 were grouped into 23 | | Primative and the Two-Seed-in-the | ASKSAIRPORTDATA- ONHYBLA VALLEY King Follows Suggestion of Eckener Who Suggested ! Zep Terminal. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Senator William H. King, Demo- crat, of Utah, chairman of the Senate District Committee, will ask Gen. Os- car Westover, chairman of the sub- | committee making a survey for the | District of Columbia Airport Com- mission, to make a special study of the Hybla Valley flying field, sug- gested by Dr. Hugo Eckener as a sat- | 1sfactory area to be used jointly as a | Western terminus for the Zeppelin transport company. Senator King will place the recom- | mendation of Dr. Eckener before the joint commission at an early meeting and desires to get an early report from | Gen. Westover because King intends | to make a report in January to Con- | Bress. He expressed his anxiety today to have the Distriet airport preblem settled as soon as possible, and feels that adequate provision should be made to meet needs for a half century | to come. He said he hoped for action by Congress in the coming session. Dr. Eckener advocated use of the Hybla Valley field when he stopped off here this week en route to New York | for his last overseas flight of the sea- | son. He said he intends to renew his | demonstration flights in April. At that time Senator King hopes to have Dr. Eckener testify before the Joint Airport Commission of Senators, Rep- resentatives and others. This commission has not previous]v given consideration to the suggested Virginia site. Three sites have been given tenta- tive approval by Dr. Eckener for the Western terminus of the Zeppelin trans-Atlantic line—at Morristown, N. J., at Baltimore and at Hybla Valley. Seeks Best Possible Site, “As far as I know the Hybla Valley site has not been considered by our commission,” said Senator King, “but as chairman of the commission, in the interests of getting the best po:- sible site for the District airport, 1 | will personally bring it to the attention | of the other members and will ask Gen. Westover to make a special study. I hope to have Dr. Eckener give expert testimony. Personally I have an open mind as to where the Washington airport should be located. But I ferl we should look far enough ahead to provide facilities to meet requirements for a half century at least in advance of our times. “With the possible exception of ra- dio. no modern invention and devel- opment has made as rapid and impor- tant advances as air transportation None is more important for national defense. Not only for commercial and passenger use, but for national de- | fense in time of war, the airport at the Nation's Capital should be adc- quate, properly located and thorough- ly up-to-date. Extreme care should be taken regarding the location and | then the District airport should be | kept in model condition, superior to that of any other city. Dr. Eckener's recommendation should be given care- ful consideration as coming from one of the foremost pioneers in the fleld of aviation and air transportation. “Our commission should look ahead 50 that adequate facilities may be pro- ! vided for the time when planes will | be bigger and air transportation more | extensive—and always figuring that this field will be commandeered for | the use of the Government in war emergencies. “Two Fields in One.” “It is an excellent idea to have the two fields together—American termi- |nus of the Zeppelin trans-Atlantic | transport line and the airport serving | the Nation's Capital. However, I be- lieve that we should give serious con« sideration to making provision for hydroplanes as well as airplanes, by affording both water and langd facili- ties for landing. Of course, the Poto- mac River will always afford an oppor= tunity for water landings. | "I feel also that we should not be in the least niggardly about adequate | provision now. Just as soon as I can {get the members of this joint com- {mis.sion on the District airport to- | gether I will call a meeting. I will | begin writing my report at the earliest | possible date and will ask Gen. West- over to expedite his studies, so that when Congress meets in January I | will be able to make recommendations | with reliable estimates of cost.” P | |MAHAN, KIDNAPER, ¥ Weyerhaeuser Abductor | Is in Prison Hospital for Treatment. | By the Associated Press, Sanford Bates, director of Federal prisons, today confirmed reports that William Mahan, convicted kidnaper of | 9-year-old George Weyerhauser, was |in the Federal Prison Hospital at Springfield, Mo., “for treatment of & | mental trouble.’ | . Mahan is serving a life sentence for | kidnaping the boy at Tacoma, Wash, in May, 1935. He was committed to Alcatraz Prison, in S8an Francisco har- | bor, but recently was transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary for mental observation. A board of examining physicians, Bates said, subsequently found the kidnaper-convict mentally ill and ree- ommended his admittance to the Springfield institution. The transfer | was made September 19. FARM PRODUbTS RISE ™ AND FOOD FOLLOWS Wholesale Commodity Price In. dex Increases—Fruits, Veg- etables Up 7.3%. By the Associated Press. Sharp advances in farm products prices during the week of October 3 were reported yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau sald gains in barley. corn, cattle, cotton, eggs, apples, dried beans and white potatoes were respon- sible largely for an increase of 0.4 per cent in its index of wholesale com- modity prices. Wholesale food prices advanced 0.6 per cent for the week, mostly as the result of an increase of 7.3 per cent in fruits and vegetables, —— Signs Warn Pedestrians. LINCOLN, Nebr. (#).—The police painted warnings in brilliant red and 1 is ” [} - IS MENTAL PATIENT °