Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1936, Page 8

Il movar STANDARD 820.50 No. 10 i Year Free Service. Basy Terms. Sore Throat due to cold relieved at first swallow. Satisfaction, or Be Thoughtful Even If You Have Sent Another Gift— Send Burton’s FLOWERS On Christmas Day! her loveliness with fresh, Hilho e aUERges “rloiR BURTOAR Decorate _vour own dinner table or the living with the one thing adds to the BURTON'S FLOWE! settias. rsages. ete.. at Prompt delivery to eity an WE TELEGRAPH FLOWERS Thru Florists’ Tele- Simply give us your order— we _guarantee prompt service, Place your orders now Open nights and Sundays FLDRIST '€ 4000 s Balt. NURERYmEn Boul. ATlantic 0162 Hyatts. 785 SHO = Peanut Store HOT, ROASTED PEANUTS 2w 33¢ ROASTED BEFORE YOUR EVES SPECIALI CONGRESS 10 FAGE HIGH COURT ISSUES ‘|Showdown Between New Deal and Tribunal Seen Inevitable. BY the Associated Press. ‘The forthcoming Congress is widely expected to go down in history either as an adept stepper within the Oon- stitution as it stands, or the pro- poser of an amendment to enlarge Federal powers. In the political campaign, Presi- dent Roosevelt and his leaders re- dedicated themselves to N. R. A. and A. A. A. objectives, and promised “action.” After running on a record which showed a 6-t0-3 score against the administration in the Supreme Court, they have interpreted the over- whelming victory as a mandate to carTy on. Barring changes on the court due to deaths, many here' believe some sort of showdown inevitable between the New Deal and the constitutional views written in the N. R. A, Guffey and A. A. A, decisions. Demands since the election by organized labor and farmers’ spokesmen who supported Mr. Roosevelt recall the powers once exercised by those since outlawed agencies. With the Capital taking on the bustle and suspense that heralds the convening of a new Congress, in- terest in the constitutional question is universal. The way arriving leg- islators talk indicates that the budget- ary, neutrality and other debates may all be conducted before the broad backdrop of differences over funda- mentals. Questions Before Legisiators. Just where does the line of Federal authority stop and “State’s rights” begin? Shall we define “general wel- fare” for once and all? Exactly what does “due process of law” mean? 8o the questions run as legisiators intent on regulation of wages and hours and control of crop production restudy Supreme Court decisions bearing on those problems. In one respect the atmosphere is reminiscent of March, 1933, when Congress and the country looked so unquestioningly to the President for leadership. To- day, sgain, the lead is for him to take. His close advisers say they don't know what he intends, but quickly add it will not be retreat. ‘The situation is as new to Amer- ican history in some respecis as was the abdication of & King for love in English history. True, Supreme Court decisions have precipitated nmnncl arguments before. The Dred Scott decision of 1857, holding Congress powerless to ban slavery in the Ter- ritories, was castigated in the Lin- coln platform of 1860. Amendment Is Hinted. Never before was there an election, however, in which the candidates pledged to seek a constitutional amendment “if necessary.” Unless | questions of wage and hour stand- ards and “unfair business practices” can be answered effectively otherwise, the Democratic platform called for an amendment looking to joint Fed- eral and State jurisdiction. Mr. Roosevelt already has sought to encourage more State legislation | on wages and hours, unemployment insurance and old-age protection. He promised only recently to supplement | the State action when the problems | assume an interstate character. In the general opinion he will ree- ommend attempts at voluntary co- operation and further legislative ex- ploration of constitutional boundaries before broaching an amendment. He is not believed by advisers to sympa- thize with proposals to curtail the power of the Supreme Court, or to enlarge its membership. But if re. newed, efforts to meet the problems at which N. R. A. and A. A. A, were directed should fall before constitu- tional barriers, then the amendment question would be faced. _— The Laocoon group of the Vatican | | was sculptured between 40 and 20 BC. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936. Dealer in War Supp lies Finds Neutrality Laws Hurt Business European Nations Now Reject Second- Hand Materials, Ouitfitter of Armies Says. BY the Ansociated Press. NEW YORK, December 21.—With revolution rocking Spain, wars threat- ing to break out all over the globe, this should be a great period in the history of Francis Bannerman & Sons, outfitters of small nations for war since 1865. But Francls Bannerman, whose grandfather founded the business of buying up discarded war stocks and selling them again at bargain prices, says times aren't good at all. “Those crazy neutrality laws” he explains. “Nowadays,” he says, “European na- tions don't seem to want second-hand stuff. Even though it's as good as the material they buy first hand. They want the newest things they can get their hands on.” No stranger industry exists in all New York than the Bannerman busi= ness, a sort of glorified second-hand war supply service where you can buy anything from a museum piece out of the battle of the sixteenth century to such quantities as the 10,000 sad- dles, 100,000 rifies, 100,000 haversacks, 250,000 uniforms, 150,000 gun slings and 20,000,000 cartridges offered the Japanese Government straight out of stock during the Russo-Japanese war. Island Bought in 1900, So great were the Bannerman war stocks at one time that the family, in 1900, bought Polopel Island, in the Hudson River just below West Point, and in a specially-constructed arsenal there stored immense supe plies of guns and explosives. Even today no visitors are allowed on the island. Most of the Bannerman stock in trade is purchased from the United States Government at auction, a busi= ness that started when the first Fran- cls Bannerman, after returning from | the Civil War, started buying up cap= tured Confederate war material and equipment piled up after the dis- banding of the Northern armies. Bannerman relates that the firm at one time or another bought at auc- tion and disposed of to museums such pieces as the dog sled on which Ad- miral Peary mushed to the North Pole, the binnacle of the old frigate |Science Takes Job | Calming Indians In Curse of Death \U. S. Clears Medicine Man of Blame. in Sheep Fatalities. By the Associated Press. YUBA CITY, Ariz, December 21. —Science, methodical and thorough, | battled yvesterday to quiet the terror |a Navajo Indian medicine man's | magic brought to his feliow tribes- | men, The medicine man, Yellow Hair, told Indian shepherds if they did not move their flocks to new ranges he would “make magic and their sheep would die.”” The Indians refused. Next day 33 sheep were found dead. Government officials told the panic-stricken Indians that grease- wood killed their flocks, explained if sheep eat sufficient salt, greasewood will not harm them and to prove it grazed “salted” sheep on the range with no ill effects. But the Indians remained skep- tical. Finally laboratories at Gallup, N. Mex,, made a special investigation of the sheep deaths and assured the shepherds their flocks died from eat- ing greasewood, not from the curse of Yellow Hair. Constitution, cannon eaptured from the British at Yorktown and links from the chain that stretched across the Hudson below West Point 'to keep back British ships during the Revolution. “Dynamite Gun” on Hand. ‘The brass bell of the Spanish bat- tleship Cristobal Colon was bought from & sailor and was easily sold, but the firm still has torpedoes and tubes taken from sunken Spanish veasels, as well as the “dynamite gun,” a long-barreled fleld piece used by Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the Cuban campaign. ‘The seven-storied bullding the firm overflows is more of & museum now than & sales establishment. Admiral Dewey's battle flag, hung on the ground floor, isn't for sale, nor are ropes used by Custer’s 7th Cavalry 2DV o 7\ =g Ralvigh ;?‘ RN rs Prinee Albert, 16-ounce tin..... 79 Raleigh, | nee tin. .. .. 1% Stratford, 16-ounce tin......$1.25 Briggs, 16-ounce tin. . Dills Best, 16-ounce Edgeworth, 16-oun @ranger, 16-ounce ...$1.26 tin........ 900 tin......$80.10 fim........ 000 Model, 16-ounce tin...........19 Velvet, 16-ounce tin. . - Unien Leader, 14-ounee tin Tuxedo, 4-eunee tin HALF and HALF TOBACCO 43¢ 79¢ 8-ounce Tin cevnee 16-ounce Tin .....0 The favorite of discriminating smokers because this mild to- bacco combines two favorite smoking mixtures. $1 Tobacco Pouch A handsome briar pipe in and tobacco pouch for keeping tobacco fresh and moist, STRATFORD OLUB .00 Greystone Briar Pipe d 50¢ Oil Silk Both for .. 31.19 # cholce of shapes ... HOUSE EXTRA before the massacre, or the tattered flag carried in the Revolution by Lighthorse Harry Lee, father of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Proud, too, are the Bannermans of their war-like lineage, and the name the family won on a battlefield. The legend is that in the battle of Bannockburn in Scotland in the fourteenth century none other than King Robert Bruce himself gave that | name to the man of the family, after he had rescued s fallen' banner. _— Roller skating is so popular among undergraduates at Ottawa (Kans.) University that officlals bought skates ;:;r student use on the gymnasium “ALL OVER TOWN" —the better to serve you! “VIRGIN OF EL COBRE” CROWNED IN CUBA Pilgrims and 60,000 Spectators ‘Witness Coronation Ceremony at Santiago. By the Associated Press. BANTIAGO, Cuba, December 21.— The “Brown Virgin of El Cobre” was crowned yesterday before pilgrims to the Eucharistic Congress here and an estimated 60,000 spectators. ‘The Archbishops of Havana ‘and Santiago, three bishops and Liberator Tosti, charge d'affaires of the Papal Nunciature, presided at the roronation was placed on the statue of the Virgin. | Following pontifical mass, the statue —18 inches high—was carried to El Cobre Sanctuary, 12 miles away, un- der an escort of civil and military authorities. DINNER PROFITABLE PUMPKIN BUTTES, Wyo., Decem- ber 21 (A).—Mrs. Iva Frye, Gillette | housewife, realized a profit on her Sun- day dinner yesterday. She bought a chicken for 50 cents, | In its gizzard she found a gold nug- get. A jeweler appraised the nugget at $1.96. Profit—$1.46. Lucky Strike, carton of 200. $1.20 h, carton of 200.. ..$1.20 Camel, carton of 200........$1.20 earton of 200 Chesterfield, carton of 200...51.20 COCKTRIL TRAY Callente (red), or AN UNUSUALLY FINE GIFT Not only an ash tray, but & tray for holding his highball. 23'; inches tall. In Cordovan (brown), Teakwood (bdlack). $‘I .59 Kool, carton of 200.........51.38 Vi y, carton of 200 Herbert Tareyton, carton of 200.51.38 Philip Morris, ¢ LIGHTERS RONSO N Leather Covered ‘ Formerly $8.00 ... Personality P. 6. iy Bl “Flip and Tt's Lit—] and It's Out.” Discontinued model. A handsome gift. Release N Box of 25 Box of 5 $3.86 $3.86 ceremony in which a $15,000 crown “~ BOX OF 26, $1.28; BOX OF 60, $2.50 GOLD COIN OLUB HOUSE EXTRA 6¢ EACH. BOX OF 60, $2.50 Personality Panatella ..$1.95 Personality Corena ....$2.45 Personality Queens.....$2:45 DELICICUS MIXED NUTS 55¢€ Lb. SALTED IN GREAMERY BUTTER FRESH NUTS! Packed in Holly Boxes WHOLE GASHEWS . .65 b, BROKEN OCASHEWS..4Selh. MEDIUM PECANS ...7%¢ b, MAMMOTH PEGANS.9%¢ Ib. BLAN. MIXED NUTS. .8%¢ Ih, ENGLISH WALNUTS. 6% Ib. BLACK WALNUTS .68 Ib, LARGE FILBERTS UNBLAN. BRAZILS BLAN. BRAZILS.. AN. ALMONDS. $4.85 $4.85 El Producte Bouquet ... .$1.95 Harvester Perfecte .$0.13 tor Porfoete ..$1.95 oo $2.48 El Verso, Adjutant . .....81.95 Bouquet ......$1.18 nde Queens . .$1.13 Nenrietta Blunts .......$1.13 La Azera R I ] lina Exeeliontes ...$1.13 Box of 28 ...81.95 ..$113 ..$LI3 ..$1.00 .. $LI13 Box of 50 $3.85 $2.25 $2.26 $2.00 $2.26 860 ¢ Cabinets ....$1.98 ceseieneanne Optime Blunts. .. Roil Tan P. E...... Muriel Senators Poppers . Phillies All Nuts Are Fresh Dally and Salted in Pick His Gift From ne Of These Popular Makes TOBACCO POUCHES 49cand 98¢ PFine pouches that keep tobacco fresh, moist, and in perfect smoking condi- tion. With handy zipper closings. pure, swest, eool YELLOW BOLE PIPES ROYAL DEMUTH PIPES =The only genuing heasy-cured pipe. «<Choice of many desirable shapes 7’¢ :; sises, With pive ”.“ AT THE . - 4 ; PEANUT STORE 5th 8t N.W, BRINKLESS KAYWOODIE FRANK MEDICO PIPES tween stal _and —=M{ld. and fres frem bitter juisds. ~—The only pipe with the cello- A really ecol ”.5. n-wwmm;l.” omoke ont filler.....veeeenns _"-"l- 6. MiLANO MS £ Tt R Te eassese DT T T TTY TN ‘YHE GREATEST NAME IN SOCKS | Gt e st 4