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& W MUSSOLINIJEERS AT DEMOCRACIES Call for Self-Sufficiency Jibes U. S. for Late Labor Law Enactment. BACKGROUND— Economic rehabilitation of Italy was Mussolini's first promise to the nation, and he now claims his em- pire has 50 per cent of her require- ments in iron and a limitless sup- ply of manganese and baurite. Italy already has started erporting aluminum and Il Duce claims self- suficiency in petroleum will be attained by 1938. Conquest of -Ethiopia last year was undertaken to obtain raw materials, impartial ~“Observers agree. By the Associated Press. ROME, May 15.—Italy will make herself economically self-sufficient even if she has to work “25 hours a day,” Premier Benito Mussolini pro- claimed today. He called this program a guarantee of peace and a surety of “the life, the future and the power” of the filun people. “The premier laid down his, dictum Yefore cheering members of the Cor- Porative Guild, which includes rep- fesentatives of all phases of Fascist Nfe. at their annual meeting in the .}mi\u Caesar Hall of the old capitol thilding. # Apparent Reference to U. S. #<I1 Duce's black-uniformed audience applauded his ironic references to @emocracies, which, he declared, wished Italy to abandon her self- dufficiency program “for we know t what.” ~He provoked a demonstration by &0 apparent reference to the United States when he spoke of a country which “prohibited collective labor ¢ontracts until a_month ago.” ~ (Presumably hé referred to the up- Bolding of the Wagner labor relations ¢tt by the United States Supreme ©ourt. Mussolini has set up a “cor- forative” system under which strikes E)e forbidden and arbitration of la- r disputes is compulsory.) Sees Peace Guarantee. * Standing in the shadow of the Statue of Julius Caesar, I1 Duce de- clared: © “Economic autarchy (self-suffi- | elency) is a guarantee of peace which | We firmly desire. It is an impediment to war, * * * | “For us it is impossible in a world Armed to the teeth to abandon such & policy.” « Although he asserted his economic policy would not “diminish the volume of world trade,” political sources said they felt his speech indicated Italy was not in a mood to make active con- tributions to solution of the world’s | economic difficulties. By contrast, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s foreign minister, told the Chamber of Deputies Thursday that Jtaly would co-operate in any effort for world economic betterment. ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS SPREAD IN POLAND Bomb Wrecks Building in War- saw—Mob Beats Many, Smashes 250 Windows. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, May 15—The bomb- ing of a Jewish building in Warsaw and rioting against Jews in Grabow, Lodz Province, today marked the spread of anti-Semitic disorders in Poland in spite of nation-wide police precautions. A bomb exploded at the entrance of the Jewish community building in the eapital, damaging the bulilding but tausing no casualities. A mob that collected in Grabow after a Jewish shopkeeper had knifed ¢ Gentile competitor beat all Jews t could find and smashed 250 windows Jewish homes. Frightened Jews barred their houses until the riot sub- eided. I Also in Brzesc—the wartime Brest- Titovsk—some 30,000 Jews remained hidden in their homes while a large &owd followed the coffin of a po- Hceman whose stabbing by a Jew z:smrdny precipitated serious disor- TS, $30,000,000 BRAZIL LOAN : FOR COFFEE CONTROL inper Issue to Department Avoids Neceesity of Taxes Under 15-Year Plan. &7 the Associated Press. %“RIO DE JANEIRO, May 15—The ilian government today loaned its partment of coffee 500,000 contos pproximately $30,000.000) to help gpntrol world coffee prices. «Fernando Costa, president of the tpflee department, said the loan would fiot necessitate additional taxation, But would be made in paper money &hd backed by 15-year, 6 per cent gevernment bonds. It was estimated the loan will in- finte Brazil's currency by 12 per dent. Total paper money circula- tbn recently was estimated by offi- ocials at 4,000,000 contos ($240,000,~ a%0). Costa’s statement said 30 per cent of the output of each plantation must be delivered to the coffee depart- ment for withdrawal from the mar- ket, and another 40 per cent must be sold to the department at a price of 65 milreis (about $3.90) per sack of 132.2 pounds. The average mar- ket price is 80 milreis. The remainder of the crop may be sold by the planters without goverment ocontrol, though they must pay a government Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, May 16, 1937. PART ONE. Main News Section. NATIONAL. Extension of “nuisance taxes" is be- lieved likely. Page A-1 C. 1. O. gives steel firms 10 days to sign. Page A-1 Flexible tariff studied as part of new farm bill. Page A-1 Court bill foes accept ‘“no compro- mise” challenge. Page A-1 Supreme Court may give social secur- ity rulings tomorrow. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. D. C. tax study now veers toward parking meter plan. Page A-8 Arlington services to feature Memorial day program. Page A-20 New mammal house at Zoo is opened to visitors. Page A-23 Board of Trade holds 43d shad bake at Bay Rridge. Page B-1 Occupational education may be stud- ied here soon. B-1 Newman seen likely successor to Judge Hitt. Welfare Board urges revision of D. C. health laws. Page B-1 Senate contempt case goes to triai to- MOrrow. Page B-1 Senators plan sauto inspection bill hearings soon. B-1 Montgomery County high schools to award 406 diplomas. Page B-3 “Partner” detective system here now in effect. Page B-4 SPORTS. War Admiral wins Preakness by head from Pompoon. Page A-1 War Admiral takes Preakness by head from Pompoon. Page B-6 Simmons’ homer gives Nats 5-to-4 edge on Red Sox. Page B-6 Leaf Hanger takes tricolor in show at Arlington Hall. Page Episcopal team retains title in * Club track meet. Page B-3 Bureau of Lighthouse service is real aid to navigators. Page B-9 Evening Star tennis tournament draws heavy entry list. Page B-10 Snark takes Metropolitan Handicap in stirring finish. Page 3-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Page A-2 Lost and found. Page A-3 Obituary. Page A-16 PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Civic news. Page D-4 Military and veterans® news. Pages D-5-7 ‘Women's Clubs Page D-6 Parent-teacher activities. Page D-6 Cross-word puzzle. Page D-7 Resorts. Page D-8 Winning contract. Page D-9 Public Library. Page D-9 Page D-10 Stamps. PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. PagesE-1-11 Well-known folk. Page E-6 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-10 Shipping news. Page E-11 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. PagesF-1-4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Radio programs. PageF-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Dick Mansfield. Page F-6 Automobiles. Page F-8 Children's page. Page F-7 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Trade irregular. Page G-1 Stocks quiet, mixed. Page G-1 Wheat and cotton gain. Page G-1 Stock table. Page G-2 Bond table. Page G-3 Curb table. Page G-4 Educational. G-5 Classified advertising. Pages G-5-17 Trafc convictions. Page G-18 City news in brief. Page G-18 Vital statistics. Page G-18 Service orders. Page G-18 HORSEBACK EOURIERS INVITE 13 GOVERNORS Riders in Colonial Garb Bear In-- vitations to Constitu- tion Fete. Bs the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—Three courfers in Colonial garb set out to- day on horseback to invite the Gov- ernors of the 13 original States to the celebration September 17 of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Constitution. « The couriers bore invitations print- ed by Mayor 8. Davis Wilson on Ben- jamin Pranklin's original hand press at the Franklin Institute. The institute opened a display. of mementoes of the time of the sign- ing of the Constitution at the cere- monies at which the invitations were printed. Philip C. Staples, president of the institute, said it had been founded “to preserve the ideal and traditions of one man who was instrumental in framing of the Constitution.” Philadelphia’s four months’ fes- tival commemorating the framing and adoption of the Constitution was opened yesterday at Independence Hall. BREAD STRIKE ENDS PENDING NEGOTIATIONS Union Drivers in Pittsburgh to Work While Talks Go For- ward on Wages. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Msay 15.— Pitts- burgh’s bread strike ended today. Union drivers for major baking companies agreed to go back to work, pending negotiations for higher wages. About 450 wholesale drivers went on strike Wednesday. Later 4,000 house- to-house drivers said they would join the strike in 30 days. But when picket lines were drawn tax of about $2.70 per sack. —_—— FOUR DIE IN COLLISION Two Others Hurt in Ohio Auto- Train Crash. HAMILTON, Ohio, May 15 (#)— Mrs. Mary Belle Campbell, 54, and three of her children were killed and two other children critically injured late today in an automobile-train col- lision at a crossing 12 miles northwest of Hamilton. The dead are Lena Campbell, 19, driver of the Campbell automobile; Paul Campbell, 13, and Martha Camp- bell, 16. The injured were Martha's twin, Mary Campbell, and Vinie Oampbell, 8. Physicians said both suffered skull fractures and their condition was critical, "k L ] around the baking plants the home delivery drivers refused to go through them. Major companies stopped pro- duction and distribution of Pitts- burgh’s 1,500,000 loaves was held up. TO MEET HERE Altrologeri Select Capital for 1938 Convention. NEW YORK, May 15 (#.—The American Association of Scientific As- trologers tonight selected Washington 83 the convention city for 1938. Next year's meeting will be held in May. Before adjourning the astrologers ordered the collection and tabulation of 1,000,000 horoscopes “for the pur- pose of obtaining research and scien- tific data” and designated Ernest A. Grant of Washington to direct the work. ¢ Page B-1] THE SUNDA TRUCE REJECTED BY FILM CRAFTS Fundamental Demands on Union Shop Not Guaran- teed by Producers. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 15— The striking Federated Motion Picture Crafts refused tonight offers of a truce which would have returned them to work next Monday. Pat Casey, labor conciliator for the producers, informed federation leaders tonight “the producers have been and are willing to negotiate the matter of & union shop along with other de- mands.” But & reply made public by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the F. M. P. C. following & mass meeting said: “The strike committee, after full consideration of your communication, desires to inform you that your letter does not concede the fundamental de- mands of a written guarantee of 100 per cent union shop recognition for all crafts now on strike. Assurances Lacking. “Your letter gives no assurance that workers who left their jobs during the strike shall return to their jobs im- mediately in the same status as of April 4. “Upon compliance with these two basic demands the strike can be ter- minated immediately and negotiations opened not later than May 24 for settlement of wages, hours and oon- ditions.” Casey said in his letter that leaders of the striking machinists and culinary workers already had agreed to call their unions back to work Monday on the basis of verbal promises that union | shop would be negotiated, along with other demands. Statement by Schenck. Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of the Producers’ Committee, issued the fol- lowing statement: “A proposed form of contract with the Actors’ Guild, making effective guild shop in the signatory motion picture studios, was considered in its final form by the producers at a called meeting tonight. “The position of the various studio executives will be submitted to a com- mittee representing the Actors’ Guild tomorrow in advance of a guild meet- ing tomorrow night.” Individual Demands. Each of 10 striking unions affiliated with the Federated Motion Picture Crafts presented individual demands to the producers last night. All of them re-emphasized the F. M. P. C. demand for a union shop, but for the first time, definite wage and hour schedules which each union wants were included. These schedules were not made public. Silk Wage Rise Asked. PATERSON, N. J, May 15 (#)— Carl Holderman, New Jersey director of the Textile Workers’ Organizing Committee, C. I. O. affiliate, told cheering silk workers today the union had decided to revise upward the minimum wage demand for workers in local mills. “The extent of organization throughout the silk-producing field, the speed with which T. W. O. C. is growing in this field, as well as other “warrants,” he said, “a change in the national policy.” The new demands will be announced, Holderman said, in a few days. The original demands called for $15 a week for weavers, $12 for winders, $18 for warpers, $18 for twisters, $22 for loom fixers, & 40-hour week, time and & half for overtime, a week's vacation with pay and a general 15 per cent increase for those whose wages were over the minimum. St. Louis Hotels Tied Up. 8T. LOUIS, May 15 (#).—Guests lugged their own baggage, made' their own beds and with apparent good na- ture put up with other limited services today in eight leading St. Louis hotels affected by a strike of union chamber- maids, bellhops, cooks and other employes. Hotel managers and their assistants ran elevators and attempted to fill in a8 best they could the gap left by the ‘walkout of an estimated 2,000 workers. The president of a national hotel company assisted in preparing and serving breakfast in a hotel kitchen. With their helpers on strike, head chefs turned out whatever dishes their larders made possible, but union drivers, in sympathy with the hotel workers, ceased delivery of all sup- plies, except milk. Manager Gordon (Mickey) Coch- rane and members of his Detroit base ball team were forced to make beds and clean up their own rooms at a strike-bound hotel. They ate break- fast at nearby drug stores and ham- burger stands and then went to a downtown restaurant for lunch before this afternoon’s ball game. CZECH NAZI PUTSCH DOUBTED BY LEADERS Strong Police System Can Keep Rebellion Down, Praha Hears. B the Associated Press. PRAHA, Opechoslovakia, May 15.— Government leaders, confronted by recurrent reports of an imminent Naszi putsch, expressed confidence today the strong Cgech system of police and constabulary could quell any threat- ened rising in Csechoslovakia’s Ger- man-inhabited border strip in which 3,000,000 Germans dwell. Danger of a putsch, they asserted, Was more rumor than fact, but it served to keep the government alert. They refused to share the alarm periodically expressed in other Eu- ropean capitals, where Czechoslovakia is referred to as the probable next battle ground of the Europe-wide con- fiict between left and right, which is tearing Spain apart. Praha officials attributed most of the alarmist putsch reports to German efforts to create the impression abroad that the German districts are close to open revolt. They believe there are enough So- cialists and Catholics among the Ger- mans in Czechoslovakia to break up any subversive attempt that may be made by the German majority group, which has a “fuehrer” in Konrad Henlein and is organized on Nazi lines. Chester Conklin’s Wife Dies. HOLLYWOOD, May 15 (P).—Mar- herita Rouse Conklin, 45, who was taken in a wheel chair to her wedding with Comedian Chester Conklin three Years ago, last . Bhe injured her spine when she fell on a stage during a violin recital 20 years ago. Y BSTAR, completed by next year. WASHINGTO. The heads and shoulders of President Washington and President Jefferson, sculptured in the solid granite of South Dakota’s Black Hills, receiving the finishing touches as workmen begin work on the last figure, that of President Lincoln. cently announced that he expected to have the major work on the Mount Rushmore Memorial Margaret Sours, 19, of | Merrifield in Critical Condition. Miss Margaret Lois Sours, 19, em- ploye in the office of a sales agency | here, was near death at Georgetown | Hospital early today with a fractured skull and possible internal injuries suf- | fered yesterday afternoon when a rid- | ing horse fell with her while crossing K street in the 2800 block. | Miss Sours, daughter of Elmer H.| | Sours, Merrifield, Va., was on her way | to Rock Creek Park with a young es- cort when the accident occurred. The injured girl was taken to the hospital |in a private automobile. Members of | the girl's family hurried to the hospi- tal from Merrifield. Miss Sours. a graduate of Central High School last year, had been living in Merrifield and commuting to work | here. | The girl suffered injuries to her | right leg in addition to her other hurts Hospital physicians described her con- dition as extremely critical. | o | MAY BE TOKIO MAYOR Gen. Kazushige Ugaki Nominated by City Council. | | TOKIO, May 15 (#)—Gen. Kazu- | shige Ugaki, former minister of war and governor-general of Korea, today | became the prospective next mayor of Tokio. The general, who failed recently in his attempt to form s national cabinet, was nominated for | that post by the Tokio City Assembly, | which gave him 13 votes to 3 for | Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass | party. The nomination must be confirmed { by the home ministry. Ugaki wnuldl succeed Torataro Ushizuka, in office since 1933. | (Some of Japan's most distinguished | statesmen have served as Mayor of | the capital, & post which frequently jhas been the stepping stone to high national office.) Southern .Sin ging Feuds Attracting “Fasola” Hordes By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 15.—There's a “mighty bit of feudin'” going on in the South today, but it's being shot out with musical notes, not bullets. The “fasola singers”—thousands of them—are practicing their “quavers” and “semi-breves” for the Summer singing conventions that will start many persons of the rural South “go- ing to town” with their shape-note song books. Instrumental accompaniment banned at these singing bees. “Fasola singing” (the name comes from the first of three of the only four notes named in their scale: Fa, sol, la and me) came to the rural South from early itinerant singing masters. Some of the native successors com- piled song books of favorite selections and set forth their own “rudiments.” Their followers clashed over singing methods and formed classes which to- day jealously cherish their own books. Puzzling to readers of modern mu- sic are the shapes of the notes. In- stead of the common, rounded notes, most “fasola” books use a diamond- shaped note to designate “me,” & tri- angle for “ round for “sol” and square for ‘Ia. is Herring Forum Speaker Girl Suffers Fractured Skull When Horse Falls With Her MARGARET LOIS SOURS. | LOST TIME SCHOOL RIDE FATAL 10 3 Express Train, Late, Hits Auto at Crossing on Way to Extra Class. By the Assoctated Press. MILTON, Vt, May 15.—A Wash- ington-Montreal express train and & school-bound automobile collided at | an unprotected grade crossing here to- day, killing the driver of the car and | four school children who sacrificed their Saturday holiday to make up “lost time” at their books. The dead: John C. Vasseur, 37, driver of the car; Rene Larochelle, 11, and her brother, Howard, 13; Earl Murray, 8, and Earl Fuller, 14, all of Milton. They were the only occupants of the automobile, which was reduced to junk and its parts strewn along the track. Even as the crash occurred, brothers and sisters of the Larochelle children, watching from the windows of their home a quarter of & mile away, saw the big locomotive catch the auto- mobile on its front end and pitch it forward in bits. As the express ground to & stop, the train crew picked up the bodies of the victims. 8till alive, young Murray was whisked to a hospital in Bur- lington, s dozen miles away, where he died. State officials and police opened an immediate investigation. They re- ported a light rain falling might have partly obscured vision at the crossing. Engineer John W. Newton of the Central Vermont Railway said he sounded the train’s whistle as it sped toward the crossing. Investigators said the train, an ex- press from Washington and New York to Montreal, was running 45 minutes late. They concluded that Vasseur’s knowledge of the train schedules had led him to believe the express had passed and that the dark sky and falling rain had contributed to the accident. - New Mica Deposits Found. Large deposits of mica and lime- stone have just been discovered in Travancore State in India. ‘What should be done for the Amer- ican farmer will be the subject of an address by Senator Clyde L. Herring, Democrat, of Iowa in the National Radéo Forum tomorrow night at 9:36% pm., Eastern standard time. The National Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star and broad- cast over a coast-to-comst network of the National Broadcasting Co. and over WRC locally. J A former Governor of Iowa, Sena- tor Herring’s home is in Des Moines, the heart of the corn belt. He served two terms, 1933-1935 and 1935-1937, as Governor. He is familiar with the farmers’ problems and has definite views on what should be done to keep agri- culture on an even keel in this country. After ranching several years in Colorado, Benator Herring got some first-hand information on farm life when he moved in 1908 to Massens, Iows, where he conducted his .own SENATOR TO DISCUSS WHAT TO DO ABOUT FARMER. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, re- SENATOR CLYDE L. HERRING. —Wide World Photo. AMERIGANS SCORE INBOWS AT'MET Weede and Thomas Receive Ovations on Appearance in “Pagliacci.” NEW YORK, May 15 (#).—Two young Americans joined tonight in | “stopping the show” at the staid old Metropolitan Opera House where they made their debuts in “Pagliacci.” Robert Weede of Baltimore, who | already had gained a vast New York | audience as leading baritone at- the Radio City Music Hall, caused a delay of several minutes before the curtain could be raised after his appearance as | Tonio, singing the prologue. | ‘The applause stopped only when the crowd, which filled the auditorium to overflowing, realized that the program note saying no encores were to be al- | lowed must be taken seriously. | A similarly noisy ovation was given Thomas L. Thomas, Scranton, Pa., baritone, who sang the part of Silvio. | A delegation of some 1400 of his | fellow townsmen, headed by Mayor Stanley J. Davis, who chartered a special train for the trip honoring | his debut at the Metropolitan, made | its presence evident at every oppor- : tunity. | At the close of his love duet with | Nedda, sung by Ruby Mercer, & bit of | unscheduled comedy was introduced | into the tragic piece. A roar of ap- plause started as the lovers ended | their song and embraced. They at- | have the answer (they often think 80). | tempted to hold the embrace unul& there was quiet for them to continue | the normal course of their acting, | but finally were forced to separate in | obvious confusion, stand apert until | the applause subsided and then come back together to complete the scene. The entire performance, in keeping with the policy of the Metropolitan's popular-priced Spring season, was given in lively style, with emphasis on the acting as well as the singing. Miss Mercer, with her unstockinged legs and enthusiasm for her seduc- | tive role, would have made diamond ! tiara's tremble if there had been any in the golden horseshoe tonight | (there were not). Weede threw aside restraint in his clowning as the treacherous Silvio. He appeared for the second act in a battered opera hat that might have seen service in such a jazz band as that in which Sydner Rayner, who tonight took the tragic part of Canio, once played in New Orleans. After the performance admirers of | the young singers swamped the back | stage area untii Thomas was led away to a hotel where a reception in his honor had ben arranged by the Scranton delegation. More than 100 persons from Balti- more formed a delegation especially 'honoring the first appearance of Weede at the Metropolitan. SOVIET LAUNCHES PROBE OF MINE LABOR UNREST Investigation Commission Sent to Don Basin, Chief Pro- ducing Area. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 15—State Prose- outor Andrey Vishinsky sent & spe- cial investigating commission today into the Don Basin, important Soviet coal area, where there has been a recent shake-up of executives. Press reports have disclosed wide- spread unrest in the Don Basin with thousands of miners missing work | regularly or leaving in search of other employment in protest against working, living and wage conditions. Don Basin production is from 18 to 20 per cent below its quota. The deficiency is keenly felt because its superior anthracite coal is used in Russia’s key industries as well as for export. It supplies 65 per cent of all Russia’s cosl. The Tass (official) News Agency announced it was suthorized to deny reports that A. P. Serebrovsky, vice commissar of heavy industry in charge of base metal production, has been arrested. Serebrovsky, former head of the gold trust, is reputed to be one of the Soviet'’s finest mining en- gineers, e JAPAN PROBES THEFT Polish Diplomatic Documents Re- ported Lost in Korea. TOKIO, May 15 (®)—Japanese police in Korea today were investi- gating reports of the disappearance and possible theft of important Polish diplomatic documents, Dis- patches from Seoul said a diplomat sttached to Poland's Sonsulate general lost the documents while | he is | Langston housing project, Washington Wayside - Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. ENGLISH. FTER hearing Mr. Wilford Con- row, national secretary of the American Artists’ Professional League, describe some of the traps and pitfalls one encounters by speaking American-English in Eng- land, or English-English in America, we wonder how the ardent Anglophiles who went over for the coronation ever will get fed, housed, and maybe buy a few native trinkets to bring home as souvenirs. In Rhode Island, U. 8. A, for ex- ample, the word “flat” means a flat- iron, Mr. Conrow says. In New York it means the cheapest kind of a walk- up apartment. In Kalamazoo it means a flat tire. In London it means swanky, expensive living quar- ters. Thus if one of our ambassadors of curiosity now visiting the British ILsles should want to press a dress, rent. BT-4t Saye OD MaN=-p2 2 room in a tenement, or get a tire fixed, there'd be no way out of it but to lease a costly apartment first and carry on from there. The thing can get even more ex- pensive in instances where nations are involved. Mr. Conrow tells about an expert who went to England during the war to study their excellent camou- | flaging methods. Wired back that the basis of English camouflage work was “scrim.” The American Army prompt- ly ordered 40 carloads of scrim. It arrived here in Washington. The officer who received it called up Con- row and said “What are we supposed to do with 40 carloads of lace cur- tains?” Turned out “scrim” in English-Eng- lish is a sort of burlap. In American- English, it is lace. Got a snipe? (American slang.) * x o* x CONCISE. Our Mr. Newman Sudduth, who is responsible for all the art work that appears on The Star’s drama pages, sometimes grows restive when he can’t find any one around the office to tell him what pictures are wanted for the next day. Oc- casionally there are days when the entire drama department is scat- tered around town looking for cin- namon toast or something, and Mr. Sudduth has to wait and wait. No waster of words, he went into the drammy office on one such day this week, scribbled a little note that covered the subject quite thoroughly: “Gentlemen,” he wrote, “art is slow, etc.—" * % % ¥ TECHNIQUE. WHAT makes pickpockets pick on certain theaters in Washington and leave others more or less alone? Headquarters detectives think they It lies in the pitch of the floors, the aisles. When a man walks down a slope, say the sleuths, the motion slacks the tension across his hip pocket, his wallet therefore becomes s0 much the easier to pluck. Also, a point they forgot to mention, usually concentrating so thor- oughly on trying not to fall down in the dark that an expert could swipe his hat, coat and gloves without the victim realizing what had happened until he stumbled into a seat. * ox % x MONUMENT. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ICKES, who is vigorously opposed to the construction of the proposed Bennings slaughter house, was hold- ing a press conference. It was the day of the cornerstone laying at the not far from the slaughter house site. A re- porter asked Secretary Ickes if he was going to lay a cornerstone for the abettoir. “Yes,” Ickes said. “and I have a name for the slaughter house, when and if it is built. It will be known as the Tydings-McCarran Memorial.” Senator Tydings and McCarran are among the legislators who have ap- peared to be in favor of the abattoir. * % x % TRAILED. Larry Linthicum, the church news editor of The Star, had a visitor walk into his office the other day with an item for the church page and stand about talking it over a few minutes. The office door opened and in walked a lady, whereupon the visitor began to blush, stammer, hem and haw, Anally ducked out the door. The lady said to Mr. Linthicum: “Who is that man?” She was told. “Well, he followed me down Eleventh street as I was coming here and tried to flirt with me. He kept passing me, stopping at show windows while I went by, passing again, and all that, and once he almost spoke. It certainly never occurred to me he was on his way to this office.” “I don't think he believed you were coming here, either,” said Mr. Linthicum sagely, deciding that he’d probably better put their re- spective contributions on opposite sides of the page. * ok ¥ % TRAPPED. “ml heard many a story about visitors to Washington who be- come lost in Government buildings and had to be rescued by Indian Scouts or St. Bernard dogs or some- body, but never before have we en- countered a tale of an architect who designed a building and then couldn’t find his way around it. Our hot tipsters, who hang around the grapevine all day waiting for some inside news or a couple of grapes to show up, tell us, however, that Waddy B. Wood, the Washington architect, who is doing the new Inte- rior Department structure at Eight- eenth and C streets, was seen wander- ing around the pisce the other day on s futile search for the seventh W‘l, which houses the Branch of CATHOLICS FEAR NAZISCHOOL BAN Closing of Seminary on Im- morality Charge Stirs Church Circles. BACKGROUND— Catholics in Germany, while escaping heretofore the wrath Hitler vented on Jews, have felt his mailed first. Monks and nuns have been in his toils jor alleged violation of a currency export ban. Recently, official encouragement has been given a so-called “Ger- man Catholic” (away from Rome) movement, and has been viewed as an attempt to drive Catholics into some form of state church. By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, May 15.—The closing of a Catholic boys’ seminary in Helligen- stadt by Nazi state police was inter- preted in some quarters today as the opening of a police campaign against Catholic educational institutions throughout Germany. Catholic circles were particularly aroused because the Gestapo action coincided with nation-wide publicity given trials of priests and lay brothers on charges of immorality 4nd because of official recognition of Gen. Erich Ludendorf's pagan “German god" movement,. = No Arrests Revealed. ‘The Heiligenstadt Seminary, where secondary school youths prepared for later priesthood training, was shut today because, the police said, of “wretched moral conditions prevailing among youthful inmates.” Whether any of the students o priests had been arrested was no known. The official German news agency, however, reported many of the boys and faculty members were being interrogated. More than ].000 lay brothers and ‘“numerous” priests are on trial or awaiting trial on charges of improper conduct, official German figures dis- closed. There have been 53 recen: convictions. Catholic Attorneys Protest. Catholic attorneys have stated tha: information for the Nazi “immorality” prosecutions was taken from Catholic archives seized by police during ear- lier trials of monks and nuns accused of violating money transfer restric- tions. These records, they said, show that many of the “immorality” defendants already have been punished by the church itself. Recognition of Gen. Ludendorfl's movement, while it was not taken to indicate that the government is going definitely neo-pagan, was regarded as an effort to win the general over to active support of the government. EARHART TAKE-OFF SATURDAY FORECAST St. Louis Air Show Director Re- ports Information From Avia- trix's Adviser. | By the Associated Press. | _ ST. LOUIS, May 15.—James Ewinz | Rowan, managing director of the St Louis Air Show, said today he had been informed Miss Amelia Earhart would take off from the West Coast next Saturday, if weather conditions were favorable, on a second attempt | to fly around the world. Rowan sald his information came from Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's tech- nical adviser at Burbank, Calif.,, with whom he spoke over long-distance tel- ephone. Mantz was a member of the crew of her “flying laboratory” when Miss Earhart flew to Hawali on the first leg of her projected globe-girdling trip 8 few weeks ago. He was not aboard, however, when the plane crashed on an attempted take-off there for the second leg of the flight. He telephoned Rowan to say he would not accompany Miss Earhart, but would compete in the international aerobaitc contest to be held here in ;gnneca ton with the air show, May -31, ICE JAMS CONTINUE FAIRBANKS FLOOD Half of Residences Abandoned, but Outside Aid Not Imme- diate Need. By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15— Three-fourths of this interior Alaska town remained under water today as ice jams continued to dam the flood- ing Tanana and Chena Rivers. Mayor E. B. Collins said the city was in no immediate need of outside assistance, but hoped the flood would arouse action on the long-sought Fec- eral flood control project. Although the temperature dropped to 26 above zero last night, the streams continued to rise slowly from meltins snows. The lower valley was virtuall bare of snow, but the mountains and the upper Tanana Valley were sending their run-off into the ice-blocked streams. An serial survey by City Counclil- man Irving Reed and Supt. Nash of the Alaska Road Commission indicated ice was clearing rapidly from the Chena here and its neighboring Yukon tributary, the Tanana, but that flood- ed Fairbanks was not yet out of dan- ger. The flooded sections of the city were under water a few inches to several feet deep. About half the residences were abandoned and the homeless householders sleeping in public build- ings and hotels. The water had re- ceded from its record crest, set yes- terday. | Doffers Continue Strike. REIDSVILLE. N. C., May 18 (#).— A strike of doffers' in the spinning room of the Edna Mills continued to- day when another conference of strike leaders and officials ended with lit~ tle progress toward s settlement. The doffers walked out when they became dissatisfied with their wage and hour schedule. Plans sand Design of the National Park Service: Trick is that Wing No. 7 runs only on the second floor (we don't know HOW that can be), a feature that baffled Mr. Wood. Tired of looking for the key to his own invention, he is said to have abandoned the search, completed .