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Evening star., 1932-02-06
JAPAN'S NAVAL ADVANTAGE
CONCEDED IN EVENT OF WAR
Proximity of Bases Gives Her Edge Over
Other Powers in Shang hal Area-Fleet
Held Equal to That of U.S.

l,l00-ton British sloop Bridgewater be-
ing at Marking.
In the Shanghai -WooSung area or en-
route there, the French have one cruiser
and two gunboats. At Hankow France
mas three river gunboats; at Marking
is one river gunboat and at Annoy there
is another
If there are Chinese naval vessels al
Shanghai. it is not known here. The
Chinese naval base is at Foochow. but
the exact number of vessels is tndeter-
inmate. The Chinese have at Tsingtao
which is about two days steaming north
OF Shanghai, the cruisers Hal Shen
Chao Ho and Hal Chi, the gunboats
Yung Hsiang, Chu Yu, Kiang Ii and
Wei Hal.
Admiral shen Hung-Lieh is in COM
mand Of the Chinese forces, which for
merly were known as the Northeastern
squadron. There are some Chinese war
vessels at Marking, but details about
them are lacking here.
In addition to the vessels in the
Shanghai sector the Japanese have
three cruisers and four destroyers at
Nanklng, eight river gunboats at Han
koW and up-rlyer ports, and in the
Tsingtao-Chefoo- Chinwangtao area ia
pan has three cruisers and four de-
Stroyers.
Vice Admiral K. Nomura has lust
been appointed to command the Japa-
nese naval forces in the Yangtze area.
He is a personal friend of Admiral Will
liam V. Pratt, United States chief Of
naval operations who congratulated
him on his appointment Admiral No.
mura was feted at the White House in
September, 1929, when japanese blue
jackets and officers went sightseeing in
the National Capital and a round of
social entertainment was arranged for
them
Altogether in the Far East the Brit
ish have 6 cruisers. aircraft carrier,
Is destroyers, of which were being
held at Hongkong preparatory to re-
turning to England, with 4 from Eng
land being sent out to replace them
19 river gunboats, mostly in the
Yangtze River; II submarines and 4
Sloops
France has in the Far East cruiser
IA gunboats, 2 submarines, l subma-
rine tender, 2 patrol boats, aux
il1arieS and 4 mine sweepers. The
Italians have comparatively few vessels
in the Orient
The French senior naval officer Is
Vice Admiral o. B. Herr, while the
Italian leader is Capt. Guido Bacci.
At Manila the United States Navy
has destroyers, submarine tenders
II submarines, large aircraft tender
and 2 small aircraft tenders, l oiler and
l auxiliary ship. The destroyers and
submarines are more than 10 years old
and the other vessels are well along
in years also.
Copyright 1882. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Trc.l
Evening star., 1932-02-06
TRUCKMEN PUSH
. FIGHT ON TAX BILL
Association Plans to Present
Data Against Tax at
Senate Hearing.

Members Of the Commercial Motor
Vehicle Owners Association last night
were urged to cooperate to the fullest
extent with the special committee from
the organization assembling data for
use in combating the House proposal
10 tax District motor vehicles by
weight and increase the gasoline tax
The association campaign is being
shaped in preparation for the Senate
nearing on the measures already passed
by the House, and data are being COL
lected to show just how each class of
vehicle users would be affected by the
eventual enactment Of the proposed
taxation
To Fight Couzens Bill.
The committee also was advised of
the preparations made to send dele
cation before the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee Wednesday to
argue against the measure proposed
by Senator Couzens, Republican of
Michigan chairman of the committee,
to regulate interstate operation of
trucks and busses.
In general, the legislation would pro-
vide for reports on the operations of the
freight carriers and would regulate their
physical characteristics and service of
employees.
Washington, it was pointed out by
Je1 zine FancluliI. secretary of the
Vehicle Owners, probably would be af-
1ected by such a law more than any
place in the country, because so much
OF the operation here is of interstate
nature.
In discussion of the fight being waged
by local motor interests in conjunction
with those in Virginia on pending vehi-
Gle legislation in Virginia, it was
brought out at the meeting that If the
new laws are enacted, not only would
reciprocity be dealt death blow so
far as trucking is concerned, but also
with regard to passenger cars.
The proposed Virginia statute would
require any resident of the District
having gainful occupation in Vir-
ginia to register his car in that State,
in addition, Of course. to meeting the
District licensing requirements.
Reciprocity in Kind.
If that is done. then, it will be neces-
sary for the traffic director here to re-
quire any resident of Virginia having
gatnful occupation in the District to
comply with the District licensing re-
quirements, as only reciprocity in kind
may be extended by the District.
This, Of course. would mean that
Government employees residing in Vir-
ginia-the class principally affected
would be subject to the taxation in
both jurisdictions.
J. Blood, a member Of the Kansas
Legislature, and E j. Arbour, president
OF the Motor Truck Association of Con-
nccticut, who are in the Capital in
connection with hearings on the Cou-
zens BILL addressed the association last
night.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
BUSY CHAPEL AREA
REDUCED TO RUINS
Eight Days of Bitter Fighting
Has Left Nothing but
Destruction.
ET MoRRIS ]. HARRIS.

tCcpytight, 1882, by the Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, February 6.-The riddled
Chapel sector of Shanghai, once the
hons Of 100000 persons, today was a
city Of the dead.
For eight consecutive days and nights
Japanese airplanes and big guns have
podred shells and bombs into the con-
gested area, leaving a scar which time
Is not likely to erase.
Non -combatants have suffered with
the active Chinese participants in the
sectors defense. Thousands of persons,
many of whom scarcely knew what it
was all about, have lost their homes
and many of them have been killed by
fire and bursting shells.
Printing Plant Destroyed.
The anghai-Nanking Railway Sta
ton is a mass of ruins, wrecked by
bombs and fire The rails themselves
have been twisted and wrenched into
all manner of shapes. Likewise, the
huge plant of the Commercial Press,
called the worlds largest printing plant,
has been flattened. For 80 years it
printed most of the books in many Ian
guagCs, which have been read through
out China.
Within the sector, over a wide range
of wrecked buildings and scattered de-
bris, not a human being could be seen
today. The sound of single rifle shot
royerberated through the empty streets,
cchoing and re-echoing until followed
by another.
III t1P1r ro1 Cf1
made il seem q city Of the dead, there
we're few dead to be seen. Squads of
.7aDencse volunteers have performed
Their cleaning Cup" duties well. What
has happened to the bodies could not
be learned
Only in the alleyways or close to the
front-Iine barrlcadeS could one see any
bodies.
Within this vast junkheap which was
once a thriving city there Is, or was,
mach japanese property. ThlS mas
gone the way of the rest, into the llmoo
Of DESTROYED things The Chinese now
ever. were the principal sufferers and
when the fighting ends it will be long
time before the sector can be restored.
Settlement Damaged.
Property in the International Settle
ment also suffered devastating effects
from the Japanese fire. Along the
southern reaches of the Szechuen
road where many foreigners lived and
traded. the damage was great. Along
the settlement borders adjacent 20
Chapel many business houses have
fallen before the bombs and others
have been burned, often by incen-
diarism, it has been charged.
Shop windows have been smashed by
rifle butts. Business thereaboutS Is
dead and it will be a long time before
it RECEIVERS. even if the hostilities should
cease today
Chapel, however, is crushed. 1t Is
now a waste land. To escape from II
into the settlement, where people live
without rifles and bayonets and where
cleanliness still prevails, is like stepping
from one world into another.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
RADIO "SONGBIRD" RETURNS
TO FIND ROUSING WELCOME
Throng Greets Kate Smith,
Former Capital Girl,
Now Famous.
Star, Thrilled by Reception,
Hopes Success Hasn't
Changed Her.

THE songbird OF the South" stepped
off the train yesterday at Union Sta
ton and was greeted in as riotous a
fashion as any songbird the world over
has ever known.
Hello, everybody" cried Kate Smith,
waving TO hundreds of excited admirers
and dispensing cheer and broad smile
to the throng that pressed all around
her. And Washingtons most successful
radio celebrity, whose nocturnal Groom
ings have lodged her way up in the
Rudy Vallee class, half submerged under
giant bouquet OF roses given her by
one OF her Juvenile Worshipers, walked
gallantly down toward the presidential
entrance of the station, behinS three
flags and welcoming committee that
included representatives from the
American Legion, the Veterans of For
eign Wars and Disabled War Veterans.
Stops Before Microphone.
A band played Hail, Hail the Gangs
All Here" and a deep voice cried,
where's your moon, Kate?" Miss
Smith, after greeting her vast unseen
radio audience over a microphone at
the entrance, instead Of bursting into
her customary war cry, When the
Moon Comes Over the Mountain,
wrapped herself in large French horn
and allowed herself to be photographed.
When this was over she shook hands
with the flagbearers, with the leader
of the band spoke a handsome little
speech of appreciation. and was then
escorted by Hardie Meakin, chief of
the local R-KO Keith forces to a
waiting Limousine.
When interviewed later in the day.
Kate was still all agog over her well
come. Wasn't 1t grand?" she cried
in her hotel suite. Isn't Washington
just wonderful" (Or something like
that, and she ened as excited at
being back in her native haunts as was
her army to have her here at the
station.
When she was II years old and play
ing around the local boulevards from
which have sprung such eminent theat-
rical lights as Al Jolson, Helen Hayes
Ruth Chatterton and Ina Clair, Katie
used to be known as the I2-year-old
songbird." She says about the time
between then and now Il was always
ambitious-but backward" But she
likes success" oh yes" she admits
Evening star., 1932-02-06
PRAYER FOR MISSIONS
PLANNED AT ALBRIGHT
Scout Sunday to Be Observed at
Evening Service, With Three
Troops Present.

At Albright Memorial Evangelical
Church tomorrow morning the service
will represent the interests of the Wom-
ems Missionary Society in its day Of
prayer for missions. The minister, Rev.
George E. Schnabel, will have charge
OF the service and will use as his ser
mon subject Following the Great
Leader" The Women's Missionary So
ciety will have charge of the prayer
service, at 7 pm, with Mrs. E. Jester
as the leader.
At the evening service Scout Sunday
will be observed, with three of the
Scout troops in attendance. Scout
master Edwin Mashmeyer is directing
the plans for the service. The sermon
subject will be After Having Kept All
the Scout Law-What Them"
The Women's Guild Evening Circle
will meet Wednesday evening at the
church. A Bicentennial program will
feature the meeting.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
Loew's Palace,
Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Tomorrow and TomorroW.
WToMORROW AND TOMOR-
L ROW" this weeks feature at
Loew's Palace, is modern prop
lem story charged with dynamite.
Yet it is handled so delicately and
interpreted so skillfully by an excel
lent cast that, despite numerous
Sputterings, it survives the rnal
fadeout without an explosion.
Modern problem story perhaps,
but in truth the subject deals with
a problem as old as Christian stand
ards of morality-a wife torn be-
tween love for the father OF her
child and her duty toward devoted
but incompatible husband, who be-
lieves the boy is his son and snow
ers upon him all the love and pride
OF a splendid father.
1t is a story which is deeply hu-
man and conducive to thought,
leaving a sense Of sympathy for the
poor human creatures wracked and
torn by emotions over which, appar-
emily, they have no control; desires
that are natural and standards and
conventions which have erected bar
riers impossible TO surmount.
Never has Ruth Chatterton ap-
peared lovelier than she Is as Eve
Redmond, the wife. who yearns for
the children denied her and who,
seeking to fill the emptiness of her
life, finds her real mate" in
VienneSe doctor whose Summer lee
ture course she has attended, Paul
Lukas as the doctor and the father
Of Ewes son is excellent and seems
to have been "hand-picked' for the
difficult role assigned him. Robert
AmeS also as Gale Redmond inter-
preted his role with flnesse and
sympathy.
Little Tad Alexander brings to
the screen another precocious and
attractive juvenile personality, who
plays with unusual skill the part of
Christian, Eyes little son. He is
called upon for genuine courage in
a scene where, through fear, he
throws himself from the back OF
his galloping horse.
The picture doubtless will enter
tain, despite the story. 1t has been
excellently directed, presents nu-
merous attractive scenes and, to use
the term heard generally at the
conclusion Of the picture, lis un-
usual"
An unusually good bill is offered
on the stage this week, including
Bert Frohamn in Get Gay" the
Galenos, Maureen Rio, Dugan and
Hadley and the Chester Hale Girls.
G. S. S.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
CHEVY CHASE BAPTISTS
TO HOLD LORDS SUPPER
Rev. Edward o. Clark to Preach at
Morning Service on "The
Word Become Flesh"

The ordinance of the Lords supper
will be observed at the Chevy Chase
Baptist Church tomorrow morning.
The pastor, Rev. Edward G. Clark, will
pl each on THE Word Become Flesh"
A story sermon will be given to the
junior church
The young people meet at GAS o'clock
in an intermediate group of Christian
Endeavor and in senior group Of B.
Y. P. U. The Sunday school plans to
hold father and son banquet in the
near future. The school meets at 9:45
O'Clock.
The union evening service will be held
at O'Clock in the Wesley Methodist
Church The mission study class meet
ing Thursday evening will continue with
the study of two additional chapters
from the book God and the Census"
A layman will lead.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
AIR BOMBS RAINED
ON TING'S TROOPS
Heavy Casualties Are inflicted on
Chinese Fleeing From
Harbin.

BY the Associated Press.
HARDIN, Manchuria, February s.
Heavy casualties were inflicted by
japanese air bombers today on the
fleeing troops of Gen. Ting Chao, who
headed for the southeast, leaving Har-
bin In the hands Of the Japanese.
The occupation was effected after a
devastating bombardment. Several
japanese shells went off near the
headquarters building OF the Chinese
Eastern Railway, jointly owned by
Russia and China, and Soviet officials
Of the road held an emergency meeting
to consider the situation.
The Chinese had put two field guns In
action in the open space In front OF
the railroad headquarters, and japanese
authorities said they thought this had
been done in the hope Of causing
trouble between Japan and Russia.
Harbin. an important railroad center,
is second only to Mukden among the
cities of Manchuria. 1t is the hub OF
Russian influence of the province.
Thousands of japanese residents
cheered the troops Of Gen. Jiro Tamon
as they occupied all public offices and
strategic defensive points. Gen. Ting
Chao and his staff fled toward Acheng,
26 miles southeast of Harbin.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
IA Boys Desert
AS School Begins .
Farm Training g
Henry Ford Institution in
Massachusetts Loses
Wards of State.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
WORCESTER, Mass, February g.
The Worcester Telegram says that IA
State wards who were students at Henry
Ford's Wayside Inn Boys School, at
South Sudbury, have left the institu-
tion and gone back to the care of the
State because a system of agricultural
training has replaced the vocational
course.
The school, started by the Detroit
manufacturer in 1928 as an experiment
in vocational training, changed its cur
rlculum two weeks ago to one in which
agriculture and allied subjects are
stressed, the newspaper says, and the
boys left at that time, reducing the en-
rollment to 36.
E. M. Hatch, principal Of the school,
admitted the boys had left because Of
the change in policy, it is asserted, but
declined to say why the change had
been made or who ordered it.
State child welfare officials are re-
ported to have said the boys told them
they would rather return to private
homes than remain at the Wayside Inn
School.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
WAR-GAME FLEET
READY FOR ACTION
Attackers and Defenders
Prepared for Struggle as
Zero Hour Passes.
BY CAPT. c. M. AUSTIN.
Assistant Chief of stsfY, U. r.. N

BY the Associated Press.
ABOARD U. S. s. CALIFORNIA
SOMEWHERE AT SEA, February g.
The joint Army and Navy exercise
officially begins today.
With the passing Of the zero hour
at 5 am, Honolulu time, each side 1.
free to push ahead with its plans, blue
to determine the effectiveness of the
air, surface and land attacks against
! Hawaii, and black, the defending force
! to test its air, surface, subsurface and
land defenses.
Admiral Richard Leigh has placed
the blue ships under war routine for
| cruising in waters where the enemy
may be expected Extra watches, with
guns ready, and extra lookouts for
enemy ships, particularly submarines
! is a routine that was familiar to some
Of our forces In 1917 and 1918.
Speed Essential.
Coordination and cooperation be-
tween the Army and Navy Is a chief
object OF this exercise, and that end
is being attained by the presence OF
an Army contingent with the blue
forces.
,, Months Of preparations. planning
and drilling have been spent. The
loading Of soldiers and equipment into
boats, their assembly off the landing
beaches most nearly corresponding to
the beaches in Oahu and finally the
landing through surf have been re-
hearsed.
Boats transporting soldiers must have
speed so that the distance to be
traversed when the landing force is un-
der fire and cannot reply effectively
may be crossed quickly. The first to
arrive on the beach will doubtless have
the hottest work to do and it is COM
mon sense to land simultaneously as
many as possible and over as wide a
front as Is practicable.
It Is not men only that must be
landed. but ammunition and equipment
This Blue Army Of ours also travels
with horses and mules.
Problems Overcome.
Our first problem was the develop
ment of some means Of getting the anil
mails out Of the transport and on to the
beach. Flying stalls. toggled belly BANDS
and ducking stools were invented, tried
and retired.
The horse was curious, but liked the
boat ride: the mule wanted to have
nothing to do with it al all Dump
them in the water and the horse flrst
swan around the boat before striking
out for the beach, probably to see II
he would not be taken back on board.
In the same circumstances. the mule
came back to the surface, teeth bared
and thoroughly angry and struck out
for shore at once, keeping his course
without wavering.
Marines On Job.
The Navy never undertakes an af-
fair of this kind without our Marines,
experts in overseas expeditionary work.
They never fail to make their presence
an asset.
which the Marine Corps is a part, they
came into being when the Continental
Congress first tried to supply private
ships of war with soldiers to augment
the crews. The soldiers did not like
the salt air, salt water IN which to
wash their clothes and salt pork as a
steady diet Marines were hardened
and they got the job. They are still
getting hard jobs and still doing them
well.
Evening star., 1932-02-06


to have lost something in its flight
into the celluloid medium. And
while Mr.. AtWill is very, very good,
much of the cast is very, very 9TH
erwise. For this reason some OF
the scenes which may have been
quite stirring in their original per-
formance are far from satisfying
for instance, the forced oglingS OF
Greta Nilsson come very near ruin
ing the works"
AS matter Of fact the rilm rather
peters out after the court room
scene In this Mr.. AtWill has risen
to real spendor as the father who
tries to prove himself the murderer
of his sons mistress. He has been
coaXed and wheedled and so thor
oughly annoyed by the courteous
inquisitorS that finally, with beads
of perspiration breaking out on his
forehead, he cries, Il did it! l did
it! l did it," for good round
dozen times. When this is over,
and the reasons for the crime and
their consequences are started, the
picture suddenly becomes lukeWarm
and ends even milder than that.
Other than BramWeu Fletcher,
who gives a sincere and earnest per-
formance as the son who murdered
the all too willy lady of his heart,
and Mr.. Atwill, who, of course, is
excellent, the actor who stands out
is Herbert Mundin, as taxi driver.
Weldon Hepburn, billed as ma
tive Washingtonian," is not entirely
fortunate in his first screen allot-
ment, and Miss NiSSen B-but why
say it?
The Fanchon and Marco stage
show, Dream House" is not un-
duly exciting. and those participat-
ing, ODonnell Blair & Co. in their
riotous comedy" not so rlotouS.
Masters g. Gauthier, comedians;
Ben Omar, a good acrobattc dancer;
Louise Glenn, who dances satisfac-
to-ily on her toes, and scores OF
Sunkist Beauties, in a woodland
scene. dressed in the manner that
used to be dear to the heart of one
F. Ziegfeld, may be mentioned
among the details. E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
PLANS TO MOBILIZE
U. S. INDUSTRY Barred
Assistant Secretary Payne Tells of
Preparations to Assure Armed
Forces Support.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 6.-Industrial
mobilization plans to assure America S
armed forces the right kind of war
weapons were sketched last night be-
fore the New York Post of the Army
Ordnance Association by Assistant Sec
rotary Payne Of the War Department.
Specific information on the capacity
Of l2OCO plants to produce munitions,
the particular items each can supply
and the volume has been collected and
kept up to date, Payne said, adding
We have also made great progress
IN the preparation of standard specifi-
cations for each item to be procured,
In the field of industrial mobiliZa-
tion, preparatory plans to enable the
President to control and coordinate
the national industrial effort have been
drawn up and submitted to other Gov
eminent departments and to repre-
sentatiVeS of Congress.
These accomplishments may be Of
the greatest importance to our ma
tional security in some future emer-
gency"
Evening star., 1932-02-06
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION
INVESTIGATION ASKED
Representative McFadden Charges
Domination by Inter
nationalists."
RY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Representative McFadden, Republican,
Of Pennsylvania yesterday introduced a
resolution calling for congressional
investigation of the Carnegie Founda-
ton, which. he charged, is dominated
by "internationalists."
The measure would authorize the ap-
pointment Of House committee OF
seven members to study the foundation
and its affiliates.
They are tied in with the World
Court, the Bank for International Set
Elements and the whole group of inter
nationalists," McFadden said. They
have been trying, among other things,
to ruin our Army and Navy. They are
just part of the network Of interna-
tionalists who are trying to destroy the
country.
Congress should know definitely and
more fully something about the activi-
ties of the foundation and the organi-
cations affiliated with It,"
Evening star., 1932-02-06

did in ours. This Is crisis where the
bigger you were the harder you fell
We are mighty poor losers if We can't
remember what you did and thank you
and wish you we'll So goodbye, Andy,
take care of yourself. If you put on
knee breeches be sure and put on long
woolens underneath and always remem-
Der, if we had saved what you saved
for us, we wouldn't need saving now.
Evening star., 1932-02-06
Lionel Atwill Fine
In The Silent witness"

A NY heights to which THE
n Silent Witness" may rise
a 1t is now at the Fox Thea
1 \ ter - are due to the per-
formance of Lionel Atwill,
who proves the obvious truism that
a fine actor Of the stage may be-
come a first-class actor Of the films.
Mr.. Atwill, who played this same