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Evening star., 1936-12-28
EXTENSION PLANNED
IN SEAL CAMPAIGN
Drive to Lower Tuberculosis
Death Rate in District
Also Is Mapped.

Extension of the 1885 Christmas
seal campaign until after the New
Year holiday and an intensified pro-
gram to lower the high tuberculosis
death rate here during 1887 was an
nounced today by DR.. James G. Town
send. new president of the District
tuberculosis Association.
Receipts from the sale Of seals to
date are approximately $4,000 short
of the goal of 100000, DR.. Townsend
said, pointing out there are thousands
of other friends to whom our seals
were sent who have taken advantage
of our offer to use the seals. paying
later when more convenient"
Outlining a program of preventive
work in cooperation with the Health
Department and all public and pri-
vate health and welfare agencies here,
Dr.. Townsend said the association pro-
posed to keep hammering" for more
adequate hospital facilities for tuber-
culosis patients; for extension of the
program of early discovery of incipient
cases by testing; to increase the
amount of free clinic care for both
adults and children; to obtain more
nurses for home care and instruction;
to continue special care OF tubercu-
lar children in the Summer; provide
free health lectures. and to aid in the
rehabilitation and placement of tuber-
culars cured.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
"SUNSHINE" BROWNING
UNMOVED BY RULING
Estate Large Enough for Widow
to Share, Says "Daddy's"
Adopted Daughter.
IL tie Associated Press

DUNN, N. c., December 28.-The
former Dorothy Sunshine" Browning
now Mrs. Clarence E. Hood, wife of
a Dunn laundry operator-expressed
little concern yesterday over the lat
est legal round in the fight over Ed
ward w. Daddy" Browning's estate.
Frances Peaches" Heenan Brown
Ing Hynes, widow of the wealthy New
York real estate operator, won another
point in her fight to obtain her dover
rights by an appellate division ruling
in New York Saturday.
The appellate division upheld a Su-
preme Court decision which struck out
Mrs. Hoods contention that the mar
riage of Peaches" and Browning was
illegal because Browning's 1924 Paris
divorce from his first wife, Adele
Lowen Browning, had no effect.
THE ruling really doesn't mean
anything" commented Hood today,
Except that she CMrs. Hynes) will be
entitled to her dover rights, which
will have but little effect upon the es-
tate"
Mrs. Hood, who was the adopted
daughter of Browning, added: 1T
doesn't matter, because we'll still have
plenty left"
Evening star., 1936-12-28
PRESIDENT T0F|LL
TW0L. c. c. POSTS
Terms of Eastman and Tate
Expire Thursday at
Midnight.

With the terms of two members of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Joseph B. Eastman and Hugh M.
Tate-expiring at midnight Thursday,
speculation Is stirring in transporta-
ton circles as to the probability of
the reappointment Of one or both.
Customarily there is no word from
the White House until the last minute
on these appointments, and this year
Is proving no exception.
The naming Of Eastman is viewed
as foregone conclusion unless Presi-
dent Roosevelt has something else in
mind for the Massachusetts, liberal,
who has been particularly close to
the Chief Executive and who served
as co-ordinator Of transportation for
the administration until the ofhce
was abolished last June.
Maritime Post Unlikely.
There have been reports Mr.. Roose-
velt would like to have Eastman on
the Maritime Commission. but such
q change is not regarded as likely,
as Eastman is on Division Of the
I. c. c., which administers the highly
important motor-carriers act.
Eastman, q protege of Supreme
Court Justice Brandeis and listed as
an independent in politics, was ap-
pointed to the commission in Febru-
ary, 1919, by President Wilson. He
weathered storms of opposition in 1922
under President Harding, and again
In 1929 under Hoover.
He also Is chairman of the commits
sion's Legislative Committee. 6
Tate, former Tennessee Judge,
was an appointee of President Hoover.
He Is Republican. serving a term
that must be filled by q Republican,
the commission now being composed
Of six Democrats, four Republicans
and one independent The inter-
state commerce act provides that no
more than six members of one party
may sit on the commission at one
time. Judge Tate is a member of the
Rates Division of the commission.
Annual Salary Is $4,000.
Since President Roosevelt took Of
flee, the terms of five commissioners
three Democrats and two Republicans
have expired. One incumbent from
each party has been reappointed. and
the three other vacancies were filled
by Democrats.
Commissioners hold Office seven
years and the salary is $4,000, having
been cut from $4,000 under the
economy act.
The commission will start the new
year with a new chairman, Commits
sioner Carroll Miller, Pennsylvania
Democrat, and brother -in-law of
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania. being
slated for the post. The chairman
ship rotates annually and is now
filled by Commissioner Charles E.
Mahafne, Democrat of the District.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
PHI ALPHA Delta
DELEGATES GATHER
Outstanding Jurists and Lawyers
Will Attend Annual Con.
Vention.

Outstanding jurists and LAWYERS
from all parts of the country were
among those gathering here today for
the annual national convention Of
Phi Alpha Delta. legal fraternity. The
convention will open tomorrow at the
Mayflower Hotel and continue until
New Years eve, when q ball will be
held.
The program, in charge Of William
s. Culbertson. supreme justice of the
fraternity, will include a smoker to-
morrow night, visits Wednesday after
noon to the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation and the Supreme Court,
and banquet Wednesday evening at
which J. F. T. O'Connor controller of
the currency, will be POSTMASTER.
Prominent members of the frater-
nifty expected to attend the convention
include:
Attorney General Cummings, Su.
preme Court Justice George Suther-
land. Assistant Attorney General
Brien Mcmahon, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman,
District Supreme Court Judges Jesse
c. Adkins and Daniel w. ODonoghue:
Irvine L. Lenroot, judge Of the United
States Court Of Customs and Patent
Appeals.
A number of members of Congress
and Government officials also are ex-
pected.
Joseph A. Carey is chairman of the
convention Entertainment Committee.
The fraternity has active chapters
at Georgetown and George Washing
ton University Law Schools.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
SCIENCE DEVELOPS
NOW WHEAT PLANT
Perennial Expected to Prove I'm.
portant Forage in Drought
Sections.
BY the Associated Press,

~ eAe hoSoSiatco fIcSS.
OTTAWA. Ontario, December as
A perennial wheat, q plant with the
seed Of ordinary wheat and the long
lived roots Of grass, has been de-
veloped by plant breeders Of Canadian
experimental farms, it was announced
here yesterday.
DR.. L. e. Kirk, Dominion agrostolo-
gist, said the new wheat Is unlikely to
replace annual wheats for bread
making. but may prove a valuable
forage plant to restore to productive
use large areas Of drought-ravaged
land in Western Canada.
He said 1t was possible, but not prob
able. farmer would be able to seed
Q field to the wheat and harvest crops
Of salable grain year after year with
out the annual labor Of plowing and
sowing.
Plant breeders developed the plant
by cross-breeding ordinary strains Of
wheat with agropyron, q perennial
grass closely akin to the common
couch grass of Eastern Canada and
the crested wheat grass of Western
Canada.
About half an acre Of cross-bred
plants, representing many different
crosses and varieties, will be sown in
experimental plots next Spring.
Scientists assert they doubt II .
perennial wheat suitable for bread
making can be attained. Seeds Of the
hybrid plants 20 far are smaller and
lighter than wheat.
Evening star., 1936-12-28

I. Strakhovsky, Georgetown Univer-
sity: L. C. Gray, Resettlement Ad-
ministration; William R. Hogan, Ma
tional Park Service; Oscar c. Stines
Agriculture Department; DR.. r. D.
w. Connors. national archivist; DR.
Peter Guilday, Catholic University,
secretary American Catholic Historical
Association: F. E. Brasch, Library of
Congress; Everett E. Edwards, Agri-
cultural Historical Society; Lowell j.
Ragatz, George Washington Uni
versity. and r. H. Draeger Of Science
Service. .
Two other Washingtonians-Con-
stantine E. MCGUIRE. treasurer Of the
association. and Patty W. Washington.
assistant secretary treasurer, also will
attend.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
CHANG TO RECEIVE
H|S0LD COMMAND
Chang Promises to Return
Him to Sianfu and Mill
tary Post.
~ the Associated Press.

NANKING, December 28.-Marshal
Chang Hseuh-liang, it was believed
today, will be restored to commond Of
the armies he led in revolt against
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek and
the civil crisis his capture Of the
premier precipitated will soon be for
gotten.
Chang was reported already to have
told his erstwhile captor, who in a
sudden turn of events voluntarily gave
himself up, he would be returned to
Sianfu, seat of the rebellion, and his
military post.
Guilty of Treason.
Legally the marshal is guilty Of
treason and should suffer a traitors
punishment" Foreign Minister Chang
Chung said, explaining the situation,
"but his release of the generalissimo
unharmed has entitled him to con-
sideration."
Authorities believed the premier's
recommendations for leniency would
be accepted by the government, but to
satisfy the requirements of justice
Chang would be condemned and then
given special pardon.
Fatigued by his captivity, Chang
Cancelled public engagements and
rested under medical supervision.
The generalissimo, after Chang
penitently released him and begged
forgiveness, told the young marshal
he believed the central authorities
would be lenient with him.
Affair Held No Revolt.
Some quarters expressed the belief
the affair was mot really revolt"
Chang merely detained the general
sufficiently to make him listen to
certain proposals the former Man.
churian commander had been unable
to bring to the ears Of the busy gen.
eralissimo," they said.
At the time of the seizure of Chang,
the marshal issued demands for in
clusion of Communists in the govern
ment and war against Japan.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Kokomo Jones, u, Army Cook,
A.E.F F.'s Oldest, Buried in IO,va

was the oldest enlisted man in the
American expeditionary force in
France.
Although his rolling soup kitchen
followed K Company of the famous
Rainbow Division through Cham
payne. Chateau Thierry. st. Mihiel
and the Argonne. Kokomo escaped
unwounded A gas attack made him
almost totally blind before he died
at the Iowa Soldiers Home Thursday,
but that was years after his war
service ended.
"Kokomo gave his eyesight and 40
years OF his life to the service Of his
country" the minister said. He did
all he could. He was a true soldier"
His old friends said Gen. Pershing
once spotted Jones overseas, and that
the following colloquy took place:
How old are you?"
I'm 81. sir"
How old?"
I'm So, sir"
And the oldest man in this Army"
Gen. Pershing concluded.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
GEN. Won SEECKT DIES:
GERMAN ARMY LEADER
Prominent World War Command
er Succumbs Suddenly at
Home in Berlin.

BERLIN, December 20 R.-Gen.
Hans Won Seeckt, 10, died unexpected
ly at his home here yesterday after q
short illness.
Gen. Won Seeckt was prominent in
the World War, put down q post war
uprising in 1920, and completed organ
ization Of the newly founded republics
army.
The general completed 50 years Of
army service on August 4. 1885, when
he was congratulated on behalf of the
new German army by Gen. Werner
Won Fritsch. He was born April ~,
1866.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler appointed him
commander Of an infantry regiment
on his 10th birthday anniversary last
April %.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
|NSURGENT PLANES
BOMB SANTANDER
go Persons Reported Killed
in Attack on Northern
Coastal City.
By the Associated Press.

MADRID, December 2s.-Insurgent
bombing planes attacked the north
ern coastal city of Santander yester-
day. killing 60 persons in a destructive
air raid, the Socialist Defense Coun-
ell reported today.
In the capital the Socialist COM
mand claimed advances on. the vest
ern line OF fortifications along the
Manzanares River.
Militiamen seized insurgent trenches
and fortified houses on the edge of
the Usera district, the council said.
Strategic Positions Taken.
Capture Of the strategic positions
on opposite sides Of Madrid was re-.
ported in an oficial communique.
A Socialist force routed Fascists in
Ell Basurero, near the highway south
west from Madrid to Estremadura, and
in the Taracena sector about 2 miles
from Guadalajara, to the northeast.
Both victories, the war ministry as
serted. followed intensive artillery and
mortar fire on insurgent strongholds
and at Ell Basurero, an infantry attack.
The Madrid government has reported
several successes recently against in
surgent positions both on the Madrid
front and along vital communication
lines In the rear.
Franco Appeals for Aid.
With the capitals defense lines hold
ing in the eighth week Of the siege.
the Fascist commander. Gen. Francisco
Franco. Is reported to have appealed
to Germany for reinforcements, Great
ing q new crisis for European neutral
ity in Spain.
A Fascist aerial attack inflicted
heavy damage on several buildings In
El Reloj and E Cato streets.
Ofncials announced the British En-
bassy would be transferred to Valencia,
present seat Of the Socialist govern
ment. and the Embassy building in
Madrid closed.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
REICH CHURCHMEN
WATCH NAz| AIDES
RedoubIe Vigilance to See
Hit|er's Ban on Attack
Is 0beyed.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, December 28.-German
fundamentalists redoubled their vigil
ance today to see that Nazi subalterns
obey Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler's re-
cent orders forbidding attacks on the
Christian church and faith.
Ministers were alarmed by plans OF
DR.. Robert Ley, the Reich's leader for
the political organization of Nazidom
to become the "seelsorger"-
soul caretaker-of the German people
as reported in the Berliner Tageblatt.
The title heretofore has been reserved
to clergymen.
Soldier, Preacher Combined.
DR.. Ley has issued orders to make
his precinct captains spiritual mentors
for their neighborhoods. The block
letter." he instructed, is to be "a COM
bination of soldier and preacher"
A circular from the Protestant Con-
fessional Synod warned its pastors that
the Rosenberg myth" of a religion
based on blood and soil and on q
shinto-like worship of Hitler as God s
mediary for the German people, was
being advanced by the authorities. DIR.
Alfred Rosenberg is head of the Nazi
party foreign affairs division.
The circular also recalled to the
ministers the churchs loss Of ground
in the past four years. citing such spe-
cific instances of state interference
with the church as:
/. Missionary work no longer may
be conducted from open-air vehicles
and the Home Missions Department
may not publish so-called Golden
Word placards, brief Bible quotations.
Suppression of Publications.
z. Newspapers have been sup
pressed, including the Aufwaerts
Upward, Lutheran weekly, pub
lished by Rev. Friedrich Won Bodel-
schwingh; the Reichsbote. Protestant
daily, read by the late Empress. Au-
guste Victoria, and the weekly, Unter
dem Wort (Under the World.
3. Numerous church editors have
been excluded from the Reich's Fed
Grafton of Journalists; theology stu
dents have been forbidden to act as
leaders in the Hitler youth movement.
4. In Thuringia, the Old Testa-
ment has been barred from the schools
and teachers have been recon-
mended to accuaint classes with Julius
Streicher's anti-semitic "Stuermer."
S. Theological seminaries have been
greatly curtailed in their activities
and the closing of some is contem-
plated by the government.
Theology Students Warned.
9. Theological students are warned
at the start Of each university semester
any of them connected with the con-
fessional movement or its organisa-
tions will be expelled.
z. Ministers admitted as religious
instructors in public schools are for
hidden to be active in confessional
youth organizations. Public school
teachers who join the Nazi Teachers
Federation must resign membership
In any confessional teachers organiza-
ton.
8. Young peoples societies con-
Quoted under church auspices are not
permitted to operate their own Sum-
mer camps.
.. The Wurtemberg government
has prescribed nine church hymns
that may be sung in the schools. AL
others are forbidden.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSOCIATED freS,
CORNING. Iowa. December 28.-
They buried Kokomo Jones yesterday,
not as a cook but soldier
Former Gov. Dan Turner, Col
Claude Stanley Of the Iowa National
Guard, and "buddies" of three wars
paid their respects to Kokomo. IT.
year-old Army cook. whom they de-
scribed as the oldest man to serve In
the A. E. F.
A bugler born years after Kokomo
Joined K company Of the National
Guard, blew taps.
And that is all We could do. even
though Kokomo had been a general"
one OF the veterans whom he fed in
France said.
Rev. Todd read Kokomo's war rec
ord. which started in 1893 when he
joined Company K as cook. and ex-
tended throughs the Spanish-Ameri-
can, the Mexican border and the
World Wars.
The only citation for Private Frank
Jones'" was the Army report that he
Evening star., 1936-12-28
PLAN PARK PAINTINGS
Bids to Be Opened Next Month for
Trees and Shrubs,

Frank T. Gartside, assistant su-
perintendent Of the National Capital
Parks, announced today that bids will
be opened about the middle of next
month for 172 trees and AS shrubs
to be planted in the Rock Greek and
Potomac Parkway, between Lincoln
Memorial and K street. Planting will
start about March Is.
Similar material was planted in
the parkway, but was washed out by
the food of last March. In the in
terim the sea wall in that locality
has been raised about feet, and.
while this will not safeguard against
major flood, it will protect prop
erty In ordinary freshets, Officials said.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
STRIKING SEAMEN
BEAT THREE MEN
Norfolk Police Probe Victims
Story They Were Ganged
in Store.
b, the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, December 28-
Officers today investigated a story
told by three working seamen that
they were ganged and beaten by q
group of men they identified Is
strikers"
-Four other seamen had reported
attacks by gangs of men during the
past few days.
Beaten in Store.
The latest attack occurred last night
at confectionery store just outside
the gate to the Eastern Steamship
and the Norfolk & Western piers,
John Pekarowick, l9. Bayonne, N. j.,
one of the men injured. said
Pekarowick said his companions
were Lloyd Feagan. Portsmouth, and
Warren Rumpf. Is, Milton, Mass. The
first two are firemen on the Eastern
Steamship Lines George Washington,
and Rumpf is an oiler on the S. S.
Cornish.
I'VE had been in the store about
three-quarters of an hour" Pekaro-
wick told police. First one striker
came in. Then he went out and in
vited q couple more in. This went
on several times until there were about
q dozen men in the place.
Gang Scattered.
Finally one Of them walked up
and grabbed me by the arm and said:
What boat are you on?' I said: The
George Washington'-andt that's all I
remember"
Patrolmen s. F. Shotwell and w. j.
Stone. answering q radio call to the
store, took Pekarowick and Feagan to
a hospital, where they were treated for
lacerations of the face and contusions
of the head. Police then escorted
them back to the George Washington.
Onicers said they did not see Rumpf
and that the other men had appar-
emily scattered before their arrival.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
D. c. MEN TO ADDRESS
HISTORY UNIT Meeting
Twelve From Capital to Speak at
Annual Conference in Provi-
dence, r. I.

Twelve prominent Washington men
are included among those who will
speak at the fifty-first annual meet
ing Of the American Historical Asso-
citation opening tomorrow in Provi-
dence, r. I.
They are Prof. Guy A. Lee, Brook
ines Institution: Prof. Alfred w. Kid
der. Carnegie Institution; Prof Ieonid
Evening star., 1936-12-28
MADRID ATTACK HELD FAILURE
Franco Forces Reported Firm Against
B0mbardment,

WITH FASCISTS, Outside Madrid.
December % (R.-Madrid forces
launched a futile attack yesterday on
the insurgents right flank, just soith
Of the capital.
The assault on Fascist-held villages
close behind the front lines was ac-
companied by thunderous lombard
ment. but it failed to shake the troops
Of Insurgent Comdr. Gen. Francisco
Franco.
Socialist government airplanes and
artillery combined in the lombard
ment Of the villages while the inhab-
itants were attending Sunday mass.
Fascist air squadrons answered with
. bombing foray over Madrid.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Attack by Camel Fatal.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo, December %
P}.-John C. Hane. So. park care
II, died last night. His physician
attributed death to pneumonia. The
camel, which Hane had attended eight
years. grabbed his head in its mouth,
shook him violently. then trampled
him
Evening star., 1936-12-28
MRS. A. J. FREDERICK
DIES AT AGE OF 63
Wife of Architectural Sculpture
Firm Official Resident
Here 80 Years

Mrs. Catherine F. Frederick, 63,
wife Of Arthur J. Frederick, vice presi-
dent Of Lumbard & Ludwig, Inc,
ARCHITECTURAL sculpture firm. died late
yesterday Of a heart attack at her
home, 1922 Ames place northeast.
Mrs. Frederick had lived here 80
years. Besides her husband, she leaves
three sons, Robert, Walter and Louis
Frederick, all of this city, and two
sisters, Mrs. Eva Bona and Mrs. Lena
Koenig, both of Boston. She also
leaves seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held We'd
nesday morning at Lees funeral home,
Fourth street and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. northeast, followed by burial In
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Black Widow Spider Hardy.

A black widow spider kept in q bot
tie ut Beaumont. Tex, proved its
hardness. It lived nine weeks with
out food, and during that time spun
. web and Matched several score
young spiders.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
10 MORE BODIES FOUND

Toll In Jamaica Boat Disaster
Mounts to "a.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, December
70 R.-The list Of known dead rose
to a today in the capsiHng Of Z
boat loaded with colored excursionists
Christmas morning.
Ten bodies were found floating In
the harbor and grapplers recovered
three others yesterday. The bodies q
other victims were picked up pre-
vioA1ly. .
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Yale Club Luncheon.

Laurence v. Benet. now making his
home at 1884 8 street after so years
residence In. Paris, will be guest OF
honor at . Yale Club lunch.on at
1880 pm. tomorrow ct the Cosmos
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Quake Makes Workmen III.

A slight earthquake in the early
construction Of the Golden Gate
Bridge at San Francisco rocked tho
746-foot towers 20 much that the
Vofkmen bocamAsiN
Evening star., 1936-12-28
EDUCATORS TO MEET
Presidents Of 22 Universities
Gather Tomorrow at g. W. q.

Gather Tomorrow at G. w. q.
President of "a State universities
will gather at George Washington
University tomorrow for the annual
meeting Of the State University Asso-
citation. A program formulated by
the Executive Committee will be con-
sidered.
Onicers of the association are: DR..
George Thomas, president of the Uni
versity of Utah, president; DR.. George
H. Denny, chancellor of the University
of Alabama. vice president; DR.. Cloyd
H. Marvin, president Of George WASH
tngton University, secretary.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Coal Shipments Soar.

Great Lakes ports ran up the great.
est volume Of anthracite coal ship
mantS IN 1886 since 1881.
Evening star., 1936-12-28
Origin of Lice Noted.

Scientists believe lice originated
about the time birds and reptiles diff.
ferentiated into different animals.