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Evening star., 1937-07-06
EARHART SIGNALS
ARE RELAYED HERE
Coast Guard Headquarters
on AIert-F0ur Work
Around Clock.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Radiomen and officers who have
ridden high seas in search of boats in
distress now hover constantly over
telegraph machines at Coast Guard
headquarters, waiting for word from
their fellows on the cutter Itasca
heading the Earhart hunt.
From the weary Searchers in the
South Seas. from anxious watchers in
San Francisco and from radiomen
keyed to catch faint words on the DOW
erful receivers of nearby Fort Hunt,
come cryptic reports at intervals
These 60 to high officials who hold
hnal direction of the search-Secre-
tary Morgenthau, Rear Admiral
Waesche and Navy officials. Some one
wants the exact location of the Navy's S
battleship Colorado. Some one wants
the State Department to ask the aid
Of British boat.
-Four Work Around Clock.
Tearing of the latest news from the
searching Guardsmen in the South
Seas and tipping out requests and Or
ders TO be flashed across the country
four men work in shifts around the
clock. They are Chief Radioman J. M
Dwyer. 3059 @ street; Chief Radioman
c. F. Blake, 1903 Wisconsin avenue
Bethesda; Radioman First Glass; O.
j. Wood, 1884 Tenth street, and Radio
man First Class R. E. West, 1884
Tenth street.
When a hopeful message or an
urgent query clicks off the teletype, in
the middle of the night, they arouse
the duty officer from restless sleep
on hard bunk nearby. When hot
messages flash in during the day, they
are whipped across the desk to the
officer in charge. About 20 lieutenants
and lieutenant commanders of the
headquarters staff take turns on the
long night grind.
There is dramatic action. And
there is dreary waiting.
Sleeping means court rt-martlal,
yawns tired radio operator at am.
Regular Chores Go On.
Besides the Itasca's dramatic
search, the Coast Guard day-to-day
hunt-and-save work goes on. Reports
come in of yachts rescued. of cadets
training in Stockholm, of weather
conditions important TO flying life
savers.
When things are quieter, in the
early hours of the morning, the occa-
sional messages from the men who are
following their long-tried methods in
the search for two lost flyers in the
South Seas stir memories in the lis
teners. When time drags tales are
told
Il was trying to locate ship that
had lost her rudder just off New York
one time" an officer recalls.
Sharks snaps a lieutenant again.
They won't attack boat. Oh, maybe
In the movies, but not really. They're
the deadest game I've ever fiShed for"
Knocked Out in Storm.
"A storm at sea can do a lot of
damage" remarks a radio man in an
other interval. Il remember one time
was strapped to my set, but the ship
gave lurch and the strap broke. I
was out for 10 minutes.
Direction finders? We were track
ing stranded ship in a pea soup fog.
1t was before the direction finder had
been perfected. The old box type, it
was. The commander didn't have
much faith in them. But, by gosh,
we came so close to that ship we
almost ran into her. The commander
got lot of respect for direction
finders out of that"
Evening star., 1937-07-06
|PARLEY Renewed
IN PHILLIPS STRIKE
Cambridge Labor Front Quiet
and Pickets Abandon Can.
merry Gates.

b. the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Nd, July 6.-The
Phillips Packing Co. strike situation
was quiet today as negotiators met to
Try again to settle the strike.
Sheriff Roy Melvin said that "every-
thing is mighty nice" and there had
been no calls for police during the
night. He said he had phoned the
five strike-closed canneries and that
early in the day pickets had not ap-
peared in front Of them.
Harry T. Phoebus, State commits
sioner Of labor, said he would attempt
to arrange another conference between
strike leaders and Col Abanus Phil
lips, president of the company, this
afternoon.
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Base Ball

Continued From First Page.)
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| HoWland was heard at 7:12 m East
ern Standard Time yesterday.
1t was fragmantary. faint. and partly
blotted out with static Three oper-
ators at Wailupe naval station pieced
1t together as follows:
"28l North Howland :. call KHAQQ
| (the signature of the Earhart plane)
=. beyond north =. don't hold with
us much longer . above water . .
shut off
Searching agencies interpreted the
mesSage-lf it came from the missing
couple-as indicating various things,
that the plane was sinking, that radio
transmission was failing because of
weakening batteries, that the plane
was hoatlng, and that gasoline neces-
sary to turn the right motor and fur
nlsh electricity was near exhaustion.
AS the 1tasca Veered its course to
race to the position it radioed here
Official information indicates that
Earhart is down 281 miles north of
HoWland
The speedy little vessel reached the
area about 7 O'Clock last night, and
Coast Guard authorities in San Fran
cisco estimated she was about 80 min
utes ahead of the slower Swan,
plowing southwark
The British freighter Moorby, en-
route from Victoria, British Columbia.
70 Sydney, Australia, turned from its
course to join the search. but was not
expected to reach the precise position
given before $50 am. eastern stand
ard time)
Japan instructed all its ship and
shore radio operators to keep watch
Tor possible new clues, and Putnam
SAID he had received, through the
newspaper Nichi Nichi, a telephoned
offer to the Japanese government to
assign Warships to the hunt. He said
acceptance or rejection of that offer
would be left up to the United States
naval authorities.
Additional international action
would be necessary, the State De-
partment advised, if Putnam's theory
OF his Wife's whereabouts is to be
checked. The Phoenix Islands are
British, and the State Department
informed Coast Guard officials it
would await the result Of the search
north of Rowland before enlistine
that governments aid.
From todays focus the search was
expected to spread if necessary, into
a general survey of the whole South
Pacific area adjacent to the route
plotted by Miss Earhart on her 2,57o-
mile fight from Lac, New Guinea. to
Rowland
Putnam and Mrs. Noonan, bride of
the missing navigator, kept constant
vigil as the hours passed without
definite word.
The motion picture executive spent
last night at the Coast Guard radio
station in San Francisco, Mrs. Noonan
was cared for by friends in Oakland.
Calf, her home.
COLORADO'S PLANES WAIT.
cannot Send Out Observers Until
Noon Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.
The battleship Colorado reported to-
Gay she would not be ready to send
planes in search of Amelia Earhart
until noon tomorrow.
Coast Guard officials tn whom tho
Evening star., 1937-07-06

battleship reported, said she was too
far away from the sector southeast
of Howland Island, which she in
tended to search, to release her planes.
The Colorado gave her position as
about 300 miles east and $50 miles
north of Rowland.
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By Robert C0nyay

facts. And then, because Of the roundabout
method of answering all statements are quail
fled with "ifs," "whens" and "hows." But gen.
eral policy, intended to be precedent for five,
ten, twenty more years to come, is building up.
The main point in this policy is that American
lives and American property must be protected.
So far as the protection Of lives is concerned,
it has been announced that an additional 1900
marines have been designated to the Shanghai
area Actually, they probably will not get under
way until about August 20. Meanwhile, Ameri-
cans in Shanghai are allowed to choose between
sailing and canceling reservations to evacuate
the war torn zone. Between two Of the worst
bombingS of the foreign section, officials in
Washington admitted, there were number Of
cancellations by persons frantic to get out when
the second bombing occurred
Now as regards the protection of American
property in China In 1888, according to estimates
of the American Department Of Commerce, Amer
lean interests in China had an aggregate gold
value of $25OOOOOOO. The interests include
$4500O0 900 in Government obligations, $5O,OOO,.
600 in philanthropy and missionary establish
ments and $13S,O0O0OO in direct business invest.
mentS.
There are between $50 and 600 business con.
Germs, owned and operated by Americans in China
J0pan's Stake Is Largest
Britain has an investment six times greater in
China than has America. The British interests
are estimated at about $3.50, 100000 Russia has
an investment not much more than double that
Of America-approximatel $40O0OO,o00.
Japan'S interest is the largest, 81, 500, 900 OOO
besides territorial gains, according to the scanty
data available on this point.
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PICKETS BARRED
FROM EMBASSY

Ignoring police warnings not to
picket the Japanese Embassy, so
members of the American League
Against War and Fascism ap-
peared in front of the embassy late
yesterday. Two of their number
were dragged away by police after
declaring they would make a test
case" of the right to picket.
When police, under Inspector
James Beckett, declared no dem
onstration would be tolerated, a
small delegation led by Maurice
J. Whsle, counsel for the Civil Lib
critics Union, was allowed to pre-
sent a statement at the embassy.
The statement condemned "the
ruthless invasion of the democratic
republic of China by the military
forces Of Japan"
Earlier in the day, an appeal by
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull
asking the league not to demon
strate or picket because of the deli
cate situation in the Far East was
delivered to the organization
through Major Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of police. The
demonstration would only agra
vate an acute situation, the Secre-
tary said.
The group dispersed quietly as
soon as Whsle had delivered his
note to embassy officials.
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DR.. MANN'S ARK
HEADS FOR HOME

The modern "Noah'S Ark,
bearing specimens of tropical ami
mails to be housed in the National
geological Park here, has cast
anchor at a port in the Red Sea,
on its way to the United States.
Under the direction Of DR.. Will
liam M. Mann, director Of the
Geological Park, the crew of the
steamship Silverash and members
of the Smithsonian Institution
National Geographic Society East
Indies Expedition have gathered
an assortment of blue sheep, black
panthers, white squirrels, and rain
bow-hued tropical birds which will
be a delight for Zoo visitors.
The new inmates Of the Zoo will
arrive here within the next two
weeks, DR.. Mann reported.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Hard Blouv to Guffev

No wonder Boss Joe Guffey feels so bitter
against Burt, and, If he had his way, would read
him right out of the party. Book sales and
kindred things are the very life of the sort Of
politics Joe plays. Then, to have a fellow like
Burt around running the whole thing. it is
enough to make one see red.
Poor old Joe, he was hardly more than .
political panhandler in Pennsylvania for years.
Then, when a great opportunity comes to do
great things for the common people in way
that only Joe knows how to do it, there has to be
a diSturber, fellow who won't go along. Medi'
tating on this situation will practically ruin JoeS
sojourn abroad. When he calls Burt an migrate
you can bet it is tame as compared with what he
would like to say
We wouldn't be surprised If this attitude OF
Burt's didn't cause him lot Of trouble, too.
The friends of the common people seem to be
lining up right rigidly against him. The little
weekly newspaper, Labor which is supported
by the big railroad brotherhoods has way of
referring to the friends Of the common people
always by their first names. For example, they
never refer to Mr.. Roosevelt except as ''F. D."
There is "Joe," "Jack" and so forth. And it used
always to be "Burt" Wheeler. Now they are
calling him Senator"
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Skin Came
OnlyPartial
Success

The old reliable send package
and change for $40" was only
partially successful last night
when tried on Gilbert Horne, col
ored, delivery boy for the Column
bia Ale and Liquor Shop. in the
HOO block of Bladensburg Rd
N. E.
Delivering a quart of whiskey
and the specified money to sec.
ond-floor apartment in the 1900
block L st. N. E., Horne became
suspicious when there was no
response to his knock.
Concealing SIS of the money
he had been told to bring, Horne
was on his way out and had al.
most reached the front door when
he told police, a white man, about
Is years old, held him up with
a pistol and took the whiskey and
about 81 in change.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
D. C. Miracle Baby
Out of Danger

Washington's Miracle Baby"
born on Friday, August 10, three
months too soon and with the
odds against living quoted at
10000 to / against her, today was
pronounced out of danger by
physicians at Providence Hospital,
The baby, daughter of Mrs.
Mary Frances HALEY, of Silver
Spring, Md, has not been named
yet. The tiny infant weighed
only two pounds and four ounces
at birth. Though still in an in
cubator. she now weighs more
than three pounds and is gaining
every day, according to hospital
attendants.
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Faces Grand Jury
On Robbery Charge

Arrested after he thrust a 80
caliber revolver in the faces of a
couple parked in an automobile
on West Virginia Avenue North
east several days ago, Allen E.
Coates was brought before Judge
Robert E. Mattingly and was held
for action Of the Grand Jury un-
der $4,000 bond. Detective George
Thornton said a similar charge
will be taken directly to the Grand
Jury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
New TroIIeys
Streanulined Cars To
Be Seen Tonight

Two of the Capital Transit Com"
pany's new streamlined, one-man
street cars will appear on Wash
ington streets for the first time to-
day at 500 p. m.
Followed by an antique motor
car and trailer of the type used
here 20 years ago, the two new
cars will be driven from Peace
Monument up Fourteenth Street to
Colorado Avenue, reaching the
loop there at 1851, and arriving
back at the Monument at 9:25 p.
m. They then will proceed to the
Navy Yard.
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SLAIN WOMAN
IS BURIED HERE

Mrs. Henrietta Anderson, muir.
dered Sunday in her L Street
apartment, was buried yesterday
in Arlington Cemetery beside her
husband, who died in Mt. Alto
Hospital last December.
Linwood, jr., IA, was the only
one Of the woman's three children
at the services. Her two-year-old
son, William, is at the home Of
relatives in Pennsylvania, and her
daughter, Barbara, 10, is a patient
at the Children's tuberculosis Hos
pital at Glenn Dale.
Barbara, who was to have come
home Sunday. has suffered a re-
lapse and probably will remain at
the Sanitarium several weeks.
Mrs. Anderson had made plans to
rent a larger apartment. The
mother was the only support Of
the group and had earned a pro-
motion in the Veterans Admins
tration.
The pallbearers, all uniformed
Legionnaires selected from the
Veterans Bureau, were Frank Nc
Carthy, Robert Hetzer, Michael
Lyons, Rodney A. Horton, H. E.
Golden and John P. Lester. While
the last rites were being conducted
the District Grand Jury indicted
her confessed slayer, William
Major" McAfee, 81, colored jani-
tor, for murder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Policeman Faces
Drinking Charge

A veteran Of 20 years service,
Policeman Everett Grimes. 49,
Fourth precinct, yesterday was
suspended from the force while
superiorS Investigated charges
that he threatened several resi-
dents of the 400 block First St
S. w., while under the influence
of LIQUOR.
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No Shield Against Burt

But what have the purchasers come to learn
but that, while the books do them reasonably
well insofar as the rest Of the gang is concerned
they are no protection against Burt at all. Only
few weeks ago he hailed fellow before his COM
mittee who had bought SIS, 900 of these books
That story went all around the country and the
demand for the books dropped forthwith.
Statesmen now going around with their impor
tunities are naturally confronted with the ques
ton: "But yes, what can you promise in the
wav of Burt Wheeler" And naturally, the sales
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ton and decided on a policy
of "watchful waiting"-the
same policy that preceded
Americas entry into the
World War.
This is the most important
acknowledgment to date of
the real gravity of the Shang-
hal problem. Even at present,
State Department comments
on war.torn China are yelled
in diplomatic language curl
ously at odds with orders is
sued to the Navy and Marines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Justice Black
Sails for Europe

Supreme Court Justice and Mrs.
Hugo L. Black sailed from Balti'
more at 4 p. m. yesterday aboard
the S. S. City of Newport News
for Hamburg. They are expected
to return before the opening Of
the fall term of the court in DC.
tober.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

Back over the American border, not far from
Del Mar, Bing Crosbys famous race track is clos
ing its first and very profitable season.
The grand stand at Del Mar is made of adobe
and is like wide open Spanish house. Race track
attendants in Spanish costume take your BETS
It's picturesque background for the hordes of
movie people who are there every day the horses
run and without whom no enterprise in Southern
California may be run.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

their $3.50 books. The market,
it seems, has dropped clean
out from under this best
seller. They are available in
a local book store for 10 cents
a copy, exactly $249.9O less
than what they were going for
a few weeks ago. It's prob
ably the greatest drop Of a
best seller in history.
Burt Wheeler is manifestly
responsible. He refuses to play
ball and give protection to the
buyers of these books, They
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Army Band to Give
Concert Tonight

Music of Brahms, Verdi and
Bach are included on the pro-
gram in which Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy conducts the Army Band
at the Capitol this evening at 1880
o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
The Listening Post By Carlisle Bnrgerm

men can't give any assurances on this score. The
sales will simply have to be stopped until Burt is
definitely purged.
This refusal of Burt's to play ball is far more
damaging than his attitude on the Supreme
Court packing plan. 1t hits at the very vitals of
the New Deal You might say it destroys their
SinewS.
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in telling Of his experiences while looking for
Amelia, said that he had never chased woman
so hard with so little luck.
Tia Juana, the wicked Tia Juana Of the prohi-
bition days, was too close to Coronado and too
much Of a magnet for us to miss. So we dashed
down there yesterday for lunch.
DesOLate Tia JuanG
Since one may drink anywhere in the United
States now, and since one may no longer gamble
profitably in Mexico, Tia Juana is bit deSolate.
The race track is knee deep in hay. Stray dogs
sleep inside the gaudy circular walls Of what was
to have been stadium.
But the big, bright hotel, Aqua Caliente, is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

never had any literary quality, but those who
bought $4,000 and $4,000 worth considered and
were led to believe that literary merit was no way
to Judge these masterpieces at all They are sup
posed to give fellow immunity from New Deal
Vaccinations, like the asafetida your mother
used to make you wear around the neck to ward
IF communicable disease.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

Mrs. Louis G. Caldwell and I
had cocktails. We admired the
garden and talked a little
about poor Amelia Earhart.
Captain Bristol was proud Of
the record that his aviators
had made in the search for
Amelia. Although about so
planes were engaged closely in
the hunt, there was not one
casualty. Two planes crashed in
landing on the Ranger" but
no one was injured.
One Of the young aviatorS,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
Capitol Stuff

Substituting for the regular conductors OF
Capitol Stuff" lDIuo are on OacGtton).
President Roosevelt and his Cabinet members
before his departure yesterday for Hyde Park,
discussed the entire China-Japanese war situa-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
WIN PAY BOOST

Contracts with the Grozbean
Cleaners, Needles Cleaners and
Dyers, and the Federal Cleaners
and Dyers including wage in
creases of Is to so per cent were
announced by Mrs. Julia Katz, of
the C. I. o., who has been in
charge of negotiations between
the plants and the Laundry Work
ers, Cleaners and Dyers Union,
Local 1877.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

Stripped Of diplomatic verbiage-that is, per"
petual reference to previous communications,
traditional practices and established precedents
when direct questions are asked regarding what
is taking place-it appears that the following or
ders have been issued:
"shoot back if you know who is shooting at
you"
protect American lives"
protect American property"
The press-which means the American people
don't know what is going on. There is no dis
pute about this. Request by correspondents for
"off the record" conferences with Secretary Of
State Hull have been made to try and bridge
this situation. The request was refused on the
ground that foreign correspondents meaning, of
course, members of the Japanese press, would
have to be excluded and the State Department
didn't want to be placed in the position Of exclud-
ing anybody
General Policy Building Up
Out of the confusion, however, certain things
seem evident. It takes hours to get at these
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
BILL remaining
MALL STREETS
RECEIVES VETO
rsl'Enfant Plan,
Says President
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt thinks that
changing the names of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Adams and
Madison drives in the Mall to
avenues named after four states
is an assault on the L'Enfant
plan and vetoed the measure pro-
viding such a change.
Congress suggested changing
these drives to avenues honoring
the states of Ohio, Missouri, Okla
homa and Maine. But the Presi-
dent wants to keep the original
names memorializing the first
four presidents.
SUGGESTS ALTERNATIVE
He suggests if the names Of the
states mentioned are to be given
to streets here that they be
applied to certain diagonal high
ways as follows:
For Ohio Avenue, rename Con-
cord Avenue and Riggs Road.
For Oklahoma Avenue, re-
name Benning Road or Nichols
Avenue.
For Maine Avenue rename
Reno Road.
For Missouri Avenue rename
Linnean Avenue.
These suggestions the President
makes in the memorandum is
sued at the White House today in
explanation Of the veto.
ORIGINAL PLANS
The memorandum stated:
1.-THE naming Of these Mall
roads as avenues would result in
a complete change in the policy
established by Thomas Jeffer-
son when the city was laid out
by L'Enfant. jefferson named
the diagonal avenues after the
10 original States and the rec
tangular streets were lettered
and numbered. Moreover, the
Mall drives are in no sense city
streets but are park roads none
of which has ever been given
State Names"
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Desolate Tia Ju0no

You can get better slant on the New Dealers
bitterness towards Burt Wheeler when you con-
slider the experience they have just had with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
FRIDAY, AUG. II, 1887
Seeing America Last By Helen Essao

open again. In the patio dining room Mexicans
sing and dance in costume and tourists eat rich
food and think they are in another world.
The shops and the native markets are crowded
with visitors who want to escape the duty" of the
United States.