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Evening star., 1937-11-09
FOUR IN NEW YORK
HELD IN VOTE QUIZ
4,500 Ballots 'mpounded
After Fraud Inquiry
Is Pressed.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. s.-Four can
vassers were in Jail today and $500
ballots were impounded as ofncials
pressed an investigation into charges
Of fraud in tabulating New York Citys
proportional representation election
OF city councilmen a week ago.
The canvassers-two Democrats and
t. Republicans-were ordered held
for the grand jury by Sylvester Ryan,
acting district attorney of the Bronx,
who began his own inquiry into re-
ports of sabotage in vote counting.
He impounded the ballots, he said,
after a handwriting expert discovered
Shey had been changed since the
count started.
Count directors ordered work stopped
in the Bronx, holding the count could
not continue while part Of the ballots
we're impounded, as Bronx grand
jury considered inspecting the i'm
pounded votes during the day.
Watched by Police.
As csnvassers again took up in
other boroughs the tedious task Of
sorting the 100000 proportional rep
resentation-"P. R"-ballots cast
last Tuesday they we're watched by
an army of $50 police and scores of
investigators ordered out by Mayor
Fiorello H. La Guardia and Paul
Blanshard, commissioner O. accounts.
The ballots were cast under a new
charter which provides for a city
council instead of the present Board
Of Aldermen.
The "P. R." provision-tried pre-
viously by 10 other American cities
was designed to give representation to
minority groups and to smash machine
control.
Counting Is Slowed.
A clause allowing voters to name
more than one councilmanic choice
slowed counting. Labor political lead
ers charged Republican and Demo-
cratic canvassers with changing the
ballots and deliberately soldering" to
delay the tallying as long as possible.
Quarrels broke out between detec-
tives and the canvassers, but there
was no violence. Police we're hissed
by many of the election workers, seven
OF whom we're discharged in Brooklyn
f tapdiness.
s. Howard Cohen. president of the
Board of elections. estimated the
count-costing the city approximately
$4,000 a day-might take until
Thanksgiving Day.
The specific frauds" complained OF
in the Bronx were that canvassers al
tered the figure /. indicating the
voters first choice for council member.
by adding a mark with black pencil TO
make it into figure 4, which could be
done. OF course. only in those ballots
on which the voter indicated three or
less choices
1t is violation of the elections law
for canvasser to be in possession of A
black pencil. In all five boroughs there
were charges of "loafing" by canvass
ers, eliminating in numerous disnis-
sails, but not involving alleged criminal
law violations.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
BRIDGE CHANGE ASKED

A letter asking that abutments OF
the @ Sereet Bridge "be corrected As
speedily as possible" to avoid future
accidents, was sent yesterday to Capt.
H. c. Whitehurst, District director
OF highways, by the Keystone Auto
mobile Club.
The most recent accident ut the
bridge occurred Friday when . car
struck the abutment and three oc-
cupants were Averely injured.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
NORRIS ADVOCATES
BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
Urges Nine-Power Conference to
Denounce War Against
China.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Senator Norris, independent. of Ne
braska urged today that the nine
power conference at Brussels de-
nounce Japans war against China
and at the same time proposed an
American boycott of Japanese goods.
Norris, who voted against American
entrance into the World War. said:
Representatives of the nine power
treaty ought to 60 far enough to say
the way Japan has carried on a
ruthless war is uncivillzed, unjust and
to denounoe it to the world" Norris
said.
He announced in an interview he
had stopped buying goods from Japan,
adding:
1T is probably not necessary for
the Government to take any action,
but it wouldn't be dificult to defeat
Japan by a boycott of the people of
the United States"
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Last Of Washington Family
Born at Mt. Vernon Dies at 81
Mrs. Eleanor Washing.
ton HOtuard Eired at
Estate Five Years.

The last member OF the Washington
family to be born at Mount Vernon
is dead.
Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington
Howard. 4 sreat-great-grandniece Of
George Washington and q daughter Of
Col. John Augustine Washington, jr..
died yesterday at the George Mason
Hotel in Alexandria, Va, where she
made her home.
Mrs. Howard, who was 81 years old,
had been Ill for several months with
pneumonia, and her recovery was
forestalled by infirmities of old age.
She was prominent in patriotic So
cieties and in social circles in the
Capital, where she occasionally made
her home.
Father Killed In War.
Members Of the family today said
Mrs. Howard resided At Mount Vernon
until she was years of age, when
her father, who later gave his life for
the Confederacy, and mother moved
away.
Little more than a year ago Mrs
Howard. discussing her fathers sale
Of Mount Vernon to the Mount Ver-
non Ladies' Association, said:
my father WAS actually eaten out
of house and home. People came
every day to look at the estate, ate our
food, accepted our hospitality and
then left without SO much as thank
you The estate never was self
supporting and with our fam
lily as large ~ 1t was the expenses
just could not be met"
Born in 1885.
Mrs. Howard was born in 1855, one
of seven children and the youngest
OF f1ve daughters. She was orphaned
when her father was killed during a
reconnaisance on Cheat Mountain, In
West Virginia, in 1861, one year after
his wife had died.
Mrs. Howard said that before his
death her father had turned his for
tune, including large portion of the
100000 obtained through the sale of
Mount Vernon, over to the Confed-
eracy when the Civil War broke out
The estate had descended to her
father through his mother, Mrs. Jane
Washington, who decided it to her son
Evening star., 1937-11-09
WRC|N|AN'S DEATH
. IN CREEK PROBED
Body Found Floating Near
TreStIe, Wound in Back
of Head.
By a STAFF Correspondent of Tn. Star.


MANASSAS. Va, Nov. 9.-Tne
death of william Davidge, jr., 80. OF
Greenwich, Va. whose body was found
in the shallow waters of Broad Run
beneath Southern Railroad trestle
near here today, was being investi-
gated this afternoon by Sheriff J. p.
Kerlin of Prince William County.
While expressing the belief that
Davidge's death was accidental, Sheriff
Kerlin declared two local men who
were with Davidge early last night are
to be questioned and said an inquest
probably would be held here late this
afternoon.
The body was found at o'clock this
morning by Joseph Rollins. mail car
rier. and was brought to local under
taking establishment. The only mark
on the body was long wound across
the back of the skull.
Towing Old Car.
Kerlin said he learned that Davidge
and two companions left Manassas
last night to tow an old automobile to
the formers home. about Is miles
from here. Davidge was not seen
again until his death was discovered
today.
The car the men were towing was
found abandoned on the road near
Bristow. about miles from Broad
Run
Sheriff Kerlin expressed the belief
That the men encountered some me-
chanlcal difficulty with the machine
they were driving or the one they
were towing and Davidge set out for
Manassas to get help. He pointed out
Davidge may have attempted to walk
the railroad trestle as short cut and
1ell from the span. The body was
lying directly beneath the bridge.
Hair Found on TrestIe.
Kerlin said he found some flesh and
hair matching that of the dead mans
on an iron brace rob running beneath
the tresle
The sheriff said he had heard no
report of any train striking any one On
the trestle last night. He added. how
ever, it is possible train may have
crossed the trestle about the time
DaVidge was walking it and the man
may have become frightened and
fallen off.
Davidge is married and survived by
his wife. He had no children. AT
one time he made his home In WASH
lngton. D. c.. although he is a native
OF Prince William County.
Father Lives Here.
Mr.. Davidge had attended public
schools in Washington, graduating
from Central High School. He had
worked at the Post Office Department
here for short time about three
years ago. He was married six years
ago to Miss Betty Foster of Greenwich.
where they had made their home the
last few years.
His father is residing here at 1925
1 street. His mother and sister, Miss
Anna W. Davidge, also live in Wash
lngton. Another sister. Mrs. Lamond
Marvin, was said to be in New York.
Mr.. Davidge was the grandson of the
late Walter D. Davidge, prominent
lawyer. who died IS years ago, and
MRS. Anna Washington Davidse, 4
descendant of an uncle of George
Washington.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
SWEENEY WILL ASSUME
JESUIT POST TOMORROW
President of Canisius College IN
Be Vice Provincial of Mary
land-New York Area.

The Rev. James P. Sweeney, 8. J..
president of Canisius College, Buffalo
N. Y, will arrive here tomorrow to As
sumo his new duties as vice provincial
OF the Maryland-New York province
OF the Society of Jesus. His head.
quarters will be at Georgetown Uni
versity. Jesuit educational institution
Father Sweeney is in New York to-
day comforting with the Very Rev
Joseph A. Murphy, S. j., provincial
He is succeeded as president of Ca
nisius by the Rev. Francis A. O'Malley
8. j., dean.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
APPEALS TO AMERICANS
TO KEEP OUT OF WAR

Mrs. Florence Boeckel Says Com
ing Congress Session May Turn
Out to Be Like One of 1917.
Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel, asso-
ciate secretary Of the National Council
for the Prevention OF War, in a
Nationwide broadcast last night, asked
Americans to do everything in their
power to keep the United States from
foreign entanglements.
The coming session Of Congress may
turn out to be like the Congress which
voted for war In 1917, she said. The
administration has forced Congress to
leave loopholes in the neutrality laws
1t has passed for the imposing OF sane
tions. The opinion Of the electorate Is
the only thing that can change this,
she added.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

and talks by Mrs. George P. Merrill
and DR.. Anna Bartsch Dunno. who re-
Gently attended the Geological Con-
gress in Russia.
Guests Of honor will include DR..
Harvey A. Smith. assistant superin-
tef1dent Of schools, and Mrs. Smith;
DR.. and Mrs. A. L. Howard, Miss Ruth
Stauffer, Mr.. and Mrs Birch E. Bayh,
@. j. Jones. Miss Mildred Dean,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Wallis, Prof Rene
Samson. DR.. and Mrs George M. Raw
Inns, Miss Ethel Bray, Miss E. S. ia
cobs, DR.. and Mrs. e. N. c. Barnes
and Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. ZearfoSs.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

Gay evening al
the Dodge Hotel.
Mr.. Clegg, for
merly of Jackson
Miss. has been
connected with
the Justice De-
partment sin C c
1926.
Other features
of the program
will be 4 report of
the NAtlOnai Edu-
ca tion Associa-
tion Convention
by Mrs. Elva C.
Wells, vocal solos
by Barrett Fuchs
Evening star., 1937-11-09
CARPENTER is HELD
IN DEATH OF BROTHER
Fatal stabbing Preceded by Fight
Over Refusal of SIS Loan,
Coroner's Jury Told.

Accused of fatally stabbing his
brother, Harold Walden, %, in a
fight over the refusal of a IS loan.
Robert Walden. 49, carpenter. yes
terday was ordered held for the grand
jury at an inquest in the case.
The stabbing occurred early Sat-
prday at Roberts basement quarters
at 1909 N street NV.
: The coroner's jury was told by a
third brother, Reuben, who was pres
ent during the fight, that Harold came
into the room where thu two were
sleeping. dragged Robert from bed
and knocked him down several
times" before Robert stabbed him
under the left arm with a butcher
knife.
Harold died Sunday in Emergency
Hospital
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Women Voter Group to Meet.

The department OF government
and legal status of the Voteless Dis
trict of Columbia League of Women
Voters will hold its first meeting of
the season at 8 o'clock tonight In
the home of Mrs. Pearl B. Klein, 5000
Connecticut avenue NV. Can't.
Rhoda Millikin of the Police Depart
ment will speak on Problems of the
Penal Institutions in the District
Affecting Women"
Evening star., 1937-11-09
100000 DAMAGE SUIT
FILED BY RESTAURANT
Owner of Premises Is Accused of
Breaking Agreement After
Alterations Were Made.

By the Associated Press.
A 500, 900 damage suit was filed in
District Court today against Mrs.
Marion p. Davidson, 2402 Kalorama
road NV, by the Seven Seas, q
restaurant concern, which charged she
broke An agreement to lease premises
At 1892 Connecticut avenue NV. to
the firm.
The restaurant told the court the
lease had been drawn and the keys to
the premises turned over to it by Mrs.
Davidson, and the expensive altera-
tions and improvements begun when
she returned the lease unsigned and
demanded that the plaintiff leave the
premises. The Seven Seas were rep
resented by Attorneys Alvin L. New
myer and Joseph A. Kaufman.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
HITS PATENT LAWS

Borah Proposes Revision to
strengthen Antitrust Statutes.
Senator Borah, Republican, of idaho
proposed today a revision Of the
patent laws to help achieve President
Roosevelt's announced objective Of
strengthening antitrust statutes.
The patent laws as now framed
protect some of Athe most outrageous
ri1onopolies In thd United States" said
Borah. He did ot outline specific
suggestions for ch7nxes.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Betty Cradle Poses.

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 8 (P.-Bettv
Cradle. film starlet, is the Spirit Of
HOLLYWOOD today. Sculptor Roger
Noble Burnham gave work with this
Title TO the women's division of the
Chamber of Commerce. Miss Cradle
was the model.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
ADDITION TONIGHT

singers Invited to Join Chorus
for Bach's oratorio.
Washington singers have been in
vited by the Washington Choral So
ciety to participate in the rehearsals,
beginning tonight, OF Bach's THE
Passion According to st. Matthew"
The sacred oratorio will be sung at
the washington Cathedral March 81
on the occasion OF Bachs birthday
anniversary.
The addition tonight begins at 7:3o
and the regular rehearsal at B at Cen
trail High School. The society Is
directed by Louis Potter.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
CLEGG TO ADDRESS
TEACHERS DINNER
Assistant Director of F. B. I.
One of Speakers at Meeting
Next Friday Evening.

Hugh H. Clegg, assistant director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
will address the High School Teachers
Association at dinner meeting Fri
Evening star., 1937-11-09
G. o. P. WOMEN PLAN TEA
League to Sponsor Event From
8 to 5 O'Clock Tomorrow

3 to O'Clock Tomorrow.
The League of Republican Women
Will give a silver tea tomorrow after
noon from 8 to 5 o'clock at the club
house. 1901 Seventeenth street NV.
Mrs. William S. Culbertson will serve
as hostess. This is one of a series
OF such teas to be given under the
auspices of the vice presidents of the
league.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

Chlropractice Society to Meet.
The District of Columbia Chiro-
practic Society will meet at 1929
Massachusetts avenue N. w. at q
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Rockingham


FIRST RACE-PBrse, $500: claim
ing; 3-year-olds and up; 8 furlenEs
aish Martin tNapier) 1910 SEQ An
Miss Trophy (Haftie) gsO Sln
Lady Milly (Marrere) ro40
Time. I:I4.
Also ran-Beautifu1, Out Of step. Noese
Spirit. Eldee. Gay Dog and Currants Z
SECOND kACE-Purse, SaOO. eysiS-
fns, 3-year-olds ana up, q furlsnfs.
Mill Pond fKnott) 1900 an sSo
Euryalus (Marrero) 3OO 2.0
Speycrest (MelecheD 90
Time. 1:14.
Nefirar and Dedication.
tDaily Double paid $1,000 for S9)
THIRD RACE-The Temple Mountain
Hhndicap; parse, 5000; a-yeAr-elds; 6 fus-
longs :
Posterity tDufy) 2OTO sSO $40
yaBe Vito tPArsdise) SIC I IN
MaMa's BOY fScheih) sac
Time. 1.t4 as.
Alse rsn.0rsnS birht, Neds LsAy.
Bustle and May r.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Racing
Results
PimIico-


FIRST RACE-Two miles; the wiIborns
sske; steeDleehase; purse, $1,000: for s.
Gay Charles IT. Roby) son ain On
Ad LIB (H. Clements) 1030 ain
Maenard &C. Brooks) 5h0
Time--3:5i.
Also ran-Senoia. Happy Feet, syrisr,
Yew.
SECOND RACE-Ifs miles; purse.
900: the Neighbors: claiming; fer
maidens all ages tfoaled In Maryiand).
ZInaia "A. sehmidD $50 d.4O $50
Westbreoke tR. Eccard 4.8O 3en
kanicfIIa IN. WalD $40
Time, 1:4sM.
Also rsn-By the Sword, last SCAMP,
Last Harvest. Waterman.
tDaily double, paid S1..40)
THIRD RACE-Purse, ~ .00O; the Gan
Sohcci: claiming: 2-year-o1ds; & furIcnrs
O'buddy fMcCembs) $3.50 s.7O saO
Greenski fWestrepe) 4,fO 3SO
SonEStop tKurtsinger) 3rO
Time, 1:I4.
AIse ran-DoExereI. Giisten. Ne Chj(,
Bicycle. Auxiliary, Newark, Sickle Lass
and Anywoman.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

SMART C colorS
and interesting de-
sign make this suit
notable. It is from
the personal ward
robe of Gla d Us
Swarthout. It is of
brown novelty
wooden with a beige
blouse, and has a
pottery rose Jersey
sash held by a huge
safety pin.
Evening star., 1937-09-26

(See BAUME, Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1937-09-26


paper in Australia. well-known radio
commentator and novelist, now travel
ing in the United States.
~ 90! Bogey men. eh? Little
u yellow ones, rushing round
the country with cameras,
- waiting to attack the Big
Bold Americans?
Waiting till they've cleaned up
China and then launched an aerial
attack on New York and San Fran
cisco, although they haven't base
within thousands of miles to do it
from.
THE JAPANESE MENACE-Keep
it in capitals, please, Mr. Editor, and
then all the people in Oshkosh and
Wichita and Baton Rouge and Ell
Paso will go into their bombproof
cellars hoping that the air raid, which
will never come, will soon be over SO
that they can go on reading their
famous fiery commentators.
And in 500 years they will crawl out
of the cellars (their descendants, l
mean and will find another Bogey
Man to go "Ugh-h-h-h" about, and
all the world will be happy.
Remember, am a Japanese spy
Three people telephoned me after my
recent radio talk-here and in Canada.
They told me. I hadn't heard about
it until they called. I received II ,000,-
900 yen for that broadcast, paid in
Australian pounds sterling. That's
what one man said. SO admitted it.
I added that was to receive 1,000,0 900
yen year as long as I still had a
newspaper job. AS young folks know,
in the little moment between sleeping
and waking, when the reality of the
gray dawn comes, you make money
like that.
And also, you lose the sneaking fear
of the Bogey Man. who seems so
awful when the night is darkest.
Why don't you Americans lose some
of your fear of Japan? Or is it that
you are all suffering from the same
disease Rudyard Kipling had? Don't
you remember how he told Britain for
years and years that the Cossacks-
think he actually named regiment
of them-would sweep down across
the border into Afghanistan and wrest
India from the British? That Russian
bogey was huge and whiskery when
I was at school. He wore an astrakan
cap and didn't wash and he sang
Russian songs something terrible" as
Georgina, our cook, used to say. So
we hated him and we used to wait
outside the shop of poor old Peter
Groos, the Russian tailor, who had
been a starchii-w wachtmeister or SER
geant major of cavalry, and hoot at
him until he criew with laughter.
And then the wicked bogey fought
on our side when we turned around
and had to sock at the Germans
who were supposed to have been oul
friends.
Evening star., 1937-09-26
"The bogey man .ciH get you if you don't match out"

Bogey men? Be careful of them,
be altered to THE Blood Bug II Get
You If You Won't Watch Out"
Watch out. Forget the agitators.
Forget the politics. When 1 was in
Mexico Mr.. Leon Trotsky delivered
me harangue on the terrible jap
anese He said this:
I'm order to assure Japanese DOM
nation over China, it is necessary
to make the western part of the Pacific
Ocean into japanese sea. Australia
will incircle this future Japanese
sea from the south. 1t is imperative
for Japan to find supporting point
in Australia The strategic situation
of your continent cannot help but
arouse the appetite of the Japanese
militarists. You live very far from
Britain and from the United States.
The nearest British ocean base
Singapore-can have but an auxiliary
and temporary Importance"
\ X y
Poor Mr.. Trotsky. He wasn't con-
tent with presenting me those beau
tiful sentences. He went on to talk
economies:
Alongside these purely military
considerations, the attractions of Aus
tralia in itself are very big. On the
japanese islands there are more than
ITS men to each square kilometer; in
Australia there is about one person
to the same space. Australia is rich
in different kinds of materials of
which there is a shortage In Japan.
Every Australian, including the suck
ling infant, uses on the average about
100 Kilograms Of meat a year, while
an italian has but Is Kilograms, and
a japanese has an altogether infinites-
imal portion.
And" says Mr.. Trotsky, "it will
not be an exaggeration to say that
the fate of Australia, at least so per
cent of it, is being decided in Shang-
hal and China"
AS a japanese spy I could not let
this pass. "Tovarish Trotsky," said,
'ixnay"
II do not speak Bronx" he said.
So 1 went on:
"All your talk about distances and
bases and food means nothing to us
in Australia, so far as Japan is con-
cerned.
I'VE have never feared Japan. In
accordance with certain national poll
cies, We exclude Japanese as citizens
That is our business-and theirs. But
we have never built up a Japanese
bogey in our country. We do not
believe in Australia that Japan will
ever covet us. And we are probably
the greatest people close to Japan
with the exception of the Dutch up
at Java. And the Dutch, though some
visionaries in Japan might have once
asked for Batavia, fear the japanese
less than we do. We have Other
bogeys in Australia. We have drought
We have depressions sometimes. We
Evening star., 1937-09-26

out considering what the world may
say about him.
And he will be so occupied, for CEN
turies. in mopping up a people who
are huge beyond conception that he
will have no time, though he should
desire it, to consider cleaning up any,
one else.
So we insAustralia don't fear ia
pan. We trade with her She is a
business acquaintance, but not an in
innate friend to be invited home. We
find her in business keen and trust
worthy and efficient. We pay our bills
to her and she pays hers to us.
One reason for your, bogey about
Japan is your unrestricted immigra-
ton policy of the old days, which
reused your fears when you found you
had thousands of Japanese settlers
and huge Japanese birth rate in
your Western States. Then you began
to quiver and talk of armor and chain
mail for every citizen from Seattle to
San Diego.
But because in Australia we prob
ably have three japanese families in
100000 people, We can face the Jap
anese situation ir the Far East more
clearly and calmly than you can. We
have no fear of country We see so
sharply in perspective. We have pro-
found admiration for her in her Ca
pacity to buy our wool and other
produce. Assume she conquers China
and in perhaps so years produces her
wool from China. We say that a world
moves onward somehow, and that what
you lose on the swings you pick up on
the roundabouts.
Just as Lancashire one day will pick
up 80 Australia would pick up as it
did when we changed whole wheat dis
tricts to other produce-growing areas
when your wheat pits made things
tough for us. But no matter what ia
pan could do with China industrially,
Australia's fears of bloody occupation
would be equally non-existent.
Consider Japan and us. We have a
sense Of deep gratitude to her for her
help to us in the last World War, when
she escorted our troopships and saved
our cities from the Scharnhorst, the
Gneisenau and the Leipzig, all eff
Gent German raiders. We send her a
commissioner who has virtual diplo-
matte status. We offend her with our
| tariffs against some of her cheaply
produced goods and her reprisals van
| ish after consultation with our own
Australian economic delegation to To.
kio. Her training ships bring naval
cadets to Sydney and they roam the
streets with their cameras photograph
ing as real sights of interest every
American tourist they can see. Her
wool buyers eat chow mein at oul
Chinese restaurants because there
aren't any Japanese eating houses She
knows we loathe her militarism in
China and detest her bombings OF
| (See BAUME, Page C-3.)