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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
Train Saved
Prank of TWO Boys
Discovered in Time

SILVER SPRING, Md, Sept. 8.
The thoughtless prank OF two
small colored boys endangered the
lives of passengers on the Balti-
more and Ohio crack passenger
train, the Capitol Limited, yester-
day.
Playing near the tracks at Lin
den, Md, the two youngsters, 10
and 10, found two steel plates and
placed them on the rails to see
what would happen. Track fore
man John Crawford discovered the
plates and removed them few
minutes before the DieSel-powered
express Numbered by.
The two boys, apprehended by
a railroad detective and Mont
gomery county police, admitted
their guilt after nine hours OF
questioning, police said. They
were turned over to Juvenile Court
authorities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
Damages Sought
Tn School Disaster

HENDERSON, Texas, Sept. 3
GN.SO-Charging negligence by
the Parade Gasoline Company as
a contributory cause to the explo-
sion of the New London Consoli-
dated School with 293 deaths, two
families today had on file here
damage suits totaling $20,999
against the company. They were
filed for Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Smith,
Talco, for $4,000 in the loss OF
their daughter; 100000 for an
other child: and Mr.. and Mrs. W.
D: Bunting, London, for $2,999 .99
for the death of their daughter.
They charged the gasoline com
pany's negligence resulted in the
basement of the school building
being charged with gas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
Twins Birthdays
Different Months

CAMDEN, N. j., Sept. 3 G.N.SO.
Philip Frederick Address, three
days old, crowed Justify in his crib
today as he contemplated the
thought that his birthday always
will fall in the month preceding
that of his twin brother, Robert
Allan.
Philip Frederick was born at
1890 p. m. on August 81, whereas
Robert Allan did not come into the
world until 2:14 a. m. on Septem-
Ser /. a rare phenomenon, attend
ing physicians said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
Big Python Found
In Chicago Suburb

HICAGO, Sept. 3 GN.SO.
Mrs. F. A. Bowers, of Suburban
Belvidere, felt today that the de.
lirium tremenS couldn't be worse.
Mrs. Roberts yesterday glanced
casually out of a window in her
home across the roof of a porch.
Then she screamed.
Coiled contendedly in the sun
was a 20-foot python. A real one.
Police and firemer removed the
reptile that had escaped earlier
from a visiting carnival.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
BABY WITH HER
She laughed wryly.

She laughed wryly.
But what's the difference?
They haven't had enough to eat
for q year or more. We haven't
had any butter for that long"
She Rugged her six-months OLD
baby to her breast and it smiled
and gurgled as she talked.
Ed came home from a dance
about three in the morning"
she said. He swore at me some
awful words. I fixed him some
lunch. He said to get the chill
dren out of bed. I did because
I was afraid. He was lying in
the bed with the gun at his side.
He half closed his eyes but he
wasn't sleeping. saw my
chance and pulled the trigger OF
the gun as it lay on the bed: I
did it for the children'S sake"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-03
TOBACCO ROAD"
Staying 7 OIL D
BY FARM WIFE
Shot Husband to Save
Daughters, She Says

PRAIRIE DU CHEN. Wis,
Sept. 3 G.N.S0-A bizarre story
of Tobacco Road" depravlty IN
the Wisconsin backWoodS was told
here today by the mother OF IL
children as she confessed the STAY
ing of her husband. :,
The woman is Mrs. Edward
Heisz. 38, whose husband was
found yesterday in their almost
inaccessible up-country farmhouse
with his face blown away by a
shotgun blast. =,
She was lodged in the Crawford
county Jail while Sheriff Oliver
White checked her version Of the
killing. Mrs. Heisz, the sheriff
said, admitted she fired the fatal
shot because her husband made
bestial demands upon her and two
of their eldest daughters.
SHE is UNCONCERNED
In the shabby, borrowed "finery"
of a neighbor, the woman was
completely unconcerned about her
own fate and worried only about
the welfare of her children, the
sheriff said.
Mrs. Heisz told the sheriff she
would be willing to 60 before
County Judge jeremiah ONeil to-
day and plead guilty.
II don't care what becomes OF
me now" Mrs. HeiSz said in her
cell later. II done 1t.
But who will take care of the
children? Will they have enough
to eat2n
Evening star., 1937-11-13
ITALY FIGHTS ARMS AID
FOR CHINA AT BRUSSELS:
DAVIS AGAIN BIDS JAPAN
Pro-Japan Leaders in China
Reported Seeking to Mediate
-Four Members of Old Peking Gouern'
ment Under Tsao Kung Trying to
Suing Younger Element.

not be Toxic or Marking where the
final peace terms will be reached, but
first Berlin and then Rome.
Significant in this connection is the
fact that the German military at
tache at Toxic, Maj. Gen. OFT, who is
back in the Japanese capital, recently
spent some time in Marking on q
secret mission. Maj. Gen. OFT enjoys
the complete confidence of the Toxic
military.
Also significant is the fact that
Chen Kung-po, former Chinese min
lister Of industry, is en- route to Rome.
Chen is known to enjoy the greatest
friendship with Count Galeazzo
Ciano, Italian foreign minister, and
his countess, who Is Premier Benito
Mussolini's daughter. Count Ciano
and his wife once lived in Shanghai,
when he was Minister to China.
At all events, when and if the Brus-
sells nine-power conference on the
Far East breaks down, the Chinese are
ready to go to Berlin and Rome for
discussions of Sino-Japanese settle
ment.
Both Great Britain and the United
States are not to be the instruments
Of peace In this Far Eastern conflict.
Prior to the present talks, I learn,
Japan approached Italy for the role of
mediator, but the Italians learned,
somewhat to their surprise, that they
were not trusted by the Chinese.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-11-13
CHEST DRIVE NETS
TOTAL OF S292,15l
Gain of $4,000 Over Figure
First Reported Shown
After Audit.

A gain OF approximately $4,000
over the totals reported at the second
Community Chest campaign meeting
yesterday was revealed today in a re-
port to campaign officials from James
A. Councillor, chairman of the Audit
Unit.
The audited figures show receipts at
yesterdays meeting totaled $780,
1894, instead of $280,112.67, as shown
in the preliminary figures announced
at the meeting.
This brings total receipts since the
opening of the campaign to $751;
100.55, or 25.79 per cent Of the quota
of $2,059,0O0.
Completion of the audit shows the
Special Assignments Unit has reported
lit gifts, totaling $167,630; the Group
Solicitation Unit, 1923 gifts, totaling
$95,62354: the Governmental Unit,
24,983 gifts, totaling $202, ,426.03; the
Metropolitan Unit, 3,136 gifts. totaling
$50, 1923; the Suburban Unit, 478
gifts, amounting to $5,074.84, and the
Capital Unit, 100 gifts, amounting to
$884.85.
There are TO be seven more report
meetings before the campaign comes
to a close the night of November %,
With full week end in which to
work, campaign leaders and the army
of volunteers under them looked for
ward to another triumphant session
Monday.
Enthusiastic Meeting.
Yesterdays meeting proved to be
one of the most colorful and en-
thusiastic in the history of the local
Chest. Seeming victorysin the effort
to reach the quarter post, Chest lead
ers turned the meeting over to the
Publicity Unit--the first time in his
tory a report meeting has been in
charge of non-soliciting unit.
The proceedings were broadcast by
the National Broadcasting Co., and
flags and noise-making devices were
distributed among the hundreds OF
Chest volunteers. There proved to
fCno CryECT7 Dcr. oI
Evening star., 1937-11-13
CLERIC IS QU|zzED
ON REBUFF T0DUKE
Superior Asks Information
on Incident From Rev.
j. l. c. Dart.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
PARIS, Nov. 13.-The Rev. j. L. c.
Dart-asked by his superior for in
formation on his rebuff to the Duke
Of Windsor-said today he probably
would answer, but mo one on this
earth has the ecclesiastical right to
demand an explanation of me; neither
the Bishop Of Fulham, the Archbishop
Of Canterbury, nor any one else"
The Right Rev. Basil Staunton
Batty, Bishop of F'ulham, wrote from
England asking details of the situation
created by the Rev. Mr.. Darts re-
marks on Windsor's plan to attend
Armistice Day services at st. Georges
Church.
The Rev. Mr.. Dart had said II
would rather the Duke did not attend
the services"
The vicar also had commented on
the attitude Of the Church of England
toward divorce and remarriage, re-
opening church criticism of the for
mer monarch's marriage to divorce.
The rebuff, later the subject Of q
public apology by the Rev. Mr.. Dart,
caused Windsor to cancel his plans to
attend the ceremony. Associates said
he was stunned"
The Bishop Of Fulham, who super
vises all Anglican churches on the
continent, said "the matter would ap-
pear ended" since the vicar had
apologi0ed.
The Rev. Mr.. Dart said the bishops
letter was not q demand for a report,
but more in the nature of personal
note asking for information.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
BY REGINALD SWEETLAND
3, Radio to The Star.

SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 13.-I am
able to state exclusively that four i'm
portant Chinese, former members of
the old Peking government under
President Tsao Kung, all of them
pro-Japanese, who now reside in a
Shanghai hotel, have undertaken to
mediate between Japan and Nanking,
though official sources of both couri-
tries deny that such negotiations are
in progress.
At the head of this Chinese delega-
ton are Ii Shih-hao, minister of for
eign affairs under Tsao Kung, and
TSao Yu-lin, famous reactionary dur
ing the presidency of Yuan Shih-kai.
Tsao Yu-lin is known as the sup
pressor of the student movement in
the early days of the Chinese Re-
public.
Two others are Chen Cho-cheng,
high Peiping- -Mukden railroad official,
and WI Kuan-hsin, one of the or
ganizers of the Eastern Asiatic So
ciety, who shares Japan's Asia for
Asiatics" doctrine.
While 1t is not known how much
headway has been made, the nego-
tiators are spending much time at
tempting to persuade number Of
younger party officials to swing over
into a pro-Japanese administration.
understand. however, that it will
Evening star., 1937-11-13
ANTHRACITE UNITS
WIN AGREEMENT.
Reach Accord on Contract
Which Expires in April
After TWo-Day Talks.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Anthracite
operators and mine union leaders to-
day reached an agreement on their
labor contract. which expires in April
They had been conferring two days.
After the conference, John L. Lewis
chairman Of the c. I. o. and president
of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, a conferee, said that interpreta.
tions Of existing contracts upon which
both sides had been at variance, were
now clarified" He added:
I'VE are now in complete agree
ment."
The conference has resulted in thu
creation Of . joint committee, repre-.
senting both operators and unions il
the anthracite field, to consider pend
ing legislative matters applicable t,
the industry.
Legislative Program.
The new Joint committee will es.
pecially endeavor to work out legis-
lative program to stabilize the in.
dustry, looking toward a fair trade
practice code.
The committee will meet in Penn
sylvania and in Washington. One
leading point under discussion is
whether the industry wants State or
Federal control If the latter, it would
presumably come under the pending
Guffey- Boland bill.
Members of the joint committee
are: Tom Kennedy, lieutenant gov
ernor of Pennsylvania and secretary
treasurer of the U. M. w. A.; Henry
Warren, general counsel for the u
M. w. a.; Ralph Taggart, of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Co. Of Pottsville, Pa; j. B. War
riner, Of the Lehigh Navigation. and
Coal Co.; James Pierce, OF the Mon
arch Anthracite Co.
Next Meeting to Be Here.
The next meeting will be in Wash
ington.
Prior to today's meeting, repre-
sentatives of the operators had ex-
pressed some doubt as to whether
agreement could be made on disputed
points in existing labor contracts.
Representatives for both groups de.
clined to name specific contractual
points at issue, although they admitted
the provision for a 6-day week 1:
weeks year was among the more i'm
portant issues.
Asked wither the disagreement
might lead to a breach of contract
Maj. Inglis said:
mo, it's not that serious"
He said some miners wanted to worl
their IL extra days Immediately, while
operators insisted the time be applied
to periods when demand for coal is
heaviest.
A spokesman for the miners said hi
thought the disagreement could be
''ironed out"
The bootleg coal" problem, the
question Of Federal or State contro
under q fair trade code, and work.
mems compensation were also on the
agenda.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
GREEK SHIP SINKS;
| SIX OF CREW SAFE
Survivors Claim Eight Men
Are in Water and ID in
Another Lifeboat.
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 13.-Coast-
guard headquarters here reported the
Greek steamer Tzenychandris sank to-
day of Diamond Shoals Lightship and
that six members of the crew were
rescued from a lifeboat by the steamer
Swiftsure.
Coastguard officials said the Swift
sure reported. "We picked up six men
in lifeboat 80 miles northwest Diamond
Shoals Light Vessel. Survivors claim
eight men in water with life belts.
We will search for them in vicinity.
Signed, Allen, master"
The cutters Mendoza, Bibb and
Dionne were dispatched to the scene
to Join the cutter Sebago, which had
already been sent.
IA Adrift in Boat.
Another lifeboat, said to contain
IA members of the crew, was reported
adrift on a foggy sea 80 to 40 miles
northeast of Diamond Shoals
Another message from the Swiftsure
said: ITO all ships vicinity Diamond
Shoals-One lifeboat afioat with men
approximately 80 to 40 miles northeast
Diamond Shoals. Do not know what
name of boat. They speak Greek
only"
The Tzenychandris, formerly the
Shipping Board steamer Eastern
Planet, sailed Wednesday from More
head City. N. c., for Rotterdam with
cargo of scrap iron.
The Coast Guard here reported
earlier the boat with six seamen was
picked up by the cutter Sebago.
The first SOS call was sent at 4:20
am. (E. S. To. The calls continued
for about an hour and then ceased.
All Ships Notified.
The radio marine from Savannah,
Ga, notified all ships In the vicinity
of Diamond Shoals to search for traces
of the Tzenychandris and the surviv-
ing members Of its crew. Information
at Coast Guard headquarters was that
20 men were aboard.
Rescue operations were made more
difhcult by inability Of the six rescued
seamen to speak English. The cause
of the freighter's sinking could not be
learned Immediately.
Capt. George Coupopantelis was
master of the freighter.
The ship was purchased recently In
Baltimore from the American Govern
ment by q Greek syndicate.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
L0YALIST ARTILLERY
OPENS ARAGON DRIVE
Government Forces Seeking to
Bar Expected Insurgent Push
Into Catalonia.
- the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, Nov. 13.-Spanish government
forces opened an artillery drive today
along the entire Aragon front while
supporting warplanes raided insurgent
supply centers-an in an effort to de-
lay the prospective insurgent push into
Catalonia.
The gunners blasted at insurgent
fortifications while aviators bombed
Teruel. Calatayud, Moline de Aragon
and Pampauna, war bulletins reported.
1nsurgent headquarters said more than
than 100 persons were killed at
Pamplona.
In Northern Aragon, Catalan gun
ners, raking their enemy's. front line,
were said to have inflicted great
damage" in the vicinity of Cuesta
del Batanero.
The insurgents replied to this she'll
ing, which started yesterday, and
wrecked government communications,
they reported. Infantry engagements
were limited by heavy rains to skirm-
isheS.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Edge Ouer N0daks Ciuen C.. W.
For Homecoming Game Today
Rousing Rally at Theater attended by
1000 Students and AIunni-Miss
HuttO University Sweetheart.

at the game today and will present a
cup to the most attractively decorated
fraternity house at the homecoming
ball tonight at the Willard Hotel at
8 o'clock
Other events on the program last
night we're q skit on campus politics,
entitled I'D Rather Be Right Than
Rochelle" William Rochelle being the
president of the student body, and
speeches by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
Coach Pixlee and Coach Casey Finne-
gan Of the visitors.
In the play, directed by Floyd
Sparks, Of the class of 1885, the roles
were played by the students, satirized.
DR.. Marvin welcomed the group back
to the university and the two coaches
spoke on the chances of their teams
wining today.
Earlier in the evening the college
co-eds held a fashion show at the Stu
dent Club.
Approximately 200 persons attended
tea ut Colonial House in the after
noon, at which faculty members were
present and the professors emeritus
were guests of honor.
Twice during the day class exercises
were suspended for student pep rallies
in the university yard.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Pictures ON Page A-9.)

The scene of the George Washing
ton University home coming today
shifts from the Capitol Theater, where
a rousing rally was held last night. to
Griffith Stadium as thousands of re-
turning graduates and undergraduates
converge there to witness the foot
ball game between G. w. and North
Dakota State.
Although the two teams are nearly
equal in strength, Coach Jim Pixlees
Colonials. playing their last home
game before the home coming alumni
are conceded slight edge over the
visiting Nodaks. The kickoff is set
for pm.
Between the halves varsity sweater
will be presented the alumnus who has
done most for the university ath-
letics.
Last night at the Capitol Theater
some 1000 alumni and students braved
the pouring rain to see the program
which included the introduction of
Miss Betty Hutto of Chi Omego Sor-
ority, elected by popular vote as the
University Sweetheart.
Miss Hutto will occupy special box
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Women Already
Rule the World,
Professor Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Nov. ia former
Harvard psychologists forecast
that women will rule the world in
1000 years is like suddenly dis
covering that two and two make
four" DR.. Stevenson Smith Of
the University Of washington said
today.
DR.. William Marston apparent
ly "hasn't been getting around
the way he ought to-" DR.. Smith
said. Women already are the
supreme rulers Of the world. They
just haven't decided to tell Us
about it yet"
Evening star., 1937-11-13
BOY FINDS $1,000 BONDS

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13 R.-
William Carroll, IA, told by his par
ents to clean up the yard, picked up
what appeared to be bundle of waste
paper.
The bundle contained $1,000 in
bonds stolen from the home of the
late Mrs. Catherine Robertson while
friends and relatives viewed her body
at an undertaking establishment.
The bonds were returned to Mrs.
Anna M. Gelle of Atlantic City, N. j.,
the owner.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
(see CHEST, Page A-s.)
22 DEAD IN TYPHOON

MANILA, Nov. 13 tP)-The known
death toll of Thursdays typhoon
climbed to 20 today with possibly 100
missing and an estimated 10000
homeless.
Manila newspapers estimated total
property damage in the seven affected
LuEon island provinces ut approxi-
mately $1,000. 900. Crop losses were
estimated at $780, 900.
The death count applied only to
Manila and Risal Province, In which
ths capital y located.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
BY the Associated Press.

=
SHANGHAI, Nov. ia japanese
gunboat successfully crossed the partly
broken boom obstructing the uppel
Whangpoo River today after armed
Japanese naval launches had swept
the stream of mines, exploding several
harmlessly.
The exploratory voyage up the
Whangpoo and the trip Of two other
armed launches up the Soochow Greek
indicated Japanese preparations to
use both streams to transport military
supplies to its armies advancing west
ward toward Nanking.
japanese declared officially they
intended using Soochow Greek to
transport supplies through the In
ternational Settlement. Foreign de.
fense officers avoided possible friction
recognizing the creek was an open
waterway.
United States Marines guard a sec.
ton Of the International Settlement
bordering the creek. Before the Chi.
nese withdrawal from Shanghai Brit
ish officials prevented armed japanese
launches from proceeding up the creek
Traffic Resumption Expected.
Restored quiet in. Shanghai and
Japanese naval plans to widen the
breach in the boom to permit passage
of destroyers up the stream was ex-
pected soon to make possible resump-
tion of the waterways normal traffic
Japanese planes, widening their
activities, bombed the railway station
and warehouses at Ningpo, on the
south shore of Hangchow Bay, in
Chekiang Province, and concentra-
ton areas north of Kating and west
OF Kashan, in the Hangchow Bay
region south of Shanghai.
A number of fires still were blazine
in Nantao, the native area borderinp
the French Concession, and in Poo.
tung. the once rich agricultural anc
industrial district across the Whang.
poo from the International Settle.
| ment.
Otherwise, after three months o.
almost incessant warfare, all was ouie,
on the former Shanghai fronts.
Safety Zone Sought.
United States Consul General Clar.
ence E. Gass nterceded with the Jap.
anese today to create a safety zon<
for foreigners at Soochow, city west 0,
Shanghai, which the Japanese havs
threatened with bombardment.
A message received at the American
school In Shanghai said all. foreigner,
had evacuated Soochow in the path q
the japanese westward advance TODAY
Soochow's inhabitants were warned
by leaflets scattered from japanese
planes to flee the city before midnight
Soochow already had been subjected
to series of damaging air raids
Most of its wealthier residents l1ad
fed. but about 100000 civilians were
unable to leave because of disrupted
transportation services.
The Chinese were retreating steadily
toward their "Hdndenberg line" unable
to Withstand the japanese pressure 0,
intrench themselves to stif1en thai
resistance.
The line was about 80 miles wesl
Of the Japanese front and about 81
miles west Of Shanghai.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Completes Film Story on Parole.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 13 R).-Ernest
Booth, who attained literary promi-
nence while serving a term for rob-
berry in Folsom Prison, today COM
pleted adaptation Of a juvenile story
for Warner Bros. Studio, where he
went to work after his parole several
months ago.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Bartholomew's Guardian Sued.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. IS @.-My-
ron Selmick & Co. charged breach OF
contract yesterday In suit for $780,
600 against Myllicent Bartholomew,
guardian Of Freddie Bartholomew, ju-
venile screen star. The company
alleges the monsy was due - commits
soaoaa.
Evening star., 1937-11-13
Awarded $2,750 Monthly.

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Nov. Is (F).
Mrs. Edith s. GLAND, wife of Warner
GLAND of the screen. yesterday was
awarded $2,75o month for her sup-
port pending settlement Of her sepa.
rate maintenance suit.