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Evening star., 1937-07-10
CHINESE PATRIOTS
ASK WAR ON JAPAN
NationaIists Call for Force,
While Diplomats Seek
Pacific Solution,
Bv the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, July l0-Chinese ma
tionalists today urged immediate war
on Japan as a result of the clash
between Chinese and japanese troops
near Peiping, While diplomats sought
a pacific solution of the Sino-Japanese
crisis.
japanese newspapers in Shanghai
reported the National Salvationists,
patriotic group, headed by Nine. Sun
Vat Sen, telegraphed Gen. Sung Cheh
Yuan, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar
Council, asserting China should fight
Japan Immediately"
Another group, the Democratic Sal
vationists, including 800 business men
and teachers, sent messages to Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-Shek, Gen.
Sung and other leaders asking war.
Battle Incident" Studied.
In Nanking Foreign Minister Wang
Chung-Huit, who hurriedly returned
from the Summer capital at Kuling,
plunged into a study of the incident
that resulted in two-day battle near
Marco Polo Bridge, west OF Peiping.
japanese said 10 of their men were
killed and % injured. There were
heavy Chinese casualties. Firing broke
out about midnight Wednesday be-
tween two bodies Of troops near where
japanese military forces were engaged
in war games.
Under the Boxer treaty Japan keeps
some 1000 soldiers in the Peiplng
area.
japanese May Protest.
The counsellor of the japanese
Embassy in Marking, Shigeru Hidake,
declared that Japan, though desiring
a local settlement, would register a
formal protest if the Chinese demand
compensation for lives lost.
The counsellor conferred with Chen
Chieh, vice minister of foreign affairs,
who told him that China held Japan
responsible.
japanese military authorities in
Tientsin announced they would con-
duct negotiations for settlement
Peiplng was placed under martial
law after 8 o'clock last night, but the
tension in the ancient city was eased.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
STALL|NC CHARGED
TO DRY CLEANERS
League of Women Shoppers
Accuses Proprietors
OF Plants.

Charges that dry cleaning plant
owners are "stalling" in an effort to
break the strike against their estab-
lishments were made today by the
Washington League Of Women Shop
pers.
Samuel Rubenstein, spokesman for
the l3 plant owners affected by the
strike, emphatically denied the charge
and declared the employers are wait
ing for the National Labor Relations
Board to hold an election and deter
mine whether Laundry Workers,
Dyers and Cleaners Union, Local 187,
which is conducting the strike, repre-
sents a majority of the employees in
volved
The plant owners adopted sympa-
thetic attitude when they attempted
10 negotiate with the union, Rubenstein
said, but felt they had to discontinue
negotiations because pickets persisted
In intimidating employees who refused
to strike
Since the strike started 16 days ago,
q number Of employees have returned
to their jobs and several of the plants
are now operating at full capacity,
Rubenstein said.
The League of Women Shoppers de-
clared its representatives have been
on the job since the outset" and have
seen no evidence to back up assertions
that the strikers had resorted to vio-
lence.
"On Tuesday owners met and showed
willingness to negotiate, but on
Wednesday employers ceased negotia-
tions," the leagues statement said In
the opinion of the league the owners
are stalling."
Evening star., 1937-07-10

Aha" said the operative to her
self If those signs are correct, these
probably are the only men in Wash
ington who are working"
She made closer inspection and
found the Men Working" protected
from traf1ic by nice iron rail and pro-
tected from the suns rays by a big
canvas.
Each had q comfortable seat on
a roll Of wire, there was a radio tapped
onto the main line in the pit for its
power-and the game was on.
y y
WASH1NGTONS cab drivers con-
tinue to do the unpredictable
They're almost as unfathomable as
women.
H. r. Westerman reports the latest
episode Westerman and q crony
found themselves stranded down on
the Potomac Park golf course the
other night around 10 o'clock. The
last Hains Point bus had passed
about 8. 50 the two were faced with
. long walk to the car line ut -Four.
teenth and Water streets.
An automobile ap1ea1ed nod .
Evening star., 1937-07-10
PRESIDENT CRUISES
DURING WEEK END
But Plans to Work Hard
on Four Reports and
Accumulated Mail.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt is spending the
week end cruising about Chesapeake
Bay aboard the presidential yacht
Potomac. He left the White House
shortly after IL am. for Annapolis,
Md, where he boarded the yacht, and,
according to his present plans, he will
dock at the Washington Navy Yard
late tomorrow.
The President has mapped out a
program of hard work during his brief
absence. He took with him several
days mail and four reports, all of
which are more or less voluminous and
will take considerable time to read
To assist him In his work, Mr..
Roosevelt has with him Miss Marpue-
rite lie Hand, his private secretary
and Miss Grace Tully, his principal
stenograph pher
Others in the party are James M
Lands, chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission. and Mrs.
Lands; Representative Rayburn of
Texas, Democratic leader of the
House, and Capt. Paul Bastedo White
House naval aide.
One Of the reports which the Presi-
dent has with him deals with prob
lens arising from inventions. their
erect on the social life of the Nation,
on employment, industry and busi-
ness.
The report, which is from the Ma
tlonal Resources Committee, will be
made public July l8, together with a
statement from the President.
The other reports deal with slum
conditions in rural areas, "unemploy-
ment and destitution" and power de-
Velopment and the diversion Of water
from the Niagara River.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
l|LIENTHAL Halls
VITAL CONTRACTS
7. V. A. Director Says Recent
Agreements Assure Financial
Success.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, July l0.-David
Lilienthal, Tennessee Valley Authority
power director, said last night the r.
V. A. lis over the hill financially"
I'VE definitely crossed the financial
dividing line in the past 10 days when
three contracts We're signed, one with
the Aluminium Co. of America, one
with the Arkansas Power & Light Co..
and third with large industrial
concern whose name I can not now
divulge,7 Lilienthal told an inter-
viewer.
In addition to this We anticipate
another contract within a month of
$450,000, These Industrial contracts
are just the first drops of a steady
how, If not flood, over the T. v. A,
dams.
IT. v A. will not actually be finan-
c1ally successful until l8 months
when these contracts are using their
normal consumption. They will then
provide revenues substantial enough
to double our level and bring 1t to
S6,0O0,000. The industrial contracts
also give us necessary balance, that
Is, q diversity that will permit distri-
button in hours and season Of power
to cities and plants"
Evening star., 1937-07-10
SOVIET PLANS PAIR
OF FLIGHTS TO U. S.
Success of Recent Hop Inspires
Two More Like It-Both to
Start Within a Month.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 10-Two more So
Wet polar flights to the United States
have been planned, one to begin as
soon as weather is favorable and the
second to follow probably within q
month, it was disclosed today
The success of last months hop to
California inspired completed plans for
the additional flights.
The famous Soviet long distance
flyer, Mikhail Gromoff. and two COM
panions will comprise the first crew.
Sigismund Levanevsky, who rescued
James Mattern. from the Siberian
wastes when he cracked up on world
girdling hop several years ago, dis
closed that he would make the fol-
lowing flight probably before the
month is up.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
j. s. TO SELL GOLD
FORCH|NESE SILVER
Supplementary Pact Is in
Accord With 3.to.1
Balance Plan.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Treasury put into operation
today a new give-and-take monetary
agreement with China.
1t provides that China will buy "a
substantial amount of this countrys
gold hoard, which aggregates sl2,30o,-
100000. The Treasury in return will
buy more Of China's silver.
A statement by Secretary Morgen-
thau and DR.. H. H. Kung, Chinese
finance minister, said the accord will
supplement an understanding effected
in May, 1886 The United States
agreed at that time to buy an undesig-
mated amount Of Chinese silver.
The two officials said the new agree
ment would give China additional gold
reserves and supply of American
dollars in exchange for her silver. The
gold and dollar exchange, they said,
will be used for currency stabilizing
purposes.
Other Pacts Unaffected.
Morgenthau said the Treasury fol-
lowed its Observation-Disclosures policy
in drafting the accord. It does not
affect the existing English-French-
American monetary agreement, he
said, except that increased co-opera-
ton between the United States and
China will help strengthen all foreign
exchange relationships.
Morgenthau said the agreement IS
in line with the silver purchase pro-
gram which requires the Treasury to
buy silver until it equals one-third Of
gold stocks or until it reaches the
monetary price of $l29 an ounce.
A steady influx Of gold from abroad
has kept the Treasury from reach
ing the projected gold-silver ratio.
Its silver holdings now are only about
one-fifth of the gold reserves.
Morgenthau and Kung would not
say specifically how much gold and
silver the agreement involved 1t
was assumed Chinese silver would
be acquired at the world market
price, now about As cents an ounce,
and that gold would be sold to China
at this country's statutory s35-an-
ounce price.
Kung said gold and dollar exchange
acquired by China would be left on
deposit In this country, still serving
as backing for Chinese currency.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
Alaska Colony's Crop Doomed
As Wheat Seed Error Is Found

Practical farmers believe the only
thing that can be done with the un-
seasonable crop this Fall will be to
turn the cows into it or cut 1t for
hay. although wheat straw" makes
mighty expensive COW feed.
There are widespread rumors, not
involving the wheat seed incident,
that the colonys executive staff is
to be reduced sharply soon.
In addition, eight or ten colonists
have not yet signed agreements to
produce and market their crops
through the colonys cooperative, al
though the deadline for doing so is
nine days past
(CopyriRht, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1937-07-10
WIFE-SLAYING TRIAL
ENDS IN DISAGREEMENT
Jury Unable to Reach Verdict in
Case Of Minister Charged
With Killing Mate.
BE- the Associated Press.

BE- the Associated Press.
BECKLEY, w. Va, July lo.-The
trial Of a mountain minister, Rev.
Monta H. Ball, on charges of killing
his second wife, ended abruptly yes
terday with the jury in disagreement.
Judge Harley NJ Kilgore dismissed
the panel after the foreman reported
seven hours of deliberation left it
hopelessly deadlocked.
The State contended 29-year-old
Mrs. Bictory Gay Ball was shot last
March because of jealousy and for
gain
Ball claimed the shooting was acci-
dental
Prosecutor w. H. Thornhill. jr.,
charged an insurance policy the min
lister carried on his wife played a part
in the tragedy.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
TENANCY AID BILL
ACCORD REACHED
Compromise Would Leave to Wal.
lace Creating of Super
visory Body.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A joint Senate and House committee
has agreed on a bill to help farm
tenants become landowners by lend
ing them Government money at 3 per
cent and granting immediate title to
the land
The bill, compromise between the
original House and Senate versions,
left up to the Secretary of Agriculture
the question of creating a Farmers
Home Corp. to supervise the loans.
1t authorizes lending Of $4,000, 900
this fiscal year. $4,000, 900 in the next
and s5o,ooo,oOo for each subsequent
year.
One clause forbids sale OF the prop
erty by the borrower for five years In
order to prevent land speculation. Bor-
rowers would be required to take the
Agriculture Departments advice on
farming methods.
The measure also provides for a
$lo,o0o00o appropriation to buy and
retire submarginal land from culti-
vation this year and $2o,00o,000 for
each of the next two years.
The final draft must be approved
by both houses.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
JIMMY WALKERS ADOPT
EIGHT-WEEK-OLD BOY
Py the Associated Press,

eS the ASSOCIATED fFesS.
CHICAGO. July 10-Another JIM
my Walker made his debut yesterday.
He is an 8-week-old boy adopted by
former Mayor James j. Jimmy)
Walker of New York and his wife, the
former Betty Compson, actress, from
the Cradle in Evanston.
The Walkers said the baby. their
second adopted child, would be
christened James John Walker. He
will be a companion for Mary Ann
Walker, II months old. who was pro-
cured from the Evanston institution
in April, 1886
The Walkers departed last night
for New York after signing adoption
papers approved by County Judge
Edmund K. Jarecki.
Evening star., 1937-07-10

hopeful thumb was raised Maybe
they wouldn't have to walk after all
The car stopped. and-you guessed it
turned out to be cab A hurried
search Of pockets produced nothing
more than couple of car tokens. The
strandees shrugged, showed them to
the cabbie and advised him to be on
his way.
Come on" he said. "Ill give you q
lift. What II I am driving q cab?"
And he proceeded to % just that, chat
ting about the Boy Scout Jamboree
and depositing them at the car stop
with CHEEKY Good night"
Evening star., 1937-07-10
To Aid Chinese Currency.

NEW YORK, July 10 R.-The
agreement between China and the
United States announced last night in
Washington, by which the former will
exchange silver for our "sterilized"
gold, will contribute greatly to the
stability Of the Chinese currency, Wall
Street banking quarters today be-
lieved.
While the effect here possibly would
be to increase excess reserves of men,
bers Of the Federal Reserve Bank Sys-
TIM through the issuance of silver Ger
tificates, they said, it was pointed out
the sum involved probably would be
too small to make much impression
on the credit structure.
Real significance OF the move, it
was felt, lies in the distribution Of
even . small portion Of the unwanted
gold now piled up In Treasury vaults
Of this country.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
THREE u. S. VOLUNTEERS
KILLED IN MADRID FIGHT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, July 10.-Eighteen Amer
leans were listed today among volun-
teers wounded while fighting with
Spanish government troops in the cur
rent offensive against insurgents out
side Madrid in addition to three
Americans reported killed in action.
The wounded Americans are patients
in Madrid hospitals, but shortly will
be transferred to other institutions.
Members of the George Washington
Battalion said the Americans killed
were Jean Bronstein, David Walba
and Ray Peters. Their home ad-
dresses were not given.
Wounded by machine gun or rife
bullets included Tanno Lundsten Of
Dexott.
Evening star., 1937-07-10

offered to finance the boys return to
Washington and to provide q good
home for him here.
Mrs. Stephens had been in the
hospital for several weeks, suffering
from complication Of ailments. Her
husband and friends believed a sight
of her son might revive her waning
strength.
Young Harrison's disappearance was
not at first reported to police because
his mother thought he had gone to
live with relatives. Efforts to get in
touch with the relatives later were
unsuccessful.
Mrs. Stephens, who also was the
mother Of 4 young daughter, had
lived In Salisbury, Nd, before coming
to Washington.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
w. P, A. HEADS ASTONISHED.
Official in Charge Of Colony Picked as
Agriculture Expert.

Officials of the Works Progress Ad-
ministration, sponsor of the Mata-
nuska project, expressed astonishment
today at the reported plight of the
wheat-growing colonists. They sent
message at once to Palmer to
verify it.
Chief cause of the astonishment
was the fact that the man in charge
of the colony is Ross Shealy. picked
for the post because of his expert
knowledge OF agriculture. He was
formerly manager of agricultural ex-
tension work in Alaska
Evening star., 1937-07-10
GORDON IS NOMINATED
FOR THE NETHERLANDS
- the Associated Press.

D the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today nominated
George A. Gordon of New York to be
Minister to the Netherlands. Gordon,
a career diplomat, has been Minister
to Haiti since June, 1885.
At The Hague he will succeed Gren-
vile T. Emmett. who has been desig-
mated Minister to Austria, in succession
to George A, Messersmith. named As
.sistant Secretary of State.
Gordon was born in Huntsville, Ala,
and was educated at Harvard and Co.
.lumbia before practicing law.
Evening star., 1937-07-10

Relatives of the
dying o m a n
y e st e r day had
police broadcast q
lookout through
t h e E q s t er n
coastal States for
15-year-old John
William arri.
son.
The boy left
home last Sum-
mer shortly be-
fore his mother
married Charles
Stephens Of 4s7
I street, a brick
LAYER Sfeahans
Evening star., 1937-07-10
PARIS STRIKERS,
WORKERS BATTLE
Walters Stage Pitched Fight
as Rioting Follows De.
mand for 5-Day Week.
B, the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 10-Striking walters
and men hired to take their places
staged pitched battle in boulevard
cafe today-one of a series of minor
disorders at the start of hotel, cafe
and restaurant strike.
Emergency police squads restored
order in the place after a counterman
was injured on the head.
Mobile guards were posted along
the boulevards and in front of many
large hotels. Pickets paced the
streets, seeking to spread the walkout
which was called in demand OF an
unconditional five-day week.
In the morning it was confined to
the large cafes and hotels. Smaller
establishments, stated by families,
did rushing business in serving
Parisians with their morning coffee
and rolls
Strikers Repulsed.
Twenty strikers entered cafe in
the financial district, smashing bottles
behind the bar and throwing chairs
into the street. Squads Of police
elected the demonstrators.
The same group later returned with
reinforcements, but police blocked
entrances.
Committees Of three affiliated unions
OF hotel and cafe employees, cooks and
kitchen boys broadcast the strike call
and instructed members to cease work
except in establishments where q
strict 40-hour week was in effect.
The employers syndicate countered
the movement with a warning they
would close their places rather than
modify their working hours from the
provisions Of the Governments labor
accord Of July 2, which established an
approximate 512-day week.
Nation Wide Showdown Seen.
The operators urged Premier Camille
Chautemps to enforce the agreement
which he helped formulate to avert a
threatened nation wide strike in the
food and hotel industries.
Many proprietors refused to close to-
day when their walters and other help
failed to show up. They donned white
jackets and served table themselves.
Squads of police were kept busy dis
persing demonstrators in front of the
cafes which opened for business. The
strikers paraded the boulevards, chant
ing "Five-day week, five-day week"
There were only slight scufies with
the gendarmes.
Chautemps' Office let it be known
arbitration conferences would con-
tinue today.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
Son Rll,,a,Uuv.
Capital Mother
Dies in Hospital

Mrs. Lillian Stephens died in Gallin-
ger Hospital early today without see
ing her runaway son, whose return,
her friends hoped, would prolong her
life.
Evening star., 1937-07-10

warnings about not making any
noise on account of sick babies and
sleeping tenants. Then, instead OF
Leaving, he stayed right there. Just
joined the conversation, passed
quips back and forth ,pith the
boys, but neUer once reld1ed his
hold on the door. Finally the lads
in-watting saW the tutility of it all
and eope up Wutting.
some ROMANCING" screams
the poor danlsel, ",Dith this guy
around"
Evening star., 1937-07-10
10 Quaker Colleges.

There are 10 Quaker colleges in this
country, Haverford College in Penn
sylvania being the oldest.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
Congress in Brief

TODAY. =.
eenAtes
Debates court bill.
Aoaosa
Ia recess.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
CORRESPONDENCE.

Young Bob La Toilette Sucher,
nephew OF Senator La Toilette, has
gone of to NeU England to a Sum-
ner camp and recently his mother
thought it Dould be Wise to adn,on-
ish him BY mail and remind him
to take good care OF his teeth.
Quickly he replied: "Ill haze you
knou, mother, that I am wdshino
my teeth tWice day-and my
face every other day."
Bob has prospects for later in
the Summer, too. Uhich appear
eDen more attractive than camp.
He's been inDited to Wsit the old
est son OF Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge in Massachusetts before re-
turning to Washington. So he
1Drote further: Il think, mother,
that De should not plan on my
staying at camp too long. / might
get discontented.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
MONEYS ATTEND RITES
Brother of Assistant Postmaster
Dies in Ohio.

w. NJ. Mooney. assistant postmaster
of Washington. and Mrs. Mooney left
today for Steubenville, Ohio. to at
tend the funeral of Mr.. MONEYS
brother, Robert J. Mooney, who died
this morning
Robert J. Mooney was an advertis-
ing man and former city editor on
New York and Chicago dailies W. M.
Mooney formerly lived at Steubenville.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
WORKING.

THE day of the all-star game an
operative passed a power line pit
at Florida avenue and Fifth street.
Signs on all sides advised Men Work.
ing"
Evening star., 1937-07-10

w YHEN Jean Blackwell, Of the
\ y I dance team known as jack
" II son and Blackwell, leaves
town she is not going to re-
gret 1t whole lot. Seems dress
maker here has given her the wrong
impression Of Washingtonians
Jean had g new gown made while
the dancers were playing their engage
ment at local cabaret. Three times
it had to 90 back to the dressmaker
for alterations. Once Miss Blackwell
took it in. asked that the waist be re-
duced by three inches. Then when
she tried it on, found the dress was
three inches larger around the waist.
She lost little respect for the dress
maker, for some reason.
But she gave up completely when
she sent the gown back to have bow
attached to it. Came back to her with
the bow inside the dress instead of out
side.
X X X X
WHITTIER ROMANCE?
There's a young lady in tomn,
1pho, for good if not obpious rea-
sons, shall 90 unnamed, though
she giueS poice to the saddest COM
plant heard in years. She's COM
planning because the apartment
1Dhere she liues boasts the most
sociable and afable, not to men
ton ubiquitous, detective and
night Uatchmdn she euer heard OF.
A gal getting home after midnight
can be sure he'll meet her at the
door and escort her to the elevator
maybe right to her apartment
door.
The lass and her roommate ar
rired home recent am. and be-
fore the girls and their escorts
could get from the tari to the front
door, there Was the Datchman-
pleasant and friendly, jul OF mild
Evening star., 1937-07-10
NAMES.

NAMES.
ITS a great feeling. at last We have
nlystifled some one. The young
lady who lost and found her gloves
on the Rockville bus writes in to
tell us our sleuthing was ali wrong.
She is not. she maintains, Dcrothea
Rouleau and she does not live in
Rockville. How, Dorothy Rabkin
wants to know, did we come so close
to her first name, why did We think
she was French. and how did we ar
rive at the name we mentioned, get
ting the correct initials when she
wasn't carrying an initiated bag?
Please, Miss Rabkin, you read too
fast. We did not say Dorothea Rouleau
was the gal concerned; We said she
saw the incident. And it's easy to
explain how We arrived at the name
mentioned 1t was signed to the
note telling us about the affair.
Shelp us, we did not make it up.
EVIDENCE.
IT WOULD be a shame to let the
mana ging editor know about it
because he might think we ought to
go to work. But just now We picked
up piece of copy from a basket on
the desk and a moth few out. It's
an insult. Somebody planted it
there.
Evening star., 1937-07-10
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
ALTERATIONS.

ALTERATIONS.
T v YHEN Jean Blackwell, of the
\ y I dance team known as jack
" II son and Blackwell, leaves
fnWn she Is not 1ninr To re-.