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ture of which would threaten early
breakdown Of Shanghai's defenses.
Prior to this the 80 Japanese
warships whose guns had frowned
over the teeming harbor steamed
off toward the sea. The fleets
destination was not known.
A CITY OF CHAOS
Hysteria turned shanhai into a
city of chaos as metropolitan
authorities proclaimed a state Of
emergency American and other
foreigners sought safety in the
international settlement, Japan
ese and chinese soldiers erected
street barricades, and a great exc
dus of natives was started.
The vanguard of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-Shek's own eighty
eight division occupied the north
station here and threw up heavy
Notifications.
Indicating Chang has decided
war is inevitable and that China
must make ready for a unified
stand, the troops also fortified the
strategic Kiangwan race course.
two and a half miles from JAP
anese garrison headquarters.
TOKYO, Aug. IL QN.S0,-One
hundred nationalist troops were
slain and 500 survivors put to
flight when a counter attack on
japanese forces at Liangsiang was
repulSed, dispatches from Tientsin
today said. Two Japanese were
killed and 10 wounded. LiangSiane
is on the Peiping-Hankow main
rail line, south Of Peiping.
Occupation of Nankow, near the
Nankow pass through the great
wall, was announced officially
Chinese troops, it also was stated
were driven out of Tuhliuchen
southwest of Peiping.
This renewed display of force
was direct sequel to hesitance
of Chinese authorities to comply
with Japanese demands growing
out of the killing of a Japanese
naval officer and sailor at Hung
jao airdrome. Mayor Yui fatty re
fused the major Japanese demand
that the peace preservation
militia be removed from the Shang
hal which would have meant
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Big Opening
Receivers to Look Into
81 Bank Boxes

Because the lessees have ignored
for four years the appeals of the
receivers to reclaim their valu-
ables, 81 safety deposit boxes in
the closed Park Savings Bank will
be opened next Monday.
John F. Moran, received, de-
clared whatever is found in the
boxes will be turned over to the
Comptroller Of the Currency.
It Is expected the contents will
be worthless, although rumors of
lost fortunes in jewels and bonds
have been current in the neighbor.
hood Of the bank, at Fourteenth
and Kenyon Streets Northwest.
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IS Die AS GALE
RAZES 3 HOMES
ON n. Y. ISLAND
2 Missing, q Hurt In
Staten Horror
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q Negro, seized his wife and five
children and ran out of his house
when he say the house next door
wabbling.
Bodies of six men, five children
and seven women were recovered
from the wreckage early today.
Even as police and firemen
sawed and hacked through the
wreckage, four separate investiga-
tions were started to determine re-
sponSibility for the catastrophe
characterized by Police Commits
sioner Lewis Valentine as "the
worst in the history Of Staten
Island"
SCENE OF TERROR
Eye-witnesses said a three-foot
wall of water from the overflow,
ing sewer swept down the street
without warning, gaining force as
it rolled. It struck the flimsy
dwellings with q terrific crash,
drowning out radio programs,
scattering their occupants like
ninepinS.
AS q Bearchlight cast Its beams
over the debris reScuers dug fever
ishly with picks. Historical rela-
tiveS had to be held back by po.
lice. Two priests stood with the
rescue workers.
Joseph Jestrom, IT,. who saw the
catastrophe, said:
There was q crash and .
great cloud Of dust. Then there
were terrific screams. Then
they died away and everything
was quiet.
NEWSMAN WITNESS
Another eyewitness, Ray How
ard, Journal-American photogra
pher, said:
THE rumble grew to q roar"
he said. "The whole structure
sort of sagged forward and came
down in . mass Of flying wreck
age. I heard a woman moaning
! help me; help met"
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huge rearmament programs Of the
major foreign powers.
But there is always the posi-
bility that one of the "have-not"
nations, desperate for raw ma
terials and an outlet for its manu-
featured goods, might risk war
with the U. S. by Selling some
rich but comparatively defense.
less South American country.
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This, a high U. S. Official told
International News Service today,
is the real story behind the State
Departments request for Congress
sional authority to lease six de-
stroyers to Brazil.
FLEET OF 100 SOUGHT
The sensational move envisages
permanent establishment Of a
fleet of 120 destroyers in Latin
American waters to guard the
continents coast line. The fleet
would remain in the United
States possession and could be re-
called at will.
In the event some foreign
power should threaten to involve
America in war, or attempt to
grab off a chunk of South Amer
lea, the fleet would serve as a
powerful reserve navy ready for
instant action, the official said.
The Navy is prepared to turn
over six destroyers to each of the
20 Latin.American republics, it
was learned. This would place a
possible 120 of the Nays I'll
decommiSSioned deStroyerS in
service. These are World War
craft taken out of service with the
main U. S. battle fleet but, accord
ing to Navy Officials. are excel.
lent fighting ships and can by no
means be claSSed as junk.
TO GET NEW CRAFT
This would enable the Navy
now already well embarked on a
huge building program, to replace
these 20-year-old craft with mod
ern ones.
While there is no fear Of any
attack on the United States in
the even distant future, U. s. of
ficials are admittedly wary of the
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G.N.SO. Passage Of a food ana
drug bill in the present session Of
Congress, unless it is prolonged be.
yond expectations, was abandoned
today by House Interstate Com.
merce subcommittee.
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US. to Arm NeighbOrs
With Big War Fleet
By ROBERT q. NIXON
Copyright, 1887. By International News Sci

International SerVice)
The United States plans to arm South America with formid
able naval force warning and stopgap to possible Old World
aggression in the Western Hemisphere. 4ssas
Evening star., 1937-03-02

may run between s50O,000 and ST.
100000.
Engineer Commissioner Dan +
Sultan has indorsed the high-level
roadway for K street over the other
route.
The elevated roadway would start
at Twenty-seventh street, so as TO
permit grade separation at the
intersection of K street and the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway. where
there has been serious congestion
at rush hours The elevated road
way there would be carried over the
parkway drive on an ornamental
masonry structure Also there would
be erected a masonry bridge over
Rock Greek.
From there the elevated roadway
would sweep up the length of K
street, passing under Key Bridge.
To cut traffic congestion to q
minimum, connections with M street
and Key Bridge would be by way of
a semi-clover leaf development. To
reach the bridge, west-bound traffic
would pass under the bridge and
then turn right at Thirty-sixth street
to reach NJ street. come back east a
short distance and then make a
right turn onto the bridge.
Traffic bound intown from Virginia
would turn right on leaving the bridge
and go down to the bypass by a
ramp from the bridgehead to the
elevated roadway over K street. The
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level Of K street is far below that
of M street.
The plan would leave K street, it
self. available for local traffic, and
for trucks serving the industrial de-
velopments along the water front.
The elevated bypass would have
a 40-foot roadway, with 5-foot side
walk on either side. 1t would stand
29l2 feet above K street, for the most
part. and would provide clearance
of % feet for traffic on K street
proper. A space of sig feet would
be left on either side of the street
between the columns supporting the
elevated traffic way and the build
ing lines on either side of the
street.
Present tentative plans provide for
connection between the elevated
roadway and Wisconsin avenue below
M street, but officials are somewhat
doubtful as to the need or advisability
of this connection. Its adoption would
mean traffic light at the intersection
of the elevated roadway and its
ramp to Wisconsin avenue.
Capt Whitehurst states that de-
velopment of either the canal or
K street bypass would not end the
need of extension Of Prospect avenue
to provide connection from Twenty
ninth and NJ street to FoXhall road,
for an east-west connection to the
north of NJ street in Georgetown.
Nert-Scott Circle.
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juvenile COURT
| LL|SEXPED|TED
Senate Subcommittee Is
Chosen to Handle
Measure.

The Senate subcommittee was
named today to handle the bill to
modernize and improve Juvenile
Court procedure in the District, which
passed the House yesterday. The mem
bers are Senators Copeland, Demo-
crat. of New York; King, Democrat.
of Utah, and Austin, Republican, of
Vermont.
Senator Copeland within few days
will announce a time for conSidera-
ton of the bill 1t was not certain
today whether hearings would be nee
essary.
Passed by the House yesterday with
out debate, the Senate referred the
measure to the District committee.
Not single change was made in
the bill by the House. 1t was called
up by Chairman Norton of the Dis
trict committee. read for amendments
and passed within a period of 10
minutes.
Primarily the measure is designed
to substitute a chancery system for
the present criminal procedure in
Juvenile Court. The court would be
based on the broad principle that the
child who comes before it is not to
be regarded as a criminal, but as one
whose individual welfare comedies
with the well-being of the state, and
who is to be saved rather than prose-
cuted.
The bill also raises the age of chill
dren over whom the court will have
jurisdiction from II to 1s years. Am
pie provision also is made for deal
ing with adults guilty of contributing
to delinquency.
Hearings in the court will be pri-
vate, and trial by jury will be elimi-
mated in children's cases unless de-
manded by the parent or guardian or
the court.
The proposed law is based on the
standard juvenile court act, which
was drafted by a committee of the
National Probation Association.
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3 affected by *Salamander' Gas
In Library Of Congress Annex

With one man in hospital and two
others affected by carbon monoxide
gas from so-called "salamanders," or
open coke-fired heaters in the new
Library of Congress annex, a confer
ence of officials concerned was sched-
uled today to decide what should be
done.
The conference was to include rep
resentatives of the Office of David
Lynn, architect of the Capitol, who is
supervising construction, and of the
Consolidated Engineering Co., con-
tractor for the job.
An expert from the Public Health
Service this afternoon was called into
the situation, and planned to measure
the carbon monoxide content Of the
air in the annex.
The man in Providence Hospital is
Horace Bell, representative Of the
architect of the Capitol. who was over
come Friday by effects Of the gas,
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ming across the street. Alvin Felnsll-
Der. 80, of 529 Lamont street, the
driver, was released in the custody OF
his attorney, pending an inquest
To give substance to the safety ap-
peal, Commissioner Hazen instructed
all District employees they would be eX-
pected to comply rigidly with all trafhc
safety rules. He said this would apply
to the Fire and Police Departments as
well as to all other municipal employees
driving District cars.
The new traffic campaign was in
spired by the records of the traffic toll
taken during January. Fourteen per-
sons were killed or died OF injuries IN
accidents during that month. OF the
IA, 13 were classed as pedestrians.
Traffic Director William A Van Duzer
emphasized that more than half OF the
persons killed were pedestrians crossing
streets between intersections.
What is the reason for this needless
killing?" asked Van DuZer. Most OF
us are motorists and nearly all OF us
are pedestrians. Yet it seems that as
soon as the person becomes a motorist
he carries a chip on his shoulder for
the pedestrian, and as pedestrians we
carry a chip on our shoulders about
the motorist."
Van Duzer said that he was not now
proposing that new regulation TO ban
jay-walking, but he appealed to pedes-
trians to cross streets at intersections.
Three other persons were injured
in accidents reported to police during
the last "a hours.
Melvin Y. Steadman, 73, OF i27
Third street northeast alghted from
a street car at Seventeenth street and
Park road yesterday and. in an al
tempt to dodge an automobile, fell
to the curb. He was taken to Gar
field and treated for leg injuries.
Willie Davis, SO, colored 306 C
street southwest, and Henry Fair, 2l,
also colored, 240 Third street south
west. were hurt early today when a
truck in which they were riding COL
lided with a street car at Seventh
street and Maryland avenue SOUTH
west. Both were taken to Emergency
| Hospital, where Fair was treated for
cuts and Davis for chest injuries.
Edgar R. Holcer. %. of 43l Kennedy
street, was the motorman of the street
car, police reported.
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Radio Interviews to ShO,U
Plight of 1000 Employables

stories to Washington, work might be
found for them. It was believed that
an informed populace might bring
pressure to bear for the relief of the
5000.
washington should know that
these 5000 persons and their 10000
or more dependents are without help"
Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of the
Chest, said. "They may be aroused
to the fact that there is a disaster,
not so spectacular as the recent floods,
but just as devastating to the people
concerned, right here in Washington. I"
The Family Service Association, the
Public Assistance Division of the
Board Of Public Welfare, the Catholic
Charities. the Salvation Army, Amer
ican Legion, Travellers Aid Society
and the Jewish Social Service Agency
have agreed to cooperate in referring
to Station WJSv persons who have
been refused aid.
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from a salamander, and was rescued
by workman who was nearby.
Bell, who was recovering today and
was expected to leave the hospital
shortly, had been i'll with influenza re-
Gently, his Office said, and had returned
to work shortly before he was over
come with the gas. No others had been
incapacitated by the salamanders un-
til yesterday, when two more men were
less seriously affected.
Salamanders have been in use gen.
orally in the construction industry for
drying out buildings under construc-
ton, or providing necessary heat in
cold weather. They are open pots IN
which coke is burned, without fiues to
carry off the fumes. Windows of the
Library annex had been open until re-
Gently, when they were covered tempo
rarily with muslin to keep out the cold.
The salamander heat was necessary
for installation Of tile which had to
be put In place with mortar.
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True-story interviews on the
thwarted hopes Of the 5000 Washing
ton needy who can get neither jobs
nor relief will be held tonight and
succeeding nights over Station WJSV,
in cooperation with the Community
Chest, which Is sponsoring the pro-
gram.
The 5000 have been turned away by
the Board of Public Welfare because
the organization has no funds for
employables, and the private family
agencies supported by the Chest are
unable to help them because each
agency already is operating on an over
crowded budget.
One by one, q cross-section Of these
will tell their stories over the air. The
program tonight runs from 7:l5 to
7:30 O'Clock.
Officials of the Chest and the radio
station decided that If some Of the
willing jobless could only tell their
Evening star., 1937-03-02
2PO[|CE JUDGES.
TERMS NEAR END
Mcmahon and Hit Are Both
Active Candidates for
Reappointment.

Terms of two Police Court magis-
trates expire this month-Judge John
P. McMahon's tomorrow and Judge
Isaac R. Hits on the seventeenth.
Both men are active candidates for
reappointment, but it is understood
approximately 40 attorneys have ap-
piled to the Attorney General for
recommendation to the President as
appointees to succeed them.
Judge Mcmahon, who was appoint
ed by President Wilson and reap
pointed by Presidents Harding and
Coolidge, has served on the Police
Court bench for three terms-a total
Of l8 years.
Hit Next to Mcmahon.
Judge Hit, who is in his third
term, is next to Judge Mcmahon in
seniority. He is the only magistrate
whose original appointment was by a
Republican, and this will be the first
time he will have had to seek reap
pcintment by Democratic President.
Until it is definitely Known what
course President Roosevelt will follow,
there are number of employees whose
positions hang in the balance. It is
customary for new magistrates to
make their own appointments. most
of which are patronage jobs filled at
the request of those supporting sue
cessful candidates.
Kindleberger Candidate.
Among the announced candidates
for the judgeships are Karl Kindle-
berger, assistant district attorney in
charge of the Police Court Office, who
has the Endorsement Of his superior,
United States Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett; Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Rice Hooe, head of the Police
Court branch of the corporation coun-
sells Office. and numerous attorneys
engaged in private practice. Assistant
Corporation Counsel George D. Neil
son, who holds an all-time record for
jury convictions in Police Court, is
known to have been suggested, al
though he has made no open bid for
the post.
It is generally expected that the
appointments will be announced with
in short time. However, in case the
posts are not filled on the expiration
Of the present terms, the incumbents
will continue in Office until reappoint-
ed or replaced.
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ICE CREAM FIRMS
GRANT PAY RAISE
Workers. Auxiliary of Bak-
ers' Union Signs Contract
Providing II Pct. Boost.

A wage increase averaging II per
cent was granted in new contract
signed by the Ice Cream Workers
Auxiliary of the Bakers Union, Local
118, and representatives of six Wash
ington dairies, it was announced at
the Central Labor Union meeting last
night by Charles B. McClosky, busi-
ness agent of the union.
The agreement provided a closed
shop, grievance committees and a
wage scale ranging from s350-a-
day minimum to $6.35-a-day maxi
mum for skilled workers, McClosky
announced.
Women will receive the same rates
of pay as men for the same type of
work. and To-day vacations with pay,
to be arranged during the dull sea-
son. we're also included.
The Southern, Garry, Fussell-Young,
Colonial, Washington Maid and Mel
vern Diaries were the signers of the
new agreement, which will bring wage
increases to more than ITS workers,
retroactive to February l, according
to McClosky. Negotiations have been
carried on for several weeks.
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DRILLERS AGAIN HIT
ROCK 86 FEET DOWN
Level Reached in Second Hole Is
Same as That in First-Probe
in Basin Planned.

Pursuing the quest for information
about foundation conditions for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, on the
south shore of the Tidal Basin, drill
ers for the United States Engineer
Office today struck rock 86 feet below
the ground-the same level en-
countered at the first hole.
Yesterday the drillers began oper-
ations on the second hole, east Of the
memorial site, and engineers Of the
National Park Service said they would
be boring In the rock formation
today and probably tomorrow. The
drills will be sent down to 100 feet
below the surface Of the ground, as
was done at the first hole, to deter
mine the character of the rock.
Several more holes will be drilled
IN different locations in the memorial
area, including a portion of the Tidal
Basin itself, to determine the char
acter Of the subsurface, so that engi-
neers and architects may predicate
their plans upon this information.
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Trio of Senators
Return Cigarette
Advertising Fee

Three Senators have returned
the 1000 offered them for their
Endorsements of "a light smoke"
it was reported today as the result
of ~ribbing' which followed the
revelation that Is Senators had
agreed to the use of their names
in radio and newspaper cigarette
advertising.
They will not take part in the
radio programs and their pictures
will not be used in the advertis-
irg, one of them explained today,
He requested that his name not
be revealed, declaring it would be
embarrassing to other members
who might decide to go through
with the program.
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FURTHER SHAKE-UP
SEEN IN AIR UNIT.
Maj. Rudolph W. Schroeder
Slated to Take Over Duties
of Martin and Cone.

Further reorganization of the Bu-
reau of Air Commerce. which yester-
day lost its director, Eugene L. Vidal,
and the chief Of its airport section,
John S. Wynne, by resignation. and
its two assistant directors, Rex Martin
and Col. j. Carroll Gone, is regarded
as certain in the near future.
Under the new set-up Fred D. Fagg,
jr, new director, who was sworn in
yesterday afternoon, will have but
one assistant director, Maj. Rudolph
W. Schroeder. who will take over the
combined posts of Martin and Cone.
1t is considered likely that new
posts may be created to head up" the
air navigation division, formerly
headed by Martin, and the regulations
division, headed by Cone. The heads
of these divisions would work directly
under Schroeder.
Fagg indicated late yesterday. how
ever, that he will make no changes
for the immediate future, pending
the completion of a thorough study
of the entire bureau organization and
functions of subdivisions of the bu-
reau are being considered.
Sworn in as Advisers.
Martin and Cone yesterday after
noon accepted appointments as aero
nautical advisers" to the bureau and
were sworn in. Martin will be as
signed to South America to study
methods of improving trade through
aviation. He expects to leave for his
new post within the next two weeks
Cone will go to Europe in a similar
capacity. Martin and Cone are to
continue at the same salaries and
Maj. Schroeder, as assistant director,
will be promoted to an initial rate of
$500 year.
Maj. Schroeder, promoted from the
post of chief of the airline inspection
service, last night was en- route to
Washington from Chicago. He has not
yet been formally notified of his pro-
motion. He is expected back in Wash
ington late today or tomorrow.
Fagg and Schroeder will be con-
2lO1loSo dG O1lCC Will 1Ol
what is expected to be the largest
construction program in the history
of airways development. The House
Appropriations Committee now is con-
sidering Budget Bureau recommended
tions for a $5,0O0,000 program of mod
ernization of Federal airways. In
addition to recommendation for an
outright appropriation of $3,000,00O,
the Secretary of Commerce is author
lied to enter into contracts for not
to exceed S2,O0O,000 more during the
coming fiscal year. The current ap-
preparation for this work is only $780,
900. Virtually every item for the bu-
reau has been increased by the Budget
Bureau. The recent national avia-
tion safety conference recommended
immediate appropriation by Congress
of $14,000,000 to thoroughly modern
ize all aids to air navigation.