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Evening star., 1937-02-26
ARMY FLYERS SET
Low CRASH RECORD
Rate Of Accidents Drops From
sos in 1922 to .859
for 1896.

The accident rate in the Army Air
Corps has been reduced to the lowest
point IN the history Of military flying.
the War Department has announced
in making public a letter of COM
mendation from Secretary of War
Woodring to the chief of the Air
Corps. Maj. Gen. Oscar WeStover.
During the past fiscal year the rate
Of accidents in the Air Corps reached
the low point of .859 per 1000 flying
hours, as compared with an average
rate of 108 for the preceding five
years and with rate of SOC in 1922,
Secretary Woodring said
The rate for the past year is re-
garded as even better in view of the
fact that total of 500,70 hours were
flown. as compared with 65,214 hours
during 1922
In 1886" Woodring said. eight
times as many hours were flown by
military aircraft as in 1922, but the
rate of total accidents in 1895 was
one-sixth the rate of 1922, and it is
noted that in 1886 one fatal accident
occurred for approximately every
10000 hours flown, as compared with
one fatal accident for every 1000
hours in 1922, or the 1922 rate of
total accidents was 489 per cent higher
than the 1886 rate"
Evening star., 1937-02-26
OFFICER ACCUSED
Of LAW PRACTICE
Former Aide to Prosecutor
to Face Trial Board on
Four Charges.

A police trial board will meet March
. to try William H. McGrath. police
man-lawyer, on four charges filed yes
terday by Supt. of Police Ernest w.
Brown Most of the charges involve
the officers alleged private law prac-
tice.
McGrath. assigned to tine corpora
ton counsel at Police Court in 1926
and elevated to assistant prosecutor
In 1885, when he became member
OF the bar, was transferred recently
from court duty to beat in the ninth
precinct. No reason for the change
was given at the time.
The four charges enumerated by
Maj. Brown are: Accepting employ
ment and engaging in an occupation
which, directly or indirectly, inter-
fered with the proper and efficient
performance of his police duties: per-
forming legal services for compensa-
ton in violation of the police regula-
tions: conduct prejudicial to the repu-
tation, good order and discipline of the
force. and wilfully making an un-
truthful statement before a court.
An affidavit containing the charges
was presented recently to Maj. Brown
by Mrs. Mary Catherine Richards.
2807 Fourteenth street. The charge
of making an untruthful statement is
the result of an equity suit between
George G. Richards ana his father,
George P. Richards. in which the
father sued to require the son to re-
convey property given him by the
parent.
McGrath was charged with having
represented the elder Richards on
several occasions previous to the
equity suit and with practicing law
in the Offices of William p. Wendell.
Wendell represented tn, elder Rich
ards. The officer is alleged to have
testified at the trial. when he was
summoned as witness, that he had
a telephone conversation with Mrs.
Richards. This, she charged, was
untrue.
Maj. Brown said officers are not
allowed to engage in remunerative
outside occupations and asserted Nc
Grath maintained law Office at Sixth
and D streets even while he was at
tached to the Police Court Office.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
ZIONIST COUNCILS
WILL MEET SUNDAY
Youth and Regional Program to
Include Symposiums and
AddreSSes,

Both the Zionist Youth Council and
the Zionist Regional Council Of the
Seaboard area will meet Sunday at
the Hotel Warrington.
The youth conference will take up
the problems Of interesting other
youth contingents in Zionism and in
molding their organization. Among
those expected to attend are Mildred
Murnick. national president Of the
Junior HadasSah: Mrs. A. H. Vixman,
vice president Of Young Judea. and
Isaac Imber. president Of Masada
The youth group will hold . SYM
postum on American Jewish Youth
and Palestine" with Hy Lytton and
Rebecca Rosenblum participating for
Washington. The Washington Junior
Hadassah will be hostess at q tea to
close the conference.
The REGIONAL Council will hear
Rabbi Edward L. Israel, president Of
the Seaboard Zionist Region, who will
outline q course Of action to be pur-
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Justice McReynolds Defends
Vie,cs With Soaring Ferror
Tennessee Dem, Ocr0t,
Is, Has Opposed All
Ne,u Deal Cases.

This is the fifth of a series OF sir
stories on Supreme Court justices
20 or more years OF age.
BY the Associated Press.
Justice James Clark McReynolds is
a tall, angular man with nimble.
caustic tongue and a fierce defense
for what he thinks is right.
Author OF more opinions that con-
gressional acts were unconstitutional
than any member in recent court
history, he sometimes has followed up
his written views with soaring ex-
temporaneouS comment.
The Constitution" he exclaimed
sardonically when the court upheld
the legality of the New Deals gold
clause case, lis gone!"
Once he remarked with devastating
suddenness that ne disliked LADY
lawyers of both sexes"
Another time when a woman's silk
stocking was introduced as case evi-
dence he dangled it gleefully before
the court, his usually severe face
creased in a broad grin.
Outwardly gruff, he is, on the other
hand. fervently described by intimates
as man of deep human feeling and
unexpected gentleness,
Justice McReynolds has had three
jOlIrneyS int0 pOliticS alWavs as n
Democrat.
He ran for Congress as a young
man in Tennessee and was badly
beaten.
He was Assistant Attorney General
from 1903 to 1907 by appointment.
He was President Wilson'S Attorney
General for II months until nomi-
mated to the Supreme Court.
Justice McReynolds is a bachelor,
but he gives Sunday morning break
fasts which have been the delight of
Evening star., 1937-02-26

This is the fifth of a series OF sir
stories on Supreme Court justices
20 or more years OF age.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
NAVY BILL OFFERED

Naval officers would be prohibited
from serving more than four years in
any consecutive eight years on duty
in the Navy Department in Washing
ton under bill introduced today by
Representative Mass, Republican, of
Minnesota.
The bill exempts, however, those
serving as chief of naval operations,
assistant to the chief Of naval opera
tions, the head of the staff depart
ment or his assistant or a specialist
in any bureau or staff department, or
unless the President shall determine
that public interest requires the
services OF any particular naval off,
Ger.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

debutantes for . couple Of social
decades.
'Possum hunting was once favorite
recreation. Nowadays it's an occa-
sional game of erratic golf.
He has ruled against the constitu-
tionality Of all major Roosevelt ad-
ministration measures and most of the
minor ones.
Chronology: Born Elkton, KY, Feb
ruary 3, 1862. Schools-Vanderbilt
University and University Of Virginia.
Age-75.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Rabbi Metz to Be Speaker.

Rabbi Solomon Metz will discuss
the subject In the Wilderness" at
services in Adas Israel Synagogue at
o'clock tonight. At the social hour
following the services Joseph A. Will
ner. president Of the congregation at
the synagogue, will lead an open
forum discussion.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
TO TEACH IN D. C.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md, February 26.-
Miss Grace Rowell. Smithf1eld, Va,
succeeded Mrs. John P. Umbach on
the faculty of the Maryland State
School for the Deaf. Mrs Umbach ac-
cepted a post as instructor of Spanish
at the Roosevelt High School in WASH
ington. She formerly was an instructor
at Hood College.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
"HILL Billy PROGRAM

G. @. G. Unit to o6er Mountain
Music.
The Garrett County Mountain Ram
blers, Of c. c. G. camp 304, Oakland.
Nd, will present q program Of noun
tain music tomorrow night in Perkins
Hall, Universalist National Memorial
Church. Sixteenth and s streets. John
r. Small. educational adviser of the
camp, will tell "hill billy" stories.
The entertainment will be under
the auspices Of the w. z. d o. Circle
Of the church.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

sued by the Zionist groups in the
region. Plans will also be made for
the fifteenth annual conference, to be
dedicated to Justice Louis ]. Hrandeis
of the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
DISEASE FUND SOUGHT
Health Service to Ask Roosevelt

for $1,OOO, 900 for Flood Area.
The Public Health Service probably
will ask President Roosevelt shortly for
about $1,000. 900 to continue its fight
against disease in Midwest flood areas.
The President yesterday signed .
congressional resolution authorizing
him to allot funds for such purposes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
RECORD COTTON
YIELD FORECAST
BY U. S. BOARD
Is Million Bales Due;
CaroIinas Suffer
CaroIinas Suffer

0.N.S) A United States cot
ton crop Of 100000 bales Of
50o.pound gross, was forecast to-
day by the crop reporting board.
basing its estimate on a condition
of rs per cent of normal on Sep
TENDER /. The indicated area
left for harvest is 1886, 600 acres,
while the indicated yield Of lint
cotton is 228.5 pounds per acre
for the harvest.
simultaneously, the Census Blu.
reau issued a report showing that
1871, 403 running bales, counting
round as half bales were ginned
from the 1887 crop prior to Sep.
TENDER 1, compared with 1,374,2l7
bales for 1886.
HIGHEST ON RECORD
The board said the forecast Of
100000 bales was an increase
of 505,000 bales from the August
forecast, and compared with
$780, 900 bales in 1885. The in.
dicated yield per acre of 228.S
pounds is the highest on record,
and compared with 1879 pounds
last year and 1899 pounds for the
10-year (1923-32) average. It is
estimated that 1.S per cent of the
cotton acreage on July has been,
or will be, abandoned, leaving 49,
10000 acres remaining for har.
vest. This abandonment is one
Of the lowest on record.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08

This anxiety reached a sharper
pitch than has been precipitated
by any international crisis Of re-
cent years, crystallized by:
/. Apparent joint action Of
italy and Japan in threatening
the Soviet Union simultaneously
on its European and Far East
ern borders.
2. Possible severance Of diplo-
matte relations between Italy
and Russia over Soviet charges
the phantom" submarines prey
ing on Russian and British ship
ping in the Mediterranean are
Of italian origin.
8. Reports Italy Is planning
an open alliance with Japan and
Germany in q Fascist pact
aimed at communism.
NO COINCIDENCE
The sudden flare-up Of the
crisis in the Mediterranean, and
Japan's defiance of Great Britain's
demands for satisfaction over the
Notwithstanding Of the British
ambassador to China, was viewed
in diplomatic quarters as no mere
coincidence.
The immediate effect has wide
international ramifications, vtrtu
ally multiplying any move by Britain
or France or Russia, short Of war
to halt Japan's encroachment il
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
Russia to Stand By
Charges to Italy
By JAMES E. BROWN

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 Q.N.SJ.
Soviet Russia's charges that Italian
war vessels torpedoed two Russian
merchant ships stand and will not
be withdrawn.
This was the defiant message
that went to Fascist Rome today
as the Soviet Union accepted an
invitation to the proposed 12.power
piracy conference" at Nyon, Swift
Zerland.
Soviet Russia considers the
Italian rejection of the Soviet
note unsatisfactory and will con-
tinue to assert its accusations
against Italy," spokesman said.
In accepting the invitation to
the conference, Russia demanded
that the Spanish loyalist govern.
ment also be invited to attend. In
addition, it sarcastically asked
France and Britain why Germany
was invited.
Further complications were
added to the omnibus interna-
tional situation when Soviet au.
thorities detained the armed Japa-
nese cutter Oska Maru, found an
chored in Soviet waters, according
to reports from Khabarovsk,
Siberia.
A quantity Of machine guns.
rifles and ammunition were aboard
the cutter, which carried a crew
of IS, the advices said.
The captain Of the vessel said
the cutter had been sent out by
the governor general of Korea to
prevent fishing boats from enter
ing Soviet waters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
Freighter Paints
Hull to Avoid Sub

Boston, Sept. 8 QN.S0.-Re-
calling World War days when
vessels were camouflaged or car.
ried the painted insignia of a
neutral, the italian freighter Mad
dalena Odera was on the high seas
bound for Genoa today, with two
huge italian flags painted on her
hull. Loaded with 1900 tons of
scrap iron and steel, the freighter
bore the insignia because of fear
Of attack by the phantom sub
marine" terrorizing neutral ship
ping in the Mediterranean.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
China Refugee Train
Bombed, 800 Killed

troop ships, supply ships and SINH
lar craft were anchored, protected
by many more war ships. It was
estimated 10000 japanese troops
had landed, and that an additional
10000 were waiting to disembark.
A force of 100 japanese machine
gunners took possession of the Ad-
ventist Mission despite the fact
that three American flags flew
over the building. No reply had
been received late this afternoon
to the protest lodged with Japa.
nese authorities by the American
consulate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08

China, or the Italo-G German aid to
the nationalist faction in the
Spanish civil war.
In brief, the parallel crises in
the Far East and Mediterranean
are viewed as a planned move to
enable the Fascist powers to
achieve their ends without inter
ference by the major powers.
WOULD HAMPER BRITAIN
The seriousness Of the Mediter-
rean situation, it was pointed out,
will have the net effect Of pre-
venting Britain from dispatohing
its fleet to the Far East to back up
demands against Japan resulting
from the shooting Of the British
ambassador.
Neither the Italo-Soviet contro-
versy nor Japan's threatening ges-
lures toward Russia are believed
to be aimed at causing a war in
volving these powers, but simply
as a grand diplomatic bluff, backed
by armed might, to keep the rest
Of the world at bay while the
Fascist powers clean up" their
individual ventures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
Mrs. 7. r., Jr. Raps
Protection in China

VICTORIA, British Columbia,
Sept. 8 Q.N.S0.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. jr., refugee from Shang-
hal, criticizes American protec-
ton of the Whangpo river: "All
the protection we had was an
American flag stretched in front
of the smokeStack."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
Henry Ford Gets
Valued Antiques

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. 8
Q.N.S) Rare antiques, some
dating to personal---very. days,
were bequeathed to Henry Ford.
automobile magnate, under the
will Of Miss Avis Vesta Fowler Of
Concord, on file today in Middle
sex County Probate Court.
Miss Fowler died Sunday at the
age Of SO. The will specified the
beouests to Ford must be kept at
his Wayside Inn in Sudbury.
where her great-great-grand.
mother, Anne Howe, once lived.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
British Cabinet
Studies War ScGreS

LONDON, Sept. 8 G.N.S0.-An
attitude of studied unconcern, OBJ
viously designed to offset public
fear over the grave crisis which
threatens the world, was preserved
by the British cabinet ministers
today as they met to consider the
situation in the Mediterranean
and the Far East.
The cabinet meeting broke up
at $3.50 p. m, and Prime Minister
Neville CHAMBERLAIN Immediately
conferred privately with Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and
other leading ministers.
Uncertainty over the fate Of the
proposed 12-power piracy" confer
ence and realization Japan is pre-
pairing to thumb her nose at the
British government hung like a
pail over Whitehall as the Cabinet
sought a means Of pacifying Eu-
rope and the Far East.
PIRACY FARLEY
One Of the graveSt problems
facing the ministers was uncer-
tainty as to whether italy and
Germany would accept or reject
their invitations to the piracy"
parley at Nyon, Switzerland.
This uncertainty arose from the
bitter feeling resulting from Soviet
charges that Italian torpedoes
sank two Russian merchant YES
sells. Italy has fatty rejected the
charges and the Soviet demands
for indemnity.
Germany'S answer is expected
later today.
Concerning the Far East, the
cabinet was expected to do little
more than mark time pending a
full Japanese reply to the British
protest regarding the wounding of
British Ambassador Sir Hughe
Knatchbull- Hugessen. So far,
Japan has commended that 1t has
not been proved he was wounded
by q Japanese bullet.
REPORTS STUDIED
However, British naval and mill
tary dispositions at Shanghai and
Hongkong and other Far Eastern
points will be reviewed and reports
from consulates regarding ma
terial damage resulting from the
conflict will be studied.
The cabinet also will review the
scheme for partition Of Palestine,
in the light Of the recent Zionist
conference and other recent de.
velopments, including outbreak OF
violence in the Holy Land.
In addition, 1t will examine re
suits Of the latest series Of notes
to the Spanish insurgent govern
ment regarding seized British
ships.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
BasSinet Blaze
Fatal to Infant

WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 8
G.N.So.-A six-weeks-old baby girl
was burned to death in . local
hospital, police said today, when
an electric tube placed in a bas-
sinet to generate dry heat ignited
her clothing.
The tiny victim was Joanna
Wheat, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Wheat, of Delaware City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
FETE JUDGE COOPER

Robert A. Cooper, Federal Judge
Of Puerto Rico. will be the guest
Of honor at the meeting of the
Clemson Alumni to be held at
MAYORS Restaurant, Tenth and
Water Streets, Thursday evening
at $50 o'clock. Judge Cooper was
governor Of South Carolina at the
close Of the World War.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
U. S. Drops 1928
Employees in July

Executive branches of the Gov
eminent dropped 1928 employees
during July, according to a report
submitted today by the U. s..
Civil Service Commission.
A corresponding drop in pay
roll of more than $1,10O.OOO was
reported. The largest decreases
in personnel were in the War De-
partment. Department Of Agri-
culture. Interior Department,
WPA and Department of Labor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
LONDON TENSE.
PIRACY" WAR
ARE DISCUSSED.
British Ship Reported
Attacked Near Spain

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 8 G.N.S).
The Spanish insurgent warship
Canarias attacked a British steam
er in addition to chasing two
Spanish loyalist freighters before
it engaged in a fierce sea battle
with seven loyalist destroyers, &C.
cording to unconfirmed reports re-
ceived here today.
The British destroyers Hotspur,
Active and Hasty sailed for the
Eastern Spanish coast about the
time the reports were received.
Authorities said the departure
of the destroyers was not con-
nected with the battle involving
the Canarias, however.
LONDON, Sept. 8 G.N.S).-Ru-
mors, not confirmed from any
other source, that an Italian hos"
pital ship had been sunk in the
Mediterranean were reported to-
day in a Rome dispatch to the
London News Chronicle.
PARIS, Sept. 8 GN.s0.-Three
French warshipS rushed to sea
from Algiers today to protect
neutral shipping in the vicinity
Of a smashing sea battle reported
still progressing between the in
surgent Spanish warship Canarias
and seven loyaliSt destroyers.
The engagement was reported
raging off TeneS, to the west OF
Algiers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
World War Fear
Strongest in Years
BY ROBERT q. NIXON

QNS) Fears the Far Eastern conflict might spread to
Europe through Russia locking the two Old World continents
in new world war; grpped diplomatic circles here today
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
RUSSIA SENDS
ITALY new NOTE
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ing whether Italy should be rep
resented in the forthcoming
piracy conference" in Switzer-
land. It was believed the decision,
in view of Russia's attitude, would
be a flat no." unless the inter
national atmosphere clears.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
TROOPS POUR IN

At Wobsung. to the north, Japa-
nese transports poured troops,
munitions and war supplies ashore.
Oft the Woosung area so Japanese
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08

Sports Of all sOrts-the finest presen-
tatiOn in WashingtOn-fOur pages daily
and six and seven ON Sunday-featured
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for home delivery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08

"Home Counsel" by Frances Troy
NOrtherOss, director of the Herald
HOme.Makers' Club, . daily feature In
for home delivery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
s PLANES SHOT DOWN


In a "dog fight" over soochow,
Japanese airmen shot down five
Chinese planes. The announce
ment stated a second combined
naval and air raid was carried out
at the great southern Chinese port
Of Annoy yesterday.
The fortified zone Of Annoy was
bombarded with military establish
ments inside the city, which were
set on fire.
DIET VOTES BUDGETS
Japan's five-day emergency
"war" diet session was ended to-
day after the legislators unani-
mously approved supplementary
budgets totalling more than 2,0OO,-
100000 yen to carry on the con-
flict with China.
Eleven other bills were passed
giving the government emergency
powers to place the economic
structure Of the nation on a war
footing and to control all activities
as a coordinated unit.
UNITY is PLEDGED
Prior to adjourning, both houses
pledged to uphold national unity
and tenacious perseverance in
and pursuance of the imperial
speech from the throne"
In making these pledges In the
form of a resolution, the diet
urged China to reconsider her at
titude to ensure lasting peace.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-08
JAP ANESE FELL
five PLANES IN
SOOCHOW FIGHT
Battles Rage by Air
On Wide Front

TOKYO, Sept. 8 (I.N.S).-Jap-
anese war planes carried a mes
sage of death to widely-separated
Chinese fronts today while artil-
lery and infantry units claShed
with Chinese forces around Shang-
hal.
An admiralty communique said
japanese planes destroyed a mill
tary arsenal at Hangchow, south
west of Shanghai, an airfield at
Kashing and a Chinese military
barracks at Kwangteh.