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Evening star., 1937-08-04
JAPANESE CLAIM
ALL NORTH HOPE|
Government Is Set Up in
Peiping as Major Battle
Looms.
BY the Associated Press.

PE1P1NG, August 4-Japanese su-
tinuous bombardments by squadrons
of warplanes had routed western con-
centrations Of the Chinese Army and
blasted clear path for the southwark
march OF Japanese troops from this
conquered Manchu capital
The Japanese statement declared
that the Chinese troops, reported to
have been concentrated in force at
Paotingfu, IS miles south Of here,
"perished or fed during the air bonn
bardment"
The announcement, scattered from
the sky by Japanese planes in a
pamphlet bombardment, proudly stated
all North Hopei Province has been
occupied. The troops Of the Marking
government will not come north. If
they do the Japanese will strike i'm
mediately"
Government Set Up.
The flrst fruits Of the conquest OF
North China were believed borne today
when the autonomous government of
East Hopei announced it WAS opening
its administrative Offices in Peiping.
Headquarters OF the japanese dom
mated regime had been at Tunachow,
II miles to the east until now Estab-
llshment Of such a government for vir-
tually all Of North China was believed
to be one Of Japans ajor objectives
in the undeclared war.
major engagement was expected.
despite the pamphlets. at Nankow
Pass 20 miles north of Peiping where
1000 Japanese troops were massed for
an attack on the Chinese positions
north of the Great Wall.
All Japanese Nationals were ordered
to evacuate Kalgan, Chinese strong
hold and capital of Chahar Province,
100 miles to the northwest.
The government Of China, appre-
hensive OF the safety Of the 5000
Chinese in Japan, was reported to have
started their evacuation from the
island empire.
While the japanese troops at the
Great Wall prepared to strike at the
Chinese forces in the north, two re-
inforced Japanese armies, marching in
parallel columns in Eastern and
Western Hopei Province, pushed
steadily southwark against the main
defense lines of the Chinese central
government troops
Major Battle Expected.
The eastern japanese column. 4 full
brigade based on Peiping, was be-
lieved less than 20 miles from the
advance positions Of the Nanking
troops rushed to the north to dispute
Japan's conquest Of North China.
The western column had reached =
point about 20 miles southwest Of
Tientsin and was thought to be about
an equal distance from the Chinese
Army advancing along the railroad
from Pukow to Tientsin.
A major battle WAS expected
momentArily in the undeclared vsr
between the two powers TO decide
Japan's claims to unhampered eco
nomic domination of = North China
freed from the control Of the central
government at Marking.
Japan WAS pouring troops into the
area both by the railroad from
Shanhaikwan on the Manchukuo bor-
der and through the Great Wall passes
north of Peiping.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
RE-EMPL0YMENT UNIT
IS BEING LIQUIDATED

b. the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, August 3-W.
Frank Persons Of WASHINGTON, D. c.,
director of the United States Employ
ment Service. told members Of the
Disabled American Veterans yester-
day that the National e-employment
Service is being liquidated
TT was a temporary organization
and within year the 4S State en-
ployment services will be extended to
accept jurisdiction throughout each of
the respective States" he told dele
gates to the national convention.
Employment service for veterans, he
said, would depend upon "our influ-
ence upon autonomous State employ
ment services"
Bids for the 1888 convention were
made by delegates from Atlanta, Ga,
and Grand Rapids. Mich. Ohicers will
be elected Friday
The days program was closed with
. banquet.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
PRESIDENT VIEWS
HOSPITAL SITES
Visits Two Tracts Proposed
for Construction of New
Naval Unit.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt today visited 2
OF the ~ sites under consideration
for the new s4,800,O00 Naval Hospital
Read Admiral Perceval Rossiter
surgeon general of the Navy, who was
among those who accompanied the
President. later released the locations
of all the sites Previously the loca-
tions of only five had been made pub
lie.
approximately dozen of the AZ sites
are favored" the admiral said, among
them the two visited by Mr.. Roosevelt
today and the four mentioned Mon
day by Senator Walsh, chairman of
the Senate Naval Committee. Rossiter
added that he did not expect decision
to be reached before early September
1t was the Presidents intention to
inspect the five sites named by Walsh,
but because of business engagements
arranged in advance he had to re-
turn to the White House. He said he
would visit the others as soon as
possible.
The first site inspected by the
President is situated on Foxhall road
woodland bordering on Conduit road
on the south.
The other site comprises 272 acres
a short distance west of the Dale
carlia reservoir.
Those who accompanied Mr.. Roose-
Senator Walsh, Representative Vim
cent of Georgia, chairman OF the
House Naval Affairs Committee. and
DR.. Ross T. McIntire, White House
physician.
Among the other sites-all of which
Will be visited by the President some
time in the near future-are the Nc
Lean estate, Friendship, on Wisconsin
avenue, tract bordering on Sixteenth
street just south of Walter Reed Hos
pital and another tract comprising
Forts Dupont and Davis, near the end
OF Pennsylvania avenue southeast
Mr.. Roosevelt made the inspection
trip with the top of his car down, but
contrary to his usual custom did not
have a police escort At one time he
was forced to trail a huge concrete
mixer for short distance
The President is understood to have
made no commitments as to his pref
erence other than to say to news
paper men who accompanied him that,
while the site near the reservoir COM
prlsed the better acreage, the one on
the Foxhall road was much more ac-
cessible.
The site in the Southeast section,
however, is known to be the preference
Of Senator Walsh.
There is already legislation authoriz-
ing an appropriation OF $4,000 900 for
a new Naval Hospital on its present
site, at Twenty-third and E streets,
but it has been decided to have the
act amended to provide for construc-
tion of new hospital for the same
amount of money on q new site. The
present hospital site would then be
included in the area to be allotted for
the proposed new War Department
Building.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Girl of II 'sSorry"
She Wed Man, 81;
Loues Only Doll
Missourian Held in Jail
on Charges OF Falsity.
ing Child's Age.

BY the Associated Press.
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-. August A.
Mary Frances Grimes. IL, sobbed to
authorities today she was Sorry she
married 67-year-old William H.
Grimes, because she didn't love any
one but her doll"
Grimes, held in Butler County Jail
on charges of perjury in faisifyins the
girls age and of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, told Sheriff
Edgar Hammons:
'If they'll just leave me alone, I'll
give the girl good home and make
her 4 good husband"
..ary Frances was married to Grimes,
. cotton picker, last week
Grimes told the sheriff he had been
living the past two weeks At the home
Of the girls parents Her father, J. J.
Alexander, consented to the marriage.
he said
The sheriff said Grimes gave Mary
Frances age as II when he obtained
the marriage license.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
LAUNDRY OWNER HURT

Suffering from severe bruises and
cuts on the back of his head. Charlie
Wee, 36, Chinese laundry owner, was
found unconscious by police today in
the rear room of his place of business
at 5515 Colorado avenue. He was
taken to Emergency Hospital. where
his condition was said to be critical
Two colored women told police they
looked through rear window and saw
Wee lying on the floor Police were un-
able to determine Immediately whether
the man had fallen accidentally or was
the victim of an attack.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, August Am Amer
lean writer and his wife reached
Peiping from . Buddhist temple
refuge today with a story Of ruth
less warfare.
The Americans-Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Lamb OF Washington. D. c.
had been isolated in the temple,
northwest of Peiping, since the out
break Of Chinese-Japanese hostili-
ties in the area.
Thank God we're back in town."
Lamb said.
"A Japanese motorized brigade
came in from Manchukuo. They
had hundreds of tanks They went
through the Chinese troops like a
scythe through wheat.
I'VE saw them lombard Hsiyuan,
but they didn't stop with that.
Their airplanes Soomed over, spit.
ting machine gun bullets at help
Evening star., 1937-08-04

By the Associated Press.
The belief that President Roose-
velt will nominate a successor to jus
tive Van Devanter before Congress ad-
tourns increased today among high
administration supporters.
Mr. Roosevelt himself gave that i'm
preston yesterday in press confer
ence in which he repeatedly talked
of the time when the nomination
goes to the Senate
A recess appointment. such as At
torney General Cummings said was
permissible. would not go to the Sen
ate until next year.
Some of the Presidents advisers
said they were urging him to make
the selection If possible While Con-
gress is in session, so that the Su-
preme Court might be at full strength
for the Fall term without recess
appointment.
Senator Vandenoerg, Republican. of
Michigan has offered & resolution to
declare the sense Of the Senate against
such recess selection.
Borah Denies Vacancy.
Senator Borah. Republican. OF Ida
ho contended yesterday that there
was no vacancy on the court. He
obtained some support from Repub-
ltcans. but all Democrats who voiced
an opinion differed with him, even
those who fought the President on
the Supreme Court reorganization bill.
The President did not comment di-
rectly on Borah's view al his press
conference. but did assert he had
the power to name a new justice.
Some Informed authorities said
whether the President nominated a
successor to Justice Van Devanter be-
fore Congress adjourned depended on
the length of the session.
They said he personally was check
Ing closely the background OF so or 10
possibilities. instead OF delegatlng the
work to the Justice Department as
usual.
Among Senators the opinion was
prevalent that the President would
select some one from the Southeast,
the Southwest, or the Middle West.
They said other sections Of the country
were more than proportionately repre-
sented on the present court.
Wagner Unlikely Choice
This attitude, If held by the Presi-
dent, would exclude many of those
who have been mentioned. including
Senator Wa9ner. Democrat. of New
York. Wagnecs friends already had
said, however, that he was not a
likely selection.
1t was understood in some quarters
The President desired if possible to pro-
mote some judge from the lower
courts. Three circuit judges from the
areas regarded as acceptable have been
mentioned frequently. They are:
Former Senator Sam G. Bratton
OF New Mexico. now serving on the
tenth circuit bench.
Joseph c. Hutchinson, jr. of Houston.
serving on the fifth circuit bench.
Samuel Sibley of Atlanta also serv-
Ing on the fifth circuit.
Interest in the vacancy over
shadoVed the impending Senate de-
bate on the new lower court bill
scheduled to start in the Senate to-
morrow. 1t was not expected to
create much opposition.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

Mrs. Robbins said today she was
glad her parents had insisted that
she learn to sew, cook and keep house
She was born in Buenos Aires.
She had lived and studied in many
foreign countries before her marriage
in 1910 to Robbins, then attached to
the United States Legation in
Argentina.
Mrs. Robbins. with two sons and a
daughter, now has two infant grand
children. But she still doesn't like the
color of her hair, prematurely white
for many years. She tints it blue.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
CH!LD'S BURNS SERIOUS

Severely burned yesterday when she
set her dress on fire while playing
with matches, 4-year-old Dolores
Brown. colored remained in serious
condition today at Children's Hos
pital.
The child, who lives in Baltimore,
was lighting the matches while seated
on a porch at 9O5 N street the home
of her aunt, Mrs. Nora johnson. A
number of persons heard her scream
and beat the fire out before arrival Of
an ambulance.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Actress Damage Suit Settled.

LOS ANGELES, August 4.-Marie
Marks, 10, stage and screen actress,
has dropped her 100000 damage suit
against Cecil Sillman, Hollywood
sport3man, after a compromise SET
tlenent of $2,50O
She charged Sillman married her
without divorcing his first wife.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
RAIDERS SEIZE ARMS

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Au-
gust tP,.-Police conducted a raid
today in the Falls road area in which
they seized a bomb, a rife, three re-
volvers and 1000 rounds of ammuni-
ton A butcher was detained for ques-
tioning.
Uniformed and plain clothes officers
started an intensive search for arms
in various sections of the city.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
PURSUIT.
\ ROMINENT among the phe-
J nomena of the machine age is

ROMINENT among the phe-
nomena of the machine age IS
phobia known as alarm
i cockitis, a state OF mind lead
ing the victim to believe he is perse-
cuted by noisy little animals, noisy
large animals, bill collectors, sewing
machines, buzz saws and cantaloupes,
all equipped with bells. This comes
of being awakened every morning by
an alarm clock.
We also are familiar, pupils, with
the pursuit complex which induces
the patient to believe he is chased by
bean-ball pitchers, bill collectors (see
above), highballs made with ginger ale,
highballs made with iodine, friends
who want to borrow I broom, and the
man in Room No. 3l4
All Of this brings us to no point at
all Except We never heard of but
one man in all our lives who was
chased by an alarm clock. His name
Evening star., 1937-08-04
USHERS' PAGEANT SET

Plans for pageant, The Progress
of a Race" to be staged at Griffith
Stadium on August 81 by the Inter-
denominational Ushers' Union of the
District of Columbia and Vicinity. Inc,
will be discussed at a meeting OF the
Ways and Means Committee at meet
ing at the Mount Airy Baptist Church
at 3 O'Clock tonight.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
On Honeymoon Tour.

LOS ANGELES, August 4 (P.-
Roger Sanderson Hewlett, New York,
and the former Kathryn Pierce, de-
scendant of President Franklin Pierce
were on honeymoon tour of Cali
fornia today before returning to New
York to make their home.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Diplomat Dies.

TEGUcIGALPA, Honduras, August
4 P.-Luis Bogran. jr., 81. former
Honduras Minister to Washington and
son of former President Luis Bogran.
died yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
NEW PLAY FACILITIES
Equipment to Be Christened at

Equipment to Be Christened at
Palisades Center Saturday.
Oficial opening of new recreatjonAl
facilities at the Palisades Playground
will take place Saturday, Secretary OF
Interior Ickes said today.
Among the playground equipment
to be christened are a paddle tennis
court and tether ball poles-the ffrst
to be installed in the National Capital
Park system. Other facilities include
two shufneboards, two badminton, two
yolley ball and four horseshoe courts
Evening star., 1937-08-04

ELEGANCE.
Stenographers and clerks oper at
the National Labor Relations Board
hare picked up q 11eW phrase re-
Gently. Heard nitness say it in
labor case hearing.
Seems something 1Uas said to this
D1tness about working conditions
Dhere she Wds employed. She made
an airy gesture and replied:
Are you telling II"
X X X
GAMBLER.
DEPARTMENT of shock, surprise,
CONSERVATION and grief:
High executive Of very conserva-
tive newspaper about town confessed
to us the other day that every time
he buys an Irish sweepstakes ticket, he
suffers untold agonies, laying awake at
night figuring out what he'd do with
the money if he won it, wondering
what might be his chances of winning
grand prize.
This has upset us considerably be-
cause We didn't realize managing edi-
tors and people were ever kept awake
at night by anything except the
dreamy hum of presses, turning over
and over in their minds. Especially
not by things illegal, games of chance
and the like.
Name to the Post ONCE Depart
ment on request. Just inclose three
cents in stampsD
Evening star., 1937-08-04
REV. MICHAEL A. MATHIS
TO DESCRIBE GRID GAME

Will Be Recounted Tomorrow
to Cosmopolitan Club.
The famous 1885 Ohio State-Notre
Dame foot ball game will be described
by Rev. Michael A. Mathis, C. S. c.,
at q meeting of the Cosmopolitan
Club at 1890 pm. tomorrow in the
Carlton Hotel.
Rev. Mr.. Mathis, co-founder of the
Catholic Medical Missionaries, and now
stationed at Catholic University, will
be introduced by William Edelblut,
chairman of the clubs Forum Com
mittee. Arthur W. Defenderfer, club
president, will preside.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

Vacationers at Karuizawa, Japan's
most popular mountain resort, fly from
Toxic in so minutes by q new air
service.
Evening star., 1937-08-04

IS John Upton. and he is an apart
ment mate of Davy Lead-Foo)
Crockett, this columns favorlte artist.
(We haven't any other)
Mr.. Upton is a gentleman who has
spurtS Of ambition leading him to inn
agine It is a perfectly sound idea to
set ar alarm clock for Sis in the
morning, get up and so down to his
Office to start whipping out the days
work. He believes it, We said. Mr.
Cr3ekett tells us of typical morn
ing this last week, when Mr.. T. set
the clock for 6:l5. Then for 6:45
After the last jangle he jumped up,
! snatched a blanket off the bed and
fed into the next room, closing the
| door between himself and the in
fernal machine.
At 845 his pals in the apartment
awakened him and said. "On your
way to work. my man." which he was
in short order.
Any questions?
Very we'll, that Is all for today's
lesson. Tomorrow We will take up
the case OF the alarm clock that was
chased by man.
SEA-ROLL.
The QueereSt case OF sea sick
ness lce're heard OF yet happened
to a Star reporter and a ludy friend
at Cape May last Ueek.
Sunk OF the point is one Of the
old concrete ships used during the
rar. It's deck protrudes from the
,ndter. The bottom is tilted against
sand bar.
This tellou boarded the old ship
and tDent beloD deck out OF sight
OF the sed-dnd in q moment both
he and the lady he pas escortlng
became so sick they thought their
last hours had come.
AS soon as they could see the
sea again the strange nausea left
them. The ndtire Uho had roUed
them out told them that nearly
euery one Is affected the same Udu.
EXPLANATION.
WY
Remember the ship was abso-
lutely without motion
We suspect the reason goes pretty
deep into neurology and psychology.
What is ''level?" The term is mean
ingless unless we have something for
comparison A floor level is level with
respect to the surface Of the earth,
the surface of the sea, etc
The human nervous system is ad-
justed to this levelness-and quite
complicatedly so.
Now the floor Of the hold OF this
concrete ship, actually slanted at
about q 45-degree angle against the
sandbar, was level" with respect to all
its visible surroundings. It's walls rose
from it at approximately right angles,
etc. One was completely shut of
from all objects on the natural level"
with which to make comparisons.
SO 1t seemed as if walking along 4
level floor one was always being thrown
sideways. The effect was the same as
that of ship in motion, only worse,
because the disturbances of equilibrium
were worse
MARK-DOWN.
CIGN of the times noted In an F
street book store:
THAT MAN LANDON."
Was Sl.50-Now Csc.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
CHOICE FOR COURT
BERTH HELD NEAR
Roosevelt Adds Weight to
Belief He Will Act Before
Adjournment.
BACKGROUND


The ghost OF the Supreme Court
controversy, supposedly laid at rest
July ~, ,Dhen Senate poted to re-
commit ADMINISTRATION court en-
loroenlent bill, Was raised again
last meek uhen Senator Vanden-
berg sought to put Senate on record
against recess appointment to the
pdconcy created by retirement Of
Justice Van Dcronter. Supporters
OF the President say he can make
appointment at any time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-05

Remington, W. Va, Feb. 5.-CUP) Robert P. Johnson, 36, a rural mail carrier, imprisoned in an abandoned coal mine near here eight days ago. was found alive today by crew of volunteer rescue workers. Trapped behind two slate falls beyond sub- terranean pool that had been drained, Johnson was so weak from hunger and exposure he could hard- ly talk. It required three hours and 45 minutes to bring him to the sur face. Johnson leased the old mine recently and was exploring It's workings when he became trapped. He spent eight days and nine nights in the cold. damp passageway about 2,5OO feet from the surface. Soon after he disappeared, volunteer crews, eco and WPA workers, and state mining department officials be- gan draining the pool of water In the mine so they could go beyond to search for him. AS week rolled by and little progress had been made, hope that he would be found alive was virtually abandoned.
 Early today. when the pool had been pumped to a depth of three feet. weary rescue group of 20 men decided they could go beyond. Four or five men, led by Mike stanko and Carl Westfall. two vet eran miners, and Omar McNeif, who was in tho mine with Johnson when hc disappeared. waded through the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-05
MOUNT HOLYOKE IN CONTROVERSY
Trustees Become Angry at Attacks-They Strike
 Back at Opponents

Boston, Feb. 5.-(UP)-Trustees of Mount Holyoke college "unani- mously, heartily and urgently" re- 1uested three nationally-known wo- men educators to succeed 73-year- old Mary Emma Woolley, as presi- dent, but all declined, 1t was learned today.
 Dr. Roswell Gray Ham, 46, asso- ciate English professor at Yale uni versity whose election as the first male president of the century-old women's college has stirred & na- tion-wide controversy, was a, fourth choice and was elected only when 1t become a question of lowering qual- ifications or clecting a man. The trustees chose the latter course.
 That was the picture drawn today by President Ava Morrison of the trustees and Mrs. Mary Hume Mcguire, a 1918 graduate and exe- cutive secretary of the trustees sub- committee to recommend candidates Tor the presidency.
 One Hundred Candidates
 Tn all, more than 100 candidates including 70 women, were consid- cred by the subcommittee for the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-05
Rural Mail Carrier Saued After Eight Days h Mine

pool. Beyond the pool. a slate fall blocked their path. It was precari- ous work but one by one they squeezed through hole scarcely large enough for man. At any moment they might have been trap ped under additional falls of rock. Once past the barrier, they proceed ed slowly. Someone heard sound. They stopped. It was faint cry. They rushed forward again and behind a second slate fall they found Johnson, conscious but barely alive.
 Stanko ran to the mouth of the mine. we've found Johnson" he cried and then hurried back. The word spread rapidly. Mrs. Delvira Johnson, 35. his wife was at their home nearby. She cried when she received the news. T knew they'd find Bob all the time" she said. Mrs. Johnson hurried to the mine but did not go inside. Rescue work CTS restrained her.
 It was a slow, difficult work re- moving Johnson. Stanko, Westfall and the others dug a hole about three feet high. Carefully, they took Johnson through 1t on stretcher. Westfall received a gash on the head. Stanko and the others had painful cuts and bruises and had to be treated by . physician. Johnson was too weak to tel lof his iinpris- onmcnt He was taken to hospital at ClarksburR.