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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-14
POWER LINES
CONSTRUCTION
TO BEGIN soon

First of the 1000 western red cedar poles in the Impe
aI Irrigation Districts rural eectrfcaton system will
up within six weeks under the program advanced to
building stage Tuesday afternoon when district directors
placed orders for materials equipment to build the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-14
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Evening star., 1937-09-27

All available houses and apartments
IN Manila, P. l., are being filled by
refugees from Shanghai.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

cause and (2) its belief that 1t has q
fair chance Of winning or. In any case,
Of avoiding defeat"
Aim 70 End Victory Hopes.
Therefore, the article contends, the
only proper use Of violence in war Is
for taking away adetermined peoples
hope of victory, and this can be ac-
complished only by destroying or neu-
tralizing that peoples power for attack
or resistance in whatever degree Il
necessary.
The proper objectives Of aerial bom-
bardment, consequently, are the
mechanism Of supply and communica-
tion-and not the populace.
1T seems never to have occurred
to the dervishes Of air power" says
the article, Ito inquire whether attack
on civilians can really be effective in
achieving the political end Of war
which Is destruction Of the enemy's
will to resist"
The nation that Is wise" 1t de-
clares in conclusion, will 60 out OF
its way to avoid attack on civilian
population IN the hope that the great
force Of moral opprobrium may fall
upon its less astute enemy"
Evening star., 1937-09-27
STRATEGIC MOUNT
TAKENBY REBELS
Peak on Leon-0viedo Bor.
der Captured in Infantry
Air Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE Franco-Spanish From
tier. September 27.-Combined insur-
gent infantry and aerial attacks, Gen.
eralissimo Francisco Frances COM
manders reported today, have wrested
strategic Mount Ventaniella, on the
border of Leon and Oviedo Provinces,
from the governments Biscayan army.
Occupation of the government
trenches on rocky plateau about
5000 feet high in the Western Europa
Mountains, they said, has brought
nearer the junction of Frances SOUTH
ern and eastern columns converging
on Gijon, last government-held port
in the Spanish northwest.
Bombing planes drove out the AS
turian defenders, innicting heavy
losses.
Government dispatches conceded
the loss of some ground at Toledo,
south of Madrid, after an insurgent
attack which they described as the
f1ercest on the Central Spanish front
since the governments Brunette CAM
paign west of Madrid
Government forces retreated also
on the Huesca front, in the north
Evening star., 1937-09-27
ADvENT|STS MOVE
! CHINESE MISSION
Headquarters Taken to
Hong Kong After Seizure
{. of Shanghai Building.

- Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Nd, September
a. - Temporary headquarters for
6eventh-Day Adventist missionary
operations in China have been estab-
nahed in Hong Kong after the seizure
OF the missionaries building in Shang-
hal, Elder w. L. Burgan of the de-
nominations ofiice here announced
today
Word was received from Prof
frederick GriggS, president of the
China Division Conference, of the re-
established headquarters. In his
cablegram Griggs stated. the confer
eI1ce was establishing the Chinese
Training Institute, Far Eastern
Academy and Language School for
Missionaries in a safe location in
English territory. He asked that
seven missionary families appointed
to the China field, but held up be-
cause Of the war, be sent immedi-
ately.
Officials at the Washington Mis-
sionary College here revealed that
these families are all ION the Pacific
Coast" awaiting permission of the
State Department to leave. However
1t was added. the families will not be
sent out under present conditions, but
Will await quieter conditions in
China.
Prof. Griggs also made a plea for
financial aid for rehabilitation in
Shanghai.
Prof. Griggs remained in Shanghai
until the middle of September. He in
formed headquarters here he is looking
After the interests of the mission in
that city-a medical headquarters has
been established in rented quarters in
the French section of the Interna-
tional Settlement, he said.
In letter from Prof Griggs word
was received that the japanese were
occupying the six-story clinic building
owned by the denomination. He said
the structure had been hit by shells
and there are three or four big holes
IN it." The front of the building has
suffered most, he said.
In communication from H. L.
6hull, manager of the Signs of the
Times, weekly denominational paper
published in China. an eyewitness de-
scription of the bombing of the Palace
Hotel in Shanghai was given. He de-
scribed bomb explosion in another
section of the city in which native
workers connected with the publishing
house were killed. Out of total of
nearly 100 in our native workers fam
iTies, we could account for less than
co." he wrote.
Shull went to Manila with the
evacuation of American citizens, but
has returned to take up rehabilitation
work in the publishing field in
Shanghai.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

were reported held In automobile
plants and other factories in Moscow
to protest Japanese bombardment of
Chinese cities and villages.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

east, when insurgent air bombers and
artillery loosed a joint barrage on
lines near Montalban.
Spaniards crossing the border into
France said huge gasoline storage
tanks, containing about 100000 gall
Ions, were set aflame last Friday
north Of Barcelona and still were
burning yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-09-27
BOMBING CIVILIANS
TERMED B[UNDER
Army Journal Writer Holds
Furnishing PopuIace
Ineffective.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Aerial bombardment OF civilian pop
ulations may be 4 tactical blunder, in
the opinion Of American military ex-
perts.
The Infantry Journal, edited by
Lieut.. Col. E. F. Harding of the United
States Infantry Association, says in =
current article. THE Misuse OF Air
Power" that punishment OF nom
combatanss is both ineffective and un-
wise.
1T the military profession" says the
article. "is inclined to resort to mere
punishment as q mode of prosecuting
war, it will do we'll to refer to >
knowledge in the field OF penology,
where will be found abundant proof
that brutality of punishment has never
been effective as deterrent to the
human will, but rather = provocative
stimulus.
Violence Doesn't Require Planes.
I'm the first place. If attack upon
civilization populations were effective
in destroying will to resist, such at
tack did not have to await advent Of
the airplane.
1T has always been possible, yet, as
the result Of painful experience, the
race had learned, before the aero
maniacs frightened it out of its wits,
that such attack was both ineffective
and unwise Hence the we'll known and
formerly respected rules of land war
fare.
1T is desperately necessary" the
article continued. Ito impress upon
the minds OF all who are thinking
about war that the determina-
ton Of people to prosecute a war is
dependent not at all upon the punish
ment to which the people Is subjected,
but upon two things:
"D Its belief in the justice Of its
Evening star., 1937-09-27
CHINESE SEES JAPAN
REVEALING WEAKNESS
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 27.-
One Of China's foremost scholars
DR.. HUI Shih, asserted yesterday the
undeclared war in his country had
revealed "the military weakness OF
Japan"
DR.. Hu, diplomatic adviser to the
Chinese government and special
counselor Of Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek, few to America aboard the
Philippine clipper en- route to Wash
ington.
Contending Japan had failed mis-
srably" in the use of her air power
DR.. HUI said the bombing of Shang-
hal, Marking and other cities had
accomplished little in a military way.
Evening star., 1937-09-27
JAPAN'S ARMY SEEKS
HORSES IN ARGENTINA
Commerce Department Also Re.
ports Conflict Causes Shortage
Of Motor Vehicles.

b the Associated Press.
The Japanese Army is seeking to
buy horses in Argentina for its cavalry
units, the Commerce Department re-
ported today.
The report said japanese Army rep
resentatives now are in Argentina
studying horses.
In another report the department
said the Sino-Japanese conflict had
brought "a marked shortage" of motor
vehicles in Japan. Many have been
Communicated for use in military
activities in China, 1t said.
Evening star., 1937-09-27
S0vIETS SHOOT Fl MORE
AS FARMING 'WRECKERS'
12 Had Been Accused Of Plotting
Rebellion At Tractor Plant
in the Caucasus.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, September 27.-Soviet
Russia's awesome list OF executions
was swelled yesterday when II more
men were shot Is disloyal "wreckers"
In the agricultural industry.
Twelve Of them were accused Of
plotting rebellion At two tractor sta
tions in the Caucasus. There pre-
viously had been numerous executions
In this region for alleged plotting Of
6eparatist revolt. Five men
charged with responsibility for grain
spoilsge were given death In Moscow.
-Four ondcials,, attached to . sugar
factory 1T Kiev, were given the su-
preme penalty on charges of treason
and mismanagement Of the plant.
1t was alleged they lost more than
100000 pounds Of sugar In two
years by using improper formulas.
Meanwhile, indignation meetings
Evening star., 1937-09-27
Inmate Praises Jail.

CHICAGO. September 81 R.-An
inmate Of the Cook County Jail let
Evening star., 1937-09-27
RATE CUT SUSPENDED

The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion suspended today until next April
~ the operation of proposed reduc-
tions in freight rates on alcoholic
liquors, including high wines, shipped
BY rail from distillery points in Illi-
noH. Indiana, Michigan and Ohio
70 South Atlantic and Florida ports.
The reductions were to have become
effective today.
Evening star., 1937-09-27
PLANE CONTRACT ACTION
DELAYED BY ARGENTINA
Strike at Northrop Factory in Los
Angeles Causes Complications
for Buenos Aires.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 27.-Maj,
Castex Lainfor, president OF the spe-
cial Argentine Commission for Aero
nautical Purchases, said today he was
waiting word from the Argentine gov
eminent before taking any action with
regard to the strike at the Northrop
airplane factory in Los Angeles.
The commission chief, while admit
ting his government has a contract
with the Northrop company for the
purchase of planes, said the matter
was necessarily of secret military
nature"
He could not disclose, he said,
whether the strike would bring about
. cancellation OF the contract.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

1t be known he was a satisfied GUS
toner.
He wrote a letter to . Chicago
newspaper praising the lookup az
"a fine institution" and something
the citizens of Chicago should think
OF as one of the many great features
We have in our fair city"
Evening star., 1937-01-19
BUCHANAN NAMED
ON REORGAN|z|NG.
Heads House Committee of
Seven to Cooperate With
Similar Senate Group.

Chairman Buchanan of the House
Appropriations Committee, who was
chairman of the Special Committee on
Reorganization in the last Congress,
today was appointed by Speaker Bank
head to be chairman Of the new select
committee of seven members on Gov
ernment organization which Is to CO.
operate with similar Senate group as
joint committee with inquisitorial
powers to consider the Presidents
recommendations and all other Gov
ernment organization proposals.
Chairman Buchanan. reporting from
his committee, appointed in the last
Congress, recommended such set-up.
Chairman Cochran Of the House
Expenditures Committee, who was
ranking member on the ReOrganiza-
ton Committee now superseded, was
named as ranking Democrat on the
new committee.
Chairman Warren of the House
SOhiihtttSC VII nNtouhec, AkCpiCoCiLtd-
tive Vinson Of Kentucky, a member OF
the Ways and Means Committee, and
Representative Robinson of Utah COM
plete the Dmocratic membership Of
the new committee.
Representative Tabor of New York,
ranking Republican on the Appropri-
ations Committee. and Representative
Clifford of Massachusetts, ranking Re-
publican on the Expenditures Commit
tee. complete the new committee
roster.
The Senate Rules Committee Is ex-
pected next Thursday to act upon the
Joint resolution which calls for crea-
ton of the Senate section of the pro-
posed joint committee. Senate Leader
Robinson has given assurance that the
Senate will cooperate with the House
for joint committee consideration OF
the reorganization program.
Evening star., 1937-01-19

Continued From First Page)
Navy, Marine and Coast Guard details
from this area.
Students Get Time on.
The President came to the aid OF
the youngsters from the three service
academies yesterday, when he asked
that they be given liberty from the
end of the parade until ii pm. The
schedule had called for them to en-
train Immediately after ending their
march. All are arriving Wednesday
morning. The West Pointers are due
in around o'clock, and their trains
will be parked at Delaware avenue and
I street southeast; the midshipmen
get in around 1870 at lexington
Yards. The Coast Guard arrival will
be sometime after 8.
The formation area for the parade,
which starts at 1870 and centers on
Capitol Plaza, will be between Third
street southwest and Sixth street
southeast; Pennsylvania avenue and
B street southeast: independence ave-
nue. southwest and Virginia avenue
southwest and southeast.
Crossing north across the plaza. the
marchers will enter Constitution ave-
nue. at Delaware, follow west to Penn
sylvania, north on Fifteenth to New
York and west on Pennsylvania to
the disbanding area around Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets.
Ohicial Line Of March.
The line is made up as follows:
PLATOON OF WASHINGTON
POLICE.
GRAND MARSHAL'S SECTION.
Grand marshal-Gen. Malin Craig,
chief of staff, United States Army.
Chief of staff-Brig. Gen. c. D.
Roberts, Washington Provisional Bril-
gade, United States Army.
Staff-Capt. Carnes B. Lee. Infan-
try, aide de camp; Lieut.. Clark Lynn,
Evening star., 1937-01-19

teenth and K and Twentieth and
Pennsylvania avenue to take care Of
passengers wishing to transfer between
Pennsylvania avenue street cars and
those of the Mount Pleasant line.
Busses Supplement Service.
During the time street cars from
RoSslyn, Tenleytown and Cabin John
are turned back west at Washington
Circle. busses will be operated between
that circle and Seventeenth and K
streets, using K street in both direc-
tionS.
Special South Fourteenth street
service South of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. busses will be operated over Four
teenth street in both directions be-
tween E and Water streets, looping
around the Commerce Building by way
of East Fifteenth and Constitution.
Operation of this line will begin at
IL am, continuing until the parade
Is over.
Massa chusetts avenue. Will Use reg
ular route to Seventeenth and streets.
west on I to Eighteenth. north to K.
east to Seventeenth. then northbound
over regular route.
Rhode Island avenue. Over regular
route to Connecticut avenue and I
street, west on Eighteenth, north to
X, east to Fifteenth, then over regu-
lar route
Busses having regular terminus at
Eighteenth and Pennsylvania avenue
will use I street from Seventeenth to
Eighteenth streets. then 60 north on
Eighteenth to K, then east on K and
use the Potomac Park bus line stand
at Seventeenth and K as their ter
minus.
Evening star., 1937-01-19
Time Table Shows
Scheduled Course
OF Inaugural Rites

Here is a time table OF tomor-
rows Inauguration activities:
IL a.m.-Supreme Court meets
to don robes and proceed to the
inaugural platform outside the
Capitol.
ll:40 a.m.-House conveneS
and proceeds in a body to the
right Of the inaugural platform.
1850 a.m.-Senate convenes
and proceeds in body to the
left of the platform.
l1:55 am.-Other dignitaries
march to platform.
Noon President and Vice
President appear and ceremony
begins. After prayer. Senator
Robinson. the Democratic leader.
administers oath to Vice President
Garner. Chief Justice Hughes.
administers oath to President.
Mr.. Roosevelt delivers inaugural
address.
l:30 pm.-Inaugural parade
begins. Last unit expected to pass
before Presidents reviewing stand
about pm.
5 pm-White House tea for
Governors and their wives.
9 p.m.-Inaugural concert at
Constitution Hall.
Evening star., 1937-01-19

quarters that there were still many
seats available at 81 and also in the
$3.50 range. There are also a few
at $40, these being the choice location
right across from the reviewing stand
the President will occupy.
Those connected with the trans
portation Of the crowds were sticking
to their prediction Of q record turn
out. At Union Station, it was said
that approximately 120 special trains
were coming in-about 80 tomorrow
morning-and that these alone would
carry approximately 0,000 passengers.
In addition. trains generally are ham
ding extra equipment. Air and bus
lines also were carrying their share
of the increased movement.
The round of festivities for in
auguration visitors got under way
yesterday when the State groups be-
gan to arrive.
A major event is the dinner to be
given tonight at the Mayfower by the
electoral college. Postmaster Cen
eral Farley will make the principal
address, which will be broadcast be-
tween 10 and IL O'Clock.
Evening star., 1937-01-19
FLYER is LONE WOLF"
Hughes Secretive and Abrupt in At
tacking Air Records

hughes Secretive and Abrupt in At
tacking Air Records.
LOS ANGELES, January 19 LP.-
Howard Hughes, lone WOLF of the
aerial speed lanes, made his sizzling
dash from Burbank to Newark to-
day with customary secrecy and
abruptness
The former motion picture pro-
ducer. to whom flying became a prime
passion, has always achieved his con-
quests of space with a minimum OF
fuss and fanfare.
Hughes. son Of a wealthy Texas
Oil and mining supply manufacturer,
is The holder of two important plane
speed records-across the continent
and the world mark for land planes.
Typical of the apparent casualness
with which he skaters records was
his luncheon dinner" flight last
May, when he fed from Chicago to
LosAngeles in hours and 10 minutes.
He did it on a $50 bet-that he could
eat lunch in Chicago and dine the
same day in Los Angeles.
Shortly before this feat. Hughes ne
gotiated the distance between New
York and Miami, Fla, in 4 hours and
81 minutes.
Hughes quit picture producing sew
eral years ago to devote all of his at
tention to aviation. Hhe was sue
cesful and spectacular producer. and
Evening star., 1937-01-19
STREET CAR, BUS
ROUTES CHANGED
Inauguration Day Schedules
Are Announced by Tranist
Company.

The Capital Transit Co. today
announced special routing for busses
and street cars tomorrow to meet the
situation created In the downtown
area by the inaugural ceremonies. No
buses will be permitted to run on or
across Pennsylvania avenue from 9
am. until pm., while car service
will be cut out on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Fifteenth street from 11:15
until the parade is over.
These will be the changes:
Street Cars.
Routes 80-20-22-North Capitol and
Maryland eastern end). Cars on
these two lines will be operated from
their usual eastern terminals over
their regular weekday routes to Fifth
and G streets, then turn south on
Fifth to F street, west to Fourteenth,
north to G and east to Fifth and the
Segular route.
Route Pennsylvania avenue.
From Eighth and F streets, ne, cars
will be operated to Union Station over
the regular route, then go west on
Massachusetts, avenue and G street to
Fourteenth street, south on Four
teenth to F, east on F to Fifth, north
on Fifth to G, then east on G and
Massachusetts, to regular route.
Rout 30-TenleytoWn-Pe Pennsylvania
Avenue eastern endD. Over regular
route from Seventeenth and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast to First
and B streets southeast. then by way
of the Union Station and the route
given above for the Pennsylvania
avenue line. Return by the same
route.
Rosslyn and Cabin John.
Cars between Rosslyn, Cabin John
or Friendship Heights which will be
operated between those points and
the Nineteenth street loop will be
cut back at Washington Circle
during part of the time the parade
Is proceeding and buses will give
shuttle service between the circle
and Seventeenth and K streets.
Routes So So = 81 - Fourteenth
street Cars of Route 81 between
Fourteenth and Park Road and the
Navy Yard will use Fourteenth street
to F. then go east on F to Fifth,
south on Fifth to Indiana avenue
east on Indiana and c street Il
First street (east), south to First and
B streets southeast, then over regular
route. Returning they will follow
the same route to First and c streets
northeast, then proceed over c street,
New Jersey Avenue and D street to
Fifth, north on Fifth to F street,
west to Fourteenth street and the
regular route.
Another part of the Fourteenth
Evening star., 1937-01-19
BANQUET Staying
|. PROBE IS PUSHED
Relatives Promise Surrender
of Men Wanted for
Questioning.
Py the Associated Press.

Ply the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 19-Swlft
solution Of New York's Death IN the
Opera House" Staying drama was FORE
cast by police today as Detective Louis
Pagani announced that relatives OF
two men sought for questioning in the
case had promised their surrender
within a few hours.
The two men, Pagani said. had been
hiding out from their homes and
Offices ever since 700 merrymakers
in the huge crystal ball room of the
Manhattan Opera House were thrown
into panic, shortly before midnight
Sunday, by free-for-all fight.
The savage melee, arising over al.
legged alcoholic boisterousness during
speech of Grover A. Whalen. former
New York police commissioner, ended
in the fatal Stabbing of Frank Cicero.
33. of Stamford, Conn. a trucking
firm executive.
Suspects Fled Scene.
After two nights and a day of steady
questioning, ranging over a field of
$50 persons who had attended the
banquet, Pagani said the two suspects
had fled the scene shortly before po.
lice arrived to Gordon the opera house.
Pagani said he had learned the two
men who sat at table adjoining
Ciceros party had gone over to re-
monsrate with Cicero for making too
much noise just before the wild
swinging melee began.
Relatives of the two men. 1t was
understood, promised their surrender
because of fears that friends Of the
slain man might seek private" retri.
button.
The search narrowed down TO the
two men after careful wedding out
of the list of 667 guests attending the
banquet. which was given by the Affil-
lated Ladies Apparel Carriers Assoc
citation and the Garment Truckmen's
Benevolent Association.
Group Is Noisy.
All were seated in the once
famous crystal ball room of the opera
house. The dinner was lively, the
dining was laced with wining, and
Cicero and group of friends at the
end of the room farthest from the
speakers table we're noisy.
When Mr.. Whalen arose to speak
and Cicero and his friends kept up
their noise, police recounted. neigh
bors shouted: Shut up"
In the fight which ensued. Cicero
was stabbed in the heart and the
back The party continued for 8
or 10 minutes before the police ar
rived. Whalen and the other speakers
did not know of the killing until later
A commercial photographer had
made the traditional banquet picture
and police used the photo to identify
guests who had been sitting near
Cicero.
Turkey will construct two new radio
| stations.