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Increase in Priuate Pilots
Stimulates Aircraft Orders

totaled 1856, compared with s14 the
year before.
At the close Of 1929 there were about
1000 private pilots. In the following
few years the number swelled until
1892 found more than 5000, an upturn
which aviation circles attribute in
some measure to decline in the prices
Of small aircraft. 49,.
Although the number Of private
pilots subsequently declined, 1886 saw
an upturn to about $500 at the close
Of the year compared with around
5000 the previous year.
As some see 1t private flying Is on
the upgrade owing to general business
recovery, which has put fatter divi-
dend and pay checks In more pockets.
Another factor, 1t Is said, is the, pur-
chase Of planes on installment.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
INTEREST DEFERRED
BY UTILITIES POWER
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
CHICAGO. January 30.-The Utili-
ties Power g. Light Corp. announced
today that because Of pending 77-B
receivership proceedings it was taking
advantage Of a 60-day period Of grace
In deferring payment of February /
interest on its per cent debentures
due 1859.
"The board will, during the period
Of grace, apply to the court (Federal
District Court here) with its recon-
mendations and for instructions with
reference to the payment Of said in.
terest," the announcement said.
1T is now proceeding with the
formulation Of q plan of reorganiza-
ton"
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Credit Arranged
For Italy to Buy
American Cotton
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, January 3o.-A credit
Of $500, 900 to enable Italian pur-
chase Of American cotton has been
arranged by the Chase National Bank
In cooperation with the United States
Export Import Bank. it was learned
today.
Other similar credits are under
negotiation with the Federal. institu-
ton, it was understood.
The Export-Import Bank recently
ruled such short-term credits, up to
nine months, do not violate the john
son act.
Cotton circles attached importance
to the loan arrangement in the ex-
pectation that If similar credits are
made easy Italian imports of United
States cotton may be increased to
somewhere near the figures prevail
ing before the Italo-Ethiopian War,
when our exports ran over 100000
bales annually.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
STEEL CHIEFS FACE
DELIVERIES RUSH
Backlogs Remain Heavy and
Consumption Holds at
High Levels.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. January 80
Daily Metal Trade today says:
With backlogs of most steel products
still heavy and consumption continu-
ing at an active rate mills are facing
q problem In attempting to satisfy
customers on deliveries.
The automotive labor situation has
been without apparent effect on fin
ished steel shipments. Miscellaneous
demand has more than Offset sus-
pended shipments to automotive
plants.
At the same time considerable new
business has developed in various
directions indicating consumers are
desirous Of covering as far ahead as
possible. Railroads and equipment
builders are prominent in the current
market. Considerable building steel
for this season also Is moving.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
INVESTMENT COMPANY
STOCK INDEX DOWN
pispat tch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 30.-The In
vestment companies common stock
price index declined last week, as evi-
denced by the averages compiled by
Distributors Group, Inc.
The average for the common stocks
for 10 leading management compa-
nies influenced by the leverage factor
stood ct 2528 at the close Of January
20, compared with $3.50 on Janu-
ary "a.
The average Of the mutual funds
closed at l7.l5 January 20. compared
with 17.32 at the close Of the previous
week.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, January 3o.-Over
two and one-half more million radio
sets were sold In 1896 than in 1885,
according to the twelfth annual re.
view issue Of Radio Retailing. The
publications report shows sales Of
8,825, 900 sets In 1896 as against 6,l06-
800 in 1885.
The greater volume Of sales resulted
in . 81 per cent increase In retail
dollar volume, or $503, ,023, 600 last year
as compared with 1901, ,1o2, ,480 the
year previous. The average price per
set increased also, from SO In 1885
to $57 In 1886.
Table models still constituted the
bulk Of the business (45 per cent Of
the total) but there was . noticeable
shift In public preference for the
higher priced console type. which
Evening star., 1937-01-31
WOOL TRADE is DULL
AT BOSTON IN WEEK
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 80 Omitted States
Department Of Agriculture) Trade
In domestic woods was quite restricted
on the Boston market during the last
week.
Most grades were quoted unchanged
from the previous week, but when
buyers with urgent needs required
some special types Of domestic woods,
slightly higher prices occasionally re-
suited from transactions.
Market values Of Ohio deeces were
generally quoted at around 45-4e cents
In the grease for fine delaine, at
1850 cents for staple combing half
blood, and at 52-54 cents for comb
ing three-eighths and -quarter-blood
gI2deS.
Evening star., 1937-01-31
STAPLES SUFFER
FURTHERSETBACK
FROM 1887 PEAKS
Labor Troubles and Floods
Are Factors in Drop.
Lumber Advances.
BY A. A. PATTON,
Associated Press Statistician.

NEW YORK, January 30-Com-
modify prices backed farther away
from recent peaks this week, with la
Dor disturbances and the rampant
Ohio River factors in the decline.
Lumber, for instance, jumped again
during the period. and is currently
almost 10 per cent above the level a
strikes on the Pacific Coast. Demand
has steadily improved while supplies
have become harder to unearth.
Labor trouble was also credited in
commodity circles with being a potent
cause of the abrupt setback in textile
quotations. The General Motors tie
up has caused widespread cancellation
Of orders for fabricated cotton and
wool, both of which are consumed in
huge quantities by the automobile in
dustry.
The destructive sweep of nature be-
tween the Alleghanies and the Mis-
sissippi boosted cotton. Analysts point.
ed out two of the largest cultivators
Of the staple stretch for miles along
the banks of the swelling Father Of
Waters"
Weighted Index Says.
The biggest, Mississippi, was second
to Texas in production during 1885
with 100000 bales, Arkansas NTH
with 100000.
The Associated Press weighted in
dex of IS important wholesale COM
modify prices dipped to 1921 per cent
of the 1926 average from 1912 a
week ago and compared with 1857
last year.
Food, live stock and non-ferrous
metals joined textiles in turning
down. Industrial staples pushed up
ward against the tide, establishing a
new six-year peak. Products Of the
farm carved out a small gain.
Live stock-Hogs, cattle and lamb
plunged lower under the weight Of
heavy offerings in principal markets,
reversing the trend that carried the
index up 10 per cent in the past few
months.
Farm Items Higher.
Although coffe and eggs nudged
ahead for fractional gains, heavily
weighted cocoa, flour and lard drop
ped the index. Agricultural items
were slightly higher, with corn and
rye accompanying cotton's upswing.
Wheat and oats fell back.
Industry's commodities, rubber,
bituminous coal. steel scrap and
lumber advanced. Tin and burlap
edged lower.
The index, with its components
based on 1926 as 100, compared as
follows:
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Radio Sales Register Cain
Of 81 Per Cent During Year

accounted for SO per cent Of last
years sales as compared with SO per
cent in 1885. .-
Auto radio sales reached 1,412,000
against 1,125,000 the previous year.
Radio Retailing's analysis includes
table by States showing the satura-
ton In radio receiving sets. The
greatest number Of radio homes is in
New York State, 98.6 per cent Of the
families owning sets. Rhode Island
comes next with 97.6, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut close behind with
95.7 per cent and 95.5 per cent re-
spectively. Mississippi Is the State
with the fewest radio sets, only 38.6
per cent Of the families having them.
It has the fewest wired homes also,
1853 per cent Of the total, which means
that the majority Of radios they own
are battery setss ~,
Evening star., 1937-01-31
ST. PAUL PLANS ISSUE
TO ORDER EQUIPMENT
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Trustees Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railroad asked Interstate
Commerce Commission authority yes
terday to issue and sell $2,655, 900 Of
81 per cent equipment trust GER
tificates.
Proceeds will be applied to the pur-
chase Of 80 passenger cars and 1000
freight cars costing $3,558,000.
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" the Associated Press,

0y tLC HSoONAoISo ASSSs
The Association Of American Rail-
roads reported yesterday loadings of
revenue freight for the week ending
last Saturday totaled 67o,376 cars
This was a decrease of 29,862 cars,
or 43 per cent, compared with the
preceding week; an increase Of 85,739,
or 14.7 per cent, compared with a
year ago, and an increase Of 114,848,
or 2o.7 per cent, compared with two
years ago.
The weeks loadings Of various
classifcations. giving comparisons with
preceding week, and corresponding
week q year ago. follow:
This wk. Last wk. Year ago.
rE. L
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COTTON SEAT HIGHER,

NEW YORK, January 80 R.-The
New York Cotton Exchange has an
rounced the sale Of . membership
for $12,250, an increase Of $3.50 over
the previous price.
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FREIGHT L0AD|NGS
AT 670,376 MARK
Total Off 4.3 Per Cent From
Week Ago, but 14.7
Above 1886.

NEW YORK. January 30 R:-The
Associated Press seasonally adjusted
weekly index Of freight carloadings.
based on 19.9-30 as 100. declined TO-
day to 73S, compared with T7.7 the
previous week and 64.3 a rear ago.
The range of recent years:
Evening star., 1937-01-31
Farm Items Higher.

Knew 1936.37 high.
Evening star., 1937-01-31

(See INTEREST RATE, Page G-20
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WOMAN FALLS
50 FEET, LIVES

Crashing so feet to the concrete
floor Of an areaway in the rear
of 1905 Fifteenth st. N. W., when
a clothesline from which she had
suspended herself broke early TO-
day, Mrs. Lydia Harris, "a, was
taken to Gallinger Hospital where
she is reported in serious condi.
ton.
Mrs. Harris, who had been room
ing at the house, was attempting
to gain entrance to the apartment
of Mrs. Harry Hoover, a friend,
with whom she had spent a large
part of the night on a party.
She was conscious when found
about $50 a m. She had assembled
to the landing Of the interior fire
escape between the fourth and
fifth floors and fastened one end
of the lire about the stanchion,
tied the other end about her waist
and crawled out of a window, plan.
ming to swing herself over OF the
window Of Mrs. Hoover'S kitchen
on the fourth floor.
The rope broke and Mrs. Harris
fell to the ground. Removed to
Emergency Hospital it was found
that she had received a blood clot
under the brain, possibly fractured
hip, multiple decorations and con-
tusions. She was later removed
to Gallinger Hospital.
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COast-tO-Canada
Trip Futile to Girl

DETROIT, Sept. % G.N.SO.
Margaret Dorothy Dickens, who
left San Diego, Cal, for a visit to
an aunt in Oshawa, Ontario, only
to be stopped at the Canadian
border, today faced a return trip
still alone. She was stopped by
immigration officials because she
forgot the name of her aunt.
Later, they found the aunt, only
to be told she could not take care
Of the child.
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D. C. TO ESCAPE
ATLANTIC GALE

Although the Atlantic Coast,
from the Virginia capes north
ward are expected to be in for in
tense winds which may reach gale
force, the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted today that Washington
will escape the storm.
The overcast skies and inter
intent rains will continue here
for the rest of the day with the
thermometer remaining in the
fifties, Weather Bureau officials
said.
Storm warnings have been or
dered north of Nantucket, Mass,
to Eastport, Me-, and south Of the
Delaware breakwater, however.
The Bureau also advised:
Disturbance about 200 miles
east of Virginia capes moving
northeaStward with increasing
intensity will cause strong
northeast winds, probably reach
ing gale force, on the New Eng
land coast tonight"
This storm is not expected to
come inland.
For Washington the weather
man forecasts clearing skies by
evening and fair days ahead. Tenn
perature is not expected to rise
above the fifties, where it how
cred last night and early today.
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Dahl COurt-Martial
Set For October 5

SALAMANCA, Sept. % G.N.SO.
Court-martial of Harold E. Dahl,
American aviator captured by
Spanish insurgents while flying
for the loyalist air force, was set
today for October S.
All efforts by Dahl's wife to OBJ
tain his release proved unavailing.
GeneraliSsimo Francisco Franco
offered to free him in exchange
for any nationalist airman cap
tured by the loyalists, but the latter
refused to agree.
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ManChu Border
Guard Boosted
AS Fears Grow

(INs.). New threats to world peace developed today
Japanese wings again roared China and Premier
Mussolini turned his attention forciby toward Spain.
Developments:
Fearing invasion of Siberia by Japan, Russia rein.
forcing armies guarding the Far Eastern border accord
ing to Tokyo newspapers
Mussoni threatens to increase Italian aid to Spanish
insurgents France enarges aid to Valencia government
Japanese planes dsregardng the condemnation Of the
League of Nations rain bombs Chinese cities in
Guiding Marking and Canton.
League assembly adopts advisory committees resolu
ton condemnng japanese air raids
8. Japanese press blasts League committee action.
Tokyo informs United States Japan has territorial
ambitions in China.
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Minimum Salary
Hearing Tonight

Two thousand questionnaires
seeking payroll information were
sent out today to employers in the
retail mercantile industry of the
District by the Minimum Wage
Board. The board will have
another hearing tonight in its ef-
forts to fix a standard minimum
wage for women and minors in
the industries.
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QedJn.
Jane Anderson, the Marquesa
de Cienfuegos, is a woman not
easily inundated.
A speaker at the convention of
the National Council of Catholic
Women here this week, she brings
stark picture of war torn Spain.
An eyewitness to incredible
brutality, hers is a story of utter
establishment in the cause of the
loyalist government.
43 DAYS IN DUNGEON
For 43 days she was held in a
dank dungeon without a charge
being placed against her. Only
the Intervention of the United
States Government, in the person
of Eric Wendelin, eventually won
her freedom.
Georgia born, Jane Anderson is
as surprising to meet as is the
colorful story of her experiences.
At Is she ran away from home.
She was an accredited war cor.
respondent for a London paper
in the World War. Her accent is
clipped British.
When the revolution broke out.
the marquesa threw her lot with
the people of Spain against the
Franco forces.
II was always sympathetic to
the people, she said. when the
fighting started, therefore, I
went into the trenches with
the Anarchists. nursing the
wounded"
Parenthetically, she says that
whatever opinion she holds of the
Anarchists as rulers of Spain, she
Continued on Page 4, Col. p
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Germany.
Their marriage, when it occurs,
will unite two royal families
which have played an important
part in modern European history
but which, since the World War,
have declined in Importance as
dictators or democratic move
ments have swept royalty from its
thrones.
For a period of several years
the royal family of Greece was
out of power, with some of its
members in exile. The downfall
of the democracy, resulting in res
toration of the monarchy, brought
them back to something Of their
former glory, but left them with
a tenuous hold on the throne.
Princess Frederika Luise comes
of the lineage which put its rep
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Ends Prison Term,
Starts Another

FLINT, Mich, Sept. % GN.S).
Returned here three weeks ago
after serving a sentence in the In
diano State prison for robbery,
Jack O'Neil, 81, was headed back
toward penitentiary again today.
He was sentenced yesterday to
serve eight to 10 years in the
Jackson (Mich.) penitentiary
after pelading guilty to robbing a
branch bank here in October,
1894.
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British War
Aide Sees
Windsor

PARIS, Sept. % G.N.S).-Leslie
Hore Belisha, British war secre-
tary, secretly and unofficially
visited the Duke and Duchess Of
Windsor today, before departing
for London this afternoon aboard
a British military airplane.
One hundred French girls gath
cred outside the royal couples
hotel in hopes of catching a
glimpse of them.
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Meany Threatens
Shutdown of WPA

NEW YORK, Sept. % QN.SD.
Threat of nationwide strike of
Works Progress Administration
workers doomed today in the wake
of demands by the New York
State Federation Of Labor that all
WPA projects hire only union
labor. George Meany, president of
the Federation, indicated strikes
may be called throughout the
country if the request is refused.
Tho s. " =
90. .H--- :.
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BOgOmOIOff Off
On Moscow Trip

NANKING, Sept. % d.N.sD.
D. v. Bogomoloff, Soviet ambassa-
dor to China, left here for Mos
COW today by airplane. While
the nature of his mission was not
disclosed it was believed to be
of high Importance.
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Farley to Speak
At Lansing Rally

LANSING, Mich, Sept. %
G.N.SO.-Postmaster General
James A. Farley is expected to de,
liver a major political speech"
here Thursday night at a Demo.
cratic rally. A nationwide radio
hookup has been arranged. 1t
was believed Farley would reply to
the recent speech Of U. S. Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg (R.), of
Michigan, who addressed a Bay
City Republican rally 10 days ago.
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"1a" is UNLUcKY

DETROIT, Sept. % G.N.SJ.
Thirteen was al unlucky number
for Joseph st. Clair, 10. The
youth was to be taken to Jackson
prison today to serve from one
to four years on burglary charges
for ransacking 10 apartments
here,
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"$2, 900" RoBBERY-$11

NEW YORK, Sept. % G.N.SJ.
A report that $4,000 had been
stolen from safe aboard the de.
stroyer ]. Fred Talbot in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard was Debated
today when an officer aboard the
destroyer revealed that only $11
was taken-and that from a tin
can in the canteen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-28
Wuhu Safety Zone
Bombed by Nippon

SHANGHAI, Sept. 2e QN.S0.
Fifteen japanese airplanes today
dropped hundreds of bombs on
Wuhu, destroying a number of
houses and starting two fires. The
number of casualties was not
known. The attack was a surprise
as the japanese had listed Wuhu
as a safety zone for foreign Off
cialS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-28
Far East
Soviet Aid to China
One of NippOn's
Chief Worries
BY JAMES R. YOUNG

TOKYO, Sept. % G.N.sO.
Russia is increasing her troops
along the U. S. S. R.-Manchukuo
border in fear Of an invasion Of
Siberia by Japanese troops, Tokyo
newspapers reported today.
The dispatches stated the Sow.
lets apparently feared that ia.
pans populace, whipped into war
ferVor, might support an in
vasion to the north" into Russian
territory similar to that now In
progress in China.
BEST TROOPS READY
Some of Japan's best troops are
stationed in Manchukuo, it was
reported, in readiness for any
eventuality should the long.
strained relations between Japan
and the Soviet Union reach the
breaking point.
Preparing for a long war with
China, and for any sign of trou.
BILE with Russia, the japanese war
office issued a decree prolonginR
indefinitely the period of military
service. The decree applied to
soldiers on both the active and
retired lists.
Indicating Japan is taking no
chances and is protecting herself
against possible Soviet interven.
ton in the Sino-JapaneSe war.
Nipponese naval units are stationed
Strategically along the Siberian
coast and at Saghalien Island, the
reports said
FEARS AID TO CHINA
One Of Japan's major fears 10
the possibility that Russia might
send crack troops and planes pour.
Continued on Pare 2 CnI o.
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Is Hurt as A. FL.
Breaks G.. |. O. Line

PORT HURON, Mich, Sept. %
GN.SO.-Fifteen men were in
jured today when 200 members of
two American Federation of Labor
unions smashed their way with
their fists through a C. I. o. picket
line at the Mueller Brass Company
here. The brass company, which
makes automobile parts, employs
about 1000 men.
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TO DELAY
COURT
POST CHARGED
Smathers Assails
Black Criticism

G.N.S) The move to Gust JUS
tice Hugo L. Black from the Su-
preme Court is actually a move to
embarrass President Roosevelt,
Senator Smathers (DO of New
Jersey, declared here today.
Smathers declared he would OPP
pose any congressional inquiry
into Blacks Ku Klux Khan affilia-
lions, unless the inquiry were
broad enoug- to include the lives
of all other justices on the Su-
preme Court.
PLOT CHARGED
Smathers declared he knew Of
plot in the Senate to hold up
confirmation OF any "brain-trust-
ers" named b. the President as a
successor to Associate Justice Van
Devanter. He added the appoint
ment Of e. Senator dumbfounded
these plotters, whom he declined
to identify.
81 knew there was a deal,
secretly entered into by men,
bers of the Senate" said
Smathers, "to hold up for at
least two years the confirma.
ton Of any practical appoint
ment, on the suppoSition by
the plotters that the President
could not be expected to name
anyone except a brain-truster.
COMPLETE SURPRISE
1.-THE nomination Of a Sena-
tor took them completely by
surprise and, their plot frus-
trated, they were willing to en-.
ter into anything for their re-
venge. Out of this malice,
comes the tory-inSpired expose.
IT think it is a lot of silly,
foolish publicity having for its
sole purpose the thought that
it may embarrass the President
and the Administration, and
therefore, I do not take the
matter seriously"
(Other Details on Page p
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to which II pieces Of fire ap-
paratus, a police patrol, a scout
car and two battalion chiefs re-
sponded.
Just what started the disturb
ance, none of the school officials
would say.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-28
Russia Prepares Against Japanese Invasion
Former Kaiser'S Kin
To Wed Prince Paul

ATHENS Sept. % Enlargement of Crown Prince
Paul of Greece and Princess Frederick Lus of Hanover 20
yearod daughter of the Duke of Brunswick announced
today She is granddaughter of former Kaiser Wilhelm of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-28
Youth Gets Medal
For Rescue of Pup

NEW YORK, Sept. % QN.SD.
James Shaw, 10, today was to be
presented the police medal OF
heroism for his feat in rescuing
exhausted pun from the
liver las July.
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Twice Condemned.
She Tells of War

Twice the midnight tribunal in Madrid sat in judgment of
her feand found against her. Twice they led her to the
very wall for execution and many times she stared