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Evening star., 1937-09-19
EMPIRE REARMAMENT
Canada's Progress Is
fastened in Last
Feu Months.

OTTAWA, Ont, September 18 Ca
madam Press) .-Canada's progress
towards rearmament has been hast
ened in the last few months, following
return to the Dominion of those cabi-
net ministers who attended the I'M
perial Defense Conference last May.
Canadian aircraft factories are
working on the program which calls
for acquisition by the Royal Cana
dian Air Force of 102 planes. Ship
yards on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts are building four new mine
sWeepers. Additional coast defense
batteries are being emplaced. More
men are being added to both the
Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal
Canadian Air Force.
Last January Canadas estimates
for the national defense program were
boosted by approximately $4,000, 900
over those of the preceding year.
Amounting to $33,730,873, they have
since been added to by supplementary
votes; and their figure reached size
unknown since the great war.
Prior to that, Defense Minister la.
Mackenzie had completed reorgani-
zation of the temperament active
militia, force which corresponds to
the British territorials and to the
United States National Guard.
Mackenzie reduced 36 cavalry repi-
ments to 90, Of which he turned four
into armored car units. A total of
lbs regiments of infantry were
Whitfield to 81. These were again
split into SO rifle battalions, 2s ma
chine gun battalions and six tank
battalions.
He increased the artillery by Al
field, six medium and five anti-air-
craft batteries. At the same time
the administrative services were re-
organized.
Provision was made this year for
the training of $4,000 men, giving
them from 10 to IA days in Summer
camps additional to the normal train
ing in their local drill halls.
Some batteries Of artillery have
been completely mechanical, while a
number of armored cars have been
acquired for the infantry; but little
real progress has so far been made
in the way Of providing either the
permanent or temperament force
with tanks or anti-aircraft equip
ment.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
'ANC[O-U. s. UNITY
|. HELD PEACE NEED
League Meets Amid Reign
of Violence NuIlifying
Its Principles.
BY A. G. GARDINER.

LONDON, September 1s.-The
eighteenth Assembly of the League
OF Nations is meeting at Geneva IN
circumstances of profoundest gloom.
The ideal for which it stood is
wrecked, and the world is rattling
back into barbarism at headlong speed.
The reign of law based on the con-
sent of the governed and sustained BY
the organized opinion of mankind" /"
which President Wilson foreshadowed
in famous speech, has broken down.
and the reign of lawlessness is sweep
ing like tidal wave from the Bay of
Blscay to the Sea of Japan.
AL Capone is in Jail, but his gospel
seems to be conquering the world.
That gospel is simple. 1t is that the
man Cor state) armed with a gun
and prepared to shoot at sight can
hold civilized society for ransom.
Since Japan first threw down the
gangster challenge TO civilization in
Manchuria in 1881, we have seen
every treaty and bond which society
had devised for its common protec-
ton trampled in the dust. Unoffend-
ing and unarmed populations, in
CHINA. in Abyssinia, in Spain, have
been pounced on by the gunmen of
Toxic and Rome without warning,
without declaration of war and with
every instrument Of fiendish savagery.
just as Japan is claiming the over
lordship Of the Chinese seas, so Mus
Evening star., 1937-09-19

point, it seems equally foolish to have
entered upon large-scale operations
that already have called for national
expenditures of more than two and a
half billion yen, in country that
acknowledges it is destitute of natural
resources, that it possesses no great
bullion reserve, that its backbone of
farmers are already so close to the
margin of living that the slightest
strain will push them across.
Why, then, these grand-scale ma
neuvers in the field and in financial
circles SO early in the game?
There can be but one answer and
that is that Japan hopes to win an
early victory, before Soviet Russia has
set its full strength into motion. be-
fore the cost of war becomes too great
for the Japanese peasant, laborer and
capitalist to bear.
Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1937-09-19
CZECH TRADE PACT
SCORED BY MARTIN
Bay State Republican Demands
Tariff Against Products
"of Serfdom,"
Ey the Associate ted Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, Mass, September
ia denunciation of reciprocal
trade agreements was coupled today
by Representative Joseph w. Martin
1r, Republican, of Massachusetts with
demand that New England industries
be given tariff protection against
goods produced under conditions Of
serfdom"
Martin told the Worcester Repub-
lican Committee the well meaning
but misguided Secretary Hull" was
negotiating a trade agreement with
Czechoslovakia under which the Amer
lean tariff might be lowered on cot
ton textiles, shoes, silverware and
jewelry.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
R0SENBURG'S CULT
ASSAILED BY POPE
Plus XI Warns German Pilgrims
Against Belief Hitler Is
Gods Prophet.
Bs the Associated Press.

Bs the Associated Press.
CASTEL GANDOLFO. September
l8.-Pope Plus XI today warned Ger
man pilgrims against new prophet.
exalted to act and write against
all those who wish to remain faithful. +"
The reference, Vatican prelates in
dicated, was to DR.. Alfred Rosenburg,
church critic, Nazi editor and head
Of the German neo-pagan movement.
which presents Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler as Gods prophet to Aryan
Germans.
His holiness warned both Germans
and Austrians that their religious
rights are endangered by anti-church
policies of the Berlin government.
I'VE especially welcome the Aus
trian faithful at this time which is SO
grave, even for Austria" he told a
general audience for Austrians. Brit
ish, French and German pilgrims He
expressed the hope that Austria would
remain always Catholic, and repre-
sentative of the faith in Central
Europe, where such example is
needed"
Evening star., 1937-09-19

solini is claiming the overlordship Of
the Mediterranean No right Of way
is to be allowed there for anybody
whose political principles do not bear
his hall mark.
As a consequence of this reign of
lawlessneSs. all the elaborate texture
Of world peace is torn to ribbons. The
League. Covenant, the Kellogg pact,
the Far East treaty of the nine ma
tions. all are waste paper, spat upon
and insulted by the gunner powers
who signed them, only to seize the
first opportunity to betray them.
1t is in these circumstances that
the Assembly OF the League meets to
Evening star., 1937-09-19

Australian ministry Of defense, in
cludes:
A first line aviation strength Of 1873
planes, including long-range, high
speed bombers to be bought in Eng
land.
Extensive preparations against air
raids at Sydney, Freemantle, Brisbane
and Newcastle.
Construction of three coast defense
vessels and heavier armor for the
cruisers Australia and Canberra.
Expansion of munitions manufacture
to insure an emergency supply.
Establishment Of an anti-submarine
school.
Evening star., 1937-09-19
Australia Is Meeting
Crisis in Pacific
Ocean.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 18.-Australia
today is meeting the crisis in her own
Pacific Ocean and the threat to her
Mediterranean communication with
the mother land with the most am
bilious armament program in her his
tory.
Information made available in Lon
don showed the Dominion is pushing
a program of warship, airplane and
arsenal building to cost $57,655 900 and
to dovetail with Great Britain's $780,
100000 rearmament.
Japan's imperial expansion and
Italy's threat to the Mediterranean Sea
lanes have spurred the Australian arm
ament effort, relatively large for land
Of 100000 population and largest ever
undertaken by q ritish Dominion In
peace time.
Australian leaders realized that the
motherland needed all available ships
nearer home, and that in time of stress
Australia might have to fight her own
air and sea battles.
No longer within guaranteed reach
OF a British fleet in sure control of the
Mediterranean and now within range
Of air attack, Australia is to become
a far more independent unit in empire
defense.
The new program, as outlined by the
Evening star., 1937-09-19

survey the wreckase OF its hopes.
That fate was foreshadowed when
America deserted the ideal that its
President had set up for world civil
ization, and it was assured when. in
1881, the League failed to call the
Japanese bluff in Manchuria. Now
the gospel Of AL Capone threatens the
whole fabric of world order.
If that threat is to be averted. the
civilized powers must act and act to-
gether. They have failed hitherto be-
cause they had no collective policy
to combat the challenge OF brute force.
That is why the gangsters have won.
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Evening star., 1937-06-05
TELEPHONE OPERATORS
HEAR C. |. 0. ASSAILED
W. A. Calvin Charges Orgapiza-
ton Is "Reeking With
Communism"

The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization was described last night as
having been spawned in the cradle
Of company unionism," in an address
by w. A. Calvin, secretary treasurer of
the American Federation of Labor's
metal trades department, before the
frst open meeting Of a newly-formed
union Of telephone operators here.
About IS operators, who are affiliated
with the A. F. OF l.. through the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, heard Calvin charge that the
G. I. o. is "reeking with communism. ("
The meeting was held in the Hamilton
Hotel.
Other speakers were Julia Parker.
national president of the Telephone
Operators Union, and Albert N. Dennis
news editor Of the Trades Unionist.
Mrs. Billie Freeman presided at the
meeting.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
HAPPY VACATION
ENDS IN TRAGEDY
Daughter Expected in Ma
nassas Today to Claim Body
of Mother, Killed in Crash.
, a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
CENTERVILLE, Va, June 5.-A
daughter Of Mrs. Alice Fox, 80, who
was killed instantly in an automobile
accident on the Lee Highway 3 miles
west OF here late yesterday, was ex-
pected to arrive in Manassas some
time today from Toronto, Canada, to
accompany the body to New York for
burial.
Meantime, Charles A. Fox, ~, hus-
band OF the dead woman, was in 4
serious condition in Georgetown Hos
pital in Washington with severe lacer-
ations Of the head and body. Rich
ard Moore, colored, of Gainesville,
driver of the truck with which the
Fox car collided, was reported by at
tendants at Georgetown Hospital to
have been "scalped' in the accident
Mr.. and Mrs. Fox were returning
to their home, 1l6 West Sixteenth
street, New York City, after spending
their vacation at Bluefield, w. Va,
when the accident occurred. A let
ter from an insurance company, found
In the car, wished them q happy
vacation"
According to the report Of State
Policeman E. H. Howe OF Centerville,
the Fox coupe was being driven east
on the highway when it slipped of
the shoulder of the road In attempt
ing to pull the machine back on the
highway the driver Wrenched the
wheel, causing the car to skid across
the road directly into the path of the
truck driven by Moore. The truck
struck the cars side, crushing the
door and killing Mrs. Fox. DR.. Stewart
Mcbride OF Manassas reported that
Mrs. Fox died instantly OF fractured
skull and broken neck.
The body is being held at the Hall
d Cross undertaking establishment in
Manassas pending the arrival of the
daughter.
Evening star., 1937-06-05

OF fact, she said, she did not think the
cabin was occupied.
The Investigators apologioed for
having troubled her.
Search for Man.
Next, the Investigators concentrated
on finding the "red-faced man" De-
tective Sergt Marlin Brubaker of the
Maryland State police, went to the Old
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va. He
found that most of the 700 inmates
there had ruddy compilations, but only
four Of them had been on the District
OF Columbia the night Keene was
murdered. They said they did not
know Keene and had not purchased
beer for any strangers.
Yesterday. the "red-faced man" was
identified as James H. Starkey, So, a
civil engineer with the Resettlement
Administration, who lives at IL East
Irving street, Chevy Chase, Md. He
talked to detectives for four hours
and satisfied them he knew nothing
OF Keene's disappearance.
Now investigators are waiting for
another mystery witness" to emerge
from the ships passenger list.
Evening star., 1937-06-05

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viously had desisted from aerial at
tacks on Spanish cities because it
considered itself the government Of
all Spain and did not wish to spread
havoc among its own citizens.
Counter Thrust Declared Beaten.
An insurgent counter-t thrust to beat
back the government salient at La
Granja was reported today to have
been smashed by Gen. Miajas ma
chine gun crews.
Frances forces, trying to hold the
Madrid troops back from Segovia, six
miles north Of La Granja, turned from
defensive to offensive tactics and tried
yesterday to take San Benito Hill by
storm. La Granja is about 80 miles
northwest Of Madrid.
The attack opened with fire from
heavy guns and fleet Of tanks, fol-
lowed by infantry armed with hand
grenades and machine guns.
The intrenched government troops
withstood the severe bombardment
without leaving their positions and
were prepared to meet the subsequent
infantry assault.
Just when Frances foot soldiers
were seen emerging from behind the
grassy mounds and massive trees for
the uphill charge, insurgent pursuit
and bombing planes swooped across
the government positions
The bombers dumped loads OF ex-
plosives while the faster pursuit ships
machine gunned the government rear
guard.
Then Miaja's machine gunners
went into action and the insurgents
were turned back.
Tanker Reported Torpedoed.
The Febus (official spanish) News
Agency reports the government oil
tanker Campero was struck by one
Of three torpedoes launched at it by
submarine OF the Island Of Palamos,
about IS miles northeast OF Barcelona,
but managed to reach the island port.
No casualties resulted, but consid-
cradle damage to the vessel was re-
ported.
The ship later was able to proceed
toward Barcelona in ballast.
The military governor Of Corona
stated that one armed government boat
and two seaplanes and coastal artillery
guns Joined to drive of the attacker.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
MYSTERY BESETS
KEENE Staying
Two Persons Questioned
Fail to Throw Any
Light on Case.

Travelling with Charles F. Keene,
ST., when he vanished from state room
10 as the steamer District OF Columbia
nosed into Chesapeake Bay early on
the morning Of May IA were 1l9 fellow
passengers.
Almost as soon as the investigation
Of Keene's death got under way and
before a coroner's jury declared he
had been murdered, two passengers
were segregated as possible principals
IN the battling case and an intensive
search for them was launched.
Mysterious Telephone Call.
One Of those sought was described
as "a beautiful blonde" who occupied
state room n and who repeatedly tele-
phoned headquarters of the Norfolk
& Washington Steamboat Co. in Nor
folk and whispered that she had val
liable information which she would
transmit only to the general manager
Then she vanished.
The other was the mysterious red
faced man" described as a taciturn in
dividual who looked like an old
soldier. So far as could be established,
he was the last person to talk to
keene before the real estate man
went overheard with q bullet through
the brain and a weighted brief case
around his neck
Now both Of the mystery witnesses"
have been located and absolved from
any connection with the case Police
are admittedly more baffled than when
Keene's disappearance was first re-
ported
Investigators concentrated at first on
the search for the woman in state room
n. They said that If there had been
a struggle in 79, she surely would have
heard it through the thin walls. Nor
folk and Maryland State police re-
ported that the woman, listed on the
ships passengers rolls only as Mrs.
r. F. Loper," could not be found in
Norfolk.
Woman Makes Appearance.
Much to the amazement Of inves-
tigators, week later a conservatively
dressed, gray-haired Norfolk matron
took the witness stand before a Board
OF Inquiry at headquarters of the
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat
Inspection at hearing in the Com
merce Department and indignantly de-
clared she was Mrs. r. F. Lopez; that
she had occupied state room II on
the night Keene vanished; that her
name was listed in the Norfolk Tele-
phone Directory, but no attempt had
been made to communicate with her,
and the first she knew that she was
being sought was when she saw her
name in a newspaper.
Mrs. Loper denied emphatically
that she had telephoned the Norfolk
g. Washington Steamboat Co. office.
Then Mrs. Loper went on to say
that she was an extremely light
sleeper. Even the slightest noise
awakened her and she slept less
soundly on the boat She went to
her state room shortly after 10 o'clock,
| she said, did not go to sleep for an
hour or more because some men were
talking in the salon outside her door.
She did not hear any one enter Keene's
| room during the night--as a matter
Evening star., 1937-06-05
NORFOLK REA[T0R
HITS j. s. HOUSING
State Group Will Be Asked
to Fight Any Such Project
in Virginia.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, June 5.-Edwin A.
Page. president Of the Norfolk Real
Estate Board, announced today hs
would ask the Virginia Real Estate
Association to take q definite stand
in opposition to "any type Of so-called
Government housing In the State.
Experience OF cities in which the
Government has constructed alum-
clearance projects sustains the objec-
ton Of informed real estate men," he
said, that such projects would not
care for the persons living In slum
areas.
Completed housing projects are
now in active competition with pr1-
vate owners, resulting In the Govern.
ment projects, financed by taxpayer
money. and in at least one instance,
free OF taxes, offering lower rents than
Is economically justiflable, and the
Government units are getting the
cream OF the tenants"
Page declared the present method
Of taxing investment real estate WIS
the greatest obstacle" to large-scale
housing projects In the State, and
recommended the assessing Of real
estate on an annual use or income
value.
The board president said he under
stood Norfolk municipal officials
would seek legislation during the next
session Of the Legislature for setting
up housing authorities in Virginia.
His announcement followed . recent
address by Otto Hollowell, secretary
OF the Virginia Real Estate Associa-
ton, in which he said an orderly
housing program was one In which
private enterprise was encouraged to
provide large-scale low-priced hous.
ing"
Evening star., 1937-06-05
CULPEPER GRADUATION

CULPEPER, Va, June (speciaD.
-Cornelia Willis was salutatorian and
nez Kibleler valedictorian at the
commencement exercises of Culpeper
High School last night, when 80
graduates received their diplomas
from District Supt. of Schools Thomas
w. Hendrick. The address to the
graduates was made by DR.. William
r. Smithy and special music was rem.
dered by the High School Glee Club.
The baccalaureate sermon was BY
Rev. Carlton c. Pr1ckett Of Lexins.
ton, Va,
Evening star., 1937-06-05
REICH SHIPS STAGE
HELCOLAND SHOW
Skeleton Fleet Aids Holiday
Cruisers in War Game
During Attack.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ABOARD THE STEAMER ROLAND
OFF HELGOLAND, June 5.-Reichs.
fuehrer Adolf Hitler today gave five
boatloads of German workers a joint
holiday cruise and lesson in battle
tactics while his naval armada played
ut war.
A skeleton German feet, a large
part Of its units away in Spanish
waters, took part in the first wal
maneuvers off Helgoland since the tiny
North Sea island was refortifed in
defiance OF the Versailles treaty.
The five cruise ships, bound for Nor
way with members of the Nazi
strength through Joy" movement,
were targets for sham air attack in
the elimination of the war games.
Other smaller ships, with excursion
lists from Hamburg and Bremen,
swelled the vacation feet which was
saved from theoretical destruction by
the quick action of German cruisers,
gunboats and submarines conveying
1t through a non-existent war zone.
The warships realistically spat fire
ut the menace of war planes circling
over the pleasure ships. 1t was a
gorgeous display of fireworks for the
workers, but it was far from a COM
plete display Of the Reich's naval
might.
All three of her pocket battleships,
the Deutschland, the Admiral Scheer
and the Graf Spec, were missing, pre-
sumably on duty off war-torn Spain
Out Of six modern light cruisers only
two-the Karlsruhe and the Nurn-
berg-participated.
Eight torpedo boats and IL of Ger
mAny's So submarines were there, but
none OF the new torpedo-carrying
speedboats.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
Triplets "Fine,'
Say attendants
At d. c. Hospital
Parents Of Girls Are Get
ting Accustomed to
Ne,u Role.

The Middleton triplets were "fnei"
today, 1t was reported at Columbia
Hospital, where the three daughters
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Robertson
Middleton were ushered into the world
Thursday
Middleton, athletic director at St
Adams School for Boys, and his wife
were getting accustomed to their un-
usual role, although they had beer
told in advance by Dr. Prentiss Wilson
who sponsored the arrival Of the trio
that surprise was in store.
Meanwhile, friends around 2841
Wisconsin avenue, where the Middle
tons reside, are looking forward to the
Homecoming Of their new neighbors
Evening star., 1937-06-05

night, did he appear to be under the
influence of liquor?
A. No, sir, he did not.
@. Had Mr.. Keene borrowed any
money from you?
A. Well, he had borrowed small
amounts from me at various times
totaling about $25.
@. Had you ever known Mr.. Keene
to own a revolver?
A. No, sir.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
MAYOR REFUSES KISS

B. the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO.-It took a bit
OF cheek, perhaps, but Mayor j. Rossi
turned down a kiss-from Georges
Bonnet, French Ambassador to the
United States.
Let's shake hands" the mayor said
They did.
But when the mayor is awarded
the French Decoration OF Oficer in
the Legion of Honor, he said he'd
probably be kissed-on both cheeks.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
CHURCH RITES SUPPLANT
"S0LITARY" AT PRISON
Aule-Breaking Convicts Must At
tend Services Instead of Going
Into Dungeon.
1e Associated Press.

~ I1Ie AS0OCIdttQ FTeSS.
JOLIET, Ill, June 5.-Compulsory
attendance at religious services will
supplant solitary confinement in a
penology experiment at Stateville
prison.
Warden Joseph A. Ragen said he
believed 1t would have wholesome
eject" on rule-breaking convicts, and
that II it proved successful solitary
confinement would be eliminated en-
tirely.
I'VE do not consider church at
tendance as punishment, but as q
moral tonic" said the warden.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
RESORTS.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
Route of the Empire Builder
Between Chicago and Pacific Northwest
MARYLAND,
Evening star., 1937-06-05
THE GATEWAY INN

The CAIEWA AY lNN,
Phens 4o20-J. HAGERsTOWN. MD.
Your Summer Home Away from Home"
Modern Hotel . Famous for Good Food
Spacieus Grounds Weekend Rates
Awning-Screened Psrches . Always Cool
BALLROOM. AMUSEMENT PARK
SWIMMING. DANCING, HIKING
SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS.
Accommodations for so guests. One
OF the beauty spots of Maryland noun
turesque view OF the gateway between
the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Noun
tains. cooled Natures way BY river and
mountain air breezes. A leisure 2-hour
drive from Washington. Greyhound
buses pass our door; low bus fare
70 REACH-Wisconsin Ave. to Rock
ollie. y. s. Route go to Frederick:
U. S. Route 10 to HaoerstoUn. continue
sir miles Dest. No. 10, direct to hotel.
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