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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
Auditor

Auditor
 inc Piercey, Mrs. Kenneth Hamlin: primary department, Mrs. A. E. Sault, Mrs. Harrison Worth; junior department, Mrs. P. D. Dixon, Miss Florence Turnbull; intermediate department, Alonzo Bloodgood, Mrs. John H. Foster, Miss Evelyn Belyea, Miss Elizabeth Rich; high school counselor, Mrs. Paul A.
Evening star., 1937-09-24

decided the bombardment of Marking
was the quickest way to end hostili-
ties" and expressed amazement at re-
ports in foreign newspapers that manv
Chinese civilians had been killed in
the series of II air raids on the Chin
eSe capital.
The renewed warning was made
While the Japanese government in
TOXIC was drafting reply to a strong
American protest against unrestricted
pombardment of the civilian areas in
Nanking. Other representations were
LOGGED by Britain, Russia, France.
Germany and Italy against the raids
which cost the lives of more than 200
Chinese non-combatants. Little dam
age was done to military establish
ments.
One hundred and one American
men. women and children reached
Shanghai today from Mokanshan
Mountain, southwest of Ningpo where
they had been spending the Summer
The group was from four missions. so
Southern Methodists, 21 Southern
Presbyterians. IL Northern Baptists
and 10 Southern Baptists.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
$4,000 SECURITY
FUNDS CO OBECC|NC
Total Made Up of Small
Sums of Persons Turned
65 or Heirs of Deceased.
3, The Associated Press.

3, The Associated Press.
About 100000 of social security
funds due wage earners or their heirs
is going begging, officials estimated
today.
The total Is made up OF small sums
available for thousands of individuals
who became IS years old during the
last year and for the estates of per-
sons who died after paying some social
security taxes.
Actuaries had estimated there would
be 100000 social security accounts
closed out this year because of deaths
and attainment Of age 65. Yet in
the first nine months of the year
only about 10000 accounts were closed.
The social security act provides for
payment in lump sum benefits of
81 per cent of the wages earned
since the act became effective to the
estate OF person dying or to a worker
who reaches IS years of age without
qualifying for monthly benefit pay
ments. Monthly benefits will not
begin until 1912.
Officials predicted the number of
closed accounts will be nearer the
estimated figure by the years end.
Applications have been running only
about one-ninth of the actuarial esti-
mate.
In any case, officials said, the Sit
uation will take care of itself in
future years. AS time passes, fewer
and fewer lump-sum payments will be
due, because of the increased per-
centage of those reaching IS who will
be eligible for monthly benefits.
At the same time, the average lump-
sum payment will be larger providing
more incentive to claim it.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
WAR ZONE BONUS
OFFERED SEAMEN
Sailors on Government
Operated Merchant Ships
Will Receive $50.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Seamen on Government operated
merchant vessels which enter danger
zones" in Chinese and Spanish waters
will get a $50 bonus for the extra
hazard.
TheMaritime Commission approved
the bonus last night. Maritime union
leaders affiliated with the Committee
for Industrial Organization had sug-
gested a $3.50 bonus.
The commission defined the affected
areas as:
l. Territorial waters of Spain.
Spanish Morocco and the Balearic
Islands, including waters between the
Balearic Islands and the Spanish
mainland.
z. The Yellow Sea and the East
China Sea, including all those waters
between Korea. Japan, the Riukiu
Islands, Formosa and the Chinese
mainland, north of both, excluding
Hong Kong.
Advised to Use Caution.
Recognizing the danger to neutrals
IN the waters surrounding the scenes
OF the Spanish War and the unde-
clared Sino-Japanese conflict. the
Navy several weeks ago advised all
American vessels to proceed with eau
tion.
Ships Of only two Government
operated lines ordinarily might enter
the danger zone. They are:
The American Pioneer, which oper-
ates through the Mediterranean Sea
to India via the Suez Canal, and from
the Panama Canal to ports in the Far
East and Australia.
The American France, which carries
general cargo and some passengers
from the United States to French
ports.
Maritime unionstS indicated they
would seek to win bonus payments
from private operators as we'll as from
the Federal Government. They have
contended $3.50 is a fair bonus, on the
ground that steamship lines charge
extra rates for cargoes consigned 20
ports in the danger zones.
The Maritime Commission bonus is
in addition to the insurance protec-
ton which seamen of Government
operated vessels already have as Fed
eral employees.
Should such seamen be interned in
a foreign port, the commission ruled,
their pay will continue during intern
ment.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Irene Castle Mclaughlin Seeks
DiuOrce for Extreme CrueIty''

In an interview last night Nc
Laughlin denied he ever struck his
wife and said he would certainly
contest any suit which says I did"
He also said his daughter came with
him on her own volition.
Mclaughlin is president of the
Manor House Coffee Co. and the
w. F. Mclaughlin g. Co. and princi-
pal owner of the Chicago Blackhawk
Hockey Club.
Mrs. Mclaughlin and her first hus-
band. Vernon Castle, set the dancing
pace for the Nation in pre-war days
with their Castle walk, hesitation
waltz, bunny hug and other steps.
Castle, British wartime pilot. was
killed while instructing American STU
dent pilots in 1918.
A Paris divorce ended Mrs. Nc
Laughlin's second marriage, to Capt
Robert fireman, Ithaca, N. Y. manu-
facturer. Mclaughlin and his first
wife, the former Helen Wylie of Bal
tlmore. were divorced in 1910.
Long regarded a leader in fashion
and society circles, Mrs. Mclaughlin
more recently gained attention by
championing the cause of homeless
dogs.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
3 HELD FOR Jury
IN ARLINGTON FIRE
Trio Accused as Result Of
Blast and Blaze at Gar
bage Collectors Home.
B, Stan Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON, Va, September "a
Three men arrested yesterday In con-
nection with the Labor day burning
Of the home Of Roger Daniels, were
being held under bonds today for
action OF the grand jury, Sheriff
Howard B. Fields announced.
The men are Daniels, who is in
charge Of the contract garbage COL
lection service of the county, and two
of his workmen, Edgar Heishman and
William Stearn. Daniels was released
under $4,000 bond yesterday.
Sheriff Fields, in swearing out a
warrant against Daniels, charged him
with aiding and abetting and hiring
Heishman and Stearn to set fire to
his residence at Ala South Edgewood
street, to defraud an insurance COM
pany. The house was insured for
about $4,000, Fields said.
Heishman and Stearn, who Fields
said had signed written confessions,
were charged with arson in the war
rants. Each man, Fields alleged. was
to have received $50 for his part in
setting fire to the house.
In discussing the case with report
ers, Fields alleged about gallons Of
kerosine and gasoline were spread
about the dirt cellar, stairway and
other parts Of the house. Evidently
fumes accumulated in the house
caused an unexpected explosion which
blew one Of the men out a window
and other out the rear door, he said.
Daniels, who was at a Southern
Maryland resort at the time of the
fire, reported to Investigators the loss
of an electric clock. radio and lamp.
Fields said. Police later recovered
these pieces Of furniture in the pos
session Of two colored workmen for
Daniels, Eddie Honesty and Robert
Shorter, Fields said. The two COL
ored men are being held as material
witnesses, he stated.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
China
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
the Cricket and Aphis, was damaged
by bombs which dropped into the
Yangtze near by, although the bombs
fell dangerously close.
Again China's capital, Nanking, es-
capped threatened bombardment, but
Japanese officials in Shaghai issued a
new warning that Americans and
other foreigners must keep clear of
military objectives in the capital which
Japan intends to bomb anew despite
the official protest Of the United States
and representations by FIVE other
nations.
Though Marking escaped, bomb
shattered Canton in the south suffered
another brief raid at am, adding
new destruction to the city where 900
civilians have been killed or injured by
Japanese bombs in the past two days.
A large piece of shrapnel fell on the
italian consulate at Timgshan. where
the consul still maintains an office.
Disease Ravages japanese Army.
Disease struck heavily, however, at
Japan's armed might. The worst
cholera epidemic in Shanghai's his
tory was reported raging in japanese
forces northwest of the city, with 200
plague dead in the Paoshan sector and
300 others stricken.
In Toxic the foreign Office disclosed
an official reply was being prepared
tothe United States protest against
aerial bombardment Of Nanking, and
an unofficial Japanese source said
fresh. precautionary orders" had been
given Japanese airmen to bomb only
military objectives in Nanking.
The British Ambassador at Toxic
was instructed to protest vigorously
the bombings of Chinese civilians.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota said
Japan would not send a representative
to the special League of Nations Com
mittee seeking to halt the Sino-Japa-
nese conflict.
China's premier, Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek. in Nanking declared
the United States was treaty bound ito
support China's struggle against jap
anese aggression" saying that China,s
battle was to uphold the nine-power
pact and the League Covenant prin-
ciples.
Washington reports indicated that
whatever the conflicts outcome the
United States would never recognize
any new territorial claims made by
Japan in China, a stand backed by the
precedents Of non-recognition Of Man.
chukuo and Italys Ethiopian con-
quest.
Five Battalions Wiped Out.
Chinese military authorities re-
ported that fierce three-day battle
at Lotien, just a few miles toward
Shanghai from Paoshan, had wiped
out five Of the six battalions in the
Japanese Takashi detachment.
The Japanese detachment lost more
than 400 men and huge stores of arms
and ammunition in the single night
Of September 2l, the Chinese declared.
japanese naval authorities declared
that the Japanese general stan had
Evening star., 1937-09-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 24.-Irene
Castle Mclaughlin and Maj. Fred
eric Mclaughlin, whose secret mar
riage in 1928 created a sensation in
Chicago society circles, were at the
parting of the ways today.
The former dancer of international
fame charged extreme and repeated
cruelty" in suit for divorce filed
yesterday against the prominent busi-
ness man and sportsman.
Mrs. MsLaughlin asked for the Gus
tody of their children, Barbara, II,
and William, 8, and a financial set
tlement.
The suit alleged their marital diff
ficulties began during the 1924 honey
moon in China, when Mclaughlin
struck his wife "a terrific punch in
the face which knocked her feet"
Mrs. Mclaughlin accused her hus-
band of fracturing her nose in 1925
and choking her in 1888.
Her attorney, Robert Cantwell, jr.,
said Mclaughlin took Barbara from
a maid last Wednesday night in the
lobby of hotel where Mrs. Nc
Laughlin is residing
Evening star., 1937-09-24
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
SEEN IN BANK SURVEY
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A survey of insured banks showed
significant business improvement"
during the year ended June 30. Chair
man Leo T. Crowley of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. reported yes
terday.
The 1885 insured banks increased
their real estate loans, exclusive of
farm land, s2O3,2l7,00O during the
year. Crowley said this indicated "a
widespread advance in building and
land purchases and improvements"
Loans on farm land rose from s489,-
244,000 to s504, 100000 and other
agricultural loans climbed from s66l,-
100000 to s726,400,OO0.
Total loans and discounts increased
81 1907, ,438,000 to S17014,623,00O.
Evening star., 1937-09-24


In the 10 claims we're in the names
of the Secretary of War, as trustee
for Philippine Island funds and for
Panama Canal Zone funds, the United
States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet
Corp, the Inland Waterways Corp.
and the alien property custodian.
Ample Collateral.
In each instance, Government Off
cials and agencies required the banks
to give them ample collateral when
the accounts were opened On default
of payment, this collateral was sold
and the Government depositors paid
In full.
One decree today concerned an &C.
count opened in the Commercial by
the Secretary of War for deposit of
Panama Canal funds. At the time
the bank closed, $711, 1,62292 was on
deposit, while the Secretary held
United States bonds given by the Com
mercial as collateral amounting to
$79l,00 The suit by the receiver
was to recover these bonds or the
proceeds from them.
After taking into consideration in
terest and dividends paid general de-
positors, Justice Luhring fixed the
balance due the Commercial in the
Panama Canal claim at 1858, ,327.7I.
Claim of s413,140.
The other decree covered claim
by the Commercial against the Mer-
chant Fleet Corp. for $413,140.49, rep
resenting proceeds from collateral.
The balance actually due in this case
was fixed at s163. .29l .95, plus interest.
These sums, should Justice Luhring's
decisions be affirmed by higher courts,
will become available for payment of
dividends to general creditors
Two claims, totaling $713,577.04, by
the Commercial and District National
Bank receivers were allowed by JUS
tice Luhring some time ago. The Dis
trict's claim was $207 7,361.40 repre-
senting Panama Canal Zone funds,
and the Commercials claim was $685.
2l5.63 Of Inland Waterways funds.
Payment of dividends, however, re-
duced these to 51,840.36 and $194,-
8l7.44, respectively, or a total Of
$247, $3.50.
Attorneys for the receivers contend
the banks were without authority to
pledge their assets to secure the Gov
ernment deposits and therefore the
pledged securities never ceased to be
the property Of the banks.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
ENDEAVOUR RADIO
MESSAGE PROBED
uoyds Begins Inquiry When
Captain Denies Sight,
ing Yacht.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Enddpour I, challenger for the
Americas Cup three years ago, left
Newport, r. l., September IL under
to,D OF motor yacht Vipd II. Three
days later Vipd limped back into
port and reported her top line
parted in gale of hurricane force
200 miles of Nantucket Light.
Coast Guard craft ,Dent to the
search, but Endeapour has not yet
been definitely sighted.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 24-Lloyds
began thorough investigation today
OF the apparently groundless radio re-
port broadcast yesterday that the
yacht Endeavour I, missing in an At
lantic storm, had been located south
west of the Azores.
Lloyds accepted the radio report
and rang their 138-year-old Lutine
bell twice, in keeping with famous
underwriting concerns custom Of an
nouncing good news at sea.
An old man in red coat announced
to members:
Gentlemen. we're advised from the
Azores that the Endeavour has been
sighted"
Today officials of Loyds refused
to ring the Lutine bell again with
adverse news of the Endeavour 1 un-
til every source has been checked and
rechecked.
I'VE rang the Lutine bell yesterday
with the report that the Endeavour
had been found" member said. 1--WE
do not intend to ring it again until
the news is definitely proved wrong
Yesterdays report came from the
San Miguel, Azores, radio station
which received message from q ship
1t believed was the British tanker
Amastra. This report told of the En-
deavous 1 being sighted about 63C
miles southwest of the Azores.
Capt. Pearson, master of the Amas-
ira. advised Lloyds by radio:
Hearing it broadcast from London
that the Amastra had sighted the
yacht Endeavour l, I feel deeply con-
cerned as I have not seen or heard
anything whatever about her and
gravely deplore the statement made"
He supplemented this with a radio
to the Associated Press today, saying
L am completely non-plussed, as ]
have seen nothing of the Endeavour
whatever. nor yet heard anything. Had
done so, I should have wired Lloyds
and my owners at once"
The Amastra was 10 days out of Gu
racao, West Indies, bound for Gibral-
tar.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
$4,000 FIRE DESTROYS
MARYLAND LACE PLANT
Looms, Raw Material and Fin
ished Product Lost in Blaze
in Baltimore Suburb.

BY ths Associated Press.
PERRY HALL, Md, September "a.
A $50.000 fire swept through a lace
making plant in this Baltimore sub
urb, today, destroying delicate looms,
raw material and finished lace.
John Tanner, jr., the owner, esti-
mated the loss. He said he started
a motor and began work when he saw
smoke and called flremen. The build
ing was well ablaze when they ar
rived.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
N. B.. c. PLANS TELEVISION
EXPERIMENT THIS FALL
Transmission of Outdoor Events
Will Be Made in Effort to
Improve Equipment,

A series Of experimental transmits
sions OF outdoor events by television
Will be launched this Fall by the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co., it was an
nounced here yesterday. A portable
transmission station will be used in
the experiments.
Foot ball games, parades and other
outdoor events will be subjects of the
experiments. AL of the tests will be
made with view to improving equip
ment and methods, Lenox R. Lohr,
president Of the N. B. c., announced.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
IS AMERICANS QUIT
TIENTSIN ON U. S. SHIP
Evacuees, Guests of Navy, to
Leave Today for Voyage
to Philippines.

~ AAiiP PAAeo.
Nv Radio to The Star.
TIENTSIN. China, September "a
The handful of Americans who ac-
cepted the Governments offer to
evacuate China as guests Of the
United States Navy are leaving
Tientsin today on the U. S. S. Peary
The Tientsin evacuees number is, in
cluding two Filipino musicians and
their six dependents. stranded here
by the closure Of the cabarets: six
Americana born Chinese and one Rus
sian wife Of an American sailor. Five
Peiping Americans are leaving on the
same boat.
The Peary will touch Chinwangtao.
north OF Tientsin. and Chefoo. south
OF that port, on the Gulf of Pohai.
making connections with the trans
port Chaumont. which is carrying
North China evacuees to Manila.
(Copyrisht. 1872
Evening star., 1937-09-24
Suits

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-09-24
FIERY CROSS BLAZES

Burns Near Home of Writer of
Black-Klan Articles.
PITTSBURGH, September "a CP).-
A fiery cross blazed early today near
the farm home of Ray Sprigle, Pitts
burgh newspaper man who wrote a
series of articles associating Supreme
Court Justice Hugh L. Black with the
ku Klux Klan.
Beside the cross stood a wooden
obelisk on which were painted the
words:
"Kastigate the kallous kalumniator
Ray Sprigle."
Sprigle was not at home and his
wife was unaware of the demonstra-
ton.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
Star Players
G. W. Football Squad
Names Opponents

Rose Bowl selection or not, Ala
bama was not the strongest team
George Washington met this sea-
son, members Of the Colonial
squad voted in a poll concluded
yesterday. West Virginia was
named the strongest, though Ala
bama was called the ''smartest"
and the "best coached" by Buff
players.
The Colonials voted Dwight
Sloan Of Arkansas, Morris White
of Tulsa and Sam Audia of West
Virginia into the first-string back
field with Kilgrow. The teams:
First-Benton (Arkansas), l.e.; Kinard
(ole Miss.). 1t; Atty (West va.), l.g.;
Woodell (Arkansas), c.; Monsky %Ala.
bama). r.g.; Hodges West Va.). r.t.
Shoemaker (Alabama), re-; White
(Tulsa), q.b.; Sloan (Arkansas), LII.
Kilgrow (Alabama), r.h.; Audia (West
Va.), fb.
second-Kincaid (oIe Miss.), l.e.;
Ryba (Alabamal, It,; Graham (Tulsa),
l.g:; Jim On IN. D. statel. g.; ciccone
CIV. Va. WeB.), r.g.; Williams (Ols
Miss.), r.t.; Hamilton (Arkansas), re.
Hapes cole Miss.l, OBJ: Clark (West
va.), lh.; Lenhradt (Ole Miss.). r.h.
Holm (Alabama). fb.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
CARDS ARRANGE
GRID CONTESTS
With MEXICANS
By CHICK KENNY

For no reason at all unless to
further cement the goodwill be-
tween the United States and Mex
leo, which is already in pretty
good shape since the elimination
Of Pancho Villa (the bandit, not
the former flyweight champion of
the world), Catholic University
went Pan-American yesterday and
scheduled itself a football game
of international proportions with
an all-star outfit from Mexico, to
be played here october Is.
The battle was arranged follow.
ing a scuffle in dates between the
Cards and the University Of De-
troit, which was originally booked
in Michigan on that day. The
TitanS desired change in date.
So Athletic Director Dutch Berg
man reslated the Detroit tilt to
October 8, leaving the following
Saturday open for negotiations.
The 1888 slate includes games
with Detroit, American u, West
Virginia Wesleyan, De Paul, South
Caroline, Loyola Of the South, st.
Louis o., Miami, and tht new
bunch, the Mexican All-Stars.
According to the plans, Catholic
U. will travel to Mexico City on De-
cember IS, 1899. to play this crew.
should it be intact at that time.
Arrangements were completed
late yesterday afternoon by Berg.
man and Edwardo Roman, coach
of the Mexican Naval Academy,
who will act in similar capacity as
coach Of the AL-Stars, represent.
ing the best players from the five
leading universities Of Mexico
Mexico Naval Academy, Mexico
Military Academy, University of
Mexico, Monterey and Polytechnic
Institute.
College basketball in the Dis.
trict was given it's official welcome
out at Catholic U. last night when
the Cards pried off the lid at the
expense Of Maryland State Teach
ers, 43-17.
New rules were given work
out, and the elimination Of the
center-jurnp was hardly noticeable
after the first few minutes Of play,
George Washington U. an
nounces the addition Of the power
full University Of Tennessee to its
basketball slate December 90. The
game viii be played at Tech High
gym.
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

The turf at Wrigley Field is
frozen for a distance Of seven
inches in the ground ana U44o
asphalt blast ovens which have
been ironing out the snow have
not yet been able to bake the
ground sufficiently one day to
keep it from freezing overnight.
TEMPERATURE AT ZERO
There have been one or two
nights when the thermometer reg
istered below zero, and while a
thick covering Of straw has been
applied at night, Jack Frost has
been able to penetrate it and
harden the ground twixt sunset
and sunup.
Coach Ray Flaherty, your Red
skins mentor, however, is not
disturbed by the state Of the mer
curry in the test tube. Whatever
conditions prevail for one team
Sunday" he said today after sur
veying the prospects, "will obtain
for the other" He was of the
opinion that the use of gymnasium
| shoes in order to give footing or
The Washington times., 1937-12-09

It is reported that a substitute
plan will be proposed by Virginia
Tech, which engenders several OF
the principles Of the Graham Plan
but with a more libearl interpre.
tation on the treatment Of ath-
letes with respect to their
finances"
Another item of vast Importance
to be voted upon tomorrow by the
group OF Is colleges, is the six.
teenth member Of the conference,
who will take the place Of the
The Washington times., 1937-12-09
SCHOOL Group
SOUNDS NEED
FOR EQUIPMENT

A request for the loan Of athle-
tic equipment that will be returned
in the best possible shape today
was broadcast in behalf Of District
ALI Scholastic football players who
oppose Monroe, Ga, A. and M.
eleven under the auspices of the
Variety Club in Catholic Univer-
sity's bowl a week from sunday,
December 10, at 2 o'clock.
Uniforms and other equipment
of dress are particularly needed
and local amateur and semi-profes-
sional teams deSirouS Of assisting
this worthy cause, the Hot Lunch
Fund for Underpriveleged Child.
ren, are asked to communicate
with Tony PiSciatto, all star man.
ager, at Roosevelt High School to.
day.
REAL TREAT
In the interim local scholastic
followers are assured a real treat
gratis Friday when two groups Of
scholastics, those working out at
Central and Western High Schools,
get together in hard-boiled scrim-
mage In Central Stadium at 2::30
o'clock. The public is invited to
attend gratis and is assured some
real rivalry and mixing well worth
while.
Coaches Hardy Pearce, Gene
Augusterfer and Johnny Baker
coaching the Central contingent
have instructed their players to
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