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Evening star., 1937-10-31
Wild Marxes,
Found Guilty,
Fear Jail Bars
CrOuchO and Chico
COnuicted OF Copy.
right Violation.
Es the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30-Groucho
and Chico Marx, movie comedians,
were convicted in Federal Court today
of infringing on a copyright in
radio broadcast-a verdict that
Groucho said in tragic tones might
mean a jail jolt for US
Groucho delivered that pessimistic
statement as the jury retired.
After the verdict, he and Chico.
equally serious, had nothing to say.
The misdemeanor conviction carries
a maximum fine of $1,000, or maxi
mum Jail sentence of one year, or
both.
Judge George Cosgrove said sem
tence would be imposed next Monday.
Defense counsel declared they would
ask for a new trial.
After only brief deliberation, a jury
convicted the high-salaried brothers
of using certain gag" material which
Carroll and Garrett Graham sub
mitted to them previously, but which
they rejected.
In the trial, the Marx brothers
contended the late AL Boasberg. screen
writer. prepared the script they used
in the broadcast last year. They
testified they did not recall the SUBJ
stance of the skit. Mr.. Dibble and
Mr. Dabble,' that the Grahams SUBJ
nlitted and did not realize it and
their broadcast script were similar.
picture on Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-10-31
HALLOWEEN FETE
SEEN BY 100000
Witches, Ghosts and Cob
IinS Take Part in Parade
Deemed Best Yet.

Spooks, witches and assorted skele-
tons who danced the big apple" be-
fore the rubbery stare of a 100-foot
dragon who solemnly came apart in
sections by way of protest. and IL
sheeted ghosts playing football were
among the prodigies which passed in
review before Queen Halloween v and
some 100000 spectators last night in
the annual civic Halloween parade
on Constitution avenue.
Aided by the combination of an un-
seasonably mild, starlit night and a
Saturday evening observance, the pa
rade proved to be the most colorful Of
the five annual community Halloween
celebrations sponsored here by the
Greater National Capital Committee Of
the Washington Board of Trade.
Despite the size of the crowd-police
estimated there were 10000 spectators
crowded along the block between Fif-
teenth and Sixteenth streets alone
the parade went off without the re-
porting of an accident of any sort.
Queen on Glittering Throne.
Queen Halloween, impersonated by
Miss Betty Virginia Lewis, 18-year-old
Temple School student, established her
court on glittering throne at Six
teenth street and Constitution avenue
NV. and with the assistance of her
royal consort, Maurice Jarvis, the King
of Halloween; Dennis Connell, the
royal jester. and large court of Ia
dies in waiting and local civic officials,
reviewed a parade in which 1908 per-
sons participated.
A police count showed 1,412 march
ers in costume. 40 floats and II bands.
There were AIS participants in vehicles
or on floats.
But these are very mundane, matter
of-fact figures. and there was nothing
mundane or matter-of-f about the
parade. 1t was fantastic to a degree,
and cold statistics meant nothing
whatever to the thousands of gaily-cos-
tuned youngsters who sat along the
curbs and shrieked their thrilled de-
light as giant rubber alligators and
dragons poked their fearsome snouts
into the crowds.
And the children had generous
adult assistance in their applause
for such parade units as the dig
float representing a Jail full of
goblins and ghosts who crowded the
horred tuiy,dourc mfilo a oiort in
flated policeman dogged by an es-
capped ghost, swayed around atcp
the prison, or the 25 beautifully uni
formed girls on roller skates who
skated through intricate evolutions
in the Georgetown Playground sec
ton, or Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
(See HALLOWEEN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-10-31

The winner of the grand prize
s1,500-in the 1887 third annual news
paper national snapshot awards will be
selected by a distinguished jury to-
morrow from 408 snapshots now hang
ing in the Explorers Hall of the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
The snapshots were taken by ANA
teur photographers from 40 States
and represent entries from The Eve
ming Star and 1o1 other leading news
papers throughout the country.
The 125 cash prizes, totaling $4,000,
range from 112 honorable mention
awards of $50 each up to four first
prize winners in as many classes, each
of whom will be awarded $780, A
grand prize of $1,000 will be awarded
for the picture sdjudged to be the
most outstanding of all snapshots en-
tered. This grand prize winner will
Evening star., 1937-10-31
MRS. LAWES DIES
in FALL FROM BRIDGE
Wife of Sing Sing Warden Fa-
tally Injured in Drop From
Bear Mountain Span.

BY the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, Oct. 30.-Mrs.
Kathryn Lawes, wife of Warden Lewis
E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, died in
the Ossining Hospital tonight of in
juries received in fall from
the Bear Mountain Bridge to the bank
of the Hudson River.
She was found at the base Of a
precipice by State troopers at O'Clock
(ES.T.) tonight, twelve hours after
she drove away from her home at the
prison. The car was parked on the
bridge.
Westchester County Medical Exam
liner Amos o. Squire said he would try
to determine the circumstances of the
fall after he had examined the site
tomorrow.
The troopers noticed the car, bear
ing a Sing Sing label, parked on the
bridge, and called the warden, who
joined in the search.
He said his wife had been i'll for
several weeks. She was about so.
Squire said Mrs. Lawes apparently
fell while going down path down
the cliffside, because her injuries we're
not as great as would be expected from
a fall the whole $50 feet from the
bridge level.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

National football rankings again will
Be- drastically revised following yes
terday's games, with Pennsylvania
victory over Navy and Rice's triumph
over Auburn by identical 14-7 scores
standing out in list sprinkled freely
with upsets.
Harvard recorded its first victory
over Princeton since 1928 by the
convincing figures Of 34-6, while Yale
and Dartmouth struggled to a SO
tie: Notre Dame topped Minnesota,
N7-e. with Fordham whipping North
Carolina, 14-0; Georgia Tech trim
ming Vanderbilt, 14-0, and Nebraska
defeating Indiana, TO, in other out
standing games.
In the local realm Maryland con-
tinued. its winning ways with 1877
decision e'over Florida, while Manhat-
tan rallied to trounce Georgetown,
2o-12; Dickinson buried American
University, 41-0, and Howard Uni
versity and Miner Teachers battled
to q TT tie
Glen Riddle Farms War Admiral
Evening star., 1937-10-31
40 ESCAPE DEATH
IN TRUCK PLUNGE
Two Merrymakers Hurt as
Vehicle Rolls Down Bank
Near Chain Bridge!

A crowd of young people on Hal
loween party narrowly escaped serious
injury or death last night when a
truck taking them to Great Falls left
the road on curve on Chain Bridge
Hill in Arlington County. plunged
down 25-foot embankment and
turned over.
Two of the approximately 40 occu-
pants Of the vehicle required hospital
attention and several others we're given
first aid at the scene for cuts and
bruises.
William Staunton. jr.. 18, of 4l00 Ne
braska avenue NV. was treated at
Emergency Hospital for slight brain
conclusion and Betty Mitchell. 1s, Of
3032 N street NV. for brain concus-
sion and confusion of the right shoul-
der. Both were discharged from the
hospital.
The accident happened at a point
where a Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. crew was repairing a
cable. The workmen quickly effected
the rescue of the occupants of the
vehicle, who were piled up against
the front wall as the truck nosed
down.
Driver Is Injured.
Lewis Du Bose. colored. "a, TAI
Kenyon street NV, the driver, was
arrested by Arlington County police
and held for investigation. but off,
GERS said he probably would be re-
leased. Du Bose suffered a badly
lacerated arm. He was forced to
break his way out of the truck cab
to escape.
officers quoted Du Bose as saying
that he lost" the road and didn't
realize he had wrongly turned off the
curve until it was too late.
Miss Margaret Murray, 5430 North
Capitol street, one of the truck party,
said there were 36 or 48 persons in
the group and that they had met at
the home of one to start for Great
Falls She said the truck was not
speeding at the time of the accident.
The place where the truck left the
highway is about 800 feet from the
Virginia end Of Chain Bridge on
Glebe road. The Grade is steep and
curves to the right into short bridge
across Pimmet Pun.
Benjamin F. Lusby. a telephone
workman residing at 745 Tenth street
Sc, was standing by pole near the
CSee TRUCK, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-10-31
L DUCE RECALLS
ENVOY TORRANCE
Cerruti's Indefinite Leave
AggravateS Strained Dip
Iomatic Rift.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Frdnco-Ttdlidn relations strained
since start of Spanish ciDil War,
trhen France Joined Britain in
establishing Non-InterUention Com
mittee for prevention OF shipment
of arms and Dolunteers to either
faction in Spanish wdr. Rift
widened by refusal OF France
year ago to nccredit new Amlbds-
sador to italy to King Victor E7nan-
uel as Emperor rather than merely
King of Italy. Bitterness dcceRtu-
ated by recent Anglo-French de-
nla,ids that italy ,oithdraw her
troops from Spain.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. Oct. 30.-Premier Mussolini
of Italy recalled his Ambassador from
Paris in a move which diplomats
considered as aggravating Frances
strained diplomatic relations with
Italy.
Ambassador Vittorio CerTuti will
return to Rome tomorrow night, Ital-
ians said, for a leave of absence OF
more or less long duration" Baron
Angelo Scaduto MENDOZA, counsellor
of Embassy, is also leaving his post,
placing the delicate Italo-French re-
lations in the hands of minor official.
The sudden recall was made, a
usually well-informed diplomatic
source said because France had
failed to send an Ambassador to Rome
and left Charge d'Affaires in control
of Italian relations rather than recog-
nize the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia.
Cerruti notified the foreign ministry
that he was leaving Charge d'Affaires
to handle Italian relations with France
and after his visit the foreign Office
issued a communique:
The Italian Ambassador has made
known to the foreign ministry that he
has been invited by his government
to leave on vacation"
Diplomatic sources said they be-
lieved the rupture would not go any
further as the Ambassadors departure
was felt to be due entirely to Musso-
lini's sense of prestige requiring Ital-
ian representation at Paris to be on
the same basis as the French at Rome.
Edouard Daladier, minister Of ma
tional defense, in speech at the
Radical Socialist Congress at Lille,
made what observers interpreted as a
(See PARIS. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Upsets Shake Grid World;
Navy and Auburn Victims

easily captured the twenty-third re-
newal of the Washington Handicap,
closing feature of the Maryland State
Fairs 25-day fall meeting at Laurel.
War Admiral. covering the u miles
in 2:04 As, finished more than
length ahead of T. P. Morgan's Heel
fly to earn $15,350. Shandon Farms
Burning Star was third.
Other leading football scores:
Army, 20; Virgingia Military In
stitute, Z.
Cornell, IA; Columbia, 0.
Holy Cross, o. Temple, 0.
Baylor, 6; Texas Christian, 0.
Southern Methodist, Is; Texas, 2.
Arkansas, 26; Texas A. & NJ, 13.
Alabama, Al; Kentucky, 0.
Tulane, IA; Mississippi, 7.
Pittsburgh. 25; Carnegie Tech, IA.
N. Y. u, IA; Colgate, 7.
California, 81; U. c. L. A., IA.
villanova, Z; Detroit, 0.
Stanford, o; Oregon State, 0.
Washington State, o; Southern Cali
fornia, 0.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Norris En- Route Here.

ROCHESTER, Mimi, Oct. 80 (P).-
Senator George w. Norris, independ-
ent, of Nebraska was en- route to
Washington by automobile today after
being treated for several weeks by
clinic physicians here for an abscessed
tooth. He was also given a complete
physical check-up The Senator
planned to reach Washington for the
start of the special session of Con-
greSs
Evening star., 1937-10-31
BY HAROLD b. ROGERS.

Expectant fathers are to be given
special consideration in the new Doc
tors Hospital, under plans just ap-
proved for its construction on / street,
between two medical buildings at
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
These fathers are to be provided with
q waiting room all their own on the
maternity floor, and are to be made
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Winners Of Snapshot A,cards
Will Be Selected Tomorrow

be chosen from the four first prize
winners in each class, thus bringing
the winner of the grand prize $500.
Those who will judge the pictures
are: Margaret Bourke-White, ma
tionally known photographer of indus
trial and news interest subjects;
Howard Chandler Christy, famous
portrait painter; Franklin L. Fisher.
chief of illustrations division. National
Geographic Society; Ruth Alexander
Nichols, well known photographer Of
babies and children. and Kenneth Will
son williams, photographer and editor
of amateur publications of Eastman
Kodak Co.
Each of the newspapers participate
ing in the 1887 competition entered
four grand prize winning pictures
from respective contests to compete
(see PRIZES, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-10-31
FLOODED AREA OF SYRIA
PATROLLED BY TROOPS

BY the Associated Press.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 30.-Troops
tonight patrolled fiood-destroyed vii
lagos northeast of Damascus where
more than 1000 persons were drowned
and 10000 left homeless. =
The troops were sent out following a
ministry of interior announcement
that a village on the Damascus
Baghdad road had been sacked by
thieves after inhabitants fed before
advancing food waters.
The government recruited hundreds
of volunteers and sent them into the
flood areas to work with troops in
feeding refugees and recovering bod
les.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

sive consultation with physicians
committees of every speciality, there is
a place set apart on the fifth floor
known, for construction purposes, as
visitors waiting ROOM" That's for
the expectant fathers. 1t will be
equipped with comfortable chairs,
lounges, tables, magazines and other
up-to-date reading material. The
problem was discussed st some length
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Toxic Is Reported
Sending 10000
FrOmC China.
CHOSEN
SHIFTED
Soviet Movements
Declared Made
i'm Siberia.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEIPING. Oct. 30.-Trustworthy
sources said today that both Japan
and Russia are rapidly increasing
their forces along the boundary be-
tween Japans protectorate of Man.
chukuo and Soviet Siberia.
1t was authoritatively estimated
10000 Japanese troops who had taken
part in the conquest of North China
have been sent into North Manchukuo.
Foreign sources have reported the
movement of Japanese troop trains
northeastward through Tientsin.
1t was reported also that 10000
japanese troops had been sent re-
Gently from Chosen into Eastern
Manchukuo, where border tension was
heightened by Soviet et-Manchukuo
clash on the Tumen River boundary
Friday.
Travellers Report Army Shifts.
According to Domei, Japan's ma
tional news agency, travellers whc
have come through Siberia recently
have told of large movements OF :;e
Red Army along the Trans-Sjberian
Railway into Siberian provinces ad-
joining Manchukuo.
Domei also said that Soviet troops
had been sent into outer Mongolia,
which is under Russian influence and
protection, because Russian leaders
feared an invasion from ManchIkuo.
Informed observers pointed out that
the japanese column which recently
conquered Suiyuan and Chahar Prov
inces-and which came from Japan's
Manchukuan garrison-has hastened
to set up an independent Timer Mon
golian nation" with capital at Kwei-
sui, formerly capital of Suiyuan.
Base to Strike Outer Mongolia.
This. it is believed, is intended to
establish firmly a base from which
to strike at Outer Mongolia If the
need arises.
Authorities familiar with both Ja-
pan and Russia said that while
neither country wants to fight now
knowing it would be fight to the
death-each is being impelled into
large military preparations by fear of
attack.
The japanese army. although fully
occupied with its conquestS in China.
apparently is taking no chances with
its Manchukuan border defenses.
! Although many of the troops
who took part in the occupation of
Tientsin and Peiping came from Man.
chukuo it was believed they we're re-
placed there by other troops from
Japan, so that the garrison of Man.
chukuo never has been weakened.
Yangchuan Captured.
A Japanese army communique said
three japanese columns which have
been fighting their way into Shansi
Province from the East today cap
tured Yangchuan, so miles east of
Taiyuanfu, the provincial capital.
ADomei dispatch from Kweisui-re-
named Hobo by the Mongols-said the
new Mongol nation" declared its au-
thority extended not only over Suiyuan
and most of Chahar but also over AL
territory originally possessed by the
Mongols."
Literally taken, this would mean
most of Asia and some of Europe but
experienced observers interpreted it as
a bid for support of Mongol tribes in
Sovietized Outer Mongolia and also
hint its sway might be extended
with Japanese army help-to Ming
hsia. Chinese province to the west of
Suiyuan.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
TELEPHONE OFFICIAL
C0LLAPSES AT GAME
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 30.-Floyd
o. Hale, 81, president of the Illinois
Bell Telephone Co., collapsed during
the exciting closing minutes of the
Yale Dartmouth game today and was
rushed by the field ambulance to the
New Haven Hospital.
DR.. Wilder Tileston, who treated the
stricken executive, said it would be
impossible to determine what caused
the collapse until more complete
diagnosis is made. The physician de-
scribed Hale's condition as very fail" "
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Rest Rooms for Doctors.

for doctors waiting
for maternity pa
tients also are to
be constructed, on
both the fifth floor
and the sixth floor,
where there will be
a continuation of
the m a t e r n | t y
service.
Other features
of tha pau, noSpitQl
Evening star., 1937-10-31
NeU DC. Hospital Will Proride
Comforts for Expectant Fathers

by physicians and representatives of
tine architects and builders, according
to DR.. Oscar B. Hunter, secretary of
Doctors Hospital, Inc.
Rest Rooms for Doctors.
On the maternity floor will be pro-
vit,ed every modern scientific develop
ment for the proper care of mothers
and infants. under the plans, approved
by committee of experts. Rest rooms
Evening star., 1937-10-31

will be flower and gift shop on the
first floor, I street front, adjoining the
lobby. for the convenience of visitors.
This will be rented to an outside firm.
The drug store of Maxwell 81 Tenny-
son, now occupying the ground floor
at Eighteenth and I streets, will be
moved to the first floor, occupying part
of the hospital and part of the med
. (See HOSPTTAL, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1937-10-31

comfortable during
that trying time
when so m a n y
fathers wear out
shoe leather wait
ing for the stork.
On the blue
print plans, which
h ave been ap-
proved by officials
of Doctors Hos
pital after extern
Evening star., 1937-10-31

duration of the conflict. Twenty-six
were gravely wounded.
Chinese said they had left behind
200 dead who fulfilled their pledge
to defend the warehouse until death
in the face of Japanese surrender
or die" ultimatum.
Ten minutes after the last survivor
fled the crumbling warehouse japanese
hoisted the Rising Sun flag over. the
site of one of the most dramatic epi-
sodes in this conflict.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

Later in the day three more Brit
ish soldiers were wounded by stray
shells in the Jessfleld Park area of
Shanghai, creating new strain on
Anglo-Japanese relations.
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little and
Mai. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett,
commanders of Britain's army and
navy forces, both made representa-
tions to the japanese. They urged
(See BATTALION, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-10-31
ReIgium Prepares Palace.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 80 (P).-Belgium
put the historic Palais des Academies
in shape today for the first nine-power
treaty conference meeting Wednesday
to seek solution of the Chinese-Jap-
anese conflict.
The foreign Office announcement
that Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff
would head Russia,s delegation brought
to four the number of foreign ministers
who are scheduled to attend the con-
ference.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
British Await Full
Report on 3
Killings.
LONDON NEARS
PATIENCE END
Diplomatic Break
Is Anticipated
i'm Toxic.

pon sprung from troundtnq OF
British Ambassador to China. Sir
Huohe acknowledgement, August
rs iohile trdUeling from Marking
to Shanghai on mission OF. peace:
Subsequent firing upon British
diplomatic cars ana killing OF
three British soldiers at OUTPOST OF
SHANGHAI International Settlement
Friday intensified bitterness in
London.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Get. 3o-Tension between
Great Britain and Japan, aroused by
A series of fatal incidents IN the
Shanghai war zone. today narrowed
the possibilities for success OF the
Brussels Conference to halt the Chi
nese-Japanese war.
AS the London delegation. headed
by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
made ready to go to the Belgian capital
Monday night, the British foreign
office sought a full report on the kill
ing of three British soldiers by Japa-
nese troops at Shanghai yesterday.
The latest incident in the series,
starting with the wounding of Sir
Hughe Knatchbull- -Hugessen. British
Ambassador to China. stirred new
British feeling against Japan. 1t was
auparent in official quarters that the
repeated occurrences had strained
British patience with mere japanese
regrets.
japanese Grow Bitter.
At the same time growing Japanese
bitterness against Britain was reported
from Toxic. where the Council on the
Current Situation" an unoficial body
including members Of Parliament,
army leaders and industrialists, sug-
pested Japan might break off diplo-
matte relations with Britain.
Reports from Shanghai indicated
Japanese resented British troops stop
ping Japanese troop launches from
going up Soochow Greek yesterday
Dispatches said japanese declared a
British soldier had touched Japanese
machine gun. thus insulting the i'm
perial japanese Navy"
Indications In London were that
Britain would enter the Brussels talks
November with much sitter back
as the result of repeated attacks on
her troops and property in China.
Eden Answer Awaited.
Eden's answer in the House of Com
mons Monday to opposition criticism
of the governments foreign policy was
looked to for a possible indication OF
British action in the Far East as well
as the deadlock among European pow
ers on getting foreign volunteers out
of the Spanish civil war.
Eden, reporting to Commons earlier
in the week on the Japanese machine
cunning to death of British soldier,
declared to the cheers of members that
British retaliatory fire had been justi-
fed and could be expected in the fu-
ture.
The British delegation was believed
going to Brussels without definite plans
except to work closely with the Ameri-
can delegates in an effort to find a
peace formula under the Washington
nine-power agreement to respect Chi
mas territorial integrity.
Japan's Stand an Obstacle.
The refusal of Japan, signatory,
to participate was recognized as seri-
Gus obstacle. The chief hope for sue
cess of the conference was based on
Chinese and japanese expressions of
willingness to talk peace, but the wide
gap in their positions presented many
difficulties.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
CORCORAN OPERATED ON
Co-Author of Holding Company
Bill in Baltimore Hospital.


BALTIMORE, Oct. 80 CP).-Thomas
Corcoran, co-author of the admins
tration's holding company bill, was
reported getting along very well"
after an operation in a Baltimore hos
pital today.
DR.. M. L. Breitstein said "a slight
nasal operation" was performed. Mr..
Corcoran, an attorney for the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, entered the
hospital last night.
Evening star., 1937-10-31
Soviets Protest Border Fight.

MOSCOW, Oct. 80 (P).-The Soviet
government protested today over an
alleged incursion of Japanese-Man-
chukuan troops across the Russian
Manchukuo frontier where they were
said to have exchanged shots with
Soviet frontier guards.
The foreign Office instructed the
consul general at Harbin to present
the protest to japanese authorities and
the Manchukuo government and ask
them to take measures to prevent such
incidents in the future.