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Evening star., 1937-10-30
H. H. M|[LARD, 65,
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Chief of Unit of Treasury
III Six Weeks-Lived
in Falls Church.

Henry Harvey Millard, SIS, chief of
the subdivision on advance payments
of the Disbursement Division, Treas
ury Department, died today in Emer-
gency Hospital He had been i'll six
weeks.
Mr. Millard, who lived in Falls
Church, Va, was native Of Grant
township, Plymouth County. Iowa. In
1896 he married Margaret Allen of the
adjoining township, Reading, in Sioux
County. Subsequently Mr.. and Mrs.
Millard lived in Oklahoma, at that
time Indian Territory, from 1898 until
they came to Washington in 1904,
when Mr.. Millard was appointed a
clerk in the Treasury Department.
During the World War Mr.. Millard
was appointed an expert accountant
and detailed TO duty in the Office OF
the assistant controller of the Treas
ury in Paris. He returned to Wash
ington in 1919 as an accountant in
the Treasury.
Later, Mr.. Millard worked for the
A'AHi Va AAAis anu DAlSs dlLOIIltyS.
where he specialized in Government
claims accounts. Afterward he was
in the real estate and insurance bus
mess. He returned to Government
service several years ago.
Mr.. Millard was a member of the
Washington Lions Club, the Modern
Woodmen of America. Of which he
had been district manager for many
years; the Royal Neighbors of Amer
lea, and the Kemper Lodge of Ma
sons, the latter at Falls Church
He leaves his wife. three sons.
Harry-H Millard. Takoma Park, Md;
Louis A. Millsrd, Tulsa, Okla. and
Andrew Taylor Millard, Falls Church;
four sisters and two brothers
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. Tuesday in Gawler's chapel,
1856 Pennsylvania avenue NV. Burial
will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1937-10-30

lashed them and scattered their equip
ment Billiards blinded them, and
desert heat scorched them. But still
they plodded on, driving their two
vehicles every foot of the way. And
some days they couldn't make foot
they we're hacking path for the
next day or stalled altogether by
weather or obstacle.
Those who made the dangerous ex-
pedition were Leonidas Borges de
Oliverira, commander; Francisco Lopez
de Ia Cruz, observer, and Mario Fava,
mechanic.
Their pathfinding was achieved in
two model-T Fords. Fuel, of course,
was a prime problem. A mixture of
kerosene and alcohol, they found,
went farther than gasoline. When
they'd run out, some of their party
would have to go by mule pack TO the
nearest settlement, which sometimes
was many miles away.
They consumed $500 gallons OF gas
and 800 gallons of oil and wore out 56
tires on their 15,000-mile jaunt.
Nudists Without Knowing 1t.
Among the wilder tribes of the
Andes. who stared in wonder at and
fear of the white men and their
conveyances. were some who have been
nudists for countless generations with
out ever knowing it. These Andeans
have solved the problem of clothes
by wearing none whatever. But the
Brazilian explorers had no trouble
Evening star., 1937-10-30
CHURCH WARNED
ON WAR CONDUCT
Prepare for Next Conflict,
Refusing to Bless 1t,
Is Appeal of Editor.
BY the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 30.-The
International Convention of the
Churches OF Christ (Disciples). hav-
ing requested invocation of the neu-
trality law in the Sino-Japanese War,
pondered today warning to prepare
for the next war"
The Rev. C. Clayton Morrison Of
Chicago, editor of the Christian Gen.
tury, declared I'VE are we'll on the
way to the next war;" and the church
must not give its sanction and blessing
to the conflict.
Mankind" he added, will turn
on its heels in scorn of a church
which does once more what the
churches did in 1914 and 1917"
Another war. Mr. Morrison said,
should cause the church Ito repent
in sackcloth in ashes for its fail
ure to make peace among men"
In order 10 survive another con-
nict. he suggested
That the church begin to establish
Gin its own thought the fact of its
complete independence from
the state
That the church excommunicate
war from its affairs for she win come
out of the next war shorn of her
power if she participates in it,;
That the church prepare itself
against internal division over the
pacifist issue, for Thousands of
clergymen will refuse to fight,
they will refuse conscription." and
That the church envisage the posi-
ton in which 1t will stand after the
war.
AS the convention attempted to
clean up its calendar in preparation
for adjournment Sunday night the
powerful recommendation Commit
tee disapproved proposal to fix min
imum educational requirements for
persons seeking ordination into the
ministry.
DR.. F. d. Kershner of Indianapolis,
dean of the College of Religion at
Butler University, Indianapolis, was
elected president of the convention,
succeeding the Rev. DR.. A. w. Fortune
of Lexington, KY.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
SURVEY OF HOMES
SOON TO BE BEGUN
University Women Seek to Learn
What Housewives Do With
Snare Time.

The American Association OF Uni
versity Women wants to know what
the so-called emancipated housewife
does with her spare time. and is 60
ing TO take year to find out.
Plans for the survey, designed to
give a composite picture of home
life in the United States. were ap-
proved at a three-day business ses-
sion of the associations council. ended
at the A. A. U. w. clubhouse here
last night.
One Of the major points the study
will try TO clear up is the extent of
community service by women liberated
from household drudgery by modern
conveniences and professional train
ing
The effects on young people Of
changing home conditions, that re-
quire mother to spend less and less
time attending to household duties,
also will be analyzed
Mrs Irene T. Heineman Of Los
Angeles. assistant superintendent of
instruction for California, will direct
the study, which will continue for
a year.
The council also approved plans
for study of administrat ton of educa-
tional institutions, survey of con-
sumner movements, the encoura cement
Of indigenous art and for carrying OH
a campaign for s1,0Oo,0OO fellow
ship fund for gifted women, which
already has raised s417.O0O.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
FUNERAL SERVICES
TODAY FOR E. H. ETZ
Rites Being Held in Bradley Hills
Home-Kiwanis Club Members
Honorary Pallbearers.

Funeral services for Edwin H. Etz.
81, optometrist. are being held this
afternoon at his home in Bradley
Hills, Md, where he died Thursday.
Rev. DR.. John c. Palmer, pastor of
Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church here and Rev. DR.. Joseph E.
Williams. rector OF St Johns Epis-
copal Church, Bethesda, Md, are
officiating
Active pallbearers are William F.
Smith. John z. Moore, Joseph Harris,
Bert BreWood, DR.. George w. Max
field and Alfred Howard.
The list of honorary pallbearers,
which includes prominent members of
the Washington Kiwanis Club. follows:
George P. Mangan, president of
the Kiwanis Club Bynum E. Hinton,
past president; Albert B. Van Voor-
hees, first vice president; Bruce
Baird, treasurer, and Edward D. Shaw,
secretary: Walter NJ Clark, William
NJ. Corse, william Kelley. Wallace
E. Duff. Ralph Fowler. william S.
Hepner and Lanier Mclaughlin.
Long prominent in the Kiwanis
Club. Mr.. Etz at the time Of his
death was chairman of the clubs
Underprivileged Children's Commit
tee. He had been in business here
more than 40 years and operated a
store at sos Thirteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
Washington Produce

:, BUTTER--9o score. pound prints. 30:
H-pound prints 40 tub, rs; 80 score,
l-pound prints. 3S; i4-pound prints. 80;
tub. 30: market strong,
NEAIS-Choice beef. -; calves, IL:
20: frozen pork, -: pork loin, 30: fresh
hams, -: fresh skinned ham II. smoked
nam. 2S, sliced bacon, 30; slab bacon. 30; {;
compound. IL. lard. Is
LIVE STOCK-Pigs. SL4aSis. light hogs,
Sl2aSS4. mediums S34ag: 23O-25O pounds,
sl2SSs4: heavies, sas14 sows. 6a1 Stag,
Ba612; calves, Sag
Prices paid shippers net FOB Wash
ineton BY. the United States Bureau CT
Agricultural Economics.
EGGS-Market Just about steady at
unchanged prices. Grovernment graded
and dated eggs Whites u s. extras,
large 4412; U. S. extras. mediums. 81
U. S. standards. large. IS; U. S. stand
ARDS, mediums. 25. Nearby unRraded
e2es: Current receipts, - TO 20: whites.
- TO "a; varying premium paid on fancy
lots, particularly larger sizes.
LIVE POULTRY-Market quiet and
unchanged. Prices largely nominal as
receipts on Saturday always light Fowl.
Colored, heavy. is to 90; No . s, l3 "a
IA Leghorns. IA to 49, roosters. II Ia
-. Chickens: Rocks and Crosses. les'
than " pounds. - to rs: ia 10 81,
pounds % to 26; pounds and up. 27
70 IS, mixed cOlOrs. 20 10 -" Turkeys,
Hens, 10 TO 10 pounds. "A TO 25 toms
~ to lG pounds. Il 10 %: No 2's ano
old turkeys. 20 cents. Guineas. pound,
and over, 30 each. under 2 pounds 80
each.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
CHICAGO GRAIN
Ry the Assoclated Press.


CHICAGO. Ill. Oct. 3O.-Freeuent
slight rallies in wheat prices failed to
hold today because of quiet week end
selling The market was lifted as
much as 3s cent at times, but spent
most of the early part of the session
around yesterdays closing prices
Reports of frosts in Argentina were
credited with restoring Liverpool
wheat prices to an unchanged close
after dip Of a-12 cent in deferred
contracts at the opening and this
also affected some buying here.
Buenos Aires prices closed 19s-1ss
higher
Advices from crop experts indicated
that wheat growing in Argentina was
susceptible to frost at this stage. Some
traders also noted a private estimate
of an Argentina railroad official that
the wheat crop in that country was
not likely TO approach 1886 production.
Export sales of North American
wheat overnight we're estimated at
100000 bushels, mostly Canadian but
including 10000 bushels of Pacific
Coast wheat.
Big arrivals Of corn in Chicago
today, SIP cars. depressed corn prices
and December contracts fell T.. cents.
while deferred deliveries were frac-
tionally lower. Trade expectations
were that an Unusually heavy supply
OF corn will be received here Monday.
A strengthening factor was the re-
port of further export sales in corn
overnight
Oats and rye we're iractionaly un-l
changed, while provisions pointed up-
ward.
Around mldseSsion. wheat was =
lower to S higher compared with yes
terday's finish December, 96ls. May.
95i4. and corn was Abs lower; De-
cember, 577s; May, 59la.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
DISTRICT employees
TO COMPETE IN GOLF
New System of Rating to Rule in
Place of Objectionable
Handicaps.

II work and weather permit. some
20 employees of the District govern
ment, including Commissioners Allen
and Sultan. will go to the Indian
Spring Golf Club to do battle for
prizes and honor in their annual
tournament Monday and Tuesday.
Because of the chorus of complaint
that has been heard in the past over
handicaps the committee in charge
has ruled that this year the cham
pionship will go to the holder of the
low gross score. To spread the prizes
down the line, however, the golfers
will be rated into four flights, and
first, second and third winners will
receive awards.
To the score of the champion will
be added IS per cent to find the limit
of the first flight; to that figure will
be added 10 per cent of its total. to
go up to the top of the second flight;
to that will be added 10 per cent OF
its total to carry the score up to the
end of the third flight. and all above
that figure will be in the fourth flight.
This is the plain announced by
Committee Chairman Richard Ten
nyson. assistant supervisor of the Dis
trict Playground Department. other
members are Edward Brooke. Douglas
Brinkley and John Meaney.
Players may make their own pair
ings and play at any time during the
day. Entries are being received by
Miss Dorothy Kelso. room 3l3, Dis
trict Building.
Evening star., 1937-10-30

tCOnLlnueQ from First Page)
port on the reported majority decision
was indicated last night. after the
conference had been in closed session
for about four hours. Since the en-
ployers' group had held that the mini
mum living cost budget requirements
of the sales clerks was no more than
$1457 per week. it was assumed that
the minority report would come from
the employer spokesmen.
Members OF the conference and
officials of the board declined to re-
veal the details of the decision pend
ing the final formal meeting of the
conference group. However, there was
reason to believe that the vote last
night was for minimum wage above
SIT" per week. Some unofficial re-
ports were that the decision was for
minimum wage nearer S18 per
week
Many Get Less Than $3.50.
Testimony taken by the conference
has indicated there are substantial
number" of the salesgirls who are
being paid less than the old rate of
$3.50 per week fixed by the original
board before the United States Su-
preme Court declared the law uncon-
stitutional In a reversal of its
views. the high court last March de-
clared the law constitutional, in act
ing on a test of the Washington State
minimum wage law.
The decision of the board, when
finally announced, must be advertised
for four weeks and then will not be-
come effective for another two
months, so that the rate to be fixed
will not be effective until sometime
in February.
Legal Test Expected.
Oficials of the board are anticipat-
ing that there will be new court
test of the decision, and this is offered
as one reason why the board is OBJ
serving all technical requirements be-
fore it hands down a final decision.
In additional to Mrs. Kittle, the
members of the board are Arthur L.
Schoenthal. representing the employees,
and John H. Hanna, the spokesman
for employers.
Members of the conference are John
]. Esch, chairman: Mrs. Glen Swig-
gett and Mrs. Gurnie Brook, rep
resentatives of the public; Jacob Hem
minger, John Hasley and Edwin Hahn.
representatives of the employers, and
Mrs. Erma Ketcham, Miss A. E. Mil
stead and Miss Agnes Thornhill, rep
resenting the employees.
Evening star., 1937-10-30

with the natives-they won the friend
ship of all they encountered. and their
aid often was invaluable.
The trio travelled through IS coun-
tries, including Brazil, Paraguay, Ar
gentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, CO.
lombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicara-
qua, Honduras, FL Salvador, Guate-
mala and Mexico, entering the United
States at Laredo. Tex. En- route to
Washington they visited st. Louis,
Chicago. Detroit, Pittsburgh and Bal
timore.
The route they cut through jungles
and mountains is the one which the
Pan-American highway will follow.
Already more than 5000 miles OF the
highway has been hard-surfaced. 1t
is expected the entire route will be
converted into a modern highway in
another six or seven years. A link
already paved runs from Washington
to Mexico City through Laredo, Tex.
The Brazilian engineers were greeted
here by Oswaldo Aranha, the Brazilian
Ambassador. on their arrival yester-
day, and escorted to the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, where they were received
by DR.. L. S. Rowe, director general.
and other officials. They deposited
maps, charts and other data with
the Union.
The highway-blazers will remain in
Washington a week or 10 days before
going to New York to sail for Brazil
They are stopping at the Mayfiower.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
WOMAN IS INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Girl, 6, Treated for Sprained
Ankle and Cuts-0ficial Held
in Kelly Death.

Phoebe NJ Pritchard 49 of 308 E
street NV was severely cut about
the face yesterday when the car in
which she was riding collided with
another at Massachusetts and New
Jersey avenues NV. She was treated
at Casualty Hospital Neither of the
drivers was held
Barbara Coffren, s. of Upper MARI
boro. Nd. was treated at Providence
Hospital for a sprained right ankle
and face cuts suffered when sne was
struck by a truck near her home yes
terday.
A coroner's jury yesterday ordered
Edward D Williams. 80, a District
highway inspector, held for action Of
the grand jury in the traffic death Of
Charles E. (Finney) Kelly, ~. a
former District policeman and well
known amateur baseball player Kelly
died as a result of injuries suffered
Tuesday when the automobile in
which he was riding ran off the road
and crashed into a house at 1886
Good Hope road Sc
Against Williams testimony that
Kelly and not ne was driving the car,
the jury decided williams was operat-
ing the machine at the time OF the
accident
Evening star., 1937-10-30
THREE intrepid Brazilian higl

"HREE intrepid Brazilian high
way engineers and their two
brave motor vehicles-one a
u four-door sedan. the other a
small truck-were seeing the sights
of Washington today after completing
a saga of adventure that would fill
volumes.
Literally cutting a trail for the
new Pan-American highway, which
will link Washington with Rio de
Janeiro, they pushed their two cars
through more than 1900 miles Of
jungles. deserts and swamps where
there we're no roads at all, some
times not even a trail.
And it took them nine and half
years to make their way from Rio
to Washington. up the West Coast
of South America, along the Isthmus
of Panama and through Mexico.
You can only wonder they made
it that soon when you hear few
high lights of their tortuous and peril
Gus journey.
There were jungles that had to be
hacked through step by step, turbulent
streams they had to cross with the
vehicles on log RATS. tribes of appalled,
natives they had to placate.
Jaguars Blocked Path.
Jaguars blocked their path, wild
boars charged at them and lethal
snakes coiled at their feet. Storms
in the Andes-this. they said, was
the worst of all natures obstacles
Evening star., 1937-10-30
'38 TAG APPLICATIONS
TO BE MAILED SOON
Motorists Will Receive Blanks
Wednesday-New Weight Law
Goes Into Effect.


Wednesday-New Weight Law
Goes Into Effect.
Applications for 1888 automobile
license tags will be mailed to District
motorists starting next Wednesday,
William A. Van Duzer, director of
traffic, announced yesterday.
He pointed out that automobile
owners who have moved since receiv-
ing their 1887 tags without notifying
the Department of Vehicles ad Traffic
will not receive the new applications,
as the post Office as been instructed
to forward no applications.
The new weight tax law goes into
effect with the 1888 tags. and the
registration fee will be shown on the
applications together with the amount
of the personal property tax.
Delivery service on tags will begin
November is and counter sales at
453 Pennsylvania avenue NV. on
November 49, Tags will be mailed
to car owners who include 10 cents
for such service with their payment
Over $4,000 persons took advantage
of this method last year, Mr.. Van
Duzer said.
Both the American Automobile AS
sociation, Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and the
Keystone Automobile Club. 1643 Con-
necticut avenue NV, will get tags
for their members starting on No
yember 30.
Evening star., 1937-10-30
COPELAND PROBES
SHIP COMMUNISM
Says He's ''SiCk and Tired"
of Dispute-CaIIS AIgic
Strike a Mutiny.
By the Associated Press

3
Chairman Copeland of the Senate
Commerce Committee took prelimi-
nary steps today toward an investiga-
ton Of what he called "Communistic
influences" at work on American
ships.
He ordered the committees staff to
collect all information available on
labor disputes aboard American mer-
chant marine ships, including the
strike of seamen on the Algic during
South American cruise.
The Algic strike was "mutiny." the
Senator asserted. He declared it was
one of many incidents in which
crews had refused to obey orders as
result of labor disputes.
Il am determined to try to get at
the bottom of this Communistic sea-
mems fight" he said I'm sick and
tired of that business. There is no
use in building ships unless We have
seamen thai. will operate them"
Senator Copeland said the Com
merce' Committee already had the
authority to conduct an investiga-
ton through its Safety-at-sea SUBJ
committee.
He added that If the investiga-
ton showed it to be feasible he would
recommend to Congress creation of a
national mediation authority to
handle maritime labor disputes.
What 1 want to know" he said,
"is why we are having these diff
culties and whose fault it is. I'm
going to find out why we can't sail
our ships"
Senator Copeland said Harry
Bridges, maritime union leader on
the West Coast, and his lieutenants
have created unrest among maritime
workers and have spread their in
fluence to the Atlantic Coast"
Evening star., 1937-10-30
Shanghai
Continued From First PaeeD

Shanghai Gas Co. were fearful of a
possible catastrophe If any shells
should strike gas storage tanks 800
yards from the little Chinese AL
cazar."
From the top of the gas works off,
cials pointed out the situation to
British army officers, explaining that
the tanks contain 10000 cubic feet
Of gas.
They said they had piped off as
much as possible, but that there was
no place to release the remainder.
The tanks already have been hit in
several places by machine gun bullets.
The nearest United States marine
post is on the south side of Soochow
Greek. about 100 yards from the
tanks. Because the barricade merely
is heap of sandbags, Brig. Gen. John
C. Beaumont, commanding two regi-
ments of marines in Shanghai. Or
dered the guard to take all possible
precautions and to withdraw from
the danger zone If necessary.
PootunE Bombed.
Japanese naval planes shuttled in
relays in day-long bombing of the
Pootung industrial area, across the
Whangpoo River from the Inter-
national Settlement, and of the
Hungiao residential and country club
suburb southwest of Shanghai
About 40 Americans and many other
foreigners already had been evacuated
from the Hungjao area.
The japanese planes dropped scores
of bombs along the Hungjao, Chung
Shan, Lincoln, Jernigan, Fraser and
Warren roads, radiating from the
Settlement.
With japanese shells plowing the
area, a survey by the United States
Consulate General disclosed that a
number of American homes and other
American property were in danger of
destruction at any moment. Consul
General Clarence E. Gauss said no
American property had been damaged
but that he was fearful of the i'm
mediate future.
Among the American properties
under shell fire In the area were those
of the American Episcopal Church,
st. Mary's Girls School, Seventh Day
Adventist Sanitarium, and the estates
of Norman q. Harris Of Louisville, KY,
and r. j. Raven of San Francisco.
Honda declared the Japanese
marines necessarily must dislodge
them because of their stout, stub
born refusal to surrender"
The Chinese commander added to
his farewell a request that patriotic
countrymen, instead Of sending any,
thing to his doomed battalion, devote
their funds to buying liberty bonds
to assure China's freedom.
Anglo-Japanese Tension Eased.
Anglo-Japanese tension over the
deaths of three Royal Ulster riflemen
and the wounding of four others,
which reached q dangerous pitch last
night. was greatly eased today when
Japanese officials called on Maj. Gen.
A. p. D. Telfer-Smollett, command
ing British troops at Shanghai. The
Japanese expressed their regrets and
blamed the casualties on misdirected
japanese shells.
In answer to the protests of Vice
Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese
commander in chief in Shanghai
waters, against British refusal to al
low Japanese launches up the Soochow
Greek, Vice Admiral Sir Charles Lit
tie, British naval commander, de-
clared the Japanese have no right
to navigate the stream through the
British sector of the International
Settlement bordering it.
Evening star., 1937-10-30

founders day din
ner next Saturday
at the Mayfower
H o t el by M u
Chapter, George
town University,
and Chi Chapter,
j o h n S Hopkins
University.
The dinner also
will be a home
coming party" for
DIR. w. MacKen-
zie Stevens, for
mer technical ad-
wiser to the Chi
nese government
and nou chair
Evening star., 1937-10-30
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair and
slightly colder tonight; tomorrow
cloudy and colder; fresh west winds
tonight shifting to north tomorrow.
Maryland-Fair and 3lightly colder
in central and west portions tonight;
tomorrow cloudy and colder.
Virginia-Partly cloudy, colder in
north portion tonight; tomorrow
cloudy and colder followed by rain
in south portion in afternoon or a.
night.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy, colder
in north portion tonight: tomorrow
cloudy and colder. followed by rain
in south portion in. afternoon or at
night.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
very muddy at Harpers Ferry; muddy
at Great Falls today.