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Evening star., 1937-01-13
By the Associated Press.

FORT KNOX, KY, January 13.-
The first bars of golden bullion that
are to make this the worlds greatest
gold depository were brought In and
unloaded today under conditions that
smacked of World War days.
There was an estimated $200. .000.-
600 of gold, but nobody saw it. 1t
was all wrapped up. The few specta-
tors whose credentials had been scru-
tinized and rescrutinized saw ma
chine guns and Treasury guards and
United States soldiers in the new COM
bat cars OF the 1st Cavalry, mechan-
lied.
Brig. Gen. Daniel Van Voorhies,
commandant of Fort Knox, and Mrs
Nellie Tayloe Ross. director Of the
Mint, and other Treasury officials were
on hand for the initial shipment. Mrs.
Ross declined to say how much gold
came today or when other shipments
would arrive to complete the job. One
official said there was "a good deal
more" than generally had been be-
Ueved.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
By the Associated Press.

PEIPING, China, January 13.-An
estimated $4,000 onlookers watched
five narcotic peddlers executed today
on the broad steps Of the world
famous temple of heaven.
The executions were the second In
China's anti-narcotics crusade and
were performed with gruesome fam
fare.
The thousands of witnesses watched
intently but with no sign of emotion
as the condemned men, shackled and
bound, were forced to kneel in front
of the rife squads and be killed with
bullets through their skulls.
The killings started with q bonfire
of 10000 ounces of assorted narcotics
which were seized after the "be cured
by New Year or die" drive started.
After the contraband had been burned.
the shackled prisoners were dragged
to the scene and forced to pose for
photographs for use by the authorities
in their crusade.
"Take all you want" one victim
Evening star., 1937-01-13
MADNESS BLAMED
IN TRIPLE Staying
Man Kills Wife, Son, Daugh-
ter; Hurts TWo-Dies
Under Train.
(Picture on Page BIZ

Apparently motivated by sudden,
maniacal frenzy, 65-year-old Mary
lander killed his wife and two of his
children, wounded a younger daugh-
ter and her fiance and leaped to his
death beneath a freight train last
night after the wholesale Staying at
his home, 100 feet across the District
line on Queens Chapel road.
Victims of the triple assassination
committed by Corbin E. Boarman,
retired telephone lineman, were ap-
parently killed almost instantly by
shooting, beating or cutting. They
we're:
Mrs. Frances Boarman, 80, the
wife.
william Francis Boarman, 81, post
graduate student at the University OF
Maryland.
Margaret Boarman, 26, employed by
a local bookbinding company.
Believed Suddenly Insane.
Lying seriously injured in Sibley
Hospital today with a bullet wound
in her arm and a possible skull frac-
ture, was the other daughter. Mary
D. Boarman, IS. Her fiance, William
F. Ryan, jr., IS, of 2612 Twenty.
eighth street northeast. escaped with
superficial gunshot flesh wounds
Their lives were probably saved when
Boarman's revolver jammed after he
fired the first shot. police said.
Prince Georges County police, called
to the scene at about $50 pm, ex-
pressed the theory today that the
elderly man had suddenly become vio-
lently insane. After questioning
friends and neighbors of the senior
lCan I1II IN1cC pnnn ~
Evening star., 1937-01-13
$500, 900, 900 in Gold Bullion
Arrires at Kentucky Vault

As the first shipment arrived today
q train pulled in, consisting of
couple of freight cars. tank car
and several passenger cars, and guards
galore. It led the way, for soon the
nine-car train from the Philadelphia
Mint slipped into the Fort Knox
siding. There were nine mail cars
and five passenger cars to it. and more
guards.
The Treasury shipped the precious
metal parcel post and is going to pay
the Post Office Department for hand
ling it, but the Treasury, backed
by the United States Army, didn't
trust the Post ONCE Department to
keep the package safe.
Before arrival Of the first shipment
members of the 1st Cavalry, mech
anized, armed with submachine guns
and side arms. blocked space about
$50 yards radius around the siding.
Here and there combat cars, each
carrying machine guns, hovered
around.
Then huge trucks, each with a
lSee GOLD. Page A.6.)
Evening star., 1937-01-13
ROOSEVELT, JR., NAMED
RESERVE PETTY OFFICER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. January 49,
Maintaining the family's naval asso.
citation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
jr., son Of the President. today be.
came chief petty officer in the Har.
ward Battalion Of the United States
Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps.
Members Of the corps who COM
plete a prescribed course are COM
missioned as ensigns in the United
States Naval Reserve.
The tall son of the President, who
is Harvard senior. was recently dis
charged from the Massachusetts, Gen.
eral Hospital.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
MIAMI CANDLES WHILE
OFFICIALS STUDY LAW
Coins Operate Roulette and Dice
Games in Same Manner as
in the Past.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, January 13.-Gam-
bling under State license attracted
night club patrons today while en-
forcement officials studied legality of
"coin-operated' roulette and dice
games. Licensed for $1,000 each
under the "other devices" section Of
Florida's law legalizing slot machines,
roulette wheels spun and dice clicked
on green baize tables in downtown.
bay front club last night.
Dice or roulette balls were vended
to patrons depositing a half-dollar
coin in a small mechanical device
affixed to the edge of the tables.
After the patron received his dice
or ball-which then became his prop
erty to be carried away If desired-he
played and bet exactly in the same
manner as in the past.
State Attorney G.. A. Worley and
County Solicitor r. r. Taylor with
held action pending further study of
the statute and the devices.
Evening star., 1937-01-13

BY the Associated Press.
Europe's powers groped for their owr
security today. They watched war ir
Spain rage on to vicious heights, still
safely within its own borders.
Britain turned concentrated atten-
ton to her vast rearmament and
home defense plans. Officials studied
facts" about the reported insurgent
seizure of big British-owned copper
mines in Spain and the forced sale OF
their product to Germany, but took
no action.
France hoped for the success of q
new plan to stop Intervention in Spain
by strict land and sea supervision of
volunteer" and munitions movements
Britain approved, but demurred at
taking the initiative in any actual
blockade. The views of Spanish in
surgent Gen. Francisco Franco were
awaited.
Schacht Cancels Trip.
In Berlin Reichminister Hjalmar
Schacht, who had intended to visit
Paris this week as an economic am
baSsador, Cancelled the trip and put
plans for a Franco-German trade
treaty in the hands of subordinates.
There was speculation that some
unexpected angle might have come
up which would make the Schacht
trip, at this time, seem premature.
A Franco-G German economic pact
might lead to a deep-seated settle.
ment of the political quarreb betwees
the two nations, aggravated for six
months by charges and countercharges
of Intervention in Spain.
Uncensored reports described the
desperate straits of 300 Fascist in.
SurgentS defending OviedO, for Sil
months a city of siege in Northern
Spain. Spanish Fascists hailed them
as heroes Of "a second alcazar.'
Fascist armies strove to rescue them
Non-combatant refugees streamed
(Ceo CpAIN pooe A-Sl
Evening star., 1937-01-13

By the Associated Press.
FLINT. Mich, January l3.-Twelve
hundred officers and men of the 126tt
Infantry, carrying full combat equip
ment, detrained here shortly before 8
am. today. prepared to carry out Gov
Frank Murphy's orders to preserve
peace and order" in this automotive
center where bloody rioting marked
the General Motors strike Monday.
At almost the same time Gov. Muir
ply sought to bring representatives
of both sides to the controversy to-
gether in a meeting at the State Capt.
tol tomorrow.
Flint's civilian population, greeting
National Guardsmen for the first time
in such situation, viewed the arrival
OF the troops with outward relief. The
soldiers, Infantrymen, Artillerymer
and Cavalry. were the first of con-
centration of approximately 1000
Guardsmen, who. the Governor said
would protect the rights Of both strik.
ers and the general public.
IL Rifle Companies Arrive.
On the troop train arriving this
morning were companies from Adrian,
Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Coldwater
Big Rapids, Grand Haven and Iona
Another contingent previously had ar
rived from Adrian by truck.
Included in today's arrivals were IL
rifle companies, a medical detachment
and the regimental band. Command
ing is Col George L. Olsen of Grand
Haven.
Only a small group of spectators
was at the railroad station as the men
detrained in frosty weather. Army
trucks transported most of them i'm
mediately to an old school building
near the police station, where they
will be quartered. Others were taken
to the National Guard Armory.
The movement into the city was
quietly executed. 1t was understood
no patrol duty in the strike district
was Immediately contemplated for any
OF the soldiers. This was in keeping
with Gov. Murphy's statement when
he announced plans to dispatch the
National Guardsmen to this city.
500 Workers From Toledo.
At the State house it was said the
Governor had been informed that
there were 500 auto workers in Flint
from Toledo, Ohio. In the Ohio city
It was said that 1000 members of
the U. A. w. A. there and several
hundred members of the United
Rubber Workers of America from
Akron had driven to Flint.
Michigan State police were STOP
ping motorists near Monroe, Mich, on
the two main highways leading from
Toledo and ascertaining that they
were not armed before permitting
them to proceed.
Murphy requested William S. Knud-
sen, General Motors executive vice
president, and Homer Martin, pres
ident Of the United Automobile Work.
ers OF America, each accompanied by
two associates, to meet in Lansing at
II am. (E. S. T) tomorrow with the
Governor and James F. Dewey, Fed
eral labor conciliator.
Martin announced he would accept
the invitation. Should Kundsen ac-
cept it, it would be the first meeting
of the opposing sides in formal confer
ence since the start of the strikes.
Pending the outcome of this con-
ference. Gov. Murphy requested
Joseph r. Joseph, Genesee County
Flnt) prosecutor, to withhold Serv.
ice of John Doe" warrants for the
arrest of the several hundred strikers
remaining in the Fisher Body, No. 2,
lSee CTP IYE pone
Evening star., 1937-01-13
MICHIGAN MILITIA
ARRIVING
T0BAR NEW RIOTS
Given Gov. Murphy's Orders
to "Preserve Peace" in.
Strike Center.
STATE EXECUTIVE CALLS
PARLEY OF OPPONENTS
Civilians Relieved by Arrival of
1,2O0-Martin Accepts Bid
to Conference.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
John L. Lewk' CAMPAIGN, tDhich
gathered force last year, for Uer-
tical rather than horizontal organ
isution OF labor occasioned occu-
pdtiondl strikes and iUalkouts in
the automobile industry, 1uhere his
COMMITTEE for Industrial Orgdni-
cation undertook first to organize
labor in opposition to established
unions affiliated ,uith the A. F. OF L.
United Automobile Workers, a
c.. !. o. organization, demanded
that it be recognized By General
Motors Corp. as the sole bargain
ing agency for the automobile
Dorkers. Flint, Mich, center OF oc-
cupational strikes, scene OF riots
Monday night ,phen strikers claShed
tDith city police. Federal intervsn-
ton in prospect.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Summary of Today's Star


FOREIGN.
Powers study plans to avert threats
of war. Page Al
New complications increase pains suf-
fered by Pope. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Rescurers picture tragedy Of plane
crash fatal to one. Page Al
Congress studies governmental reor-
ganization plan. Page Al
Independent hackers idle, plan gen.
eral taxi strike. Page Al
Hopkins explains $790, 100000 relief
plea Of Roosevelt. Page Al
Thomas w. Page succumbs in Char
lottesville at age of 70. Page AS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
D. G. real estate men amazed at fiscal
statements. Page Al
Taxi strike threat lessons as commits
sion hears grievances. Page Al
Man kills three in family, hurts 2,
dies under train. Page Al
Cummings and Hazen discuss Jail
congestion. Page Az
Americans feared held as hostages In
Sianfu. Page A-4
Joint study of fiscal relations
discussed. Page B-1
Reorganization message cheers pay
raise advocates. Page B-1
Democrats select four new members Of
House District committee. Page B-1
Seamen predict protest march to
Capital. . Page B.1
Evening star., 1937-01-13
EUROPE STUDIES
SECURITY PLANS
Moves to Check Threats of
War Are Mapped by
Powers.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
When Spanish cipil wnr broke
out last July in Morocco rebels
adpanced quickly to mainland and
began slou process of 'encircling
Madrid. One by one practically oil
important cities Were taken by
Fascist foes OF Socialist Communist
regime and fall OF Madrid Das
looked torUdrd to as signal of pic
tory for rebels. Actual stornino of
Madrid began last October, but en-
battled Loyalists withstood attack
better than any one expected and
city remained untdken. Both sides
are in need OF Notwithstanding
uictory, so new, hard fight for cap
ital city looms.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
D. c. TAXI STRIKE
THREAT lessons
Independents Pressing for
Inauguration Tie-up to
Get Hearing.

Possibility of general taxicab
strike during the Inauguration seemed
remote today as several hundred idle
independent Understandable to enlist
the support of large associations
found the Public Utilities Commission
ready to hear their protests against
low rates and other grievances.
Despite the fact police reported a
strike already in progress and ar
rested nine drivers for disorderly con-
duct after they allegedly interferred
with the operations of non-striking
drivers, spokesmen for the disgruntled
hackers informed District officials nc
walk-out had been called.
A check-up by the hack inspectors
Office revealed. however. that approxi-
mately 800 drivers had laid off" to
attend mass meeting this afternoon
at which plans of procedure will be
formulated.
Committee to Be Named.
Brewing for several days, the strike
became a reality about ! am. today
when the independent drivers gathered
in Columbia Typographical Temple,
425 G street. to air their troubles and
appoint a committee to confer with
the utilities commission.
Immediately after the meeting car
loads of dissatisfied drivers patrolled
the streets, distributing handbills urg-
ing hackers at work not to carry pas
sengers and pointing out the strike is
on today"
stand tight! Don't give in or re-
peat the mistake of June, 1885," the
circulars read, having reference to the
unsuccessful attempt to have fares
raised prior to the ShrinerS' conven.
tion in 1885.
The circulars also told the drivers to
ISee TAXIS. Page A.2l
Evening star., 1937-01-13

(See FISCAL, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1937-01-13

(See STRIKE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-01-13

(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-01-13

(See SPAIN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Committee to Be Named.

(See TAXIS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-01-13
EXPECTED BABY OFFERED

(See KILLINGS, Page A-4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-05
Thomas J. Lynch

is Thomas J. Lynch, who died last Friday, former chief of the Fire Department ot this city, was public servant of the \ highest type. Beginning as fireman, he ' rose in the ranks of the department, until he became its head. In this latter capacity 2 as we'll as a fireman in the ranks he car ried on his work in thorough and ' efficient manner. He had been retired last s February and it is to be regretted that 2 he could not live longer to reap an earthly reward for his labors in the preservation of life and property in the city which he served so long.
 As a veteran of the Fire Department, Chief Lynch saw 1t grow from the out dated volunteer system to the present efficient organization. He advanced from promotion to promotion until he became chief of the department. He saw and participated in Waterbury's major fires for more than forty years. He was, like wise, one of the few remaining f1remen who did service during the biggest fire in the citys history, that of 1902, when big portion of the business section was wiped out Subsequently he fought in the Connecticut and Hodson Hotel fires, the City Hall fire, and previous to that in the nineties the Conlon Brothers fire. The passing of man of Chief Lynch's caliber, one who did his best in his chosen work, makes one think of the immense strides of department, such as the Fire, within less than a fifty year period .,
 It is such men as Thomas J. Lynch who help to bring about such develop ment. Ills appliance to duty was lesson to all. He earned the. respect that has been accorded him, the honors in life, and the fine expressions of commenda- tion since his demise. All will greatly miss Chief Lynch, one of our city's splendid characters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-05
Shifting Trends

Just as If we didn't have enough other
 things to worry about these days, we are now invited to view with alarm the fact that mother doesn't begin to hustle around In the kitchen the way she used z to. The invitation comes in the form ! of an address delivered before recent convention of the American Gas Asso- < citation by veteran gas company { executive, Walter G. Beckjord.
 { The good old days of man-sized break lasts, says MT. Beckjord, seem to be gone 5 forever. No longer does the sturdy citizen ( sit down to table full of bacon and eggs, cornbread, potatoes and fried cornmeal : mush, as in the good old days. Instead he looks respectfully at glass of orange juice, plate of toast and cup of coffee . and calls that skimpy combination his morning meal.
 z MT. Beckjord and the gas companies
 draw cards in this situation, of course, because of the fact that when mother
 cooks big breakfast she uses lot of fire; and when, as and if she Is using gas range, lot of the gas company's product is consumed. The orange juice,
 toast and coffee combination, on the
 other hand, burns very little gas-none
 at all, as MT. Beckjord remarks sadly, if
 there are electric coasters and percolators
 in the house.
 Now all of this probably strikes the ordi-
 nary citizen as mildly amusing. Yet it is
 far from amusing to the gas companies,
 which find an unlooked-for shift in popu-
 lar habits cutting into their business;
 and it is just sample of the unpre-
 dictable hazards that all kinds of business face these days. : The cotton textile industry, for in- stance, had no way of knowing that women were suddenly going to stop
 wearing three petticoats at time and lcontent themselves with one filny slip; but they did, and the demand for cotton textiles is a good many million yards less today than it would be otherwise. Nor could the baking industry foresee that these same women would decide that bread was fattening-and thereby knock a sizable hole in the annual sales of that commodity.
 You could go on citing such examples all day, and when you got through you would begin to understand why business executives so often get gray hair. Ordi- nary competition business man expects He can meet that; it's part of the game. Rut when some new habit or idea sud- denlv carries his customers entirely away from the whole industry of which he is part, he is next to helpless.
 Such shifts are characteristic of American life. They offer fortunes to the men who can foresee them and get in |rnnt Of them; but they mean the biggest .|nd Of trouble to the men who get .8nohi in the squeeze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-05
Ed. Howe

He was pretty generally known as the "Sage of Potato Hill" His home he called Potato Hill, and 1t goes without saying that he was considerable of sage. Edgar w. Howe was an outstanding news paper type. He was the sort you might see in play described as "a character part" He was an author, an editor and philosopher. Perhaps the large army of erudite ones might not regard his philosophy as great; it was all his own, and one which unfortunately SO many of us are not apt to accept or practice in the general scheme of life. This philosophy of Ed Howes embraced a system of living whereby he was inter- ested in the small things of life; this was reflected in his writings, and was accom- panied by his sharp humor.
 He wrote books. When we say books, we do not specify as to number, since he wrote SO many. His homely wit and spe- cial philosophy characterized them all. Better than anything else he liked news paper work which he began at the age of twelve, publishing his first newspaper at the age of nineteen. It is safe to say he wrote and expressed himself about as uOLACSVAy do d u1d41 COuAus 4OU AAAEAI say safely, too, that he was fair exponent of the freedom of the press. The Kansas sage" as he was also called, was, as the story writers aptly put it, man of parts. He had so many delightful and piquant modes of expression that he might be summed up best from some of his own sayings. He said: "I am common man, and come of long line of common folks. Nearly everybody knows as much as do, and good many know more. have al- ways been satisfied if rated as average since the average in this blessed country is reasonably high"
 The thing nearest his heart was the country newspaper, and he was known to have said that If he could live his life again he would devote all his time to writing for and publishing such one. In conclusion we take a few lines from the citation when he received an honorary degree from Rollins college in 1927: "for your incompatible books of travel; for your myriad whimsy paragraphs of com mon sense but above all for your mastery of the greatest of all literary arts, the art of being interesting" And this to some extent sums up Ed Howe. He was a mighty interesting man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-05
A Book a Day
18th Century France Brought to Life

Someone has said that merely rubbing shoulders with celebrities does not give 6 man the right to publish his "reminiscences; he must be able to write them well. By such standards the Goncourts have every right to publish "The Goncourt Journals, 1e5i-ie70," translated by Lewis 0alantiere (Doubleday-D -Doran: $3.50).
 These are day-by-day accounts by two representative young men who dedicated their lives to the study of reality, for whom "art and letters were oxygen and life," whose sole passions were "the face whose sole passions were "the face of woman and the speech of man."
 They had plenty of opportunity to meet the freest spirits of their day at the fortnightly Magny dinners, a superb place to find Saint-Beuve spouting spiteful anecodtes; Flau- bert reading aloud in 8 "sonorous voice that cradles you in sound like a bronze murmur"; the torpid Gautier, sultan of the epithet," de- livering himself of paradoxes and fantasies; Renan conceiving of God as an oyster; Taine eulogizing the English.
 Gautier worked best in his pub fishers shop. He could turn out pages only under pressure, the printer snatching them and run ming to the press.
 Faulbert, on the other hand, took seven years to write @ 400-page novel. For him from was more es- sential than idea. He wrote the ends of his sentences first-for cadence! The young Zola, "our admirer," 1" came to see the Goncouts who, with Flaubert, were his masters, 2 brusting with plans for an eight volume history of the people,"
 Fascinating are the close-upS of authors actually at work. You see the Goncourts themselves, up all night tat the Charity Hospital tak- ing notes from the quick, from the gaping wound itself," though the hospital smells made them sick for days afterward.
 The 0oncourts set themselves the task of taking the pulse of litera- ture; they really give life to the France of their time. Anyone inc terested in 18th century France cannot fan to enjoy the journals and the remarkably readable Bio- graphical Repertory which dalan- tisro has appended.-p. @. E