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Evening star., 1937-12-05
SESSION PLANNED
BY W0MAN'S PARTY
Vera Britain, Senator Burke and
Raymond Gram Swing to
Address BANQUET.

A banquet at the Carlton Hotel, at
which Vera Britain, English author;
Senator Burke OF Nebraska and Ray
mond Gram Swing, writer and radio
commentator, will speak, will be a
high light Of the biennial national
conference of the National Woman's
Party December 14-15.
The banquet will be held the first
night of the meetings and will be pre-
sided over by Mrs. Sarah Thomson
Pell, national chairman.
The second day will be featured bv
luncheon at the Cosmos Club. pre-
sided over by Amelia Hines Walker
OF Baltimore, who during the suffrage
campaign 20 years ago was sentenced
to the District Workhouse for her suf-
1rage activities. In recent years, she
mas been prominent in civic and club
circles IN Maryland. She is a former
member of the Woman's Party Ma
tional Council and a past president of
the party's Maryland branch.
Business of the conference will be
transacted at two sessions. one at 2
pm. the first day and the second at
. am the second day. Both business
sessions will be at the Alva Belmont
House, national headquarters of the
party. Mrs, Helen Robbins Bitterman
OF columbus, Ohio, will preside at the
hrst session and Adelaide Stedman of
New York at the second.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
ROBBERY SUSPECT
SLAIN BY OFFICERS
Second Wounded, Third Escapes.
Deputy Sheriff Shot in.
Gun Battle.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn, Dec. A.
Oficers shot and killed q suspected
robber near here early today and
wounded another in a gun battle. in
which a deputy sheriff also was
wounded. A third suspect escaped.
The officers, seeking three men for
the robbery late last night of a
storekeeper. came upon the suspects
on railroad grade about miles
from Springfield
Sheriff r. w. Benson said the cap
tured man, who was shot in the
thigh, identified himself as James
Doran, "a. of Union City, Tenn. Ben
son quoted him as saying he had
served term in the Missouri State
Penitentiary IN 1880 and 1881 on Q
grand larceny charge.
The slain man was known to Doran
only as Shorty" and was said by
him to have served a term in the
Eddyville, KY, Penitentiary.
Doran told officers the man who
escaped was called "Slim." He was
wounded. Benson quoted Doran as
saying the fugitive had served q term
Evening star., 1937-12-05

Ask Pay Cuts Be Abolished.
Government employees of the Meth
erlands want their pre-depression SAL
aries restored,
Evening star., 1937-12-05
DOCTORS ADDRESS
PAN.AMERICAN UNIT
Three Famous Physicians to Be
Heard by Association at ,
Mexican Embassy Tonight

Three world-famous doctors will
read papers at meeting of the Wash
1ngton Chapter of the Pan-American
Medical Association at the Mexican
Embassy at o'clock tonight.
DR.. Ludwig Hektoen, director of the
National Cancer Advisory Council. will
talk on cancer research; Prof. Henry
A. Sigerist, director Of Johns Hopkins
Institute of History of Medicine. will
speak on Russian medicine, and Dr.
Ramon Castroviejo Of Spain will talk
on the most recent surgical advances.
The program will close with the
showing of a series of Latin American
travelogues in colors. A reception for
members Of the chapter and their
wives will follow.
Among those expected to attend are
the Ambassadors of Brazil, Cuba,
Spain and Russia, the Minister of
Panama, Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran
and a number Of physicians from Bal
timore, Philadelphia and Richmond.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
GIFTS PROMISED
T0ALL NEEDY TOTS
Christ Child Society Calls on
All Poor Children to
Write for Presents.

The Christ Child Society, Catholic
welfare organization with headquar-
ters at 608 Massachusetts, avenue NE,
today extended an invitation to every
child, regardless OF creed or color,
In q poveyty-stricken home to write
the society asking for the gift he
or she most desires.
The letters from the children will
be sent to members Of the society to
be answered, and each member care
fully selects the gift requested. Last
year the society distributed gifts asked
for in 2,2OO letters.
This custom of the Christ Child
Society began so years ago, when a
ragged little colored boy was halted
by Miss Mary v. Merrick. foundress
OF the organization, who is still its
president. and asked: What will you
ask for on. Christmas Day?"
Me? Oh. I don't expect nothing.
My fathers too poor to give us any
eAAAis' viz .AAeeAC wy 1CPAlCu
Write to the Christ Child" Mrs
Merrick told him. Its His birthday,
and He will send you something"
The little boy returned some time
later with l8 letters from other chill
dren in his neighborhood Each letter
asked for Christmas gift, and each
gift was presented Christmas morning.
The Christ Child Society finances
from its own funds the expenses in
cidental to this Christmas work, but
Its normal activities are partly paid
for through the Community Chest, Of
which the society is a member
The society distributes clothing to
thousands of destitute children, main
tains free dental clinic for chill
dren, operates convalescent home
on Norbeck Pike for children, main
tains fresh air camp for white girls
and another for colored girls and a
Settlement House at 60S Massachu-
sets avenue NE, frequented by l,70O
boys and girls.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
SENATOR BONE, i'll,
ENTERS HOSPITAL
Qhice Describes Ailment as Slight
Attack Of Stomach
Trouble.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Homer r. Bone, Democrat,
Of Washington went to the Naval
Hospital yesterday for observation
after what his ONCE described as a
slight attack Of stomach trouble.
At the hospital physicians said the
Senator's condition was mot imme-
diately serious" but defined to COM
ment on results Of diagnosis.
Senator Bone returned to Wash
ineton a week after the special ses-
sion Of Congress started and COM
planned then to friends Of mot feel
ing particularly well"
Members of his Office staff ex-
pressed opinion he had eaten some-
thing which did not agree with him,
while visiting friends in the South
Ray Seelig, his secretary, said the
Senator thought it was advisable to
enter the hospital because his family
Is not in Washington.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
MAN CH0KES AND R0BS
WOMAN NEAR HER HOME
Hold-Up Man Throws Away $3.50
in Haste to Escape After
Beating Victim.

By 4 Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. Mrs.
Annie Brown, IS, was choked. beaten
and robbed of her pocketbook con-
tanning sl65 by colored man block
from her home at 400 South Fairfax
street here tonight.
The man threw away $3.50 wrapped
in a handkerchief in the pocketbook
in his haste to get away. The money
was found by Corpl. William Bayliss
Of the Alexandria police. who inves-
tigated. Police broadcast a lookout
for the man.
Mrs. Brown told police she was
walking in the 800 block of South
Fairfax street when the man sud-
denly attacked her, throwing her to
the ground and choking her. He
beat her with his fists and then
grabbed her pocketbook and ran, she
said.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
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Evening star., 1937-12-05
Louis Dreeben to Sing.

Louis Dreeben, baritone, will sing
several selections at the Interna-
tional Student Club meeting at the
clubs headquarters, 17o8 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, tonight. He will
be accompanied by Miss Henrietta
Hallam.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
Sues After "A Years.

Masytshane Kumalo has sued Tolani
Ntumalo, another native, in Dundee,
South Africa. for the return of two
oxen loaned to Ntumalo A years ago.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
POST OFFICE Committee
OF SENATE ASSAILED
Chairman Mead Of House Body
Charges Group With "Repudiat-
ing" Ramspeck Bill.

ing" Ramspeck Bill.
BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Mead Of the House Post
Once Committee yesterday criti-
cized what he termed . Senate COM
mittee's "repudiation" Of legislation
designed to place all postmasters under
civil service.
He said bill by Representative
Ramspeck. Democrat. Of Georgia,
passed by the House last session, has
been "repudiated" by the Senate Post
ONCE Committee An entirely new
measure Of their own concoction," "
continuing the patronage system"
has been presented to the Senate. Mr..
Mead said.
Evening star., 1937-12-05

in Leavenworth and also terms in
two State prisons.
Deputy Sheriff Bunyan Randolph
was shot in the side during the bat
tie. Benson said approximately 20
shots were fired.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
Coins Collected in Tons.

Coins collected from electricity
meter coin slots in West Ham, Eng
land, in the last year weighed 12S
tons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
BRITAIN BUSHES
 MORE WARSHIPS
Continued from Page D

leave as soon as tests were finished on its new engines and anti-air- craft guns, ana was due to join the Mediterranean fleet within two weeks.
 It is asserted 1n navy quarters that the Malaya and Warspite, their re- construction just completed at a cost of $15,00o,000, are the hardest hitting, best protected" warships in the world.
 News from all capitals was grave.
 Paris reported Spanish loyalist charge, transmitted by the Agence Espagne that Italy was speeding war planes to nationalist Spain.
 Berlin, through its official DNB agency, alleged in dispatch dated from the French-Spanish border that Basque loyalists on the Bilbao Santander front were using gas shells.
 Valencia, the loyalists capital, de- nying this, charged that the allega- ton was the foundation for the use of poison gas by the foreigners who have invaded our fatherland and by the wretches who wish to hand Spain over to them"
 Italy Is Astonished
 Rome reported that Italians were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
FUNERALS

The funeral of Peter r. Collier will be held from the Bergin fu- neral home, 200 East Main street on Monday morning at s:s0 o'clock to St. Margaret's church where a sole emn mass of requiem will be ceie- brated at 9 o'clock. BuSal will be in St. Francis cemetery, Naugatuck. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening and tomorrow afternoon and eve. ming.
 The funeral of Dorothy Ann Ed- wards, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edwards of l4 Mid- de street, was held yesterday aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock at the Clark fu- neral home, with Rev. T. Leroy Crosby officiating. Burial was in old Pine Grove cemetery.
 The funeral of Maurice T. Row land of Watertown will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home on Main street, that town, with Rev. Dr. John N. Lewis of St. Johns Episcopal church. this city, officiating. Burial. which will be private, will be in Riverside cem. etery.
 The funeral of Alfred Derouin was held this morning at 0:30 o'clock from the Bellville funeral home, 68 East Clay street to St. Ann's church where 6 solemn high Mass was celebrated at 9 o'clock. Burial was in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03

astonished by the sudden hardening of British French policy and were preparing to meet what they felt would be the gravest crisis since the World war.
 There were indications here that there was real ground for the 1tal- ian astonishment. Britain had con- sidered granting the nationalists belligerent rights, which would have permitted them-with any aid they could get-to blockade the coasts of Spain with the sanction of in- ternational law.
 On Thursday this attitu d e changed suddenly and drastically. Britain and France agreed to reject all Italian German demands and to permit the collapse of the entire non- intervention plan if necessary.
 This change of attitude was first disclosed through inspired state ments to newspapers, and was fol- lowed up at once by official notif1- cation to the German and Italian governments through the British embassies at Berlin and Rome.
 The key subcommittee of the non- n-intervention committee, the "chairman's subcommittee" is to meet Monday or Tuesday. No hope was foreseen that a complete dead lock could be avoided. Hence it was expected that full plenary meet ing of the non-intervention com- mittee, with 27 European nations represented, would see the collapse of neutrality later in the week.
 Left Tor Valencia
 Paris, July 3-(UP)-Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Jose Giral of the Spanish loyalist gov- ernment left by airplane for Valen- cia today after an urgent appeal to the French government for arms. 1 Anticipating the collapse of the non- n-intervention agreement in the Spanish civil war crisis the loyal ist leaders met Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Won Delbos and told them that the loyalists sorely needed help to main- tain the republic.
 It was understood that they as- serted that the loyalist munition supply wasl ow as the result of 2 1-2 months of naval neutrality control while the nationalists were obtain ing great quantities of supplies.
 Negrin emphasized that there was particular need for munitions be- cause the loyalists expected three gigantic offensives by the nation- alists-one on Madrid, one on the northeastern front, and . third along the Catalouian border from Pamplona. designed to cut of loy- alist Spain from contact by band l with Frana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03

Australia, via Ranoon, Singaoper, Bandoeng, Surabaya and Kupang.
 They landed at Port Darwin last Sunday. The next day they reached Lac, New Guinea, after a 1,207-mile flight.
 Left Last Thursday
 They left Lac at 10 p. m. EDT last Thursday expecting to land at Rowland Island, Oceania, Is hours later. The 2.556-mile route was over Equatorial seas dotted with tropical islands, some of them supposedly still populated by savage or canni- balistic tribes.
 When they did not reach How land, a two and a half mile long island of sand, rising but a few feet above the oceans surface, Ii was assumed Miss Earhart had sci the p.1ne down on the usually placid Pacific.
 In that event, it appeared likely that she and Noonan were not ir any immediate danger. The Plying Laboratory" So-called because il carried many mechanical aids tc navigation and devices for testing plane and engine performance - was so constructed that it could float indefinitely upon calm sea
 Tanks As POnto0ns
 If the gasoline tanks were empty as the aviatrix's last messages indi- cated they probably were, the wing tanks would act as pontoons to sup port the fuselage.
 The late Stanislaus Felix Haus- ner, a Polish American flyer, float ed eight days in his land plane on the rougher Atlantic before being rescued in 1892. The year before Rody, Johanssen and Da Costa Veiga, also in a land plane, f1oated seven days of Newfoundland.
 In the Plying Laboratory" were a rubber boat, flares and an orange kite for use as a distress signal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
OBITUARY

FLAGG- Frederick N. Flagg, of Spring street, Willimantic, died sud- denly of a heart attack at his home yesterday morning. MT. Flagg was a former Waterbury resident and moved with his family to Williman- tic about 10 years ago. Funeral services will be held at o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Willimantic.
 MT. Flagg was veteran of the Spanish American war and was prominent in veterans circles. While a resident of Waterbury he was associated with the Barlow Bros. Co.,, for a number of years.
 Survivors include his widow and one son, Nelson, of Willimantic.
 IRELAND-Mrs. Emma (Schle- geD Ireland, a native of this city died yesterday afternoon at her home in Detroit. She 1'as the wi- dow of David M. Ireland who died Dec. 26, 1886.
 Mrs. Ireland is survived by two sons, William K, and David Ire- land; one daughter, Mrs. Rosalie Straw, all of Detroit; a brother Will liam; two nieces, Mrs. Ernest A. An- derson and Miss Edwina Schlegel, all of Waterbury and nephew VII. fred B. Schlegel and several grand- children.
 A daughter, Mrs. William Staple- ton, also of Detroit, died 10 days ago.
 The body will be brought to this city Wednesday morning for burial in the Schlegel family plot in Ri- verside cemetery.
 OBEREMPT-Frederick D. Ober- empt, 72, brother of William Ober- empt of this city, died last evening at his home in Southington after a brief illness.
 The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from his home, on the South End Road with Rev. George c. Hackman of the First Evangelical Lutheran church of Southt1gton officiating. Burial will be in South End cemetery. Southington.
 REGAN-Thomas J. Began of l92 Baldwin street died at St. Mary's hospital last night after a brief ill- ness. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Anna Sheahan Began, one brother, Michael of Chicago, one sister, Mary Began of Ireland and many nieces and nephews. He was born in Ireland and was resident of this city 35 years. He was jani- tor at Crosby high school and previously was the janitor at Beg nal school.
 He was a communicant of the Immaculate Conception church, 6 member of the Holy Name society, @ member of Msgr Slocum branch, A. o. H., and a member of the Brass City Aerie of Eagles. He always lived in the Baldwin street section of the city.
 The funeral will be held from his home Monday at 8:l6 with a solemn high mass at the Immacu- late Conception church at g and burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03

assistant to engineering officer and William Thaler, ships clerk.
 The four-engined Caledonia will take off Monday from Foynes under the command of Captain A. s. Wil- cockson. It will be due at Botwood early Tue5cay.
 Although both flights and others projected are independent, the com- panies of all four nations will share their data and facilities. The French company will move chartered steamer, Carimare, into mid-Atlan- tic on July 10 to establish wea- ther station. The French craft, the Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris, will make survey flights to Port Wash ington by way of Lisbon, Portugal, and the Azores.
 The four-engined catapult sea- planes, Nordmeer and Nordwind will make experimental flights for the Lufthansa between the Friesan- land, of the Azores and the Schwa- benland. of Port Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03

New Guinea, at 6 p. m. PSF. Thurs day, and should have reached this island at noon Friday, PSF.
 Two Rubber Rafts
 The flying laboratory carried two rubber rafts aboard, and enough food to last several days. There also was a device for making drink ing water.
 The supposition was that by some slight miScalcuulation in navigation, Miss Earhart's plane had missed the island, which could not be seen even from a plane, 100 miles away.
 The island is about two and a half miles long and less than half a mile wide. The Itasca had been stationed there with fuel for Miss Earharts plane. Just 56 minutes before her final radio message, Miss Earhart had estimated in another radio contact that she was about 100 miles from the Itasca.
 255O Miles Over Ocean
 The stretch between Lac and Rowland Island is 2,550 mile ex- panse of Pacific.
 As devices for signaling her dis tress, Miss Earhart had flares and a bright orange kite, the one for night and the for day.
 No plane before had made the Lae-Howland flight. Miss Ear~ hart's had been 8 trail-blazing trip on the course that is to be used later in trans-Pacifi ctravel between California and Australia by Pan- American Airways. Hers, however, was a private expedition.
 If the plane were undamaged 1n landing, its radio transmitter would be useful in the water, though prob ably not for so great a distance.
 The Itasca had fuel for a slX-day search. The U. s. s. Ontario, which had been stationed half way be- tween Lac and Rowland in case of emergency, was equipped for a shorter search and was farther re- moved from the scene.
 Navy planes out of Honolulu would have to fly directly to How land, search as long as their fuel supplies permitted, and then go to Johnstown Island to await a navy tender which would bring fuel. Rowland is 1900 miles southwest of Honolulu. Johnstown is 500 miles from Rowland, in the direction of Honolulu.
 Took Her Time
 Miss Earhart'S world flight had been at leisurely gait. She left Miami, Fla, month ago and took the longest way around the globe, a 270o0-mile route close to and crossing the equator.
 It was one of the few aerial eX- petitions left for her to pioneer. She has twice flown the Atlantic, and once crossed the Pacific from Oak land, Calif., to Honolulu, That was two months ago, when she first began the projected world flight and crashed in taking off from Ho- nolulu. She returned to California, had the plane repaired, and went to Miami to make her second start.
 On an Atlantic flight the 39-year- old flyer, who is without equal as a pilot among her sex, was missing for many hours. That was in 1882 and she was crossing the ocean alone. She was found on the coast of Ireland, where she landed after the fastest ocean flight that had been made at that time.
 The flying laboratory" was pow cred with two Wasp enCines that developed $50 horsepower and 22o miles an hour top speed. Its fuel capacity was 1,15l gallons and its cruising range 4,0oo miles. Cost of the plane and its elaborate equip ment was paid by Putnam and by Purdue university, which was in- terested in the scientific aspects of Miss Earhart's flight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
GEORGE PALMER
 PUTNAM WAITS
tContlnued fronn rage D

et80 .------------------- -~.---~ --~-~---- at the Oakland, Cal, airport, wired the navy department that "techni- cian's familiar with Miss Earhart's plane believe, with it's large tanks, it can float almost indefinitely
 "With retractable landing gear and smooth seas," his message said, "safe landing should have been practi- cable.
 "Reuuest such assistance as is practicable from naval aircraft and surface craft stationed at Honolulu. Apparently planes position not far from Rowland"
 The coast guard acted to press second craft, the Roger B. Fancy, into the search, but learned that the cutter was undergoing repairs iu Honolulu.
 Coast guardsmen said they be- lieved Miss Earhart had overshot the tiny island and had come down somewhere in the vast mid.Paciflc region out of the course of regular ships.
 All Night Vigil
 All night, Putnam remained con- fident of his wife's safety. They'll come through all right" he said repeatedly. "The plane was bouyant and would be hard to sink. She and Noonan have sufficient ratiOns for several days" Most of the night he spent at the coast guard radio sta- ton in San Francisco, then he went to the Oakland airport where he maintains an office. He talked with Paul Mantz, Miss Earharts technical adviser who acc companied her on the flight from Oakland to Honolulu earlier this year. Mantz encouraged him. Mantz said the plane could stay afioat almost indefinitely" Mrs. N0onan Hopeful
 Also confident was Mrs. Frederick Noonan, who waited at her home in the San Francisco Bay area for news. T know they'll be all right" she said. They may have few un- comfortable hours but I know the coast guard or somebody else will pick them up. have all the con- fidence in the world in my htls- bands flying ability and his luck"
 Mrs. Amy Earhart, the flyers mother, went to the home of friends in Los Angeles to spend last night, Friends said she was bearing up well.
 Food abroad the missing plane consisted mostly of matted milk tablets and chocolate. A ''rebreath- CT" outfit manufactures drinking water by condensing Q persons breath.