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Evening star., 1938-09-10

The disturbance that was south Of New
foundland Friday morning has moved
slowly northeaStward with diminishing in
tensity, St.. Johns, Newfoundland, a.s6
inches and broad trough extends thence
south-southwestward to the vicinity Of
Bermuda. St; Georges, 1924 inches. Pres.
sure Is low also from Alaska southeastward
to Minnesota and Wisconsin and thence
southwestward to Arizona and California,
Kodiak Alaska, 29.34 inches; Prince Al
bert. Sask.. 29.6S inches; Blythe. Calf.
2974 inches. and Phillipsburs. Kans.. 1854
inches. Pressure IS low over the Western
Gulf Of Mexico. Brownsville. Tex. 29.s2
and Western Quebec southwark to Georgia
San Maur. Quebec. 30.44 inches and
White River Junction, Vt. 30.42 inches.
and from British Columbia southeastward
to wyoming. Kamloops. British Columbia.
1924 inches. Showers have occurred from
ward to the upper Lake region and thence
East Gulf States Showers occurred also
along the West Gulf Coast and in portions
Of Arizona, New Mexico and Washington.
The rainfall was again heavy in Wiscon-
moni ,n Il. cGss'e ncp.s IpsDornF the
has risen slightly in the Lake region and
the Ohio Valley while cooler weather has
overspread Utah the northern Rocky
Mountain resion and the Dskotas.
North and Middle Atlantic States
shoEers Monday and possibly Tuesday and
at end Of week: Rising temperature Mon
day. cooler by Wednesday. slightly warmer
about Thursday and cooler<at end Of week
Ohio Valley and Tennessee-Showers
Monday and again about Thurssday: other
night. warmer middle Of week and cooler
BY Fridpv
Evening star., 1938-09-10
$40 Bookkeeper
Steals 100000
For Night Life
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-A $20-a-week-
bookkeeper was CHARGED today with
stealing 81, 900 from the company that
gave him 1 job after he had served
= e-ysar prison term for embeszling
$4,000.
Police sergt. John J. Murphy said
that Hill Turckel, Is, admitted that
he had drawn the money from COM
pany funds over . two-year period
and spent it-all but s147-night club
btng and having . general good time.
Turckel. who came to this country
virtually penniless 10 years ago from
Rumania, Murphy said. confessed that
he had used signed checks left with
him by Mack Wen1el, head Of the
Wensel Co., motion picture protector
manufacturers, when the latter fire.
quently left town on business.
The oMcer said Turckel had made
out 180 checks to himself and had
forged the counter signature Of Fred
J. Wenzel, another ofiicer OF the firm.
A sharp-eyed bank clerk brought
about Turkels' arrest when he investi-
gated the authenticity Of the counter
signature.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
THIRD TERM MOVE
IN PURGE IS SEEN
Senator Townsend Says Roosevelt
Apparently Seeks Definite
Party Realignment.
Ey the Associated Press,


Senator Townsend, Republican, OF
Delaware expressed the opinion today
that President Roosevelt's interven-
ton in Democratic primaries was de-
signed to build party organization
which would return him to the White
House for third term.
Senator Townsend, who is chairman
Of the Republican Senatorial Cam
paign Committee, predicted that the
President would fail II this was his pro-
gram.
1T looks very much like he is at
tempting to build q Farmer-Labor
party and at the same time hold on to
the name of the Democratic party"
Senator Townsend said In an inter-
view. HE appears to be attempting
= definite realignment Of parties"
Senator Townsend expressed doubt
that the Wisconsin La Follettes would
bring their forces under the banner Of
the Democratic party in 1910, even II
the President succeeded in making 1t
"a thoroughgoing vehicle for liberals" !"
Senator Schwartz, Democrat, Of Wyo-
ming said he thought Mr.. Roosevelt did
not desire q third term, but added, If
We can't find a man to carry out the
general principles of the New Deal, the
people may draft him."
Senator Schwarts contended 4 re-
ahgnm0t Of liberals" and ''conserva.
tives" Us inevitable.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
RECORDS TOO BULKY.
FIRM BALKS AT QUIZ
Borden Company Says $4,000, 900
Exhibits Would Weigh 345,0N
Pounds, Fill Courtroom.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-The Borden
Co., one Of the largest dairy concerns
IN the United States, served notice
last night it would ask the Federal
Court to quash as "burdensome, oner-
GUS and unconscionable" two subpoe-
mas issued in connection with the Gov
ernment's investigation OF the milk
Industry to determine whether a milk
trust exists.
A petition accompanying the notice
served on United States District At
torney Michael L. Igoe and Leo F..
Tterney, special assistant United States
attorney general, protested that the
records demanded would have to be
gathered from 81 States and 80 un-
designated locations.
One subpoena, the petition set
forth. calls for total Of 27.454.747
exhibits which, when collected in one
OF the Federal courtrooms here, would
NIL it to depth of 1872 feet.
The cost of assembling the exhibits
IN Chicago would exceed $50, 1000. ex-
elusive Of labor COSTS" the petition
stated.
Subpoena No. 2, the companys
petition claimed, requires the produc-
ton OF 17,656.487 exhibits weighing
$4,000 pounds. Mr.. Tierney COM
mented
III the Borden Company and its
counsel had spent as much time in
producing the documents as they pur-
portedly spent in counting, weighing
and measuring them, the documents
would be on hand Monday morning"
Evening star., 1938-09-10
JAPANESE PRESS
RAIL LINE DRIVE
Report Efforts to Sever
Peiping-Hankow Railway
Near Realization,
By the Associated Press.


SHANGHAI, Sept. 1o.-The Japa-
nese reported today their long de
layed objective of severing the Pieping-
Hankow Railway south of the Yellow
River WAS near realization.
They said one Of their columns
had made a surprise attack to the
southwest from the Lunghai Railway
zone in North Honan province and
had advanced to within As miles Of
the Peiping Hankow line.
The column was aiming at a point
IS miles south OF Chengchow, juno
ton Of the Lunghai and Peiping Ham
kow lines, the japanese reported.
This would place the column about
200 miles north Of Hankow. China
provisional capital
The invaders reported another COL
umn was advancing westward through
Southeast Honan, hoping to strike
the Peiping Hankow line at Sinyane.
100 miles north Of Hankow, but Chi
nese said vigorous counter attacks
had thrown the Japanese back.
Meanwhile, Chinese military au-
thorities ordered evacuation of O.OOO
women from the Hankow area to IA
cilitate defense preparations The
women were ordered to proceed to
Chungking, Szechwan province city
more than 500 miles farther inland.
japanese news agency dispatches
from Marking quoted japanese mill
tary authorities as saying $4,000 Chi
nese had been slain and 1900 taken
prisoner in battles around Kwangtsi.
about 80 miles southeast of Hankow.
The japanese asserted they had dis
persed three Chinese divisions be-
tween Anking, Anwhei province capi-
tai 2l5 miles downriver from Han
kow, and Wuhu, 100 miles further
downstream. The Japanese said they
had killed 1000 Chinese in this en-
gagement and removed the threat of
Chinese up-riVer advance.
Chinese army headquarters at Han
koW said the Japanese column which
had been showing toward Hankow
along the Yangtze River was trapped
and defeated yesterday at Kwangtsi.
Military authorities said several
thousand japanese were cut of when
Chinese forces closed in from three
directions.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
COAL COSTS DATA
WAITS ON APPEAL
Counsel Not to Disclose %
Firms Figures Until
September Is

Counsel for the National Bitum-
inous Commission announced yester-
day that they have agreed not to dis
close the individual cost data of some
~ soft coal producers, located in
Utah, Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia. until September IS, giving op-
portunity for appeal in the interim.
Counsel for the producers immedi-
ately noted an appeal from the deci-
sion OF Justice Joseph w. Cox in
District Court and posted $50 in cash
In the clerks Office.
The coal companies Immediately
will seek to secure a stay in the
United States Court Of Appeals here
IN an effort to prevent the Commits
sion from making the cost figures
public
Justice Cox signed the decree hold
Ing that the coal producers bill Of
complaint failed to state a cause of
action, as the acts of the Commits
sion are not in violation of the
Bituminous Ccal Act of 1897. He
decreed that a motion for temporary
injunction be denied and the motion
to dismiss the bill of complaint was
granted
tomorrow in Denver, the Com
mission had intended. according to
the producers, to make available the
cost production figures Of the indi-
vidual coal companies. Todays agree
ment, which was not embodied in a
decree, withholds this action until
Thursday. During the last several
days, the coal producers said, there
has been no justice of the Court of
Appeals here in the city, as they
were on vacation,
Evening star., 1938-09-10
F. B. |. is PROBING
RECRUITING CHARGE
Investigators Seeking Facts in
Allegations Men Are Sought
for Spanish War.

Special agents Of the Federal Bu-
reau Of Investigation are inouirine
into charges that American citizens
are being recruited in this country
for service in the Spanish war.
Brien Mcmahon. Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Criminal
Division of the Department of JUS
tice, has so advised the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
The agents, he said are checking on
testimony given the committee re-
Gently by two Americans who served
in Spain.
The committee had requested an
immediate investigation by the JUS
tice Department to determine wheth-
er there had been viola tons OF Fed
eral laws prohibiting the soliciting
OF enlistment OF Americans to fieht
on foreign soil"
Abraham Sobel and Alvin I. Hal
perm. Boston youths who returned to
this country after serving with the
Spanish government forces, told the
congressional committee they were in
duced to enlist by Communistic groups
IN this country and that their pass
ports and transportation to Spain were
paid for by agents of these groups.
Sobel estimated that 1900 to l,70o
American youths were fighting for the
Spanish government and Halpern
said between 5000 and 1000 Amer
leans had been recruited in this coun-
try. chiefly through the American
Committee To Aid Spanish Democracy
Informed persons said a joint COM
mittee representing the Justice, State
and Labor Departments had been
quietly investigating facts and statutes
involved in foreign enlistment for sew
eral months.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
REGATTA PUBLICITY
GIVEN 400 PAPERS
Hundreds Of Posters Advertising
Event Are Distributed
THROUGHOUT U. s,

To arouse national interest In the
Presidents Cup Regatta, to be staged
next Saturday, hundreds Of posters
and literature advertising the event
have been distributed throughout the
country. Curtis Hodges, publicity chair
man, said today.
News. sport and feature stories are
being furnished more than 400 news
papers and similar service is being
given the broadcasting companies, he
said
The posters. showing King Neptune
and mermaids in their undersea
realm, with outboard, inboard and sail
ing craft racing along the surface,
have been distributed to stores, shops
and restaurants in the District and
nearby communities.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
PARALYSIS VICTIM
is GAINING GROUND
Georgetown Students Chances
for Recovery Held Much
More Favorable.

After more than 100 hours respira-
tory aid in Gallinger Hospitals iron
lung" Reginald Weisenfeld, 23-year-
old Geaorgetown University student,
was gaining ground today in what
was believed to be losing battle with
lnfantile paralysis.
Attendants reported he was able to
sleep well" last night and was feeling
better and stronger this morning. I'm
able to speak in more than q whisper
yesterday afternoon. young Wisenfeld
now is able to talk almost normally.
Physicians say he Is not yet over
the crisis, but they were inclined to
regard his chances Of recovery as con-
siderably more favorable than "a hours
ago.
The young mans mother, Mrs.
Amelia Weisenfeld, and sister, Kath-
crime, came here Tuesday from jack
sonville, Fla, to be at his bidside.
Mr.. Weisenfeld was placed in the
iron lung respirator at pm. Mon
day soon after arriving here from his
home where he was stricken by paraly-
sis which spread 70 his respiratory
muscles.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
MRS. MARY A. M'CABE
DIES AFTER ILLNESS

Mrs. Mary A. McCabe, u, retired
employe of the Government Printing
Once. died yesterday At her home,
440S Fourteenth street NE, after an
illness OF two weeks.
A native Of this city, Mrs. McCabe
had worked At the Printing Once for
80 years when retired in 1880. She
was . member of the Ladies' Auxiliary,
knights of st. John.
Surviving are two sons, Stuart D.
McCabe, Riverdale, Md, and william
A. McCabe, this city; . daughter, Mrs.
Mary A. Weeks, this city, and nine
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 8
am. Monday In st. Anthony's Catholic
Church. following brief services ut
the Residence. Burial viii b IN
MouM Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
ESQ MAY TESTIFY
!. AT EARLE PROBE
SheIIey's Grand Jury File
Subject to CaI-Recess
Taken Until Tuesday.
BY the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Sept. 10
Pennsylvania's legislative investigating
committee may call more than $50 pro-
spective witnesses named by Dauphin
County District Attorney Carl B. Shell
ley in ts inquiry into campaign charges
involving leaders in Gov. George H.
Earle's administration.
Chairman Herbert B. Cohen said
today the committee may find it neces-
sary to summon the entire list of per-
sons Shelley said he had collected for
= proposed grand Jury investigation OF
the same charges. Mr.. Shelley charged
that 4 system Of crime" existed among
Gov. Earle and Is associates.
The committee Is sitting the charges
OF blackmail, conspiracy and coercion
for possible impeachment evidence
against civil omcers.
1t recessed late yesterday until
Tuesday after taking II hours Of tes-
timony from Mr.. Shelley and former
Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti
who fred many Of the charges anc
was dismissed by Gov. Earle after
refusing to turn over to the State police
evidence to back up his accusations.
Outstanding developments during
the FIRST three days Of testimony:
l.. Margiott testified that Gov.
Earle criticized him for conducting
an investigation Of Matthew H.
McCloskey. Philadelphia contractor,
which. Mr.. Margiotti said. revealed
that "McCloskey was inspecting Nc
Closkey" on certain State building
jobs.
2. Mr.. Shelley read into the records
the names of $50 persons whom he
described Is prospective witnesses"
in the projected grand jury investi-
CATION.
;. The committee assured Mr.
Shelley he ultimately would be given
an opportunity to read AL your evil
dence" into the hearing record.
4. Committee Chairman Cohen
threatened to remove Shelley's assist
ant, Earl v. Compton, from the hear
ing after Compton mentioned the
word "whitewash" In connection with
the manner in which the committee
was conducting its investigation.
S. Mr.. Margiotti told the committee
his ONCE turned over to Shelley origi-
nal State building contracts of the
General State Authority after having
them checked by Western Pennsyl-
vania engineering nrm.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
DEFIANT CITIZENS
|. OPEN STRIKE WAR
San Franciscans Threaten
Force-Store Patrons
Start Buying Drive.

BACKGROUND
From, 1000 to 5000 San Fran
cisco department store employees OF
IS shops tDdlked out Wednesday in
strike to get q union shop, IS.
hour Deek and storeufde sentortty.
b the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. l0.-san
Francisco's department store strike
was deadlocked today amid defiant
action by q group of women patrons
and threats of forceful intervention by
Independent citizens.
Mayor Angelo j. Rossi, acting as VOL
untary mediator, sought further con-
ferences with the disputans after ex-
pressing belief that they were not "far
apart"
Agroup Of women. who said they had
no connection with store operators.
sought to enlist the patronage at the
IS struck stores by telephoning friends
and urging them to make purchases.
Anne Grenfall, a writer, who helped
organize the campaign, said the group
felt San Francisco was getting black
eye and people were passing up the
city" because OF recurrent labor
troubles.
Trying to Smash Unions"
Larry Vail. secretary OF the striking
A. F. Of L. Retail Clerks Union,
charged employers have set up
stooge organization OF women whose
paid duty evidently will be to attempt
to break the strike and smash the
union"
Harvey M. Toy, president of the San
Francisco Hotel Association, asserted
large groups Of citizens were ready to
"act forcibly to maintain law and
order" II police were unable to cope
with disorders.
Mr.. Toy, who is suing the city for
$3.50, 500 as a result OF last years
city-wide hotel strike, telegraphed
Mayor Rossi:
I'VE will stand for no monkey busi-
ness"
Both sides in the strike, which
started Wednesday, accused each other
Of violence
A Chamber Of Commerce statis-
tician estimated sales in the struck
stores. all Of which operated with
non-strikers. had dropped at least
so per cent"
Compromise Offer Out.
Estimates of the number Of strik-
ing clerks varied from 1000 to 5000.
A Central Labor Council committee,
asserting employers were no longer
interested in settlement, but merely
in an attempt to smash the union"
withdrew all compromise offers made
by the union before the strike.
This was taken to mean the union
again would press its original de-
mands for a union shop" a 35-hour
week and "store-wide seniority" In
place Of the union shop the COM
promise offer had been to accept a
registration list containing the names
Of all persons proposed by employers
for store jobs.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
ACCRESSOR ARMS
BAN MOVE SEEN
Drastic Revision of U. S.
Neutrality Act Expected
to Be Sought.

There was strong indications in
Washington today that drastic changes
in Americas neutrality act will be
sought 1T the next session Of Con-
gress.
Representative McReynolds, Demo-
crat, OF Tennessee, chairman OF the
House Foreign Affairs Committee, pre-
dicted that many members Of the next
Congress would favor revisions under
which arms embargoes could be ap-
piled only against aggressor nations.
Mr., McReynolds made plain that
he, himself, was not offering any such
suggestion or. indeed, expressing any
opinion about what should be done.
But he said. 80 many people in
this country sympathize with the Chi
nese in their conflict against Japan
that there is already some sentiment
for imposing embargoes. in the Presi-
dents discretion, only against aggres-
sor countries"
At present, il the President finds
that a war exists, he has no choice
but to apply the embargo to both
sides.
Even before Representative Nc
Reynolds spoke there had been wide
spread and, in some instances, semi
oftlclal indications that the next ses-
sion would see the law opened to some
kind Of amendment
Senator Pittman. Democrat, OF Ne
vada, chairman of the Senat. FIR.
elgn Relations Committee, said re-
Gently ne expected administration
recommendations for amendments
There have been proposals that the
president be given broad discretion
10 deal on minute -to-minute basis
with foreign situations which threat.
en- the peace Of the country.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
TRAINING SCHOOL POST
EXAMINATION is DATED
Night Waterman Job Will Paw
81 $40, Less Retirement and
Living Expense Deductions.

The Civil Service Commission yes
terday announced 1t will hold a COM
petitive examination for the position
OF night watchman for filling the
position of supervisor of boys at the
National Training School. Applica-
tions must be filed with the fourth
United States Civil Service district,
Mather Building. 916 G street NV.
by September 20.
The salary is $500 a year, less a
3.5 per cent retirement deduction and
= $500 deduction for quarters and
subsistence. Applicants must be be-
tween rs and 46. The experience
demanded by the commission of the
applicants is
At least IL months of successful
full-time paid experience as ca su-
pervisor in boys school or other
institution involving direction of boys
activities and responsibility for their
discipline or (b) watchman in . boys
institution involving care and custody
Of boys in addition to property or
(c) commissioned or non -commk-
stoned ofncer in the United States
Army, United States Navy. United
States Marine Corps or United States
Coast Guard.
Evening star., 1938-09-10
MAN SHOT IN MISHAP
Pistol Goes on Accidentally
During Demonstration.

Theron L. Sparks, 80, Of 4448 Reser-
voir road NV. was shot through the
shoulder yesterday when a .45-caliber
pistol, held, police said, by Christopher
Hopwood, 50, Of 51S6 Fulton street
NV. exploded accidentally.
The pistol went OF. officers were
told, when Mr.. Hopwood was demon
strating how shooters Of the old Wild
West fired their guns by tanning the
hammer. Mr.. Sparks was among sew
eral spectators in a filling station in
the 5000 block of M street NV.
He was treated at Georgetown Hos
pital. where his wound was described
- not serious. Mr.. Hopwood wa
questioned by plHee and released.
Evening star., 1938-09-10

AAAOA INV tCA AAcOAA
in Salt Lake City,
Utah. A eulogy
will be delivered
at the services by
G. A. Iverson, q
special assistant
to the Attorney
General.
Mrs. La Fount
was the wife Of
Harold A. La
Fount, form e r
F e d eral radio
commissioner and
now an executive
Of several Eastern
radin hrnadnasf-
Evening star., 1938-09-10
HERBERT RITES MONDAY

Funeral services for Joseph @. Her
bert, 4s, architect and building con-
tractor, who died yesterday of a heart
attack at his home, 1542 Twenty-fifth
street S.E., will be held at pm. Mon
day in the chapel of Thomas F. Muir
ray, 2007 Nichols avenue Sc. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery
A native Of st. Marys. Nd, Mr.. Her
bert had lived in Washington since he
was a young boy. He was . member
Of the Lebanon Lodge Of Masons and
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Evening star., 1938-09-10
By the Associated Press,
Dull AnEI nuYA

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 10.-s.
Davis Wilson, entering the second
half of his term as Mayor of the
nations third largest city-a term
marked by stormy municipal and polit-
ical flghts-was confronted today with
grand jury indictment charging
him on 40 counts with "mkbehavior
in office"
The 57,year-old Mayor, who rose
from an obscure job in the city con-
troller's ONCE, and four top-ranking
police officers were indicted yesterday
on evidence supplied by a special
grand jury which has been investigat-
ing vice and gambling in Philadelphia
for nearly year.
Mayor Wilson was named in 2l true
bills accusing him OF "wilfully and
negligently failing to suppress gambling
houses and bookmaking establish
ments" and with "dissuading. hinder
ing and preventing witnesses from ap-
pearing" before a legislative COM
mittee which recently completed a
study of criminal procedure in PENN
sylvania
142 Others Indicted.
The police officers were charged
with failing to suppress gambling.
Also indicted were 142 unidentified
persons, all charged with gambling
This brought to 389 the number of
persons indicted on evidence gathered
by the special Investigators
Mayor Wilson and the police officers,
Police Inspector James E. Clegg and
Police CapH. Robert Callahan. jr.,
Ernest Holmes and George J. Kron-
bar, were permitted to sign their own
bonds. Mayor Wilson's bail was fixed
at $40 900, that of the others at IS 900
each.
"At the proper time I shall have
my day at court" the mayor COM
mented when informed of the indict-
ments. Then a full revelation will
be made of all that is back Of the
persecution"
Opposed Investigation.
Mayor Wilson never was in favor
of the grand jury investigation. At
the outset, he accused District At
torney Charles F. Kelley, who re-
quested the inquiry, of being mott
waited by political purposes and said
he was making "a sinister attempt,
conceived in malice and bad faith,
to embarass the mayor"
The mayor, central figure in Phila-
delphia politics, was elected in 1895
as Republican. Two years before
he won the controllership of the Demo-
cratic ticket. Since taking Office he
has declared himself a non-partisan
Although he had vowed he was "out
of politics." the mayor suddenly en-
tered the field again in the summer
Of 1887, announcing he would seek
the gubernatorial nomination-"as
the peoples candidate"
Leaders Of both political parties,
however, were cool to his candidacy.