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Evening star., 1938-10-23

beaten. Georgetown recorded the
major victory for District colleges
by nosing out Manhattan in New
York, 1918. but Catholic and
American Universities both won by
comfortable margins. c. U. blanked
West Virginia Wesleyan, 2l-0, at
Brookland. while A. U. took st.
Johns measure at Annapolis. 100.
Maryland succumbed to the Cav
alters, 27-19.
Important intersectional games
found Fordham routing Oregon.
26-o; Colgate defeating Iowa, l4-o.
and Michigan rallying to beat
stubborn Yale eleven, 1918. The
Navy-Princeton game at Baltimore
ended in . 1918 tie while Army
had little more than = workout IN
disposine Of Boston University. 400.
(Fuu Detuils u sports Sectjon.)
Evening star., 1938-10-23
b the Associated Press.

=
CHICAGO, Oct. 22-Winter staged
chilling preview in parts OF the
Middle West today.
A snow and sleet storm, descending
suddenly on q northeast wind, swept
across Northern Wisconsin and upper
Michigan. Power lines were snapped.
Communication and electric light serv-
ices were disrupted and highway traf-
fic impeded. Gales in upper Michi-
gan halted ferry service across the
Straits of Mackinac. Storm warm
ings were ordered posted for the Great
Lakes.
Ishpeming, Mich, reported 8 inches
Of snow. Iron Mountain. Mich, had
6. Snow plows were busy throughout
the area. Many high school foot
ball games were Cancelled.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
TRAPPED By BOAT FIRE,
MOTHER SAVES CHILDREN
Seattle Woman Leaps OF Cruiser
Holding Both When Flames
Bar Disembarking.
BY the Associated Press.


SEATTLE. Oct. 22-Trapped by
flames aboard cruiser with her two
small children, a young mother saved
their lives and her own last night by
leaping wit ...em into the waters OF
Lake Union.
Mrs. NJ D. Stewart, %, and the
children, Merrillyn. 5. and Allen, 3,
were on the 80-foot cruiser when
flames iared on the pier and the
fire spread quickly to the cruiser.
Il put Merrillyn on my back and
made her grab me around the neck"
she said. Then grabbed Allen by
his shirt. We jumped into the lake.
Aliens head kept going under. I
thought sure the babies would drown
If We stayed in the water. But we
found an old piling next to the dock,
and there was rope hanging down
from it I caught the rope and lifted
the children up out Of the water and
screamed for help.
1T took so long for some one to
get to U.S."
Their cries were heard by the crew
of a fisheries boat, which made the
rescue.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
LITHUANIA REAFFIRMS
POLICY OF NEUTRALITY
Cabinet Suggests That Nation
Should Renew Efforts to
Improve Relationships.

By the Associated Press.
KAUNAS, Lithuania, Oct. 22-The
Lithuanian government issued a COM
munique today reaf1irming the ma
tion's neutrality. The cabinet had
been recalled to discuss the European
situation.
The communique suggested that.
with Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania
should make renewed efforts to i'm
prove relations with its great neigh
boring powers.
In view Of differing opinion in Ger
meny and Poland over Czechoslovakia,
it was understood Lithuania had de-
cfded to remain strictly neutral
Poland has favored granting Hungary
Eastern Csechoslovak territory which
would make joint Polish Hungarian
boundary. and Germany has op-
posed it,
Evening star., 1938-10-23
MISSOURI SOLID
FOR DEMOCRATS
Clark Is Running Strong
and Will Be Doomed
for Presidency.
BY @. GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

ST. LOUIS. Mo. Oct. pa Demo-
cratic sweep in Missouri is Indicated
with the Republicans merely retaining
one congressional district, the seventh,
represented by Dewey Short. That is
all the G. o. P. has in the present
Missouri congressional delegation.
The only question in the senatorial
race is the size of Senator Bennett
Champ Clark's expected lead over his
Republican opponent, former Gov.
Henry 6. Gaulfeld. Republicans insist
that they have = chance Of winning in
the 18th congressional district as well
ax In the seventh. II they do they will
have gained one House seat In Mis-
s0asri. .....-
Despite this apparent intention Of
Missouri voters to support the Demo-
cratic ticket, there Is increased dis
content with the Roosevelt New Deal
in the State. It happens, however,
that discomfort Is mostly on the farms
Many Of the Missouri farmers are de-
scendants of Virginia and Kentucky
men and women who moved westward
in the earlier days. Their Democracy
Is ingrained. They will continue to
vote Democratic-with some Of them
perhaps not going to the polls.
Strength Was In Cities.
Republican strength in Missouri in
the past has been in the cities and in
some Of the towns. St. Louis, the
largest city in the State, used to be
Republican stronghold. 1t weakened
toward the G. o. P. in the days when
Republican national candidates were
dry" And like other industrial CEN
ters, st. Louis fiopped way over to the
Democratic side after President Roose-
welt launched his new deal for labor.
Bennett Clark's hold on Missouri
Democracy is amazingly strong. Here
is a Democrat, not wanted by the
New Deal administration in Wash
ington, who not only will be reelected,
bnt who by his reelection will en-
hance his chances for the Democratic
nomination in 1910. The
situatio is not without its irony.
The Kansas City Star, Independent
which in recent years has
supported President Herbert Hoover
and which played a major part in
bringing about the nomination of for
mer Gov. ALI M. Landon of Kansas
for President in 1896, will announce
its support of Senator Clark within a
day or two, If it has not already done
50. And having supported Clark for
lSee MISSOURI. Page A-3l
Evening star., 1938-10-23
TWO C0NvICTS KILLED
Third Is Wounded in Oklahoma

Third Is Wounded in Oklahoma
Penitentiary Brawl.
McALESTER, Okla, Oct. a. R.-
Two long-term prisoners were stabbed
to death and a third wounded IN q
fight in the State penitentiary tu-
berculosis ward today.
Vern Brothers and 1gnacio Gomez
were slain. Buster Murphy, . convict
in charge of the ward, was beaten be-
fore he killed the other men with 4
knife.
Gomez and Brothers attacked Muir
ply with iron pipes. other convicts
related. when the latter turned a gas
stove lower because he thought the
ward was too hot.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
North Carolina Wins Project.

RALEIGH, N. c., Oct. ~ (P).-The
w. P. A. Budget Bureau has approved
q $4,000, 900 project for improving Sec
ondary roads IN North Carolina, George
w. Coan, jr., w. P. A. State admins
TRAITOR, announced tonight.
The farm-to-market road program
would provide for the building Of about
1000 miles Of roads, at an average cost
Of $4,000 q mile.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
Former Senator Dies.

SPOKANE, Wash, Oct. ~ R.-
Henry Heitfield, 10, former United
States Senator from Idaho, State leg
islator, business man and Mayor OF
Lewiston, Idaho, died here late yes
terday. He was elected to the Senate
in 1897 and served one term.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
JAPANESE READY
TO FIGHT ANY ONE
Will Pursue Gen. Chang to
Ends of China, Gen.
Hata Declares.

BACKGROUND
With Canton in their poUer,
japanese yesterday redoubled eJ-
forts to capture HdnkoU, Chinese
provisional capital. japanese forces
haze reached point IS air miles
from ob5ectire. Meanwhile, exodus
OF ciuilian population and 1oDern-
naeat officials from aHnnkou has
begun. Chungktng, farther up
Yanetse, and Yunnantu hare been
prepared to receive Offices evacuated
from HdnkoU.
b. the Associated Press.
WITH THE JAPANESE ARMY BE.
FORE HANKOW. Oct. 22.-The com.
mander of the forces pressing on Han
kow, Gen. Shunroku Hata. declared
today that Japan would continue her
war until all anti-Japanese resistance
ended.
He said the japanese would chase
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek int
Szechwan or Yunnan Province, ex-
treme Southwestern China, if neces.
sary, and were prepared as a last
resort to fight any nation challenging
what he called Japanese national
rights and interests in China.
He predicted early capture of Han
kow, Generalissimo Chiang's Yangtze
River headquarters, and the smash
ing of organized, large-scale Chinese
resistance"
japanese staff officers, jubilant over
the capture Of Canton yesterday by a
10-day-old expedition into South
China and the now faster approach
of their own forces on the Hankow
front, asserted they would be in Han
koW within two weeks.
They said Hankow's defenders were
disheartened and were virtually COL
lapsing in all sectors.
Japanese Closing Wise.
While Hata was being interviewed
at his field headquarters, Japanese
naval forces were smashing their way
up the curving Yangtze, within IS
miles by air and so miles by river of
the Wuhan cities-Hankow, Hanyang
and Wuchang-while northern and
(See CHINA, Page A-l6.)
Evening star., 1938-10-23
San Francisco Agreement Opens
1873 Plants Tomorrow.

138 Plants Tomorrow.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. % @.-
Union warehousemen accepted by ac-
clamation today master contract
agreement, bringing peace in the long
warehouse labor tie-up and assuring
the opening of 1873 plants next Monday.
More than 1000 c. 1. o. Long
shoremen and Warehousemens Union
members were involved in the 105-
dispute.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

Rodio Programs, Pose F-3
Complete Index, Poee AZ
Evening star., 1938-10-23
W Wage.Hour Law
Goes Into Effect
at Midnight.
HOPE MORE JOBS
WILL BE PROVIDED
Statute May Affect Prices
and Close Some Plants,
Officials Say.


Government attempted to reou-
late Uages and hours OF labor
through National Industrial RecoU-
cry Act and voluntary system OF
codes. After period of faulty OPP
Grafton, effort Das ended wtth Su-
preme Court uerdict of unconstitu-
ftonality OF part OF ldp. Fair Id
Dor Standards Act Wds nert broad
proposal, lingering nearly two years
in Congress before passage pds et-
tected last spring.
(Ho1D to Keep Wdge-Hour Rec.
ords Is Explained on Page A-4.>
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(See BILLS, Page abb
Evening star., 1938-10-23
WEATHER.

70. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair today. followed by rain tonight:
tomorrow, fair, colder; moderate SOUTH
west winds. Temperatures yesterday
Highest. 6S. at 2 PM; lowest, A, at S am.
Full report on page A-2.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

(See MISSOURI, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-10-23
WAREHOUSE. PACT MADE

(See CHINA, Page A-l6.)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13

| IN administration.
Approximately 125,000 Illinois
residents now are on the old age
pension list. According TO Demo-
cratic leaders, federal social Sc
curity figures fix the number OF
persons over IS in the state at
nearly 100000
They conclude that 100000
would receive pensions under the
Republican program.
Backbone of the states revenue
sources is a sales tax of 3 per cent,
which S. L. Nudelman, state fl
nance director, declared would
need to be tripled to meet the Re
publican pension demands.
An alternative, he says, would
be to revive the state property tax
which was abandoned with the
adoption of the sales tax and make
it several times its former rate.
To Elect One Senator
At stake in the elections Nov. 8
will be one U. S. senatorship, 81
seats in congress, 153 in the lower
house of the Illinois general as
sembly and % in the state senate,
and the offices of state treasurer,
state school superintendent, state
supreme court clerk and three
University of Illinois trusteeshipS.
Rep. Scott w. Lucas heads the
Democratic ticket as nominee for
the u. S. senate seat now held by
William H. Dieterich, who did not
seek denomination.
The Republican candidate for
senator is State Rep. Richard j.
Lyons, outSpoken opponent of the
New Deal and the state administra-
tion.
Democrats. with neW-found
unity since last April's bitter prim-
ary battle between forces led by
Gov. Henry Horner and Chicago's
mayor, Edward j. Kelly, have ral-
lied behind Lucas. who carried the
governors endorsement in the prim
ary, and stand on the records of
the state ana national administra-
tions.
G.. o. p. leaders hope to elect |
their state ticket this fall and to
gain control of the lower house of
the general assembly, in which
they would need to gain II seats.
are believed certain to
retain control of the state senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
Republicans Back S30-M Month Pension
Plan in Illinois as Democrats
Declare it Would Bankrupt State
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 13. (UP)

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 13. (UP)
Republican promises to increase
old age pensions provide one of
the major issues over which
Democrats and the G. O. P. are
battling in Illinois 1888 political
campaign.
Republicans fired the first gun
by adopting platform calling for
minimum old age payments of $50
monthly. compared to the present
state average of $18, and the age
65 and unemployment as the only
qualifications.
Leaders of the Democratic state
administration replied that the G..
o. P. proposal would bankrupt the
state by tripling the present pen
sion rolls and doubling individual
payments.
They also asserted Illinois would
lose federal aid for old age assist
apce by eliminating the qualifica-
ton of need and that the whole
burden would be thrown on the
state.
Count on u. S. Share
G.. o. P. campaigners have made
statements indicating they as
sumed the federal government
would provide half the cost as un-
der the pension program now in
operation and have contended the
increase in the state share could
be provided by greater efficiency
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13

and city departments will rush to
designated places on the roads, high
ways and byroads of the county
in an attempt to bottle up the
fleeing car.
Between so and rs officers will
take part in the test blockade. The
sheriff's office, police of all cities
in the county, customs officers, i'm
migration border patrolmen, high
way patrolmen, constables, game
wardens and agricultural inspectors
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
Swing Music Not
.Noise-Sometimes

MONTREAL, Oct. 13. CUP)-The
recorders court here ruled that
swing music cannot be classified as
a "noise" so long as it is not
canned"
Sleepless residents went to court
in an attempt to stop a night-club
orchestra from playing into the
wee hours of the morning.
The court ruled, however, that
the section of the anti-noise obi
nances under which the action was
taken applied to mechanical in
struments and not to wind or
string musical instruments"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
Corn Crop Loans
To Hit Maximum

WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 tUP)-
The agricultural departments fore
cast of a 1888 corn crop of $40 0,229,-
600 bushels this week indicated corn
loans this fall will be at the maxi
mum rate of 81 cents a bushel.
The agricultural act provides the
leans shall be made at rs per cent Of
partly, if, on Nov Is, the average
farm price is below the proposed
loan rate.
The maximum loan rate would be
mandatory unless the Nov. l es-
innate indicated a crop more than
10 per cent in excess of normal
domestic consumption and exports,
estimated at 2,47OOOO,OOO bushels.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13

for an estimated 100000 persons
over 60 years. This, it was en-
phasized, is 40 per cent of the entire
national income for 1886.
QuGitioning tconstisutionality of
the scrip plan, the report said that
California also would have to en-
Joy $4,000 100000 of annual busi-
ness transactions to carry the load
of financing it. The present
volume of such transactions is
about $16000,0OO,0O0 annually it
said.
Complete Collapse
"1f such a plan were to be put
into operation on a national basis,
it would seem inevitable that a
complete collapse of our economic
structure would ensue, comparable
to the disastrous postwar infla-
ton period in Germany" it said
ITO put such plan into effect in
one state, even assuming that the
supreme court would uphold it.
would demoralize interstate COM
merce and ruin business within the
states"
Any of the programs would
enormously increase the present
25OO,OOO,OOO annual tax burden
of the American people, and place
the largest share on those least
able to carry it-upon labor in the
form of lower wages and on con-
sumerS in the form of higher
prices" the report said. It added
that it also would encourage big
mergers favoring chain stores
trusts and monopolies because of {
desire of small business men to es-
cape paying taxes on multitudinous
transactions.
Basic Fallacy
THE basic fallacy in all of these
plans is that they rest on the mis-.
taken assumption that spending O.
the pensions would increase the
speed with which money would Cir.
culate, and that this increased
speed itself would raise the ma.
tion's purchasing power and in
CT ease the demand for goods an(
services" it said. "Unfortunately
there is no basis for the assump
ton. Pension plans cannot Great,
new purchasing power They cal
only divert it from the younge
productive part of the population tt
the elderly
The tax on business incom
would have to be, paid first by en-
terpriSe itself, and particularly b,
small retail business men in which
case either:
81. Profits would be reduced O
wiped out or deficits increased or
90 Attempts would be made tt
recover the amount of the tax b,
reducing cost of production, partic
ularly by cutting wages or.
'3. The tax would be passed OF
tc consumers in the form of higher
prices"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13

Efficiency of Imperial county's
famed road blockade, the system
used by officers in capturing fleeing
criminals, will be tested within the
next two weeks in a problem block
ade arranged by Sheriff R. w. Ware.
The number and description of a
fugitive" automobile will be tele-
phoned to the headquarters of some
law enforcement department in the
county during daylight hours. Of
ficers Of the IA federal, state, county
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
Problem Will Test Road
Blockade System Here

will take part in the chase.
The fugitive" car will start from
central location in a populated
district in the county.
If the fugitive" is captured the
captors will be given cigars. If the
fleeing car gets outside the county,
its occupants will be treated at a
free dinner at the next meeting Of
the Imperial-Yuma Peace Officers
association.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
Government Answers Suit to Hold
Philippine independence Void

murrer or other legal answer to
the suit questioning either the
courts jurisdiction over the case
or Gancy's legal right TO make a
test of the issue.
If Gancy's contention we're to be
upheld, it would place a new en-
phasis upon American territorial
acquisitions, since it would estab-
lish the inability of congress to
grant independence to any ac-
CURED area, except with the spe-
CHIC assent of the people" or the
states.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13


The federal government, within the
next go days, will file in district
court here, an answer to a suit
seeking to invalidate the Philip
pine Independence Act and to de-
clare vacant and void the office of
Commonwealth President Manuel
Ouezon, of High Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt, and of other is
land officials.
B. M Gancy, Filipino attorney
entered suit on Sept. II contend
ing that the congressional act
establishing a Commonwealth gov
ernment in the Philippine islands
with a view to complete political
independence in 1916, is null anG
void"
Gancy asked for a declaratory
judgment from the court to uphold
his contention that congress has
no right to "alienate sovereignty
over any of the territories of the
United States.
Issue Raised i'm 1916
The case has been widely dis
cussed in insular circles here be-
cause it raised an issue which has
been intensively argued ever since
President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916,
signed the Jones Bill promising the
FilipinoS their eventual independ-
ence.
Advocates of continued American
sovereignty in the Far Eastern
archipelago argue that congress is
not specifically given the power in
the constitution TO dispose OF any
OF the territories of the individual
states, or of the United States.
Such territories, these constitu-
tionalists argued. pass under the
protection of American sovereignty
and the American constitution,
from which they cannot be alien
ated by act of congress- The late
Sen. Royal S. Copeland, in oppos
ing the passage of the Philippine
independence act in 1884, argued
, this point during three days of
oebate.
1t would take an amendment to
the constitution, these legalists
argued, to permit congress to sell,
give away, or award independence
to any part of the United States or
any of its territories. The issue of
Philippine independence has even
been compared to the controversy
over right of secession of the sew
eral states of the union which was
finally decided by the Civil war.
Suit Alleges Injury
Gancy, little-known Filipino at
torney here. has reopened this is
sue with his suit against the gov
ernment. He asserted, as an indi-
vidual Filipino who would suffer
injury if the Philippines are to be
given their independence and that
as congress went beyond its juris-
diction in passing a Philippine in
dependence act, the creation of a
Commonwealth government and OF
a constitutional sovereignty in the
Philippines also is invalid. Gancy
asked the court to rule that the
islands were to revert to their
political status of 1916, under a ter
ritorial governor general.
Both the attorney general and
the district attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, are legally re-
quired to defend the constitution
ality of the law.
They may, however, enter a de-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13


sweeping the country" will plunge
the nation into economic chaos
comparable to the disastrous post.
war initiation period in Germany
it was learned.
The report was compiled by at
torneys and technicians skilled in
pension legislation. 1t was pre-
pared for guidance of the admins
tration and was disclosed shortly
after New Deal chieftains an
nounced they would expedite a
program to liberalize and expand
the Social Security Act to thwart
advocates of more sweeping old
age pension schemes.
Plans Analysed
The report analyzes pension
,plans which are political issues in
'California, Florida, Nebraska, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio
and a dozen other states and con-
cludes that all of them are unfeas-
ible and a threat TO the nation s
financial stability.
1t could not be ascertained
whether the report was prepared
at the specific request of President
Roosevelt although the chief execu-
tive has issued warnings to the
public against pension plans which
he called short cuts to Utopia"
Tho report deals particularly with
the Townsend plan which calls for
maximum pensions of 5000 monthly
for persons over 60 years old, and
CALIFORNIA; so-called "$30-every-
Thursday scrip plan for persons
over SO years old.
"CrackpOt Schemes
The epidemic of crackpot pen
sion schemes sweeping the country
must be taken seriously only be-
cause their surface ,plausibility has
succeeded in deluding so many mil
lions of the aged, their friends and
relatives" the report states. This
will continue until the men and
women of America realize that
there are actually no short cuts
to Utopia -
THE basic economic facts are
simple-that if eight or 10 million
elderly people are to be supported
they will have to be supported by
those who work; that the money tC
provide pensions for the aged will
have to come out OF the national
income: that the national income
is the product CT the nations fields
factories, and mines, shaped by the
labor of eyr leads and hands; ano
that this int, me cannot -. be in
creased by taxing a part OF it from
those who libor to give to Others
who produce Nothing in return"
Tive Main Stems
1t explained that most of the ole
age pension schemes are derivatives
of the Townsend or $50 every
Thursday" plans which propose tt
spend our way to prosperity-eithel
with real or substitute money" anc
that they are impractical
1t said that Townsend planners
will have their hopes blasted" il
they expect to receive $200-per-
month, because it would require al
least $24,OOO, 100000 annually to de-
fray the Cosrs of such paymenty
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-13
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1888.
Crockpot Pension
eSchemes Target
o. New Dealers
-COpuiakt 1898 bu United Press

WASHINGTON Oct. 13. (UP)-Experts of the social
security board have prepared confidential report for
President Roosevelt and other high administration Off