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The Washington times., 1938-10-13
PUG WEIGHING
CITIZENS PLEA
FOR BUS LINE
10000 Sign Petition for
Cross Town Service

The citizens said it would be .
great convenience. The Capital
Transit Co. said it would cost too
much money.
Today, the Public Utilities Com
mission is studying the facts to
discover who is right, and to de-
eide whether Washington is en-.
titled to a crosS-town bus service,
linking the upper Northwest with
the Bladensburg section.
HOLD HEARING
A lengthy hearing was held yes.
terday by the PUG at which petit
tions from 10000 citizens were
presented in evidence in support
of extension of bus service
through Rock Creek Park to avoid
the tedious" routing over Calvert
Street.
L. A. Carruthers, president Of
the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, told the commission that
a cross-town service was an "oblt.
cation" upon public utility with
monopoly" even though, he
said, the service would not be
"self.sustaining."
SELF-SUSTAINNG
He predicted, however, that
such a bus service would become
self,suStaining within a few years.
On the other hand, Dean L.
Locke, speaking for the Capital
Transit Co., said the cost of ex-
tending the service would not be
commensurate with receipts.
w. S. Ahlberg, Of the Bladens.
burg Road Citizens Association.
declared, however, that the COM
pany was trying to make the
whole proposition look ridiculous"
REFERS TO MAP
Referring to a map submitted by
the transit company showing an
alternate proposal which would
use existing bus lines, Mr.. Ahl-
berg said the company is trying
to make it look as though what
we are proposing is duplication Of
what they already have"
Earlier in the day, the PUG held
another hearing on the transit
company's proposal to reroute its
bus line around Westmoreland
Circle. The proposed rerouting,
according to the American Uni
versity Park Citizens Association,
would inconvenience the public.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Her Phone Call Cheers
Dying Boy

I've been sick quite a while"
Johnny has been very sick. The
doctors said he would die a month
ago and that only the Cubs drive
for a pennant kept him alive. He
was thrilled by a visit from two
of the players on the team. He
suffered relapse when the Cubs
lost the World Series.
GOT THE PICTURE
did you get my picture?"
asked Shirley.
Johnny looked up to reaSsure
himself it was still on the dresser
"You bet," he said.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
Apartment Manager
Shoots Burglar Dead

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 Q.N.S0.
After a dizzy chase up three flights
of back stairs, an apartment build
ing manager today shot and killed
an unidentified burglar. Edgar
Cary, So, drove the burglar off six
weeks ago. Then he installed an
alarm which would tell him if the
intruder again tried to plunder
tenants storage lockers in the
basement. The alarm rang today.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
Cotton Market Quota
Vote Set for Dec. 10

Q.N.S.) AAA officials disclosed
today that December 10 has neen
tentatively set as a date for a
cotton marketing quotas referen-
dunn on next years crops
Under the 1888 farm act, a
yearly referendum is mandatory.
Marketing quotas are placed in
effect if approved by two-thirds
of the farmers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
Sherr, Warning Pal,
To Be Tried Nov. IS

Henry L. Sherr, tax accountant,
accused with the three Warning
brothers of conspiracy to violate
income tax laws, pleaded not
guilty today when he was arraigned
before Justice Bolitho ]. Laws in
District Court. He will stand trial
November IS with Charles, EN-
NETT and Leo Warning.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13

Do you know how to sleep? Maybe
your primitive self keeps you awake !;
maybe you need company; possibly you
can defeat insomnia by going night
nudist like wise old Benjamin
Franklin or by smOthering your wOr-
ries, An illustrated feature in The
American Weekly. the magazine dis
tributed with next Sundays Washing
ton Herald-Times,
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
Police Adopt Cat Imprisoned in Pipe

bert Harrison unjointed furnace
pipe and found a black and white
cat within. The cat was named
Sergeant" and appointed mascot
of the sub-station squad.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
GUIDING GENIUS.
OF Boys town.
CAPITAL VISITOR.
Omaha Priest Tells of
Humanity Miracle

The guiding genius Of Boys
Town was a visitor in Washington
today.
He is the Right Rev. Edward
Joseph Flanagan, of Omaha, who
81 years ago founded an expert
ment in social rehabilitation for
juveniles.
Today, director of an incorpo-
rated town of 4,466 young inhabi-
tantS, with boy mayor and a boy
city council, Father Flanagan is
as enthusiastic about his idea as
ever.
mo BAD BOYS"
He still believes his original
thesis on which Boys Town was
built is right; there's nc sucn
thing as a really bad boy.
Boys Town has come a long way
since that Christmas Day in 1917
when Father Flanagan and his
original settlers" sat down to a
holiday dinner consisting Of a
barrel of sauerkraut and bread.
Now the institution represents
a debt-free investment of $780,
900, supporting 200 boys and driv-
ing ahead to become twice as
large.
Secret of converting a homeless
young wanderer into q useful
American citizen is just the use
of simple kindness, Father Flana-
gan said today.
ENVIRONMENT VITAL
cts all a matter of showing
the boy what is good and what
is bad. Once you do this, he'll
instinctively choose what is
good. believe the environment
is everything, and heredity is
nothing in the determination OF
a boys character"
Only a small percentage Of the
citizens of Boys Town came there
with a criminal background. BY
far, most of them we're simply
victims of homes broken up by
death and marital discord.
Father Flanagan said his theory
of boys was most Sorely tried by
a youngster who, not then eight,
was already a convicted bank
robber.
BANK ROBBER AT EIGHT
HE was born leader"
Father Flanagan said. "It took
me a whole year, trying every
! thing could think Of, to get
| that boy on the right way again.
But in the end I managed it.
He's still the leader that he al
ways was-but not in the old
way"
Father Flanagan'S boys go on
to bigger and better things. A lot
of them complete the high school
course at Boys Town, and enter
colleges throughout the country.
SEND BROWNS PITCHER
Tony Verrone, the first mayor
of Boys Town, is with Metro Gold.
wyn-Mayer now, and Boys Town
is very proud of him.
But the real hero of Boys Town,
Father Flanagan thinks, is Larry
Kelly, whose southpaw pitching
has landed him a place with the
st. Louis Browns.
You see," said Father Flana-
gan, "he's the first boy we ever
had in the big leagues"
The Washington times., 1938-10-13

Weird cries which had been
worrying State policemen at the
Upper Marlboro sub-station for
three night were traced to their
source last night. Patrolman Her.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
Coat Definite Clue

Discovery Of Marys blood
stained brown coat in underbrush
about $50 yards from her New
Rochelle houseboat home provided
Westchester county police with a
definite clue.
1t was reported they were seek
ing an escaped sex maniac from
o southern Connecticut asylum. A
description of the madman, said
to be subject to spells of murder
Gus violence, was contained in a
confidential alarm broadcast to
New England and New York police.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
AWait Hair Analysis

DR.. Amos o. Squire, medical ex-
aminer, awaited a report from a
Brooklyn laboratory on the strands
Of hair found clutched in the IT.
year-old victims hands. This hair
and flesh scraped from the MUIR
derer's face by Mary's fingernails
constitute some of the strongest
clues.
The Washington times., 1938-10-13
.ShiTIeyis Telephone Call
Cheers Dying Boy. IA

Pathos in the
Nth Degree
Was
Personified
at Mercy
Hospital in
Chicago
When
Johnny
English, II,
Got Phone
Call from
Shirley
Temple in
Hollywood.
Shirley
Wants Him
to See Her
NeW
Picture.
Johnny,
Doctors Say,
viii NeUer
See II.
Johnny'H
Be Dead of
an IncurabIe
Disease
International
Evening star., 1938-08-12

OF "Hurray for George" intermixed
with cheers when the President criti-
cized the Senator.
Toward the end there was frequent
applause and cheering.
I'm hearing you," yelled many
listeners.
Interrupted at Times.
The President, speaking on a
shaded, f1ag-draped rostrum erected
on a football field, at times had
difficulty in finishing his sentences
before he was interrupted by applause.
After indicating his belief that Sen
ator George had not fought for the
objectives of the Government in power
and did not really believe in them.
the President said that in the case
OF Mr.. Talmadge he had heard 80
many OF his proposals, so many of
his promises, so many of his panaceas
that am very certain in my own mind
that his election would contribute
little to practical government"
That is all I can say about him."
Mr.. Roosevelt added.
The Chief Executive said he had
corresponded with Senator George re-
gardlng the Barnesville talk and that
the Senator knew beforehand what
was going to be in it. The Senator
later declined comment on this point
In both his Barnesville speech and
an earlier address at Athens, Mr..
Roosevelt made a broad restatement
OF the social and economic objectives
OF his administration, and asserted
Evening star., 1938-08-12

that purchasing power in the lower
South should be increased
These statements brought applause.
In his Greenville address last night,
for which an audience had stood wait
ing for more than two hours, the Chief
Executive joked about his 37-day trip
with the words:
1T is long way around to come
from Washington to South Carolina
by way of the Pacific Coast, the Gal
apagos Islands. the equator. the Pam
anna Canal and Pensacola, Fla.
But got here"
Then the President added:
If you believe in the principles for
which we are striving, wider distri-
button Of national income, better con-
servation of our national resources,
establishment of floor under wages
and the bringing of a larger buying
power to the farmers of the Nation
then I hope you will send representa-
tives to the National Legislature who
will work toward those ends.
I'VE need not ius+ to"~, Vs. h-t
more team work in the National Cap
ital-and believe we are going 70
get it,
Evening star., 1938-08-12
ROOSEVELT TALKS
TO ADVISERS HERE
He Turns to International
Affairs and Checks on
Jobs Progress.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

With his return today, President
Roosevelt plunged Immediately into a
stack Of accumulated business. as well
as q series Of conferences with ad-
ministration advisers.
A number Of pressing problems faced
the President. These concerned prin-
cipally domestic matters, but inter-
national affairs also demanded atten-
ton and the. President lost little time
in checking up with the State Depart
ment on the situation in the Far East
and in Europe.
The President also checked early on
the progress being made in carrying
out the spending-lending program,
and during the day expected to receive
reports from Government experts deal
ingwith the economic situation, princi-
pally as it relates to employment.
One OF these reports. prepared by
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, is un-
derstood to show a definite uptrend in
national employment during July. 1t
is understood also that White House
advices are that latest surveys indi-
cate an upswing in business and bet
ter spirit Of understanding and CO.
operation between Government and
business.
Mr. Roosevelt's stay in Washington
will be brief. He has made plans to
leave August II for Kingston, Ontario,
to receive an honorary degree and then
make speech incident to the dedica-
ton Of an international bridge over
the st. Lawrence River from Collins
Landing. N. Y, to Ivy Lea, Ontario.
Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie
King also will speak. From there the
President will go home to Hyde Park,
N. Y. He plans to spend week or 10
days there and will set up a skeleton
executive Office force in nearby Pough-
keepsie.
Among other things, the President
is faced with the problem of replacing
one of the civilian Commissioners of
the District, George E. Allen having
rendered his resignation effective Sep
tember /.
1t Is known fact that the President
would like to have Commissioner Allen
reconsider the resignation, or at least
defer it long enough to give him time
to select successor, but Mr. Allen
has made up his mind to accept the
rendered post as vice president of the
Home Insurance Co. of New York.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
Un.American
CONTINUED From First Page }

former Ambassador Luther, and that
he had also been instrumental in hav-
ing several Nazi consular officials
shifted and removed at his will.
Kuhn also declared. he testified, he
had secret relationship with the NaEi
government to further the aims Of
the German-American Bund in the
United States, despite his public dis
avowal of such a connection.
Sees 80 Per Cent Opposition.
"At least 80 per cent of the German
American element in the United States
is absolutely opposed to the activities
of the German-American Bund and
everything it stands for" the witness
told the committee when asked his
opinion as to the extent of the Bund's
influences.
He estimated, however, there were
30 posts of German-American Bunds
scattered over the country, having a
direct membership of $4,000 and an in
direct strength of 100000 persons.
He used the larger number to meet
Representative Dies request that it
include the German-American Bund.
the Silver Shirts. Black Shirts, Fascists
and their sympathizers."
About 100000 attended Bund meet
ings regularly and openly, the investi-
gator added.
Six Months INQUIRY.
Mr.. Metcalfe, who was born in Dres-
den, Germany. and came to this coun-
try at IA, said he spent six months
investigating Bund activities, travelling
about 10000 miles from coast to coast
and from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico.
He gave the committee a detailed
picture of the Bund's ramifications in
this country and revealed that later
his brother, James ]. Metcalfe,
former Department of Justice agent,
is to be called as a witness to disclose
the activities in this country of the
Deutscher Volksbund. which he said
is even more Nazified than the Ger
man american Bund.
He testified that Kuhn sent a let
ter to all Bund leaders and agents
throughout the country to destroy at
once all evidence which was un-
American in character or which would
identify the Bund with Nazi Germany
Immediately after the House passed
a resolution authorizing an investiga-
ton Of un-American activities.
The real aims and purposes of the
Nazi movement in the United States,
the newspaper said, IS lD establish
ment of vast spy net; ca a power
full sabotage machine; 90 a German
minority with the present group as
a nucleus and to encompass as many
COMMUNICATIONS as possible, so the
Bund may be prepared ''for any
eventuality."
The witness added to his collection
OF documentary evidence a group of
photographs depicting activities of the
German-American Bund. Black Shirts.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
Bombers Fire U. S. Oil Tanks.

HANKOW, China. Aug. IL R.-
Japanese air attacks, called more dar-
ing and destructive than any before
in this teening industrial tri-city Sec
ton. today set afire oil tanks believed
belonging to Standard Oil Co. of New
York, Texaco or Shell Oil companies
The properties are on the outskirts
of Hankow, provisional Chinese capi-
tai. In the fury of the attacks own
ership of the tanks could not be es-
tablished Immediately.
(The Central News Agency said
SO Japanese bombers at noon
dropped 200 missiles on Wuchang
and 100 on Hankow and that a
heavy casualty toll was feared.)
Populous districts of Wuchang and
the Canton Hankow Railroad terminal
were hit.
The lighter raiders oived through
fusillades of Chinese anti-aircraft
guns and swooped to within 1000 feet
of the ground to place their bombs
with great accuracy on the Wuchang
terminal, packed with freight cars and
surrounded by warehouses.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
ROPERFORECASTS
EARLY WAR CRISIS
England Not 'Jittery' Now
as She Was in 1886,
Secretary Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Roper today disclosed
conviction OF high-placed English
friends that Europe will pass through
the crisis of war threats in the next
80 days.
Secretary Roper, who returned this
week from months visit in Great
Britain, said in an interview:
THE people with whom I talked
said that if they could get through the
next month without war there would
be no general European war for at
least year and probably for years to
come"
More Confident Now.
He explained that when he was in
England two years ago Britons ap-
peared "jittery" about the prospects
tary preparedness.
Now" he continued, 1.-The English
believe their rearmament program is
far enough along to command respect
and peace"
The Russo-Japanese dispute though
apparently eased. is expected in in
formed quarters to hasten the Presi-
dents selection of an American am
bassador to Moscow.
Vacant Since June.
There has been no public indication
of whom the President has in mind
for the thorny and not much coveted
post. vacant since Ambassador Joseph
E. Davies was transferred to Brussels
in June.
In the absence of an Ambassador in
Moscow, the State Department has
been getting its reports on the Russo
Japanese situation from Alexander c.
Kirk. Charge dAffaires of the En-
bassy. Mr.. Kirk. 50-year-old Chi
cagoan. is one of the most experienced
officers in the foreign service.
He served in both Berlin and The
Hague during the World War. then
spent three years in Toxic and Peiping,
followed by tour of duty in Mexico
City. Later he was assistant to the
Undersecretary of State here.
AS counselor of the Embassy in
Rome for almost the last 10 years, Mr..
Kirk had ample opportunity to study
the rise of the Fascists and much of
the inner workings of European di-
plomacy. He scarcely had unpacked
his bags in Moscow when the present
dispute arose.
He replaced in Moscow 10y w. Hem
derson. first secretary of Embassy, who
had been Charge d'Affaires for periods
up to 8 months at a time.
Mr.. Henderson, back after Al. years
in Russia, passed through Washington
today en- route to his Colorado home
on vacation. He is expected to head
the Division of Eastern European At
Evening star., 1938-08-12
Planes Penetrate Kwangsi.

CANTON. China, Aug IL lP.-
Japanese warplanes penetrated
Kwangsi Province. in Southern China,
today and heavily bombed Wuchow,
river port, 120 miles west of Canton.
The raiders, continuing the fulfill
ment of Tuesdays threat of 10 con-
secutive days of attacks, concentrated
on buildings of Wuchow University
and military headquarters after two
bombardments of North Canton and
the Canton Railway.
Kwangsi, province of 1920 square
miles and rich in minerals and for
ests, hitherto has been virtually un-
touched by air attacks that have
spread death and destruction in many
parts of China Today's forays were
taken to indicate the japanese mean
to broaden such activities in Southern
China.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
Ukranians, White Russians and others.

Ukranians, White Russians and others.
He also plans to introduce targets he
said were taken from rifle ranges at
camps of the German American Bund,
together with report on a Silver
Shirt movement in Chicago which he
declared shows that the Silver Shirts
last Saturday were instructed to arm
with guns and ammunition.
Throughout the investigation, he
testified, he discovered many evidences
Of cooperation between the German
American Bund and the Fascist Black
Shirts and the Silver Shirt storm
troops.
The Black Shirts and the German
American Bund, he said, have several
things in ommon-namely, anti
semitic policies and a desire to set up
dictatorship in this country.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
Roosevelt Forgets
To Throw Switch
On R.E.A. Project
By the Associated Press.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. Aug. H.
President Roosevelt overlooked
one allotted chore at the Barnes
vile R. E. A. project exercises.
BY his side as he spoke yester-
day was an open switch. which he
was to throw to send electric cur
rent coursing through 144 miles
of wire and light an r. E. A. sign
on the field
But his closing theme was Gen.
tered on politics. The switch was
still open when he turned away.
Five minutes later Project Man.
ager Walter Andrews stepped into
the breech. He f1icked the switch
and there was light.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
China

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1938-08-12
N. |. R. B. ASKS STAY
Court Requested to Withhold
Order Reversing Board

Order Reversing Board.
CHICAGO. Aug. IL P).-The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board has asked
the United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals to stay its order generating the
Fansteel Metallurgical Co. of charge
of unfair labor practices.
Leonard Bajork. regional N. L. R. b.
director, said the action indicated that
general counsel for the board would
appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
Last July % the Court of Appeals
reversed an N. L. R. B. decision re-
quiring the reinstatement of 90 men
discharged during sit-down strike at
the North Chicago plant in February.
1887, holding an employer had the
right to discharge employees who seize
his property illegally.
Evening star., 1938-08-12
American Mission Bombed.
" Radin To The Star

BY RADIO TO The Star.
HANKOW. Aug. l2.-American
Mission properties again suffered
heavily today when Japanese war
planes bombed Wuchang, across the
river from Hankow, on the second Sue
cessive day of air raids in the Wuhan
area.
Three American women of st.
Anne's Convent of the American
Church Mission saw the walls of their
dwelling literally collapse around them
as they covered under a staircase.
The bombs wrecked two buildings of
their compound.
Another bomb exploded on the
premises Of the American Seventh
day Adventist clinic, killing IL
Chinese.
tcopyrisht. 1888. Chicago Daily News, 1nc.) /,
Evening star., 1938-08-12

anti-Chinese literature. officials of
the International Settlement said a
Japanese airplane flew over the
western part of the settlement. scat
tering leaflets attacking Chinese Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek
Disorders Declared Aim.
The officials said they considered
the alleged japanese action ''gravely
serious" and designed to stir up fur
ther disorders among the already
excited populace.
Many store owners closed their
blishments and boarded the VIM
dows until the tension passed.
Fifty Chinese men, women and
children threw stones and bottles at
Japanese sentries between the French
concession and Japanese-occupied
Nantao district. French police cleared
the area
Heavy guards watched the Chinese
concentration camp at Kiachow Park,
where II Chinese and seven Russian
International Settlement police were
hurt yesterday in a fight after Chinese
prisoners raised the Kuomintang (gov-
ernment) flag
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1938-03-19
Sen Cuts Mother In
Drunken Brawl

tlNrllni 1ANP) From the
~ records here comes the rev
Nn ihJi az least one Cleveland
NAp has lille or no use OF the
hicM admenition. Honor thy
per and mother" for Theodore
fiNnies. 57O7 Hawthorne Ave. H.
now in custody of police charged
Win hayine assaulted and severe
rs u' his own mother. Mrs. Elsie
Hpeylcs is. OF 3375 + 130th st.
Witnesses 10 the cutting told
iMlicr that the mother had visited
her son saturday afternoon. and
hat The two had been drinking
havily an evening. An argument
arose late IN the evening around
3d. and The cutting followed
The mother. although SUFFERING
severe cuts on her right arm.
breast abdomen. refuses 10 sign a
complaint but police will prose
eur