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Evening star., 1938-04-05
CHINESE SLOWING
!. DRIVE ET0RA|LWAY
Forces in Vital Area Stop
Retreat to Build Defense.
Foes Admit Struggle.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
For nearly three months the
japanese haze been trying to close
the central odp between conquered
North China and the Yanotze VAL
ley. This driUe has been aimed at
the area OF tDhtch SuchoD and the
Lunghdt East-West Railway COM
prise the core. Chinese resistance
has been stiff on the South Shan
tnno front.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
and the Soviet Union" Ltunon as

and the Soviet Union, Lftvinon as
serted.
He said arms have been supplied
to China by other nations and that
volunteers from other foreign coun-
tries are serving IN the armed forces
OF China and Japan has not pro-
tested.
Chefoo, port Of Northern Shantung,
also was the scene Of bitter guerrilla
conflict. Hitherto hidden Chinese
units attacked the Japanese garrison
at several points.
/ Two truckloads Of Japanese dead
and wounded were brought back to
Chefoo after a Japanese detachment
made a soytie to the west against the
guerrillas.
Chefoo surrendered peacefully to the
japanese in January. Today's attacks
were considered part Of q general
campaign by Chinese mobile units
throughout Northeastern Shantung, in
which the Chinese flag again Is Tying
over most cities The Japanese hold
only the railway lines and most i'm
portant ports.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
MEXICO DISTURBED
BY LABOR TROUBLE.
Two Killed as Rival Unions
Clash, Adding to TumuIt
in Oil Crisis.
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, April 5.-Renewal
of hostilities between the Confedera-
ton of Mexican Workers added to the
pared for long legal fight over the
appropriated oil industry.
Two workmen we're killed and sew
eral persons wounded, including two
soldiers, in half-hour gun battle
yesterday at Acapulco. A score of
persons was arrested.
The battle between the two unions
started over the right to unload
cargo of building materials from the
German ship Wesser.
Federal troops interviewed and pa
troled the streets after the town had
been terrorized by the outbreak, one
Of number of such clashes in the
last two years.
Labor has been chief support of
President Lazaro Cardenas, who ex-
propriated the oil properties of II
British and American oil companies
on March 10.
Companies Appeal TO Court.
The companies appealed yesterday
to the District Court, challenging the
constltutionality of the appropriation
decree. Both sides were prepared to
pursue the case to the Supreme Court
1t was expected the court proceed
ings would progress alongside negotia-
tons looking to indemnification of the
companies for seizure of their prop
erty. The government agreed, it was
learned from an authoritative quarter,
that any conversations which COM
pany representatives had with the
government regarding indemnification
would not prejudice their legal rights.
President Cardenas had hoped strife
between the c. T. M and the older
c. R. o. NJ. was ended with the
Orizaba peace pact last January.
Where the Labor Department and
courts had failed, he succeeded in
restoring peace to strife-torn Orizaba,
Vera Cruz. where 80 or more workers
died and more than 100 were injured
in bloody clashes between the rival
organizations.
NOTES EASE SITUATION.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, April 5.-Turnins
stubbornly in their tracks, Chinese
retreating from the ruined city of
Taierchwang again slowed up the JAP
anese drive today toward the Lunehai
Railway, east-west transportation ar
terry Of Central China.
Taking advantage of night time re-
lief from japanese artillery and avia-
tion, Chinese dug patchwork defenses
along the Grand Canal, and Japanese
admitted severe fighting still was going
on near Taierchwang, center of a
17-day battle.
Chinese still did not admit Japa-
nese had occupied all of the city and
asserted that attacks at Yihsien, Han
chWang and Tsaochwang provided q
constant rearguard threat to the JAP
aneSe.
Claim 100000 Pocketed.
Japanese pressed an eastward flank
ing movement toward Pihsien and
kWanhu, east OF where the Grand
Canal bends southwark and crosses
the Lunghai line. Their object ap-
peared to be to cut the Lunghai at
Yunho, where the canal and railway
intersect. They then would have the
advantage OF the railway for a west
ward sweep toward the vital Suchoy
junction point Of the Lunghai and
north-south Tientsin-P -Pukow lines.
In the vicinity Of Pihsien Japanese
claimed their shaftlike penetration
from Shantung Province had ad-
Vanced into Kiangsu Province from
the north for the first time.
BY this maneuver Japanese claimed
to have pocketed 100000 Chinese be-
tween Taierchwang and Lini to the
northeast. where desperate fighting
still was in progress.
Guerrilla Attack.
Japanese aviation claimed destruc-
ton OF 10 grounded Chinese planes in
attacks on airdromes l2O miles south
of Chengchow, in Southeast Honan
Province and other places. Sian, Shen-
81 Province, capital and seat Of Com
munist forces, was bombed, japanese
reported
TWenty-one Chinese planes, at
tempting to bomb japanese lines from
a high altitude about Taierchwang
caused numerous casualties among
their own troops, Japanese reported.
Chinese reported that in guerrilla
attack within Is miles west of Shang-
hal, a truck was ambushed and more
than 10 japanese officers and SOL
diers killed.
The Chinese claimed the Japanese
burned all the villages along a 1O-mile
stretch Of road from Sungkiang to
Seeking In house-to-house search
Evening star., 1938-04-05
NOTES EASE SITUATION.
"Good Neighbor" Doctrine Put to
Crifical Test II, nTovton So;,uro

"Good Neighbor" Doctrine Put to
Critical Test in Mexico Seizure.
Exchanges between President Car
denas and Secretary Hull over Mex
ico's seizure of American-owned oil
properties eased a troublesome situa.
ton for the Roosevelt administration
The Roosevelt good neighbor" doc
trine was put to its most critical
test by the seizure. For five years
this administration had labored to
convince Latin America that the doc
trine meant exactly what it said: No
American intervention in the internal
affairs of neighbor states, either by
economic pressure or the landing of
Marines to protect American invest
ment Interests, provided there was no
discrimination against those interests
in the application of internal policies.
Cardenas Helps Situation.
The Mexican. oil crisis might have
impaired that effort to build up Pan
American understanding which could
be important in keeping this hemi.
sphere free of European political anc
commercial quarrels.
But President Cardenas chose to
regard Secretary Hull's recognition OF
Mexico's right to nationalize foreign
owned wells-provided interested
Americans were compensated ade-
quately-as a good. neighborly atti-
tude.
The international back-slapping
between Washington. and Mexico City
was potentially highly important here.
1t gave notice, to other nations, like
Germany, Italy and the possible
fascist regime in Spain, that the oil
crisis was not apt to furnish them any
opportunity to propagandize success
fully on, American borders.
President Cardenas slammed the
door to such an opportunity in the
face Of Europe.
In so doing, however, he politely
ignored the officially, unexplained
stoppage of American silver purchases
from Mexico. The timing of that
stoppage suggested to observers that
1t was a measure of economic retalia-
uon, or compulslon.
Diplomats May Be SkepticaI.
II Latin America accepts the indi-
Gated friendly outcome at the face
value the note from President Car
denas puts upon it-a fine Washing
ton demonstration of good neighborli-
ness under admittedly trying condi-
tlons-well and good. A distinct for
ward step toward Pan-American
friendship could be set down on the
credit side of the Roosevelt foreign
policy ledger, however distasteful it
might be to the American and British
Oil companies concerned.
But Latin American craftsmanship.
not Immediately faced by the prob
lens confronting President Cardenas
at home, might not as blandly over
look the American stop order on sill
yer purchases
American diplomats in nations to
the south probably are attempting
even now to satisfy the governments
to which they are accredited that
there Is no reason for them to re-
construe the good-neighbor policy in
the light of the silver order.
And President Cardenas, in his note
to Ambassador Daniels, has given
them definite helping hand. Latin
American diplomats here or elsewhere
may be skeptical privately, but they
cannot we'll overlook the fact that
Mexico, the country interested di-
rectly, reads only good neighborliness
into what happened. They may shrug
and smile, but they are not apt to be
critical publicly.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
FREDERICK MELVILLE,
BRITISH PRODUCER, DIES
He and Two Brothers Author of
Much of England's Recent
Melodrama.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SHOREHAM ON SEA, England,
April P).-Frederick Melville. 81,
last OF three brothers who wrote and
produced much Of England's contempo-
rary melodrama and pantomime. died
today.
The other brothers, Walter and An
drew, died within the past year. They
were sons Of Andrew Melville, for MANY
years manager of the Standard The
ater,. Frederick and Walter managed
the London Lyceum. known as the
home of melodrama. for three decades,
The family connection with the stage
goes back to the eighteenth century.
The Beast and the Beauty" Mar
rled to the Wrong Man" and The Bad
Girl OF the Family" were among Fred
erick Melville's writings.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Snow White Gives
Delight to Blind
Via Talking Book
BY the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-A talk
ing picture has been translated
into talking book for the first
time, so that the blind could
enjoy Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs."
The talking books for the blind
are long-playing discs somewhat
resembling phonograph records.
Their titles are in Braille, and
they are easily played on an elec-
trio reading machine.
William Barbour of the Amer
lean Foundation for the Blind
wrote the narrative interludes
translating the films action into
sound.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

Mr.. Carew was a native of Goshen.
Ind. He came to London in 1905
and made name for himself on the
English stage. Returning to the
United States two years later. he and
Miss Terry were married at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on March %, 1907.
They appeared together in a num-
Der Of productions in the United
States and England. He lived in Lon
don following his retirement, in 1896.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
EUROPEAN OUTLOOK

No Immediate Disaster Is Feared
by League Official.
Arthur Sweetser, director at large
OF the League of Nations secretariat
at Geneva, said he had told President
Roosevelt yesterday that the situation
In Europe looks bad, but Is not i'm
mediately disastrous"
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Soviet Denies Aid.


MOSCOW, April 5 R.-The Japa-
nese foreign ministry has Soviet Rus
sia's oficial denial that she Is send
ing army units and officers to China
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinof
also asserted that planes and NUM-
tions were supplied to China In ac-
cordance with international rules
relating to such sales.
Litvinoff's declaration yesterday
was rejection Of an earlier protest
by the Japanese Ambassador Mamort,
Shigemitsu, who warned that Russia
must assume responsibility for the
consequences" II aid to China con-
tinued. -.
"Any declaration contradicting this
fact and incapable Of veriflcation
could have been laid only by circles
which already are we'll known for their
Systematic fabricationS of all kinds
Of false reports with the object OF
sharpening relations between Japan
Evening star., 1938-04-05

for the attackers. Kerosene was
poured on the houses and they were
fired In order to eliminate possible
hideouts Of the guerrillas.
Japanese military trains operating
from Shanghai to Hangchow are now
under special guard, Chinese said.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Attacked by Wildcat.

BEND, Greg, April (P-Mrs.
George l.. Baker, wife of former
Portland mayor. suffered deep neck
lacerations Sunday when a captive
wildcat leaped at two fox heads she
wore as neckpiece. The infuriated
cat retained fox head in its mouth
for nearly an hour.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-15
Creenbelt and Democracy

Although it has existed for centuries, in differ
ing forms and intensities. although the best minds
of each generation have collaborated in attempt
to attain it, although have fought and bled for
its preservation and although Of paper have
been written about it, the political institution
known as democracy does not lend itself to accurate
definition
From its first feeble beginnings, this institu-
ton has meant many things to many mon. Even now,
in the days when the great deocracies Of the world
are battling for their very existence. few agree
as to just what the term implies. To it means
freedom from all regulation coupled with power
to exploit. To others it equality Of opporun
i and protection Of the ht Of the individual to
survive. Until recent years. political scientists
have for the most part ined their
Of democracy to the political and legalstic aspects
which give it form rather than to the condi ii
which give it substance and upon which it depends
for life. Modern students Of the subject such
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-15
Progress

Today marks the first anniversary of the Green
belt Food Store. which opened with elaborate
ceremonies December Is. 1887. supplanting the
temporary store the way which into being
October 5, 1887. when the population totaled &c
families and the days sales $3.25.
Much water has gone over the dam since that day,
year ago, when the keys to the Food Store
presented to Store Manager R. M. Templem by COM
mnity Manager Roy S. Braden. behalf Of the FsA.
Under the efficient management Of Ar. Temp1eman
and of Sulo Laakso who succeeded him March 18th.
the store has been phenomenal successful. Through
the support Of the neighborhood sales have consis-
tently increased until they average we'll over
1900 per week. Although quality and utility Of
products offered for sale always utmost
concern to the present management, prices have been
kept within line. The store holds first place
among all cooperative groceries in the East
low operating costs and efficiency.
The position Of Food Store enjoys is the pro-
duct Of the joint interest effort Of the present
mana cement. the store manager it's employees. and
the peoples interest expressed through the Food
Store Committee Of the COG. They all shown
faithful stewardship that which is
become the property Of the resident Of Greenbelt.
They to be congratulated.
G. A. W.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-15
The Greenbelt Players

Dramatic criticism does not custora1i 1y find its
way into editorial columns. Editorials, SINH
seldom deal with eva1uations of the theater. And
so. it is at the risk Of being neither fish fowl
that traditional lines and devote this
tic1e to the Greenbel Players specifically to their
latest production 1.-THE Dark Tower. Our reason. to
ring in the platitudes, is that does not live by
bread alone, and any remarkable development in
local artistic expression rates serious attention.
Judging from the materials at hand, the Develop
mont within the Greenbe1t Players has been remark
able. Last Greenbe1t audiences sat through
three oneact vehicles ich crude and amateur
ish almost throughout. And here. with the passing
Of scant half-ear. find actors end actresses
who merit the pacing boards delivering.
Whence, then, the change?
Primarily, tn ink lit lies in selection Of the
proper play. How many finished artists much less
unpublished diamonds. capable Of rising
above tenth-rate Undergraduate plays? Yet. until
the present, they had to do just that il.
Other factors than play selection however. indi-
cate that the recent Of the Players had it's
root in the maturing Of their talents, if may
such term to describe what has taken place in
short time. Acting, with perhaps two exceptions
protest. onal level, genuine direction could
events. Makeup and cost'ming adequate, and,
distinct from nine amateur jobs out Of tan restrain
EIDE
Stage settings made ingenious Of the possible
titles at hand Obviously they did rank with the
paid article, would not expect them to for
two-night run.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-15

Few Individuals be singled out Of tho cast
for the special superlatives. If there are suoh
however, they would be:
lawrence Larmore for both his roles (altho the
Frenchman bit rugged with his final syllables
and did date from the turn Of the century,.
Gladys Freeman for the aunt, genuine aunt ri ght
down to the se1f-pitying sniff1es.
John Walker. snake in any man's language IAN &C.
complished and oily brute.
Theodore Murray the canary, whom he fascinated.
In character from beginning to end.
The Dark Tower" all told must be chalked up as
the first success Of the Greenbelt Players, but
genuine success, which MARKS tn ink. be-
ginning OF positive dramatic on in town.
The problem which must be solved is
OF larger playgoing Greenbelt audience. think
it will eand largely the basis Of this
ment.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-12-15


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Evening star., 1938-10-08
-Four Daughters
Stays at Met.

"EOUR DAUGHTERS" which start
ed out as a nice little picture and
proved to be one of Warner Bros finest
contributions to more entertaining
movies, entered its second week at the
Metropolitan yesterday.
Based upon the Fannie Hurst story
which became best seller under the
title Sister Act" the film is one which
may rightfully lay claim to many dis
tinctions. Outstanding among them
Is the fact that 1t serves to introduce
young John Garfield to motion picture
audiences. Mr.. Garfield is that COM
paratively rare phenomenon, a fine
actor and he seizes the excellent op-
portunity offered him in this graceful
drama to fix for himself an enduring
place on the screen.
To an unpretentious, but appealing
story, the studio has brought also the
three Lane sisters, Priscilla, Rosemary
and Lola, and newcomer in the Hol-
lywood heartbreak derby, Jeffry Lynn.
With Claude Rains, May Robson and
Gale Page, they constitute one Of
the finest acting casts recently assem-
bled for the creation Of the happy
family drama cycle upon which the
cinema now Is embarked. j. c.
Evening star., 1938-10-08

Shirley Temples fans, are legion, will
give 1t to you.
There is little point in going deeply
into the matter of Ritz Brothers
photoplay, but it might interest you
to know that this one Is taken from
q Damon Runyon story-and prob
ably taken far from it, Even Runyon,
with all the characters he has con-
ceived. never thought up any one like
the Rites. Anyhow this is about a
race horse owned by girl who ap-
parently cannot make the choice be-
tween the nag and her flance. The
fiance does not like it very much.
That puts him on our side.
The five minutes the Rites are
funny are divided between a mad
wrestling match and a steeplechase,
wherein Ritz No. l blindfolds the
horse he is riding, makes him jump
every eight feet so his own horse, with
another rider up, can win. Phyllis
Brooks is the girl, Dick Arlen the
fiance and Ethel Norman sings a
couple of songs, which, incidentally,
are dragged in by the heels if any
number ever was
Much better than all of this is the
new jeff Machamer Gags and Gals"
short, which is part of the screen
bill It's bright little affair built
hor If 70 i.,cf
tions for homicide, and it has some
gags that are fresh and funny and
some gals that are fresh and honeys.
Evening star., 1938-10-08
Earle Holds
.Capra Film
Second Week
Pulitzer Winner
Among Finest of
Screen Comedies.

TINE pursuit of happiness should
lead you to the Earle some
time this week There, by the
grace of Columbia pictures, is
the movie version Of You Can't Take
1t With You" 1t is a comedy which
philosophers hilariously on, Of all sub
jecs, the pursuit Of happiness.
Elaborated beyond the finely
wrought stage play Of the same name
which won the Pulitzer prize season
before last, the Aim nevertheless is
the same in spirit and favor. 1t is
the story OF one Of the maddest FAM
lilies ever dreamed by a pair of play
wrights, family composed of all ages
and both sexes, whose every member
does precisely what he pleases.
Heading this fascinating group s
Grandpa Vanderhof. Thirty years
before, Cramps stopped working
because 1t interfered with his pleasure.
Since then, he has done rs he pleased,
his pleasures taking such forms as
loving his fellow man, going to COM
mencement exercises, refusing to pay
income taxes, playing the mouth
organ, and being boundlessly happy.
Associated with him in this admir-
able enterprise are a daughter who
writes plays because the poStman
once brought her a typewriter by
mistake; a son-in-law who makes
fireworks in the basement; a grand
son-in-law who plays the xylophone
and prints seditiouS (unwittingly)
handbills; granddaughter who Is
a combination ballet dancer and bon
bon genius; and a number of other
eccentrics.
Naturally they do not fit into the
standard social scheme, but they re-
gard that as the fault of the social
scheme and before they are through
living the way they prefer the normal
civic routine takes a terrible beating.
The characters and situations thus
sketched make for momentous comedy
and the fashion in which they have
been disposed by Director Frank
Capra makes the screen drama one
of the funniest affairs of the year.
The large cast which assists Mr.. Capra
so valiantly is headed by Lionel Barry
more, and includes such fine players
as Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Spring
Byington, Edward Arnold, Ann Miller
and others Of whom you must have
heard.
The picture is the second attraction
in the eight years history of the Earle
to be held over a second week. 1t
deserves it.
Also retained intact for a second
week is the stage bill which includes
the soprano singing of Lucy Monroe,
the juggling of CASTOR Palmer, and
the excellent dancing Of the 16
RoxyetteS. J. c.
Evening star., 1938-10-08

THE stage show Is by far the best
part Of the bill, even better than
1t would have to be to be the best part
Of the bill. There's q raft of fun in
the mad doings Of Fred Sanborn, whose
xylophone antics and foolishment with
strange props approaches complete
lunacy. His comedy is tops, or maybe
it just seems that way in contrast
with the r. brothers.
When Mr.. Sanborn Is not about the
bill is up to par and better, too. Ed
die Carr does the master of cere-
monies chore well and contributes
some Of his impersonations-t best
being his demonstration of the ways
people sing songs.
Also there are Ethel Sheppard, who
sings with considerable "yumph";;
Jean Tanner, who does some nimble
tap dancing, and the "a Capitol Dane
ers. with set Of new routines, which
they bring off mighty well.