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The Washington times., 1938-01-08
USED CAR DEAL
PUT UP TO U. S.

DETROIT, Jan. 8 G.N.sJ.-A
suggestion that the Government
buy up surplus stocks Of used auto
mobiles and turn them into scrap
metal for ornaments was made
in the automobile industry today
as one possible means Of breaking
the business recession.
Such a plan has been under dis
cussion in trade circles for some
time, it was known, but it first
reached the light of day today
in formal comment when Wards
Automotive Reports said:
1--WE suggest the Government
start buying surplus and older
used cars the same way it buys
surplus crops, and use the scrap
metal obtained for the proposed
armament building"
Wards, trade service, gener-
ally reflects the attitude of motor
car makers.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
U.S.AHFOrce
Ranks First
In Efficiencu

The United States air force, al
though outnumbered by five other
nations, ranks second to none in
fighting efficiency, the National
Advisory Committee on Aeronau,
tics reported last night.
The United States has only
1900 fighting planes, the commit
tee reported, as compared with
Russia's $500, Germany's $500,
Italy's 5000, Frances 1000 and
England's $500.
But the war birds of America
are far superior in design, speed
and efficiency to those Of other
countries and the skill Of Amer
lean aviators can be compared
only with that of the English, the
committee asserted.
The Army will spend nearly
500, 100000 on its aerial armament
in the next fiscal year, the com.
mittee reported. At the end of
1887, the Army had 1920 first
class fighting ships; 400 others
in condition to fight and TOO new
planes ordered.
The Navy with 1900 first-line
planes on hand, 600 new
ships ordered at the close of 1887,
will spend $7,OOO.OOO less this year
for earcraft, but its appropria-
tion will be sufficient to maintain
present high standards Of eff
cheney.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
U. S. War Supply Sales
To Alien Nations Fall Off

from the United States was at
tributed to the japanese blockade
of the China coast, which makes
is exceedingly difficult for war
supplies to enter China, and to
the fact that China has now
turned to European countries to
a much greater extent for as a
source of war supplies.
Heavy purchases have been
made from Russia, Germany,
Czechoslovakia and other coun-
tries for shipment to the British
port of Hongkong.
Japan, during the month, pur-
chased $25O,282 in war supplies.
A quarter million of this for a
single war plane, believed to be a
long range bomber of the most
recent type which it is believed
she intends copying in her own
plane factories. The American
long-range bomberS have a far
greater effective range and load
capacity than any craft Japan
is able to produce. 1t was said
here this indicates Japan intends
building long-range bombers on q
large scale, to carry the war into
interior China. +s
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
SPANISH DYING.
BY HUNDREDS IN.
FLEEING MADRID.
Civilians Perish in Cold
Escaping Battle

LONDON, Jan. 8 GN.S).
Roads leading from Madrid,
spain's beleaguered capital city
from which the governmnt fled
months ago, resemble the path of
Napoleon's famous retreat from
Moscow, the London Daily Sketch
reported today.
HUNDREDS FREEZING
Hundreds Of men, women and
children, obeying orders to evacu-
ate the city, said the Sketch, are
dying from exposure on frozen
roads in temperatures below zero.
BOMBS ALTERNATIVE!
The paper said the great trek
began in earnest, with thousands
streaming from the city, in the
teeth Of an arctic gale. A Spanish
official was quoted as
remarking:
Their only alternative was to
be bombed and shelled out Of
existence in the big attack
which is pending"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Morrow Drive
To Close Monday

Effective Monday, Morrow Drive,
between Sixteenth Street and Rock
Creek Park, will be closed from
7 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. because of
blasting operations for the demoli,
ton of Brightwood Reservoir, Act
ing Superintendent of National
Capital Parks F. T. Gartside, an
nounced today.
The drive will be open every
evening from 5 to p. m. Mr..
Gartside said, and all day Satur-
day and Sunday. Motorists who
have been using Morrow Drive to
enter Rock Greek Park can use
Military Road instead, Mr.. Cart.
side added.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Elsa Maxwell Sued
For $500 Band Bill

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (C.T.P.S0.
The way william Arnold, bands
man, looks at it, those who dance
should pay the fiddlerS. So Arnold
has stated suit for $500 against
Elsa Maxwell, society's party
pepper-upper, claiming that sum
as the balance due of $3.50 prom
iSed him when his 15-man orches-
ira played all night at Elsa's red
and white ball in honor of Mrs.
Vincent Astor and Beverly Bogert.
Elsa's attorneys have demanded
details about the alleged services.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
GOVERNORS OK,
PAY-HOUR IDEA
By EDWARD B. LoCKETT

G.N.SO Wage-hour legislation
advocates in Congress undeniably
gained support today in a resolu-
ton adopted by seven Southeast
ern governors meeting here, but
were not entirely clear as to its
meaning.
The resolution, adopted by the
seven members of the Southeast
ern governors conference, after
a two-hour luncheon visit with
President Roosevelt, indorsed the
principle" of floor for wages
and a ceiling for hours"
Not one of the governors would
elaborate on the meaning of this
resolution. None would commit
himself for or against the bill
now pending in a House commit
tee, after the House itself sent
it back from the floor, except to
point to the resolution adopted.
So, while the obvious intent
Of the resolution adopted was to
square the governors from Dixie
with the Presidents demands for
support of wage-hour legislation,
the statesmen from the South did
not say yea or nay to any specific
bill.
Governors adopting the resolu-
tion, most important Of several,
included Graves of Alabama,
Rivers of Georgia, Johnston of
South Carolina, Hoey of North
Carolina, Browning Of Tennessee,
Cone of Florida. and Leche of
Louisiana,
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Japan Plans
4-YeGr War
In China

TOKYO, Jan. 8 d.N.SO.-On
the announced assumption that
N1ppon's war with China will last
four years, Premier Prince Fumi.
marc Koncye today placed before
his cabinet a four-year plan for
maintenance of national resources.
The cabinet placed the matter
in the hands of national plan.
ming board which will draft de.
tails for presentation to the Diet
January %.
This was the latest, and by far
the most official, of many recent
indications that Japan's govern.
ment believes its campaign in
China may develop into a long
conflict of attrition in which its
resources will be strained to the
utmost to accomplish Japan's
mission" in the Far East.
Foreign observers here also saw
more than a hint in this move Of
official belief that the Chinese
campaign may develop into some.
thing more general. Never for an
instant, it is believed, does the
Tokyo government forget the
menace of Soviet Russia to the
west, with her huge armies and
her gigantic air force.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Census Shovs 12,164 Here
Are Partially Unemployed

MANY persons regularly work
only part.tine and do not need
or want more work. They are
partially employed. Others are
reduced to part-time work by
force of circumstances. not by
personal limitations or choice.
They are partly unemployed.
preliminary analysis indicates
that a very considerable num-
ber have registered or reported
themselves as partially unem-
ployed when they clearly belong
to the group of partly employed
workers, and should not have
included themselves In either
the voluntary or test census"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
WindsOrs Guests
OF Maxine Elliott

CANNES, Jan. 8 G.NSO.-The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
were dinner guests last night OF
Maxine Elliott, famous American
actress. Other guests who dined
at -Iiss Elliott's beautiful Rivera
villa, PHorizon, included Lloyd
George, World War Prime Mini.
ster of Britain, and Winston
Churchill, former British chancel-
lor of the exchequer.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

G.N.SO Foreign purchases of
American-made war supplies
dropped to the lowest figure Of
the past 18 months during Decem-
Der. The monthly report of the Ma
tional Control Board revealed to-
day, showed a total of $1,930,747.
The drop in China's purchases
was the most noteworthy. Dur
ing the month China ordered only
$29O,632 in war equipment, COM
pared to purchases which have
run an average of from one to
several millions a month for many
months. The December pur-
chases were concentrated in ma
chine guns, hand grenadeS and
bombs.
The marked drop in purchases
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Seconds Arrange
Casanova Duel

HAVANA, Jan. 8 Q.N.S0.-Sec-
onds met today to arrange details
of the duel to which Senator Jose
Manuel Casanova, rich sugar man,
challenged Manuel Penabas, politi-
cal writer in La Prensa. Casanova
charged that Penabas wrote in
furious articles in the paper, which
is owned by ex-President Gomez.
Casanova's secretary denied, how
ever, that they would fight to
death,
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Signs
New Confession

NoRRIsTOWN, Pa, Jan. 8.
Wendell Forrest Bowers, 10, has
signed a new confession to the
Staying of Mrs. Wilma v. Carpen.
ter, reenacted the crime for Mont.
gomery county authorities and was
held without bail on urder
charges. District Attorney Fred
erick B. Smillie said that as a re-
suit of the new confession it would
not be necessary to have Mary
Griffin, %, identify Bowers as the
youth who shot her companion
and business associate. and at.
tempted to attack her in Mrs. Car.
.penter's Camp Hill, Pa, home.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
'SitdOWn' Forces
r. |. Relief Vote

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 8 II.
N.SD.-Seated in the Senate gal
leries of the State capitol, 300 Ia
Dor sympathizers late yesterday
witnessed their first victory in a
"sitdown" drive to enforce enact
ment of a 23-point labor legislation
program when the upper house
passed the 100000 unemploy.
ment relief bill. The measure, hav.
ing previously passed the house,
was sent to Governor Robert E.
Quinn for signature.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
was most difficult because oi
many variable and changing
factors. He asserted:
I'm our report on total un'
employment we pointed out the
difficulties of measuring the
marginal group consisting Of
those who are not regular work
ers for wages. .,
'In the field of partial un-
employment other factors make
the appraisal even more COM
plex. For example, it is difficult
to get people to understand the
important distinction between
partial employment and partial
unemployment.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Divorce Found
Attacked, Beaten

SAN ANsELMO, Calf, Jan. 8
G.N.S).-Brutally beaten by a
mysterious assailant, Mrs. Elsie
Hannah, 35, divorce, was found
critically injured in her apartment
here yesterday.
She had been crininally at.
tackled. Police connected the at.
tack on her with the similar beat
ing of Mabel Hawthorne, 5O-year-
old actress, in San Francisco Mon.
day night.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Youth knitted
In Market Strike

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 8
Q.NSD.-Lyle Lincoln, 81, was
stabbed yesterday as members of
the CLOS United Produce Hand
lers went out on strike at the city
market. Lincoln, member Of the
CIO union, was taken to General
Hospital. where his condition was
pronounced critical. Police arrest 5.
Harold Mitchell, 26, who denied
any connection with the attack.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
JAPAN, FRANCE
NEAR CLASH

or'(COntinued from Page II
woman was rescued by the French
police and the boundary Of the
French concession was closed.
Breaking Japanese regulations,
Ithe Chinese woman crossed the
Boulevard des Deux Republiques,
which divides Japanese-occupied
Nantao from the French conces-
sion, to draw water from a pump
on the French side of the road. "A
Japanese soldier spied her, ran
after her and began to beat her.
The Russian volunteer dashed
to the Chinese woman's assistance
but the wiry little Japanese
knocked the Russian to the
ground and tried to wrest the
volunteers rifle from him.
SOLDIERS GRAB RUSSIAN
The Russian jumped up, drew
his revolver and pointed it at his
Nipponese adversary, who quickly
abandoned his belligerent attitude.
But Is more Japanese soldiers
from the boundary patrol rushed
to the scene, surrounded the Rus
sian and began dragging him to
the Japanese side of the boundary
line.
Attracted by the excitement,
another Russian volunteer blew
his whistle, bringing two French
armored cars and a whole truck.
load of Russian volunteers to the
spot.
AS they took up positions, ready
for any eventuality, 100 fresh Jap
anese troops suddenly appeared
and the situation had all the ele.
ments of savage battle. But, no
shots were fired and the French
and Japanese officials reached an
amicable adjustment.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Nazis GuilOtine
Trio as Traitors

BERLIN, Jan. 8 (C.T.PS).
Three men were guillotined in
Berlin yesterday for high treason.
They were Joseph Starck, of Co.
logne, and Otto Demwolff, of Mi
litSch, sentenced for betraying
military secrets, and Herbert Ga
jewski, of Schneidemuhl, for COM
municating with foreign agents.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
BARTENDERs MEET

The regular Sunday business
Of Bartenders Union, Old
Local rs, will be held at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon, union Off
Gals announced today.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Congress Protest
Faced By Hull on
Pact With Britain
Democratic Mninrifu Ernpcfph fn Puf II
Democratic Majority Expected to Put 1t
Through OUer Opposition BLOcs
BY ROBERT G.. NIXON

QN.S) Secretary of State Cordel Hull today launched
the United States the ambitious commercial arrange
ment IN its history-a reciprocal trade pact with Americas
largest customer Great Britanbut headed straghaway
into storm of congressional nrntest
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
CHEMISTS TO MEET

The Chemical Society of Wash
ington viii meet in the Cosmos
Club Auditorium, January 13, at
8:15 ?. Il. Ben H. Nicolet, retir.
ing president Of the society, will
be the principal speaker.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Senate Recession
PrOberS Hold Fear
Of Slump Baseless
Witnesses Urge ReneWed y. S. Spending,
:. Thy RoEisinn nnd TrndeS' Gnnnornfinn
By ROBERT A. McGILL

GNS7. Declaring fears Of economic breakdown
are unounded members Of the Senate Unemployment and
Relief Committee today proposed temporary program,
dnain nnd 10 halt he hnsinn
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

Relief Committee today pre-
designed to halt the business
Based on the first week of tes.
timony into causes of the reces
SION, by representatives of bust
ness, industry, labor and the gov
ernment, the verbal recommends
tions call for increased Federal
spending, revision of taxes and
closer cooperation between big
business and the government.
In addition members of the com,
mittee stressed the need of com.
mon ground for Government and
business to work out their prob,
lens, and proposed that certain
Government and business officials
adopt a more friendly attitude
toward each other.
By hNES FUN FEANL
"There is no doubt in my
mind that if big business and
some representatives of the Ad-
ministration would cease their
warfare, the recession would be
over in a short while" said Sen
:ator Byrnes CD Of South Caro-
lima, chairman of the committee.
Byrnes' statement placed added
significance to the testimony OF
Gen. Robert E. Wood, president OF
Sears Roebuck, who declared
business is holding back in some
instances because of the recent at
tacks by Robert H. Jackson, as,
sistant attorney general and Sec
retary o. Interior IckeS.
In agreement with the majority
of witnesses that have appeared
before the committee, Senator
Murray CD of Montana, urged
that additional Government spend
ing be carried out through an ex-
panded PWA program. He rec
commended in particular that the
expansion be devoted mostly to
irrigation and other forms Of land
conservation in the drought areas.
a.. ASKS MORE PWA
'"There is a tremendous de-
mand for public works projects
which will regenerate the
draught areas, as well as in
crease business and industry
and take care of a good deal
of the unemployment problem"
he said.
The majority OF representatives
Of business and labor recon-
ulended the WPA program be ex-
banded, following testimony OF
Mariner S. Eccles, chairman OF
the Federal Reserve Board, who
said the Government could stop
the recession" by placing $1,000
600, 900 of its Sterilized gold in
circulation.
Joining with another majority
Of perons who testified, Murray
recommended modification OF the
tax on undiStributed corporate
earnings, but added he didn't "see
any necessity for repeal of the
capital gains tax"
. NO CAUSE FOR FEAR
g. Byrnes and Murray both de-
elared there is mo justification"
for the fear psychology witnesses
testified is accompanying Ine re-
cession.
: The committee, meanwhile, has
scheduled Lammot dupont, chair
man of E. I. dupont Nemours
Company, as the first witness
Monday. During the week. the
committee will investigate the tex
tile and steel and coal industries,
and unemployment in agriculture.
Additional witnesses invited to
appear include Benjamin Fair
less, president of U. S. Steel; John
l.. Lewis, head of the CIO; Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Wallace, and
leonard P. Ayres, economist, of
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
TREASURY CONDITION

G.N.SD Treasury balance on
January s.: $2,965,217,059.73: in
ternal revenue, SIG, ,102, 1881; GUS
toms receipts, $4,538, ,079.72,
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

Formal proclamation of this
country's intention of negotiating
a reciprocal trade arrangement
with Britain aroused an immediate
division of opinion on Capitol Hill.
Congressional reaction from the
New England boot, shoe and tex
tile centers, from the agricultural
Middle West and from Republican
high tariff exponents generally
was caustic, but this was countered
by the heavy Democratic majority
which stuck by Hull and his re-
ciprocal trade policy.
TRADE GAINS CITED
For the critics, Hull calmly drew
attention to the fact that in the
first II months of the past year,
Americas foreign trade increased
by the staggering total of nearly
one and a half million dollars, to
a large extent the result of the
16 reciprocal trade pacts already
in effect.
In announcing that basis has
been reached for the trade negotia-
tions after more than a year of pre-
liminary conversations, the State
Department published a 47-page
list of articles imported from the
United Kingdom which will be con-
Sidered for tariff reduction.
Extensive public hearings must
be held, in which American in
dustry will be given full opportun-
ity to express their beliefs, open
ing March IA. It is not expected
the treaty will be finally signed
until May, or later.
U. S. SEES VAST MARKET
In return for tariff reductions to
Britain on certain commodities
which the State Department in.
sistS will not harm competitive
American industries, the United
States expects to obtain from Brit
ain a huge new market for agri-
cultural products and cattle, as
well as manufactured goods.
Most of these are unable now to
compete in the British market
because of high tariffs and quotas
the United Kingdom erected sev.
eral years ago under the Empire
agreement to aid it's dominionS,
whose products enter duty free.
Fear was expressed by New
England Congressman that any
reduction Of tariffs on leather
goods and textiles might ruin"
these industries, in comment by
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr. R), of Massachusetts, and
his colleague in the House, Mrs.
Edith Nourse Rogers.
On the other hand, Representa-
tive Doughton D) of North Caro-
lima said:
II have such complete conf
dence in the good sense and
wisdom of the public officials of
the United States and Great
Britain, especially Secretary
Hull, that I am willing to risk
negotiations. I have no fear
that Secretary Hull will enter
into any agreement injurious to
American interests"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Mother KnoUS

That when she was a youngster
she took Father Johns Medicine
for colds-so now she gives it to
her little girl to increase resistance
to colds, and to develop more
vigorous health.
It's successful use by millions dur.
ing the past SO years is q most con-
vincing proof Of value. 1t must be
good.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
AutOPLGnts
Call Men
To Work

DETROIT, Jan. 8 GN.S).
Michigan relief authorities today
were faced with the job of pro-
viding a shock absorber" for the
Iback-wash of the recession as two
major automobile companies led
the way in the growing back to
work" movement in the motor in
dustry.
Tuesday Chrysler Corporation
will bring back $4,000 men idle
since before Christmas in pro-
longed holiday suspension.
FORD ISSUES CALL
Henry Ford has issued call
| for 10000 men idle since the holi-
day week to report back to the
vast River Rouge plant January IT,.
Among the smaller plants the
Hudson Motor Company provided
the biggest sensation with the an
tnouncement that 5000 men will
be rehired to work on the new
low-priced Hudson, 112 which
went into production this week.
These and other moves toward
breaking the recession will make
deep inroads in the 10000 men
that Governor Frank Murphy said
have been thrown out of automo-
bile industry jobs in the past few
weeks, but relief authorities will
have to continue to fight the
growing problem of caring for the
needy.
PARTS MEN IDLE
The men called back to their
jobs in the motor industry will not
be given pay checks until they
have worked two weeks. The esti-
mated 100000 men unemployed in
the parts plants Of the State prob
ably will not go back to work until
two weeks after the automobile
plans get back into full swing.
That the relief problem is acute
was indicated yesterday when Gov
ernor Murphy said he plans to go
to Washington next week to plead
for more Federal funds to help the
State care for it's unemployed.
In Detroit the relief load was
being increased by a weekly 5000
families, and Fisher Lodge, the
municipal shelter for single men,
is packed with 1,700 unemployed.
Relief figures show that at present
$4,000 Detroit families are receiv-
ing welfare aid.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Today In
Congress

Senate
Meets at II a. m.
Resumes debate on anti-lynch-
ing bill.
House
Not In session.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

P1TTa 81 CARRIER IN WASHINGTON. D. {
AND SUBURBS
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

HATES BY MAM FOR vIRGNIA. nARYLAND.
WET VIRGulLA AND NORTH CAROLINA
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

{ congressional protest.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

The marked drop in purchases
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Whitney Scandal
Brings Changes
In Fund Control
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK July s.-Prompted by
the defalca tions Of Richard Whitney.
the New York Stock Exchange has
made extensive changes in the ad-
ministration of its gratuity fund
The exchange has set up a Gus
todian account in the Central Han
over Bank g. Trust Co., in which the
more than s2,O0o,000 assets of the
gratuity fund have been placed. One
provision Of the custodian arrange.
ment requires the approval of at least
four trustees of the fund before any
Of the funds securities are bought,
sold, received or delivered.
The fund was established over half
a century ago and is used to provide
payments to the estates of deceased
members of the exchange. Formerly
the securities in the fund had been
kept in a bank safety. deposit box,
subject to control of the chairman Of
the fund.
In the Whitney scandal it was dis
closed that the former president of
the stock exchange. now serving q
term in Sing Sing Prison, had appro-
priated securities in the fund for his
own purposes.