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Evening star., 1938-10-21
C0L0REO YOUTH PARLEY
PLANNED AT BOWIE
Maryland PIT. A. Welfare and
Health Department Sponsors
Meeting Tomorrow.

Delegates from Maryland youth
organizations will attend a Colored
Youth Conference, sponsored by the
Department of Public Welfare and
Health of the Maryland Congress of
Parent Associations, at the
Maryland State Teachers College,
Bowie, Md, tomorrow.
Speakers at the conference, which
will have as its theme Building the
Efficient Youth" will include DR.. R..
H. Riley, director of the Maryland
State Department of Health: Prof
Howard L. Cornish of Morgan College
and DR.. D. o. w. Holmes, president
OF Morgan College: the Rev. L. S.
Moore of Chester. Pa, and Mrs. v.
H. Whyte Of Baltimore.
Provision has been made for free
bus transportation to Bowie for Mont
gomery County delegates. The bus
Will leave Rockville at 8 am. Saturday
and go to Bowie by way of Norbeck,
Ashton and Laurel.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
STRIkEBOUND FIRM
ASKS ASSURANCES
Swift & Co. Is Ready to Reopen
Plant When Law and Order
Can Be Maintained
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
SIOUX CITY. Iowa, Oct. 2l.-Offi-
cials of the strikebound Swift e. Co.
packing plant informed Gov. Nelson
G. Kraschel by telegram today they
are prepared to reopen their plant "as
soon as we can be assured that law
and order will be permanently main
tanned"
The company informed Gov. Kras-
chel 1t proposed meeting with C. I.
o. union representatives tomorrow ito
discuss questions involved" The Gov
ernor had appealed for prompt settle
ment of the dispute, which brought 600
National Guardsmen to the strike
area.
The statement to Gov. Kraschel
took issue with the Governors de.
scription of the strike as over minor
differences"
The issues which ostensibly
prompted the staging of an illegal sit
down strike in our plant were trivial,
we agree" the telegram to the chief
executive asserted, but the issue now
confronting the company is not triv-
ial. sss
The question is whether a COM
pany must continue to employ work.
ers who have wilfully and deliberately
destroyed the property they are paid
to preserve and protect"
Evening star., 1938-10-21

Immediately after passing the post
q winner in a mile and a half race
In Lanark, England, j. McGuigans
horse, Sparkler, dropped dead.
Evening star., 1938-10-21

Applications for motoring licenses in
England are 1000 week above a year
ago.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
China
Continued From First Page.)

fCOntlnued From First Page)
sector, about 40 miles away, managed
to make stand now that their re-
treat to Canton had been cut of.
Shameen, Canton's insular foreign
settlement, was calm. French and
British flags were flown from entrances
TO the foreign concessions. British
and French troops guarded their bar
ricades with machine guns. No un-
toward incidents had been observed
tonight in Shameen.
To enter Canton the ast-moving
japanese column appeared to have
completed vast flanking movement
which encircled Chinese defenses
northeast Of the city.
Large numbers of Chinese troops
. were in slow retreat, hemmed in by
their foe. Last night party of for
eign newspapermen attempted to reach
the encroaching front lines east of
Canton, but were turned back, 20 miles
out Of Canton, by retreating Chinese.
Reuters, British news agency, re-
ported from Hong Kong that General
issimo Chang Kai-shek. the Chinese
leader, had left Hankow for Changsha.
Hankow, provisional Chinese capital, is
d, the other main japanese objective
about $50 miles north of Canton. A
large part of the Hankow population
had ned as the japanese advanced to
within IS miles of Hankow
Yanstze Filled With Mines.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 81 (P).-Chinese
eent a flood of floating mines down
the Yangtze River today in an attempt
to hold OH japanese gunboats pushing
rapidly toward Hankow, provincial
capital and objective of the Central
China campaign.
The United States gunboat Monoc-
acy, stationed near Kiukiang, narrow
ly escaped collision with one of the
mines, which lodged at the shore a
short distance from her anchorage
The Monocacy shifted quickly out of
the danger zone.
Gunboats Continue Thrust,
Japanese said that, despite the on
coming mines, increasing numbers of
gunboats were continuing the thrust
toward Hankow. Their guns, in sup
port of land forces, swept the shore
lines some IS miles downstream from
the city.
Japanese military authorities de-
clared the river advance and gains by
columns flanking the stream made
Hankow's eventual capitulation a
certainty.
Units of the gunboat fleet were said
to have passed Ocheng, IS miles from
Hankow.
Chinese Reported Near Rout.
The southern overland column was
said to have captured Tayeh. 40 miles
southeast of Hankow, and pushed on
to the iron mining district to the
north. Japanese said Chinese in that
area were on the verge Of rout.
The northern column was reported
by japanese to have captured Kishui,
strategic Chinese outpost IS miles from
the Hankow goal.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
TRADE EPACT NEAR,
LONDON REPORTS
Final Settlement Terms
Believed Submitted by
United States.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN.
chieago Daily News FOREIGN Correspondent
LONDON, Oct. 2l.-The fate of the
proposed Anglo American trade agree
ment which has been the subject of
negotiations for. the several months will
be settled by the end of next week, it
was understood in well-informed quar-
ters In London today.
For its part the United States Gov
ernment Is understood to have sub
mitted its final terms for settlement,
including demand for important con-
cessions on several American export
items. 1t the British government were
unable to make these concessions, it
has been given to understand. the
agreement would no longer satisfy the
American public and might Just as we'll
not be concluded.
The British government, on its side,
Is still considering these concessions,
and apparently has moi yet decided
eltner to accept them or finally to
= refuse them. Certain cabinet members
ana prominent industrialis.s are un-
oerstood to favor rejection. Others
1eel the concessions demanded are al
most extortionate in their Importance.
OUT oelleVe that the advantages of an
Anglo-Americsn agreement are worth
all OF the sacrifices involved.
Inc situation Is admittedly highly
crltical for the first time since the
negotiations began, and there is real
danger OF their complete COLLAPSE
Only an overriding decision of the
CABINET to force the agreement through
can save 1t, and this decision, it is
hoped, will finally be taken some
time during next week. The real
seriousness of the situation has been
indicated by the Intervention of the
American Ambassador to London, Jo-
seph P. Kennedy, who, it is UNDER
stood. would not concern himself with
the matter unless the negotiations
with Washington had reached the
point of breakdown.
While the present snag in the
negotiations is attributed by Brit
tshers to the appearance of new
and extraordinary American de-
mands at the last minute, the
real trouble lies in the fact that the
negotiations were not pushed through
10 successful conclusion when the
time was ripe. Every month that has
passed since the trade recession began
early this year has brought fresh OBJ
jections to individual points in the
proposed agreement from distressed
industrialists and has diluted the en-
thusiasm for the principle of such a
pact
copyright, 1898, Chicaeo Daily News, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-10-21

canvas AFFAIR "Gttached to q towing
plane by line 5000 feet long. At
1900 feet 1t is barely visible to the
|sunners, even IN favorable daylight
Econditions.
This target Is so far from the anti
aircraft guns-upward of miles
that the firing pieces are aimed ahead
Of even the towing plane. Between
the firing Of the gun and the bursting
Of the shell 20 seconds elapse and
during that time the plane moves /
mile.
An anti-aircraft gun can fire IA to 20
rounds as the target moves across its
field of fire. Two widely separated
Evening star., 1938-10-21

lery have been scoring six or more
hits In 20 shots ct targets speeding
180 miles an hour behind Americas
highest-climbing military planes. One
hit in 20 has been considered good
Workmanship for 3-inch anti-aircraft
guns
The 1900 feet represented the
highest altitude reachable by plane
towing target, which is a cylindrical
Evening star., 1938-10-21
Pie Weighs 1890 Pounds.

WENATCHEE, Wash, Oct. 81 tP.
1T took tractor to pull this apple
pie from the oven.
The pie, weighing 1890 pounds and
10 feet in diameter. was made from
a ton OF apples. 100 pounds of -four
and 10 pounds Of butter.
Spectators at national apple week
festival ate it yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
Army Sho'os Amazing g Accuracy; y;
In Destroying Plane Targets

HONOLULU Correspondence of the
Associated Press) Army anti-air-
craft batteries near Honolulu have
been 80 thoroughly shooting up sleeve
targets at 1900 feet, supposedly the
ceiling" for that type of practice,
that their oficers have concluded they
would be able to sweep Hawaiian
skies clear Of any enemy planes.
Batteries Of the 64th Coast Artil-
Evening star., 1938-10-21

cameras record the position ana time
Of each burst.
The practice shooting, recently COM
pleted, took place on the north shore
OF Oahu Island, on which Honolulu
Is situated.
Officers reported the highest score,
an almost phenomenal 4l4.3, was
made by Battery c of the 64th Bat
terry X turned in an average score Of
274.3 for three practice sessions.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
Cattle Production Grows.

In the slash pine region of the
South. beef cattle production offers an
additional supplement to timber grow
ing, reports Industrial and Engineer
ing Chemistry.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Abound Mushroom

Weighing pounds, a mushroom 10
inches across and around the stem
has been found in England,
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Mrs. RooseveIt's Roses
Cheer LeqIess Girl

Roses from Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt made her twenty-first
birthday celebration complete for
Martha Geesling, who entertained
more than score of friends and
relatives in her Emergency Hospital
room yesterday.
The girl, who lost the use of her
legs in 1927 when a sandbank caved
in on her, and then lost both legs
by amputation in August and Sep
tember gayly informed her guests
that she'd like to get artificial limbs
and learn how to become a stenog-
rapher.
Martha's s education ended abruptly
in the third grade and, though she
forgot how to read and write in
the intervening years, she has begun
to learn all over again. Mrs. Eliza
beth Goodman, volunteer social
worker, told the party guests yester-
day Of Martha's progress since her
education was resumed a month
ago.
Among the guests was Miss Matte
Gibson, superintendent of Children's s
Hospital, where Martha began her
long siege of illness, and Martha S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Geesling, 1929 Seventeenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Arms Boycott Bakers
Plan Mass Meetinu

Plans for an Armistice Day mass
meeting were laid last night at q
joint gathering at Wesley Hall of
the Washington Friends of Spanish
Democracy, the Washington Com
mittee for Aid to China and the
Washington branch of the American
League for Peace and Democracy
Miss Alice Barrows outlined the
program of the mass meeting. to
be held Thursday night, November
10. at the Masonic Auditorium,
Thirteenth street and New York
avenue NV. The gathering will
ask for legislation prohibiting ship
ment of arms and munitions to
Germany. Italy and Japan.
A relief ship, which sailed for
Spain yesterday, carried a cargo
OF food, clothing and medical sup
plies, a part of which was pur-
chased with $1,000 raised in the
last three months by the local
branch of the Spanish Democracy
group. The local organization of
the Central Spanish Committee for
Republican Spain donated another
$4,000 for supplies carried on the
ship.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Probe SET in Charqe
0fW.P. A. Coercion
By Keystone 6. 0.P.
Order Held Distorted
TO Imply Support
Of Judge jones

The Senate Campaign Expendi-
lures Committee, frequently called
to investigate w. P. A. influences in
political contests, today prepared to
go to the rescue of the Relief Ad-
ministration by probing an apparent
case of distortion Of w. p. A. orders
to imply support of the Republican
ticket in Pennsylvania.
According to a complaint made to
the committee by Aubrey Williams,
acting w. P. A. administrator, q ra-
dio news commentator for the Lu-
zerne County Republican Commit
tee on October 26 broadcast bulle-
tin that Harry L. Hopkins, w. p. A.
administrator, has Endorsed Arthur
James Republican nominee for
GOVERNOR"
Such a statement, Mr.. Williams as
serts, was distorted" interpreta-
ton of a w. P. A. bulletin telling
w. p. A. workers they may vote as
they please"
Chairman Sheppard Of the Cam
paign Committee promised an i'm
mediate inquiry into the incident.
At the same time Representative
Sheppard, Democrat, of California,
said he would welcome an investiga-
ton into charges by the Republican
Committee in his district that he
has violated the Corrupt Practices
Act. The Republican group had
asked such an inquiry.
Meanwhile, the w. P. A. continued
its own investigation of political
complaints, refuting charges that
% boys who should have been in
school had been found working for
w. P. A. in Hazleton, Pa.
The boys, Mr.. Williams said he had
been informed. all were working for
the Highway Department, having no
connection with w. P. A.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Injuries Are Fatal
To Boy Victim Of
Hit-Run Driver
Bernard P. Randolph, II,
Of Cormody Hills, Nd,
Dies at Providence

Struck by hit-and-run motorist
in the street near his home, Bernard
P. Randolph, II, of Carmody Hills,
Md, died last night at Providence
Hospital with multiple head and in
ternal injuries. Three young per-
sons were among those injured last
night in local traffic.
Within a. short time after the
Randolph boy died here, Prince
Georges County police arrested q
man believed to have been the driver
OF the hit-run- machine. He was
held for investigation.
Sylvia Jackson, 3, colored, 1lO6
Sixth street NV, suffered possible
fracture when she was struck near
her home. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital and later trans
ferred to Freedmen's. Minor hurts
were received in similar accidents
by Edward Bisse, 16, of 622 F. street
S.W., struck while skating near
Seventh and D streets NV, and
Suzie Brown, 6, colored, 1345 Sixth
street NV, hit when she walked
from between two parked, cars near
her home.
Others injured in local traffic ac-
cidents included Jack Walters, 49, of
1914 I street NV, who received a
fractured arm, chest injuries and
leg bruises when, according to police,
he stepped into the side of bus
near Thirteenth and streets NV,
and Mrs. Jessie Wheeler, As, of 1900
H street NV, injured on her hip by
the rear of street car making a
turn at Fifteenth street and New
York avenue NV.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Mrs. A|britton Wins
Son and Considers
Reconciliation
Husband Released From
Jail After Surrender
Of Boy to Mother

An armistice in the legal tug-of-
war between his estranged parents
over his custody today found Az
year-old Zelner Albritton, jr., hap
pily back In his mothers arms while
she considered reconciliation with his
father.
Mr.. Albritton, a sculptor and
painter, who chose last week to re-
main in Jail rather than obey q
court order to turn the child over
to its mother, relented yesterday
and was released after the mother
and son were reunited for the first
time In three months.
I'm still not reconciled to her
having him at all unless we have
him together" Mr.. Albritton said,
"but I'm not fool enough to stay
in jail all my life"
He added that he had asked his
estranged wife to return to him.
She said she had not decided what
to do.
The dispute began more than a
year ago. Mr.. Albritton said he
objected to living with his wife's
relatives and took the son away.
Mrs. Albritton then sued in District
Court for separate maintenance and
custody of the boy. Although the
case was not settled Immediately,
the court ordered the child, because
of his age, turned over to the mother.
When Mr.. Albritton, who was liv-
ing in Marlboro and working at his
studio in the District, took the
child to Maryland Mrs. Albritton
obtained court writ forbidding him
to leave the District. In default of
$500 on this order he was locked in
Jail October 3.
Last week Justice Oscar Luhring
ordered that Mr.. Albritton should
remain in Jail for contempt of court
until he complied with the original
court order and surrendered his son
to the lads mother. He did not rule
on merits of the custody dispute.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Albrit-
ton waited in the Offices of her at
torney, William A. Gallagher, while
her husbands attorney, Charles H.
Ouimby, brought her son to her.
The bay had been staying with his
paternal grandmother.
Its the first time I've seen him
in three months" Mrs Albritton
said as she hugged her bewildered
but manly looking son.
Are you glad to be back with
your mother?" reporter asked the
child.
Yes" he whispered as he buried
his face in the folds of her skirt.
Mrs. Albritton took young zelner
home with her to 1893 Hudson
street, Arlington, Va, where she
lives with relatives.
II can't say-Were thinking about
It," she replied when asked if there
was a chance for reconciliation with
her husband.
Mr.. Quimby hurried to District
Court, where Justice Luhring signed
an order granting Mr.. Albritton
his freedom.
Mr.. Albritton walked out with an
open book under his arm-"Gone
With the Wind"
I've read 757 pages of that in
JAIL" he chuckled, "and decided it
was time to see what real wind was
like"
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Passing Counterfeit Bill
Luid to New Workers

Secret Service agents today were
investigating the activities of two
New Workers. arrested here last night
after they allegedly passed a coun-
terfeit $40 bill at millinery shop
IN the 1900 block of M street NV.
The men were arrested by De-
tect1ve Sergts. Harry Moore and
N. S. Hodkinson shortly after they
PAID Mrs. Mary Robinson, proprie-
tor OF the shop, for a Decent pair
OF stockings with a $40 bill which
appeared to be defective.
The suspects, who said they came
to Washington Saturday, are be-
neved connected with a counterfeit
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Chief Of Narcotics
Squad Transferred

Detective Sergt. Daniel Jones,
head Of the narcotics squad for the
past year and a member for six
years, yesterday was transferred to
duty with the third precinct, Capt.
Ira E. Keck, acting chief Of detec-
tives, said today.
He will be replaced on the squad
by Detective Sergt. Richard Mccoy
OF the third precinct, who. recently
was transferred there from the
tenth.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Workers Here to Share
In STANDARD Oil Gift

The Standard Oil Co. Of N. ]. an
nounced yesterday that the en-
ployes Of the Washington plant and
general Offices will receive their
share Of the 100000 which the
company is contributing to the bal
ances the employees have to their
Evening star., 1938-11-01

credit in the company's annuity and
thrift plan.
Whether he is a participant In
the thrift plan or not, every en-
ploye will receive a credit Of $25
through the $4,000 900 contribution,
Participants will receive an addi-
tional sum equal to IL per cent
of the regular employe and COM
pany contributions made during
the IL months ended YESTERDAY.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Speakers Announced

L. B. Tuckerman and Walter Ram
berg of the National Bureau of
Standards will be the main speak
ers at the meeting of the Philo-
sophical Society which will be held
at 8:15 pm. Saturday in the Cosmos
Club auditorium.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
What Is Your
News |. O.?

Each question counts 20;
each part of a taDo-part Ques-
tion, 10. A score of so is fair,
80 good.
(AnsWers On Page A-10.)
l. Identify this man, who
administers the new wages and
hours law.
2. What is the largest city
in Palestine?
3. What senatorial candidate
is the son of a former Presi-
dent?
4. What American visitor in
Berlin received a German dec
oration?
S. What titled tennis star
was just released from prison?
Evening star., 1938-11-01

ring operating In New York and
passing bogus bills throughout the
New England States.
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
MILK HARDSHIP
LAID TO SMITH

Representative Howard Smith
CD of Virginia today was accused
by Mrs. John Boyle, jr., chairman
of the Washington Consumers
Counsel, of imposing the business
privilege tax on farmers selling
milk in the District-With re-
sultant hardships on both pro
ducers and consumers.
by amendments to the District
tax BILL" she said, Mr.. Smith has
succeeded in having stricken from
the bill the graduated income tax
provision, which has left no alter
native except the vicious business
privilege tax. This, in effect, be-
comes sales tax"
Every farmer selling milk in the
District, she said, will be forced to
pay the tax, thus affecting about
1900 members of the Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers ASso-
citation, and an indefinite number
OF independent producers.
The situation, she said, forced
up the price of milk, which is
now so high that less than a pint
per person is consumed daily in
the District of Columbia"
Our only recourse" she
added, "is to confine the pur-
chase of milk to only such as is
needed for children and invalids,
until some investigation of the
situation is made by the Fed
eral Trade Commission.
I'VE demand that such an in
VeStiRation be made"
The Washington times., 1938-05-31

It's just no place to go pros
pectin' around between midnight
and 3 a. m. You get the strangest
fares!
Willie burst into the Second Pre-
cinct office this morning and was
so perturbed he was light beige
He told story of having picked
up woman dressed in black at
the cemetery at about a. m. She
gave him an address in the North
east section which subsequent
events drove completely from his
mind.
TOO FAST? NO
He started and after a minute
or two the lady in black said
huskily from the dark depths of
the cab:
You're driving pretty fast,
aren't you?"
To which Willie amiably re-
sponded:
mo ma'am-I'm only goin'
about 20 miles an hour!"
"dsO
Willie saba sort of still silence
"a quiet silence - very silent.
Then from the shadows of the rear
of the cab:
will you please give me a
cigarette?"
Willie told the police he kept
driving, and reached his package
of cigarettes over his right Shout
der.
NOBODY THERE!
And nothing happened. He
glanced back. There was NO
BODY IN HIS CAB!
The lieutenant, the sergeant,
and two privates looked at eacn
other. The old gag. An alibi for
an accident. So they secured the
But no accident
was reported and they found
Willie told his story II times. It
The Washington times., 1938-05-31
McCOrmic
WEEDS Tonight.

PASADENA. Cal, May 81.
fanfare. and with but four wit
nesses, the wedding of Harold
Chicago millionaire, and his nurse,
Fowler Mccormick, 66-year-old
Miss Adah Wilson, 81, will take
place here tonight.
The home will be closely guard
ed by detail of special officers,
and the wedding will be performed
in virtual secrecy.
The wedding will be held at the
palatial estate of Miss Mary Nc,
Cormick, sister of the wealthy
Chicagoan, but she will not attend
Giving his recent illness as his
reason, Mccormick said there
would be no honeymoon.
Miss Wilson once was nurse to
Jean Harlow. 1t will be her
first marriage and Mccormick S
third.