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The Washington times., 1938-12-07
Resignation Deferred

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 7 dN.S0.
Consideration of the resignation
Of William P. "Hiker" Joy as head
football coach at CanisiuS College
was deferred today until the attn
letic board meets Monday night.
The Washington times., 1938-12-07
save the Bethesda outfit from

save the Bethesda outfit from a
waShout.
Irvine Billheimer gave the
HyattSville representatives 81
victory by trimming Chef Lind
strom in singles, 1855 to 327.
Sunday, crack bowlerS from
HagerStown will invade Bethesda
to clash in singles and doubles
against Lawrence Pugh, Riley, and
Lindstrom at 2:30 p. m, and then
move over to the Arcade alleys,
Hyattsville, at z to battle several
of Oscar Hiser's top-fhghters.
THREE RECORDS GO
Three records we're smashed in
the Ladies Catholic League at the
Lucky Strike last night when Ann
Ford came through with an all
time high game Of 149. st. An
thongs totaled a team set Of
1,476 and Mary flanagan rolled
SO flat.
MES. Ford, a former women's
tournament champion, tapering
off her nights rolling with her
record game, counted 342 for her
three-game total to feature Holy
Comforter C's 81 win from All
Saints. Margaret O'Brien, with
1874 and 1874, was the high roller
when st. Anthony's whitewashed
st. JoSeph's to gain four-game
lead.
The pace-setting OptimistS will
battle the Silver Spring Lions in
the feature match of the Civlcs
Club League at Arcadia tonight.
Bob McKeever, the Recreation
alley owner and the loops top
average SHORTER with 116 mark,
will strive to lead his Washington
Lions to victory over the East
OptimistS, the runner-up team.
WACS STRETCH LEAD
The champion Wacs went siz
game in the lead of the Whats
! In a Name League, when Alberta
Pollard with 388, Ida Weinbere
with 1876 and Mary Bryant with
} 325 led a sweep over F. C. A. No. l
while the second-place F. C. A. No
l.? was losing a tilt 20 Transports
ton. ca therine Edmunston'!
1880 took runner-up honorS
Aggies Examiners held third
place by tripping Mines twice
with Beulah Morgan'S BOT and
Vida Dfxon's BIT leading thu
} victory.
Capt. Be1vin Weakley, shooting
383, his first set in two months
was the star of the leading King
ans sweep over A. L. Kelly in the
RoSslyn Independent League last
night. Arlington Trust and Nc
Glincy's Market teams moved into
a tie for second place with Cooke
Press, scoring sweeps over Wash
ington Canoe Club and Quality
Shop. Evelyn Ellis was the star
| Of the ArlingtonS with 1913.
The Washington times., 1938-12-07

Bay Offense will be improved
over what it was, for the team
has not only benefited by tive
weeks Of rest, but 1t will also
have the services Of three and
a half men who were hOrS de
combat on the occasion Of their
The Washington times., 1938-12-07
Procurement Beaten
In SoftbaII Game

Procurement was defeated. 8 TO
5. by the Unknowns last night in
the Tech High gym in a Com
munity Center Softban League
game.
The Washington times., 1938-12-07

yesterday when the sale began,
and. by late afternoon the first
cries of protest were heard from
clients who object to camping
behind the end zone.
Mindful of the manner i'm
Evening star., 1938-09-27
TRADE BARRIERS HIT
BY nine GOVERNORS
Farley Also Agrees States Should
Not Enact Laws That Interfere
With It's Flow.

5S tne Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 77.-Goy-
ernors Of nine States agreed At a
conference here yesterday that States
should not erect trade barriers at
their boundary lines or enact laws in.
terfering with free trade.
Gov. Bib Graves Of Alabama pro-
posed the declaration Of policy after
Gov. James v. Alfred Of Texas adyo-
Gated repeal Of narrow, provincial
and stultifying legislation against our
neighbors."
An address, prepared by Gov. George
D. Aiken. Republican OF Vermont and
read to the conference Of Governors,
counseled strongly against further CEN
tralizatfon Of governmental authority,
Gov. Graves criticized existing
freight rates as discriminatory" to
the Southeast and other sections and
declared labor has had to bear the
brunt of all the differentials."
Mr.. Aiken declared:
MANY States seem to feel that II
tbe Federal Government will make a
monetary payment for the resources
and sovereignty acquired, then all is
WELL" Gov. Aiken wrote. "As tax
payers and citizens we are selling our
liberty and also furnishing the money
to buy it from us when we make a
trade Of this nature"
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Capital Stops
To Listen to
Killers Voice

For the hour and IS minutes that
Adolph Hitler spoke yesterday, the
Washington public. unless it was
urgently occupied, stopped to listen.
At every radio store where = dem
onstrator" set operated little groups
gathered. Housewives put aside their
chores and tuned In" In Offices
where there were radios and the press
Of business was not too great, the en-
ployes huddled to. hear the man who
threatens the pace Of the world.
It mattered not that the foreign
tongue was meaningless to most OF
them. They hung on every word, a
though expecting to md something
understandable
The brief English interpretations OF
the announcer were greeted with out
ward indifference by some, but others
argued excitedly with strangers over
what was said.
The lifting pitch Of Hitler's voice
and the cultural tones provided amuse-
ment for not 50 serious minded listen
ers. They smiled and made their own
facetious interpretations. The roaring
that was the transmission OF cheers
of the Fuehrers followers was amusing
to nobody.
The world series, big football game
or horse race couldn't have been more
Of magnet.
Evening star., 1938-09-27

for "co-operation" in lessening tension.
August 28-Chamberlain calls back
Sir Neville Henderson, British Am
bassador in Berlin, for report on Ger
many's intentions regarding Czechoslo-
vakia; German press fans campaign
against Czechoslovakia.
August 30-President Eduard Benes
Of Czechoslovakia meets Henlein; new
minorities plan Of autonomous cantons
discussed.
September Hitler and Henlein
meet at Berchtesgaden.
September +Czechoslovak cabinet
reaches agreement on new minorities
plan giving Sudeten Germans full
equality Of status and an almost COM
plete measure of self-government.
September 1French government
takes special measures to safeguard
northeastern frontier to counteract re-
ported German troop movements.
September 7-Sudeten Germans
break OF negotiations with Prague
because of an alleged whipping in
cident" in a border town.
September l2-Hitler at Nazi party
rally in Nurnberg, demands right of
self for Sudeten Ger.
mans; C1echoslovak government de-
clares martial law in a number Of
Sudeten German districts.
September 14-Chamberlain sends
letter to Hitler asking to see him at
Berchtesgaden.
September French Premier
Edouard Daladier and foreign min
btry fly to London, reach agreement
with British on plan for meeting Ger
man demands on Czechslovakia; Hem
lein In Germany issues "call to arms"
to his followers
September 19-Czechoslovak gov
ernment studies Anglo French pro-
posals to cede Sudetenland to Ger
many in order to prevent war.
September 21-Britain and France
through ENJOYS in Prague press
Czechoslovakia government to accept
plan; government accepts, pointing
out 1t does 80 under pressure.
September 22-Chamberlain flies to
Evening star., 1938-09-27

Godesberg for second talk with Hit
Ter; Cxechoslovak cabinet headed by
Premier Milan Hodza resigns, is sue
ceeded by ministry headed by Gen.
Jan Syrovy. military idol. ~
September 3-Conversations be-
tween Hitler and Chamberlain are
suspended temporarily; Chamberlain
gets Hitler's final offer" for peace
demanding union Of predominantly
Germanic- inhabited regions of Csecho-
slovakia with Germany by October /
plebiscite in some other regions;
Czechoslovakia gets offer and mob
lilies army.
September 24-Chamberlain flies
back to London; meets cabinet and
King. France launches partial mob
ilization; British take emergency pre-
cautions.
September 25-Czechoslovak gov
ernment indicates Hitler's new de-
mands are unacceptable; British cGbi-
net meets three times; Daladier and
Bonnet fly to London, backed by
unanimous cabinet vote that Hitler's
demands are unacceptable to France
without German guarantee Of new
Czechoslovak frontiers.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
MEMPHIS RUSHES WORK
ON ELECTRIC SYSTEM
Negotiations to Buy Out Private
Plant Fails as $13, 900, 900
Offer Is Refused.
Ry the Associated Press,


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 27.-With
negotiations for purchase of the Men,
phis Power & Light Co.'S electric
properties suspended indefinitely, the
city of Memphis today speeded con-
struction of its own system for dis
tribution Of Tennessee Valley Author
ity power
More than 100000 already has
been spent on the municipal system,
but awarding of new contracts for its
completion was deferred pending out
come Of negotiations for acquisition
Of the utility company's properties.
Negotiations begged down yesterday
when Paul B. Sawyer, president of
M. P. & LIS holding company par
ent. National Power & Light Co.,
termed personally unacceptable" the
city's offer of $13,O00,00o. Mr.. Saw
yer, who previously had offered to
sell for $l6,401,418 said he would
submit the offer to company stock
holders, but without my recon-
mendation."
Evening star., 1938-09-27
YUG0SLAvIA Is EASED
BY HITLER'S PROMISES
Peaceful Tones Is the Opinion
Reported From Foreign
Office Circles.


By the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Sept. 37.-Chancellor
Hitler's address strengthened opinion
In Yugoslavia today that war would
be avoided.
Peaceful tones" said foreign ONCE
circles.
The Fuerhrer's assestion that Su-
deten German areas of Czechoslovakia
would be his last territorial demand
in Europe created relief and, said
spokesman here, ended great anxiety
lest he might also demand autonomy
for 100000 Germans living in Yugo-
slavia
Reports from Bucharest indicated
similar feeling by Rumanians.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Euents Leading
Up to Present
European Crisis
~ the Associated Press,

LONDON, Sept. 27.-Here are the
leading steps this year in Europes
march to the present crisis:
January 1-Konrad Henlein. sude-
ten German party leader, predicts
sudeten German question will remain
one Of Europe's major issues in 1888.
February Observation-Disclosures Adolf
Hitler before Reichstag proclaims the
protection Of those peoples Of German
origin who are not in . position
through their own efforts to secure
along the borders for themselves the
rights to general, human, political
and theological freedom"
March 12-Hitler and German
troops enter Austria; Czechoslovokia
closes her Austrian borders.
March 13-Germany annexes Aus
tria; Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, as acting foreign minister,
assures Czechoslovakia Germany has
no hostile designs on her.
March 18-Hitler in Reicbstag
speech holds up Austria's fate Is
implied warning to Czechoslovakia.
March 24-British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain refuses to give
Czechoslovakia "a prior guaranty" of
immediate help against German ag-
gression, but warns Hitler a Central
European war will drag In other
powers.
April 24-Henlen. at Karlovy Vary,
Czechoslovakia. outlines eight demands
for autonomy and other concessions
for Sudeten Germans.
April 26-Czechoslovakia cabinet re-
jects the demands As a basis for
negotiation, but offers open discus
sions on a different basis.
May -Czechoslovakia calls class
Of reserves and mans her borders on
eve Of first Of series OF Sunday
municipal elections, which are held
May ~, May 20 and June IL.
July 26-Chamberlain announces
formation Of mission, headed by Vis-
count Runciman, to help mediate
Czechoslovakia's minority dispute.
August 15-German Army maneu-
vers begin with an estimated 1,000, 900
men under arms and 100000 men put
to work on Notifications.
August 17-Czechoslovak govern
ment confers with five leaders of
Sudeten German party who support
Karlovy Vary demands, but leave way
open for negotiations
August 18-Runciman meets Hen
lein in Rotherhaus Castle in urgent
attempt ut mediation.
August C1echoslovak govern
in civil service formerly held by Czech
oslovaks.
August 21-Negotiations between
sudeten German party and Csechoslo-
yak government interrupted.
August 25-Czechoslovak cabinet
agrees on q new basis for negotia-
tions based on wider autonomy for all
minorities.
August 26-Sudeten German party
gives. members permission ito act In
self-defense when attacked"
August 27-Sir John Simon, Brit
bh chancellor Of the exchecquer, re-
iterates Chamberlain's warning Of
March ~; British government asks
Evening star., 1938-09-27
SOUTHEAST PROTESTS
MONON REORGANIZATION
Utility Commissioners Say Plan
Would Prevent Competitive
Schedule Into Chicago.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Sept. 27.-Public utility
commissioners Of eight Southeastern
States voted yesterday to protest a re-
organization plan for the Monon Rail-
road Ito the extent the public interest
In involved"
Chairman Walter Mcdonald of the
Georgia Public Service Commission
said the plan, under which the railroad
would pass to bondholders under sec
tion 77-B Of the Bankruptcy Act,
would take control Of the route from
the Southern Railway and the L. 4 N.
and place it In the hands of bond
holders.
by control of that route (the
Monon)," Mr.. Mcdonald said, South
ern interests are able to maintain q
competitive schedule of rates into the
Chicago area"
The group also took steps looking
toward uniformity in revising intra-
State motor carrier freight rates in the
various States.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
HULL AND ROPER URGE
BETTER DISTRIBUTION
Cabinet Members Say Technique
Shonld Be as Efficient as
That Of Production.

~ the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Sept. 27.-Two members
Of President Roosevelt's cabinet today
urged a distribution technique as eni-
clent and economical as that already
attained in production.
In letter to the tenth annual Bos-
ton Conference on Distribution, Secre-
tary Of State Hull asserted the prog
ress Of industrial technique had "over-
come most of our problems in produc-
ing the goods necessary to mans
well-being," and added: Human in
genuity must prove able to overcome
the complexities which beset our at
tempt to secure wider and more
equitable distribution Of that plenty ~
Secretary of Commerce Roper, in q
letter to the conference, said:
I'm our domestic as well as in our
foreign trade activities, the objective
Of all should be to balance economical
and eficient distribution technique
with that already obtained in produc-
ton. The best safeguard Of world
peace IS mutual sympathy and under
standing Of mutual problems"
Evening star., 1938-09-27
SHOEMAKER ELECTED
Sd Division Branch Also Names
Schmitz and Cedar.

William A. Shoemaker, 10th Field
Artillery, Battery E, was elected presi-
dent of the Washington branch Of
the Sd Division ut . meeting last
night.
Other officers elected were William
Schmitz, 9Th Engineers, vice presi-
dent; Harry Cedar, Sd Field Artillery,
brigade headquarters, secretary; Will
liam A. Link, 9Th Engineers, treas
urer; William Logan, 9Th Engineers
sergeant at arms; 1t. Col. Holland
Robb, U. 8. A., 9Th Engineers, his
torian, and Gilbert 8. Decker, 38th
Infantry, chaplain.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
PRAGUE IS DARK
AS HITLER TALKS
PopuIace Fears Air Raid
Timed to Coincide
With Speech.
By JOHN +. WHITAKER.
BY Radio to The Star.

BY Radio to The Star.
PRAGUE, Sept. 27.-The whole
world waited breathlessly while the
prophet Of force spoke, but in this
little country they waited in darkness
and fear, the steadiest listeners cring-
ing instinctively as static over the
radio droned out from time to time
like the whine Of power drive.
Prague was blacked out 80 that the,
starry night seemed awsomely clear.
Standing in the streets, and sitting in
candlelit, curtained rooms, the Czechs
tuned in. resigned to the thought that
what they heard might be punctuated
by the crash Of bombs.
As Adolf Hitler said himself, they
were only 100000 Czechs, plus the
Slovaks. against 100000 Germans,
and the suspense was terrible as in
suit followed insult, but nothing came
which might remove the danger Of an
imminent attack-an air raid timed
to coincide with some high note of
oratory announcing war.
Suspense Is Worst.
Then Hitler set the time limit, Oc-
tober -four more days and four
more nights Of suspense, Of wonder
ing about allies, or waiting for gas
and bombs.
Csechs told me that an attack would
have been better, almost, than pro-
longed suspense, and thought of 4
boxer hopelessly outclassed but willing
to fight toe to toe, who finds his op-
ponent toying, clinching and stalling.
No Czech heard what Hitler said
about President Eduard Benss without
blushing that fate should have in
volved the self-respecting people Of
that professional statesman and his
philosophic master, Thomas g. Ma
saryk Uate founder President Of
Czechoslovakia) in recriminations with
q man who answered quiet dignity
with high-pitched screams.
War seems, inevitable to the Czechs,
who feel that Great Britain and
France can hardly capitulate before
Hitler's version Of might makes right,
but there is one ray of hope. Since
Hitler is not willing to hight imme-
diately, perhaps he is willing to nego-
tiate and, II 80, the Czechs have always
negotiated and made steady conces-
sionS.
Farley Still Hoped For.
Thus, as Hitler spoke, the Czechs
noted that the British, though Hit
lers turbulence has swept negotia-
tions aside, still might permit nego-
tiatious on the basis Of the Berchtes-
gaden plan, whereby the Germans were
to have only the Sudeten areas.
The Czechs feel, however, that Hitler
has completely misrepresented the
fact that he increased his Berchtes-
gaden demands when Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain went to Codes
berg, and this fact. can scarcely be
obscured by the dictAtor's saying that
the only new thing is the necessity
of President Benes' keeping his prom
ise for once in his life.
But all these considerations, as far
as the Csechs are concerned, must
await something which Is more i'm
portant than Hitler's speech: What
the people in Great Britain and France
say II they decide to stand against
Hitler, this country, though little, is
fully mobilized and its Russian ally
has massed on the frontiers Of Poland
an army greater than all of Poland's.
Copyright, 1898. Chicago Daily News, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-09-27
SOLDIERS TO RECEIVE
PAY INCREASES SOON
About 5000 Will Be Advanced
Before Summer Under New
Specialist Ratings.

Hy the Associated Press.
Several thousand Army enlisted men
are going to have their pay raised
soon.
War Department statisticians figured
today that funds Congress provided
this year for advanced grades and
specialist ratings would result in the
largest number Of promotions since
the World War.
About 5000 will be advanced before
next summer. The increases provide
for 179 additional flying cadets, 81
master sergeants, 80 technical ser
geants and 1855 first-class privates,
among other grades.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
WAR MIGHT END
CROP PROGRAMS
Agriculture Official Says
Demand May Make Any
Control Needless.
Py the Associated Press.

~ the ASsocleted Fress.
A Spokesman for the Department
Of Agriculture said yesterday that
war in Europe might create such .
demand for farm products that pros
duction control would be unnecessary.
He added, however, that the effect
on the administration's farm program
would depend on the duration Of hos
tilities and the effect of the war on
world commerce.
II history Is true guide, he said,
wheat and other commodity prices
would increase. The warning nations,
he explained, would rush to acquire .
backlog" Of wheat.
Such = wheat demand probably
would eliminate the export subsidy
program for -four and bread grain be-
cause the world price would be SUI
nciently high, he declared.
The world has q large supply Of
cotton, the spokesman said. and the
outbreak Of hostilities probably would
force down the price Of this COM
modify.
During wartime, people wear old
clothes" he explained.
Neutrality May Have Effect.
The spokesman recalled World War
days to illustrate what might take
place in agriculture should this Ma.
tion become involved in war.
/
blades Of grass grow where one grew
before"
However, the neutrality law, under
which the President is empowered to
establish embargoes, could materially
AFFECT the farm situation, he said.
The Commerce Department reported
yesterday that the world demand for
American war materials and food
helped build up $7s1, ,363, 900 excess
Of merchandise exports over imports
during the first eight months of the
year.
Whereas this country made sub
stantial imports of grain last year
following the 1896 drought. it ex-
ported 70,s01 900 bushels Of wheat and
l25, TOO, 900 bushels Of corn from Jan.
uary through August this year. Ir
the same period last year, when tota'
merchandise imports ran ahead o.
exports by $l12,526, 900, only 9,o33, ,o0t
bushels Of wheat and 100000 bushel.
Of corn were shipped out of the
country.
Aircraft Exports Jump.
The world scramble for ornaments
as we'll as the need for peacetime
goods, lifted the last eight months
total Of industrial machinery exports
to $lS4,715, 900, compared with $l54,-
080,000 in the similar period last
year. Airplanes, one Of the more easily
identified war materials listed in the
Commerce reports, went to foreign
countries to value of $48, sos 900
compared with $23, ,462 900 last year.
During August, imports picked ur
because Of the demand Of revivine
American business for raw materials
the department said August exports
totaled $230, ,621 900, compared with
1927 SIT 900 in July and $277 ,031 ,00(
in August, 1887. August imports totalec
$l65, $4,000, compared With $780,
$4,000 in July and $245. .6es 900 in Au-
gust, 1887. For the eight months, ex-
ports amounted to $2,04s, IT'S, 900 and
imports 81 1,267 ,4l6, 900. In the similar
period last year the export total wa!
$3,0Sl, ,77S,000 and imports $2,194,-
100000.
Items Of which imports were larger
for August than in the same month
last year included crude rubber, hides
naxseed. raw wool, raw silk, man.
ganese ore, tin, nickel, burlap, leathe
goods, newsprint, sugar and cocoa.
Evening star., 1938-09-27
Mrs. Roosevelt to Talk.

Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt viii dis
clss resettlement at = luncheon meet
ing Of the National Press Club TO-
morrow. Mrs. Roosevelt has visited
the scenes Of some ressttlements un.
dertakings and has always shown q
keen interest IN the projects. Hell
talk viii be "o6 the record"
Evening star., 1938-09-27
ACTRESS IN POLITICS

Glenda Farrell Agrees to Seek
Mayors Office.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Sept. ~ Up.
-Glenda Farrell, blond screen actress,
yesterday accepted the nomination OF
the North Hollywood Junior Chamber
Of Commerce for mayor and will be q
candidate in the October 13 election.
North Hollywood IS the largest COM
munity in the San Fernando Valley
Miss Farrell has lived there for many
years.