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Evening star., 1938-08-16
OPENS
FOR YOUNGSTOWN
Announces $780, 900
Plant improvement Program
With New Issue.
81 the Associated Press.

Es the Associated Press.
The youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.,
registering a $30,0o0,000 securities
issue, announced plans yesterday for a
SIT 100000 plant improvement pro-
gram.
The plant improvements, to be
financed out of the proposed issue of
l0-year convertible debentures. pro-
vides for $l6,500,000 worth of con-
struction at the Indiana Harbor plant
and 81 900 900 at the Campbell plant
At Indiana Harbor the company pro-
poses to build new open-hearth fur
mace, improve present open-hearth
furnace. to rebuild the Blooming MILL
to build a new 48-inch continuous
hot-rolled sheet and strip mill and to
build new continuous cold-rolled tin
mill. At the Campbell plant improve
ments in the wire and tube mills are
proposed.
A registration statement for the
new securities filed with the Securities
Commission also said $l2,500,000 of
the anticipated proceeds would be used
for repayment of bank loans, and the
balance would be used for working
capital.
Other details of the issue. including
the interest rate on the debentures,
will be filed later.
The Indiana Harbor plant is located
at East Chicago, Ind and the Camp
bell plant at Youngstown, Ohio.
The statement said the principal un-
derWriters probably would include
Kuhn, Loeb e. Co. and Smith, Barney
g. Co.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
GREAT WESTERN
PLAN ADVANCED
Reorganization of Line With
Reduced Capital Is Plan
of |. c. c.
1y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion proposed today reorganization OF
the Chicago Great Western Railroad
Co. with drasticaly reduced capitali-
zation and fixed charges.
The commissions report-the sec
ond for a class carrier under sec
ton n of the Bankruptcy Act-now
goes back to the District Court for
the Northern District of Illinois. If
approved there it will be submitted
to security holders. II two-thirds of
each class Of security holders approve
the plan, it will become effective; If
rejected by any class of security hold
ers, the /. c. c. and the court could
reapprove the plan and put it into
effect.
The commission proposes capi-
talization of $62.291,827 compared
with more than s139, ,000, 900 at pres
ent Fixed interest charges would be
limited to $850,000. These charges
now total $l,858,895.
Common stockholders would be
wiped out, the commission having
found their holding of no value.
Preferred stockholders, however,
would receive $11.518.375 of new COM
mon stock for s46.037 500, face value
of present preferred stock outstand-
ing.
Under the proposed distribution Of
new securities, old bondholders would
have 67.92 per cent of the voting power
in the new company.
Each share of new preferred and
each of new common stock would be
entitled to one vote in the new COM
pany.
Capitalization of the new company,
under the I. c. c. proposal, would con-
sist Of the following:
Equipment obligations, $4.2o8, ,l22;
Wisconsin Central Railway Co hrst
mortgage 81 per cent assumed bonds,
$500,000; first mortgage per cent
bonds. $15,586,350; general income
mortgage Al per cent bonds, $6095,-
796; 365.747 shares, par value $50 a
share, of per cent preferred stock.
s18,287 1888; 352,283 shares, par value
$50 share, OF common stock, ST.
6l4,17l; total capitalization, $62.-
2sl,827.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
CONSTRUCTION LAGS
IN CHEMICAL FIRMS

Epecial Dispatch to TIE Star.
NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-Contrscts
awarded on current construction
projects in the chemical process in
dustries total s3157,000 as compared
with S8,644,000 year ago. Chemical
and Metallurgical Engineering reports
in it's August issue.
Current proposed work totals
$2,714,000. This amounted to s30,110,-
600 in the same period last year.
The outstanding proposed projects
reported this month are for the con-
struction of a pulp mill for Prince
Rupert Lumber, Pulp & Paper Mills,
Ltd, Prince Rupert, British Columbia,
Canada, estimated cost $1,000, 900;
construction of an oil refinery at
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, for
Mccall Frontenac Oil Co.. Ltd, Mon
treal, Quebec, estimated cost $500, 900,
and the construction of an oil refinery
for Argo Oil Co., Ltd, Leaside, Ontario,
Canada, for which a site is now being
negotiated, estimated cost $5O0,000.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
RURAL RETAIL SALES
WELL BELOW YEAR AGO

Daily average sales of general mer-
chandise in small towns and rural
areas for July were about ~ per
cent below July 1887, according to
estimates of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, Department
of Commerce, based on rural chain
stores and mail order sales.
Sales during July declined consid-
erably more than the usual seasonal
amount from June, with the result
that the seasonally adjusted index
figure receded to 110.2 for July, on
the basis Of the average for the years
l929-31 ss 100, from 1924 for June.
Sales for the first seven months of
the year were per cent below the
same period of 1887.
July sales without allowance for the
number of business days were about
II per cent below June of last year.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
,Reported by Smith. Barney & Coz

NEW YORK. Aug. 1e R-Most foreign
currencies rallied broadly In terms Of the
Sterling advanced y Of q cent and the
French franc. O0aa of cent. Shorts
were said to have covered some commit
ments in sterling. For the first time In
more than a week the discount on future
francs narrowed indicating more opti-
mistic Interpretation of latest European
political developments. -
. Guilders gained IL OF zen cent ar ana Ine me
Jagged .OOH Of cent. ~ ,u,..,. j.,
dollars. Others in cents s5 Great snsdn Britain
Montreal in New York 90 .60is: New York
u Montreal, 100. .39l.; Belgium, 1s as,2 e:
Finland. 2.I7:. France. 2.72A; Germany,
40.09; benevolent, 90; 10; travel. 2S s5o So:
YuRoslavia. IA; Netherlands. "a 80; Nor
Rumania. .7b: Spain unauoted: sweden,
SSSls: SWITZERLAND, 2Ssl; .x,se AIsenttanfa' tafS
2o.5on: japan 2s.45; Honskons' 5Q'oo'
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise
indicated. Nominal.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.

CHICAGO. Aug. Ia LP Omitted States
Department of Agriculture'. - Another
short run Of hogs continued to .strensthen
that market today and the top moved
up to $500. Slaughter cattle were more
active and generally steady TO strone
Lambs showed little change. Another Il
cent upturn in wholesale quotations on
some pork cuts helped the hog market.
Hogs 10000. including $500 direct;
uneven, mostly 5-15 higher than Mon
days average: top. $50: bulk good and
choice 10000 pounds. s.5O-s5: 240-2sO
pounds. s.3075: 2aO-325 pounds. 175-
s.25: good 150-l7O pounds. s.0O-50: light
packing sows, 6.65-7.25 mediumg eiRhts
and heavies 6.00-5O.
Cattle. 1000: calves. 200; fed steers
and yearlngs generally steady to strong:
choice and prime mediumweight and
weighty of1erinSs active and showing most
strength: top 1850; heifers generally
steady; few choice kinds at 1000 up to
1925 fat cows slow. steady to weak:
cutter grades fully steady. largely 100
800 bulls steady. outside on weiehty
sausage offerings, 6.e5; vealers 25 higher
at II 90 down; supply at the top much
larger than Monday.
Sheep. 10000 including 500 direct:
late Monday spring lambs closed 25-35
at outside; feeding lambs steady; quot BILE
7,25-s5 mostly; todays trade active. most
ly steady; Western spring lambs. s.25-35;
natives. S.00-25; sheep steady; native
slaughter ewes 3.25-50.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
BUSINESS LOANS
ADVANCE IN WEEK
Reserve Board DiscIoses
Increase of $4,000, 900
in Member Banks.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
The slight upturn in business
brought business men to the banks last
week for credit to finance new COM
mercial activity.
The Federal Reserve Board said
banks in l0l leading cities increased
their commercial. industrial and agri-
cultural loans $24.000,000 to $685.
100000 in the week ended August 10.
This was the first increase in this type
of loans in four weeks and was due
principally to larger business advances
by New York banks New York City
accounted for $17,000,000 of the in
crease.
The boards statement gave the fol-
lowing summary of assets and liabil-
tiles on August 10. together with
changes for the week and with the
same week last year, in millions of
dollars:
Aug |.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Net Income Under
1887 Period ShO,Un
By Sears ROebuck
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. l6.-Sears Roebuck
& Co. today reported consolidated net
income for the first "a weeks Of the
fiscal year. a period ending July is,
of $7,1l8.888, compared with $l5.-
190,44l for the corresponding 1887
period. These figures were after all
charges and provision for taxes.
This was equivalent to 81 % a share,
compared with $2.74 a year ago.
Consolidated sales for the first "a
weeks totaled 1924, 986, $50. compared
with s255.382.085 the corresponding
1887 period, decrease of almost IL
per cent.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
CONFERENCE is PLANNED
ON PRODUCTION CREDIT

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ORKNEY SPRINGS, Aug. 16-
Officers and directors of the Shen-
andoah Production Credit Association
will attend group directors confer
ence at Orkney Spring Hotel, Orkney
Springs, this week from August II
through August 10, at which repre-
sentatives from several other associa-
tions will be present, President D. W.
Burruss of Mount Jackson announced
yesterday.
The conference will be largely de-
voted to discussion of questions per-
tanning to greater efficiency in making
short-term loans to finance farm
operations.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON. Aug. 16 R.-Stock market
prices were narrowly lower today as
ciouded European POLITICAL situat tion.
Trans-Atlantics lost fractionally; Com
modify shares rave ground especiallyA &c OILS MS
and foreign loans irregular.
PARIS: Aug. 1.6 lP.-Quotations in the
Bourse slanted downward today Rentes.
however dipped only % to so centimes;
Royal Dutch saeged 4a2 francs. Bank OF
ifSf LfvERPooh R So iusa AUG. IHst IL a,Mcotton fu-
lures recovered early slight declines in
sympathy with Alexandra and Egyptian
selling to end Id to I'd higher as offerings
dried up. Trading was quiet Cotton
goods business at Manchester remained
routine.
IN slow market. wheat futures closed
Ad to Nd lower todsy on reports Of in
grain. and continued slow inquiry for cash
Evening star., 1938-08-16
CHRISTlANA SECURITIES
ORDERS $3.50 DIVIDEND
By the Associated Press.

BY the Asboclated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. le.-Christiana
Securities Co., which holds large
blocks Of E. I. du Pont and General
Motors common stock, and which has
as officers, directors and chief stock
holders members of the Du Pont fam
lily. today declared dividend Of
$3.50.
On the total common stock the dis
bursement amounts to $2,025. 900. Last
March Is. dividend of $825 was de-
clared, totaling $l,237,500 In 1887
$l7,s7o.000 dividends were paid on
the stock.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
LINT USED IN U.S..
BOOSTED IN JULY
Consumption Of Cotton Is
Under Figure of Last
Year, Census Says.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reported today
cotton consumed during July totaled
449,511 bales Of lint and 81 sos bales
of linters, compared with 442,74 and
56.106 during June this year and
583.ol1 and 70,695 during July last
year.
Cotton consumed during the cotton
year ending July 81 totaled 5.756, ,096
bales of lint and 1880 bales Of
linters. compared with 7,950,o7s and
sl8,885 during the previous year.
Cotton on hand July 81 was re-
ported held as follows:
In consuming establishments. 1885,
9S3 bales of lint and 268,225 bales of
linters. compared with 1,416,16l and
259,965 on June 30 this year and
1.285,543 and 236,1o4 on July 81 last
year.
Public Storage.
In public storake and at congresses,
9,64l, POI bales of lint and 1920 bales
of linters, compared with 9,696, ,667
oAiu 'V,oAf OA JUNO oo tlliS yCdl hilu
2.8l3,305 and 56,424 on July 81 last
year.
Imports Of foreign cotton during
July totaled 25,047 bales, compared
with 1874 during June this year, and
1890 during July last year.
Foreign cotton imports for the year
ending July 81 totaled 159,0l5 bales,
compared with 253,034 the previous
year.
Exports of domestic cotton during
July totaied 195,706 bales of lint and
20,864 bales of linters. compared with
175,S78 and 1873 during June this
year, and 124,3l2 and 24,3s3 during
July last year.
Domestic Exports.
Domestic cotton exports for the
cotton year ending July 81 totaled
5,598,4l5 bales of lint and 27s,957
bales Of linters. compared with S.
440,044 and 270,400 during the pre-
vious year
Cotton spindles active during July
numbered 2l.9l6.l66. compared with
2l,143,988 during June this year, and
24,394,300 during July last year.
The bureau announced the carry
over Of cotton for the cotton season
of 1878. which ended July 81,
was l1,533.184 bales, compared with
4,498,848 bales on that date a year
ago.
The aggregate supply of domestic
and foreign cotton for the season was
22.920,985 bales, compared with IT,
90l 1866 for the 1867 season.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
q. S. TREASURY POSITION.

ats net bs.nss
$2, 629, ,5S6. 356 03, including $1.04O,625,-
for the month. SIS, ,665, ,0Os l3: receipts
for the seal yea, year, $6s5 ,5S3. 75e a: ex-
lures: excess Of expenditures. S30s. sO7,.
4s2. 2.92. cross debt, S36.se1. .275,2e 81;
gold assets, S12.5O9. $50, 3ss.72.
Evening star., 1938-08-16

Weisbaum Bros. Brewer Co.-De-
clared 10 cents common dividend.
payable September / to holders Of
record August Is. Similar amount
vas paid July IS, 1898.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. Aus. .16 41.-Cotton gray
FOODS markets. we're slow today, and prices
ished goods were quiet 1T steady prices
Raw silk was about even. Wool goods
active. although demand for rayon cloths
slowed down. Burlap was quiet and frm.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
LONDON METAL.

LONDON. Aug. 16 GP,.-Closing: Copper
standard. spot. s3a 13s Cd future. f40;
electrolytic, spot. bid, f45: asked, f45 15s
Tin. spot f1a2: future. fla3 IS Cd. Bids:
Lead, spot. fl4; future. GA 1os sd. Zinc,
spot. si3 3s 9d; future, fl3 rs Cd
Evening star., 1938-08-16
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK, Aug. is tP.-Crude
rubber futures opened Is lower TO Q
higher: September, 15.70b: December,
15.9S-1e.00; March, 16.10-1l.
Bid.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
FEDERAL LAND BANKS

NEW YORK, Aug l6 0P.-Federal Land
q
Evening star., 1938-02-20

routes to the agency designated to carry it
out, probably will stand greater chance of
enactment than efforts to define the routes
in detail in the law. 1t Is not dificult to
forsee the possibilities for development Of
opposition from localities not included in
one of these main highway lanes.
Nine Super Highways.
The pending plans are ambitious in
scope, several of them calling for airports
at the points where the transcontinental
highways intersect. Even if they are
planned on a self -liquidating basis the sue
cess of the undertaking would depend on
how the motorists of the country and the
industries shipping by highway trucks take
to the toll system. In the forthcoming
hearings, therefore. the reaction Of these
vehicle operators will be an important
factor.
The nine superhighway routes suggested
in Mr.. Snyder's bill in the House would
traverse the Nation as follows:
Three from East to West, namely:
!. From Boston to Salem, Oreg., by way
Of Albany, Cleveland. Chicago Rapid City,
Yellowstone Park and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
2. From Baltimore to San. Francisco.
passing through designated points in West
Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Colo
RADIO. Utah and Nevada.
3. From St. Petersburg, Fla, to Los
Angeles, passing through Alabama, Louisi-
ana and Texas.
Six running North and South, on the
following general lines:
l. From Fort Myers, Fla, to Augusta.
Me-. through Georgia, South Carolina.
North Carolina. Virginia. the District,
Maryland. New Jersey, Connecticut and
New Hampshire.
Buffalo to Pensacola.
2. From Buffalo, NJ Y, to Pensacola,
Fla, through Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Tennessee and Georgia.
3. From Baton Rouge, La, to Chicago,
HI, through Mississippi and Tennessee.
4. From San Antonio. Tex, to Bismarck,
N. OAK, through Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne
braska and South Dakota.
S. From Ell Paso, Tex, to Phillipsburg,
Mont through New Mexico and Utah.
6. From San Diego, Calf, to Seattle,
Wash, along the Pacific Coast.
It is too early to tell whether the super
highway idea will win approval of this
Congress. The result is likely to depend
on how much backing administration sup
porters give it and whether any concerted
opposition develops when hearings are held
on the various plans. But, whatever hap
pens to the superhighway proposals. there
are strong indications Congress will not
adjourn without providing both current
appropriations and future authorizations
to keep the regular Federal-aid- the
States highway program going.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
English Feminists Seek
Additional POlicewomer

LONDON (P.-A countrywide CAM
paign for more women police has been
launched by Englands feminists.
Leaders of the campaign assert women
police should undertake such duties as
searching women's lodgings. -
Some 40 police forces in England are
without policewomen. Police matrons are
used on certain occasions, but the matron
must always be accompanied by a police
man.
In the metropolitan area, policewomen
have won such recognition that the estab-
lshment figure has been raised to 142.
A woman constable receives minimum
salary Of" Sc shillings $1D weekly:
sergeant, 90 shillings C$22.50).
Evening star., 1938-02-20
'37 Irish Linen Output
l54 Million Square Yards

BELFAST, Northern Ireland R.-1re-
land made enough linen in 1887 to put .
strip yard wide three times around the
world. and still have some left.
Statistics show that $4,000 900 square
yards equivalent to S8,1l9 square miles .
yard wide-was produced.
The total output for 1887 was valued at
81, ,250,0 900.
Evening star., 1938-02-20
5,4OO u. S. Tourists Take
Cars to Reich in Year

BERLIN R.-Five thousand four hun
dred tourists from the United States
brought their automobiles to Germany
betwesa July. 1886, and June, 1897, &C.
cording TO ofacial statistics. This is the
highest number for any single yeax.
Evening star., 1938-02-20

This layout OF Rep
suggested calls three
south Representative Keller Of Illinois proposing
1oa togher important cities State capitals
National Capital Still Others
1UOrked
posalS PROBABLY
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Changing Gold Policy Flirts
With a Moderate Initiation
Compromise on Sterilization Forced by Stake ot
Foreigners in United States Supply.
Price Held Too High.
BY HERBERT M. BRATTER.

9 4 Il 1: :: &: ;:::;: :::;
Evening star., 1938-02-20

ss That worry Is no more. Today there is
~ boom. Instead We have had severe
& ssstcession." There is thus considerable
lctic IN now relaxing one of the measures
Isoee9 in 1885 to restrain the boom, that
the country gives the expected psy-
Biological response to the announcement.
Qne may ask Why the restraint of
ssferilization" was not applied sooner to
thSp6om Of 1886, or why the sterilization
polfy was not more vigorously reversed in
81 ember, 1897, when $500 000, 900 of
tli7ed gold were desterilized? In part
answer is that money managers can
see much further ahead than you or I.
part also, it lies in the difference Of
nion between the heads of the Treasury
andk the Federal Reserve System. That's
why the announcement Of last Monday
represented . compsomise.
Secretary Morsenthau has finally in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-08-13
CLIO Officials Linked
To Reds By Frey
International News Photo

In his list of than 60 CLIO leaders whom he linked thu
Communist party, John P Frey ALL official included thu
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HUNT BIG PLANE
With Il ABOARD

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 10 (TN.SO
Three planes were poised today
to search for q missing Mexican
Aviation Company tri-motored
passenger plane, which dropped
from sight while en- route from
Tabasco to Mexico City.
The last word from the plane.
which carried eight passengers
and a crew Of three, was a radio
report at 1880 q. m. yesterday
stating the craft was over the
southern part Of Vera Cruz.
Fears were expressed the plane
may have been struck by the tail
end Of the hurricane which swept
the coast Of Cuba.
All the passengers aboard the
craft were Mexicans with the ex-
ception Of Eugene Carlson, de-
scribed as q Swedish-American,
whose home address was not
known to officials here,
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ganiEed by the Communists Of
Boston.
Communists who are officially
connected with United Radio,
Electrical and Machine Work.
erS.
James Matles, New York City,
national organization director.
James Lustig, Brooklyn, N. Y,
organizer.
Charlie Rivers, Brooklyn, N.
Y, organizer.
Neil Brant, Newark, N. J., Or
ganixer.
Mike Petanavitch, New Britain,
Conn.,, organizer.
Coleman Taylor, Cleveland,
Ohio, organizer.
Roy Hudson, member Of the
central committee Of the Com.
muniSt party, directs the activi-
ties of the maritime workers.
Morris Muster, president of
the United Furniture Workers
of New York, known as a
Communist"
Emil CASTILLO, Of KenOsha.
WIS.,, secretary Of the furniture
workers, alleged to have been
expelled from the Wisconsin
State Federation of Labor be-
cause of cOmmunistic activities.
NAMES GEORGE wOOLF
Max PerlOw, same union, said
to be . member of the Com.
munist party.
George WOOlf, president of
Fish and Cannery Workers In.
ternatiOnal Union, q lieutenant
Of Harry Bridges.
Harold PritChett, president OF
international Wood Workers, a
Canadian Communist.
Sam NeSin, general organizer
Of wood workers In East.
Irving Potash, general man
ager Of joint board, Communist,
Austin DillOughery, alias HO.
gan, secretary Of the Transport
WOrkers' Union.
John SantO ian assum d
name), general manager of the
Transport Workers Union.
Thomas Mcmahon, Brooklyn
organizer for the Transport
WOrkers' Union.
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FRANCIS GORMAN

many and Italy, because Commu-
nists attempted to control the
labor movement in those coun-
tries.
Drawing upon speeches of Lenin
and other Communist leaders,
the stocky AFL leader asserted
that communism strikes directly
at religion.
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POWerS Await
Hitler Move
CONTINUED from Page II

(C0nelnued from rage II
Of dark mystery surrounding
them.
London and Paris are especially
apprehensive over the haste being
displayed by the Reich to com
plete its western frontier fortlfi.
cations.
Diplomatic advices received in
London have now confirmed re-
ports that some 10000 or $4,000
laborers have been rushed to Ger.
many's western frontier to com.
plete the Notifications by the end
Of August.
The diplomatic advices, how
ever, dc not indicate any large
scale troop movements in any par
ticular direction, but the prepare.
tons for such movements on
short noctice are severely perturo.
ing the British and French.
These preparations in Germany
include requisitioning of private
lorries and cars and speeding ur
Of construction Of military roads
along the Austrian side OF the
Czech border.
Orders are said to have beer
sent to all farmers in the western
southern and southeastern dis
trictS Of Germany that they mus
be prepared to place their horse!
ct the disposal OF military au
thoritieS from August 20 UPWARDS
Men over military age, but fl
FOR garrison duties, have been or
dered to report for duty on Angus
20 and will possibly be kept under
the colors until October 20.
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RUSSO-JAP TENSION RISES AS TOKYO
DEBATES ALLEGED ISLAND SHOOTING

longs to Russia while the
southern half is the property
of Japan, were reported to
have fired on the Tokyo
legislator, Tryukichi Teshi-
rogi and his aides, who were
touring the frontier.
A member of Teshirogi's
party was said to have been
wounded.
Japanese police were
rushed north from Shikika
to the scene of the incident,
which may develop into a
new, dangerous cause of con-
tention between Japan and
the U. S. S. R.