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The Washington times., 1938-02-02

The decision was reached fol-
lowing consideration Of secret re-
ports that General Franco, Span
ish inssrgent leader, had ordered
resumption of unrestricted sub
marine warfare against all ships
carrying supplies to the Spanish
loyaliStS.
Four ships, three British and
one Dutch, have been attacked by
O phantom submarine within the
last three weeks. One of them,
the British freighter Endymion,
was sunk with a loss Of II lives.
Nature of the special meas
ures" decided upon will be laid be-
fore signatories of the Nyon agree
ment at an emergency meeting
this afternoon.
CONVOYS PLANNED
It was understood the measures
considered by the cabinet in
cluded:
/. reinforcement of naval
forces in the western Mediter-
ranean to enable a virtual con-
Voy system for British ships en-
gagged in legitimate trade with
Spain.
2. Extension of patrol zones to
bring them nearer Spanish ter
Titorial waters.
8. Notification to Franco that =
any suspected submarine in
patrol zones will be attacked i'm.
mediately.
4. A request that France join
in vigorous protest to General
Franco, while Britain separately
notifies him it intends to de-
mand compensation for loss Of
the Endymion.
The British would like to bar
all submarines from the western
Mediterranean but fear Italy
would refuse to agree on the
grounds such action would set
dangerous precedent.
Describing the attack on the
Endymion as a revival of piracy"
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
confirmed in the House of Com
mons that measures had been de-
cided on.
THE British government is
putting forward certain pro-
pcsals for meeting with
French and Italian representa-
tives with a view to preventing
further incidents" he said. 1T
is impossible to give details at
present"
WILL DESTROY SUBS
Eden briskly replied in the
affirmative when asked whether
definite instructions had. been
given to British naval COM
manders to "counter-attack and
destroy pirate submarines If
located"
But Eden evaded a question Of
Major Clement R. Attlee, laborite
leader, as to whether Britain
would consider confiscation of
Spanish insurgent ships in the
event of further outrages.
Two of Britain's most modern
cruiSers-the Southampton and
Newcastle-have been ordered to
proceed Immediately to Valencia
to strengthen British naval forces
in the western Mediterranean.
This action was taken as al
direct result of the torpedoing
and sinking of the Endymion.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
8 SHIPS ON PATROL

The two cruisers will augment
eight British destroyerS-the
Fury, Firedrake, Fortune, Forester
Faulkner, Fearless, Foresight and
Foxhound-n securing tn
Mediterranean for the sub,
marine.
Charges by the Spanish govern
ment that Italy is giving naval
aid to the Spanish Insurgents
were accompanied by a report In
the London News Chronicle that
II Duce is ready to ship $4,000
more troops to Spain to aid the
rebels and that plans have been
prepared for attacks against
government lines on all vita
fronts.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
RELIEF At PEAK

ALEXANDRIA. Va, Feb. 2.
With the addition of 35 families to
relief rolls here during the last
month, the Alexandria Board OF
Public Welfare is operating at
peak capacity, it was announced
today. A total of 286 families, or
866 persons, are now on relief, ac-
cording to. the announcement.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02

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for 666 Just to make three or four cents
more. Customers are your best assets;
lose them and you lose your business.
666 is worth three or four times as much
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The Washington times., 1938-02-02
|WOODRING URGES
ARMY RESERVE
% F $4,000 NJ E N
Present Military Force
Called Inadequate

G.N.S.) Immediate steps to
create an army enlisted reserve OF
a maximum strength of IS 900 men
was urged today by Secretary Of
War Woodring.
Declaring the Army could not
put a balanced force" into war
with its present enlisted strength,
he requested Senate and House
Military Affairs Committees to
amend the national defense act
of 1916.
NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The legislation is necessary, he
said, to carry out the proposal
made by President Roosevelt in
his special message to Congress
for creation of an enlisted re-
serve.
"The Regular Army at present
strength has insufficient enlisted
men to enable it to furnish a
balanced force for immediate
use in a theater of operations
and to build up those regular
units now on an inactive status"
said Woodring in a letter.
IF called upon for active SER
vice, the regular army would at
present have to take the field
with small, depleted, peace.
strength organizations and lack
ing some elements not main.
tanned in peace time.
ITO remedy this deficiency
either a considerable increase in
enlisted strength of the regular
army is necessary or an effici-
ent and adequate reserve should
be maintained.
MUST BE TRAINED
"Such a reserve to be effec-
tive, must be made up, however,
OF men able to take their places
in the ranks without delay and
they must be as we'll trained as
the units they are to fill. Other
wise they Woul weaken rather
than strengthen the army.
Fortunately, a considerable
reservoir Of such trained men
is available to us in the thous-
ands of regular army enlisted
men who annually complete
their enlisted terms and return
to civil life"
Woodring urged authorizing
legislation permitting the Army to
pay men in the enlisted reserve 50
a month, or $24 a year. In the
event they are recalled to active
service, a bonus of SO a month for
each month of duty as a reServist,
but not exceeding $3.50, would be
paid when they report for duty.
He estimated that a reserve of
approximately 75.e"A could be
built up in four ye oy enlisting
men, honorably discharged from
the regular Army each year, who
returned to civil life. The cost
would ultimately be stabilized at
81 100000 a year. The reServiStS
could remain in this status only
until they reach So years of age.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Submarine Piracy
Stirs British Cabinet
To Drastic Action
COnvOy and Patrol System Planned to
Safeguard Shipping
By KINGsBURY SMITH

LONDON, Feb. S).-"Specal measures" to end phan-
tom submarine piracy in the were decided upon
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Georgetown Fair
Plans Under WaV.

The Georgetown Dime and Dance
Fair, to be given by the Civic Theater
Saturday, will provide many amuse-
ments for children. There will be an
exhibition of dolls and entries for the
show are now being accepted by Mrs.
Eleanor Smith. A cup will be awarded
for the most popular doll and the
funniest doll will receive blue ribbon
Unusual dolls, foreign dolls and do
mestic dolls are eligible for the exhi-
bition. Persons attending the exhibi-
ton will be asked to vote for the
awards.
Mrs. Smith heads the special COM
mittee. Mrs Donald Hiss is in charge
of the slide, the Misses Cox are pro-
viding pony for exciting rides about
the fair grounds. the Misses Sarah
Jenkins Smith and Louise Hollander
are providing grab bags with an enor-
nous assortment of treasures for the
children, and Mrs. Walter White is in
charge Of the balloons. Also assisting
Mrs. Smith will be Mrs. Stanley
Brown, Mrs. Walter C. Loucheim, jr.:
Evening star., 1938-04-19

ton was student and has played his
accompaniments many times.
X
TIL eMothers' Club of the Council
of Jewish Women will meet tonight at
the Jewish Home for the Aged DR..
Herbert Ramsey Of the George WASH
ington University Medical School will
be the speaker and Mrs. William
Chase will preside.
4 X X
Sonora de Castro, wife of the Min
lister of Ell Salvador: Nine. Naoumoff,
wife of the Bulgarian Minister, and
Frau Won Stolzmann. wife of the First
Secretary of the German Embassy.
will be guests of honor at the world
fellowship luncheon at the Y. w. c. A.
on Thursday.
Dr. and Mrs. John Elder, who served
AS evangelistic missionaries in Persia
for IA years under the Presbyterian
Board. will speak Of their experiences
during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The Wardman Park Congressional
Circle, a club organized to promote
social activities among the numerous
official residents residing at the Ward
man Park, and of which Mrs. Claude
A. Fuller, wife of Representative Full
Ter of Arkansas, is chairman, will hold
its annual formal dinner May 2.
The Executive Committee is COM
posed of Mrs A. l., BulWinkle. wife Of
Representative Bulwinkle of North
Carolina; Mrs Robert L. Doughton.
wife of Representative Doughton Of
North Carolina: Mrs. Paul H. Ma
loney, wife of Representative Maloney
of Louisiana; Mrs James A. Meeks.
wife of Representative Meeks of IL
linois: Mrs. Robert F. Rich. wife Of
Representative Rich of Pennsylvania
Mrs. John H. Overton, wife of Senator
Evening star., 1938-04-19

Overton Of Louisiana, and Mrs. Fred
Vinson, wife of Representative Vinson
Of Kentucky. Mrs. Meeks has been
appointed secretary of the group, and
is in charge OF preliminary arrange
ments Of the dinner.
X X y X
The Elmira College Club of WASH
ington held its annual luncheon in
honor Of students home from college
at the Chastleton Hotel on Saturday.
A skit was presented by Mrs. Harold
E. Warner, president of the Washing
ton group. and Miss Margaret Able,
chairman of the dramatic division The
club is planning dance early in May.
The two concluding lectures in the
Conservation of Human Resources"
series, being given by DR.. Eduard C.
Lindeman. will take place Thursday
and Friday at II o'clock in the United
States Chamber of Commerce. Mrs.
William N. Sturdevant, president of
the Junior League. will preside Thurs
ooSs III. lllluCIHdIl Will speak
on Human Resources and the Social
Sciences" The subject Of, the Friday
lecture will be Human Resources,
Social Work and Religion" with Mrs.
William Adams Slade presiding.
The lectures are being sponsored by
the Committee on Volunteer Activities
OF the Council of Social Agencies.
X X X
The annual spring dance of the
Washington Province of Tau Beta Phi
Sorority will be given Saturday at 10
O'Clock. at the Carlton Hotel Miss
Josephine E. Naylor is chairman of
the Arrangements Committee. She IS
being assisted by Miss Catherine
Cleary, Mrs. Dorothy Dapp Mrs. Alice
Doyle. Miss Regina Haines, Miss Ruth
Kruger, Miss Virginia Murray, Miss
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Federal Club
Spring Party.

Arrangements have been completed
for the annual spring party of the
Federal Club, to be held at the Hotel
Roosevelt Tuesday, April 26.
Mr.. Herman Stabler is chief engi-
neer in charge of the conservation
branch of the Geological Survey, pres
ident of the club. Dancing and cards
will follow the dinner at $50 o'clock.
Mr.. Ulysses Butler chairman of the
Entertainment Committee, will be
assisted by the A. G. o. Players, with
Mr.. Edward j. McGinnis as master
Of ceremonies
Dr. Willis Ray Gregg, chief of the
Weather Bureau. chairman of the
Reception Committee, will be assisted
by Mrs. Gregg, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Hall and Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Crit
tenden
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Jones will be
in charge of the card tables
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Brain Twizzlers
BY PROF. ]. ID. FLINT.

WE SEEM to find an amazing num-
ber of youthful prodigies in this
mind-mangling pastime. Perhaps it'll
spur you on to new endeavor to know
that a youngster figured this one out
OF course she was an unusually canny
youngster, and, too, she had an i'm
portant motive-candy. Susie found
that caramel and a half was worth
three quarters of caramel and half
penny. Half caramel was worth
three-quarters of chocolate. From
this information she deduced that she
could get certain number of whole
chocolates for the pennies she had.
What is the lowest number to be had
for an even number of pennies?
ANSWER on Page B-l6)
Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1938-04-19

Nine. de Grammant and Mrs. L. Har-
din.
The dime and dance fair is being
given by the Civic Theater and is the
first of its kind ever to be held in
Washington. 1t will begin at 2:3O in
the afternoon and continue through
the evening with outdoor dancing as
a special feature after dark. The To-
cation for the fair will be on Reser-
voir road just east Of Wisconsin ave-
nue..
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Breakfast
TOF FeteWife
Of President
Opera Star to Sing
AT Congressional
Club Event.
ME annual Congressional Club
breakfast in honor of Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt will


breakfast in honor of Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt will
u be held April Is at noon at
the Mayf1ower Hotel. Joseph Ben
tonelli, grand opera star and leading
tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, will be the guest artist.
Mr.. Bentonelli received his college
education in Oklahoma, where he was
known as Joseph Benton. He changed
his name to Bentoneli because of the
splendid reception he was given when
student in Italy and in order to
receive honors from MuSsolini and
Italian royalty. He has many friends
in Washington including thousand or
more Oklahomans who are loud in
their praises of Joe" He will come
to Washington at the special request
of the ladies of the Congressional Club
During his short stay in Washington
he and his accompanist, Merl Freeland
will be the guests of Representative
and Mrs. Wilburn Cartwright. Mrs.
Cartwright was piano instructor in
Oklahoma University, when Joe Ben
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Andersons Parents
OF Daughter.

1t. Charles Harper Anderson,
U. S. N, and Mrs Anderson are being
congratulated upon the birth of a
daughter born April IA at Georgetown
Hospital. Mrs. Anderson was for
merly Miss Anita Tarrant, daughter of
Vice Admiral and Mrs. w. T. Tarrant,
and 1t. Anderson is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Harper Anderson of Galveston,
Tex
Evening star., 1938-04-19
Finds 81, ,625. Returns It.

Finding a wallet containing s1,625
IN s25 bills. woman cleaner in Gen.
tral Station in Glasgow, Scotland, re-
ported her find, which was claimed
within two hours by woman, who
rewarded the cleaner.
Evening star., 1938-04-19

Chlskos opera, THE Armored
Cruiser Potemkin," recently had its
premiere in Moscow.
Evening star., 1938-04-19

Ethel Richards and Miss Lillian
Scruggs. The Washington province
Is composed of eight chapters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
State Department Implies Japan and
 Italy Bad Actors
Com m unication Intimates U. 5. Browns on China
 Ethiopia Wars

WASHINGTON, April 26 The State Department today implied to the House Foreign Affairs Commit tee, belief that Italy and Japan violated International treaties in their operations against Ethiopia and China, respectively.
 Chairman McReynolds read let ters from Sumner Wells, Acting Secretary of State, which cited pre- vious departmental expressions Of it's views regarding observance of inter- national obligations.
 The letter came as a response to a request for the State Department $ opinion of the resolution of Rep resentative Scott, which asks the President to specify what nations in recent years have violated treaties to which they and the United States pledged.
 After hearing the letter read, the House Foreign Affairs Committee reported the Scott resolution adver- sely by a unarlmous vote and rec commended # be tabled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
Statesmen of .. s.
 Are Passing; Many Figures
 OfProminence Go to Beyond

interview that he wrote the first draft of the League, after discuss ing it generally with President Wilson. Both he and Wilson were ailing at the time they returned from France to present this new cooperative peace move to the United States. Beside that, Wilson had strangely cooled toward House.
 It was a sample of the disunion of forces which peace-planning so- cieties experienced so often after ward that House about two years ago, set out to do something aboul it, although he then was 77 years old.
 He brought about a meeting Of himself, President Butler of Co., lumbia, Newton D. Baker, and Senators Thomas of Utah and Pope of Idaho. The Senate had just re- jected further proposal for U. s. adherence to the World court. The five were virtually unanimous in the opinion that failure of peace organi- zations in the country to work to- gether was responsible for defeat of World court adherence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
HITLER PLANS
 TO SWEEP JEW
 FROM AUSTRIA
Drive to Be Made Which Will Force Jewish to
 Leave Country

VIENNA, April 26.-The Vienna edition of Chancellor Hitler's news paper said today that new drive will get under way soon to drive the Jews far into the background of the Austrian scene.
 The newspaper said four year plan will be inaugurated to bar Jews from the ownership of any store or financial institution.
 The article further said that all actors, physicians, musicians, au- thors and composers, will be called upon to prove their Aryan ancestry before being allowed to take part in the countrys professional life.
 The anti-Jew drive will be carried out chiefly through Austrias new n-materials-for-A -Aryan peoples system under which raw materials will be withheld from Jews. Jewish owned agricultural lands will be taken away, forcing the Jews to emil grate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
SENTOR WARNS
 TIME Is SHORT

SEATTLE, April 26-Territorml Senator Norman K. Walker an- nounced today he had made new demands that the Department Of Labor effect q quick settlement of the present Alaska Cannery Work CTS dispute.
 Walker said that b. next week the eannery openings will be can- celled at the rate of three day. unless q settlement is reached.
 The Alaskan Senator came to &c., attle three weeks ago from Governor of Alaska John W. Troy. with in structions to aid negotiations. He re- turned from night trip to San Francisco this morning and plans to fly north tomorrow.
 T have telegraphed the Depart ment to put on more pressure h8 getting the salmon season started, Walker said. Unless boats leave by tomorrow, some districts in Alaska cannot open at ali this year The season is already two weeks late in Cook Inlet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26

YOKOHAMA, April 26-Elwyn Gibbon, 27, American aviator, whose home is in Seattle, Washington, is in for another grilling by Japanese authorities about his alleged actiyit- ies with the Chinese air force.
 When they finish questioning him, the Japanese indicated they will decide whether or not to indct him under the stringent law dealing with impeding public safety"
 Violation of this lay carries heavy penalties, with the maximum sen- tenee being death or life imprson- ment
 Gibbon was arrested Friday when he arrived n Yokohama aboard the Empress of Asia enroute to Van couver.
 Japaneae police said Ciibbon con- fesSed to taking part in the bomb ardment of Panaguin, in Central China's theatre of war.
 American consular officials were permitted to interview him yester- day for the first time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
BRITISH GIVEN
 TOUCH JOLT ON
 INCOME TAXES
Levy Boosted from Twenty five to Twenty-seven
 One-half Percent
STATEMENT MADE
 IN BUDGET SPEECH
Extra Revenues Needed for Staggering Arm a m ent
 Program, It Is Said

LONDON, April 26.-The British Government jolted the Nation to- day by boosting the income tax from 25 percent to 271a percent.
 The boost is to help pay the costs of the staggering rearmament pro- gram.
 Sir John Simon, Chancellor of Ex- chequer, in his annual Budgel speech before the House of Com mons, shocked the gathering by an- nouncing the increase in the income tax from five shillings to five shill ing six pence.
 The Chancellor announced that The Government needs a total oi four billion seven hundred ana wenty-one million dollars. This sum is an increase of four hundred and seven million dollars over the pre- viouS year.
 The Chancellor also announced an increase in duties on tea and oil.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
MONUMENT TO HOUSE

Subsequently representatives oi the many peace organizations were called to a general conference out of which was developed sort Of peace chamber of commerce. II has been functioning since. House was a sort of patron saint although he did not attend the conference at which it was formed.
 All is not peace, even among the peace societies. They have diver gent views on many things but the bulk of them look to a greater par ticipation by the United States in world affairs as the real hope for peace. They got together suffi- ciently a week or so ago to agree tc stump the country for Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade program. I is a sort of first stone in a monu ment they will try to build foi House.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, April 26. - So thinned out are the ranks of elder statesmen in this country that Ii Chief Justice Hughes should resign from the Supreme Court now he probably could have the chairman ship of the group.
 In reality there is no such thing as chairmanship of the elder statesmen but it would be hard to point to any of the remaining sen- for statesmen who could present such credentials.
 All this develops, of course, out of the death of Colonel House, whose rocket-like career during President Wilson's regime gave him a high rank in history, although in just what Capacity will be known only century from now.
 Within the past year or so death has taken such figures as Newton D. Baker; wartime Secretary of State, and now House. Among those remaining are Bernard Ba- ruch, chairman of the War Indus tries board in 1917-18; President Nicholas Murray Butler of Co., lumbia-and Hughes. Others could be named, but we have to stop some time.
 Hughes, on a showdown, could point to service as Secretary of State; two periods. on the Supreme Court, the second as Chief Justice; governorship of New York; and d presidential nomination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
NIPPON ARMY MAKING DRIVE
 FOR RAILHEAD
Chinese Evacuating Area in Vicinity of Strate-
 gic Suchow
LAPS GAIN GROUND
 IN SAVAGE THRUST
Farmers of Good Earth Are Fleeing According to
 Shanghai Report

SHANGHAI, April 26.-Japanese troops today are driving their WAY savagely forward only 12 miles from the East-West Lunghai Railway their objective in the past foui months of fighting.
 It is reported that the entire Su- chow area is being evacuated by Chinese civilians.
 Japanese spokesmen said an aer- ial observa ton showed all roads in the sector choked with Chinese farmers carting their belongings southward and westward in appar- ent expectation of rapid advance of the Japanese upon Suchow.
 The city of Suchow is located at the strategic junction of the East West Lunghai Railway and the North-South TientSin- -Pukow Rail- way
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
FRANCOIS MEN
 PUSH FORWARD WITH BIG GUNS
Government Defenses Laid to Dust Under Heavy
 Artillery Fire


 HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- der, April 26.-Insurgent forces are reported to have made a general advance all along the coastal battle front from Albocacer to Alcala De Chivert.
 The wide push forward came after Franco's troops pulverized the Gov ernment defenses with heavy art illery fire and bombardment with high explosive bombs from the air.
 Dispatches said the Insurgent army had pushed toward Castellon and De La Plana, important Med- iterranean seaport 25 miles south of CaStellon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
GREAT BRITAIN, FREE STATE IN
 AGREEMENT NOW
Premier Chamberlain and President de Valera
 Sign Trade Pact

LONDON, April 26.-British Pre- mier Neville Chamberlain and Pres ident Ramon de Valera, of the Irish Free State, have signed an agree ment intended to end the old en- mites between the two countries and solve their trade defense dis putes.
 The agreement fails however to touch the larger issue of a parti- tion of Ireland
 The pact signed is expected to put farm products of Ireland on the same preferential basis as Great Britain accords her Dominions. Il is believed the two countries have agreed to abolish retalitory duties and will reduce tariffs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-26
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April 26. = Stocks remained dull and irregular today. The list was generally below the previous close. The foreign list of bonds drifted lower Domestic bonds were also off fractional. U. S. Gov ernment bonds were easy on small volume.
 Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 10, Ameri- can Can 8494, American Light and Power H5s, Anaconda 27ss, Bethle- hem Steel AT, Commonwealth and Southern 1as, Curtiss Wright AZ General Motors 305s, International Harvester 58, Kennecott 33A, New York Central 12A, Southern Pacific 11A, United States Steel A, Cities Service IS, Bremner no bids asked 2, Pennsylvania Railroad 16, Pound $498A.