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Evening star., 1938-10-12
ONG-RANGE HE'LL
IN LABOR FIELD SEEN
Author of Book on C. I. 0. Says
Lewis Doesn't Want Peace, Nor
Do A. F. of L. Chieftains.
B, the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Oct pa period of
"longrange hell in the labor move
ment, beset by turmoil, strife and per-
sonal quarrels was foreseen yesterday
by Benjamin Stolberg, for almost 20
years reporter and worker on the
labor scene and author of new book,
The Story of the c. I. o.
Mr. Stolberg contends that John L.
Lewis, chairman of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, does not want
peace, and that William Green. presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, more or less wants peace"
but is surrounded by leaders of big
A. F. of l.. unions who do not want it.
Industrial unioniSm, he said, would
strip A. F. of L. leaders of their power
On the other hand, a merger of the
A. F. of l. and C. l. O. would, at first,
leave Mr. Lewis with a minority. since
there are about a million and a halt
dues-paying c. I. o. members and
more than 100000 A. F. of L. mem
berS.
Mr.. Stolberg believes. however, that
the masses and the secondary tier"
Of A. F. Of L. leaders favor industrial
unionism.
Mr.. Lewis, he said, is not a Com
munist, but is surrounded by Stalin-
ists' who practice strife and friction
as part of their adherence to the So
called Communist party line. Mr..
Stolberg does not believe Mr.. Lewis
can oust the Communists from his
union now.
The peace terms laid down by the
A. F. of L. convention in Houston
which call for the ousting of Mr.
Lewis. were termed ridiculous" by Mr.
Stolberg.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
LOYALISTS DRIVE
NEAR TO GANDESA
Consolidate Reconquered Lines
After Pursuing Broken
Rebel Ranks.
Ey the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, Oct. 12.-Gov-
ernment troops consolidated their re-
conquered positions in the Pandols
Mountains, Barcelona headquarters
reported today. after pursuing the
broken insurgent ranks almost to
within sight of the City of Gandesa.
The government said they were
holding their positions with little diff
ficulty against increasingly weak
counter attacks from the insurgents,
who planned a new offensive to gain
control of the razor-back hills whose
strong reinforcements have been the
prize over which the civil war has
been waged for almost three months.
Insurgent dispatches from Sala-
manca made no reference to the
militiamen's whirlwind offensives, but
spoke Of further advance by Gen.
Frances Legionnaires in an unspeci-
fed sector on the Ebro front.
After retreating toward Gandesa,
important communications center in
Eastern Spain, Gen. Frances troops
were able to reform their lines under
the protection of nearby artillery bat
teries.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
U. S. Involvement
IN PALESTINE ASKED
Flood of kilograms to. State
Department Urges Plea Be
Made to British.
BY the Associated Press.

by tle hSSOClAteQ freSS.
Hundreds of kilograms urging use
of the United States influence with
Great Britain in behalf of Jewish i'm
migration into Palestine have reached
the State Department in the past 48
hours.
An official said they apparently were
inspired by reports that Great Britain
intended to stop such immigration.
Some of the messages urged the de-
partment to request Great Britain to
retain its mandate in Palestine. There
was no announcement from Secretary
Hull Immediately.
One of those suggesting action was
Representative Hamilton Fish, rank
ing Republican on the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, who telegraphed
Mr.. Hull Ito urge that refugees from
Germany, Austria and Central Europe
be permitted to migrate to Palestine
The Washington branch of the
American League for Peace and De-
mocracy said in telegram to Mr..
Hull that it was deeply concerned by
reports Of threatened abandonment by
Great Britain of Jewish people in
Palestine
State Department figures indicate
there are about 5000 American citi-
zens in Palestine and an American in
vestment Of $50 O,000,0 900.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
FOES Of FASC|SM
WARNED BY DUCE
Preventive War Threat Is
C0untered in Official
italian Statement.
By the Associated Press.

B! the Associated Press.
ROME, Oct. 12-Italy today warned
French and British enemies Of Fascism
against nourishing hopes Of pre-
ventive war" against Italy and Ger
many after the Munich accord dis
membering Czechoskovakia.
An official diplomatic informa-
tion," believed written by Premier
Mussolini himself, gave "uncondi-
tional approval" to Chancellor Hitlers
speech at Saarbruecken Sunday. Hit
Ter said Germany wanted peace, but
continued to rearm because there are
those abroad who do not want peace"
Jews Declared in Leadership.
A preventive war" is wanted, said
today's italian statement, by groups
and parties in France and Britain lied
everywhere by Jews"
Nov, in timely form. the Fuehrer
has directed the attention of the Ger
man people and also of the world to the
activities of these groups and parties
which favor a preventive war against
Italy and Germany, and none the less
opportunely he made clear that Ger
many is not letting herself be chloro-
formed and, it is noted in Rome,
neither is Italy.
Warns of Supreme Risk"
Responsible Roman circles point
out that mongers of a preventive war
now are late. In their blind hate they
may still dream of a preventive war,
but attempting it would mean for them
a supreme risk.
Against the Italian block Of l25
millions of men, block which is in
creasing its numbers by 100000 per
year; against this block which has to-
day at its disposal imposing forces and
favorable geostrategic land, air and
sea position; against this block Of
tightly bound means and spirit there il
nothing more doing"
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Pincer Offensive on Hankow.

SHANGHAI, Oct II R).-Japanese
forces unloosed their full might today
in a final, giant pincer offensive de-
signed to capture Hankow and smash
GeneraliSsmo Chang Kai-shek's S
legions.
A new Japanese eXpeditionary force,
estimated between 10000 and $4,000
mechanically well-equipped men sup
ported by naval and air units, landed
at Bias Bay a few miles north of
Hong Kong.
Plan to Cut Communications.
Their plan was to sever communi-
cations between Hong Kong and Can
ton. the last big Chinese coastal city,
or between Canton and Hankow,
Chiang's provisional and military cap
ital
Fulfllment OF the scheme would
mean cutting off vitally-needed de-
fense munitions
Far in the interior the Japanese in
tensified their smashing drives against
HankoW from the north and west. and
were reported to have cut the Northern
Railway communication with HankoW
by capturing Sinyang, 100 miles north
of the capital
The new South China campaign was
considered certain to force the Chinese
to utilize Cantonese forces to defend
their home province and make it i'm
possible for them to reinforce Gen.
Chang in hard-pressed HankoW.
These were the Japanese positions:
l. From Sinyang invading units were
starting a 100-mile offensive down
the Peiplng HankoW Railway through
heavily defended mountainous terrain.
2. Fighting through mountains
northeast of Hankow, aiming at
Macheng. Hupek Province city that
commands highways to Hankow, 81
miles away.
3. At Kichun, YangtZe River town
captured last Saturday when 5000 de-
tenders were reported killed 1t is 30
miles downstream from Hankow
A. Attacking Yangsin, about 80 miles
southeast of HankoW It's occupation,
considered imminent, would facilitate
cutting the HankoW- Canton Railway
south of HankoW
5. Attempting to smash stubborn
Chinese defenses along the Kiukiang-
Nanchang Railway in Kiangsi Province,
and through the Hwalingshan or Flow
cry Forest Mountains toward Changsha,
Uunan provincial capital 1875 miles
southwest of Hankow.
Fighting was severe on all these
fronts, but was heaviest at Yangsin,
where the japanese have been trying
for 79 days to crack the Chinese lines,
and on the Teian front.
Evening star., 1938-10-12

block the colony if the railroad to
the interior were cut.
A complete blockade of both the
railroad and river would mean the
isolation here Of large supplies of mer-
chandise, including munitions intended
for interior points, unless route can
be found via Indo-China.
Families Urged to Leave.
CANTON, China, Oct. IL (P.-The
British Consul in Canton today ad-
vised British women and children to
leave as new japanese expeditionary
force landed at nearby Bias Bay.
1t was understood about 40 British
subjects and several Americans would
leave tomorrow.
The populace generally was calm.
Military authorities were secretive
about defense preparations, but it was
reported the Chinese planned to con-
struct a barrier across the Canton
River.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
new D. C. PRISON
FACILITIES LISTED
Improvements Lessen Danger of
Epidemics, Huff Declares in
Luncheon Address.

Improvements in the facilities of
District penal institutions will lessen
the possible danger of epidemics that
has existed heretofore among prison.
ers, Ray L. Huff, general superintend-
ent OF the District prison system, said
yesterday in luncheon address before
the Council Of Social Agencies at the
E street Y. w. c. A.
Mr.. Huff cited the benefits OF the
new sewer system now under way on
the Lorton -Occoquan reservation in
nearby Virginia, to serve the reforma-
tory and the workhouse, and the new
facilities provided by P. w. A. and
Congress for the District Jail.
Medical services to all classes of
prisoners have been increased during
the past year." Mr.. Huff said, "and we
are now moving prisoners from the Jail
to the reservation with greater speed
and in greater numbers than previ-
Ously"
The prison head cited numerous
items in his recent annual report, in
Guiding an all-time record Jail popu-
lation some months ago of 835 men
and women who were packed as many
as three in a cell, with some sleeping
in the corridors.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, Oct. 12.-The Catholic
Archdiocese Of Vienna has distributed
leaflets to Catholic parents in some OF
the city's districts exhorting them In
the form of ten commandments not to
neglect the religious education Of their
children.
The leaflets. headed "A Word to
Catholic Parents" bore the rubber
stamp signature of Theodore Cardinal
Innitzer, whose palace was attacked
Saturday night by q Nazi mob, and
were in answer to a September l an
nouncement that the Nazi party would
take over education of youth and all
religious and private schools in Ger
man Austria would be closed
The commandments for guidance of
parents were:
Il. All parents bear before God the
responsibility for the immortal souls
OF their children; send your children,
Evening star., 1938-10-12
DR.. Studebaker to Speak.

DR.. John w. Studebaker, commits
sioner Of education, will speak on
John Hay, Man of Peace and Democ-
racy,' Saturday from 7:45 to 8 pm.
over Nationwide broadcast arranged
by the B'nai Birth as part of q
centennial celebration honoring the
statesman. He will be heard locally
through WMAL.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Army Moving Inland.

HONG KONG, Oct. II (A').-Japan's
new South China Army, estimated at
10000 to $4,000 men, was reported
moving steadily inland from Bias Bay
today against little or no Chinese
resistance.
Brought into Bias Bay, just north
east of Hong Kong, in more than 60
transports and landed through blast
of naval guns, this new army, includ-
ing brigade of marines, began
marching toward the vital railway
that brings supplies from Canton to
beleaguered Hankow.
After the actual landing at Ha-
chung, the japanese moved to high
way running southwest to lntersect
the Canton -Kowloon Railway midway
between Canton and Hong Kong.
The railway extends north from
Kowloon, in the Hong Kong district,
about 20 miles west of Hachung BY
cutting it the japanese hoped to domi-
nate the Canton River mouth and
thus stop supplies from Canton.
Airforces over Kwangtung.
The japanese backed their landing
by sending their airforces over
Kwangtung Province in the most ex-
tensive series of bombing raids South
China has seen since last December.
Dispatches from Canton said total
Of 1877 japanese planes took part in
the raids, which struck at several vital
points, and that civilian casualties
were believed to be heavy.
Army Moving Inland.
Japanese air raids destroyed three
bridges on the Canton Kowloon Rail
way, believed to be first objective of
the drive. AS result the afternoon
Canton-bound train returned to Kow-
loon. which is British territory.
Military leaders of Kwangtung
Province, of which Canton is the
capital, were reported rushing rein
forcements to the three divisions
normally charged with defense of the
Bias Bay area. 1t was expected that
the next "a hours would test both the
defense organizations and fighting
spirit of the Cantonese.
In Hong Kong there was last
minute rush to send military supplies
into the Chinese interior before all
routes were blocked
Influx of Refugees.
An influx of new war refugees cart
ing and carrying their belongings
brought definite evidence that the war
has been brought to the doorstep of
this British colony so miles south
east of Canton
Frontier police were reinforced by
two companies of Middlesex regiments
who helped put the refugees into large
concentration camps, inclosed by
barbed wire, where they will be fed
by the Hong Kong government.
OF direct concern to Hong Ko1-g
was the fact that the new japanese
invasion threated to interfere with
the Hong Kong food supplies and
Evening star., 1938-10-12
PAN-AMERICAN UNION
LIBRARY REPORT MADE
Collection of Volumes on Latin
America Is Largest
in World.

The library of the Pan-American
Union, created in 1890, now has the
largest special collection of books on
Latin America in the world, accord
ing to report from the Union.
DR.. L. S. Rowe, director general
said today the library has increased
by 10000 books since 1888, due par
TALLY to efforts to have the library
designated by each Latin American
country as a depository for official
and other publications on the same
basis as the national Libraries of each
country.
Fourteen countries have issued de-
crees to this effect, he said, increas-
ing the number of books to 96,827.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
China
(Coptinued From First Page.)

corning the extensive British interest
in the crown colony of Hong Kong and
in South China generally and "the
risks to Anglo-Japanese relations
which any incident might cause"
Informed persons said it was felt
that the japanese troop landings at
Bias Bay, just north of Hong Kong,
with the apparent object of cutting the
Canton -Kowloon Railway, might Sc
riously affect Hong Kong. which de-
pends for its trade on the Chinese
hinterland.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
HYDE PARK GRANT

Roosevelt Approves P. w. A. Aid
for Home County.
Fy the Associated Press.
The Public Works Administration
announced today President Roosevelt
had approved s585,O0O grant for
school construction in his home
county of Dutchess, N. Y.
The money will be used to con-
struct a new brick elementary and
junior high school at Hyde Park and
a new elementary school at Fairview.
The two schools will cost a total of
$1,300,000
Evening star., 1938-10-12
LARGER OCEAN PLANES
TERMED POSSIBILITY
Sikorsky Holds Exceptionally Big
Ships Must Depend on
Business, However.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct l2-Igor Sikorsky,
American airplane manufacturer
told the Lilenthal Society for Aerial
Research today that construction of
exceptionally large transoceanic air.
planes was an engineering possibil-
ity,' but must depend on business
conditions.
Sikorsky spoke at the opening ses-
sion of the society's annual meeting,
attended by $50 delegates from "a
nations.
A place had been reserved for Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh in the first row,
but Col Lindbergh slipped unobserved
into the l4th row as the meeting
opened. The presiding officer re-
marked: Charles Lindbergh is. to
our joy, honoring this assembly with
his presence
Sikorsky spoke briefly and then
handed his prepared address to Kurt
Tank of the German Focke Wulff Co.,
Who read it to the meeting
Evening star., 1938-10-12
REV. ALBERT P. Shirley
POST IN SAN ANTONIO
Successor at Francis Asbury M. E.
South Will Be Picked From
Texas Church.

The Rev. Albert P. Shirley, for the
last three years pastor of the Francis
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church
South. BIAS Sixteenth street NV.
will leave Washington next Wednesday
to become pastor of the Travis Park
Methodist Church. San Antonio, Tex
He will be accompanied by his wife,
the former Leola Louck of Winches-
ter, Va. and by their two sons, Albert
Louck. 5, and John Adams. 2.
A successor from a Texas church
will be chosen at the West Texas
M. E. Conference, which opens Octo-
ber %.
The Rev. Mr. Sharkey was gradu-
ated from the Union Theological Sem
mary, Richmond. Va, in 1881 and
came to Washington from the Peace
Memorial Church, in Richmond, in
1925
Evening star., 1938-10-12
U. S. Shipping Cement.

One hundred thousand barrels Of
cement are being shipped from the
United States to relieve the shortage
in the Philinpines
Evening star., 1938-10-12

Motorcycle races are becoming
craze in South Africa.
Evening star., 1938-11-11
G.P.0. Emp|oye Shot
Three Times in
Parked Auto
CoIored Suspect Hunted;
Wounded Man Drives
To Drug Store

John G. Clements, %, of 6100
Fourteenth street NV, Government
Printing ONCE employe, was fired on
eight times and wounded thrice by
an alleged hold-up man last night
as he sat with a woman companion
in his car parked on Curtis street
just off the East West highway near
Bethesda
Wounded in the right knee, left
arm and forehead by rs caliber bull
let's that crashed through the drivers
window, Clements was recovering
today in Georgetown Hospital while
Montgomery County detectives
sought to solve the shooting.
Mr.. Clements told officers that q
tall, dark-skinned coIored man
walked up on his parked car from
behind, drew a gun and told them
to keep quiet. He started firing,
pouring eight shots through the car
window when he found the doors
were locked, police said Mr.. Clements
told them.
Remaining behind the steering
wheel, the victim drove out the
Brookeville road, sounding his horn
and calling for help, and at a drug
store met squad car from Bethesda.
At the Bethesda station, Mr..
Clements was treated by DR.. Leo
Donovan and then sent to George
town by the rescue squad. Police
questioned Clements companion and
her husband, who came to headquar-
ters, and others until o'clock this
morning. The shooting occurred
about 9 pm.
The case today was in charge OF
Detective Sergts. Theodore Vollten
and James McAuliffe from county
police headquarters at Rockville.
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Neutrality Aet Queries
Sent 10 Committeeman

Letters asking an expression OF
opinion on possible changes in the
Neutrality Act have been sent men,
bers of the Senate and House For
eign Affairs Committees by five
women's organizations committed to
revision of the law to make its ap-
plication more flexible.
The organizations urged legisla-
ton to establish a general policy to
be adapted to meet each interna-
tional situation as it arises, particu-
larly to permit cooperation with
other nations in attempts to prevent
war, or to stop wars carried on in
violation of mutual treaty obliga-
tions."
Cooperating in this move here
are the American Association of
University Women. the National
Board of the Y. w. c. A., National
Council of Jewish Women, National
League of Women Voters and the
National Womens Trade Union
League.
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Bishop Hughes to Talk
At New York PurIey

Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the
Washington area of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will speak at the
annual meeting of the Methodist
Board of Foreign Missions, opening
Monday in New York.
Bishop Hughes, who is one of the
managers of his denomination
overseas program, will review the
years work of 561 Methodist mis-
sionaries in 40 countries.
The New York meeting will be the
last annual conference of the group.
Next April the union of the three
leading Methodist churches in Amer
lea will be consummated and a new
agency to direct denominational
work overseas will be formed.
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Reynolds Off 10 Study
European Conditions

Reelected Tuesday by a heavy
majority, Senator Reynolds, Demo-
crat, OF North Carolina today was
en- route to Europe aboard the S. S.
President Roosevelt to study the
political and economic situations on
the continent.
The Senator, first elected in 1882,
defeated former Representative
Charles A. Jonas, Republican, in
the general election. Widely known
as world traveller, he is off to Eu-
rope for visits to virtually every
country except the Scandinavian
group to obtain flrst-hand informa-
ton for use during the next session
of Congress.
Senator Reynolds plans to return
December % and spend the holidays
with his mother in Asheville, N. C.
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Dental Society to Mark
18th Anniversary

The 38th anniversary Of the
Robert T. Freeman Dental Society
will be observed tomorrow at a busi-
ness session at the Twelfth street
branch of the Y. M. c. A. at 8 pm,
followed by banquet at the Capitol
Pleasure Club.
Annual reports from committee
chairmen and the election of officers
will be features of the meeting. DR..
c. Thurston Ferebee, president of
the society, will preside. DR.. c. N.
Mcmillan, Social Committee chair
man, is in charge of the banquet.
Evening star., 1938-06-19
Jack Dempsey:
The old man
with a scyths
is one guy q
fighter cont
beot forever

ton is one of the advantages he will have in
this fight that he didn't have before. He'll be
on the lookout for Schmeling's right hand;
the last time he wasn't.
Some experts think also that Schmeling will
have tremendous psychological advantage
over Louis because of his previous victory.
Again l can't quite agree. don't think Louis
knows what fear means. You must have
imagination to have fear. Louis has no imagi-
nation. Just two fists. And you'll need more
than leer or sneer or memory to beat him.
You'll have to do it with solid punches.
This time, Louis will be fighting as the
champion. Usually, fighter who becomes
champion Immediately becomes better
fighter He usually forces the challenger to
fight his kind of fight I'm wearing the
crown. " he says in effect, come and get it.
But Louis won't be able to do this to
Schmeling. In the first place, Schmeling be-
lieves, and l agree, that he would be the
champion if he had been allowed to fight
Braddock last summer. He doesn't look on
Louis with the awe the average fighter shows
champion In the second place. Schmeling's
experience and better generalship will force
Louis to fight the kind of fight Max wants.
Louis marched to fame by making his
opponents come to him. Schmeling knows this
- Just as he knew it two years ago. In that
fight neither fighter tried a punch until
minute and half of the first round had
elapsed. Max simply wouldn't lead to Joe.
When there finally was lead, it was Joe who
made it. And from then on Joe fought the kind
of fight Schmeling wanted him to fight.
Schmeling, of course, hasn't revealed his
plan of battle, but think he will follow the
same line of comterattack. And, if he does.
Louis is going to fall right in and do what the
smarter Schmeling wants him to do.
In my opinion, however Schmeling won't
have to stick to his counterfghting style to