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The Washington times., 1938-05-13
JAPANESE MASS
TROOPS, SHIPS
NEAR SWATOW

LONDON, May Is UN.S0-A
Reuter- dispatch from Hongkong
today said five japanese battle
ships and a number Of smaller
craft have been concentrated at
Swatow, according to uncon-
firmed reports from Annoy.
The report added the Japanese
were landing troops at Namtang
Island, just off the port Of
Swallow.
HoNGKONG, May IS U.N.S0
Nipponese forces hammered
against south China defenseS to-
day as two Japanese destroyers
engaged the famed Bocca Tigris
forts at long range and attacking
aircraft rained bombs on Canton.
Six British passenger ships and
the French gunboat Argus were
forced to remain inside Canton
harbor for three hours while the
japanese warshipS sent shells
hurting against the Bocca TigriS
Notifications,
Chinese advices from Hankow
admitted the gap between two
major Japanese forces converging
on the vital Lunghat railway had
narrowed to only ITO miles and
that the Nipponese had captured
the towns Of Yungchenghsien and
Sianglistsi, the latter having been
virtually razed by terrific glnfire.
japanese reports at the same
time claimed Nipponese units ad-
vancing from Tancheng had ad-
vanced to a point only seven miles
north Of Sinanchen.
A London Daily Express re-
port from Hongkong said the Japa-
nese have raided the important
Lunghai railway junction city OF
Suchow day and night for 100
hours, killing an estimated 3eS
civilians.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
Chorus Girl
Wins Trip

HOLLYWOOD, May Is UN.S0.
Because ITO other chorus girls
thought her the perfect chlorine,
Ethlreda Leopold will start tomor-
row on a trip to France.
Her sister chorines at Warner
Brothers studio decided by ballot
that Miss Leopold has everything
that it takes, including popularity,
to be a topnotch chorus girl.
Miss Leopold planned to leave
by plane for Newark airport, &C.
companied by her mother.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
) POLISH filters
TO DARE OCEAN.
ON WARSAW HOP.
l6,500- Mile Flight to
Start From u. S.

BURBANK, Cal, May l3
U.N.SD.-F Five Polish aviators
planned to take off today on a
16,500.mile flight to Warsaw over
a route that will take them through
South America and across the
South Atlantic.
From here the powerful, two
motored Lockheed plane will be
piloted to Mexico City.
OCEAN HOP AT NATAL
The fiers, headed by Major
Waclaw Makowski, will remain
overnight there; then fly to Pana-
ma City, Lima, Santiago, Chile,
Natal, Brazil, Dakar, Africa and
Warsaw.
Besides Major Makowski, the
crew included Chief Pilot z. wy.
siekirski, Engineer S. Piskorz,
Radioman Alfons RzeczewSki, and
Jerry KraSsowski.
TEST FLIGHT MADE
The fliers made what they said
was satisfactory test flight TO
Las Vegas yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
D. G.. Businessmen
Take River Cruise

Members of the Junior Board of
Commerce and their guests took
their annual moonlight boat ride
down the Potomac last night on
the Wilson Line steamer City of
Washington.
Proceeds will send to summer
camps boys who otherwise
would have no vacation, Lyle F.
O'Rourke, president, said.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

Mamie Phipps, senior Of Hot
Springs, Ark, was to be crowned
queen at the annual May festival
being held today on the campus
at Howard University.
The fete includes group dances
under the direction of Phyllis
Bailey and Alma Hall and festival
arranged by Florence
Suggs. Attendants for the queen
include Leila Brown, Jeanne
Young, Pearl Debman, Evelyn
Brandon, Louise Jones, Gladys
Woods, Lunabelle Wedlock, Dora
watha watkins, Alice Quivers,
Robena Luck, Fannie Jernagin,
Jewell Proctor, Berrice Phillips,
Grace Bagley and Julia Hayden.
In the event Of rain today, the
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
Hospital Blessed
By Cardinal Hayes

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May Is.
A new $3.50, 1000 wing Of st. Agnes
Hospital on North Street here was
blessed by Patrick Cardinal Hayes
during q three-hour visit to the in
stitution. Thirty priests Of West
chester county and the choir and
altar boys of st. Johns Church OF
White Plains took part in the cere-
fnony,
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
HOWdrd CrOWnS Queen

festival will be held tomorrow ct
4 p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
Housing Is Topic
At Club Luncheon

Low cost housing and its prob
lens will be discussed tomorrow at
the Saturday Luncheon Club in
southeast House, Virginia Avenue
Southeast. Among those present
will be Mrs. Helen Duey Hoffman,
director of the Washington Hous.
1r' Association. Charles H. Flagg,
Alley Dwelling Authority and
Franklin Thorne, United States
Housing Authority.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
ENTRIES MOUNT
FOR ART FAIR

Applications for entry into
Washington's first outdoor Art
Fair cluttered the desks of the art
fair editors after arrival of this
mornings mail, and prospects for
the fair, May 26 and q, we're good.
Response to announcement of
the first outdoor Art Fair is over
whelming. The fair is open for
both painters and sculptors, young
and old.
Washington's leading artists
and art critics are Fundamentally
supporting the fair. They declare
it will be invaluable in encourag-
ing art in the nations Capital.
Only a few more days remain
in which to register, and the
Washington Herald outdoor Art
Fair editors we're urging all those
who have art to display to send in
their applications.
The Washington times., 1938-05-13
japanese Plan
TOkyO-N. Y. Hop

SAN FRANCISCO, N ay IS
U.N.S.).-A nonstop flight from
Tokyo to New York is being
planned by director of Japanese
airplane firm, T. Kamijo, design
ing engineer of the Mitsubishi Air
craft Company, of Japan, an
nounced today, following his ar
rival from Yokohama aboard the
N. Y. K. Liner Taiyo Maru.
Experiments in long-diStance
flying are now in progress in Man
churia, Kamijo said. The hop to
New York is planned for June,
he added
The Washington times., 1938-05-13

Coin fishing? Then read Bob Will
sons up the Stream" in The WASH
ingtOn Times. Telephone RE. 1884 for
home delivery.
Evening star., 1938-06-05

Robert Tyre Jones. jr. whose
doy os king Of golfers is still pretty
we'll remembered. tees off in
specioI notch with Attorney Gen.
erol Cummings. who looks on.
Bobby come to town for the on
nuoI outing Of the District Bor
Association at Congressional
Country Club.
Evening star., 1938-06-05

Mice drive. Mr.. Attorney Gen.
eroI." And Bobby's game, Mr.
Cummings had reason to observe
on this stroll down the foirwoy.
wos not so bod itself. Still a
pretty foir eoIfer-oIthoueh his
AtIonto low proctice cIo;ms q
GOOD deoI of his time now.
Underwood and Wide World Photos
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
ROOSEVELT SON
TO Marine DUTY

G.N.SO While President Roose-
velt prepared a vitality important
message on national defense needs
in view Of war and threats of war
abroad, it was learned today that
his eldest son, James, plans two
weekks' active tour of duty in the
Marine Corps.
Young Roosevelt, a lieutenant
colonel in the Marine Corps Re
serve, expects orders from Mai.
Gen. Thomas Holcomb directing
him to report at Guantanamo,
Cuba, with the fleet marine force
on February % for war games and
maneuvers.
It was understood at Marine
headquarters that the presidential
son and secretary would be as
signed with the landing force
which must get ashore from the
cruisers under the potential
enemy" attack.
Lieut.. Colonel Roosevelt also
will take part in an aerial survey
of the islands guarding the Pan
anna Canal from a national defense
standpoint.
So he may not lose more time
than necessary from his White
House desk. he plans to fly from
here to Cuba. He will be accom-
panied by Col. Joseph c. Fegan
commandant of the Washington
Marine Barracks.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
INTERIOR spy
PROBE STUDIED

T.N.SO Whether the Senate
continues it's investigation OF wire
tapping and other alleged spying
activities in the Department of the
Interior may be determined today
at a meeting of the Public Lands
Committee.
Headed by Senator Adams CD
of Colorado, the committee meets
to consider a proposal by Senator
Pittman CD of Nevada, which
may throw it into executive session
to consider the qualifications OF
Ebert K. Burlew to be Assistant
Secretary of the Interior.
Pittman proposed that the COM
mittee print proceedings of its in
vestigation of the wire-tapping
charges and expenditures, dis
tribute them to members for study
and then meet to pass on the
nomination of Burlew.
A canvass of the committee re-
vealed a favorable attitude toward
Burlew's nomination. The COM
mittee, however, branched off into
a general survey of the depart
ment when it was revealed that
Reno Stitely, chief of the voucher
division of the National Park Ser
vice, embezzled $85, 900.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
FRANCOIS FORCE.
'ON CEUTA DOCKS.
is BOMBARDED
LoyaIist Air Raiders
Strike in ReprisaI

BARCELONA, Jan. 26 qN.S0.
Spain's fierce war Of reprisal
ragged on mercilessly today as
government planes bombed rebel
Ceuta on the Spanish Moroccan
coast in retaliation for insurgent
air raids on Barcelona that
caused hundreds Of casualties.
The loyalist raiders directed their
bombs at Ceuta's docks, where at
least 1855 of 500 Moors waiting
to embark for the Spanish war
front were reported killed and
wounded.
AMERICAN UNITS SHOT UP
(ReportS from Saragossa stated
inSurgent authorities there claimed
the Lincoln and Washington bat
talions, American volunteer units
fighting with the loyalists, had Suf-
fered heavy losses in sharp fight
ing on the Teruel front. They
did not claim. however, that the
battalionS were destroyed0
Government authorities said so
loyalist pursuit planes staged a
spectacular air battle with six
twin-engined insurgent bombers
and numerous escorting planes
over the Sarrion-Levant front.
ARMS DUMP PROBED
A rebel munitions dump was be.
lieved to have been hit by bombs
when is Government bombers
raided Valladolid, dropping seven
tons Of explosives. 1t was stated.
A hint that the government
troops may withdraw altogether
from the disputed city Of .Teruel
was furnished by government
spokesman here, who stated the
governments object at Teruel has
now been accomplished, and that
the insurgent high command had
been "lured into tactical error
Preparations for evacuation o1
Teruel have now been completed
this spokesman said, and the
government considers it is able
to withdraw without damage to its
prestige"
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
B'nai Birth Fete
Draws 700 Guests
DR.. DOdd to Address
Banquet Tomorrow
At MGyfLOWer

Members of the Jacob Medical
Society and the Fifty Club will
turn out en- masse tomorrow night
in honor Of the installation Of DR..
Ivy A. Pelzman as president Of
Argo Lodge of the B'nai Birth.
More than TOO guests are ex-
pected to attend the lodges annual
celebration at the May
flower Hotel. The speakers will be
DR.. William E. Dodd. former am
baSsador to Germany, and Rabbi
Paul Richman, director of cul-
tural activities of the B'nai Birth.
Dr.. Dodd's criticism Of the Nazi
regime has brought protests from
the German government.
Norman C. Kal, general chair
man Of arrangements for the ban
quet, said today that a number Of
members Of Congress, including
Senator Joseph c. OMahoney OF
Wyoming, will be among the guests
of the banquet.
New officers Of Argo Lodge who
will be installed at the banquet in
clude: DR.. Ivy Pelzman, president;
Seymour S. Guthman, vice presi-
dent; Henry Salus, warden; Nor
man C. Kal, guardian; Leon Katz,
monitor; Gerald L. Oxenburg, as.
sistant monitor; Morris Garfinkle.
treasurer; Moe Gutenberg, finan.
cial secretary, and David Wiener,
recording secretary.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
CHINESE FUND
DRIVE SPURRED

District Red Cross leaders we're
optimistic today over the drive
which started yesterday to raise
a one million-dollar fund to aid
the civilian Chinese.
The first contribution to the
fund was received yesterday from
a family that once lived in China
Brig. Gen. R. F. Keefer, Dis
trict Red Cross head, emphasized
again that money contributions
alone are wanted. Clothing may
be obtained much cheaper in
China, he declared.
The drive to raise the fund was
begun on the request of President
Roosevelt after he had received a
cablegram from Ambassador Mel.
son T. johnson, who said the Chi.
nese are facing their coolest win,
ter in many years. Admiral Cary
T. Grayson has allotted $4,000
from Red Cross funds.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Speed Record
Wind Helps Plane
Establish Mark

The big wind that swept over
the Eastern United States late
Monday blew a Cleveland to De-
troit plane to new speed record,
Pennsylvania Central Airlines an
nounced here last night.
J. H. Carmichael, chief pilot,
and Sam Carson, his first officer,
flew the 91-mile distance, carry.
ing seven passengers. in % min.
utes, cutting II minutes from the
schedule.
With tail wind of from 80 to
100 miles an hour, they flew Lake
Erie from shore to shore in ex.
actly IL minutes, their own speed
averaging 260 miles.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

move to soak one-family corpora
tions. Two Democrats, McCor-
mack and Vinson, are against
it, along with the seven Repub-
licans. They need four more
votes to kill 1t. There is some
question about getting these in
face of Administration pressure.
If the proposal is approved in
committee, it will go through
the House fast. The average
member does not know enough
about such complicated tax pro
posals to debate them intelli-
gently. They will be inclined to
take the Administrators word
again that it is not the business
running proposal it appears to
be.
Even the committeeman do
not seem to be curious about
finding out just whom the tax
would hit. There is a rumor cur
rent among tax experts that
Mssrs. Oliphant, Cohen and Cor.
coran prepared a list of those
who would be soaked for the
President but official knowledge
of such list is diSclaimed and
it may not exist.
Testimony in the hearings so
far indicates the tax would
punish many department stores,
furniture dealers, textiles and
newspapers, forcing them into
the hands of Wall Street for
stock selling schemes.
DOBERT "STONETHROW"
AU JACKSON, latest White
House favorite, may be getting
under Farley's skin by pushing
toward the New York guberna.
torial chair, but General Jack
son does not challenge General
Farley on patronage matters.
Jackson is head of a large
corps Of lawyers in the Justice
Department, but he selects no
help without Farley's okey. He
has so informed applicants.
~ Il X
THE Save Barkley" movement
l. is developing into a major
Administration political demon
stration. Some of the Kentucky
leaders friends in the Senate
have held meeting and decided
to push through the Vinson
Water Pollution bill to help him
in Ohio River towns. They
would pass it without the amend.
ment penalizing localities for
failure to cooperate.
A news.man here called Presi-
Dental Secretary Steve Early
out Of bed about 3 q. M, to ask
if it were true, as published in
another paper. that Mrs. Roose-
velt had slightly bobbed her
hair.
Early probably will recover in
a few days, but the inquirer
may never hear again.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
ETHIOPIA CITES
ITALIAN LOSSES

LONDON, Jan. 26 QN.S).
Italy has lost II senior officers,
five junior officers, and 5,993
Askaris, all of whom have been
killed during engagements with
Ethiopian warriors in Abyssinia
during the past two months. the
Ethiopian legation asserted in a
formal statement today.
Ethiopian losses in the fighting
have been equally heavy, the
statement said.
The statement was issued on
the opening day of the session of
the League of Nations Council at
Geneva, where one Of the prob
lens to be considered is that of
recognition of Italy's conquest of
Ethiopia.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Giant Planes Near,
Prof. Younger Says

NEW YORK, Jan 26 Q.N.SD.
Giant transport planes, travelling
through the suhstratoSphere $4,000
feet above the earth, we're envis-
ioned today by Prof. John E.
Younger, of the University Of Cali
fornia.
Addressing the Institute Of the
Aeronautical Sciences here, he pic
tured the possibility of huge Yep
pelin.shaped craft. resembling
flying bullets traversing air routes
in the near future.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

is reason to believe some further
words were spoken, and, they
may have approached 212 de-
grees Fahrenheit.
What was agreed upon, II
anything, is still a deep dark
secret, and may remain so, but
none of the knowing would be
surprised If the lynching bill is
dropped-not like a hot potato,
of course, but sort of eased
back into a dark corner like a
wornout piece Of furniture
which the official family is glad
to forget.
First good excuse to get rid
of it will probably be taken.
MO ONE knows who is most
~ to blame for tying up the
Senate for weeks. The leaders
knew they would cause a mn.
buster if they brought the bill
ur. The filibuSters merely took
the only means left to them
to block anti.lynching bills.
same means used for the past
so years and undoubtedly to
be used for the next SO.
The filibusters seem to have
enjoyed it. Their inside polls
indicated they had only Is
votes when they started. Now
they claim nearly 40 (neither
figure will be published Off
cially, because both are less
thar the majority needed to
beat the bill legitimatelyO
The fight has strengthened
antl-New Deal Senators in the
South and embarrassed New
Dealers from Southern States,
while the Northern New Deal
ers generally failed to make
much political hay out of 1t for
themselves. Generally the whole
affair is regarded as a political
fiaseo from all angles.
A TOP New York publicity
"A man is getting long odds
betting friends that Roosevelt
will run for a third term in 1910
and will be defeated. His en-
ployers pay him $65,000 a year
to know what the public is
thinking for publicity purposes.
Some Senators still suspect
their telephone wires were
tapped by Ickes' HawkshawS,
but cannot find enough proof
to come out and say so. Truth
is it is difficult for anyone to
tap a senatorial wire at the
source. Wires are strung inside
the walls and are easily avail
able to tappers only at the cen
tral congressional switchboard.
A Taper posing as workman
could get in only temporarily.
T NEUP is close within the
II House Ways and Means
Committee on the Treasury
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Britain Aroused
BIZ Francois Raids

LONDON, Jan. 26 UN.S0.-The
British government today in.
structed its ambassador to Spain,
Sir Henry Chiffon, to lodge a
vigorous protest with insurgent
authorities against bombing Of
open towns in Spain.
BY this action Britain sought
again to halt the killing Of civil
ians in Spain's civil war and to
prevent further spread of the re-
prisals which have characterized
the aerial raids during the past
week.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Unit in League
For Lithuania

GENEVA, Jan. 26. .-Lithuania
has just established here q perma.
nent delegation accredited to the
League Of Nations under M.
Skirpa. That Lithuania should
go to this expense now despite
the widespread gloom about the
League is taken to reflect a sharp
increase in the fear there over
Pol a n DIS increasing GOODNESS
toward Geneva and her friendli,
ness toward Berlin.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Cuba to DepOrt
French Refugees

HAVANA. Jan. 26.-Five French
Guiana refugees who reached
Santiago in a frail craft three
days ago were ordered today by
national immigration authorities
to be deported.
The group, now being held at
Santiago, will be brought to
Havana, where they will be held
pending deportation to "the coun-
try Of their origin" which is inter
preted to mean France.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

spoken. both
Mr.. Garner,
t he V. p,
and Director
B q r kl y.
would have
been duly i'm
pressed by
the inference
that the Sen
ate filibuSter
over the
lynching bill
" as begin
ming to get
on the Presi-
dents nerves.
R1If there
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Volume of Food
Sales Decreases

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 QN.Sn.
Dollar volume of food sales in the
first half of January was 5 to 6
per cent less than the same period
in 1886, Institute of Food Dis
tribution reported today. Whole
sale volume picked up somewhat
but Is small as the average retailer
is buying only in small lots, the
institute reported.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
81 Officers Held
In Plot on Stain

LONDON, Jan. 26 GN.SO.
Thirty-seven officers of the PRO
letarian Division" of the Moscow
garrison were arrested by Soviet
secret police for allegedly plotting
the assassination of Dictator
Stain. the Daily Express said to.
night. e
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Mrs. CulbertsOn
Ready for Divorce

RENO, New, Jan 26 G.NS0.
Although she has not indicated
her plans, Josephine Culbertson,
the internationally known bridge
expert, was eligible to file suit for
divorce here today against her
equally famous husband, Ely.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

A distinct contribution to Washing.
Love" By Countess 'Cassini, starting
Sunday In the Washington Herald
Times. Phone Republic 1884 for Home
DellvArv
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
LYNCH BILL.LIKELY
TO BE DROPPED
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Bv PAUL MALLoN

Syndicate All Rights
Reserved in Strictly Pohbited)
MIR. ROOSEVELT beamed his House leaders in the
1V1 privacy of his study during their last call He
graduated Speaker Bankhead and Floor Director Rayburn
his
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

lot eXpeuIlIIlg his PIUSI "II'
Senate leaders were present.
They did not miss the point.
If no further word had been
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

KOREAN INTERESTS
China acknowledged japanese
interests in Korea by the treaty Of
TientSin signed in 1885.
The Omaha guide., 1938-11-26

lean they become. wholly resigned to
the favors of their friends and r%elativ-
es.
Many young men who could be in
college today are out because they do
not have that urge of self help. They
are unwilling to make the sacrifices
necessary for their support.
What this age and the race in par
ticular needs TO-DAY are young men with
a backbone. Manhood is the crying
need of the day and a lazy indifferent
person, thinking he is too good for
common labor is a parasite to our pro-
gram.
1t is hoped that the young men will
catch the spirit of the fathers, those
brave men who came along when it
took real steel to stand the rigors of
oppression and race prejudice. The
task before us is demanding more eff
ficiency than the former age. We are
met on the threshold of a new day and
a new era. We must have brave men
to take the helm. At no time was it
more conspicuous than nov that old
men are falling out of the lines. Big
places are becoming available for great
men every day. The youth of the day
must fill these places and they are de-
handing the highest standards.
We have faith in our young men.
We want them to enable us to keep
that faith. Our future is bright, but
we cannot hold fast those fine friends
that have ever stood at our back with
a palpable and questionable leadership.
The Omaha guide., 1938-11-26

Colored Americans are beginning
to recognize the important part their
newspapers play in the economic devel-
opement of the race. They have been
mace to realize that it is only through
their newspapers that the race car au-
gment its strength with those in bust
ness and industry who supply them
with the common necessities and lux
uries of life.
Because of the increased loyalty
and support of Colored people to their
papers, many of the larger papers carry
more local and national advertising
than any other papers of a racial min
GRITTY group in America.
An example of the loyalty and re-
The Omaha guide., 1938-11-26
by Clarence II. Peacock

much to increase and inspire confidence
among Negroes for race betterment.
Colorde people must give greater
support to u newspapers. 1t is the
Negro press that moulds public opinion
favorable to lettering our economic &
social conditions. Our papers perform
a definite educational and social func-
ton through the dissemination of in
formation which the White press coulo
not possibly perform. These papers al
so give profitable employment to hun
dreds of Negroes.
For economic, security, support our
papers and their advertised merchan-
disc. Is