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Evening star., 1938-01-08
Bank Prejudice
Surrey Finds 43
Pct. UnfriendIy
Research Group Says
Good Will Is Vital
to Institutions.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. "a study in
a city described as typical Of normal
urban life" disclosed 81 per cent Of
those interviewed had mo particular
prejudices affecting their attitude to-
ward banking" while 43 per cent did
have, the Research Council OF Ameri-
can Bankers Association disclosed
today.
The study was undertaken to DEM
onstrate to banks methods of testing
public opinion in their communities,
the announcement said It was based
on the premise that public good will
as an asset for banking is just as in
dispensable as good loans and invest
ments," and was planned to gather
material to help develop "a better in
formed technique Of good will man
agement." 1t continued.
OF the 43 per cent of persons in
terviewed who exhibited preiudices
concerning banking, the survey re-
vealed. 9 per cent manifested social
prejudices affecting their attitude
toward banking, per cent prejudices
against banking in general and II per
cent prejudices based on local bank.
ing history and experience. The re.
naming 10 per cent had pretudices
that were combinations OF the three.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Jan. s.-Italy intends to
rush ner ambitious warship building
program so as to have the new vessels
in the water a full year before COM
pletion of the recently approved
American, British and French pro-
grams.
Naval experts asserted in newspaper
articles today that Fascist organiza-
tons and "alacrity Of Fascist work.
ers" would guarantee the projects
completion by 194o-4l.
Newspapers published dispatches
from London and Paris describing
surprise and anxiety" in those capitals
on receiving news of the Italian pro-
gram. These articles said Great Brit
ain was especially worried over
strength of the feet Premier Musso-
hni will soon have
II Duce announced today that con-
struction would begin Immediately on
two IS ,00O-ton battleships, IL destroy
ers and an unspecifled number of sub
marines, to give Italy supremacy in
the Mediterranean over the usual Brit
sh or French fleets there.
This surprise building program was
regarded as Fascist Italy's answer to
what has been described as the naval
race Of democratic countries"
Addition Of the approximately 1oo,-
600 tons Of warships contemplated will
give Italy her largest navy-more than
100000 tons-and place her second
only to Russia in number of subma-
rines, authorities said.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
POWER INJUNCTION
DISM|SSALS ASKED
W. P. A. Appeals to District
Court to Dissolve Action
in Five Suits

The Public Works Administration
late yesterday asked the District Court
to dissolve temporary injunctions
granted some months ago in five suits
by private power companies to halt
Government financing OF public power
projects
The motions cited the Supreme
Courts recent decisions in the Duke
Power Co. and Alabama Power Co.
cases upholding the constitutionality
OF the Governments program for
financing municipal electrical develop
ments.
Numerous injunction suits have been
nled In District Court by power con-
Germs, and almost without exception
temporary injunctions have been is
sued 50 as to hold the controversy in
status quo pending a determination
OF the issues involved by the Supreme
Court.
The cases in which the court is now
asked to dissolve temporary injunc-
tlons are suits by the Nebraska
Light & Power Co., involving the
huge Sutherland, Columbus and Key
stone Reservoir projects in Nebraska;
the Kansas Power Co., in reference
to Hoisington, Kans.: the Arkansas
Utilities Co., involving Paragould,
Ark; the Birmingham Electric Co.,
involving Tarrant City, Ala, and the
Memphis Power and Light g. Power
Co.. involving Memphis, Tenn.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
DEPUTY SHERIFF HELD
IN SHOOTING OF DRIVER
Virginian Under $5, 900 Bond for
Grand Jury-Victim Slain by
Bullet Aimed At Tire.

Ey the AS3ocloteo Press.
GRUNDY, Va, Jan. s.-Deputy
Sheriff A. G. Childress was ordered
held yesterday for grand jury action
after hearing in Trial Justice Court
here on . charge Of fatally woundine
Dave Rice of Harman on the night of
December rs. near the head of Levisa
River. His bond Of $1,000 was con-
tinued.
Rice died the morning after the
shooting in hospital at Richlands.
Circumstances of the shooting de-
veloped yesterday followed closely
those published soon after the tragedy.
Childress with party of officers was
watching for drunken drivers and
other traffic violators and halted the
Rice car in the course Of the vigil he
claimed. Soon after the shooting.
Childress. in tell Of the tragedy.
said the Rice car came to q stop at a
signal from the officers. As he stepped
in front Of the machine, Childress
said, it started again and he fell to
avoid being struck, and then fred 1T
a rear tire in an effort to stop the car.
Rice slumped in his seat, q bullet In
his head. the car went of the road
and baby was slightly hurt as Mrs.
Rice leaped out.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
FISH HITS WOODRING
VIEW ON WAR POLL
Also Takes Issue With Bankhead
on Referendum Plan-Vote
to Be Monday.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Representa.
tive Hamilton Fish. Republican, of
New York, took issue last night with
attacks by Secretary OF War Harry
H. Woodring and William B. Bank
head, Democrat, of Alabama, Speaker
OF the House, on the Ludlow war ref
erendum proposal
MIR. Fish said Secretary Woodring
"assailed the Ludlow war referendum
which is to be voted on next Monday
without taking the trouble to ascen-
tain the facts" He said advocates of
the measure agreed to accept amend
ments excluding the American con-
ftinsnt and attacks on our ships on
the high seas"
With these exceptions to war issues
that would call for national vote,
Mr.. Fish said the Secretary's argu-
ments were utterly destroyed" At
tacks on United States territory were
excepted in the original resolution.
He charged Speaker Bankhead with
issuing misleading propaganda by
saying that alien influences are be-
hind the Ludlow resolution"
Such a statement is a reflection
on a big majority of the war veterans
OF the House who favor the resolution, I"
said Mr.. Fish. Il never have nor will
compromise with either the alien
Communist or Fascist in the attempts
to undermine our free institutions"
Evening star., 1938-01-08
BENNETT BLESSING.
GIVEN NEWLYWEDS.
Ford Official Talks by Phone
With Daughter and
Son.in.LaW.
Dy the Associated Press.

- the ASSocNted Press.
TAMPA. Fla, Jan. S-0ertrude
Bennett Hughes. 17-year-old daughter
Of Harry Bennett, Ford Motor Go.
ofncial. received via lcng-distance
telephone yesterday 4 parental bless
ing for herself and Russell Hughes,
her 21-year-old trap drummer hus-
band.
The couple. who eloped Monday
night 1T Auburn, Ind, where they
were married by . justice Of the peace,
talked with the girls father and ar
rangements were made for them to
spend month In Florida.
"Oh, daddy!" the young Mrs.
Hughes cried exultantly as she talked
with the elder Bennett in Detroit
from the private ONCE OF Chief OF
Police c. j. Woodruff here. Chief
Woodruff had been asked by Mr.. Ben
nett to get the couple to q telephone.
Then, slightly befuddled and be-
wildered, they indicated they wanted
to be alone. Young Hughes was the
spokesman.
There isn't much of . story" he
said. I'VE Just got married and we
drove straight to Tampa, and here
We are"
"of course. you're happy?" they
were asked.
"oh. very, very happy" the girl
said. and they were on their way to
their three-room nat, where they paid
$3.50 for weeks rent in advance
until Russell could find . Job.
When Miss Bennett disappeared
from her home at Detroit Monday
fears were aroused that she had been
kidnapped.
The Hughes drove into Tampa
Thursday night in . 1884 model sedan
with suitcase and a trap-drumming
outfit
After they had telegraphed their
new address to friends in Detroit
Mrs. Hughes father asked Police
Chief Woodruff to locate them.
At Mr.. Bennett's direction, George
M. Holtsinger, q Tampa representa-
tive Of the Ford Motor Co., took the
couple in charge as official host Last
night. with much secrecy. they were
planning their Florida vacation.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Poem for d. c. Man Contrasts
Perils of Traffic and JUNGLE

The ironic humor in his sons coming
through . perilous six-month zoo ex-
pedition unscathed only to collide
with q taxi recently was too much
for Allan Davis Of 900 Eleventh street
Sc. former principal of Roosevelt
High School, so he dedicated . poem
to the victim.
II should be said that the fact that
his son, Malcolm Davis, bird expert at
the Zoo, and his wife, escaped from
the crash with only q few bruises en-
abled, the former principal to appre-
ciate the humor Of the situation.
The younger Davis, who accom-
panied Dr.. william Mann. director Of
the Zoo. to the East Indies last year
Evening star., 1938-01-08
CURB ON WHEAT
BY CONGRESS HIT.
Growers in 3 States Unite
In Opposing Control
by Legislation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 8-Wheat
farmers In Minnesota, the Dakotas
and Montana, who produce most of
the Nations hard red spring or bread
wheat. appeared united today in op-
position to any legislative effort to re-
strict their production.
Anticipating some form Of crop con-
troll in farm legislation now before a
congressional conference committee,
they asserted:
No surplus of hard red spring wheat
existed at present, although there may
be more Of other types than can be
consumed; conditions In the four
States offer no promise of a surplus
in 1888; the 1897 crop of approxi-
mately 99,603,0O0 bushels would just
about meet milling requirements.
Cite Import Figures.
They cited Bureau of Agricultural
Economics figures listing importation
of 1l9,334,650 bushels of hard red
spring wheat from Canada from 1884
1886 when drought cut production far
below normal in the four States.
These Northwest farmers suspect
that many Congressman do not dis
tinguish between types of wheat and
their use-that soft wheats are used
mostly for pastries and crackers,
durlm for spaghetti and macaroni,
while the hard wheats are milled into
bread flour with some consumers de-
manding flour milled almost entirely
from hard red spring and a lesser
amount of the hard red winter.
The statement that there is SUR
plus of wheat. they contended, does
not present true picture, since there
may be a surplus Of one type suitable
for certain Use, while an insufficient
amount of another type would neces-
state importation.
Demand for Total Seen.
Minneapolis grain dealers said to-
day less than half of the 1887 hard
red spring wheat crop would find its
way into export channels, even though
the Department of Agriculture esti-
mated foreign buyers would take co.
100000 bushels of the 1887 domestic
crop. Domestic -four producers, they
contended, would take the entire
crop because the supply is about equal
to the demand and there virtually is
no reserve.
Already. grain dealers estimated,
more than 40,0O00 900 of the antici-
pated 100000 export volume has
gone into export channels, moving
mostly out of the hard winter wheat
belt of the Southwest, Kansas. Okla
homa and the Texas Panhandle,
through Gulf ports.
On these premises Northwest wheat
growers propose to fight any attempt
at production regulation. In any
event, they asserted, crop control
should be confined to areas producing
surplus types Of wheat.
Right now these farmers contem-
plate a short wheat crop in 1888, due
to lack Of moisture.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
PENAL REFORMS
STUDIED BY EARLE
County Jails Would Be Replaced
With Industrial Farms in
Pennsylvania.
By the Associated Press,

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. "a
penal system to replace county jails
with industrial farms and put the en-
tire prison set-up under control of a
high commissioner was considered
today in Pennsylvania.
The recommendation came in a re-
port from John D. Pennington, super
intendent Of the Pennsylvania Indus
trial School at Huntingdon and former
secretary Of welfare. submitted to
Gov. George H. Earleis commission
studying probation and parole.
"A comprehensive and intsgrated
penal program for the Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania requires centralized
control and direction by . single exec
utive," Pennington wrote. "Pennsyl-
vania is one Of only four States with
large penal systems that clings to the
inefficient system of administration
by local boards of trustees.
These boards have general direc-
tion of the property and management.
-" Such direction as the depart
ment Of welfare exercises through the
secretary becomes effective only after
unnecessary delay and much useless
expenditure Of time and energy and
money"
He said this system was both In
efncient" and "wasteful."
Evening star., 1938-01-08

IN search Of new animals, and success
fuly conquered the tropical heat,
fever and other perils of the jungle.
met his Waterloo last Sunday near
Largo, Nd, when q taxicab tried to
pass him. His car was demolished.
The fruits of his fathers muse
which the younger Davis received are
rs follows:
The tiger was his playmate,
The python was his prey,
In the jungles Of Sumatra
Where he passed the summer day.
But on the hills Of Maryland,
Where untamed taxis drive,
His car u wrecked, and only chance
Could brtng him home alive.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Officers Installed.

ARLINGTON, Va, Jan. 8 (speciaD
Arlington Council. Daughters of
America, elected and installed the
following officers at its meeting last
night: Mrs. Lee McHaffey, councillor;
Mrs. Mary Rasnick, associate coun-
cilor; Charles F. Crump, junior past
councillor; Mrs. Pauline Smith, asso-
ciate junior past councillor; Mrs. Ellen
Adams. vice councillor; Roy Adams,
associate vice councillor: Mrs. Mary
Hunt. conductor; Mrs. Carrie Mitchell,
warden; Mrs. Lula Danton, inside
sentinel: Philip Fergerson, outside
sentinel; Charles F. Crump, trustee
for l8 months; Mrs. Mary Hunt. Mrs.
Irene Wilkins and Samuel Davies,
representatives to State Council, and
Mrs. Mable Miller and Mrs. Grace
Godin, nag bearers.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Connauy Hits
Wagner in Tilt
Over Court Job
n the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Senator Connally, Democrat, Of
Texas yesterday chided Senator Wag-
ner, Democrat, Of New York about
whispers" that the New York Senator
Is being considered for appointment
to the Supreme Court.
The Texan said, during debate on
the anti-lynching bill, Of which Sen
ator Wagner Is co-author. that 1t had
been whispered around' that tire New
Yorker might succeed Associate JUS
tice Sutherland.
Il may say" Senator Wagner re-
piled, that II there has been any
whispering, it has not been done by
the Senator from Texas"
There were not only whispers, but
laughs" fired back Senator Connally.
Il can understand that" Senator
Wagner said, ending the exchange.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Causes of Air Accidents,

SAN FRANCISCO P.-An eight
month study of airline accidents has
been completed by the Commonwealth
Club. Primary causes Of plane crashes
were listed as pilots errors, too much
dependence on blind flying and fail
ure or inadequacy of ground person.
mel. The latter item included both
private and Government weather
services.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
TWO FLOOD PROJECTS
TO BE STARTED SOON
Only Harrisburg's Approval Is
Holding Up Work on Penn
sylvania Dams.
b. the Associated Press,

B7 the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. S.-United
States Army engineers said yesterday
only word from Harrisburg was hold
ing up the start of construction of
two units in Western Pennsylvania s
hood-control systematic $4,000, 900
Crooked Creek reservoir at Ford City
and another at Tonesta, to cost q
million dollars.
1t. Col. w. e. r. Covell, United
States district engineer, said that
while contracts for the two dams have
not yet been formally approved, only
routine difficulties stand in the way.
I'VE have checked on the low bid
ders," Col. Covell said. Construction
work at both projects can begin as
soon as the State clears up minor
legal difficulties and gets title to Ger
tain plots at Tionesta and Crooked
Greek. We would like to see con.
struction get under way by the 18th
Of February"
Evening star., 1938-01-08
DR.. F J. TONE HONORED
BY CHEMICAL SOCIETY
By the Associated Press,

~
NEW YORK, Jan. s.-Hailed Is
an outstanding scientist, engineer
inventor and executive" DR.. Frank j.
Tone, president Of the Carborundum
co. OF Niagara Falls, N. Y, was pre-
sented last night with the Perkin
medal for 1898 Of the American Sec
ton OF the Society of Chemical In
dustry.
DR.. Tone is father of Franchot Tone,
motion picture actor who Is the hus-
band Of Joan Crawford.
Prof. Marston T. Bogert of Co.
lumbla University, presenting the
medal ut dinner in Dr.. Tones honor,
said it was given for valuable work
IN applied chemistry, including the
development Of abrasives and re-
fractories."
Evening star., 1938-01-08

The Atlantic coast disturbance has moved
northeastward to the Gulf Of st. Lawrence
Anticosti Island, Quebec, 29.6S inches and
a broad trough extends thence southwest
ward TO the Bahamas, s. s. El Estero, of
the South Carolina coast. 80 inches A
minor disturbance Is moving rapidly south
eastward over Eastern Montana and Western
North Dakota Williston N. OAK, 29.92
inches, and pressure remains low over Alas
ka, Yukon and the district Of Mackenzie,
Kodiak, Alaska. 20 80 inches. An area OF
high pressure that extends from Hudson
Bay and Manitoba southwark to the Gulf
of Mexico is moving slowly eastward, and
pressure remains high over middle and
northern sections west of the Rocky
Mountains and over the ocean east and
I!,.,s 3o4s inches: 9mahs, b. Hebr:. so.42 inches;
chinca. 3O.36 inches. Precipitation has
Ohio Valley and in portions Of the Atlantic
States. the Dakotas and Western Nebraska.
The weather has become colder almost
generally from the Plains States eastward
to the Atlantic coast, and the temperature
is now considerably below normal as far
east as the Appalachian region and the
east Gulf States with freezing temperature
as far south as the Alabama coast and
zero temperature as far south as Iowa
and Northern Illinois. The lowest tenn
perature reported N the United States this
morning was 80 degrees at Bemidji,
MINI.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harper's Ferry: Potomac slightly mudd-
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
WAGE BILL BACKED
g. I. o. Pittsburgh Council Calls
Farley for February 20.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. (R.-The
Steel City Industrial Council &C. I.
o. will sponsor a mass meeting and
conference February 20 at Pittsburgh
to organize Western Pennsylvania
farm-labor coalition support for wage
hour and other legislation.
Mrs. Sarah Limback, a member of
the councils Committee on Legisla-
ton, said the conference would in
clude representatives of farm, labor
and fraternal organizations in this
district and will have as one aim the
elimination Of factional strife in 50 far
as it affects the common end of group
legislation support.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
JOSEPH MAYNARD DIES
SUDDENLY AT BOSTON
Leader in Democratic Circles Was
Personal Friend Of President
Roosevelt.

b the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Jan. 8.-Joseph A. May
nard, SO. personal friend of President
Roosevelt, collector of the Port Of
Boston and leading figure for years
in Democratic party circles, died Of
angina pectoris at his home late yes
terday.
Mr.. Maynard. former Democratic
national committeeman from this
State and. former chairman Of the
State Democratic Committee, worked
at his desk In the customs house all
day.
He had been in i'll health for several
weeks. He recently took over super
vision of preparations for the Presi-
dents birthday ball in Boston.
In 1882 Mr.. Maynard directed
Roosevelt's campaign for the presi-
dency in this State. Under the ad-
ministration of President Woodrow
Wilson, Mr.. Maynard was surveyor Of
the Port OF Boston for eight years.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
THE WEATHER REPORT

District Of ChAa-Fa abt
degrees tonight tomorrow fair moderate
northwest ~
MaryandFar and colder west nor.
uon tonight; tomorrow fair
Vhginia-Fair in
portion tonight tomorrow fair slightly
West except north
portion tonight tomorrow fair
Evening star., 1938-01-08
JAPAN'S GENERALS
BLAMED FOR WAR
Japanese Are Nice People, y
Says Col. Tchou, Here on
Lecture Tour.
By BLAIR BOLLES.

The Japanese are nice people, but
their militarists, oh!-Col. Montchen
Thomas Tchou, Chinese friend OF
Chang Kai-shek, exclaimed when he
arrived in Washington last night.
I'VE have many Japanese friends,
Col. Tchou, who is China's first hous-
ing expert, said. I'VE have no bone
to pick with the japanese individuals
Our land is fighting the japanese
generals, who are exploiting their own
people as we'll as warning against US
You know the Japanese people are
suffering, too. 1t isn't any picnic to
go to war"
Col Tchou, AZ, reached the United
States week ago from China by way
of England. Long before the war
began he planned a lecture tour here
on the development of China during
the last 40 years. Now. of course,
most of his 50 lectures will deal with
the war. He talks at a luncheon
today at the National Press Club.
China to Triumph in End.
China, he said, can go on forever
Bit by bit she expects to draw Japan
into her broad. cold interior and tri-
umph in the end.
I'VE have plenty of men and all
the resolution and courage we need"
Col. Tchou reported to newspaper
men at the PoWhatan Hotel.
Everybody is ready to die in China
and die with Joy. What we need is
equipment. China planned her de-
fensive war according to her own
ideas, and it has gone about as il
was expected.
You see me smile now. Chang
Kai-shek will smile to you, too It's
not because We are pretending. but
because we are really confident.
Will Keep on Fighting. #
We're going to keep on fighting.
Japan thinks she can rule the world
How often she has stepped on the
toes of the United States and Eng.
land in China, and those countries
just said:
Keep your shirt on, Japan. Just
stay COOL And Japan gets away with
it. She got away with the Panay
bombing. Naturally she didn't ex-
pect the peace-loving Chinese to re-
sist, but you've got to protect your
self when robbers and bandits are
around
Japan knows other people are
afraid of war, and she makes the
most of the fright. It's just as If a
man came up to me and said, I want
your coat Naturally I would say,
You can't have it. Then he would
reply, If you want peace you better
give me that coat"
In time of war across her own face
agricultural China is better of than
an industrialized nation would be,
Col. Tchou said, because Chipa's peas
ants produce enough to feed her. She
could do with more medical and mill
tary supplies from abroad, although
Germany, joined with Japan in the
anti-Communist pact, Is supplying
China with materials and officers.
Grinding the Berlin-Tokio axes"
Col. Tchou termed this anomaly.
The colonel was educated as q
shipbuilder in Glasgow, Scotland,
after he learned to speak French, Ger
man and English at the University
of Louvain when he was young. This
Is his fourth trip to the United States.
He will be here three months.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
DUCE RACES RIVALS
IN SH|PBU|LD|NG
Plans to Finish Program
Year Before America,
Britain, France.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Great Britain, confronted with
inability to prevent Italian inUd-
sion of Ethiopia in 1856 and de-
fed by Italy and Germany through
intervention in 1S-month old
Spanish ciul Ddr, has set out to
strengthen her armament uith
T,500, 900, 900 program in napal, air
and land forces. Italy and France
haze tollo,Ded suit. United States,
speeding construction OF warships
up to limits of noW-erpired Lon
don and Washington naval treaties,
may expand program in ans,Der to
foreign building.
Evening star., 1938-01-08
PROF. ANDERSON SPEAKS
Education as Preparation for
Peace" Is Topic.

Prof. Thomas j. Anderson Of the
education department at Howard
University, will be principal guest
speaker Of the Civic National Forum
at the Whitelaw Hotel, Thirteenth
and T streets NV, at S pm. Sunday.
Prof. Anderson will discuss "Educa-
ton As Preparation for Peace"
Evening star., 1938-01-08
Americans Blamed.

When . meteor fell in the Marudi
Mountains Of British Guiana and cut
. path IS miles long through q dense
forest. the terrified Indians blamed m
American expedition for "incu1ring
the wrath Of the native gods"