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Evening star., 1938-03-30
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Evening star., 1938-03-30
FORECIOSIIRE SALE

Lovely English country house. restricted
distance CHEVY Chase Cree and country
clubs. This most interesting and attractive
residence commands instant attention.
Large living room with Normandy fireplace;
beam ceiling and bookshelves; inclosed
sunroom or library; splendid dining room
and kitchen: 4 bedrooms; ?, baths. md
shower in basement. THIS HOME COST
OVER S2I ,OO0-PRICED FOR QUICK
SALE AT Sl3.950. Call Adams 9O9g
until PM or S-l q IN
Evening star., 1938-03-30

I165 CHURCH ST. N.W.-3-sTORY
INQUIRE MR.. MARSHALL, Natl. 2155.
1888 E ST. Me- R., B.. ANIL, GOOD
cond.. $500 Open. West O637. Ewes,
Atlantic O474
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Cummings Urges
Amendment 10 Retire
i. 5. Judges at 10
Judicial Conferences
Pleo for Is More Jurists
Also Goes to Congress
Cummings toQuit
Cabinet Post at
Noon Monday

Attorney General Cummings
resignation will take effect at
noon Monday, it was an
nounced today when a letter
Mr.. Cummings wrote to Presi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday was
made public at the White
House.
In announcing the resigna-
ton earlier this month the
President had said merely it
would become effective in
January.
You know how hard it is
for me to leave Mr.. Cum
mings wrote. my heart and
my faith have been with you
every moment OF the time.
The people of our country
who love and trust you, and
know what you have done for
them, will understand what I
mean"
The White House did not dis
close who would succeed Mr..
Cummings. The name of Frank
Murphy. retiring Governor of
Michigan, has been most fire.
quently mentioned.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
|Nozi Papers Lash Out at u. S.
AS Hitler Urges Appeosement
Ickes Termed World Jewrys General Agent;
Fuehrer Wants Bigger Army in 1899

improving German-American rela-
tions as long as the State Depart
ment defended Mr.. Ickes, gave the
Geramn public its first knowledge
Of the Ickes incident.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler's hopes for
1899 were expressed in a New Year
message bearing the wish that we
may succeed in contributing to gen.
eral appeasement of the world"
Hitler reafflrmed continuance OF
the Rome Berlin axis and referred
to 1898, when Austria and Czecho-
Slovakia's Sudetenland were added
to the Reich, as "the year of the
richest harvest in our history"
''Germany's course has been des-
tined and fixed" he said of foreign
affairs, 80 the obligations which
arise out of our friendship for
Fascist Italy are clear and unbreak-
able"
Tasks he set for Germany in the
(See GERMANY, Page A-50
Evening star., 1938-12-31
|HoIdups Arrive
| 5 Minutes Late
ToGet S325
picture on Page A-I4.J

Five minutes after his wife had
taken all the cash on the place 1925
to the bank, Charles w. Sydnor,
IS, manager of a real estate firm,
was held up by two colored youths
this morning while crowds passed
in front of his street-level Office at
GAL New York avenue NV.
The young holdup men left with
out a penny for their daring attempt.
Mr.. Sydnor, who is manager of
D. H. johnson Co., was alone in
the Office when the men, each about
20 years old, entered and asked
about house on Eleventh street.
Mr.. Sydnor said he didn't have such
a house listed. One of the youths,
he noticed, did the talking, while
the other stood behind with his
hands in his pockets.
Finally the man in back pulled a
rusty old revolver and backed the
manager behind a counter. The
holdup man and his victim stood
under sign advertising burglary
Insurance. The accomplice then
searched two open safes and desk
drawers, but found no money.
Mr.. Sydnor was ordered to stand
in the rear of the Office, with his
back to the street, while the two
made their escape. AS soon as they
were gone he called the police.
Mr. Sydnor told police he thought
the burglars had spotted the store
and were waiting until he was alone
there-not realizing that when Mrs.
Sydnor left the money went with
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydnor live at 6034
Ridge drive, Brookmont, Md.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
BY the Associated Press.


Attorney General Cummings rec
commended to Congress today con-
stitutional amendment requiring all
Federal judges to retire at the age
of 10.
In report covering his depart
ment's activities during the year
ended last June 80 Mr.. Cummings
told the 10th Congress he believed
such an amendment would be 'in
accord with the majority opinion
of our people"
He suggested, however, that the
amendment should not apply to
judges now on the bench, or to those
whose appointments might be con-
firmed prior to the amendments
adoption.
The Attorney General also sub
mitted recommendation of the
Judicial Conference, headed by Chief
Justice Hughes, for establishment
of 13 new Federal judgeships.
The conference, which met here
last September %, urged two new
judgeships for the Eighth Circuit
Court of Appeals, two for the South
ern District of New York and one
each for the following: Sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals, New Jersey, East
ern District of Pennsylvania, North
ern District of Georgia, Eastern Dis
trict of Missouri, Southern District
OF California, Western District of
Oklahoma and Kansas. Mr.. Cum
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Gen. J. 6. Harbord
Weds Mrs. Brown
AT Rapidan, Va.
Noon Ceremony Takes
Place in Presence
Of Small Group

Gen. James Guthrie Harbord, chair
man of the Board of the Radio Corp
of America and chief OF the Service OF
Supply Of the American Expedition
ary forces during the World War, was
married at noon today to Mrs. Anne
Lee Brown of Virginia. Gen. Har-
bords bride is the widow of Col
Lewis Brown, a well-knoWn officer
OF the Cavalry who served for a
number of years in the same regi-
ment with Gen. Harbord.
The marriage of Mrs Brown and
the noted Army ofdcer took place
at the home Of Mrs. Egbert Leigh
at Rapidan, Va, in the presence OF
q small group Of relatives and close
friends. The Rev. Thomas Faulk-
ner of the Rapida1 Episcopal
Church ofhciAted and buffet
breakfast followed for those wit
Messing the ceremony.
Col. Fitzhugh Lee gave his sister
in marriage and the brides two sis
tiers, Mrs. James C. Rhea and Mrs.
John c. Montgomery, were her at
tendants. Capt. Fielding S. Rob-
inson, wartime aide of Gen. Har-
bord, was the best man.
The new Mrs. Harbord comes
from a long line of distinguished
ancestry. She is the daughter of
the late Governor of Virginia, Mai
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who was one of
the great Cavalry leaders of the
Southern Confederacy. At the time
of the Spanish-American War Gen
Lee returned to the Army. from
which he had resigned in 1861 to
follow the fortunes of his State OF
Virginia and became a brigadier
general in the United States Army
The former Mrs. Brown is the great
niece of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the
great-granddaughter of Light Horse
Harry Lee.
After short wedding trip Gen.
and Mrs Harbord will be at home
in Rye, N. Y.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Doctor Sought on Warrant
Charging Wife Murder
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CANON CITY, Colo, Dec. 81
DR.. Ray L. Atterberry. Canon City
osteopath, was sought today on q
warrant charging he KILLED and
murdered" his 31-year-old wife,
whose strangled, scantily-clad body
was found December 81 in their
home.
DR.. Atterberry, who had testified
at an inquest he believed his wife
had died of broken neck in a fall
down their cellar stairs, left Canon
City yesterday noon. He informed
District Attorney E. M. Eagleton
he would return tomorrow after
visiting patients in several Colorado
cities.
Mr.. Eagleton announced earlier
that DR.. Frances Mcconnell, Denver
toxicologist, found blood and skin
under the fingernails of the slain
woman. The inquest jury held the
woman was strangled by persons
unknown"
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Investment Firm Asks
Receiver Suit Be Killed
ES the Associated Press.

ES the ASsoclated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. 31.-The
Fidelity Investment Association, de-
claring it was solvent, asked Federal
Court yesterday to dismiss a re-
ceivership suit filed against it.
The association, which sells in
vestment certificates and bonds, de-
MED it has operated accounts "reck-
lessly, carelessly or wrongfully" in
answer to the receivership petition
filed by Robert McCammon of Phila-
delphia and eight other contract
holders.
Judge William E. Baker an
nounced he would hold a hearing
at Wheeling Friday, January s.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
W.P.A. Coercion
Quiz Likely 10
Clear Hopkins
Senators Held Slated
For No Blame Also
In Campaign Report
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Senate committee delegated to
Investigate election campaigns
OF last fall found most wide-
spread complaints centering
about relief administration In
States where contests were Bit
terest. Whatever measure of
truth 1Das contained in charges
has not yet been disclosed, as
committee 1Uithheld comment
pending presentation OF its re-
port to Senate.
BY the Associated Press.
The report of the Senate Cam.
paign Expenditures Committee, in
formed persons said today, will ex-
onerate Harry L. Hopkins, newly ap.
pointed Secretary Of Commerce, Of
any participation in w. P. A. politi-
cal activity.
Although the report is expected tc
deal extensively with alleged political
coercion of Federal relief and State
employees in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Pennsylvania, the committee
was said to have found there was
no evidence the former w. P. A
chief knew of these incidents. The
report will be made Tuesday.
No Senatorial Censure Likely.
The committees findings on in
dividual States, it was said. will con.
tain no personal censure of Senator
Barkley of Kentucky, the Demo
cratic leader; Senator Guffey, Demo
crat, of Pennsylvania, nor Senator.
elect Stewart, Democrat, of Tennes.
see, for conditions in their States.
The committee has said previously
that political coercion of both w
P. A. and State employees in Ken.
lucky was "deplorable. 1t sale
every questionable device" was useo
in the Tennessee primary and i,
reported that evidence sustained
several charges of w. P. A. politica
activity in Pennsylvania.
Confirmation Predicted.
Some Senators who have criticized
Mr.. Hopkins administration of w
P. A. predicted privately that his
nomination to the cabinet post
would be confirmed with few oppo.
sition votes.
Senator Gillette, Democrat, o1
Iowa said yesterday he would vote
for confirmation. He won renomi.
nation In the primary over Repre-
sentative Wearin, who Mr.. Hopkins
publicly supported. The Iowa Sena-
tor said he thought the President
should have free hand" in selec.
ton Of his cabinet.
Evening star., 1938-12-31

Two mounted African Weaver
birds.
Two nest and egg exhibits, includ-
ing eggs of the crane, penduline tit,
Weaver bird and murre, loaned to
the Zoo by the National Museum.
One stuffed owl head.
One stuffed nighthawk head.
Several birds legs.
Police, responding to a radio call,
Scout 81, get report of a house.
breaking at Zoo birdhouse," examined
the cases for flngerprints. They
were at a loss to explain the robbery,
discovered when the keepers arrived
to begin feeding.
The loot was valueless except to a
highly specialized group of collectors.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Thieves Get Bird (Stuffed),
Also Eggs, in Zoo Robbery

The Bird House at the Zoo was
all in a tWitter today over the big
egg robbery.
The feathered inmates were still
squawking about it this morning,
long after the intruder had de-
parted with eggs ranging from the
huge output of the ostrich to the
minute contribution of the humming
bird.
A burglar, or some small boy led
astray by passion for collecting,
jimmied the heavy front door at the
Bird House and pried open two cases
in which the eggs were displayed
Birdhouse Custodian Malcolm
Davis listed the loss as follows:
One ostrich egg-very' old.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
By the Associated Press.

Dy lue hSSOCldteQ freA.
BERLIN, Dec. Sherman news
papers lashed at the United States
Government today as Adolf Hitler
set Nazidom on It's road of destiny"
for 1889 with the admonition that
the army must be strengthened.
World Jewry is the American
farmers throat cutter" and Sec
retary of Interior Ickes their gen
eral agent" newspapers declared,
assailing the Roosevelt regime"
The story of Germany's protest
against 1ckes' Cleveland speech of
December 18 and the State Depart
ment's rejection December 81 was
splashed on almost all front pages
under such headlines as "Sharpest
German Protest Against Lie Cam
paign of United States Minister
Ickes.'
A Communique issued yesterday
by the official news agency, DNB,
warning that there was no hope of
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Huge Mass Of Living
Cells Grown in 40
Weeks by Scientist
Monster 600. .000, 900 Mile.
In Diameter Possible
If All Had Been Kept
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Stan CORRESPONDENT.

R1CHMOND, va, Dec. 3l.-A cell
culture of elemental, inchoate life
stuff whose original substance in
creased theoretically 10000, 900, ,OOO,- =
900 100000 fold in 40 weeks was de-
scribed here today by DR.. Philip r.
White of the Rockefeller Institute
! for Medical Research.
Starting with a pellet about the
size OF grain of mustard cut from
wartlike eXcrescence on a tobacco
plant, DR.. White watched it grow
until, arithmetically speaking and
ignoring actualities for the moment,
if no part had been discarded it
would have been an unorganized
purposeless cosmic monster spheroid
of life 10000, 900 miles in diameter
and roughly comparable in size to
the whole solar system included in
the orbit of Pluto.
1t still had IL weeks to go to COM
plete its first year of life. At the
same rate of growth it then would
have been lusty infant the size
of 100000 solar systems. In a few
more weeks it would have swallowed
the whole Milky Way galaxy BY the
end OF its second year it would have
filled all the space in known crea-
ton, consumed the substance of all
the galaXies and perished of starva-
ton as it bulged outward into the
| emptiness of infinity.
Cells Divide Rapidly.
Such a nightmare actually hap
pened-in reverse DR.. White had
to do it all in a few test tubes, but
he was able to witness such a phe-
nomenon of growth as man has not
hitherto imagined. He placed his
tiny pellet in a special nutrient So
luton. 1t began to expand. Small
as it was it probably contained
great number of separate cells, the
basic units of living things. These
cells divided, each becoming two.
Then the two became four, and so
on. After about two weeks DR..
White cut away few pellets from
the original mass and discarded the
rest. These were placed in new
nutrient solutions. This process was
continued for 40 weeks. Every two
weeks DR.. White would discard the
bulk of the mass which had accu-
mulated and start new cultures
with few pellets which he saved.
Each culture increased in size
about so per cent day, DR.. White
says. At the end of the 40 weeks
he was left with something not much
bigger than he started with, but it
had all come from the original pei
let, but the actual original sub
stance constituted only about l.
10000 ,000, ,000, 900 ,000, ,0OOth of the
final mass.
Scientifically this was an i'm
portant achievement-the first pure
plant cell culture. From such cul-
lures, it is believed, it will be possible
to learn lot about the behavior of
elemental life uncomplicated by spe-
cialization. Relatively pure animal
cell cultures have been made in the
past, such as the celebrated i'm
mortal chicken heart of DR.. Alexis
Carrel, but none of them have shown
such a phenomenon of growth. Plant
cell cultures, with one possible less
dramatic exception, have not Sue
ceeded in the past.
Last year, however, DR.. White
found that when bits of root cut
from tomato plants were placed in
q special nutrient solution, they con-
7See aC7ENCE. pare 1.37
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Kings Of Mexico

The fight of Mexico's people
against foreign domination
and their overthrow of EN-
peror Maximilian will be the
theme of the radio drama
in the Road to Freedom" Sc
ries tonight over Station
WMAL at $3.50 o'clock. The
program is entitled "Kings of
Mexico" and is the fifth in a
series offered by The Star in
cooperation with the Nation
al Broadcasting Co., the
Washington Civic Theater and
Georgetown University.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 3l.-Nazi Ger
many's surprise plans for . bigger
navy to complement her powerful!
air force and army threatened today
to intensity Europes gigantic re-
armament race.
AS a parting shot to the year
which brought him so many tri-
umphs, Chancellor Hitler notified
London that Germany intended to
more than double her submarine
strength, bringing it to parity with
Great Britain's.
Germany was understood to be
laying plans to begin mass produc-
tion of a revolutionary type of
"minnow" submarine. She also will
build two new 1000O-ton cruisers.
Reich to State Reasons.
A communique issued here and in
Berlin said Germany would lin due
course give definite reply in writ
ing" as to Hitler'S reasons for seek
ing submarine parity and as to
whether Germany intends to exer-
else its full rights under her naval
pacts with Britain.
The communique added that the
discussion of the Reich's naval in
tentions in Berlin were held "in the
most friendly atmosphere.
The British naval mission which
had flown secretly to Berlin for
these discussions left by plane for
London, carrying an outline of Ger
many's expanded program and, ac-
cording to Berlin sources, assur-
ances that Hitler intends to keep his
total naval tonnage within IS per
cent of Britain's total.
The Berlin discussions were in
keeping with the 1885 Anglo-Ger-
man naval treaty's provision that
when Germany found herself con-
fronted with an international situ-
alton requiring her to exceed As per
cent of Britains submarine tonnage
there would be friendly consulta-
ton with Britain.
Chamberlain to Get Data.
Full information on the situation
will be dispatched Immediately to
Prime Minister Chamberlain, SPEND
ing the holidays in Yorkshire.
This unexpected turn in the Euro
pean picture may have an important
effect upon Mr.. Chamberlain's talks
January lila with Premier Mus
solini in Rome
Under the Anglo-G German naval
treaty, Germany agreed to restrict
herself to IS per cent of British
tonnage in every category but SUBJ
marines. She agreed to limit her
U-boat strength to IS per cent of
Britain's. But it was further agreed
that Germany had the right, if she
deemed it necessary, to build up to
the full British submarine tonnage
after friendly discussion" between
the two countries.
Tries to Reassure Germany.
Britain has been trying, apparently
in vain, to persuade Germany there
is no imperative need for her to
build a vast submarine fleet, while
Berlin has held out "the Soviet
threat" as justification.
Germany was expected to 60 ahead
regardless of the British attitude,
but at the same time she was un-
derStood to be anxious not to shatter
her naval treaty with Britain.
She would be in a hopeless posi-
tion in an attempt to overtake Brit
ain in capital ships because of her
lack of foreign currency and raw
materials.
Naval experts said Britain had
approximately 50 submarines built
or being built, totaling 10000 tons.
Germany has 43 submarines, totaling
16,445 tons. completed, and % more
under construction or planned.
Twenty-four of the 43 are small,
swift 250-torl craft.
Evening star., 1938-12-31

After the sharp recovery from levels early this year.
business faces the with confidence Further
anticipated
The and financial section appear
ing tomorrow the last u months Expert
observers will present their
Of prospects 1889.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
No Late Editions
Today

Due to the holiday, The Star
will not publish the $50 and
Night Final editions today.
Subscribers to these editions
will receive the regular city
edition.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
German Sub Plans
Threaten 10 Spur
Armament Race
Chamberlain to Receive
Dutu on Intentions
Immediately
BACKGROUND

BAL ChIhOOND-
German naval aspirations tra-
dittondlly hare been principal
threat to British sea supremacy.
Rearnament OF the Reich after
rise OF Nasis in 1888 led to naDol
agreement 1Dith England in 1885
By ,chich Germany agreed to
limit her submarine strength to
IS per cent OF EnglGnd's force,
but retained the right, II she
deemed it necessary, to build up
to England's submarine strength.
Supplemental agreement signed
in 1887.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
U.S.Rejects Jopon's New Order
4n China, Note Reserving All
Rights Under 'Open-D Door Pact
Change in Treaties
By Negotiation
Is Offered
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Since inUading China in July,
1887, Japan has more and more
excluded American commerce
and missionaries from conquered
territory. october 6 Secretary
of State Hull protested to Japan
against restriction OF American
activities in China. Japan's re-
ply, November 1S, 1ras termed un-
satisfactory by Secretary Hull,
in reaSSerting position that ia
pan could not nullity the open
door" in China.
Evening star., 1938-12-31

(see SCIENCE, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1938-12-31

tSee CONGRESS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1938-12-31

(See JAPAN, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Weather Forecast

Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow:
slightly warmer tonight; lowest tenn
perature about 80 degrees; colder to-
morrow night. Temperatures today
Highest, &c. at l pm; lowest, Is, at
1886 am. Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Business Looks Ahead

(See CUMMINGS, Page A-30
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-01
GRACE WHITE AS
 WELFARE SUPT.
Expected to Be Named as Successor toMrs. Verdon
 Who Resigned

Miss Grace White will be Water bury's new superintendent of pulp lie welfare, The Democrat learned today. She Vfll be named to the post at a special ineeting of the board of commissioners sof public welfare next TuesdaE. night
 1xIss White Mili succeed Mrs. Mare garet Verdon, who resigned last year to become unemployment com pensation commissioner for the nfth congressional district. Since Mrs. Verdons resignation, Mrs. Mary Doyle Camp has been serving as acting superintendent cf public welfare. 2 M
 Seek Salary Increase
 At the special meeting Tuesday night, xhe board will also consider q proposed recommendation that the salaries of case workers in the public welfare department be increased by eiO0 year.
 Miss White, who has been associ- ated with the children's home com- mission, Is now supervisor of relief in the welfare department. That post was formerly held by Mrs. Camp, and 1t is expected that she will be returned to it by the board ct Tuesdays meeting. Appointment of . superintendent by the public welfare board is c final action and Is not subject to approval by any other branch of the city government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-01
HEAVY DEMANDS
 FOR WINTER GOODS


 Boston, Dec. i.-CUP) .-Snow and cold weather stimulates heavy de- mand for winter" goods In the New England ssea the past week and lift ed Releg in many retail stores above the Ie5J coinpaFatives, Dun @ Brad- street. Iacs said today.
 Wleh demand heavy for rubber foOlbeaF, warm clothing. domestic fuels, Automobile ekid.chains, and anti-freese solutions, both inanufac. euFtFs and retailers were able to un- load inventories which had been carried Tor some time.
 Turnover ln some wholesale may- ketg Was dull because Of the Thanks giving day holiday, but prices in most anskanees held their ground.
 Although only . few buyers were purches'as wool to piece out sup- piles on hand, holders ce domestic wool showed Mttle desire to lower prices, A downward trend occurred Ip top futures al1d prices were oA Q little, Alflieugh new business was rather eloR, shipments aeaingt old orders were heaVH, The cafpet wool 9laEFet Was quiet but priees Wefe Aynl.