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the democratic countries in the
event of another general conflagra-
tion, the Reich would be seriously
handicapped. One of the main
reasons why Germany welcomed in
the last war Rumania's entrance
in the turmoil on the side of the
Allies was that she could get hold
Of the vast oil fields by conquering
Rumania by force. 1t was cheaper
in this manner to get raw materials
0aIf oH thu N<a,nfxx,
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1t is up to Present Benes to
decide now whether he wants to
rid Czechoslovakia Of that trou-
blesome minority. The task is
difficult for the reason that there
Is not one definite region along the
German border containing an ex-
clusively German population. For
centuries Germans and Czecns
have lived together under Austrian
domination; 1t is just as difficult
to separate the wheat from the
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cist nations needs war materials.
Neither is in a position to import
war materials from this country.
Both the democratic nations are in
desperate need of war materials.
And England and France control
the seas. Yet only by repeal of the
neutrality law can the democrat cies
get the supplies they need.
With the example before us Of
the war in China, many now sup
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Wilson Trials
of IA Like
Presidents
Personal Woes Add
Much to Burden
During Crisis.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
ENT ROOSEVELT's
y hours of anxiety for the health
of his son James come, curl
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Street and Party Dresses.
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BY NORMAN w. ALLEY.

d and we hid the soesy mess reeds and listened
Speu OF
mind and reflected
looked OF
nothing could
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Stoicism of Panay's Wounded
And March to Safety Related
Alley Tells of anxious Moments When
1t Appeared japanese Launch Would
attack CunbOat Party on Shore.

Th IS the fourth series stories graphically describing
japanese attack the anav the
king tten by the
attack and the sinking the gunboatD
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ing purple From 1t We heard that
vicious whining drone of fighting
planes again. Over they came, more
japanese bombers in perfect align
ment. We wondered if our leafy bam-
hood screen hid us effectively Nearer
they sped; then, when they were
overhead, they began to circle us. We
nerved ourselves for that paralyzing
bomb descent, but it did not come
There was richer prey afloat for these
Oriental dragons Of the air
Out on the river where the Stand
ard Oil tankers. Mel Ping. Mel An
and Mel Hsia. which we and the Brit
ish gunboat Ladybird, had been con-
voying up the river from Marking.
These two ships were crowded with
refugees. There was no fighting men
aboard. But this did not save them
from the merciless japanese airmen.
AS we watched. thankful at first that
We had been saved another aerial
strafing, the planes sped out again to
the river. They hovered over the
tankers, The black dots Of bombs
showered now. Almost at once the
doomed chips burst into flames Even
where We crouched, mile away on
shore. We could hear the horrible
shrieks of the refugees being roasted
alive in this blazing inferno. Then
the darkness closed down, but out on
the Yangtze still rose those terrible
names and screams Of agony.
Now, In the darkness, We turned
and looked at each other. We had
not had much chance to take stock of
how badly we had been mangled till
now. Or to fnd our exact location.
By the light Of the flaming tankers
out on the river We presented a ghast-
ly sight. There was not a man of us
who did not bear the marks of his ad-
venture. All of us were daubed with
the river slime up to our knees There
on stretcher, which was nothing but
a slab OF hard wood, lay 1t. Anders,
shot through the throat, but still able
to grin with his parched white lips
1t was Anders who, after the bullet
had pierced his throat, making speech
impossible, had scrawled his orders in
chalk of the Panay deck, 1t. Geist
was also badly wounded in the leg,
through his torn trousers could see
the blood oozing down along his shin,
mating the hair Of his leg. He didn't
complain or moan. None Of these
heroes did, not even the most seriously
wounded, ships storekeeper, Ensminger,
1nd Sandro Sandri, the Italian news
writer. Yet they all had to bear the
entire pain Of their wounds, just as
though they had been prehistoric men
ages ago, before medicine had been
Evening star., 1938-01-02
$13,350,0OO DEFICIT
C0NFRONTS FRANCE
Measure Is Sent to Senate After
Third Reading by Deputies.
Strikes Continue,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS. Jan. 1T still was ofi-
cially 1887 today in the French Par
lament, whose two chambers were
wrestling with the 1888 budget.
Clocks were stopped 10 minutes be-
fore last midnight and the shutting
OF the budget bill between the Cham
ber Of Deputies and the Senate con-
tinued. Late today the Chamber I'm
ished the third reading and sent the
budget TO the Senate.
This showed An anticipated deficit
Of nearly 4oo,o0o,00O francs (sl3,-
$50, ,OO0).
Frances dangerous strike situation
remained unchanged, with arbitrators
and union leaders alike celebrating the
new year. There remained, however.
several points Of dispute between
unions and employers upon which may
hinge the question Of whether the
Communist party will continue to sup
port the Peoples Front government.
Today Frances seven great rail sys-
TENS of more than 2. 900 miles began
operating as national railroad cor
poration, as provided by government
measures OF last August.
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LABOR PARTY URGES
UNEMPLOYED RELIEF
"Discharging of Workers Threat
ems Supremacy of Government"
Roosevelt Is Told.
j. The Associated Press,

By The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The American
Labor Party today urged President
Roosevelt to recommend an increased
appropriation for relief Of the unem-
ployed in his next budget message.
The party. in letter written by
Alex Rose, executive secretary of New
York State, said it believed economic
recovery must come from strengthen
ing the base OF our economy by in
creasing the purchasing power Of the
masses"
Mr. Rose also said: I'VE know that
employer organizations have
never completely reconciled them
selves to the idea that the system of
special privileges Of which they have
been the beneficiaries for generations
is gone. never to return.
I'VE are convinced that the net re-
suit of the discharging of hundreds
Of thousands Of workers. accompanied
by demand that the budget be bal
anced and relief expenditures cut. is a
challenge which threatens the su-
premacy Of the Government
If powerful economic interests can
compel the destruction of policies
which the people have approved. We
shall have lost the substance Of DEM
ocratic government ."
In the November municipal elec-
ton in New York approximately 5oo.-
900 persons voted the American Labor
party ticket.
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invented: We had next to no medical
aid for them. There was only the
crude dressing which rough hands
could apply. Each man had to wait
his turn, no matter how terribly his
wounds tortured him.
Trim Despite Wounds.
I saw bronzed seamen. their brown
color paled by the weakness of their
wounds, grin at their fellows with
rivulets of blood trickling from their
lacerated temples in a glittering pat
tern that sickened man to behold.
There was no way to dress such a
wound properly. The sailor with the
wounded head used his hat for a
bandage. Cramming it tight down
around his temples to check the flow
Of the blood. Another sailor, with q
black beard (you may not know it
but sailors on our Yangtze gunboat
patrol. alone of all our Navy, are
allowed to raise beards) was trying to
dress his own wounded arm The
sleeve was rolled up and his whole
forearm badly slashed.
Ensign Diverse had escaped any
actual injury but the nerve-shatterine
impact Of the bombs had done his
nervous system no good. Another
man could not keep his eyes OF the
heavens that had belched that blazing
death upon us. His eyes strained
with pitiful anxiety. he searched the
black sky constantly for more Japan
ese planes. All through the waking
horror of that night. he kept staring
aloft every few minutes. saying moth
ing, only looking, looking He did
this every day IS we trudged on our
60-mile hike to safer land.
An inspection proved that while we
thought We had reached the shore,
we were really on little island. This
meant loading our crippled comrades
aboard the launches again and ferry.
ing them ashore When we had
reached the mainland. Mr.. Paxton,
who had gone on ahead. was there to
meet us with some Chinese coolies
from a little village near by. The
Orientals were badly frightened but
only those who had studied them and
lived among them as we had would
ever have observed it. Their impas-
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sive faces gave no sign as they lifted
our heroes to their rude. wooden litters,
only their eyes barred their terrible
fear that they might be punished later
for this aid by those who had cut
US to pieces.
Taken to Village.
But they helped US Just the same
and took us to their little village. Only
the least badly wounded OF our men
had been brought so far. Those who
were lowering in the shadow of death
had been left in the boats where the
river Tapped the shore in the reedy
brakes
Now they could be brought None
OF US said anything as we sat in the
low earthen houses. munchinE . few
handfuls Of rice and trying to staunch
our wounds with the inadequate first
aid kits which some one had had
presence Of mind enough to bring from
the Panay. And always that one sailor
looked up. BY the next morning we
had slept . little. but none OF us wae
much rested. The strafing We had
been through could not be shaken OH
by single nights sleep on the earth
en- floor Of q Chinese peasants hut.
Sti1 and sore, we rose up in the gray
dawn and prepared to 60 farther in
land. Then we took counsel among
ourselves. We figured we could hope
for no mercy from the Japanese bomb
ers, which still must be securing the
skies. They would want to cover up
all traces Of their terrible deed. II
they caught sight Of our little caravan
tottering along the roads in broad day.
light, would they not riddle us with
machine gun fire and complete their
bloody job: We took no chances. We
decided to march only by night. We
spent the day in getting ready. went
to the river bank and hauled my pre-
cious cans OF Aim out of the mud
where I had cached them when 1t
seemed as though that Jap launch was
coming after U.s. Friendly Chinese
soldiers offered to help us with our
burdens
Two Gallant Gentlemen Die.
At nightfall we set out, stealthily
with our burden Of wounded and
dying. like a company Of ghosts. No
body spoke. Nobody wanted to speak
We all looked down 1T the muddy road
beneath our tired feet. Next morning
we were at Hohsien. This little town
offered us temporary oasis Of peace.
Here we really could rest for q little
while and here, too, q remarkably ex-
pert Chinese physician gave our
wounded the attention they needed.
But there were two who had passed
beyond their skill. On Monday, De-
cember l3. the morning after our mid
night arrival, two very gallant gentle
men went west. Ensminger and Sandri
died there at Hohsien.
But there was no time to mourn
the dead. we had to think of the living
and those who were in pain. We had
to get them back safe to civilization.
That night We boarded the China
mans barge and floated down the
canal toward Hanshan. The night
was pitch black No sound but the
creak Of the oarsmens polling broke
the dead silence on the water. Only
the sickly yellow flare Of small oil
lamp lit our faces. Nearer and nearer
We drifted to Hanshan. where We
might find safety-or where as some
Of us feared. the japanese might find
us and finish the job in . shocking
epilogue.
(Copyrisht. 1898 by the Resister and
Tribune Syndicate
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TWO Die, SEVEN HURT
IN NEW YORK FIRES
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Two persons
died. seven were injured and a score
OF firemen were overcome by smoke
IN a series Of fires ushering In the
new year here today
A brother and sister perished in
their burning home in Brooklyn when,
firemen said. they delayed their flight
to put on their shoes. The victims
were Bertha Rabinowitz, %, and Morris
Rabinowitz, IS.
Their mother suffered q leg frac-
ture when she jumped from a second
story window, while their father and
friend received burns in an effort to
reach the trapped couple.
A woman and her three children
suffered burns in q tenement fire on
the East Side. A half-dozen fremen
were overcome while leading members
Of 10 other families to safety.
Six firemen received treatment after
battling . $250.000 blaze on Broadway.
The fire, starting while the street was
TANNED with New Year revelers, de-
stroyed . five-story building.
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AAiiAiediS dAAo Gil SSA NlNCS lldO AuuSUCISA
against us. If We had all been of sound
body We might possibly have scattered
and some of us managed to escape.
As 1t was. with many bleeding and
manned, unable even to sit up on their
stretchers. which lay on the oozy SOL.
all we could do was to hold our ground
and wait.
1t must come any moment now. we
thought We saw the Japanese launch
pull alongside the Panay after her
crew had completed its survey. We
saw the men hop aboard. We saw
them scamper over the Scared super
structure taking a quick inspection
of everything The ship began to heel
over. Subconsciously for all my ac-
tive faculties were fixed on the little
brown men poking into every cabin) I
noted the two gaping holes in the
Panay's hull. The japanese re-em-
barked in the patrol boat We steelee
our nerves for the next move Would
they steer toward us?
One Of our men had brought one Of
the Lewis guns along with him from
the ship. His jaw set as the Nipponese
slid into their craft and I watched
him examine the cartridge drum on
the barrel. He was going to fight.
Popgun Against Armor.
One popgun against boat load Of
armor! Silently we closed around him
and whispered words of caution.
An ofdcer ordered him to hold his
fire. He kept right beside the gun,
however. and nothing we said could
bulge him an inch from it.
The Japanese patrol boat turned
from the Panay. Her nose pointed
straight at our side out on the bank.
The white foam curled from her bow
as she shot forward. Then she turned
to the right and chugged back to the
other shore from which she had
started. We were safe, but for how
long? To make the best of our
breathing space which we felt would
be short, We carried our wounded back
further into the bamboo stalks.
At 1854, just as we got our last man
back from the shore, I saw the stern
OF the Panay rising into the air Is
she began to list. trained my camera
on her and shot her as she sank.
There from one mast dropped an
American flag against which I had
shot the diving Japanese plane. That
flag now rests $50 feet down In the
bosom Of the turgid Yangtze:
No Time for Sentiment.
However, there was no time for
sentimental thoughts about the Panay.
Our moment OF respite was over. It
was now drawing toward December's
early twilight and the sky was turn
Evening star., 1938-01-02
TOWN BOASTS OF YEAR
WITHOUT FIRE OR THEFT
Alma, Ca, Marks Up Good Record
for l037-City Officers Given
Credit by Mayor.

B! the Associated Press.
ALMA, Ga, Jan. 1.-Citizens of this
Georgia city Of about 1000 population
are boasting Of year without a fire
or robbery.
Mayor A. L. Hughes il authority for
the statement that neither fire nor
robbery occurred within the city limits
during 1887.
H E. Deem. editor Of the Alma
Times, said he could not recall any
previous year in which there had not
been several fires or robberies.
Mayor Hughes credited the record
to Chief G. S. Crosby. r. w. Tanner
and Lester Clements, city officers.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
WILL SEEK OFFICE
]. w. Witten Will Run for Senate
in North Carolina.

MOORESVILLE, N. c., Jan. (P).-
j. Forest Witten of Mooresville, ma
tive Of Ohio who has lived in North
Carolina intermittently since 1919 and
here since 1881. announced his candi-
dacy today for United States Sena-
tor on the Republican ticket
He is the second candidate to an
nounce on the Republican ticket Pre-
viously, Jake F. Newell, Charlotte law
yer, said he would run The State Re-
publican Convention is expected to be
held in March.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
Cash for Shipowners.

Shipowners of Britain were ad-
vanced sl5,263, 900 by the government
in the last fiscal year for building so
new vessels. subject to 81 old ones
being Scrapped
Evening star., 1938-07-21
Derby transportation
The Capital Transit Co. will

The Capital Transit Co. will
operate special shuttle bus service
from its Fourteenth street and
Colorado avenue NV. terminal
Saturday to the New Hampshire
avenue NE. course where The
Star-American Legion Soap Box
Derby will be run. This service
will begin at 10 am. Regular
fares will prevail, and transfers
and passes will be accepted on
the shuttle.
The special buses will travel
from the terminal over the fol-
lowing route:
North on Fourteenth street and
Colorado avenue; east on Long
fellow street, Concord avenue and
Kennedy street; north on New
Hampshire avenue to the race
course at the B. g. o. Railroad
Bridge; returning, east on Nc
Donald place; south on First
street NV, west on Madison
street, south on New Hampshire;
west on Kennedy street, Concord
avenue and Longfellow street and
south on Colorado and Four
teenth back to the terminal.
This route will furnish connec-
tions for passengers on the Four
teenth street and Georgia avenue
street car lines, the Sixteenth
street bus lines, Kennedy street
cross-town buses, Chillum buses
and Takoma Park express buses.
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BOYS To TURN IN
CARS TOMORROW
Soap Box Autos to Receive
Final Inspection for
Derby Saturday.

Boys entered in The Star-American
Legion Soap Box Derby were advised
today by Derby Director o. c. Holleran
to get set" for final inspection Of
their racing cars tomorrow.
The candidates have tomorrow
morning and until $50 pm. in which
to turn in the racers to the Chevrolet
dealer with whom they registered for
the derby.
inspection will take all day long in
most Of the places in the Washington
area" Mr.. Holleran said, land every
boy should be finished with his car
by tonight and ready to take it to the
dealer early tomorrow. OF course, in
q number Of cases, the cars are already
finished and on exhibit at the sales
rooms"
The list Of local donors of prizes for
derby winners was disclosed today by
Mr. Holleran, who expressed thanks
to those merchants who are cooper
ating to make the derby a success"
Wrist Watches Prizes.
These prizes include two wrist
watches from Selinger's jewelry store,
Sl8 street NV. They include one
yellow gold-filled and one white gold
filled watch and bracelet which will
be presented to the winners of class
A (boys 13 to 15) and class B (boys
8 to 12).
Baseball bats furnished by Sears
Roebuck g. Co., Gil Bladensburg road
NE, will be presented to winners Of
the second heats in the derby, which
will begin Saturday at II am, follow
Ing a parade at 10 o'clock.
Two bicycles have been contributed
by the Chevrolet Dealers Association
Of the Washington area, one for the
runner-up in the finals for the Wash
ington championship, the other for the
best-designed car in the derby. The
dealers also are furnishing four radio
sets, which will go to the winners Of
the two semi-fnal heats in each Of
the classes
The boy who wins the derby gets
the NJ E. Coyle Trophy, given by the
Chevrolet branch of General Motors;
a trip to the national and interna-
tional finals at Akron, Ohio, with his
parent or other chaperon as guests of
The Star, and gold wrist watch with
derby emblem. which will be presented
at the All-American Soap Box Derby
banquet in Akron. The finals will be
held there on August IA.
Medals Being Furnished.
Chevrolet also is furnishing medals
for first, second and third place win
ners in Glass A and Glass B.
The Star will present the winners
OF the first heats with bronze medals.
This will be the greatest number Of
winners in the derby, with actual con-
testants expected to exceed $50 boys
out of 400 entries. -Four boys will
race down the course in each heat.
The Washington Redskins, profess
sional football team, have donated six
tickets to the first game this fall.
Two tickets will be given to each
second place winner in Glass A and
Glass B and one ticket to each third
place winner.
A pen and pencil set will be awarded
by the Collins g. Aikman Corp. to
the boy with the best upholstered car.
Evening star., 1938-07-21
ACT NOW TO END discomfort
OF SWEATY feet

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Evening star., 1938-07-21

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