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Evening star., 1938-06-01
j. S. AIR EXPERTS
WILL AID FRANCE
Firms Will Send Engineers
in Return for Purchase
of 100 Planes.
By the Associated Press.

u ti9S f1SooClateQ EIeSS.
PARIS, June IAN agreement be-
tween the French government and
United States airplane manufacturers
for what may amount to a general
overhauling OF the French warplane
industry by American engineers was
disclosed today at a meeting of the
Chamber of Deputies Air Committee.
Members of the committee said
Chairman Lucien Bossoutrot had told
them that In return for a recent
order of 100 Curiiss pursuit planes
American. manufacturers haG agreed
to send engineers to France to advise
the air ministry
Machinery to Be Delivered.
When the planes are aeliveoed, Bos-
scutrot was quo:ed as saying, machin-
cry also will be delivered for the
manufacture Of spare parts and will
bt used eventually in Frances ma
Oonallzed fac ores to build entire
new fighting planes.
Deputy Pierre Dignac had REQUEST
ed explanations" from the air min
istry regarding the purchase Of Amer
ican planes. and Bossoutrot in r1ak-
ing his statement said he was speak
ing for Air Minister Guy La Chambre.
The enlisting of American aid was
described by Bossoutrot as necessary
because of grave war threats in Eu-
rope.
Tension Caused Purchase,
The French government was led to
buy 100 American pursuit planes be-
cause OF the serious international sit
uation," he said. "It is because of
Hitler's action in Austria and the
situation in Czechoslovakia."
The need for immediate strengthen
ing OF French air defenses in North
Africa because of tension with Italy
over Tunisia was the subject of a
report approved by the committee.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Sinking Fans Britain,s Ire.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, June / (R.-Britain's
growing resentment at the Spanish
insurgent bombing of British ships
in government ports was famed still
further yesterday by the sinking of
the British freighter Penthames in
Valencia's harbor.
The Laborite Daily Herald, in an
editorial entitled Free Run for Pr
acy," declared the British government
simply must take effective action"
The Herald asked II the government
so devoutly wants victory for
Franco QGenerallissimo Francisco
Franco, insurgent leader" that 1t is
prepared to see British sailors killed
without murmur.
The government, it was pointed out
in informed quarters, already is on
record with grave view Of such
bombings.
Richard Austen Butler, undersecre-
tary for foreign affairs, only yester-
day told the House Of Commons that
the government win protest strongly
to- the Spanish insurgent regime over
the sinking Of the British ship Thorpe-
hall May ~ at Valencia.
Evening star., 1938-06-01

way. CIOlll JULIET sources u was learned
authoritatively that representatives of
the Justice Department have been
making careful study of activities of
the two medical organizations.
The inquiry is being made by the
antitrust division of the department,
under the direction of Assistant Attor-
ney General Thurman Arnold, recently
appointed by President Roosevelt as
the administrations chief trust
buster"
Obstructionist Tactics Charged.
1t is understood the complaints, pre-
sumably from interests associated with
or defending Group Health Associa-
tion. Inc, of the Home Owners Loan
Corp, charged that alleged obstruc-
zionist tactics adopted by the District
Medical Society and the American
Medical Association are In conflict
with antitrust laws forbidding "com-
binations in restraint of trade"
Large legal issues are said to be in
volved in the case, one of the more
important being whether the practice
of medicine is commerce or trade
within the meaning of the anti trust
laws.
The investigation is being directed
chiefly toward activities of the two
medical societies within the District
OF Columbia, as the courts have held
Evening star., 1938-06-01
d. C. Holders Lose.

The dreams OF riches-if any
Of Washington ticket-holders in
the Irish Sweepstakes went up in
smoke with the finish of the
EPSON Derby.
-Four horses on which tickets
were drawn here were listed as
starters In the race, but none
could squeeze into the first three
past the finish line.
Thomas G. Trescott, controller
Of the Ambassador Hotel, held a
ticket on Golden Sovereign, sec
ond choice in the betting. Others
were. outsiders.
There is some consolation, how
ever, IN the fact that the tickets
are worth approximately $4,000
each.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
SUSPECT ADMITS
ATTACK ON GIRL
Colored Man, rs, Accused of
Criminal Assault, Rushed
to Safety.

While 12-year-old Eta May Cole
man remained in critical condition
in Montgomery County General Hos
pital with a fractured skull, police to-
day obtained warrant charging GRIM
inal assault to colored ex-convict
said to have confessed he attacked the
girl on her way to school at Gathers
burg yesterday.
The warrant was issued against
James A, Turner, 25, said to have a
long police record He was being held
in the Central Police Station in Bal
timore, where he was taken for safe
keeping following his arrest and re-
ported confession early today.
Sergt. James S. McAuliffe of the
Montgomery County force quoted
Turner as having admitted he came
across the girl on a side road near
the Frederick highway and seized her,
pulling her into the woods.
Was on Way to School.
This occurred while the girl was
walking from the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Eugene Coleman,
toward the highway, where she ex-
pected to catch school bus for
Gaithersburg at point several miles
north of that town.
Turner was quoted as having ad-
mitted he assaulted the girl, and then,
becoming frightened, hit her several
times with a small stone before knock
ing her unconscious with larger one.
A searching party found the girl sew
eral hours later, semi-conscious and
lying in thicket on her back.
The warrant for Turner was issued
by Justice Of the Peace Charles w.
Strange on complaint of Policeman
L. B. Thompson.
Meanwhile, States Attorney James
H. Pugh said that as soon as the
(Coa .
Evening star., 1938-06-01
WARMER WEATHER DUE:
RECORD LOW EQUALED
Temperature Drops to As at 5 AM.
Same Figure Recorded Same
Day in 1880.

Fair skies and warmer weather were
promised the District today after the
temperature dropped to As degrees at
5 am. to equal the record ''low" tenn
perature for June /, set in 1880.
There have been cooler June morn
ings-such as the 43 recorded on June
2, 1897-but June temperature read
ings in the 40s are few and far be-
tween on the Weather Bureau Records.
The forecaster expected the mer-
curry to rise to rs during the after
noon, or some 8 degrees higher than
the maximum of 81 recorded yester-
day afternoon. The temperature is
not expected to get below So during
the night. y
Under the warm sun, the mercury
rose to "a at 10 am. today as COM
pared to 81 recorded at the same
time yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
JAPAN IS WARNED
TO RETURN SEIZED
U. S. PROPERTIES
Strong Note Presented to
Toxic by Ambassador
Joseph c. Grew.
ALSO PROTESTS
DISREGARD OF RIGHTS
Refusal to Permit Business Men
and Missionaries to Go Back
to Homes Is Cited.
BY the Assf ciated Press.

By the Assf ciated Press.
The United States demanded today
that Japan take immediate steps" to
restore American properties in China
to their rightful owners
In strong note presented by Am
bassador Joseph c. Grew to Japanese
Foreign Minister Ugaki. the Japanese
were told that their infringement Of
and interference with American lights
in China" was giving the Govern
ment of the United States increasing
concern"
1t was pointed out that while jap
anese civilians have been permitted to
enter and do business in areas from
which the Sino-Jap conflict has
moved on, American business men and
missionaries have been denied permis-
sion not only to resume their former
residences but even to visit their
holdings.
800 Waiting in Shanghai.
State Department officials estimated
more than 800 Americans have been
waiting in Shanghai for many months
to get permission to return to their
properties in the Yangtze Valley, in
cluding Nanking.
The note said THE problem of en-
abling American citizens in China to
re-enter and repossess their proper
ties from which they have been ex-
cluded by the japanese military and
of which the Japanese military have
been and in some cases still are in
occupation, is giving the Government
of the United States increasing con-
Germ"
'It is difficult" Japan was told, ''to
perceive any warrant for the con-
tinued placing by the japanese au-
thorities of obstacles in the way of
return by Americans who have legiti-
mate reason for proceeding to the areas
in question"
Demands Return Of University.
The United States specifically de-
manded return of the University of
Shanghai to the Northern and South
ern Baptist Missionary Societies. The
university has been occupied by Japa-
nese military and naval units, the note
said, since shortly after the outbreak
Of hostilities at Shanghai, August, 1887.
The note asserted the university
premises have been used by the Japa-
nese for quartering troops and for
military Offices" and added that air.
planes were stationed on the campus
and supplemental runway for planes
constructed ION the adjacent golf
course, which has been converted by
the Japanese into military flying
field"
During the period of Japanese oc-
cupancy several buildings have been
damaged and the majority looted" the
note continued.
Nine Months Occupation.
Japanese occupation, it was charged,
has continued for nine months, despite
the fact that hostilities ceased long
ago and despite repeated written and
oral representations made by the
American Embassy at Toxic and the
American Consul General at Shanghai.
In various places in the Lower
Yangtze Valley" the United States
said, American businessmen and mis-
sionaries have been prevented by the
Japanese authorities from returning
to their places of business and mission
stations and are denied even casual
access to their properties"
The japanese, the communication
(See NOTE poUa A2I
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Czechs Deal With Franco.

PRAHA, June LP).-The Czech
osovak and insurgent Spanish gov
ernment today exchanged notes by
which each agreed to name an agent
general to the other. These agents
will have powers similar to those of
Britain's agent general to the Burgos
regime. Their names were not an
nollnced
Evening star., 1938-06-01
u. S. Treasury
Is Real Winner
In S,Ueepstake
|y the hssc ciated Press.

The Treasury figured today it would
cut itself in on about $4,000 of the
u ,925,000 won by Americans on the
English derby sweepstakes.
Excluding deductions for personal
exemptions, which in most cases are
offset by other income, experts jotted
down Federal income taxes on the
sweeps prizes as follows:
SIS, ,00G on each of the five $3.50, ,000
first prizes.
$17,050 on each of the IL second
prizes Of $4,000.
$1,000 on each of the seven $4,000
third prizes.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Bois Roussel, 2O-to-l Shot, Wins
Epson Derby With Pasch Third

was distributed to American holders
OF tickets in the sweepstakes.
Bois Roussel's triumph, scored In
2 minutes, 391s seconds, came as
stunning surprise to the crowd and
relief to the bookmakers, who had
been loaded with wagers on Pasch.
The French horse had run only one
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Favor Extra Rivers Fund.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Members Of joint conference COM
nittee reported agreement today on
spending an additional s15,000,00 for
construction and maintenance of rivers
and harbors projects throughout the
country.
= Approximately $4,000, 900 win now
available for expenditure on rivers
harbors during the next fiscal
Evening star., 1938-06-01
SOUTH is ASSURED
NEWSPRINT PLANT
Project at Lufkin, Tex, to Be
Started, Stah1man Informs
Publishers Group.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EDGEWATER PARK, Miss, June /.
james G. Stahlman, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation, told Southern publishers to-
day success virtually was assured for
building the first Southern newsprint
plant at Lufkin, Tex.
Mr.. Stahlman, publisher of the NASH
vile. Tenn, banner, is chairman of a
newsprint manufacture committee set
up by the Southern Newspaper Pub
lishers' Association.
Addressing the group in annual con.
vention here, he said his committee
had approved plans Of engineers for
plant and financial structure Of the
$7,500.000 newsprint plant.
The association named John ID.
Ewing OF Shreveport, La, publisher Of
the Shreveport Times and the Monroe.
La, News-Star and World, as presi.
dent. succeeding Ted Dealey Of the
Dallas. Tex. News-Journal.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
102 AREAS GO DRY
Midnight Ended Licenses /

Midnight Ended Licenses in
Pennsylvania Communities.
HARRISBURG, June / P).-Citi-
zens of 102 Pennsylvania communities
went under self-imposed dry" re-
gimes today.
Scores of taprooms went out of bus
mess at midnight as result of bal
lotting last fall. The dry" maiori-
ties were voted eight months ago, but
the dispensaries were licensed until
today. Their permits could not be
renewed.
Most of the 102 localities were small
residential sections.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
ROOSEvE[TBACKS
FLEXIBLE POLICY
. ON RELIEF FUNDS
Letter to Adams Is Seen as
Aid for Opponents of
Earmarking.
BARKLEY CONSIDERING
MEETINGS AT NIGHT
Tydings Fears Darker Days of
Depression Unless Recent
Trends Are Altered.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Conservative Democrats and Re-
publtcans In the Senate were
strengthened In their determine
tton to fight TOR ear-narking of
relief funds by the Intervention of
Harry Hopkins in the Io,oa primary
despite earlier assertions By him
that he toould not tolerate attempts
to influence the potes OF relief
clients. administration supporters
haze opposed ear-mrking on
ground great fleribiltty is necessary
to effective relief tDork.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Louis Zangwill Dies.

LONDON, June LP.-Louis Zang-
will, British author and brother of
the late Israel zangwill, noted Zionist
leader, died May as at Holland-on-Sea,
Essex, it was announced today. He
was 68.
Evening star., 1938-06-01

attack tn direction OF Valencia,
sole remaining outlet for Madrid
to the rest OF the ,oorld.
BY the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, June 1.-Insur-
gents scaled precipitous mountains
on the, front east of Teruel today,
fighting hand to hand with govern
ment militiamen in a general offen-
sive aimed at the capture OF Valencia.
On land and in the air the fighting
in this new drive by Gen. Francisco
FRANCOIS army assumed proportions
equal in severity to any in the nearly
two-year-old civil war.
Eastern Coast Pounded.
His war planes pounded cities and
concentrations on the eastern coast,
while the full power of his infantry,
cavalry and artillery slowly dislodged
government troops from their bristling
positions north of the highway that
reaches from Teruel to Sagunto and
Valencia
Reports reaching the frontier said
the death toll from yesterdays insur-
gent bombing of Granollers, 16 miles
north of Barcelona, would reach more
than 500. Many other hundreds were
injured.
Huge heaps of stone and rubbish
on the main street of the town of
5000 marked the scene of slaughter.
Buildings still standing were pitted
with steel fragments. One building
was split in two.
One Of Many Raids Yesterday.
This terrible foray, crashing death
among long queques of women and
children waiting in the market place
for potato rations, was only one OF
many such raids yesterday.
Sagunto, most-bombed town in
Eastern Spain, again was visited.
The British ship Penthames was
sunk and Spanish vessel damaged
in Valencia Harbor by bombs. This
brought to five the ships sunk or set
afire at Valencia within a week, but
the harbor remained the busiest in
government Spain, with IA foreign
vessels in port.
The government yesterday an
nounced its aviation feet had struck
back at the insurgent base on the
Island of Mallorca, whence most in
surgnt air raids on the government
seaboard have originated.
The government bombing raid, car
ried out Monday, set fire to three in
surgent ships in the harbor at Palma
and had efficient" results at two ar
fields, 1t was declared.
Franco Inspects Fleet.
Gen. Franco, personally in general
command of the Valencia offensive,
yesterday visited vinaroz, ancient
fishing town captured in the spring
drive to the Mediterranean. His re-
view there of units of the insurgent
feet was considered an indication his
naval forces soon would join the cam
paign.
Evening star., 1938-06-01
Us Opens Monopoly Inquiry
Into Medical Society Ouer
Group Health Controversy

Ine Department Justice launched
the American Medical Association
ety have violated Federal
against group health"
In the absence the Attorney Cummings
the department declined
Evening star., 1938-06-01

VALENCIA
Scale Mountains East of
TerueI in New General
Offensive.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Gen. Francisco Franco dipided
his offensive against Loyalists after
capture OF Vinaros on Mediter-
ranean coast this spring. Part OF
his army began Increment to en-
circle Barcelona, provisional seat
OF government, and part pointed its
attack in direction of Valencia,
sole remaining outlet for Madrid
to the rest OF the porld.
Evening star., 1938-06-01

(See ATTACK, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-06-01
K|DNAP MANHUNT
BEGUN AS G-MEN
SEIZE BYSTANDER
Carpenter Taken Near Cash
Home Questioned by
Agents in Miami.
HOPE TO FIND BOY
ALIVE is ABANDONED
Groups of Is Start Search of
Farms in Area Around
Princeton, Fla.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
James Bailey Cash, jr, S, tuas
kidnapped in Florida Saturday night.
No tOord has come from abductors
"a hours after payment OF $4,000
ransom. Vast manhunt delayed at
parents request, but posse is nol0
ready to take field.
Evening star., 1938-06-01

(See RELIEF, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-10-31

Batista suddenly confronted their
superior officers, demanded control
of the army, and got 1t without too
much of struggle.
Rural Districts Aided.
Since that remarkable coup detat
Batista has held Cuba in his hand.
Most Cubans think it is a benevo-
lent hand. He has brought about
many social reforms to help the un-
fortunate. Most of the poor of Cuba
live in the rural districts. There
Is only one large city-Havana.
Batista, so the United States State
Department tells with interest, has
opened more than 1900 large rural
schools in communities where before
there was no chance for education.
Recreational centers and tuberculosis
treatment centers are among his
other social reforms. Plus many,
many army reforms.
Sonora de Batista is accompany
ing her husband on his trip to the
United States. Like her husband,
she came from the people. but she
had better education than he did.
I heard in Cuba that she had been
school teacher. She has developed
greatly since her husband came into
power and is poised and equal to
any social emergency.
saw the great Batista dining at
the Hotel Nacional at Havana last
year. He has the look of Mussolini
about his square jaw and the same
Evening star., 1938-10-31

kind of strength and determination
in his muscular body. His skin is
dark-they say there is a dash of
Indian and possibly Chinese in his
Spanish blood. His features are
clearly cut and he has thick black
hair and smile that captivates.
Cubans tell you of his great charm
like your Mr.. Roosevelt's." They
like to hear him make speeches and
are proud that he has kept his
simple manners and avoided the
snares of society-until this trip to
the United States.
With his wife and children Batista
lives in comfortable but not ele-
CANT house in the army camp which
he himself developed. The camp is
on hillside outside Havana and
spreads over many acres. Every
soldier has clean, well-built house
and a garden for himself and his
family. There are recreation rooms
and general meeting places for SOL
diers and officers. Before Batista,
they told me in Cuba, men in the
army lived in huts-when they could
get them.
Evening star., 1938-10-31
Botisto, Cubo's Man of Iron>
To Be Feted on Visit Here
Dictator Was Born
In Thutched Hut.
Revolt Made Him.
By HELEN ESSARY.

A dictator who was once an army
sergeant is shortly coming to Wash
ington at the invitation of the chief
of staff of the United States Army.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, the chief
of the constitutional army of Cuba,
who was born in thatched hut,
was later a common soldier and
rose to be the most powerful man in
his country, is arriving in the Capt.
tai on November 10 for a three-day
visit. Gen. Malin Craig, who reached
his high military post by the West
Point officers promotion route, not
only asked the one-time sergeant to
Washington but will entertain for
him at a dinner on November IL.
Among the guests there will be high
ranking Army officers and other
persons of importance. The Presi-
dent of the United States will re-
ceive Col. Batista and the Cuban
Ambassador, Senor DR.. Pedro Mar
tinez Fraga, will give dinner and
reception as bright with gayety and
-lusic as only Latin diplomatic en-
1rtalnmentS can be.
-tees-ta," as they call the chief
If the constitutional army in Cuba
mo dictator has really arrived until
he has shed his first name), has
never before been away from Cuba.
When he was not much over 30 he
organized the sergeant's rebellion in
1888 and, most Cubans think, res
cued the island from chaos. Since
then he has been too busy running
the government, before and behind
the scenes, and putting into effect
reforms to help the poor people from
whom he sprang to do much sight
seeing.
Before he became such an influ-
ential fellow he had no money to
spend on travel. So this trip will be
Dictator Batista's introduction to
the big outside world.
Story Almost Incredible.
A mere telling of the story of the
sergeant's rebellion sounds like a
bit of opera boufee. 1t is as incred-
ible as most major achievements of
dictators. 1t began in determina-
ton to escape poverty and hardship
One way out of squalor when
Batista was young was to join the
army and fight path to success
with saber and gun. Batista was
promptly success as soldier. He
was soon made a sergeant and he
was transferred to general head
quarters. After he had served there
while he saw (they say he has the
brightest eyes in Cuba) that his su-
perior officers were inefficient and
none too reliable. He decided that
he could run an army better than
any of them and told his fellow SER
geants so. He said also, many times,
that the trouble with Cuba was that
there were too many poor people
there who had right to be discon-
tented. Cuba had not long before
come through the Communist re-
bellion, which had closed all the
schools and killed hundreds of citi-
zens. There would be no rebellions
said Sergt Batista, if people had
enough to eat and wear and a
chance at the decent existence the
rich take so casually.
This was the sort of doctrine the
sergeants and the privates, too, could
understand. One fine day, one of
those fine Cuban days, when the
sun was shining in the bright blue
sky and the breezes from the Gulf
Stream had tinge of inspiring
crispness, the sergeants headed by
Evening star., 1938-10-31

average considerably exceeds the
required minimum wage for work.
ers of $11 per 44-hour week from
October "a, 1888, to October "a
1899, under the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act.
Mr.. Andrews pointed out that in
no State are the average weekly
earnings as low as the modest re-
quirements of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act. Other jurisdictions with
high average weekly earnings were
Wyoming, $32.16, and Michigan,
$50. The latter led among the heav-
lily industrialized States, with Cali.
fornia next at $2635.
The compilation was prepared by
DR.. Isador Lubin, commissioner OF
the Bureau of Labor Statistics OF
the Labor Department.
Evening star., 1938-10-31
Manufacturing |
Wages in D. C..
Nation

Workers in the District of Co.
lumbia earn the highest average
weekly wage in the country, accord
Ing 10 a compilation of average
weekly earnings of workers in man.
ufacturing districts during August,
1898, released today by Elmer F. An
drews, administrator of the Wage
and Hour Division, Department of
Labor.
With an average weekly earning
OF $33.6l per capita, the District