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Evening star., 1939-10-22
German Coast Guard Vessel Sunk
ByOwn nMineWith Loss of71Men;
SMNaziP|anes ReportedDowned
Swedish Steamer
Is Torpedoed by
Reich Sub
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 21.-The
German Coast Guard vessel Este 701
was sunk by mines in her own mine
field of the Danish coast today with
the probable loss of II men.
One of the rescued said he was
certain only four escaped, but to-
night fifth man reached the town
of Ulvshale, whence he was taken
to a hospital at Siege. He said he
had been swimming for 10 hours.
Earlier a Danish official spokes-
man announced that 70 men were
lost. The Danish Navy sent boats
to search for other possible sur
vivors
Four of those rescued managed
to make their way to raft after
explosions which sank their ship in
less than a minute off the Danish
town of Moen.
A Danish naval plane saw the raft
and landed near it about 5 pm,
about five hours after the accident.
The plane was unable to carry extra
weight, but it gave the men on the
raft coffee and they subsequently
were transferred to a fishing vessel
and taken to Siege for hospital
treatment.
The four said they left the body
OF one companion lashed to the raft.
The Este was unit of the seventh
advance guard flotilla delegated to
watch mine fields and was en- route
a German informant said. to post
of Southern Sweden near Trelle-
borg.
A torpedo boat attempting to stop
a steamer off Asdal on the north
western Danish coast was reported
to have been driven off after an
exchange of shots with two larger
warships.
The steamer fed during the ex-
change, the reports said
Witnesses on shore said they were
unable to identify any of the ships.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER,

Associated tTeSS fOTelgn Correspondent.
BERLIN, Oct. 21-The Poland
which Germany intends to rear on
the wreckage of the conquered Po-
lish Republic, according to informed
sources, probably will be character
lied by these five features:
First, it will be made up of Poles
only;
Second. it will be smaller than the
Russian Poland of pre-l9l4 days;
Third, it will, however, retain Po-
lands religious center, Czestochowa,
and patriotic center, Krakow:
Fourth, it will also likely contain
Jewish state or reservation CENTER
ing about Lublin between the Wis
tula and San Rivers:
Fifth, it will be saddled from the
beginning of it's existence with
tremendous financial burden arising
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Auto Crash Kills
Mississippi End
By the Associated Press.

ey lHc SSSOCidleu fleoS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct 2l-Jesse
Ward, end of the University of
Mississippi football team. was killed
and four teammates were reported
seriously injured tonight when their
automobile overturned near Herman
do, Miss.
Frank Morgan of Memphis, who
helped bring the injured youths to
the hospital here, said he did not
know the names of the others in
the automobile, but added he
thought there were five of them
all Ole Miss football players.
Ward, reserve, recovered a
tumble and ran to a touchdown
In his teams 42-to-0 victory this
afternoon over st. Louis University.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Crump in Mayor
Race in Memphis
To Aid Chandler
By the Associated Press,


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 21-In a
maneuver to enable a supporter of
the administrations neutrality leg
islation to remain in Congress, E. H.
Crump, longtime Memphis politSal
leader, threw his hat into the ring
for Mayor today.
If elected November 9. Mr.. Crump
said he would step down from the
Mayors post Immediately after TAX
ing the oath January l to make way
for Representative Walter Chandler.
Democrat, of Tennessee. who would
then be named by the City Commits
sion.
A ma jority Of the commission are
Crump stalwarts.
Mr.. Chandler could not run for
Mayor without resigning from Con-
gress. City statutes require that
mayoralty candidates must quit
Offices they hold.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Shanghai Policemen
Battle Chinese on
Settlement Border
Two Alleged Aides Of
Wang Chine-wei Among
Three Slain in Fight
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 22-(Sunday)
Three Chinese. one Of them police
man, were killed and an undeter-
mined number of men were wounded
today in a miniature battle along
the border Of the International Set
tlement.
The fighting stopped only when
steel-helmeted japanese police ar
rived and threw a Gordon around the
area.
Engaged in the Commute fight
were settlement police in an armored
car and Chinese motorcyclists who
had loosed hail of rife and ma
chine gun fire and had thrown hand
grenades.
Two of the dead allegedly be-
longed to the private protection
corps of Wang Ching-Wei. former
premier of the Chinese central gov
ernment now reported as having
japanese favor.
Italian Marines Arrive.
The machine guns of the police
armored car answered the motor
cyclists fire. AS the engagement
was at its height. settlement police
were joined by Italian marines, in
whose defense sector the incident
occurred
The clash was the latest develop
ment in what foreign observers re-
gard as drive against Great
Britain by Japan.
Specifically, it was reported, the
struggle involved an attempt by
the Japanese-supported Chinese ad-
ministration of Shanghai to take
from the settlement council. in
which Britain is heavily represented,
lSee SHANGHAI. Page A-6l
Evening star., 1939-10-22
French Artillery
Gropes for German
Army Headquarters
kozi Stoff Is Reported
Established on Extreme
North Sector of Front
By the Associated Press.

PARIS. Oct. 2i.-Military observ-
ers tonight reported French heavy
artillery had methodically shelled an
area of 20 square miles on the ex-
treme northern sector of the west
ern front, hoping to drop big shell
on German general headquarters. A
communique described the fire as
''harassing."
From military information made
public in Paris, 1t appeared that
German gun positions formed rec
tangle bounded on the southwest by
heights at Nenning and Sinz IS miles
within Germany territory and on
northeast by heights at Wincherin-
gen and Saarbourg.
Within this rectangle lies the
Castle Thorn, where French aerial
observers have reported the constant
coming and going of officers and
staff cars, leading to the belief that
German headquarters have been
established there.
Germans Answering Fire.
French reports indicated the Ger
mans had concentrated field guns
of los millimeters (about As inches)
at Nenning and SIM and miles be-
hind them batteries of heavier guns
A night communique said German
artillery had begun answering
French fire. The German batteries
have been quiet for the last few
days and were apparently provoked
into entering a duel by the continued
French shelling.
At the end of the seventh week
of the war, the western front sit
uation was little changed from the
beginning of the conflict, when the
French first began occupation of
German territory-from which they
later withdrew.
French Troops Withdraw.
The French withdrew to positions
running from the Moselle River to
the Rhine, which were first out
lined l25 years ago during the Ma
poleonic wars by French Gen. de
Moureillan.
Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin
commander in chief of the allied
froces and a student of Napoleonic
tactics, might well have followed the
De Moureillan plan described in
1914.
The French front on the left at
Apach lies only few miles behind
the original De Moureillan line,
while the French right flank near
Wissembourg instead of being be-
hind the old battle line is about a
mile in front of it.
Gamelin Modifies Plan.
Gen. Gamelins variations on the
De Moureillan plan take advantages
of small rivers and wooded heights
lying in French territory. The va
riations were made necessary by
modern war developments as we'll
as changes in the frontier.
Barring light infantry patrols,
warfare is in the doldrums and some
French commentators said it might
remain quiet until spring. Others
said, however, they believed reports
of German troop concentrations in
dicated they were planning a drive.
Real winter weather with cold and
rains has settled over the front,
making operations difficult. The
French retirement, observers pointed
out, might mean they were taking
up winter positions.
Despite the bad flying weather,
German planes were reported over
Nancy, in Northeastern France, where
alarms were sounding in the morn
ing. French anti-aircraft batteries
opened fire on planes flying at a
high altitude.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
California Strikers
And Cotton Growers
Fiqht Hand-to-Hand
Police QueI| Melee
With Teor Cos Bombs
And Blank Cartridges
By the Associated Press.


MADEIRA, Calf, Oct 21-Cotton
growers and striking pickers fought
hand -to-hand in seething melee at
the County Park today until the
crowd was scattered by State high
way patrolmen using blank cart
ridges and tear gas bombs.
1t. Col. Charles Henderson, aide
to Gov. Culbert L. Olson, said the
highway patrolmen moved in at the
request of Sheriff w. O. Justice as
growers rushed the strikers mass
meeting and were driving them out
of the park.
Six persons later applied to the
MADEIRA County Hospital for treat
ment of injuries, some of whom said
they were hurt in an earlier clash
near the outskirts of town. Most
severely hurt, with head cuts and
welts on the face was Homer West,
%, cotton striker.
Hit With Garden Hose.
Il was in the park listening to the
speeches" he related, when I saw
a crowd of farmers coming. started
out and met guy with club I
put up my hands and another guy
came up behind and hit me with a
garden hose. I wasn't knocked out,
though, and I got away"
Alvy Shores, another cotton picker,
said, Men came from everywhere,
carrying shovel hahdles and pick
handles" He said his wife, Ethel,
suffered from the tear gas.
Strikers seized chairs from the
bandstand to WELD as weapons or
for protection. One woman, stand
ing on the bandstand, was struck on
the head as the microphone for a
loud-speaker toppled over on her
and she tumbled over a chair. To
add to the din, peacocks and par
rots kept with other birds in cages
in the park screamed and squawked
Pickets Claim Another Beating.
In the earlier clash, witnesses said
half dozen cars containing pickets
were surrounded by ranchers' cars
and the pickets were pulled out and
beaten. Two later told this story at
the hospital when they applied for
treatment.
Herbert j. Williamson, representa-
tive of the State Department of In
dustrial Relations, strove to bring
growers and strikers together in
mediation attempts on direction OF
Gov. Olson.
Growers Steadfastly have main
tanned they cannot pay more than
80 cent per hundred pounds to
pickers, and that the strike was
stimulated artificially by non-resi.
dent agitators. Strikes are ask
ing $125. Workers can gather from
200 to 500 pounds a day, depending
on their skill and the quality Of the
fields.
Meanwhile, 20 alleged leaders OF
the strike, including Carl Patterson
arrested at Fresno. were arraigned
on felony charges of conspiracy to
violate the MADEIRA County anti
picketing ordinance. Complaints is
sued by the district attorneys onhce
fixed bail. at 81 each, but Justice
of the Peace Leroy Bailey raised the
sum to $500 each. None Of the 20
posted the needed amount.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

wave OF losses
for five other
major collegiate
football teams
of the country
which were tied
or defeated for
the first time
this season. yes
terday.
Carnegie Tech,
sporting a clean
record, was up
set by N. Y. u,
60; Tulane,
hitherto unde-
feated and un-
tied, was held
to a 14-14 dead
lock by North
Carolina; Ala
bama took a
21-0 shellacking
from Tennessee
in the South's
big game of the
day; K an S a s
State was noSed
out by Missouri,
81; Baylor was
whitewashed by
Nebraska, 200,
and out on the
Pacific oa S t,
Oregon took its
first b e ting
from little Con-
Zaga, 1877.
Six of the
t e a m S rated
among the coun-
try's first 10 last
W eek c q m e
through " ith
victories. Notre
Dame, ranked 70
Evening star., 1939-10-22
18th Infantry Leaves
For Punumu Canal
Y the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClated Press.
BOSTON, Oct. 21-Laden with
rifles and bulging duffel bags, 1900
soldiers of the 18th Infantry trooped
aboard the United States transport
Hunter Liggett today bound for
Panama to strengthen canal de-
fenses.
The vessel, first of three trans
ports to carry United States Army
contingents to the Canal Zone, was
loaded earlier with equipment, in
cluding tanks. machine guns and
heavy Army trucks,
Evening star., 1939-10-22
4 Accounted for
In Convoy Fight;
2 OFF Norway
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct. 21.-British fight
ing planes which raced today to
answer the call of ship convoy
being attacked from the air were
reported tonight to have defeated
the German attacking squadron.
Omclal accounts of the air battle
over the North Sea said of the IL
German attackers were shot down
and fourth forced to alight at sea
by fire from the planes and escort
vessels of the convoy. The type of
ships being conveyed and their desti-
nation was not given, but it was
stated none was damaged
Grew members of the Nor
Wegian fishing vessel reported to
the Bergen Norway newspaper
Aftenblad that two German planes
We're shot down out of squadron
OF SIX which attacked two British
destroyers and British seaplane
about 10 miles off the coast of
Norway today.
CThe British seaplane also was
forced down, the fishermen said,
but with the protection of the
destroyers later managed to re-
sumo flight. The newspaper said
the battle in the North Sea oc-
Cured this afternoon.)
In London Britain S war secretary.
Leslie Hore-Belisha, declared that
further eastward expansion of Ger
many had been blocked by Russia
and Turkey and he warned that a
mass attack by the Germans to
break the western land and sea
olockade would be costly venture.
Will Continue Waiting War.
Hore-Belisha indicated that the
allies would use waiting war
tactics to fight Germany. In addi-
ton to stating that recent military
experience shows that an often
slve against prepared positions is
Improbable - which presumabl
would apply to the allies as we'll as
Germany-the war secretary said
Germany for her part might re-
main qulescent in the hope that we
VIII prematurely take up the offen-
sive against them"
In his remarks, made in a broad
cast on the progress of the war,
Hore- -Belisha said in connection
with Britain S war aims:
We did not enter the fight mere
ly to reconstitute Czecho- Slovakia.
Nor do We fight merely to recon-
stitute Polish state. Our aims are
not confined by geographical
frontiers.
I'VE are concerned with the
frontiers of the human spirit. I.
Only the defeat of Nazi Germany
can tighten the darkness which now
shrouds our cities and tighten the
horizon for all Europe and the
world"
No Casualties Sustained.
The admiralty and air ministry
communique on the air battle said
our aircraft sustained no casual
ties and mo ship of the convoy or
escort was damaged"
The German raiding planes were
engaged by fighters and escort YES
sels." the communique said. "At
least three enemy aircraft were
brought down by our fighters. A
fourth raider after receiving inten-
sive fire from our aircraft was forced
to land on the sea-
Two unidentified airplanes were
sighted off the east coast in the
afternoon and air raid warning
signals were sounded in the Hull
and Grimsby areas.
The official announcements did
not directly connect the appearance
of these planes with the raid on
the convoy, however.
A witness at one of the east coast
towns where warnings were sounded
(Ceo ONION paoe A-5)
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Tom Mooney Goins
After Tfonsfusion
~ the Associated Press.

3y E0e A8SOCIAtcu EIcoS.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21.-Tom
Mooney, i'll in Pittsburgh hospital,
was reported much improved to-
day by his physician after 4 blood
TRANSMISSION.
1--WE feel that the danger \point
is passed. said DR.. Abraam STEIN
berg, MONEYS personal physician.
Mooney, who was pardoned Qan-
uary z, after serving % years. in
San Quentin Prison in California,
was under treatment for h4m-
orrnages resulting from gastric ul-
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Freak Windstorm
Does Heavy Damage
BY the Associated Press.

HEREFORD, Md. Oct. 21-A
brief, destructive windstorm wrecked
barns, killed or manned more than
a score of cattle and caused a fire
which destroyed a house in this
North Baltimore County town to-
night. Falling trees threw power
lines against the home of John SUIT
ton, causing the fire.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

streak at the eX-
pense of Texas
Christian, 20-6,
and Ohio State
nosed out Min
nesOta in a Scor-
ing thriller, 23-
20.
Locally, h e
four teams to
play produced
only a 500
p e re e n t a g e.
Georgetown rail-
lied in the last
quarter to de-
feat Bucknell,
1877, and Cath
olic U. set a
1899 scoring rec
ord for District
teams by rout-
ing West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan,
oU-V. 6uL mary
land was upset
by Rutgers, 25-
IL, and Ameri-
can University
took its second
straight setback,
from Johns Hop
kinS, 2l-7.
Princeton a.
Z defeat of Co.
lumbia, Penn's
) 22-7 victory over
Harvard, Yale's
2O-15 conquest
of Army, Man
hattan's TO up
set of Auburn,
v. M. rs 1913
decision ov er
Virginia and
yer Syracuse were
Evening star., 1939-10-22
24.OOO, 900 See Foir

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 R.-The
240OO, ,0O0th paying visitor passed
through the Worlds Fair turnstiles
tonight, 10 days before closing day.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Pitts Defeat Is OUTSTANDING
Among Major Football Losses

Pitts crash to a 21-13 defeat at
the hands of its intracity rival,
Duquesne, overcame but did not
quite drown out the resOunding
Evening star., 1939-10-22

Oklahoma walloped Kansas, 27-7;
Michigan ran up the seasons big
gest score on luckless Chicago, $50;
the Texas Aggies continued theil
Evening star., 1939-10-22

Rodio Programs, Poee F-3
Complete Index, Poee Az
War Situation, Poes AS
Evening star., 1939-10-22


straight victim. 7 other high lights tpos
Evening star., 1939-10-22

tSee SHANGHAI, Page A-60
Evening star., 1939-10-22

(See LONDON, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Weather Forecast

From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page A-2
Partly cloudy, slightly cooler today: to-
morrow, fair and colder. Temperatures
yesterday-Highest, 81, at pm; lowest,
81, at am.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

(See POLAND, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1939-10-22

(See NEUTRALITY, Page A-50
Evening star., 1939-02-08

Underprivileged Child Committee of
the Kiwanis Club.
He will take part in radio broad
cast sponsored by Georgetown to-
night at $50 o'clock over the ma
tional network of the Mutual System
in a discussion of Help for Hin
dered Children The radio program
will be rebroadcast locally tomor-
row at 10 pm. over Station VOL.
the local station being omitted to-
night.
The broadcast is sponsored by the
Public Health Forum in connection
with a national health essay con-
test being conducted by Georgetown
for high school Juniors and seniors
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Arguments Continue
In Utility Rate Case
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Arguments continued before the
Supreme Court today in litigation
In which the tribunal is asked to
cast aside a 40-year-old yardstick
for measurement of public utility
rates.
The case reached the court on ap-
peals by the Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission, which was re-
strained by a three Judge Federal
Court in Pennsylvania from enforc-
ing a temporary rate order against
the Edison Power & Light Co., op-
Grating in the York (Pa) area.
The order required the company
to file a rate schedule effecting q
S435 900 annual reduction in gross
revenues
Guy K. Bard, special counsel for
Pennsylvania, started arguments
late yesterday. Walter B. Saul and
Clarence Miles counsel for the
utility, were to follow him, arguing
against the constitutionality of Sec
tions of the Pennsylvania public
utility law.
The law empowers the commission
to fix temporary rates sufficient to
provide a return of not less than 5
per cent pending final rate adjust
ment.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Georgetown Journal
Names Poetry Jury

The Georgetown College Journal
today announced the names of the
three judges who will pass on the
open poetry contest sponsored by
the Journal as part Of the sesqui-
centennial celebration of the insti-
tuition this year.
Martin Quigley, editor of the
Journal, said the pudges will be
Aline Kilmer, lecturer and poetess;
the Rev. Leonard Feeney, S. j.,
poetry editor of the weekly America,
and Myles Connolly, newspaper
man. Mrs. Kilmer is the widow of
Joyce Kilmer.
The publication is offering a $50
prize for the best poem on George
town.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
u. S. A. '39 q Storehouse
Of Information

Uncle Sans Almanac, 1899, larger
and better than ever before, is really
a storehouse of information and all
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calendar for 200 years, garden cal
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Of Congress, Presidents. Governors,
elections. weather facts, etiquette,
radio, taxes and origin of the names
Of the States. Useful for the entire
family every day in the year. Send
for your copy today-only 10 cents
postpaid.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Ship Sponsors to Hear
Edison and Walsh

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison and Chairman
Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee were to be the prin-
cipal speakers at the closing session
of the Society of United States
Navy Ship Sponsors this afternoon
at the Mayflower Hotel
Their addresses were to be heard
at the annual luncheon of the
group. which has been in conven-
ton here Mrs Russell c. Lang
don of New York will preside.
The sponsors met earlier today
for completion of unfinished busi-
ness before adjournment following
the luncheon.
Members of the organization we're
entertained at tea yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. William
D. Leahy. wife of the chief of naval
operations, and last night at buff
fet supper given in their honor by
Mrs. Emory S. Land, whose hus-
band, Rear Admiral Land, chief OF
the United States Maritime Com
mission, addressed the sponsors at
business meeting earlier yester-
day.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Tennessee Power Deal
Praised by Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press.

0y tlic AeooCAAtcu T!eeo.
President Roosevelt yesterday de-
scribed the agreement to sell Ten
nessee power and electric company
properties to the Tennessee Valley
Authority as an excellent solution Of
a difficult problem.
He told his press conference the
agreement would make possible a
reduction of between 20 and 80 per
cent in the electric power rates in
that area. and he regarded this as
worthwhile.
In the House Representative Dirk
sen, Republican, of Illinois ridiculed
T. V. A. as a vast inland empire
that is freezing strawberries, in
venting electric haymakers, planting
trees, generating electricity and
spewing concrete over 100000 acres
of land"
Speaking during debate on the
independent Offices Appropriation
bill, which carries s39,OOoOOO for
T. v. A., Representative Dirksen
said the agency had authority suffi-
GENTLY broad to go up into the
Tennessee hills and build dams on
rivers you can step across"
'They want to make them navi-
gable he scoffed, but I think it
might be better to pave these
streams and make highways of
them"
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Mrs. Angie Amiss, 80,
Dies at CHEVY Chase

Mrs. Angie Green Amiss, 80, died
yesterday at the home Of her son,
Harry D. Amiss, 1880 Chevy Chase
boulevard, Chevy Chase, Nd, fol-
lowing an illness of several months.
Mrs. Amiss was a lifelong resi-
dent of Montgomery County and
was the widow of Edmund L. Amiss.
Besides Mr.. Amiss, survivors in
clude another son, Robert E. Amiss,
also of Chevy Chase, Nd: a sis
ter, Mrs. Frank Watkins of Clarks-
burg, Md; a daughter, Mrs. STAN
ley w. Pratt of Orlando, Fla, and
eight grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Friday in Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church, Gaithersburg,
Md. Burial will be in Forest Oak
Cemetery.