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Evening star., 1939-08-06
from which she will plunge into
feverish activity next week.
Mock Air Raid Scheduled.

IIOH1 WHICH bae Will plunge 1uCO
feverish activity next week.
Mock Air Raid Scheduled.
More than 1900 war planes and
IS 900 Royal Air Force officers and
men will stage mock air war
from 8 pm. next Tuesday to pm.
Friday to defend" a wide area of
Southeastern England from waves
Of raids by hostile bomhers."
Planning to test how the country
would fare in an air attack from
Europe, the r. A. F.. has earmarked
500 of its latest bombers as the at
tacking fleet and some 800 fighters
and reconnaissance planes are al
located to defense.
The attackers will come from over
the North Sea to strike at key tar
gets like London and large munitions
plants, while observer units operat-
ing secret detectors will seek to To-
cate them before they cross the
coast.
England to Be Blacked Out.
Warnings will be flashed to pursuit
squadrons, anti-aircraft batteries,
balloon barrage stations and air raid
precautions centers.
Three lines Of fighters will take
the air to intercept the attackers.
while hidden anti-aircraft batteries
also will join the defense. Theo-
retically many raiders would be
downed by the first wave of de-
tenders, but in the test all will con-
tinue to their objectives to exercise
every section of the defense setup.
At the peak of the mock air war.
two-thirds of England will be
blacked out during the early hours
of Thursday in a test of the air
raid precautions organization.
King to Review Fleet.
The navy is tuning up 1873 reserve
warships for an inspection next
Wednesday by King George vi IN
Weymouth Bay and subsequent ma
neuvers.
Units of the home feet slipped
Evening star., 1939-08-06
By tho Associated Press.


BERLIN, Aug. 5.-The Nazi
church policy in Austria has forced
thousands of Catholic monks and
nuns to emigrate or to readjust
their lives.
The ransition-which still is very
active-is the result of the numerous
Nazi occupations of monastic lands
and buildings, the closing of pa
roachial schools and the seculariza-
ton of the hospitals.
When Germany absorbed Austria
in March, 1888, there were some
$4,000 nuns and 3,400 monks in a
country which was almost 95 per
cent Catholic.
The majority of nuns were nurses
in public and private hospitals or
conducted private boarding schools.
BY the beginning of 1889 they grad
ually were being replaced in the
hospitals by Red Cross or other
nurses. and last September all con-
fessional schools were closed in
keeping with the Nazi policy of
monopolizing the education of
youth.
Many Emigrated.
AS a result they were forced to
look for new fields of endeavor or
to emigrate Many chose to leave.
The Augustine nuns, for example,
sought havens in South America,
Switzerland and France.
Those who stayed are trying to
make a living by needleWork, as
cooks or as private teachers. Many
younger nuns hurry off to Offices and
factories each day in working clothes
after devotions in their cloisters and
in the evening they return to the
monastic routine.
The monks so far are not as hard
pressed as the nuns, but they are eX-
pected to emerge from the present
transitional process much poorer.
Nazis Eye Church Property.
Nazi organs, such as the Voel-
kischer Beobachter and Das
Schwarze Korps, have shown that
the Nazis have their eyes on Cath
olic church property The latter, for
instance, remarked that the church
owned land which it was not putting
to the service of the people although
Evening star., 1939-08-06

from their bases last week for gun
merry exercises. They will be joined
after Wednesday by the reserve
vessels for combined exercises which
naval experts declare will be the
largest war games at sea in history.
Both fleets already are on wartime
footing and the exercises were timed
to continue to near the end of
September, covering the period
which many fear may be one OF
crisis for Europe.
Recalled to service to aid in man.
ming the reserve feet, $4,000 re-
servists have been on emergency
duty since last Monday.
More than 100000 men of the
regular army, the volunteer ter
ritorial forces and units of con-
scripts are carrying out intensive
training.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Japan May Request
Britain 10 Clarity
Fleet Move Warninq
Attempt to Influence
Toxic Negotiations
Seen in Statement
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Aug. Sunday Gov
ernment circles said today Mamoru
Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador to
London, may be instructed to ask
the specific meaning of Prime Min
lister Chamberlain's statement of
Friday that Britain might find it
necessary ''in certain circumstance"
to send fleet to the Far East.
Official quarters unanimously in
terpreted the declaration as threat
with an Intention to influence the
British Japanese negotiations here
on the Tientsin dispute.
Mr.. Chamberlain. speaking before
the House of Commons, said he made
his declaration not "as a threat, but
only as warning"
Earlier the war office unofficially
expressed extreme irritation over
the statement and one high source
said Japan cannot be bluffed. The
effect of this threat will be to stiffen
our attitude"
Resumption of the British-Jap-
anese conference still remained in
definite with the British Ambassador
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, reported
to be lacking instructions from Lon
don. The last session was held
Wednesday.
In London informed sources said
fatty the conference would be re-
sumed in the new week.
The delay in the negotiations
strengthened the japanese belief
that talks were in progress between
Great Britain and the United States.
Official spokesmen disclaimed all
knowledge of any anti-American
movement in China, as reported in
dispatches from there.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

sane and that she was driven to that
condition by persecution.
A triple funeral will be held Mon
day morning, with delegations from
the alliance, the American Jewish
Congress and other national and
racial groups attending.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Pleads Guilty in SIoyinq

RUSHVILLE, Nebr., Aug. S (P.-
Irving Tail, 17-year- Sioux In
dian, pleaded guilty in County Court
here today to second-degree murder
in the assault death of pretty Nellie
Yellow Thunder, 10. County Attor-
ney Edmund Hollstein said she was
slain during a drinking party when
Tail became maddened by white
mems "firewater." Tail was bound
over to District Court for sentenc-
ing.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

When the x-ray photograph of a
patients chest was developed in
Lithgow Hospital in Sydney, Aus
traha, the picture included a view of
a church a quarter of a mile from
the hospital.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

More than $500 tons Of cargo have
been landed from half a ship SAL
vaged at sea and towed into Fayal,
Azores.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

In Australia one person in eight
has a car.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
French Are Wary
On Report Hitler
Drafts Proposals
Submission to U. S., France
And Britain Reported
Planned by Fuehrer

~ the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 10.-French diplo-
mats tonight warily appraised re-
ports reaching diplomatic circles
from Germany that Reichsfuehrer
Hitler was drafting a specific plan
for world appeaSement to offer to
the United States, France and Brit
ain next month.
In Berlin, sources close to the
Fuehrer expressed surprise at the
reports and said that as far as
they knew Hitler had no such
plan in mind)
Speculation Restrained.
Speculation here was restrained
pending determination whether the
reports, which originated in usually
vell-informed Berlin sources. might
be designed to sound out the posi-
bilities of concessions following Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Viscount Hall
fax's expressed willingness to con-
slider a world conference on Nazi
demands if Germany would re-
nounce policy of force.
The reports asserted Hitler al
ready was working on the draft plan
Of proposals to be presented in a
speech at the launching of a new
German warship early in July, and
indicated that he would offer to
trade peaceful cooperation in re-
turn for economic concessions, per-
.haps colonies
The reports, which received no
open, official confirmation, however,
gave no hint of the specific nature
of the supposed plan.
German Envoy Speaks.
Some French sources said they
saw an indication that Germany
might be preparing the way for a
proposed economic settlement in a
speech today by Count Johannes Won
Welczeck, German Ambassador to
Paris.
Speaking at the Lille exposition of
social progress. Count Won Welc-
zeck praised its theme as "particu-
larly appropriate for aiding a bet
ter understanding between peoples. "
: For in the last analysis" he said
"it is social progress. that is to say
the creation of healthy living con-
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Windsp|itter' Inventors
Brother Rides Modern Train

The Diesel electric locomotive that
brought the streamlined Capitol
Limited of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad from Chicago yesterday
pulled into Union Station with
visitor in its cab. He was Charles F.
Adams from California. who last
visited Washington 80 years ago and
on that occasion arrived on the
steam engine of the worlds first
streamlined train.
g The streamliner of long ago was
the invention of Mr.. Adams brother,
the late Frederick Upham Adams.
and Is referred to in railroad history
as Adams Windsplitter.
While Adams Windsplitter" never
was put into regular passenger serv-
ice, the general idea of a train that
lessened wind resistance was de-
veloped then, and many of its prin-
c1ples were retralned when stream
lining finally was perfected in re-
cent years.
OFT Kuhler, consulting engineer
OF design for the B. & O., pointed
out that the expected results and
savings were not achieved with the
Adams invention. Mr.. Kuhler ex-
Evening star., 1939-06-11

planned that the Adams cars were
streamlined, in much the manner
used today, but the locomotive was
not, and the lowering of the head
resistance of train later was found
to be of the greatest Importance
Modern materials and construction
methods also have lessened the
weight of trains, he added.
Charles Adams recalled that he
rode from Baltimore in the engine
OF his brothers streamliner to keep
tab on the steam pressure. The
train had a running speed of 70
miles an hour.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

ditlons for its citizens, which is the
proudest course which a government
can set itself to follow as an ideal"
He declared it was in a spirit of
peaceful, constructive labor" that
he opened the German exhibit in
Hitler's name.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
June Is, Fathers Day

Don't let father kid you he's
Just as sentimental as. mother.
II you don't think so, just give
him a small remembrance on
Fathers Day, June 18 See
how pleased he'll be. Phone us
for suggestions and let us SEND
1T AND CHARGE IT.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

Fifty Europeans and $50 natives
are seeking tin ore in Italian Soma
liland.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

NEW YORK. K.-TRAVE ELS
WORLD ON DOLLAR-Jean
Leakey of Delavan, Wis, the
"vagabond coed" who is COM
pleting a round-the-World
trip begun in 1887 with ST,
is shown as she arrived here
Friday on the Holland-Ameri-
ca liner NieuW Amsterdam.
She claims never to have been
stranded and says she re-
ceived good will medals from
40 different countries. Note
the wooden shoes.
A. P. Photo.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
The FincI Sent the Crowd Home WiIted


Washington exhibiting
obvious that
they went to the tilted The public address system bad forth
the
shot the 1t little
by 14-yearod Clark
The wited crowd suddenly life. The
Why this what Cederstrand
that
that when the Cedeand and Stewart the line
doing between 80 and 35 miles hour.
The the fnalsts
to the for the city championship The
nothing of the
vehicles and had demonstrated
because figured
1t was!
To most it looked to be dead heat
milling dispatched
ten went the word No Two hundred and
Missed that 4
yelled
judges Dutch
it to Cedesrand
face told
Bill Coyle N B. c.
wied and then revived by
home, wiled again but still atingle.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Americans Land
Three Henley
Oar Titles
Harvard, Burk, Tabor
Academy Triumph in
Rainy Regatta
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
EY-ON-THAMES England
July 8.-The Duke of Kent wound
up one of the rainieSt royal Henley
regattas in the events 10O-year his
tory today when he presented three
of the most coveted trophies to
Americans.
The Diamond Sculls went to Phila-
delphia's Joe Burk for the second
straight year, Harvard carried off
the famed Grand Challenge Cup,
and Tabor Academy of Marion.
Mass, won the Thames Challenge
Trophy after defeating the defend
ing champion Kent Comm School
in an all-American final.
The finals, ending four days of
competition, during which only three
American representatives failed,
roWed in rain and a heavy wind
AS the result the times were moth
ing to shout about. Nevertheless, the
United States oarsmen had no trou-
BILE showing their superiority.
Cramps Hit Polish Star.
Burk. meeting his strongest chal-
lenge of the regatta, finished the
mile and five-siXteenth a length
and quarter in front of R. Verey
of Poland. Verey, who led by as
much as a length and a half for
the first half mile, was seized with
cramp and twisted his wrist near
the finish. For a moment it ap-
/ peared as though he had collapsed,
| but he recovered quickly and fin
ished strongly.
Burk, regarded as one Of the
greatest single scullers in history.
was clocked in minutes IL sec
onds.
Harvard, returning to the Thames
| for the first time since 1914, when
Gov. Leverett Salstonstall of Massa-
chusetts stroked the Crimson to VIC
/ tory in the same event, turned back
Torontos Argonauts in minutes 40
seconds.
Three lengths separated the two
shells at the finish after the Cana
dianS had showed the way during
/ the early stages The Crimson eight,
stroked by John Wilson, forged to
the front near the quarter-mile
marker, however, and thereafter
never was threatened seriously. They
had length and a quarter advan-
tage at the quarter signal
light and gradually moved away to
their winning margin.
Both Tabor and Kent qualified
/ for the finals of the Thames Cup in
the morning and then battled tooth
and nail with only length and a
/ quarter between them at the finish.
+ Tabor Leads From Start.
! Tabor got off in front and never
was headed though the defending
champions made battle of it all the
way. Kent lifted the stroke to 38
near the finish in an effort to catch
their New England rivals. but it was
not to be done today. The winning
crew was timed in 7:53.
Ambassador Kennedy found it i'm
possible to be at Henley and VIM
bledon at the same time, but he
stopped over long enough to visit
the Harvard crew and wish his alma
mater representatives luck. His son
Bobby followed the Harvard race in
an official launch. forgetting him
self at a crucial moment and yelling
encouragement to the Crimson eight.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Brilliant Alice Marble Wins Wimbledon Title Give Yan Near Cleanup
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN
Derby Day at Ward Circle
BY FRANCIS (. STAN.

rate at indianapolis the weather perfect for
like for the Memorial
weather that little speed usually minimum of wind
and plenty of light And hot bright The
Derby track Massachusetts, a$nu
Ward Circle The crowd possibly
the
the morning.
From the outset thrills
of the little homemade
driver would control of his would
crowd fankng the the pilots
brush burns and maybe skinned shin
hurt although policeman
to stop
1t caused mild commoion the officials
tonary dscardng
the heats kept off
nearly all of them the
amateur at its cleanes The
eligible through Is them months
feel
he finishes maybe so behind then
think that allowed
had chance he would
Evening star., 1939-07-09

the first game. launched the inning
with a double to right and streaked
to third after West had travelled to
short right field for Johnsons fly.
He scored after Hayes flied deep
to Welaj
Philadelphia manufactured it's un-
deserved winning margin in the
seventh. Masterson was removed
from the premises after issuing
singles to Beckman and Miles with
one out, and Alexandra Carrasquel
assumed the hill burden.
Wally Moses batted for Amber
and accommodated by popping to
Travis and Carrasauel apparently
had escaped unharmed when Siebert
hoisted foul fly back of the plate.
Catcher Rick Ferrell broke late on
the ball, however, and slipped en-
route. Presented reprieve, Siebert
thumped single to center, scoring
Beckman.
That, it developed, was the ball
game
Evening star., 1939-07-09
A Smart Loser Wins Special Medal

Midway the afternoon little coored boy created Eugene
Carroll H. his heat When 300 400
line of the 1250oot he lost control His
which had glued
the at the top of the hill.
situation capable of taxing the rehXes
Meyer Rex Mays Behind kid the finish line
him. padoXical those leading To
might be dangerous One those
unerringy the last stripe Backward finish good
special medal for
the
altogether
Only said
toward the finish line
pardonabl his
affair, he explained after Bobby Billiards.
know who Bobby Ballard don't you? He the 1887 Akron
Paul Junior High after school Took months
make things kids
there only n
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Boys Driving Prowess Is Astonishing

box a
intended be mlder
football baseball ball
the accidents began The
be 1888 the
the finish line make
not have been smooth
of embracing all
For instance there nearly twice
event The
didn't last He only watched
then and there the nearly
excitement And then there the experience
Those who and who
lessons This
nation peedier yesterdays
spectacle thrilling
We have found, talking of
their blood Most of
best speedway Many the
for instance They simply uccumbed
specifications product
parade dog shows petuna flower shows
you amazed at their driving provess,
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Krokky's 60 Triumph Over AS
Regoins Sixth Spot for Mats,
Drubbed 6-5 in Early Tilt

ing gestures in that first game as
late as the ninth inning, but with
the tying run perched on third base
and the potential winning run on
first Travis drilled into double
play to end the battle.
Trailing. Ga, entering the ninth,
the Mats breathed hope into the pro-
ceedings when West and Colbert
walked in succession after Case had
flied out Wright whacked his
fourth hit of the game, a sizzling
single to center. scoring Vernon.
who ran for West, and propelling
Colbert to third
Requiring only a sacrifice fly to
knot the score the Mats were
doomed to disappointment. For
Chubby Dean relieved the faltering
Bill Beckman at that point and
disposed of Travis.
Cecil smashed the ball back at
Dean, who whirled and whipped
it to NeWsome at second to force
Wright. NeWsome rifled the ball to
Siebert to complete the double play
and the game.
Mats Boost Batting Marks.
In losing their 18th game by a
margin of one run the Mats at
least buoyed their batting averages,
Slamming Beckman for 13 safeties
Their fielding, however, was less
proficient and chiefly was instru-
mental in the defeat.
Washington spurted into 20 lead
in the first inning through the
medium of walk to West and sue
cessive singles by Colbert, Wright
and Travis, but the Athletics
bounced back to- tie it up in their
half of the inning.
They accomplished that with one
hit, looping double to right au-
thored by johnson after Miles had
walked and Siebert had scurried to
first when Myer bobbled a grounder.
Cases sharp single to center and
Vests double off the right-field
fence staked the Mats to a 80 lead
in the second and they increased
that to Al in the third when Myer
beat out slow roller to Nagel with
two out, scoring Wright from third.
Wright had obtained a double
when Amber lost his pop fly in the
sun and moved to third as Travis
grounded out.
MastersOn Takes Beating.
Walter Masterson, the 19-year- -old
righthander who started for the
Mats, yielded two more runs in the
third. Miles singled to left and
romped home when Siebert slashed
a triple to center. Siebert scored
the tying run as Myer threw out
Johnson.
While Beckman braced to hand
the Mats string of circles, the AS
nicked Masterson for another run
in the sixth. Siebert, an extremely
irritating individual to the Mats in
Evening star., 1939-07-09
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Star staff YCorrespondent

PHILADELPHIA, July 8.-Joe
Krakauskas, of all people. unleashed
brilliant brand of hurting here to-
day and personally propelled the
Nationals back into sixth place as
Washington captured the nightcap
of double-header, 6-3, after to-
bogganing into seventh place by
dropping the first engagement to
the Athletics, 6-5.
KrakauSkas, whose enjoyment of
this season has been marred by 10
defeats, stymied the Athletics with
five hits, four of which were singles
Meanwhile. the Mats were pound
ing Henry Pippen and Bob Joyce
for II safeties.
SWishing a blazing fast ball past
the Athletics. Krakky fractured a
losing streak of the Mats which had
been extended to four games by that
defeat in the first game.
Mats Clinch in Sixth.
Operating under a sweltering sun,
the Lithuanian southpaw limited
Philadelphia to brace of singles in
the first six innings. The first of
those hits, one to center by Dario
Lodigiana with two out in the sec
ond inning, sent the AS into a 10
lead, for Krakky had walked John
son and Earl Brucker to open the
inning.
The Mats erased that lead in the
fifth. George Case, Mickey Ver-
non, playing his first game with
Washington, and Charley Colbert
singled in succession and Cecil Travis
blasted double to right to con-
struct a 81 margin.
They increased that to Al in the
sixth when Angelo Giuliana pumped
single to left, advanced on Krak-
ky's sacrifice and scored on Cases
single to left.
Second Baseman Jimmy Blood
worth built that to 6-1 in the sew
enth, firing his first home run of
the season into the upper tier of the
left field stands, scoring Taft Wright,
who had walked, ahead of him.
AS Stir Up Trouble.
That represented the Mats scoring
for the fray, but the Athletics
weren't through. They threw a scare
into the Mats in the seventh, filling
the bases with nobody out but were
able to collect only one run.
johnson walked, and the bases
were crammed when Brucker and
Sam Chapman singled in succession.
johnson scored as Bill Nagel forced
Chapman at second, but Krakky
famed Lodigiani and Pinch hitter
Eric Upton was thrown out by
Colbert.
Philadelphia raised another rum
pus in the ninth, which was
launched by johnson whamming a
homer into the upper deck of the
center-field stand Krakky disposed
of Brucker and Chapman but
pitched himself into a predicament
by walking Nagel and Lodigiani.
He pitched himself out of that
jam and into his fourth victory oi
the season as Pinch-hitter Frank
Hayes forced Eddie Collins, jr., run.
ming for Lodigiana, at second.
The Mats were making threaten.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Official Scores
FIRST GAME.

Ran for West in ninth.
Batted for CarraSouel in eighth.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Chandler, in Condition,
Siqns With Yankees
BY the Associated Press.

By tlle hsSUCIaIeu HfeSS'
NEW YORK, July 8.-The New
York Yankees announced today that
Spurgeon Chandler, right-handed
pitcher who won IA games last year,
had signed his contract.
Chandler suffered a fractured
right ankle while going through pre-
liminary training last February. He
rejoined the club about a month ago
and has been working himself into
condition.
Evening star., 1939-07-09
Dodeer Fans Pay
Durocher's Fine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, July 8.-Nobody
in this borough of New York likes
anything any better than for the
Dodgers to battle them Jints"
from over at the Polo Grounds.
So today Brooklyn fans pre-
sented Manager Leo Durocher
of the Dodgers with a sack full
of pennies-2,5OO coppers-with
which to pay the $25 fine imposed
on him for fighting Zeke Bonura
at the Polo Grounds last Sum-
day.
The presentation was made by
John M. Sarco at today's double
header with ths Giants.