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Evening star., 1939-03-26

filed with The Star. Reservations
continue to come in each day, how
ever, and few days ago one was
received from a music lover in Haiti.
Others have arrived from practically
every State.
Patrons of the National SYM
phony Orchestra will be given an
opportunity to hear that musical
organization play Schubert's I'm
Finished Symphony during a con-
cert this afternoon at 4 o'clock in
Constitution Hall.
DR.. Hans Kinder. conductor of
the orchestra. revised the original
program for this concert to include
Schubert's beloved composition be-
cause he wished to do my bit" to
further the objectives of The Stars
campaign. The conductor is men,
Der of the committee of sponsors for
the movement.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
900 Symphony Sets Bought
h4Weeks of Music Con1poion
Symphonies on WMAL

Through the cooperation of
the National Broadcasting Co.,
The Star will present over
WMAL today at $3.50 pm. Sc
lected movements from each
Of the three symphony record
ings which have been released
so far in the Music 'Apprecia-
ton Campaign. These SYM
phonies are Schubert's "Unfin-
ished," Beethovens mo. S in C
Minor" and Mozart's mo. 40 in
G Minor"
Excerpts from these record
ings also may be heard on ITO
days Prelude" a program sched-
uled- daily except Sunday over
the same station. The record
ings are played approximately
at 7 am. The records them
selves may be obtained at the
special booth in the lobby of
The Star Building each week.
day from 8 am. to 6 pm. The
booth is closed on Sundays.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Housing Survey
And Blood Tests
Are Planned Here
tuberculosis Association
Announces New
Features Of Study

Blood examination will be given
all persons applying for X-ray serv-
ice in connection with the coming
tubercuious X-ray survey of the
Northwest section known as Census
Tract 48. it was announced yester-
day by Mrs Ernest r. Grant, man.
aging director of the tuberculosis
Association A study of housing
conditions in the area also will be
made.
Plans for the blood examinations
and survey of housing conditions
we're announced by Mrs. Grant as
two new features of the survey, fol-
lowing meeting of the Early dag
nosis Campaign Committee of the
association.
Detailed plans for the blood ex-
aminations are being worked out
by DR.. Daniel l.. Seckinger assist
ant health officer: DR.. T. c. Thomp-
son. director of the District Venereal
Disease Clinic, and Ray H. Everett
executive secretary of the Social
Hygiene Society. Persons found
10 De SuIleflng from tuberculosis,
venereal disease or other remedial
defects will be advised regarding
immediate medical care
The housing survey will be super
vised by the Washington Housing
Association, directed by Mrs. Helen
Duey Hoffman, secretary.
A statistical study of all the find
ings will be made by DR.. Carl Dauer
Of the District Health Department.
The Rev. A. F. Elmes, pastor of
the Peoples Congregational Church,
624 M street NV, offered the COM
mittee the use of church rooms for
the X-raying and blood eXamina-
tions which will be made on May
and 5. In preparation for the sur
vey, the tuberculosis Association
will open an information Office on
April II at 702 M street NV, where
staff workers will be stationed daily.
All of the schools and churches IN
the area are to announce the oppor-
tunities for free examinations.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Cunningham Indicates
Plea Of Insanity 10
Murder Charge
Confessed Wife Slayer,
Arroigned, Waits on
Advice of Counsel
BY the Associated Press.


OKLAHOMA CITY, March 25.-
Attorneys for Roger Cunningham,
33, whose crudely drawn map d.
rected officers in the early morning
hours to the sewer grave of his
comely wife Eudora, indicated today
he would fight murder charge with
an insanity plea.
Herbert K. Hyde, nationally
known prosecutor of the Charles
Urschel kidnapers and now a pri-
vate lawyer. was called into the
case and said he felt sure Cunning
ham was mentally sick"
He has valid insanity defense"
said x. D. Mitchell, attorney and
fraternity brother of Cunningham.
Il think he is in a confused state
of mind right now"
County ATTORNEY Lewis r. Morris,
who haggled shaving confession out
OF the leaden-eyed, heavily bearded
Cunningham shortly after midnight,
filed formal murder charge and
Cunningham was taken before Peace
Justice. Evert Crismore for arraign-
ment. but refused to enter a plea
before talking with his lawyers.
The body of Mrs. Cunningham.
30-year-old society matron. was dug
from its rain -moistened grave by
f1arelight after her husband broke
a stubborn 19-day silence with
confession he killed her and told
an interviewer he acted in a fit of
rage because he was tired from
overwork and she nagged him.
Just few hours before a sched-
uled habeas corpus hearing, which
officers said might have brought him
freedom, he admitted he strangled
his wife on the night of March 6
and buried her body in a sewer
ditch.
With a firm hand he sketched a
map showing where the body was
buried in new housing addition
in the northwest section of the city,
then retired to his Jail cell for the
first sound sleep since his confine-
ment last Monday.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
TuxIess Town

University Park, Md, has no out
standing town taxes, except for the
current fiscal year, Mayor T. Earl
Bourne announced yesterday.
Mayor Bourne announces the
town has bought grounds adjoining
the school Fairgrounds which will
make available total of eight acres
for development as community
recreation center.
Evening star., 1939-03-26
Large Reich SPENDING

Large government spending on
ornaments and public construction
continues to provide the main stim-
ulus Of Germany's industrial activ-
itv.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
They Must Be Good!
SUI s &
TOPCOATS
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Receiving Tremendous Ovation!

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these the values we've offered at
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Fortunately he able to ship Immediately they
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Sizes for everybody in this large assortment
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Evening star., 1939-04-02

Famous "Trimfit" quality. The Lone
Ranger and Hi-Ho Silver" styles AnkletS,
half socks and slack socks. new initial
socks. two free initials. 6is to 1913.
Goldenberg's-Mdin Floor
Evening star., 1939-04-02
RIOck or White Kid
Sizes 4 to 10, A tO EE

Women. here's the perfect shoe for
every daytime reed . for walking,
for long hours of standing, for perfect
ease at all times. Fine, soft kid
leather with flexible sole and rubber
heel. Have several pairs for Spring
and Summer.
Goldcnberg's-Main Floor
Evening star., 1939-08-11
United Press Rome Office
Closed, Chief Expelled

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 11-H. r. Ekins
United Press correspondent here
who was ordered from Italy yester-
day when the government closed
the organizations Rome bureau, left
with his wife today for Paris.
An official said the government
action, believed to be the most dras-
tic even taken against a foreign cor
respondent in Rome, was caused by
publication of dispatch distributed
outside Italy by the United Press
saying that Mussolini was seriously
ILL.,
An official said the dispatch was
absolutely untrue"
While the Office is closed the
United Press will not be able to send
news dispatches abroad from Italy
nor furnish news to its italian
clients.
To demonstrate that he was in
good health Mussolini appeared
Wednesday night at an open-air
opera performance in Rome.
Mr.. Ekins said the Rome bureau
OF the United Press had nothing tc
do with the dispatch in question
which bore London date line ano
told OF reports circulating in Eng.
! land.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Hughes Request
For Sub.Stratosphere
Ocean Hop Studied
Flight Would BIoze
Troll for New
Use of Lond Planes

The State Department and the
Civil Aeronautics Authority today
were studying Howard Hughes re-
quest for permission to make a
transatlantic air flight that might
prove the trailblazer of a new type
OF commercial air travel over the
ocean-by land plane.
Mr.. Hughes, Texas millionaire who
flew around the globe in record time
last year and was voted this coun-
try's outstanding aviator in 1888 by
the National Aeronautics Associa-
ton, has filed an application with
the c. A. A. for approval of a sub
stratosphere hop from New York to
France in his new four -motored,
streamlined, closed-cabin Boeing
BOT.
Associates of Mr.. Hughes disclosed
today that the flyer proposes to lift
the ship to a height of more than
10000 feet for the journey. dimin-
ishing the time and the distance
between the American and the Eu-
ropean continents. The Boeing BOT
weighs $4,000 pounds and has a
capacity of more than 20 passengers
The Pan-American Airways has
shown an interest in the ship in
connection with suggestions that the
line inaugurate fast, land-plane
service to Europe, supplementing
the seaplane clippers now in service.
A ship similar to the Boeing BOT
crashed near Seattle last spring
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Britain 10 Surrender
Alleged Terrorists
To Japanese
New Evidence Against
Four Chinese Held at
Tientsin Cited
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE British
government announced today that
four Chinese alleged terrorists who
had been the center of the British
japanese dispute at Tientsin would
be handed over to japanese author
tiles for trial.
1t was announced that new evil
dence submitted by the Japanese
had established prima facie cases
against the four Chinese and that
they would be handed over imme-
diately.
japanese authorities in Tientsin
accuse the four of completely in the
killing OF Chinese customs official
of the Japanese dominated North
China regime. British refusal to
turn them over after they we're
seized in the British concession at
Tientsin brought on the Japanese
Army blockade of the British and
French concessions which had been
in force since June IA.
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, Am
bassador to Japan, has been in
structed to convey London's decision
to the Toxic government. The Am
bassador to China, Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, also has been instructed
to inform the Chungking govern
ment of the British decision.
Two of the Chinese will be tried
on murder charges growing out of
the assassination of S. G. Cheng
the customs official, April 9. The
other two will be charged with men,
bership in illegal organizations.
Delivery Of the four was first
among the japanese demands at the
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Youth Shot Along River Front
In Row Over Stoning of Cruiser
Seriously Wounded
As Party Of ID
Return From Dance

Louis Apastolakos, IT, Of 109 E
street NV, was shot in the hip and
wounded seriously early today after
row which he and 13 companions,
girls and boys returning from a
dance, had with three men on a
cabin cruiser moored in Washington
Channel.
Police detained the three men
who were aboard the small yacht.
None of them, detectives said, would
admit the shooting and the weapon
reported to have been a rifle
could not be found.
The IA young people, investigating
officers said, were going home from
country dance In two cars. They
stopped along the channel opposite
the engineering wharf. The boat
turned searchlight on them. The
group objected to this, the police
saids and an argument with the
yachtsmen followed.
The boys threw stones at the boat
according to the police report,
breaking a window and a 5-gallon
water bottle. A man ran up the
shore with rifle and opened fire
He then approached the cars and
attempted to empty the repeating
rifle into the close-packed group
the police were informed, but he
was disarmed by his companions.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Italy Seen Weakening
In War Of Nerves
Over Danzig
SoIzburg PorIey Is Sign
People Are Perturbed,
Puris Circles Hear
By PERTINAX.

PARIS. Aug. II IN. A. N. A.).-
Diplomatic circles in Paris specul-
lated today whether developments
in Italy might not shake Germany s
apparent resolve to bring the whole
Danzig question to an issue this
summer.
The unexpected conference at
Salzburg of Mussolini's son-in-law
and foreign minister, Count Gal
eazzo Ciano, and German Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
was understood here to imply that
the Italian people are beginning to
be seriously perturbed by what is
commonly called the war of nerves"
and that Fascist power, notwith-
standing its dogged resolve to stand
firm, now feels compelled to pay
serious heed to that new trend of
public opinion.
Several signs have been recorded
during the last week to indicate that
Italy might not continue to keep its
foreign policy keyed to the pitch of
the anti-French demonstration of
November 30 The extraordinary
communique the authorities issued
to the press last Saturday to deny
that the purpose behind the arma-
ment maneuvers in Northern Italy
was to make preparations to repel a
French invasion bears witness that
Mussolini had better take care not
to put the loyalty of his countrymen
to too severe test.
Is is surmised that Count Ciano
means to tell Won Ribbentrop the
first available opportunity ought to
be seized to approach Mr.. Chamber
lain and enlist his good will in favor
OF an all around international settle
ment and that, to that end, the CO.
operation of the Holy See could be
enlisted.
1t is difficult to ascertain upon
what foundation this new view of
Italian policy rests, but it is an in
controvertible fact that it is enter
tanned here by serious people. More
over, 1t is asserted from a diplomatic
source that, Notwithstanding all in
dignant denials given out in Rome,
Mussolini's health is seriously i'm
paired.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Half Of England B|ocked-Out
In Air Raid Defense Drills

Early air ministry reports on the
success of London's defenses-pur-
suit planes, anti-aircraft guns and
the balloon barrage-were sketchy
but Londoners who tramped about
in the dark hours thought it was
significant that few bombing planes
were seen over the city.
Five hundred bombers Stimulating
an enemy roared in over the eastern
and southern coasts in attempts to
dodge through and score hits" de-
spite 300 defending planes and 10000
groundlings deployed with gadgets
and guns to detect and shoot down
the raiders in make-believe.
Sir John said there would be
smaller. sectional A. r. P. tests"
probably unconnected with Royal
Air Force maneuvers, throughout
the country at regular intervals in
the future.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
CLIO. Maritime Leaders
To Plan A|I-U. S. Group
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The C. 1. o. announced yesterday
"a of it's maritime leaders would
meet here Monday to discuss an Or
ganization campaign. renewal OF
contracts which expire September
30, and plans to form a National
Industrial Maritime Federation.
In call issued by Joseph Curran,
president OF the c. I. o. Maritime
Union, the organization said repre-
sentatives would appear from the
American Communications Assocla-
ton, the Marine Engineers Bene-
flcial Association, the N. M. u. on
the East and Gulf Coasts, and a
group of West Coast unions such
as the International Longshore-
mems and Warehousemens Union
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Spain Reported Rushing
Border Fortifications
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France cat the Span
ish Frontier, Aug. 11.-Border OBJ
servers reported today that the
Spanish Nationalist government is
rushing construction of fortifica-
tions near the French frontier be-
tween Irun and San Sebastian.
Residents of the Hendaye region,
who frequently cross the frontier,
said thousands of former Repub-
lican soldiers, now enrolled in Ma
tionalist labor brigades, were being
directed in the work by German
technicians.
Motorists driving along the main
highway from the border to the
seaside resort of San Sebastian were
able to see the activities plainly, but
when they stopped for a closer view
they were sent on their way by
Nationalist guards.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Japanese 10 Investigate
Situation at Kaifenq
By the Associated Press.

PEIPING, Aug. 11.-Upon a re-
quest by the United States Embas-
sy, Japanese authorities promised
today to investigate the status of
80 Americans at Kaifeng, Northern
Honan Province. who were reported
to have been detained for undis-
closed reasons.
A cryptic message received by
the Embassy at Chungking and re-
ports brought by a courier through
Japanese lines last Saturday said
the Americans had been ready to
leave Kaifeng because of anti
American manifestations, but were
not permitted to do so.
Travellers who left Kaifeng before
the reported detention said the anti
American campaign had been mild,
consisting of some attacks in the
local Japanese-controlled press fol-
lowing the July 26 abrogation of
the Japanese United States trade
treaty.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Snite and His Bride Take
22O-MiIe Wedding Trip
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-Frederick B.
Snite, jr., self-styled boiler kid"
and his bride received ccngratulatory
messages and calls from friends at
their home today after a 220-mile
wedding trip.
The infantile paralysis victim, en-
cased in an iron lung" in which he
has spent most of the last three
years, was married yesterday to
Teresa Larkin of Dayton, Ohio.
The young couple made the trip
in Snites specially built trailer &C
companied by chauffeur, nurse and
attendant.
They toured through Northwest
suburbs and Southern Wisconsin
late yesterday, dining with friends
at Lake Lauderdale, north of Elk
horn, Wis, before returning to their
suburban River Forest home.
Snite and his 25-year-old bride
have deferred plans for a longer
wedding trip at present. The BRIDE
groom, who is 20, will undergo new
treatments at his home for at least
month.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Poland Thinks Peace
Is Still Possible in
Europe, Beck Says
Nations Will to Resist
Helps Prevent War,
Minister Feels
By JOHN GUNTHER.

WARSAW, Aug. II (N.A.NA0.-
1t may be fairly said that the future
Of Europe is in the hands of Po-
lands foreign minister, Col. Joseph
Beck. The tremendous question of
peace or war may depend on his
decision. If Germany should make
a sudden adventure In Danzig, it is
Col. Beck who will have to decide
whether or not Poland will fight.
If Poland fights, England and France
are pledged to fight for Poland.
Col. Beck fully measures up to the
responsibilities of the situation.
The main impression I gathered
from an interview, though Col. Beck
did not say so in so many words,
is that Poland thinks that peace is
still possible. Col Beck said that
Poland has a line from which she
cannot retire, but that the very fact
of Poland's strength and determi-
nation to resist will tend to prevent
war.
Col. Beck said that Polish rela-
tions with the Soviet Union are
developing satisfactorily and that
Anglo-Polish relations are extremely
good. He said that Anglo Polish
accord emphasizes new conception
in Europe that peace cannot be
maintained by further concessions
to Germany. AS for Danzig, he
indicated that a peaceful solution
was probable on certain terms.
Proposed Peaceful Solution.
DO you think that a peaceful
solution of the Danzig problem is
possible? If so, how?" 1 asked.
Il proposed peaceful solution on
March % directly to the German
government through the Polish Am
bassador in Berlin" The gist of
Col. Becks proposal at that time
was a free development of the in
ternal life of the German popula-
tion OF Danzig with Danzig to re-
main an independent organization
closely connected with Poland
economically
What about Polish relations with
the Soviet Union?"
"One must not forget that Po-
land and Soviet Russia are neigh
bors and that therefore relations
between Poland and this great
power are of extreme interest and
importance We have to take care
that these relations develop stead
lily and satisfactorily without too
great divisions or without going to
extremes. I am very proud that,
Notwithstanding the fact that we
had war with the Soviet Union
SO recently as 1920. I have been
able to sign a aggression pact
with the Soviet Union which I still
believe to be a very useful treaty
and one which it is very important
to maintain and observe"
Weakness Would Risk War.
do you think that the Polish
determination to resist attack serves
to prevent German aggression"
1T Is always very dangerous for
peace when, on one side, there Is
too great an accumulation Of
strength and, on the other side, ex-
treme weakness. Our moral strength
and our will to resist are not dan
gers to peace. On the contrary,
they are factors in consolidating
the situation. They are elements
of security, as we have a line from
which we cannot retire. If we
showed signs of weakness, there
would be greater risk of war"
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Chinese Negotiating
For Big Soviet Loan

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, Aug. Ii
Reliable sources intimated today
that the Soviet Russian Chinese
commercial treaty of June is might
be broadened to provide as high as
700,000,000 rubles (nominally sl33,-
O00,000) in credit and material aid
for China.
Chinese finance officials readily
admitted that Chinese Russian ne
gotiations were proceeding at Mos
cow
A preliminary Russian credit,
amounting to approximately $780,
100000, was said to have been ar
ranged. 1t was said China would
grant economic concessions in the
northwest and provide Russia with
certain raw materials.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug 1l-Great Britain's
greatest black-out-a demonstration
of civilian and military defenses
against bombing raids-early today
blotted out lights in half of England,
an area populated by 30,000,000 per-
sons.
AS dawn streaked the eastern sky,
just before the signal for lights on"
Sir John Anderson, lord privy seal
and air raid precautions chief, told
reporters that the experiment would
prove of great value" but that it
was impossible yet to express a
considered judgment"
AS daylight progressed anti-air-
craft searchlights which had famed
the sky for three and half hours
were dimmed and London, nerve
center of the % blacked-out counties
of Southeastern England, came back
to life.
Evening star., 1939-08-11

Young Apastolakos was hit with
the first shot. His friends-eight
boys and five girls-took him to
Emergency Hospital.
This was the second mishap to
betall the youth within two months.
In June he was repairing a pipe on
the third floor of his home when
he fell and broke an ankle and a
wrist.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
ForIey Moscicki's Guest
BY the Associated Pres,

WARSAW, Aug. 11.-President
Ignace Moscicki entertained Post
master General James A. Farley at
a private luncheon today Mr.. Far
ley Is to be a guest of Foreign Min
lister Joseph Beck at a dinner party
tonight, after which he is leaving by
train for Krakow. He Will go to
Vienna and Rome Saturday.
Evening star., 1939-08-11

Britlsh-Japanese conference at To-
kio on China policy. which also is
considering economic relations of
the two powers in North China.
1t also was announced that an
other Chinese, Ssu Cheng-wu, who
was arrested in the Tientsin British
concession last September on
charges of terrorist activity, would
he handed over to the japanese for
detention under reasonable safe
guards"