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Evening star., 1939-07-08
Craven Gets | 10 ; Years
In Prison Bakinq Deaths

PHILADELPHIA, July 8 Dr.
Frank Craven, deputy warden of
Holmesburg Prison when four con-
victs baked" to death in heated
punishment cells last August, was
sentenced yesterday to one to three
years in prison. He was convicted
of involuntary manslaughter Janu-
ary IL.
Craven Immediately appealed to
the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
His bail was continued.
Judge Robert E. Lamberton, who
imposed the sentence, indicated that
he would send Craven to a prison
other than Holmesburg if the higher
court sustained him.
Craven was the first of a dozen
prison officials to be tried for the
punishment-cell deaths. Francis
Smith, a guard, also was convicted
of involuntary manslaughter. He
has asked a new trial.
Former Supt. James Mills and
seven guards were acquitted.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Five Accused
|Of Stealing Hogs
lDine on Pork

Shortly before they were to appear
IN court today to answer charges of
stealing quantity of hogs from the
st: Elizabeth Hospital piggery. five
colored men, their appetite for pork
apparently unaffected devoured a
hearty breakfast of porkchops In
their cellblock.
The porkchops, a gift from a
friend, whose name Harry j. Wells.
deputy United States marshal, who
accepted the package, did not dis
cover, were accompanied by two
huge pieces of cornbread.
Later the five men, Linwood E.
Crawford, Dwight Key, Raymond
D. Dorsey, William H. Collins and
James L. Boyd, pleaded not guilty
to larceny from the United States
Government and were held for the
grand jury under $1,000 bond each.
Police said quantity of cornmeal,
alleged to have been stolen previ-
ously, also would figure in the
charges.
Two of the men, Dorsey and Col
Inns, also were held on charges of
carrying a deadly weapon. They
pleaded not guilty and demanded
jury trial. Judge Edward M. Cur
ran set bond at 81 900 each on this
odense.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Southern Mill Heads
Hit Wage Minimum Of
81 Cents at Hearinq
Atlanta Session to Be
Resumed Here Monday
To Hear Other Foes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ATLANTA, July 8.-With volum-
inouS testimony IN the record both
for and against a proposed 32la-
cents-an-hour wage minimum for
textile workers, Wage-Hour Admin
istrator Elmer F. Andrews last night
adjourned hearing here and
planned to resume testimony in
Washington Monday.
The wage hearing was transferred
from Washington to Atlanta on June
26 to give Southern opponents of
the recommended minimum an op-
portunity TO be heard. Their testi-
mony followed that given by pro-
ponents the first two days of the
hearing here.
Adjournment yesterday came soon
after small mill owners told the ad-
mlnlstrator they doubted whether
they could continue to operate if the
proposed 32l2-cent minimum went
into effect.
Robert D. Sanders of Jackson,
Miss, testified he already had sold
plant at Pritchard, Ala; closed
another at West Point, Miss. and
was doubtful about being able to
continue to operate mills at Kosci-
usko, Winona, Starkville, Magnolia
and Meridian, Miss, now employing
1858 workers.
The wage minimum. he asserted.
would be a much heavier burden on
small textile establishments such as
the ones he operated. He added that
| allowances should be made in the
wage minimum for living conditions
in. Southern mill villages, which are
considerably lower than in the
North.
Paul A. Redmond of Birmingham,
head Of company employing about
5000 workers in 10 mills in Alabama,
said he had found prices for food
in mill-site villages not only much
lower than in the North, but lower
than in Southern cities as well.
Included in his examples of COM
parative living costs were: Eggs. Is
to II cents a dozen at the villages
and 25 cents at Birmingham: milk,
7l2 to 10 cents quart at the villages
and IA cents at Birmingham; chick
ems. Is to 20 cents pound at the
villages and 25 cents at Birmingham.
Mr.. Sanders testified that most OF
his employees, recruited largely from
nearby farms, earn between 25 and
30 cents an hour, or about four times
as much as they could earn on the
farm.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Haywood Reported
Doing VeYWeII'

Walter NJ Haywood, White House
policeman who was found living in
hut near the C. & o. canal after
being missing nearly week, was
reported doing very well" at
Gallinger Hospital today.
Thought to be an amnesia victim
he was still under observation.
His doctors said he had told them
the last thing he remembered was
getting on street car.
The 46-year-old officer, a World
War veteran, was discovered Mon
day near Brookmont, Md. He was
living In thatched hut and was
In . daze when found by officers.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Polish Invasion
Of Danzig 10 Foil
Reich Is Hinted
Warsaw Calm, Mind Made
Up Not to Tolerate
Free City AnschIuss
BY RICHARD MOWRER,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
WARSAW, July (By radio).- -
Dead calm prevails in Warsaw.
There is no furry or excitement
over the Danzig problem. Poland
has indicated that German ansch-
luss of the free city will not be pas
sively tolerated, and no change of
mind about that is evident.
While extremely reticent about
staging what it would consider the
overflow mark of steady German
infiltration into Danzig, the Polish
government insists that:
l. Danzig must remain a separate
unit outside the frontiers of Ger
many.
2. Danzig must remain inside the
Polish customs union.
3. Polish rights in Danzig cannot
be left to the mercy of any other
country and must bef respected in
practice as we'll as on paper.
4. While room must be granted for
free cultural development for the
German majority in Danzig, the ma
tional individuality of the Polish
minority must also be respected.
Polish Coup Indicated.
'We, too, know how to send tour
lists to Danzig,' responsible Poles like
to say, implying that when it is con-
sidered that Germany has gone too
far, Danzigers are likely to wake up
one morning and find Polish troops
in the Free City.
1t is bluntly suggested that Ger
many has no monopoly on staging
surprises. In responsible circles here
it is believed that the Polish govern
ment, earlier in the week, decided in
conjunction with France and Great
Britain upon plan of action to
block the German seizure of DanZig
The situation has gone beyond the
protest stage, it is considered here
and informed quarters suspect that
the limit Of Polands endurance in
face of German provocation and in
filtration into Danzig has already
been set.
Although Poland is in close touch
with France and Britain, this coun-
trys policy is based almost entirely
on self-reliance. The Poles do not
seem to care too much what London,
Paris or Moscow is talking or think
ing about.
Danzig Matter of Life. Death.
The difference between Warsaw,
on the one hand and London and
Paris, on the other, is that Warsaw
mas long since made up its mind
that the Danzlg question is a mat
Ter OF life and death for Poland,
while Paris and London are Just
getting used to the idea that fur
ther Nazi aggression must be
stopped.
In the face of the German menace
Poland is more united than it has
oeen Tor years. Opposition to the
government has become opposition
to Nazi Germany. The Poles con-
hdence in themselves and their
armed forces is sky high. The coun-
try Is prepared and preparing for
war. There are 1,25O,0OO men
under arms at the present time
and 100000 more can be quickly
moolllzed, it is claimed. Citizens
nave been advised to acquire
enough food and necessities to last
SIX weeks. BY August l the fac
torres Will have enough supplies for
SIX months SO that if war comes
they will not be dependent upon
uncertain wartime transportation
for their war materials.
'copsrisht' 1899. by the Chicago Daily
News, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Donzig Is Fortifying
Coast, Poles Choroe

WARSAW, July 8 (P.-The news
paper ABC said today that Dan
zig authorities were building coast
fortlflcations for the Free City.
Concrete emplacements for artil-
lery and anti-aircraft are being in
stalled, the newspaper said. on a
line from the village of Glettkau
between Danzig and the Polish port
OF Gdynia, to Schievenhorst. near
the East Prussia frontier of Ger
many.
ABC said digging of trenches and
erection of frontier barricades had
been dropped in order to rush coast
defenses.
Authoritative Polish sources said
all new reports of military prepared
ness in Danzig were being investi-
gated carefully.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
SIashing Victim
Is Near Death;
Relatives Sought
Almost IIIeeibIe Note
Says Good-by to Boy
About II Years Old

A 48-year-old transient lay in a
critical condition at Casualty Hospi-
tai today-his throat slit from ear to
ear-while Washington police at
tempted to locate relatives, particu-
larly son referred to in note
scribbled by the victim
The man. identified as Raymond
Brenner, 48, was found late yester-
day writhing on the floor of room
he had rented July 4 in a boarding
house at lot Seventh street S. E. He
called the attention of a fellow
roomer. Joseph F. Tucker. to a safety
razor blade nearby and indicated he
had slit his own throat.
Unable to talk he motioned to Mr.
Tucker to bring him a picture OF
himself and a boy, about IL years
old, from his dresser. Then, calling
for pencil and paper, he attempted
to write note. The faint, almost
illegible. scribbling read:
Tell my little boy goodby
God bless these good people here -
Get my boss"
His landlady. Mrs. Sarah Auguste
said he had been a very quiet
roomer and had talked little. How
ever, she said, he had indicated he
was plasterer by trade and had a
son very ill in some hospital"
Another note scribbled by the VIC
tim after police and Casualty
Hospital physician arrived indicated
he had relatives in Baltimore.
Mrs. Auguste said Mr.. Brenner
was away from his room all day yes
terday, returning about S pm. She
said he had been home about As
minutes when she heard "a, thud.
Mr.. Tucker rushed into the second
floor room to find Mr.. Brenner beat
ing his fists on the floor.
Hospital attaches said his condi-
ton is critical.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Japanese Surround
Soviet-MongoI Force
BY RUSSELL BRINES,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
WITH JAPANESE TROOPS ON
THE MONGOLIAN FRONTIER,
July 6 (delayed With Mongolian
troops surrounded by Japanese VINO
hold parts of two contested heights,
the future course of current border
warfare apparently depended today
upon whether Soviet Monaghan
forces use available reinforcemeuts.
A high ranking japanese officer
said $4,000 Soviet reinforcements are
now In Outer Mongolia. Strong
japanese reinforcements were re-
ported authoritatively to have ar
rived at HalunarShan, indicating a
possible extension of the front to
the southeast, or a new battle within
few days. The officer said Japa-
nese had sufficient men and equip
ment to repel Soviet attack in any
part of Manchukuo.
HulanarShan is some 1876 miles
southeast of Lake Bor, on the east
ern frontier of Mongolia. The scene
OF the present border fighting, which
has been intermittent since May IL
Is along the Khalka River, about &C
miles east and south of the lake.
MOngOl Aviation Reinforced.
The Mongolian airforce has been
reinforced, but japanese apparently
are superior here. japanese believe
the Soviet forces are hampered by
lack OF gasoline and ammunition al
the front.
However, the Mongol attacks or
Nomonhan Height resulted in a sur
prlslngly long battle. Predictions OF
an end OF maj jor hoStilities first by
Saturday and then by Sunday gave
evidence of a Japanese desire tc
! finish the warfare. japanese have
SAID repeatedly that they have nc
intention of invading Mongolia.
lnnumerable japanese supply
trucks are continuously moving on
the long, muddy communication
lines.
Rain transformed the battle-ground
into a quagmire. Both sides in
trenched today and brought ur
heavy artillery.
japanese occupied lower sections
OF Nomonhan, which is $50 feet
ABOVE the prairie and the highes,
point IN the area. Mongolians sho,
down from this height and from
Moro Hill. 100 feet above level GROUND
Heights Surrounded.
japanese surrounded the heights
preventing escape of the Mon
gohans eastward to the Khalka
They also laid down barrage along
| the river.
Attempting to prevent the cross
ing OF reinforcements and meeting
retallatory fire along the river
japanese bombed and damaged two
bridges. japanese anti-tank trenches
along the Khalka destroyed many
Mongol tanks.
lhe Vlclousness of the battle was
demonstrated by japanese reports
OF the destruction of $50 tanks and
armored cars, the finding of soc
RUSSIAN bodies and the capture OF
b0 prisoners, including the chief OF
tank battalion and a lieutenant
OF communications.
1 saw a carload of prisoners de-
parting for Hailar 12O miles north
east of Nomonhan).
japanese said the original Monpo]
force on Nomonhan was 1000 and
gave no figure for reinforcements.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
MongoI- Soviet Army
Routed From Hill,
japanese Announce
Furious Dawn Bottle Is
Reported on Border Of
Munchukuo
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, July 8.-The Japanese
Army in Manchukuo tonight an
nounced its forces had routed Mon
gol-Soviet forces and captured
strategic Balshogal Heights along
the Kholsten River in a furious dawn
battle today on the disputed from
tier between Outer Mongolia and
Manchukuo.
The japanese reported they cap
tured SO Russians and additional
Mongol prisoners and forced the en-
emy to retreat in confusion west
ward toward the Khalka River.
A communique also reported a
new air battle in which the Jap
anese downed Is Soviet airplanes
over Lake Bor without losing q
plane.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Unions and Dealers
In Materials Blamed
For Housing Costs
Sears, Roebuck Head Reps
'Exorbitunt' Lund Prices
In Monopoly Testimony
~ tie Associated Press.

~ tie Associated Press.
The Monopoly Committee heard
yesterday from Robert E. Wood,
chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co.,
that "exorbitant" land costs, union
restrictions and an alliance" among
building material dealers kept hous-
ing construction in large cities be-
yond the reach Of modest incomes.
Gen. Wood testified after Assist
ant Attorney General Thurman Ar
mold outlined Department of
Justice program for prosecuting
on a nation wide scale, and Simul-
taneously, the various combinations
which are creating the log jam in
the building industry"
The Chicago mail order executive
said reciprocal" arrangements be-
tween contractors and unions, espe-
cially in plumbing and heating.
made it necessary in the larger
cities for builder to buy only GER
tain equipment, do business with
certain contractors and pay much
higher prices.
Encouraged by its success in
building a group of workers homes
at Kankakee, near Chicago, Sears
Roebuck considered similar prof.
ect in Chicago, Gen. Wood told the
committee. The company learned.
however, that the Chicago house
would cost $4,000. compared with
$3,400 in the smaller community,
and decided it would not be prac-
ticable.
Union regulations, he testified,
would not permit the company to
install its own plumbing and heat
ing equipment in the contemplated
houses, but would have required
purchasing from rival manufac-
turers.
There is no advantage to the
union plumber to pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for the master
plumber" Gen. Wood remarked,
"but that's what he's doing, What
the deal is between the master
plumber, the material dealer and
the manufacturer, don't know"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Head of Donzig Senate
Returns From Germany

FREE CITY OF DANZIG, July 8
(P.-Arthur Karl Greiser, President
OF the Danzig Senate, returned to
MS post today after an absence of
several weeks during which he served
a short training term in the German
Navy.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Italy Prepares New Law
To Guard Race Purity
BY the Associated Press.

D5 tIlt 1hsSUCIdVtU FIPSS.
MILAN, Italy, July 9.-Premier
Mussolini's newspaper II Popolo
d'1talia announced yesterday prep
aration of a new law to protect the
purity of the Italian race.
The law would impose three years
imprisonment and $500 fine on any
one in the empire who committed a
crime against the Italian race.
No specific crimes were mentioned
but the newspaper explained tina.
major reasons for the measure was
to regulate relations between Italians
and natives in Italys African COL
onies.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Senators Urge Unit
Of Flight Officers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee recommended yesterday crea-
ton of new group of Army Air
Corps officers to be known as flight
officers" The group would be COM
posed of reserve and non-commis-
stoned pilots ineligible for regular
commissions.
Representatives of from 500 to 600
veteran pilots in this group said
their services could be utilized In
the aviation expansion program.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Weekly Outlook

North and Middle Atlantic States-Gen-
orally talr, although scattered showers are
indicated in portions of the North Atlantic
States Monday or Monday night and show
ers are likely in most sections Thursday or
Friday Temperature near normal most OF
week but somewhat below normal middle
Ohio Valley and Tennessee Generally
fair although some probability of showers
Wednesday or Thursday. Temperature
The Norhepn most Ssfx is moving
ineham Island. 1888 millibars t29.4s
inches). The disturbance that was over
rapidly east-northeastward to Southwestern
Quebec, Lac Dore. l0O2.5 -millibars t29.6o
inches. and broad trough extends thence
turbance is moving eastward over Mani
toba. Norway House. 1902 millibars
t29, S3 inches. and pressure remains rela.
,sg low oysr the G9 War Of MeTso and
remains high over the Western Atlantic
Ocean. St: Georges, Bermuda, l023;s
high, and rising from Alaska southeast
ward to the Rocky Mountain region and
thence eastward to the upper Lake region,
Nebr, 1923 millibars t3O.16 inchesl.
Showers have occurred in the, South At
region the upper Mississippi Valley and
portions of the Middle Atlantic States.
The temperature is still considerably above
norma normal almost generally =, from the Rocky
Coast. although cooler weather is now
overspreading the Lake region and the
upper Mississippi Valley.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tian Tahl>s
Evening star., 1939-07-08

Tommy, a personable maltese cat
belonging to Mr.. and Mrs. M. G..
Denlinger, $500 Western avenue,
Chevy Chase, Md, is back on terra
firma today, feeding on milk and
salmon, purring gratefully for his
rescue yesterday after nearly four
days in the top of lofty tree.
Mrs. Denlinger missed Tommy
Monday but did not locate him until
Wednesday, when she heard a faint
cry IN the tree. She believes he
probably climbed to his dangerous
perch some time Monday, since it
Evening star., 1939-07-08

was not his habit to prowl far from
the wooded yard.
Efforts to coax the cat down were
futile, and his cries were getting
fainter by Thursday. The Washing
ton Fire Department and other
agencies refused to come to Tom
my's aid, Mrs. Denlinger said. FL
nally the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. was touched by Tom
mys plight and sent crew with a
ladder. Tommy was most grateful
and very hungry when they got
him down.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Easy Profit

GUTHRIE. Okla. (P.-Gus Flasch
tried to quit wheat farming, but
nature interfered.
After last years harvest he de-
clded to plant alfalfa instead. But
MS volunteer wheat was so good he
had to cut it. His grain was the
first sold here this spring.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Weather Report
Furnished by

FURNISHED Bureau
CombiaLocal
tonight not quite so warm tonight tomorrow generally fair and slightly
southwest shifting
MaryandLoa thunderhowers this
quite tonight fair
OF portion tonight
generally
Evening star., 1939-07-08

Record for Last - Hours.
(From noon Yesterday to noon today
Highest, 81. $40 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. 90.
Lowest, rs. 5 am. today. Year aso, II.
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Report for Last "a Hours.

Record Temperature This Year.
HIGHEST. 96. on June l6
Lowest, IL, on February. %,
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
IRON noon Yesterday to noon today
Hlghest, "a per cent. at am. today
Lowest 90 Der cent. a. noon today
Wnnk l.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

Russia will increase the number
of beds in tubercular hospitals from
7.100 to 80 900.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

Monthly precipitation In inches in tn
Capital (current month to date):
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FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
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Tide Table

Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today
Evening star., 1939-07-08
The Sun and Moon,

I HUuI dIleT SUHStV,
Precipitation,
Evening star., 1939-02-07
Modernized Banking Coco
Uraed by D. T.. Heads

Modernization of the District
banking code in line with provisions
of the laws of numerous States. par
ticularly with regard to the respon-
sibilities of banks, for depositors'
money, was proposed today by the
Commissioners in a measure they
sent to the Budget Bureau for ap-
proval.
The draft is an amendment Of a
similar measure presented to Con-
gress last session, which failed OF
enactment. The amendment was
drawn by the District corporation
counsel's Office in conference with
representatives of the District
Bankers Association.
One section of the proposed bill
provides that after six months, in
the absence of notice from a depos-
itor, the bank no longer would be
liable for the erroneous payments
of a forged, altered, raised or unau-
thorized check drawn against the
account of a depositor.
Another section is designed to
prevent a bank from being mulcted
IN damages out of proportion to
the injury inflicted, where the bank
enormously refused to honor the
check of depositor who has suf1-
cient funds on deposit to cover
check, the Commissioners explained.
Another section provides that a
garnishee may hold, without liabil-
ity, property or credits attached,
which such garnishee holds in the
name of or for the account of an
other than the defendant, until the
court determines the propriety Of
the attachment.
Evening star., 1939-02-07

avenue Sc. by an automobile driven,
police said. by John Bell Case, 81,
OF Bethesda, Md.
Mr.. Thornburg was removed to
Casualty Hospital and his condition
today was reported serious. Mr..
Case was booked on a charge OF
reckless driving.
Wilbert E. LAM, %, Of GAL C street
NE, received conclusion and pos
sible fracture of the skull when
struck by mail truck at Massachu-
sets avenue and Tenth street NE.
at $50 pm. yesterday. Police re-
ported the mail truck was driven by
Levi Smithers, 48, of Fairfax, Va.
Two were injured when an auto
mobile, driven by Carl w. Wiston,
IS, of 5l3 E street NE, struck a
railroad underpass abutment early
last night at South Capitol street
and Virginia avenue. Mr.. Wiston
received a lacerated chin and
possible conclusion of the brain, and
a passenger in the car, William
Moore, "a, of Alt Twelfth street
NE, lacerated lip, nose and hands.
Collision With Truck.
George A. Shouse, "A, of 1927 o
street NV. suffered a possible frac-
. ture of collar bone and concus-
sion In a collision yesterday after
noon with a truck driven by Harold
Motley, "a, of 909 Third street NV.
The accident occurred at Sixth and
L streets Sc.
Miss Lorraine Engebritson, 20, of