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Evening star., 1939-07-25
1896 Panama Canal
Treaty Is Ratified
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The Senate today ratified q 1896
treaty with Panama requiring that
the United States consult with Pan
anna when it decides to take major
steps in the face of any threat of
aggression against the Panama
Canal.
Action on the pact came after a
two-day debate, during which some
Republicans contended it would
weaken the United States ability to
defend the Panama Canal.
However, Chairman Pittman,
Democrat, of Nevada of the Foreign
Relations Committee argued that
under the new accord this country
would retain its right to take i'm
mediate armed action to protect the
waterway in case of a great emer-
gency" before consulting Panama.
The vote was 64 to IS. thirds
majority being required for ratifica-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Two Bandits and Girl Kidnop
AIexondHon, Tie Him to Tree
Victim Left on
Lonely Road
70 Miles Awuy

Two young bandits with a blond
girl as their leader abducted the lone
attendant of an Alexandria filling
station last night, robbed him of
$27 and then left him tied to tree
on lonely road 10 miles away
Police started a belated search
for the trio. riding in green sedan,
after their victim, Roy Allyn, 10,
struggled from his bonds and made
his way to Fredericksburg, Is miles
from the point where he was put out
of the car. to report the robbery
Young Allyn, who lives at % East
Maple street, in Alexandria. was
working at Douglas NJ Springman' S
filling station on the Washington
Richmond highway near Hunting
Creek when a machine entered the
drive at 1890 o'clock
Covered With Pistol.
Two men alighted, walked into
the office and one covered him with
pistol
Come along with U.S." they or
dered.
Mr. Allyn was pushed into the
back of the automobile and forced
to lie on the floor with the armed
man sitting on guard above him.
Keep still and you'll be all right,
his captors cautioned.
Mr.. Allyn said he lay in that po-
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Anti-British Activities
In China Increase
Despite Pledge
Pro-Joponese Porty
Extends Campaign;
Another Briton Held
BY the Associated Press.

SHANGHAI, July 25-Anti-B British
measures were intensified in North
China and new British-Japanese
friction arose in Shanghai today in
the face of Britain's promise at
Toxic to stay out of the way of the
Japanese Army in China.
The British consul-general at
Shanghai protested to the japanese
consul-general against detention of
H. Rose, chief of the international
Settlement Municipal Councils Pub
lie Health Department., by police OF
the ese-dominated Shanghai
municipality.
S4,50O Demanded.
Mr. Rose, 100 Chinese and a Rus
sian, all employees of the depart
ment, were detained on orders OF
the Chinese mayor. 1t was reported
that the Japanese-d dominated pup
pet regime had threatened to hold
them until the International Settle
ment paid arrears for garbage
dumping privileges.
Officials of the Settlement Mu-
nicipal Council said the puppet gov
ernment had been demanding a
monthly sum and arrears which
we're understood to amount to $4,000
Chinese dollars ga 5000.
At Peiping the Japanese-spon-
sored political party, Hsinminhui
sent instructions to branches In
Shansi, Shantung, Hopeh and Ho-
nan Provinces to tighten anti
British boycotts and demonstrations
Hsinminhui announced plans fol
a widespread propaganda campaign
throughout China, using theaters
moving pictures, posters and car.
toons.
Chinese Press Bitter.
The Shanghai Chinese press COM
mented bitterly on yesterdays Brit.
ish-Japanese agreement, calling II
another Munich"
The influential Shungpo declared
Britain's foreign policy commands
no confidence" while Chung Mel jill
Pao predicted Britain would LOSE
prestige in the Far East and "ths
Chinese people will lose all conf.
dence in British morality"
The American-owned English
language China Press declared thai
Britain was sacrificing her owr
honor and interests in a futile effort
to defend the empire"
Evening star., 1939-07-25
u. ). Need Not Police
No Mans Land in
Virginia, Says Court
Assault Cose in Parkway
Area Brings Opinion
Stote Is Responsible
B> . staf Correspondent OF The Star.

b< StaE correspondent Oh Inc 9tar
ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 15.-The
mo Mans Land" along the Vir-
ginia shore of the Potomac River is
not the policing concern of the Fed
eral Government merely because
District and Virginia authorities
have refused to accept such re-
sponsibility.
This was the ruling of United
States District Court Judge Robert
N. Pollard here today in holding
the court was without jurisdiction
to hear a case charging James Ed
ward Gibson with criminal assault
in the George Washington Memo
rial Parkway near Key Bridge.
The decision was seen as placing
upon Virginia the responsibility of
law enforcement of certain disputed
lands on the west bank of the Poto-
mac. The Government may appeal,
however
1t was understood District and
Virginia authorities were approached
following the alleged assault upon
20-year-old Washington telephone
operator, May II, but disclaimed the
right to prosecute. 1t was then
that the Federal Government ac-
cepted the case under protest, it was
said.
Believes It's virginia's Duty.
Judge Pollard indicated that
while these areas are in doubt as
to their law enforcement control
he har no doubt that Virginia would
assume what is, in his opinion, its
responsibility.
The indictment against Gibson
was on two counts of rape and as
sault with intent to rape the WASH
ington woman, ION lands reserved
or acquired by the exclusive use of
the United States and under ex-
elusive jurisdiction thereof"
1t was this language that resulted
in the courts quashing the indict-
ment against the defendant and
dismissing the jury after nearly
seven hours of testimony yesterday
The defendant is being held pend
ing parley to decide whether the
opinion shall be appealed or wheth-
(See NO MANS LAND Page A-4D
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Britain to Give Poland
$37, 600, 900 Credit
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 25.-Sir John
Simon, chancellor of the exchequer,
today told the House of Commons
Great Britain had agreed to give
Poland credits of 100000 (about
$37 400, ,000), but that the two coun-
tries had not reached an agreement
on British cash loan to Poland.
He added that there was not time
now to get the necessary legislation
for such a loan passed before Parlia-
ment recesses.
The loan under discussion was
understood to be for s8,500, 900
(about $39, 9,800,0 ,000), to be provided
by the British and French govern
ments.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
u. ). 10 Stand Firm
On Rights in China,
Officials Here Saw
japanese to Be Held
Strictly Responsible
For Army Activities
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

The United States Government
rejects Japan's thesis that its mill
tary operation in China entitled it
to special position" there and has
no thought of following the British
lead taken yesterday in the Craigie-
Arita statement, it was learned to-
Gay in an authoritative quarter
Contrarily, this Government will
in the future as in the past hold
Toxic strictly responsible for all
damage to American property or
personal injury to American citi-
zens as the result of japanese mill
tary activities in China, it was said
There is no thought here of issuing
a warning to American citizens and
authorities similar to that in which
the British Government admonished
its official and subject to refrain
from acts and measures" which
might interfere with japanese mill
tary progress.
Authorities here, noting the ex-
treme vagueness of the Craigie-Arlta
communique, declined to predict
what its concrete effects might be
These effects, it was felt, will de-
pend largely upon future conditions
in China and the way in which the
British feel called upon to interpret
the statement. Such effects might
vary all the way from refusing anti
japanese plotters of Chinese ma
tionality asylum in British conces-
sions to recognition of Japan's right
to lay down a naval blockade.
Considerable sympathy is felt by
American officials for Great Britain,
harrassed and endangered on two
sides-by the Fascist bloc" in Eu-
rope and by Japan in the Far East
1t is recognized that the concessions
Britain made to the japanese yester-
day were exacted under duress and
for that reason may prove valid
only so long as the British govern
ment feels weak and menaced.
Far Eastern experts here do not
believe that Britain's concession to
Japan's claim of special rights IN
China will have any realistic effect
upon the conduct of war. 1t was
noted that London did not agree to
refrain from granting further
credits to the Chinese, nor to stop
selling them munitions.
The only substantial harm that
Britain could inflict upon China, it
(See U. S. RIGHTS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-07-25
MARYLAND Tobacco Men Want
Less Chanting, More English

the commission house was opened in
April. broke out at meeting Of the
Tobacco Market Committee OF the
Prince Georges County Farm Bu-
reau.
The committee, to man, voted to
demand that operators Of the local
market replace the auctioneer with
some one we can understand"
Members of the group said that
their tobacco frequently has been
sold at prices they would refuse to
consider if they were able to un-
derstand what was transpiring be-
tween the auctioneer and the buyers.
We'll take our tobacco to the
Baltimore market If the commission
house don't get rid of that Tarheel.
several OF the farmers asserted.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Roosevelt Calls
Congress Chiefs
To White House
Voices Hope for
Adjournment by
End of Next Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt came back to
Washington today to check up on
the administrations multibillion-
dollar lending bill and the progress
Congress is making toward adjourn
menu.
Before leaving his home at Hyde
Park, N. Y, last night he sent word
to the congressional majority lead
ers, Senator Barkley, Democrat. of
Kentucky and Representative Ray
burn, Democrat, of Texas, to drop
in a. the White House today and
report on legislative conditions.
The President hoped they could
tell him the lending bill would be
out of the way and the legislators
ready to call it quits for the ses-
sion by the end of next week.
He had worked out a schedule
calling for his return to Hyde Park
Immediately after adjournment, act
ing there on bills passed in the usual
last-minute congressional rush, and
then cool weeks cruise off the New
England and Canadian coasts.
1910 Plans Indefinite.
While Mr.. Roosevelt's plans for
the immediate future were fairly
definite, those for 1910 remained as
much a mystery as ever
i,1
field on his Hyde Park estate, the
Chief Executive virtually challenged
reporters to make something out of
his remarks about a weekend con-
ference with National Democratic
Chairman James A. Farley.
Mr.. Farley stood beside him and
neither said a word about third
term possibilities or next years po-
litical campaign.
The newsmen, basing their judg-
ment on what they knew of previous
parleys between Mr., Farley and the
'the boss" saw in one presidential
statement an intimation a third
term might have figured in their
latest conversation.
1t was just one of the talks like
they have been having since 1928,
Mr.. Roosevelt asserted, and those
talks have continued in the same
tenor for II years. The results of
the talks, the President said, have
been fairly effective and he thought
they would continue to be so. He
added he did not know what re-
porters could get out OF that state
ment.
Farley Going Abroad.
With a huge grin. Mr.. Farley
shook hands with the President
after the press conference and said:
"Good-by, boss I'll keep in touch
with you He is sailing for Europe
with his daughter later in the week.
The President grinned back and
told the Democratic chairman to
have good trip.
The President had noted that 9TH
er passengers on the boat would be
his own son, John, and his wife;
John Hamilton. National Repub-
lican chairman Jouett Shouse, for
mer head of the American Liberty
League; Representative Ham Fish,
Republican, of New York, who rep
resents the Chief Executives dis
trict and is one of the administra-
tion's severest critics, and Senator
Joseph O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of
Wyoming.
With a chuckle, Mr.. Roosevelt
said it would be a great boatload.
and he would miss his guess if some
were not thrown overheard before
the boat reached Southampton,
England. 1t would not be Jim, he
added.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he would re-
turn to Hyde Park as soon as Con-
gress adjourned, which he hoped
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1939-07-25
P, /. stan Correspondent of The Star.

Py Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July
25.-The chant of the tobacco auc-
tioneer may soon be stilled in Prince
Georges County.
Farmers, disgusted at their inabil-
lty to decipher the unintelligible
chatter of the auctioneer, are prepar-
ing q demand that an amateur be
placed on the floor of the local COM
mission house.
1--WE can't understand that North
Carolina fellow" one leaf grower de-
clared. Lets send him back home
and get somebody who can speak
English"
Criticism of the chant" which
has held sway In tobacco sales since
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Ashurst Named Head
Of Great Smoky Probe
By the Associated Press,

by tfe hSSUClateu Press.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari-
zona was appointed chairman today
Of subcommittee to conduct an in
vestigation into Supt. j. Ross Eakin S
management of Great Smoky Noun
tainS National Park.
Senator Adams, Democrat, of
Colorado, chairman of the Commit
tee on Public Lands and Surveys,
said he had appointed Senators
Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico,
and Nye, Republican, of North Da-
kota to serve with Senator Ashurst.
No announcement was made as to
when hearings would be opened or
where they would be held.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

He explained that with reference
to the white collar" workers he had
changed his mind merely concern
ing the method that should be fol-
lowed in dealing with them.
He said representatives from the
Westinghouse Electric Co.'S com
pany union" among others, had
demonstrated to him that basing
exemptions for white collar" work.
ers on monthly salary limit would
discriminate against the older
workers.
Because older workers get more
money because they have been
longer in service, they would be
denied the benefits of the laws
overtime provisions" he said. Il
think it would be better to handle
this question by placing a monthly
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Senator Glass Quits City

Senator Carter Glass, Democrat,
of Virginia, quit Washington for the
summer today with the tart obser-
vation that Congress should have
adjourned some time ago."
I'D like to stay here and
vote against that spending lending
thing" the Virginian said as he
departed for home. Il voted
against it in committee and I'm
paired against it."
Senator Glass, eldest Senator at
81, lives at Lynchburg.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
RooseveIt's GrundchiId
Butted by Goat
ey the Associated Press.

Gy Ihe AsSOclhted PTSSS,
FORT WORTH, Tex, July 25-
Butted by goat, Ruth Chandler
Roosevelt, 5-year-old granddaughter
OF President Roosevelt, was treated
IN hospital today for "a very slight
conclusion"
physicians said the child'S chest
eiso was bruised by the goat, which
outted her while she was playing
~ the country home of friends.
The mother, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt,
spent last night at the hospital. She
expected to take her daughter to
ner Dutch Branch ranch home late
today.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Andrews Denies Labor Rule
Of Wuqe-Hour Administration
Swell Job Tribute
Explained to House
Rules Committee

bAChGROUND-
Representative Bdrden, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina has taken
the lead in the noue to amend
the tDage-hour laW, Which be-
came effective last jail. He Is
the author OF amendments
broadening the exemptions from
the laW's application Wage
Hour Administrator Andrews has
expressed his thorough opposition
to the Barden amendments.
By the Associated Press.
Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour ad-
ministrator, told the House Rules
Committee today that his recent
tribute to labor's swell job OF
assisting him did not mean he had
adopted a policy of being governed
by organized labor in his administra-
ton of the law
Mr. Andrews made the statement
during testimony on the application
of Representative Barden, Demo
crat, of North Carolina for clearance
for the House to consider his wage
hour amendments. These were
designed chiefly to grant broad ex-
emptions for workers engaged in
processing agricultural products.
Representative Cox, Democrat, OF
Georgia questioned Mr.. Andrews
closely about published reports that
he had expressed belief it would be
bad ethics" for him to support
an amendment exempting certain
"white-collar" workers from the Law
in view of the swell job organized
labor had done in cooperating with
him in administering the statute.
rs it a policy that you have
adopted that you should be gov
erned by organized labor?" inquired
Mr. Cox.
NO" Mr.. Andrews answered.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

sition for "a long time" before the
car came to halt on lonely road
The man at the wheel, he said, got
out and covered the license plates
with rags to prevent their captive
getting the tag numbers.
Both men then took him to tree
tSee HOLDUP, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Mortgage Extensions Urged
By the Associated Press

6y tue AsooClateO TTcSS.
An extension from Is to Is years
for repayment Of mortgages to the
Home Owners Loan Corp. was rec
commended today by the Senate
Banking Committee.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

BAYREUTH, Germany, July IS
R.-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler attended
the opening of the annual Wagner
Festival today. 1t ends August %.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
BULLETIN.

A new turn in the controversy
over w. P. A. wage scales threat
ened today to hamper the admin
istration drive to obtain speedy
Senate approval of the $780,
100000 lending program.
Senator Murray of Montana
abandoned an attempt to have
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee approve a proposal to put
the w. P. A. back on a prevail
ing wage basis. He announced
he would seek to attach the pro-
posal as a rider to the lending
bill.
Evening star., 1939-07-25

Foreign.
japanese to close Canton River to
foreign shipping. Page Al
Anti-British activities in China in
crease. Page Al
5000 I. R. A. suspects under surveil-
lance in Britain. Page Al
u. S. consul assured kidnapped pastor
to be freed tomorrow Page AS
Buenos Aires papers stress Argen-
tine Antarctic claims. Page A-9
NotionoI.
Lending and housing legislation
running into delays. Page Al
U. S. to stand firm on rights in
China, officials say. Page Al
Sloan sees laboratories booming
business. Page Ar
Hamilton holds European unrest
stems to U. S. Page A
Spy scare leads to new State De-
partment precautions. Page Ar
House coalition making over trans
portation bill. Page AS
Washington and Vicinity.
Trio rob Alexandria gas station man,
bind him to tree. Page Al
Mrs. Pickett, Star society editor
emeritus. dies. Page Az
Evening star., 1939-07-25
vandenbergHits
Lending Bill as
Cheat Device
House Coalition Tieup
In Rules Unit Hinted
As Senate Delays

BACKGROUND
Late in June the President
asked Congress to authorize a
gigantic program OF Government
loans for "selt-liquidating prof.
ectS." Later the "Self-lquidat-
ing" label 1DaS removed. The
Senate Banking Committee cut
the sum By S310,OO0,0OO from its
original 81, 800 900 900.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Japan TO Close
Canton River
To Shipping
Foreign Concession
Blockade Is Also
Reported Planned
BACKGROUND

SupLHFe " CuHLOH Oy japanese
forces early this year cut of Brit
ish cro1Un colony OF Hong Kong
from trade 1Dith interior HoU-
eDer, Japanese hare not been sue
ceSSful in advancing inland, and
large Chinese armies remain In
Canton area. Anti-British agita-
ttOn, strongest in North China,
has in recent ,Deeks been extended
to Japanese-held South China
ports.
BY the Associated Press
HONG KONG, July 25.-The Jap
anese consul at Canton has notified
consular authorities of other ma
tions, including the United States,
that for military reasons" the jap
anese Navy will close the Canton
River for two weeks starting at mid
night tomorrow.
The move was reliably reported
in this British crown colony to be
in the nature of blockade to cut
shipping between Hong Kong and
Canton and in conjunction with this
measure, it was said, the japanese
planned blockade of British and
French concessions on Canton's
Shameen Island
1t was reported that japanese
sentries would be posted at botf,
bridge entrances to Shameen where
the United States consulate and
American business houses also are
located.
The Shameen sentries, it was dis
closed, will search all persons enter
ing or leaving the island-a prac-
tice similar to that followed in the
Japanese blockade of the British
and French concessions at Tienrsin,
started June IA.
No Official Reports.
Officially, foreign quarters at Can
ton were unaware of plans to block
ade Shameen
Foreigners generally believed clos
ing of the Canton River to third
power shipping was designed to ia
cllltate troop movements, either for
mopup operations of a larger scale
in the Canton area or for the trans
fer OF troops for action elsewhere
on the Kwangtung Province coast.
A United States gunboat will sail
from Hong Kong about 60 miles up
the Canton estuary tomorrow, to
reach the South China metropolis
before the river closing goes into
effect.
Dispatches from Chungking told of
an air raid on that Chinese capital
last evening and of an address by
Generallssimo Chang Kai-shek be-
fore a Kuomintang government
party assembly in which he de-
clared that Far Eastern Munich"
| was unthinkable.
The generalissimo spoke before re-
ceipt of news of British Prime Min
lister Chamberlain statement &C
knowledging japanese right of way
in occupied sections of China.
No Longer "Watchdog."
| He said, Britain we'll knows that
Japan is no longer her Far Eastern
watchdog of Is years ago but rather
a mad dog turning against its for
mer benefactor."
Chinese officials withheld official
comment on the memorandum of
agreement in the British Japanese
conversations at Toxic pending
| study of the official text.
They generally agreed that Brit
ain was laboring under difficulties
but stressed that continued foreign
assistance was essential for China
to carry out the war of attrition
which they said she was fighting
not only for herself but for all pow
ers resisting orderly international
relations.
| Fewer than 80 casualties resulted
from the several scores of bombs
dropped by 27 Japanese warplanes
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Summary of Todoy's Star

Police hope to cut traffic toll by
curbing jaywalking. Page B-1
Approval of new armory for COM
munity use expected. Page B-1
Final settlement reached in Park
Savings Bank case. Page B-1
City planners approve municipal
use OF new armory. Page B-1
Editorial and Comment.
This and That. Page AS
Answers to Questions. Page AS
Letters to The Star. Page, AS
David Lawrence. Page Al
Alsop and Kintner. Page AT
G. Gould Lincoln. Page AT
Constantine Brown. Page Al
Sports.
Two schoolboys lead vet golfers in
public links tourney. Page A-10
Competition still in sight for big
league leaders. Page A-10
Magerkurth case may bring stronger
backing for umpires. Page ALL
Saratoga, oldest U. S. race course, to
have diamond jubilee. Page Ala
Evening star., 1939-07-25

(See WAGE-HOUR, Page AS.
Evening star., 1939-07-25
Hitler at Wagner Festival

(See NO MANS LAND, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1939-07-25

tSee HOLDUP, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-07-25

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4D