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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
C|ubwoman Seeks
Reforms in Capital
Lunacy Proceedings
Charges 'RoiIroodine' to
z Privote Sunituriums
And St. EIizubeth's

A prominent Washington club
woman, divorced wife of a banker,
declaring at the Offices of the House
District Committee today that she
had been "railroaded" to two pri-
vate sanitariums and ST. Elizabeth's
Hospital on an insanity charge
which she had no chance to defend
in court, said she plans to ask the
committee at the next session to
draft legislation protecting more rig
idly the rights of persons subjected
to lunacy proceedings.
This woman was granted an alb
solute divorce in District Court ear
ly in the spring. Her experience
with mental hospitals occurred
more than 10 years ago, but she
explained that recent threats of fur
Their harassment had impelled her
to see if stricter legislation could not
be enacted
SelZed Tor Second Time.
This was her story:
She was living at a local hotel.
Her husband, wanting to get rid of
her, had her abducted and taken to
private sanitarium near Washing
ton. Obtaining her release within
a few hours by convincing those in
charge that she was sane, she re-
turned to the hotel. A short time
later, she was seized again by two
women and man and taken to
another private sanitarium, where
she was held incommunicado for
several months. At the time. she
had a young baby. She later was
taken to st. Elizabeth's Hospital on
a decree adjudging her insane as
she learned later.
She was held at st. Elizabeth's
1S months, she said, and finally
convinced attendants she should
have court hearing and she OBJ
tanned a jury trial. The jury ad-
judged her sane.
She produced numerous records at
the committee rooms, including the
decree adjudging her sane.
Other Recent Complaints,
Inquiry at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
by an officer of the committee
brought the information that this
woman had been taken there from
a private sanitarium on the sigma
ture Of two physicians, kept there
ID months and later found sane by
jury.
Attaches of the committee said
there had been a number of other
recent complaints that residents of
the District had been railroaded to
private institutions by designing rel
atives.
The District insanity laws were
amended at the recent session to
give Gallinger Hospital more latitude
in sending violently insane persons
or others whom it could not care for
properly to st. Elizabeth's temper
arily, pending investigation of their
condition by the Commission on
Mental Health. The present law
provides that any person asserted
| to be of unsound mind may demand
a jury trial, in person or through his
attorney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Catholic Students
Mission Crusade 10
Open Tomorrow
5000 Are Expected
To Attend Annual
Sessions at G. U.

Students from Louisville, KY, and
missionaries from a number of for
eign countries began arriving here
today for the 18th annual Catholic
Students Mission Crusade, which
will open tomorrow evening in the
gymnasium at Catholic University
Some 5000 students from throughout
the Nation are expected to attend.
Registration of delegates will get
under way at 8 am. tomorrow in
Mcmahon Hall at the university.
simultaneously, mission exhibits will
be opened in the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception at the
university
Formal opening of the convention
will be at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
gymnasium, when the Most Rev.
Francis j. L. Beckman. Archbishop
of Dubuque, Iowa, chairman of the
National Executive Board, c. S. M.
c.. will deliver prayer.
Next on the program will be the
SiAioiiS VI tiiC ilotioIldl dllllltlll ny
the assemblage, after which greet
lngs from his holiness, Pope Plus
XII, will be read by the Most Rev.
John M. Mcnamara, Auxiliary
Bishop of Baltimore, acting Episco-
pal host.
An address of welcome will be de-
livered before the delegates by the
Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph M. Corri-
gan, rector of Catholic University.
The keynote address, For the In
crease of Religion" will be delivered
by the Most Rev Frank A. Thill,
Bishop of Concordia, Executive
Council of the c. S. M. C. Conven-
ton sessions will continue through
Friday.
Among early arrivals are eight In
dian youths from a mission in Mon
tana. In the group is Good Rider"
ID, who played in the motion picture
"Susannah of the Mounties' with
Shirley Temple. Good Rider" and
another of the boys are to be inter-
viewed tonight in program over
Radio Station VOL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Nuzi Consul Denies
Most of Charges

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 81 R).-
Baron Edgar Spiegel Won und Zu
Peckelheim, German Consul General
here, today declared that he had
answered the charges of John Har-
vey Sherman, Tampa University
president, in statement issued
April 10.
The statement, issued after pub
Ication of the charges in a syndi-
Gated column, said:
All l remember is that I paid an
official visit to one of the heads of
Tampa University together with my
then consular agent at Tampa, Mr..
Ernest Berger, an American born
in Florida.
Referring to the secret report of
the Dies Committee mentioned in
the Washington Merry Go-Round,
all that is alleged I said is new to me
There was no mention even of en-
downing a chair for the teaching of
German at the university or of using
text books supplied by my govern
ment.
Everything mentioned in this ar
ticle is wanton invention except
that did talk to university official
as I have stated. y" ="
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Kuhn Demands Hearing
On immortality Chorqe

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 (41.-Fritz
Kuhn, leader of the German Amer
lean Bund, demanded today that the
Dies Committee on IN American
Activities permit bund leaders to
answer the charges of Helen Vooros
OF immoralities in a bund camp.
Miss Vooros, 19-year-old Brook
lyn girl, testified before the COM
mittee last week that she quit the
bund because of the immoral con-
duct of members.
In a telegram to Representative
Martin Dies, Democrat of Texas,
committee chairman, MI. Kuhn
asked that Frederick Vandenbergh
Brooklyn unit leader of the bund !;
August Klapprott, manager of Camp
Nordland, and Gustave J. Elmer
national organizer of the bund, be
subpoenaed.
Testimony of Vooros would not
stand up 10 minutes in cross-exami-
nation" the telegram said. will
be able to bring proof as to reason
why Vooros made false charges
against bund."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
y Hurt as D. C.-Bound Bus
And Fire Engine Crash
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21.-A bus
from the Worlds Fair and a fire
engine answering a false alarm COL
lided today in a pre-dawn mist, in
juring % persons.
Most seriously hurt were the bus
driver, Walter Migala, 80, Camden,
N. j.; one passenger, Mrs. J. T.
Harper, Sc, of New Orleans; Acting
Fire Capt. John J. Hobson and two
firemen, Martin Giedeman and
Joseph A. Deyer. Others were re-
leased after treatment at hospitals.
The bus was en- route from New
York to Washington.
The injured included Fannie
Peete, 81. colored, Branchville, Va,
fractured knee; Margaret Dawson,
81, Branchville. knees bruised; Ver-
dicur Lindsay. Is. colored, Washing
ton, bruised left leg: Clinton Agnew.
"a, colored, Pikesville, Md, bruised
head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21

where they were or what group was
engaged in them
- There should be no partisan
ship" he said, whether these &C
tivities lead into the Republican
camp or the Democratic camp
In a statement Saturday, Repre-
sentative Thomas. Republican, of
New Jersey. another committee
member, said that further hearings
would develope "A connection be-
tween Communism and the New
Deal"
When the statement was called
to MIR. Dies attention yesterday,
he said that he was making every
effort to prevent partisanship in
the committees inquiry.
Charges To Be Asked.
Chairman Dies and Mr.. Mason
were the only committee members
present at today's hearing. Mr.. Dies
said that Representative Voorhis,
Democrat, Of California, who has
been out of Washington, would be
present tomorrow.
While the committee proceeded
with its effort to show that the
bund engaged in American ac-
tivities, Chairman Dies said he ex-
pected the Justice Department to file
charges soon against the bund. the
Communist party and other organ
izations, accusing them of failure to
register with the State Department
as foreign agents.
Il hope that the issue can be tried
IN the Federal courts" Mr.. Dies said
so that if the organizations are
found guilty, the leaders will be put
in the penitentiary."
Agents of foreign employers are
required by law to register with
the State Department., and in SO
doing to give detailed information
as to their operations and pay. Vio-
lators may be imprisoned or fined
Mr.. Dies also said he would ask
State governments to revoke the
charters of American organi-
zatjOpS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. c, MONDAY AUGUST 81
Southern Pacific
Reopens Inquiry
On Wreck in Nevada
Company Witnesses to
Testify; |. c. c. Officials
Differ on Sabotage Views
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CARLIN, New, Aug. 21.-A parade
of company witnesses was lined up
today for resumption of the closed
Southern Pacific inquiry into the
wreck of a 100000 streamlined
train August IL near Harvey, New,
In which "a persons were killed and
108 injured.
Interstate Commerce Commission
representatives also are participate
ing.
Southern Pacific officials say the
train, City of San Francisco, was
wrecked deliberately by some one
who moved 1,950-pound rail 4
Inches inward at one end and
fastened it to the ties in that posi-
ton. The company has offered a
$4,000 reward for information lead
ing to arrest of the guilty person.
At yesterdays session, Govern
ment representatives closely ques-
toned witnesses who supported the
company theory, and differed with
railroad officials on several points.
Herschel D. Smyth, member of a
coroners jury which convened at
the wreck scene last week and at
tributed the wreck to sabotage,
testified in support of that verdict.
Throughout his examination and
croSS-questioning he maintained
that some one had wrecked the
train.
Warren l.. Monroe, Elkos news
paper publisher, identified several
pictures he had taken showing the
asserted tampering with the track.
Engineer Edward Hecox of the
wrecked train testified that shortly
after the wreck he saw a claw bar
lying near the fourth car of the
train, which stood over the place
where the rail had been moved.
AS he stood looking at the bar,
he said, an unidentified man called
to him out of the darkness, saying,
Don't touch it; it might have fin
gerprints on it."
Mr.. Hecox said he left the spot
and when he came back, the bar
was gone. Because of the excite
ment, he did not notice the man
who had spoken to him. Mr.. Hecox
declared that so far as he knew,
on one else saw the bar.
The hearing began Friday. Fed
eral men attending it said they were
willing that it should be public, but
that the company, which called the
hearing, decided otherwise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Fish in Story
Shrinks Greatly in
| Second Chapter
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2l.-This
is story of the fish that did not
grow in the telling.
c. E. Powell and Jerry Cluever
Melted 4-pound pike in Gull Lake,
MINI. 1t was placed on a steel
stringer, near the boats motor. The
propeller cut the stringer, but left
the pixies jaws locked in a steel
safety pin. 1t could open its mouth
about inches, no more.
That was two years ago.
Last week, Mrs. H. j. Latimore
fishing in Gull Lake, had a peculiar
strike; just a feel"
She reeled in a pike with safety
pin in its jaws. 1T was just skin
and bones" and weighed only about
IL pounds. She removed the rusty
stringer and placed the fish back
in the water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
500 Workers Clear
Railway Wreckage;;
Service Restored
Three Of II Injured
In New Jersey Are
In Hospital


CHATSWORTH, N. j., Aug. Oh
About 500 men, working steadily
4 In the flooded South Jersey pine
, belt. wilderness for % hours, cleared
last night the derailed Blue Comet
crack Central Railroad of New
Jersey flyer, and opened the car
rier's one-track line to traffic
Five coaches and a baggage car
= OF the blue and gold train were
derailed Saturday night during a
heavy rainstorm. Seventeen per-
c sons were injured, but only three
were in a hospital for treatment.
1.-THE others were treated at the
scene of the derailment or were
carried two and half miles through
the rain for treatment.
Bridge Washed Out.
= The workmen, who had to replace
r 600 feet of torn-up track and repair
a mile-long stretch of battered ties
and dislocated rails. were held up
twice before they finished.
Shortly after the accident a
swollen tributary of Union Lake
washed out the railroad bridge be-
tween here and the accident scene
and yesterday a high boom of a
wrecking train ripped down all
telephone, telegraph and electric
power lines at crossing here, cut
aag off lights and communication
The derailment, caused by a
washout, was made worse when the
d locomotive and its derailed tend~
moved down the track almost a
mile from the coaches, ripping up
: rails and battering ties. The train
was carrying 40 passengers.
Train Under Caution Orders.
New ballast was dumped by
wrecking crews to prevent further
washouts and lines ripped down by
the boom were replaced.
twenty-five rescue squads, 20 of
the mambulances, sped to the scene
from four counties. 1t was four
hours before the injured received
treatment.
The train, operating under eau
ton orders, was travelling at 80 or
IS miles an hour, half its normal
speed, when the accident occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Conference Called
To Seek Agreement
In Milk Strike
New York City Supply
Cut in Half; Violence
Renewed Upstate
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-As a
swiftly Tightening dairynen's strike
cut New York City's milk supply in
half, Mayor La Guardia called farm
er and distributor representatives
together today for a peace parley.
The conference which the Mayor
hoped would develop compromise
agreement to end the week-old dis
pute was preluded by renewed vio-
lence upstate marked by milk dump
ing and skull cracking in picket
police clashes
The growing milk shortage re-
duced the usual supply available to
the metropolitan area from 4,400 900
to 100000 quarts.
Both sides gave assurances needy
consumers, hospitals and public in
situations would be supplied ade-
quately, but hundreds of groceries
were without bottled milk.
In upstate counties, more than 80
strikers were arrested. In Onondaga
County, fifty deputies were recruited
after 230 cans of milk were dumped
by strikers.
At Hammond, $500 persons
watched police and State troopers
battle pickets at a milk plant. A
dozen pickets received head injuries.
A deputy sheriff was knocked I'M
conscious.
Kerosene was used in several cases
to spoil milk in transport. In other
instances, trucks were blockaded and
their cargoes poured into bitches.
Creased rails stalled a New York
Central train picking up milk near
Hammond, N. Y.
The union, which claims a men,
mership of $1,000 dairy farmers,
called the strike in an attempt to
force distributors to pay them 81 IS
hundredweight at quarts for all
classes Of milk. The present price
for such blended milk-used for
manufacturing as we'll as drinking
purposes-is $l.60 a hundredWeight
Poland now has SO travelling mo-
| ton picture fheatprS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
RiddIed Auto Is Hunted
In Baltimore Area

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 21.-City and
State police searched highways in
and around Baltimore today for an
automobile State officers said ap-
peared riddled with bullet holes.
The machine, carrying five men
and woman, was last seen speeding
toward the city on the Philadelphia
road. Troopers said bullet holes in
the rear trunk and rear window indi-
Gated the car had apparently been
fired on during a chase.
A State police alarm asked that
the car and its occupants be held for
investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Gun Victim Recovering

Irving Brown, %, of 1451 Park road
NV, today was recovering from
burns on his left hand received yes
terday at a rifle range in the 1900
block of E street NV, police said.
Police said Mr.. Brown was slightly
injured when a cartridge misflred
as he was throwing back the breach
of a gun. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for slight injuries
and returned home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Flood al Tientsin
Takes Heavy Toll Of
Life and Property
British Concession Under
Nine Feet Of Water;
Blockade Washed Out

BY the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN, Aug. 21-The toll of
death and property destruction
leaped today as the worst flood in
Tientsins history submerged much
of the city under constantly deepen
ing water.
With the flood crest believed still
at least day away, the overflow of
the swollen Hal River and other
streams put the city's electrical IA
cilities out of commission and iso-
lated it part of the time from the
outside world.
An all-nigllt rise in the flood level
inundated the few remaining dry
spots in the British concession when
the water was three feet deep in the
shallowest places.
Small Boat Transportation.
Telephones were dead. Small
boats were the only transportation
through streets.
Many persons braved waters often
waiSt-deep to carry out vital err
rands.
The water system still functioned
but authorities warned that it's fail
ure was possible momentarily.
Except for slight increase In
milk supplies-the result of herds
being driven to shallower water
within the British concession-the
food situation was acute.
AS flood waters within the con-
cession reached an average depth
of 8 feet over most of the area,
British authorities Communicated all
small boats, and officers were as
signed to transporting i'll and ex-
hausted victims OF whatever race
to hospitals or improvised refugees
Shortage of Doctors.
Physicians were organized in a
public health corps and ferried In
police-manned boats wherever their
services were most needed Because
OF a shortage of doctors, Yley were
able to attend only those in most
urgent need.
Many refugees actually were SWIM
ming muddy torrents in struggles
to reach safety.
These conditions, officials said
were taking a high toll of life. but
it was impossible to make any &C
curate survey.
Huge property losses were ignored
as the community centered its eff
forts solely on preserving life.
Heavy loss of life was expected
also beyond Tientsin and its en-
virons, where large Chinese pop
ulation lives. Thousands of men,
women and children-both Chinese
and foreigners-hed into this war
beset city.
Blockade Washed Out.
Hundreds came on RATS made
from timbers. doors, or anything
else that could stay af1oat.
The Japanese blockade of the
British and French concession was
washed out. Japanese sentries, who
had been on guard at the bound
aries since July IA, climbed boxes
and barrels to stay above the water.
The stripping Sheds" where per-
sons were examined entering or
leaving the concessions, were flooded
or washed away.
Although the greatest distress was
outside the city, the japanese con-
cession was suffering more heavily
even than the hard-hit British area
A huge fire could be seen raging
in distant area of the japanese
concession more than IL hours.
American toys are becoming very
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Pants Abb Suffices

Charged with driving a municipal
steam roller without permission, a
British soldier told his commanding
officer in Shanghai, China, IT was
only pressing my trousers, sir. I
got six witnesses" and he was dis
missed with Q laugh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21

Rent-a-car safari service has been
started in Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21

Daydreams in traffic soon turn to
Nightmares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21

American toys are becoming very
popular in South Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21

Poland now has So travelling mo.
ton picture theaters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-08-21
Un-Americun

Continued From First Page)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-14
Imperialism And Imperialism

The grant to the Standard Oil Com- pany of California of an oil concession covering the whole kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a very significant event. Twenty years ago great cry of "impe- rialism" would probably have gone up at any such announcement. But the very fact that this concession was obtained by Americans at all shows that today there is imperialismand imperialism.
 There is the technical imperialism which is matter of capital in Country obtaining economic control of certain resources in Country B. But there is another imperialism afoot today, in which such concession would be noth- ing but steppingstone toward greater imperialism, one which would mean actual, tangible, physical and political control It is said to be because he mis- Saud rejected frantic offers for his oil concession on the part of Germany, Italy, and Japan, as we'll as Britain and France. He felt that none of them would be con- tent merely to exploit the oil and have done with it, for each has political ann bitions and plans which might affect Saudi Arabia The United States has none, as King Ibn Saud well knows.
 So, although the American offer was not up to the glittering marks set by spe- cial envoys from the German, Italian and Japanese governments, the king accepted it, knowing it to be plain, simple buSi- ness proposition without political strings, from people who could have no con- ceivable designs on his country. So if this be American imperialism - and a few years ago it would certainly nave been so called - make the most of it. For it IS plain that this Arabian king found it in- finitely preferable to the other kinds ot imperialism with which he was con- fronted.
 There might be the germ of a thought here for some of the South American countries who have been afraid of Amer ican imperialism" at various times in the past perhaps not as ungrounded fear. But for 10 years the United States has made it quite clear that such business as it does with foreign countries is with out political strings. And some of these countries may well start asking them selves, is this true of all other countries with whom we may be dealing?
 It is to be hoped that this new conces- sion will be operated in accordance with the best modern principles of such ar- engagements, namely, that both parties shall benefit in proportion to what each contributes to the enterprise. For when such an arrangement is worked out, much of the curse is off what we have learned to hate as imperialism.