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Evening star., 1939-08-21
Embassy Warns
Britons to Quit
Warsaw Quickly
" the Associated press.

WARSAW, Aug. 21.-The British
Embassy has circularized its ma
tionals in Warsaw in general terms
advising them to leave Warsaw as
soon as possible in view of the con-
siderable danger of a rupture in
Polish-German relations" reliable
informant said today.
Individual British tourists. it was
reported, have been advised to leave
Poland Immediately because of an
ticipated difficulties in transporta-
ton should war break out.
This is regarded as indicative of
the increasingly serious view being
taken OF the present situation by
foreign circles here.
At the American Embassy, where
several tourists were seen applying
Tor advice as to whether they should
cancel their stay here. the follow
Ing statement was given:
THE Embassy is watching the sit
uation with great care and will take
every appropriate measure necessary
to protect American interests and
citizens in Poland in any emergency
which may arise"
The French Embassy has taken
no specific step beyond advising
French nationals, women especially,
that they should be fully prepared
to leave if circumstances demand
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Pictures ON Page BIZ

A 10,O00-gallon oil tank car
crashed through the bumper post of
a spur track trestle at the Griffith
Consumers coal yard today and
smashed the roof of a brick pump
house adjoining the company's two
story Office building.
Highly inflammable fuel oil
poured into the street from the yard
pumps when the car short-circuited
electric wires which set the pumps
in operation.
No one was injured in the acci-
dent, which occurred while a loco
motive was switching train OF
about dozen cars on the siding.
The 15-ton weight Of the tanker
crumbled the walls of the pump
house and cracks opened In the
two-story Office building.
One set of trucks with its four
heavy wheels was ripped from the
end Of the car and landed on an
automobile parked several feet
away in the street. The automobile
unoccupied at the time, is owned
by Walter Souser, an employe Of
the company.
Three other parked cars were
damaged by the flying debris.
Hundreds Of spectators, attracted
to the First and N street NE. inter
section by the deafening crash, were
held half a block away from the
wreckage by police, who feared
the hundreds Of gallons Of oil
which poured from the pumps
might ignite.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
oil Car Crashes Off Trest|e,
Smashing Coal Yard Office

Firemen rushed to the scene to
wash the oil from the street.
Apprehension, was felt that the
walls of the building might collapse
completely, endangering the lives OF
Baltimore & Ohio trouble shooters
who began work Immediately to get
the tanker back on the 20-foot
trestle.
The railroad workers began con-
structing a "crib" with 12-inch-
square wooden beams under the end
of the car, which hung precariously
over the front of the pump house
They planned to raise the car to the
level of the trestle and pull it back
onto the tracks. Brakes on the line
of loaded coal cars, to which the
wrecked tanker remained attached,
were frightened to capacity when the
repair work got under way.
As the "crib" rose to the end Of
the car, 10 feet in the air, cracks in
the pump house and Office building
walls began to widen gradually.
A telephone pole, showed from its
base by the crash, lowered its net
work of wires almost to the street.
Traffic had to be re-routed.
F. S. White, B. g. o. yardmaster
at Fourth and S streets NE, said
the engineer of the locomotive was
B. R. Margarum. Mr.. White would
make no comment as to the cause
Of the crash, stating that the official
investigation is still in progress.
James Hardesty was the conductor
Of the train, he added.
The bumper which failed to hold
the tanker is made Of huge wooden
beams reinforced with steel.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
AItmeyer AnoIyzes
Security Changes

Arthur ]. Altmeyer, chair
man of the Social Security
Board, will be the guest speak
er tonight on the National Ra-
dio Forum over WMAL at 9::3O
o'clock.
Speaking on the subject,
"The New Social Security" Mr..
Altmeyer will discuss how
amendments to the act by the
last session of Congress will
affect the wage and salary
workers and society in gen.
eral.
The National Radio Forum
Is arranged by The Star and
is heard over a coast-to-coast
network of the National
Broadcasting Co.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Five Men and Girl
Found Dead on Beach
In New Hampshire
Fishing Porty's Boat
Missing; Cause Of
Tragedy Unknown
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RYE BEACH, N. H., Aug. 2l.-
The sea cast up six bodies on the
beach today, revealing the tragic
end of an all-day fishing party.
The victims were identified as:
Ralph Pryor, SIS, of Dover, owner
Of the boat.
Miss Ethelyn Cutler, 16, of New
market, a cousin of Pryor.
Frank Plante of New Boston, N. H.
Joseph Wajnar, %, of Newmarket.
Walter Hargraves, "a, of New
market.
Clarence P. Yeaton, At, of Dover.
Identification was made by Mr..
Pryor's son Robert.
DR.. Frederick Gray, medical ref
cree, said all were accidentally
drowned.
The bodies were found on the
beach by Richard Lock of Lawrence
Mass, summer resident, and later
were taken to Portsmouth under
taking parlor.
Coast Guards said they would be
unable to hazard a guess as to the
cause of the accident until the miss
ing boat, the 25-foot cruiser Nod
ska, was found.
They theorized, however, that
there was either an explosion which
forced the party to leap into the
sea, or that the boat capsized and
sank, maybe after striking some
rock or other obstruction.
Coast Guards had begun a search
for the Nodska and her party this
morning when they first were re-
ported missing.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Fall From Building
On | Street Kills
Unidentified Woman
Pocketbook and Coot
Are Found on Roof
By. Investigators

A pretty young woman died this
morning in an eight-story plunge
from the roof of the New Medical
Building at 1925 I street NV. No
mark of identification could be
found on her body or among her ef-
fects.
Her body landed in an alley in the
rear of the building, the fall killing
her instantly. None saw her go off
the roof, but several persons heard
her body crash to earth.
An elevator operator in the build
ing said he remembered taking the
young woman to the seventh floor
Of the building shortly after am
He had taken her to that floor often
in months past and remembered her
because she had spoken to him this
morning.
Footprints Found.
1t was nearly an hour later-at
10 a.m.-when she plunged from the
roof. APPARENTLY she had walked up
a flight of stairs leading from the
seventh floor to the top of the
building.
On the coping around the edge
of the roof police found footprints
where she had stood to make the
plunge. Nearby lay her pocketbook,
containing $1.27, package of
cigarettes, a handkerchief with the
initial *" and white linen coat.
The elevator boy said the woman
walked with noticeable limp.
Police canvassed Offices on the sew
enth floor but could find no clue to
her identity.
Initials on Ring Illegible,
A platinum wedding ring was on
her finger, but the initials in it
were too small to be read. She ap-
peared to be under 80 years of age,
had sandy hair, prematurely streaked
with gray, was about feet 2 inches
tall and weighed about ITO pounds.
Her body was removed to the
District Morgue pending identifica-
ton. Detective Sergt. Dewey Guest
of the Homicide Squad and Deputy
Coroner Richard Rosenberg took
charge of the investigation.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Bitsy Grant Beats Cooley
In Newport Tennis
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 21.-Given
a final chance to gain a United
States Davis Cup berth, Bryan
(Bitsy) Grant, the Atlanta mite,
jumped off to a flying start in the
twenty-third Newport casino ten
mis- tournament today by defeating
Richard Cooley of Rye, N. Y, 60,
60, in the opening round.
Grant, seeded second here, has
been assured a place on the inter-
national team by Capt. Walter L.
Pate If his Casino competition is
successful.
The field of 104 got under way
slowly and the only other favo-
rite among the early starters was
Hal Surface of Kansas City, seeded
tenth on the 12-man domestic list,
who had a difficult task downing the
experienced Charles Mailman OF
New York, for a 4-6, 60, 8-6 tri-
umph.
Seven foreign players were seeded
and the first to fall was Amado
Sanchez. the Philippine Davis Cup
player, who bowed to Gordon Giles
of Salt Lake City, 6-1, 60, in a
first-rounder.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Concert Tonight

Last nights Water Gate
concert, interrupted near the
outset by rain, will be played
tonight by the National Sym
phony Orchestra.
Guy Fraser Harrison will
conduct and RENO Luoma,
pianist, will be the soloist, Just
as planned for last night.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
LoveIorn Editor Sues

PORTLAND, Greg, Aug. 81 R.-
An aovice to the lovelorn columnist
of a Portland newspaper has filed a
$3.50 900 alienation of affections suit
in Circuit Court. Edith Knight Hill,
who writes under the name of Mar
ian Miller, charged May G. Beebe
maliciously and Intentionally sought
to gain the affections of her hus-
band, Joseph A. Hill, head of Hill
Military Academy.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Independent Hungary
indispensable, Says
Csaky, in Budapest
Statement Issued After
Return From ItoIy
And Germany
BY the Associated Press,


BUDAPEST, Aug .21.-Count Csaky
Hungarian foreign minister, issued
a statement early this evening, in
which he declared IAN independent
and strong Hungary is an indis-
pensable factor in the political
balance of Central Europe"
The statement, made through the
official Hungarian news agency a
few hours after Count Csaky re-
turned from Germany and Italy,
declared those who try to loosen
old and intimate friendships are
working against the maintenance of
peace and against the life interest of
Hungary"
Foreign Office officials said they
did not know exactly what Csaky
meant by "old and intimate friend
ships" but it was remarked that
Hungary's oldest and most intimate
relationship is with Poland.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
British and French
Cabinets to Meet

LONDON, Aug. 81 (P).-A decision
to hold full British cabinet session
tomorrow coincident with a French
cabinet meeting indicated important
joint action was intended in the
grave European situation as Belgium
today suddenly called seven small
powers to a conference Wednesday
to consider possible peace move.
Full cabinet status was given to
tomorroW's meeting of British min
listers after Prime Minister Cham
berlain, returning from a holiday in
Scotland, had conferred with Lord
Halifax, foreign secretary.
In Paris Premier Edouard Dala-
dier, after a long talk today with
British War Minister Leslie Hore-
Belisha, called an emergency meet
ing OF the French cabinet for 5 pm.
al am. E. S. TD tomorrow.
Will Consider Leopold's Call.
The meeting undoubtedly will
consider King Leopold's call for a
conference Wednesday of the for
eign ministers of the oslo group"
but informed French sources
emphasized that France is in no
mood to make Brussels another Mu-
Mich"
The cabinet, called also to a
second meeting Thursday at Elysee
Palace with President Albert Le-
brun, tomorrow will consider re-
ports cabled to Paris by French
Ministers and Ambassadors through
out Europe
The Belgian move in calling the
foreign ministers of the six other
neutral states associated in the Oslo
trade convention to a conference in
Brussels Wednesday offered the
possibility of some British-French
action toward a settlement of the
German-Polish dispute over Danzig.
A joint statement by Britain and
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Chamberlain Lacks
Umbrella, Carries
Extra Topcoot
BY the Associated Press.

oS sliC hSoOSIdtcu IECoo.
LONDON. Aug. 21.-Prime
Minister Chamberlain, whose
return from his Scottish fish,
ing trip was hastened by the
European outlook, arrived to-
day without his familiar UNI
brella.
But he lad another symbol of
preparedness-an extra her
ring-bone topcoat across his
arm, in addition to the one he
wore. He shed the second one
quickly 1t was a muggy morn
ing in the mid-seventies.
The prime minister was smil-
ing and appeared refreshed
from two weeks in the outdoors.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Ambassador BuIIitt
Meets Farley in Paris
pv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PARIo, Aug. 21.-Postmaster Gen.
eral James A. Farley arrived from
Rome today on his European tour
He was met by Ambassador William
c. Bullitt and Rene Mer, chief aide
to Jules Julien, French minister Of
posts, telegraph and telephones.
Mr.. Farley parried barrage Of
questions on the European situation,
declaring my business is selling
stamps and not being involved in
foreign affairs"
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Summary Of Todoy's Star
Foreign.

Foreign.
Embassy warns Britons to quit
Warsaw quickly. Page Al
Independent Hungary indispensable,
Csaky declares. Page Al
Flood at Tientsin takes heavy toll of
life and property. Page AS
Belgium calls seven-nation parley to
appeal for peace. Page Al
Poles reinforce frontiers with Ger
many and Slovakia. Page Al
Aid to China held sufficient cause for
Hong Kong blockade. Page AZ
Japan considering stronger policy If
U. S. uses embargo. Page AS
Chamberlain holds emergency ses-
sion with Halifax. Page A
Hope to partition Poland without
war rises among Nazis. Page Al
Zionist faction withdraws in huff
from Geneva parley. Page AS
National.
Bodies of six found on beach in
New Hampshire. Page Al
New York parley seeks agreement
in milk strike. Page AS
Forest fire menace closes Western
forests. Page AZ
Maneuvers show Importance Of
infantry, cavalry. Page AS
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Miss Marble, Mrs. Fabyan
Win Tennis Title
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLINE, Mass, Aug. 21.-
Alice Marble and Mrs. Sarah Pal
frey Fabyan, who will carry the
brunt of the battle in the forth
coming Whitman Cup play, today
won the National Women's doubles
tennis title by outblasting Eng
lands top-ranking Whitman Cup
pers, Kay Stammers and Mrs. Freds
James Hammersley, rs, 86.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Reinforce Frontier
With Germany
And SIovukiu
BY the Associated Press.

WARSAW, Aug. 21.-Poland was
said today to have sent troop REIN
forcements toward her frontiers
facing Germany and Slovakia as a
general precaution against similar
increases reported to have been
made by Germany.
(Along Slovakia's 250-mile
frontier with Poland, 250,O0O
German troops under full war
equipment were reported to have
been massed yesterday.
(Roads were checked with troops,
artillery and supply trains as
the Germans concentrated be-
hind the four main passes
through the Tatra Mountains
into Poland.
(Zilina, SlOvakia, was general
headquarters, and the towns of
Cadca, Trstena, Orlow and Me-
zilaborce were concentration
pointsD
Avoid Aggression Charges.
The Polish position Is that Poland
must be prepared in military sense
for any eventualities, but that Ger
many must be given no opportunity
to charge Poland with aggressive
military aims.
From the start last March, for
eign observers agreed there has been
nothing demonstrative about the Pol
ish mobilization. 1t has been in
many ways a secret" mobilization.
The only public announcement has
been that certain defensive meas
ures have been taken"
Significantly, the newspaper Kur-
jer Polski, organ of big business, said
editorially: This week may be a
very dangerous period, during which
the question of peace or war may be
decided"
Formal Pact Expected.
Polish circles expressed confidence
last night that formal signing of the
British-Polish pact of mutual assist
ance would take place within few
days-possibly tomorrow.
The pact would make permanent
the present interim agreement by
which Prime Minister Chamberlain
told the British Parliament on
March 81 that Britain was pledged
to fight for Poland, if Polish inde-
pendence were menaced and Poland
herself took military action.
Poles said they considered an an
nouncement that the pact has been
formally established would be an
effective reply to what one Polish
informant termed "Germany's latest
efforts to isolate Poland from the
Western powers through unprece-
dented propaganda"
Polish Press Restrained.
Aside from some counter-accusa-
tions as regards treatment of Poles
in Germany, the Polish press today
for the most part exercised restraint.
There were descriptive accounts of
the German press anti-Polish cam
paign, but no comment.
A feeling that the situation Was
becoming increasingly grave, how
ever, was being strengthened in the
public mind.
One responsible Pole said, Ger
many is reaching the limit in words
and only action, it would seem,
remains"
Although the developing situa-
ton was not regarded with op-
timism, many foreign observers stat
ed their opinion that war this year
must not yet be regarded as in
evitable.
Some circles expressed the belief
that the stage was being set for
a final offer" by Germany and
that this offer would be made against
background Of acute political ten
sion
Officials said there was no change
IN the attitude of Poland, espe-
(See WARSAW, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-08-21
Belgium Rallies Peace Forces;
British and French Cabinets
Meet omorrow; Poles on March
Six Neutral Stutes
Summoned by
King Leopold
The European Situotion-

The European Situotion-
BELGIUM RALLIES NEUTRALS
for peace; conference of Oslo
states called in Brussels Wednes-
day; British and French cabinets
meet tomorrow. Page Al
POLAND REINFORCES FROM
TIERS with Germany and Slo-
vakia; formal British pact is ex-
pected to be signed tomorrow.
Page Al
INDEPENDENT AND STRONG
HUNGARY" indispensable in
political balance of Europe, de-
clares Count Csaky, home from
trip. Page Al
PRIME MINISTER CHAMBER
LAIN and Lord Halifax lay ground
work for cabinet session tomorrow;
many department heads to at
tend. Page A-4
HOPE TO PARTITION POLAND
without war rises among Nazis;
London and Warsaw reports stir
belief opposition is weakening
Page Al
RUSSIAN TRADE PACT will pro-
vide Germany with much-needed
materials; political improvements
seen by Soviet newspapers.
Page AS
BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 21.-
The government of 37-year- old
King Leopold of Belgium, often
hailed as a potential mediator of
Europes troubles, today suddenly
invited the ministers of six small
powers to rush here by airplane to
join Belgium in peace plea to the
larger nations of the Old World
King Leopold himself was reliably
reported to have called the meeting.
The conference will meet not later
than Wednesday. If all of those in
vited have arrived earlier there may
be preliminary discussions tomorrow.
The seven nations associated in
the Oslo trade convention were
asked to send their foreign minis
terS.
The nations involved are Bel
GUM, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Fin
land.
1t was understood here that all
had accepted.
A spokesman for the foreign Office
said that the precise agenda for the
conference was not yet available. but
that it would devote much of its
attention to economic questions as
well as the international outlook.
Preliminary soundings for such
conference were made privately at
the Interparliamentary Union Con-
gress which closed Saturday at Oslo.
The reaction was found to be ia
vorable and with the central Eu-
ropean outlook rapidly becoming
more grave the invitations were dis
patched urgently
The Swedish and Norwegian for
eign ministers Immediately engaged
airplanes for the trip here.
Evening star., 1939-08-21

shop, higher Uages ond shorter
hours This strike shut off the
supply OF sand and graDel from,
local building projects, sloUed
Dork on $50 ,0OO, 900 Worth of con-
Struction.
The second serious blow to build
ing construction in the District in
less than a fortnight was dealt
today when approximately 300 plum
bers joined in a city-wide walk
out for wage increase.
Members of the Plumbers Union
Local No. went on strike as the
Labor Department resumed efforts
to mediate the Smoot Sand g. Gravel
Co. strike, which has brought work
on millions of dollars worth of
Federal and District construction
projects almost to a standstill.
Ernest S. OFT, business agent for
the plumbers local, said today that
plumbing work was stopped on most
of the citys new building projects,
the majority of whichA already are
crippled by the concrete material
shortage.
"Our men are 100 per cent back
Of the strike" Mr.. OFT said. only
those working for contractors who
have signed satisfactory temporary
agreements are on the job today"
Walkout Follows Farley.
In the latter group are about 100
union plumbers, Mr.. OFT said, and
most Of them are working on prof.
ects at Buckingham Community,
Fort Belvoir and Quantico in nearby
Virginia.
Although the plumbers voted in
favor OF strike at meeting last
Wednesday, the walkout order was
not issued until after a conference
Saturday between union leaders,
master plumbers and international
officers of the United Association of
Journeymen Plumbers and Steam
filters, the locals parent organiza-
ton.
An agreement between the union,
an American Federation of Labor
affiliate, and the Plumbers Guild,
an organization of plumbing con-
tractors, expired August and nego-
tiations for renewal have been
under way since June l.
Guild officials and union leaders
agree that the principal point of
contention is the wage clause which
the union is asking.
Mr.. OFT said the union has de-
manded a 81 per day increase over
the $l2 wage now paid. That rate
has prevailed since August IS, 1929, y
the business agent stated, land we
feel entitled to raise"
Letter Sent to Guild.
Mr.. OFT said a letter has been
sent to the Conference Board of
the guild stating that the union
''is willing to meet for peaceful
settlement any time the guild
wishes"
Joseph G. Hildebrand, guild Sec
retary, said the contractors organi-
cation is awaiting developments
but otherwise declined comment
on the dispute.
Conciliator Howard T. Colvin of
the Labor Department, meanwhile,
was to continue separate confer
ences today with leaders of the
striking Local No. 22075 of the
Sand and Gravel Workers Union,
also an A. F. of L. affiliate, and
negotiating officials of the Smoot
Co.
Evening star., 1939-08-21
300 Plumbers
Strike Herefor
Wage Increase
Tieup Of Projects,
Hit by Concrete
Shortage, Spreads

BACKGROUND
Last Monday 200 tOorkers be-
longing to the A. F. L. Sand and
Gravel Workers Union Dalked
out OF the Smoot Sand & GraUel
Co. here on strike tor q closed
shop, higher Uages ond shorter
hours. This strike shut off the
supply of sand and gravel from
local building projects, slowed
work on s56, ,0O0, 900 Worth OF con-
Strnction.
Evening star., 1939-08-21

(See PARLEY, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-08-21

(See WARSAW, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-06-02
peace barrier erected. quick. before
Hitler has another hraipuove

peace barrier erected, quick. before
Hitler has another brain-wave.
Moreover, however much the Rus
slams may say it is not their war
and Molotoff talk of a commercial
agreement with Germanv-to which,
indeed. the proposed pact need prove
no obstacle, any more than the pre-
war Triple Alliance or the Franco
Russian alliance or the Franco Brit
lsh entente prevented years of peace
full trade-the Russians have good
reasons for signing. First, their de-
sire, which Stain stressed in his
speech, to protect the victims or
potential victims of aggression from
Fascist bullies. Second, the realiza-
ton, as Soviet Vice Foreign Commits
sar Potemkin discovered in Bu-
charest, that the -Ruma-
nian so-called economic treaty in
wolves far more than trade and will
become, if the Germany can carry it
out as written, the means whereby
Rumania will be converted into a
]umping-off ground for an attack on
the U. S. S. R. About that there is
no doubt, and the Russians know
1t. They know also that Poland S
fate is not without interest. Third
Russo Turkish relations now are
intimate and friendly as of yore
after the GOODNESS that followed
Montreux, and the Soviet hopes to
form Black Sea pact and round it
OF with an interlocking Turkish
pact with Persia and Afghanistan.
And always, last and first, the
foremost Russian desire to avert
war and the Russian conviction that
war can be averted only by a strong
and united peace front.