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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
France Is Reported
Defyinq UItimotum

HONG KONG, Sept. 20 (P).-France
was reported to be standing defiantls
adamant today in the face OF a
japanese ultimatum calling upon
French Indo-China to acquiesce
within 70 hours to new, secret de-
mands.
Official foreign quarters here said
they had been informed Japan gave
the French until midnight, Sunday
to comply.
On TOXIC Yakichiro Suma,
spokesman for the japanese
foreign office, said he had re-
ceived no official information on
reports that Maj. Gen. Issaku
Nishihara, japanese negotiator in
French Indo-C China, had delivered
an ultimatum to FranceD
There was no authoritative indi-
cation of what the new demands
comprised, but some informed
sources in Hanoi, French Indo-
China, said Japanese negotiators
had suddenly shifted their empha-
sis from the right of passage for
10000 troops and supplies to a re-
quest for bases having little con-
nection with Japan's China cam
paign.
Military sources In Shanghai said
that since the Chinese had de-
stroyed the Haiphong- Yunnan Rail-
way, the japanese seemed to have
lost their desire to attempt an in
vasiori Of China's Yunnan Province.
Japan originally planned to in
wade Yunnan, in Southwest China,
to cut the last back door" routes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

by which Gen. Chang Kai-shek re-
ceived supplies. One of these was
the Burma road, recently closed by
temporary agreement with Great
Britain. The other was the rail-
way.
Foreign quarters here doubted
that the French attitude would pro-
woke Japanese military action. They
said Japan, instead of resorting to
force, might reach a face-saving
agreement at the last minute, since
the French response to the Japa-
as called bluff
French Announcement.
The unexpected turn in the Hanoi
conferences was announced by the
French government. which made no
mention of any ultimatum.
Negotiations between the French
authorities and the japanese mis-
sion have reached a delicate stage.
the japanese having presented new
demands which do not seem COM
patible with instructions from the
French government and which devil
ate from previous agreements. but
the negotiations are continuing"
said the announcement.
There were reports In Shanghai
that the japanese Navy had brought
pressure to bear on Maj. Gen. Issaku
NiShihara, the japanese negotiator,
to force the French to grant Japan
two footholds in Indo-China-one
at the southwestern tip near Cape
Cambodia, site of a new French
naval base. and the other in the
northern Haiphong- Hanio region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

Vegetable gardens are to be
planted in London parks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
232 D. T.. Naval Reservisfs
End Training Cruise

Two hundred and thirty-two
young men donned civilian clothes
today and left three over-age de-
stroyers which docked at the WASH
ington Navy Yard this morning to
end the two-week training cruise
Of the Washington Naval Reserve,
LIST Battalion.
The destroyers Hunt, Branch and
Satterlee-the same class vessels
delivered to Great Britain-docked
at the Navy Yard at 8:45 am,
concluding the last of Naval Re
serve cruises this summer on the
East Coast.
simultaneously, II other destroy
erS. on reserve duty since July, made
ports at New York City, Philadel-
phia and Jersey City.
From the Navy paymaster the
local ReservistS received their checks
at the Reserve armory and pre-
pared to 60 back to their jobs. The
majority of men earned $18, the
two-Week pay of a seaman, second
class. Others received more accord
ing to their rating.
The three vessels, commanded by
Comdr. D. L. Ryan, spent full week
at sea, ranging the coast from the
Delaware Capes to Charleston. S. c.
Most of the training at sea was
done on the southern drill grounds"
of the Navy off Cape Hatteras and
the Virginia Capes. During the
second week Reservists engaged in
short-range battle practice, opera
ton of the 4-inch guns carried
by the destroyers and the launching
of torpedoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

he would never forget the uncom-
pretending horror of her white face
in the Justified moonlight. To-
morrow possibly shed be out OF the
hospital and would pick up her
little boy from the wardens at the
shelter and 90 somewhere to start
living again-unless. of course. the
Nazis blew up the hospital.
The taxi-driver seemed even more
upset.
Thinks Of Own Family.
Il told you I didn't like the looks
of it," he said. Il sympathize with
her, but I got my own family to
think about-my wife and four little
kiddies I got, and if she'd stayed
where I picked her up she wouldn't
be in any blinking hospital now"
He seemed to think that somehow
the CHASTITY wreck might not have
occurred if she had restrained her
curiosity.
So we drove along toward the
hotel, leaving the sound of the
bombs behind us and diving once
more into the streets of deep shad-
oWS
Glad we're going in this direc-
ton" said the taxi driver. They
don't worry this section none. You're
lucky you live over here" He turned
the corner into the block in the mid
die of which the marquee of the
hotel bulked across the sidewalk.
Just at that moment the crufnp
fell.
Top Of Building Demolished.
1t was big bomb. Two hundred
and fifty pounds or better. 1t de-
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Casey
Continued From First Page.)

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against a background of complete
chaos.
The street was wide and you
became aware with some surprise
that there was enough light in it
to see by. The full moon was up
and there were no dense shadows
from the houses as in other streets.
You discovered then that most of
the houses were gone. Piles OF
brick and glass marked where some
of them had been. but mostly the
broken iron gates swung inward
on smoking craterS. 1t seemed as
if the plaster dust would never be
done drifting.
Warned by Policemen.
"You can't go in there, lady" said
the policemen. IT'S not safe
The woman didn't seem to be
listening You could see what she
looked like now. She was young,
we'll dressed, rather pretty-and des-
perately serious.
Il must look she said quietly.
There's where my house was.
There's where 1 lived. There's where
I left my little boy"
Hes all right said the police
man. Hes in a shelter down there
around the corner"
She stared at him for perhaps 10
seconds before she collapsed. The
stretcher-bearers appeared out of
nowhere and picked her up. And
this observer went way, aware that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Indo-Chinu
Continued From First Page.

Japanese government can say what
will happen" he added.
(Chinese under GeneraliSslmo
Chang Kai-shek have insisted
their armies would move into
Indo-China il japanese forces
enter. The Chinese expect
prompt "backdoor' attack by the
japanese across the Indo-Chinese
border into the southwestern
province of Yunnan, once Japan
gains Indo-Chinese baseso
Gen. Nishihara concluded his in
terview with professions OF friend
Hest feeling toward the French,
adding that his relations here had
been amicable.
Because of the friendly nature OF
his conversations with the colonial
administration, he said he didn't
object to the United States ex-
pressed interest in maintaining
Indo- Chinas status quo.
The general opinion in Hong Kong
was that the japanese were making
their final decision to use force IN
stead of round-table diplomacy.
Linked with the heightened jap
anese pressure on the French colo
NAL administration were reports
that little Thailand (Siam), Indo-
China's neighbor on the north and
west, had concentrated troops along
the border to back up her demand
for return by Indo-China of former
Thailand territory.
Although Gen. NiShihara con-
firmed that Japan had set time
limit on the negotiations in con-
yersation with an Associated Press
correspondent, the German radio IN
a Vichy dispatch said competent
French circles described as pure
invention Hong Kong reports that
the japanese had served 72-hour
ultimatum.
The German radio, attributing
these reports to "acts OF sabotage
by Britain said a report from
Saigon to Vichy stated the Hanoi
negotiations had led to an agree
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
British Claim Sinking
OF Nazi Transport
With 1900 Aboard
Report of Sub Attack
Supports Swedish
Story Of Z Weeks Ago
y the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 20.-The British
Admiralty reported today the torpedo
sinking of 10 ,OOO-ton German troop
transport in a burst of smoke and
flames, adding belated support to
reports that nearly all OF 1000 men
aboard were lost.
A communicate said that the sub
marine Sturgeon picked the trans
port out of naval and plane escort
rs 1t poked into the twilight on the
arm of the North Sea off Denmark
September 2 and fired its torpedoes.
The Admiralty communique said
the heavily laden" transport suf-
fered torpedo hits and Immediately
showed brilliant flashes of flame
and dense column of black smoke"
The date given for the attack
comedies with that given by Swedish
press reports of the torpedoing Of a
transport, identified as the Marion,
out of Hamburg, in the Kattegat
with loss of nearly all of the 1000
men aboard.
"Some Damage Admitted.
(The German radio SubSe-
quently said that the report did
not correspond to the facts"
asserting that there was no Ger
man transport named Marion but
that the German transport
Pioneer, on regular service be-
tween Germany and Norway,
suffered some damage when In
the Kattegat but not as result
of enemy attack"
THE German broadcast did not
say Just what had happened to
the transport but added that the
crew and soldiers aboard were
removed with "a comparatively
small loss of life.D
The Sturgeon, sister ship OF the
eWordfsh, Starfish and Seahorse,
which have figured prominently In
this war, was completed in 1882.
The submarine has surface dis
placement of $40 tons and carries
a normal crew of 40.
Attack in Heavy Weather.
The Seahorse and Starfish were
sunk last January on North Sea
patrol similar to that OF the Stur-
geon.
The Admiralty said the Sturgeon
executed its successful attack" de-
spite heavy weather and low visi-
bility.
In minutes, the Admiralty said,
the whole ship burst into flames
and when the Sturgeon rose to the
surface some time later the trans
port had sunk and German escort
vessels were sweeping the water
with searchlights in hunt for sur
Vivors.
The original report of the sink
ing, appearing in the Stockholm
newspaper Dagens Nyheter, said
that the transport was conveyed by
two trawlers and a destroyer.
The Admiralty said the transport
was under the guard of small Ger
man naval vessels and aircraft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Legion Auxiliary
Sets Record With
500,902 Members
Declared Largest
Women's Organization
Of Kind in World
Blythe Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Sept. 20.-The Amer
lean Legion's auxiliary reported To-
day it's membership had gone over
the half-million mark for the first
time and set forth its claim as "the
largest women's organization OF its
kind in the world"
In making the announcement,
Mrs. William Corwith Of Rockville
Center, N. Y, said the membership,
increasing steadily for five years.
reached total of SOC, 1902 on Sep
TENDER 8.
Convention Opens Monday.
She arrived here with thousands
of other Legionnaires and auxiliary
members who are pouring into Bos-
ton for the Legions 22d convention,
which begins formally on Monday.
Mrs. Corwith said in her report
that the auxiliary had marked up
year Of accomplishment in spreading
the doctrines of AmericaniSm, ma
tional defense, rehabilitation, child
welfare and community betterment.
Her report was one of series is
sued in a virtual convention before
the convention" by the vanguard OF
leaders in Legion circles.
Earl V. Cliff Of Ortonville, Mimi,
chairman Of the Legion's Rehabili-
tation Committee, reported that, as a
result of Legion efforts, the Nation
had far better" disqualification ia
cilities for disabled veterans at pres
ent than in World War days.
He said the Government had ap-
proximately 1900 beds available for
wounded and disabled ex-service
men at the end Of the World War,
as compared with SO hospitals and
1926 beds available now.
Child Welfare Conference.
In one of the pre-convention &C
Invites a child welfare conference,
described by Legion sources as prob
ably the largest in the United States
this year, will be held Sunday
Scheduled as chief speakers were
Miss Katharine F. Lenroot of Wash
ington, D. c.. chief of the United
States Children's Bureau. and Col
Frank E. Lowe of Portland, Me.
Matty B. Balm OF Uniontown, Pa.
chairman of the National Contests
Supervisory Committee, announced
competition Monday to determine
the best bands, drum and bugle
corps, rifle drill teams. color guards,
choruses and golf players.
reu,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

molished the top of a concrete and
steel building and hurled girders
across the street while the insides
of it exploded through the roof.
When the taxi driver recovered his
breath, he got out of his cab and
looked at the ruin with his mouth
open.
"Gor!" he said. That was near
thing. Where would you be now If
We had stopped here first instead
of taking that woman out to Chel-
sea? Close
There wasn't any answer that any
body would care TO think about.
Copyright. 1910, by the Chicago
Daily News, Inc)
Vegetable gardens are to be
planted in London parks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Japan Declared Bockinq
Claims of ThoiIond

CHUNGKING, China. Sept. 20
(Pp-Takungpao, a leading Chinese
daily newspaper, said today it had
been authoritatively informed from
Hanoi, French Indo-China, that
Japan now is openly backing Thai
lands Siam territorial claims
against Indo-China.
The government of Thailand an
nounced last week it had opened
negotiations for return of former
Thailand territory from French
Indo-China. The area sought was
understood to include the provinces
of Luang- Prabang and Bassac in the
territory of Laos and part of the
territory of Cambodia, including the
famous ruins of AngkOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Operating Engineers
Elect MuIoney Head

William E. Maloney, Chicago labor
leader, was elected president Of the
International Union of Operating
Engineers yesterday to succeed the
late John PossehlA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
ThoiIund Mission
Arrives in Toxic

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (P1-A good
will mission from Thailand (Siam,
headed by Col. Luang Phromyophi,
Vice Minister of Defense, arrived at
Toxic today, according to a radio
dispatch by Domei, japanese news
agency.
Thailand has demanded return Of
territory from French Indo-C China
with japanese backing, according to
French reports.
Japan also is demanding military
and naval bases in the French
colony.
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Evening star., 1940-04-03
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nounced the release on option of
Vernon and Pitchers Early Wynn
and Bill Holland last night he also
disclosed that Gehrman will go to
some minor league club. Wynn
goes to Charlotte and Holland to
Springfield.
Neither Griffith nor Manager
Bucky Harris is impressed by Gehr-
man and when Paul is sent away it
won't be on option. Griffith is ex-
pecting word from President William
G.. Branham of the National Baseball
Association regarding Gehrman. II
double-A club has put in a claim
for the hurler, Griff will receive
$500 of the $4,000 he paid to get
Gehrman in the minor league draft.
Tigers Seal Wynn's Fate.
Wynn's fate was sealed yesterday
at Lakeland, where the Mats went
down to a 4-to-2 defeat at the hands
of the Tigers He purposely was
started and the Tigers jumped on
Early for two runs in the first inning
and their other pair of runs in the
third. Wynn's performance con-
vinced Harris that the right-hander,
still only 20 years old, needs expert
ence. Early left shis morning for
Charlotte, where he pitched last year.
After piling up a 40 lead against
Wynn, the Tigers were stopped cold
by Joe Haynes, who worked the last
five innings for the Mats. In turn.
Buck Newsom was turning back his
old mates, but when Rookie Tom
Seats replaced Buck in the seventh
the Griffs showed mild signs Of
batting attack. They scored run In
the eighth, thanks to an error by
Rudy York, and another in the
ninth.
Barney McCosky was in the Mats
hair all afternoon. In three times at
bat McCosky singled twice and
tripled to account for three of the
Tigers six hits.
Evening star., 1940-04-03

One of the reasons why Griffith
is so delighted at arranging for
Jimmy Vernon to play at Jersey
City this year is Bert Niehoff.
=. Bert manages the Interna-
tional League club and Griffith
regards him as one of the best
pilots in the game. Niehof1
formerly managed Chattanooga
when the Lookouts belonged to
the Old Fox.
The Cardinals were here today
and Gilberto Torres was named
to start against them for the
same reason that Wynn opened
yesterday against the Tigers :.
Manager Bucky Harris wants to
see the Cuban knuckle-baller and
handy man in a game with the
score 90. Dutch Leonard was
to finish.
The Bees will come to Orlando
tomorrow to wind up Washing
tons stay here. The two clubs
will leave together for the North,
Evening star., 1940-04-03
Cozart Whips Champ,
Playing Ryerson in
North-South Golf
BY the Associated Press.

PINEHURST. N. c., April 3-Bill
Cozart counted Frank Strafaci of
Brooklyn, N. Y, defending cham
pion, as one of his victims today
and started out to see if he couldn't
eliminate j. B. Ryerson of Coopers-
town, N. Y, from the North and
South amateur golf tournament
The Durham IN. c. youngster had
to go 10 holes to defeat Strafaci yes
terday. He Clipped feet short on
the last one and holed it. Strafaci
Clipped S feet over the cup and
missed.
Other pairings:
Grover Poole. Raleigh, N. c., VS..
Chuck Alexander, Durham; R. A.
Stranahan, Toledo, VS.. George T.
Dunlap, jr., Pinehurst; r. w.
Knowles, jr.. Brookline, Mass, VS..
James T. Hunter. North Adams,
Mass; H. H. Mandley. jr., Hartford,
Conn, VS.. Bobby Dunkelberger. High
Point. N. c.; Joe Thompson, Hamil-
ton, Ontario, VS.. John w. Grange,
Bryn Mawr, Pa; Skip Alexander,
Durham. VS.. Paul H. Hyde, Buffalo,
N. Y; Benny Goodies. Burlington,
N. c.. VS.. w. B. Mccullough, jr.,
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1940-04-03
Congressional Team
favored 10 Regain
State Golf Title
BoIstered While Indian
Spring, 1889 Champion,
Has Lost Some Sturs

Congressional Country Clubs golf
team, shorn of its crown in the
Maryland State team matches last
fall, looms as a 1910 victor in the
spring handicap matches of the
State links organization and in the
fall scratch matches.
In 1887 and 1893 Congressional de-
feated the strongest teams in the
State to grab the team crown twice
in a row. Last season Indian Spring
succeeded Congressional as the title
holder with a powerhouse team that.
hardly was pushed.
Over the winter Congressional has
been greatly strengthened. Charlie
Malone the giant Redskin end, has
joined the club. Ralph Bogart, the
District amateur champion, is con-
sidering becoming Congressional
member. Ralph was on the Indian
Spring team last year, and has been
an Army Navy Club member for
years. But Ralph wants to compete
in the Maryland Journeys, and as a
member of Army Navy-a Virginia
Clubs not eligible. He wants a
Maryland connection and believes
he will file an application at Con-
gressional.
Indian Spring Is Weakened.
While Indian Spring has been
weakened by loss of several stars
Congressional looms much stronger.
Tho CoporoccjoroJ 1ioo,,p 1r,;tl, rov,,
Belshe as captain, will include Witty
Cox, the pro; Gene Pittman. the
club champ; Malone. Billy Shea,
Billy Dettweiler. Parker Nolan, DR..
H. L. Smith, Earl McAleer and
Ralph Bogart, if Bogart joins the
club.
Spring handicap matches Of the
Maryland association will start early
in May and will run through an abb
breviated schedule. to wind up in
mid-June. The matches are PLAYED
on Sundays, and many teams in the
Washington area will compete. Fail
matches will start in September and
will be so arranged as to avoid con-
flict with the home games Of the
Redskin football team. Malone, of
course, will not be eligible for the
fall golf matches. Charlie is busy
catching passes from Sammy Baugh
when frost comes along.
Printcraft Is Preparing.
Members of the Washington chap
ter of the Union Printcrafts Inter-
national Golf Association are NOV
ing toward completion of the pro-
gram for their big tourney here in
August. They'll hold another oyster
roast and buffet supper at the Msy-
flower next Tuesday night to null
over details of the affair. Con-
gressional and Manor will be the
courses over which the tournament
will be played August S, 6. and 8.
E. B. Heimer heads the Washington
chapter, which will be hosts for the
printers party.
Evening star., 1940-04-03
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Georgetown University golfers,
with team that may turn out to
be the strongest of a series of strong
Hilltop links outfits, are all set for
their initial contest of the 1910
season tomorrow, when they clash
with an invading Big Red team
from Cornell.
The Hoyas, weeded out from a
flock of golf candidates, will face
Capt. Ed Meister's lads from Ithaca
with the following lineup: Capt.
John Burke, Buddy Sharkey, Billy
Shea, F. x. Van Herpe, Joe Nc
Bride and Dick Hearty. Saturday
the Georgetown lads will stage
trials to determine final positions
on the varsity links squad.
Sharkey Tops Test With II.
They held a qualifying test yes
terday at the Capital Golf and
Country Club under the watchful
eve of Coach Tony Sylvester, where
Francis M. Buddy Sharkey, the
tall youngster who was a ball of
fire as a schoolboy golfer at Con-
zaga. and now is a sophomore at
the Hilltop. led the qualifers with
a two-over-par 72. Ray Higgins
and Frank Calvin missed out in
the qualifying tests for the Cornell
match, but they'll have another
shot at the team Saturday, when
the varsity outfit is to be picked for
Georgetown's extensive schedule.
Here is the Hoya slate, as an
nounced by Sylvester: April 4,
Cornell at Capital is, st. Josephs S
Of Philadelphia at Capital; 20,
Catholic University at Capital; 30,
Duke at Capital. The follow
ing Eastern intercollegiate League
matches: May 4, Princeton at
Princeton. and Pennsylvania at
Princeton; 10, Penn State at Pitts
burgh; II, Pittsburgh University at
Pittsburgh. and Cornell at Pitt;
May II, playof for Eastern cham
picnship at Boston, May Is, Navy
at Washington.
Maryland Is Licked.
The Hoyas have not listed match
with Maryland University's golf
team, but they may in the future.
Maryland opened it's 1910 season
yesterday. taking a 51a to 31a licking
from Ed Meister's gang at Beaver
Dam. Meister, the Cleveland lad
Evening star., 1940-04-03
Ey q stafr Correspondent OF The Star.

=, stafr Correspondent OF The Star
ORLANDO, Fla, April 3.-In-
fielder Hal Quick, originally one
Of the Nat rockies due to be
farmed out, has been granted a
stay of execution. Quick.
along with Jimmy Vernon. Bill
Holland and Early Wynn, re-
ceived word last night to pack.
Hal was ticketed to report
to the Springfield club, training
in Greenville, S. c., but Buddy
Myer later informed President
Clark Griffith that he needed his
operation right away, so Quick
will be carried until Buddy is
ready for action.
Myer was to leave today for
Washington, where he will under
60 a mild, but necessary, carving.
II all goes we'll the second
baseman, who has yet to pull on
. glove in the Grapefruit League,
may be ready shortly after the
opening Of the season.