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Chiang Promises to Return
Him to Sianfu and Mili
tary Post.
Br Um Associated Press.
NANKING, December 28.—Marshal
Chang Hseuh-liang. it was believed
today, will be restored to commond of
the armies he led in revolt against
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and
the civil crisis his capture of the
premier precipitated will soon be for
gotten.
Chiang was reported already to have
told his erstwhile captor, who in a
sudden turn of events voluntarily gave
himself up. he would be returned to
Sianfu, seat of the rebellion, and his
military post.
Guilty of Treason.
Legally the marshal Is "guilty of
treason and should suffer a traitor’*
punishment,” Foreign Minister Chang
Chung said, explaining the situation,
"but his release of the generalissimo
Unharmed has entitled him to con
sideration.”
Authorities believed the premier’s
recomendations for leniency would
be accepted by the government, but to
satisfy the requirements of justice
Chang would be condemned and then
given a special pardon.
Fatigued by his captivity, Chiang
canceled public engagements and
rested under medical supervision.
The generalissimo, after Chang
penitently released him and begged
forgiveness, told the young marshal
he believed the central authorities
would be lenient with him.
Affair Held No Revolt.
Some quarters expressed the belief
the affair was “not really a revolt.”
"Chang merely detained the general
sufficiently to make him listen to
certain proposals the former Man
churian commander had been unable
to bring to the ears of the busy gen
eralissimo,” they said.
At the time of the seizure of Chiang.
the marshal issued demands for in
clusion of Communists in the govern
ment and war against Japan.
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EXTENSION PLANNED
IN SEAL CAMPAIGN
Drive to Lower Tuberculosis
Death Date in District
Also Is Mapped.
Extension of the 1936 Christmas
seal campaign until after the New
Year holiday and an intensified pro
gram to lower the high tuberculosis
death rate here during 1937 was an
nounced today by Dr. James G. Town
send. new president of the District
Tuberculosis Association.
Receipts from the sale of seals to
date are approximately $27,000 short
of the goal of $60,000, Dr. Townsend
said, pointing out there are “thousands
of other friends to whom our seals
were sent who have taken advantage
of our offer to use the seals, paying
later when more convenient.”
Outlining a program of preventive
work in co-operation with the Health
Department and all public and pri
vate health and welfare agencies here,
Dr. Townsend said the association pro
posed to “keep hammering” for more
adequate hospital facilities for tuber
culosis patients; for extension of the
program of early discovery of incipient
cases by testing; to increase the
amount of free clinic care for both
adults and children; to obtain more
nurses for home care and instruction;
to continue special care of tubercu
lar children in the Summer; provide
free health lectures, and to aid in the
rehabilitation and placement of tuber
culars cured.
“SUNSHINE” BROWNING
UNMOVED BY RULING
Estate Large Enough for Widow
to Share, Says “Daddy's”
Adopted Daughter.
My the Associatec. Press.
DUNN. N. C.. December 28.—The
former Dorothy "Sunshine" Browning
—now Mrs. Clarence B. Hood, wife of
a Dunn laundry operator—expressed
little concern yesterday over the lat
est legal round in the fight over Ed
ward W. "Daddy” Browning’s estate.
Frances "Peaches” Heenan Brown
ing Hynes, widow of the wealthy New
York real estate operator, won another
point in her fight to obtain her dower
rights by an appelate division ruling
In New York Saturday.
The appelate division upheld a Su
preme Court decision which struck out
Mrs. Hood's contention that the mar
riage of "Peaches” and Browning was
Illegal because Browning's 1924 Paris
divorce from his first wife, Adele
Lowen Browning, had no effect.
“The ruling really doesn't mean
anything.” commented Hood today,
"except that she (Mrs. Hynes) will be
entitled to her dower rights, which
will have but little effect upon the es
tate.”
Mrs. Hood, who was the adopted
daughter of Browning, added: "It
doesn't matter, because we'll still have
plenty left.”
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MRS. A. J. FREDERICK
DIES AT AGE OF 63
Wife of Architectural Sculpture
Firm Official Resident
Here 30 Tears.
Mrs. Catherine F. Frederick, 63,
rife of Arthur J. Frederick, vice presi
dent of Lumbard & Ludwig, Inc.,
architectual sculpture firm, died late
yesterday of a heart attack at her
home, 1423 Ames place northeast.
Mrs. Frederick had lived here 30
years. Besides her husband, she leaves
three sons, Robert, Walter and Louis
Frederick, all of this city, and two
sisters, Mrs. Eva Boma and Mrs. Lena
Koenig, both of Boston.. She also
leaves seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday morning at Lee's funeral home,
Fourth street and Massachusetts ave
nue northeast, followed by burial In
Cedar Hill Cemetery .
Black Widow Spider Hardy.
A black widow spider kept in a bot
tle at Beaumont, Tex., proved its
hardiness. It lived nice weeks with
out food, and during that time spun
a web and hatched several score
young spiders.
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Origin of Lice Noted.
Scientists believe lice originated
about the time birds and reptiles dif
ferentiated into different animals.
Burlesque Goes High Hat *
Burlesque went high hat at New York when a new theater featuring the strip-tease act
was opened, attracting a large number of society folk. Left—Two of the girls making up. Right—
Top-hatted men and fur-coated women arriving for the opening. —A. P. Photos.
PRESIDENT TO FILL
TWO I.C.C. POSTS
Terms of Eastman and Tate
Expire Thursday at
Midnight.
With the terms of two members of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
—Joseph B. Eastman and Hugh M.
Tate—expiring at midnight Thursday,
speculation is stirring in transporta
tion circles as to the probability of
the reappointment of one or both.
Customarily there is no word from
the White House until the last minute
on these appointments, and this year
is proving no exception.
The naming of Eastman is viewed
as a foregone conclusion unless Presi
dent Roosevelt has something else in
mind for the Massachusetts liberal,
who has been particularly close to
the Chief Executive and who served
as co-ordinator of transportation for
the administration until the office
was abolished last June.
Maritime Poet Unlikely.
There have been reports Mr. Roose
velt would like to have Eastman on
the Maritime Commission, but such
a change is not regarded as likely,
as Eastman is on Division S of the
I. C. C., which administers the highly
important motor-carriers act.
Eastman, a protege of Supreme
Court Justice Brandeis and listed as
an independent in politics, was ap
pointed to the commission in Febru
ary, 1919, by President Wilson. He
weathered storms of opposition in 1922
under President Harding, and again
in 1929 under Hoover.
He also is chairman of the commis
sion's Legislative Committee. *
Tate, a former Tennessee judge,
was an appointee of President Hoover.
He is a Republican, serving a term
that must be filled by a Republican,
the commission now being composed
of six Democrats, four Republicans
and one Independent. The inter
state commerce act provides that no
more than six members of one party
may sit on the commission at one
time. Judge Tate is a member of the
Rates Division of the commission.
Annual Salary l* $10,000.
Since President Roosevelt took of
fice, the terms of five commissioners—
three Democrats and two Republicans
—have expired. One Incumbent from
each party has been reappointed, and
the three other vacancies were filled
by Democrats.
Commissioners hold office seven
years and the salary is $10,000, having
been cut from $12,000 under the
economy act.
The commission will start the new
year with a new chairman, Commis
sioner Carroll Miller, Pennsylvania
Democrat, and brother-in-law of
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, being
slated for the post. The chairman
ship rotates annually and is now
filled by Commissioner Charles E.
Mahaffle. Democrat of the District.
SCIENCE DEVELOPS
NOW WHEAT PLANT
Perennial Expected to Prove Im
portant Forage in Drought
Section*.
By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ontario, December 28.—
A perennial wheat, a plant with the
seed of ordinary wheat and the long
lived roots of grass, ha* been de
veloped by plant breeders of Canadian
experimental farms, it was announced
here yesterday.
Dr. L. E. Kirk, Dominion agrostolo
gist. said the new wheat is unlikely to
replace annual wheats for bread
making, but may prove a valuable
forage plant to restore to productive
use large areas of drought-ravaged
land in Western Canada.
He said it was possible, but not prob
able, a farmer would be able to seed
a field to the wheat and harvest crops
of salable grain year after year with
out the annual labor of plowing and
sowing.
Plant breeders developed the plant
by cross-breeding ordinary strains of
wheat with agropyron, a perennial
grass closely akin to the common
couch grass of Eastern Canada and
the crested wheat grass of Western
Canada.
About half an acre of cross-bred
plants, representing many different
crosses and varieties, will be sown In
experimental plots next 8prlng.
Scientists assert they doubt if a
perennial wheat suitable for bread
making can be attained. Seeds of the
hybrid plants so far are smaller and
lighter than wheat.
Coal Shipments Soar.
Great Lakes ports ran up the great
est volume of anthracite coal ship
ment* in 1836 slnoe 1831.
1
Kokomo Jones, 77, Army Cook,
A.E.F.’s Oldest, Buried in Iowa
By the Associated Press.
CORNING. Iowa, December 58.—
They buried Kokomo Jones yesterday,
not as a cook but a soldier.
Former Gov. Dan Turner, Col.
Claude Stanley of the Iowa National
Guard, and "buddies" of three wars
paid their respects to Kokomo, 77
year-old Army cook, whom they de
scribed as the oldest man to serve in
the A. E. P.
A bugler born years after Kokomo
joined K company of the National
Guard, blew taps.
"And that is all we could do, even
though Kokomo had been a general.”
one of the veterans whom he fed In
France said.
Rev. Todd read Kokomo’s war rec
ord, which started in 1893 when he
joined Company K as a cook, and ex
tended through* the Spanlsh-Ameri
can, the Mexican border and the
World Wars.
The only citation for "Private Frank
Jones," was the Army report that he
was the oldest enlisted man In the
American expeditionary force in
Prance.
Although his rolling aoup kitchen
followed K Company of the famous
Rainbow Division through Cham
pagne. Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel
and the Argonne. Kokomo escaped
unwounded. A gas attack made him
almost totally blind before he died
at the Iowa Soldiers’ Home Thursday,
but that was years after his war
service ended.
"Kokomo gave his eyesight and 40
years of his life to the service of his
country,” the minister said. "He did
all he could. He was a true soldier."
His old friends said Gen. Pershing
once spotted Jones overseas, and that
the following colloquy took place:
"How old are you?”
"I’m 37. sir."
"How old?"
"I'm 58. sir."
"And the oldest man in this Army,”
Gen. Pershing concluded.
Redouble Vigilance to See
Hitler’s Ban on Attack
Is Obeyed.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, December 28.—German
fundamentalists redoubled their vigil
ance today to see that Nazi subalterns
obey Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler's re
cent orders forbidding attacks on the
Christian church and faith.
Ministers were alarmed by plans of
Dr. Robert Ley, the Reich's leader for
the political organization of Nazidom,
to become the "seelsorger"—literally
soul caretaker—of the German people,
as reported in the Berliner Tageblatt.
The title heretofore has been reserved
to clergymen.
Soldier, Preacher Combined,
Dr. Ley has issued orders to make
his precinct, captains spiritual mentors
for their neighborhoods. The "blork
leiter,” he instructed, is to be "a com
bination of soldier and preacher.”
A circular from the Protestant Con
fessional Synod warned its pastors that
the Rosenberg "myth" of a religion
based on blood and soil and on a
shinto-like worship of Hitler as God's
mediarv for the German people, was
being advanced by the authorities. Dr.
Alfred Rosenberg is head of the Nazi
party foreign affairs division.
The circular also recalled to the
ministers the church's l06s of ground
in the past four years, citing such spe
cific Instances of state interference
with the church as:
1. Missionary work no longer may
be conducted from open-air vehicles
and the Home Missions Department
may not publish so-called "Golden
Word” placards, brief Bible quotations.
Suppression of Publications.
3. Newspapers have been sup
pressed, including the Aufwaerts
(Upward), Lutheran weekly, pub
lished by Rev. Friedrich von Bodel
schwingh; the Reichsbote, Protestant
daily, read by the late Empress Au
guste Victoria, and the weekly, Unter
dem Wort (Under the Word).
3. Numerous church editors have
been excluded from the Reich's Fed
eration of Journalists; theology stu
dents have been forbidden to act as
leaders In the Hitler youth movement.
4. In Thuringia, the Old Testa
ment has been barred from the schools
and teachers have been recom
mended to acquaint classes with Julius
Streicher's anti-semitic "Stuermer."
5. Theological seminaries have been
greatly curtailed in their activities
and the closing of some is contem
plated by the government.
Theology Students Warned.
6. Theological students are warned
at the start of each university semester
any of them connected with the con
fessional movement or its organisa
tions will be expelled.
7. Ministers admitted as religious
Instructors in public schools are for
bidden to be active in confessional
youth organizations. Public school
teachers who Join the Nazi Teachers’
Federation must resign membership
In any confessional teachers’ organiza
tion.
6. Young people’s societies con
ducted under church auspices are not
permitted to operate their own Sum
mer camps.
0. The Wurtemberg government
has prescribed nine church hymns
that may be sung in the schools. All
others are forbidden.
’Quake Makes Workmen HI.
A slight earthquake in the 'early
construction of the Golden Gate
Bridge at San Francisco rocked the
746-foot towers so much that the
workmen became ^11
is
mm SEAMEN
BEATJHREE MEN
Norfolk Police Probe Victims’
Story They Were Ganged
in Store.
B) the As.oct.ted Press.
NORFOLK, Va„ December 28 —
Officers today investigated a story
told by three working seamen that
they were ganged and beaten by a
group of men they identified as
j ‘'strikers.’'
Four other seamen had reported
| attacks by gangs of men during the
past few days.
Beaten In Store.
The latest attack occurred last night
at a confectionery store just outside
the gate to the Eastern Steamship
and the Norfolk & Western piers,
John Pekarowick, 19, Bayonne, N. J.,
one of the men injured, said.
Pekarowick said his companions
were Lloyd Peagan, Portsmouth, and
Warren Rumpf. 25, Milton, Mass. The
j first two are firemen on the Eastern
1 Steamship Line's George Washington,
and Rumpf is an oiler on the S. S.
Cornish.
“We had been In the store about
three-quarters of an hour," Pekaro
wick told police. “First one striker
came in. Then he went out and in
vited a couple more in. This went
on several times until there were about
a dozen men in the place.
Gang Scattered.
"Finally one of them walked up
and grabbed me by the arm and said:
‘What boat are you on?’ I said: ‘The
George Washington —and that’s all I
remember."
Patrolmen S. F. Shotwell and W. J.
Stone, answering a radio call to the
store, took Pekarowick and Feagan to
a hospital, where they were treated for
lacerations of the face and contusions
of the head. Police then escorted
them back to the George Washington.
Officers said they did not see Rumpf
and that the other men had appar
ently scattered before their arrival.
GEN. VON SEECKT DIES;
GERMAN ARMY LEADER
Prominent World War Command
er Succumbs Suddenly at
Home in Berlin.
BERLIN. December 28 UP).—Gen.
Hans von Seeckt, 70, died unexpected
ly at his home here yesterday after a
short illness.
Gen. von Seeckt was prominent In
the World War, put down a poet war
uprising in 1920, and completed organ
ization of the newly founded republic's
army.
, The general completed 50 years of
army service on August 4, 1935, when
he was congratulated on behalf of the
new German army by Gen. Werner
von Pritsch. He was born April 22,
1866.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler appointed him
commander of an infantry regiment
on his 70th birthday anniversary last
April 22.
10 MORE BODIES FOUND
Toll in Jamaica Boat Disaster
Mounts to 84.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, December
28 HP).—Th* list of known dead rose
to 24 todsy In the capsizing of a
boat loaded with colored excursionists
Christmas morning.
Ten bodies were found floating In
the harbor and grappler* recovered
three others yssterday. The bodies of
other victims wore picked up pro
60 Persons Reported Killed
in Attack on Northern
Coastal City.
By the Associated Press.
MADRID, December 28.—Insurgent
bombing planes attacked the north
ern coastal city of Santander yester
day, killing 60 persons In a destructive
air raid, the Socialist Defense Coun
cil reported today.
In the capital the Socialist com
mand claimed advances on the west
ern line of fortifications along the
Manzanares River.
Militiamen seized insurgent trenches
and fortified houses on the edge of
the Users district, the council said.
Strategic Positions Taken.
Capture of the strategic positions
on opposite sides of Madrid was re
ported in an official communique.
A Socialist force routed Fascists in
El Basurero, near the highway south
west from Madrid to Estremadura, and
in the Taracena sector about 2 miles
from Guadalajara, to the northeast.
Both victories, the war ministry as
serted. followed intensive artillery and
mortar fire on insurgent strongholds
and at El Basurero, an infantry attack.
The Madrid government has reported
several successes recently against in
surgent positions both on the Madrid
front and along vital communication
lines in the rear.
Franco Appeal* for Aid.
With the capital's defense lines hold
ing In the eighth week of the siege,
the Fascist commander, Oen. Francisco
Franco, Is reported to have appealed
to Germany for reinforcements, creat
ing a new crisis for European neutral
ity In Spain.
A Fascist aerial attack Inflicted
heavy damage on several buildings In
El Reloj and El Gato streets.
Officials announced the British Em
bassy would be transferred to Valencia,
present seat of the Socialist govern
ment. and the Embassy building In
Madrid closed.
MADRID ATTACK HELD FAILURE.
Franco Force* Reported Firm Against
Bombardment.
WITH FASCISTS, Outside Madrid.
December 28 (^.—Madrid forres
launched a futile attack yesterday on
the insurgents- right flank, Just south
of the capital.
The assault on Fascist-held villages
close behind the front lines was ac
companied by a thunderous bombard
ment. but It failed to shake the troops
of Insurgent Comdr. Gen. Francisco
Franco.
Socialist government airplanes and
artillery combined in the bombard
ment of the villages while the inhab
itants were attending Sunday mass.
Fascist air squadrons answered with
a bombing foray over Madrid.
PHI ALPHA DELTA
DELEGATES GATHER
—
Outstanding Jurists and Lawyers
, Will Attend Annual Con
vention.
Outstanding jurists and lawyers
from all parts of the country were
among those gathering here today for
the annual national convention of
Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity. The
convention will open tomorrow at the
Mayflower Hotel and continue until
New Year's eve, when a ball will be
held.
The program. In charge of WiHiam
S. Culbertson, supreme Justice of the
fraternity, will Include a smoker to
morrow night, visits Wednesday after
noon to the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and the Supreme Court,
and a banquet Wednesday evening at
which J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of
the currency, w'ill be toastmaster.
Prominent members of the frater
nity expected to attend the convention
include:
Attorney General Cummings. Su
preme Court Justice George Suther
land. Assistant Attorney General
Brien McMahon, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman,
District Supreme Court Judges Jesse
C. Adkins and Daniel W. O Donoghue;
Irvine L. Lenroot. Judge of the United
States Court of Customs and Patent
Appeals.
A number of members of Congress
and Government officials also are ex
pected.
Joseph A. Carey is chairman of the
convention Entertainment Committee.
The fraternity has active chapters
at Georgetown and George Washing
ton University Law Schools.
PLAN PARK PLANTINGS
Bids to Be Opened Next Month for
Trees and Shrubs.
Frank T. Gartside. assistant su
perintendent of the National Capital
Parks, announced today that bids will
be opened about the middle of next
month for 172 trees and 415 shrubs
to be planted in the Rock Creek and
Potomac Parkway, between Lincoln
Memorial and K street. Planting will
start about March 15.
Similar material was planted In
the parkway, but was washed out by
the flood of last March. In the In
terim the sea wall In that locality
has been raised about 3 feet, and.
while this will not safeguard against
a major flood, it will protect prop
erty in ordinary freshets, offiicals said.
EDUCATORS TO MEET
Presidents of 22 Universities
Gather Tomorrow at G. W. U.
President of 22 State universities
will gather at George Washington
University tomorrow for the annual
meeting of the State University Asso
ciation. A program formulated by
the Executive Committee will be con
sidered.
Officers of the association are: Dr.
George Thomas, president of the Uni
versity of Utah, president; Dr. George
H. Denny, chancellor of the University
of Alabama, vice president; Dr. Cloyd
H. Marvin, president of George Wash
ington University, secretary.
Yale Club Luncheon.
Laurence V. Be net. now making his
home at 1M4 S street after 50 years’
residence in Paris, will be guest of
honor at a Tale Club luncheon at
12:30 pm. tomorrow at the Cosmos
miif. ^
This Wqs a Madrid Church
The Church of the Good Success, on Mendizabal street in
Madrid, where bombs and shells from the civil war have left
a mass of ruins. —Wide World Photo.
D. C. MEN TO ADDRESS
HISTORY UNIT MEETING
Twelve From Capital to Speak at
Annual Conference In Provi
dence, B. I.
Twelve prominent Washington men
are included among those who • will
apeak at the fifty-first annual meet
ing of the American Historical Asso
ciation opening tomorrow in Provi- j
deuce, R. I.
They are Prof. Guy A. Lee. Brook
ings Institution: Prof. Alfred V. Kid
der, Carnegie Institution: Prof. Leonid
I. Strakhovakv, Georgetown Univer
sity; L. C. Gray, Resettlement Ad
ministration; William R. Hogan. Na
tional Park Service; Oscar C. Stines,
Agriculture Department; Dr, R. D.
W. Connors, national archivist: Dr.
Peter Guilday, Catholic University,
secretary American Catholic Historical
Association; F. E. Braseh. Library of
Congress: Everett E. Edwards, Agri
cultural Historical Society; Lowell J.
Ragata, George Washington Uni
versity, and R. H. Draeger of Science
Service.
Two other Washingtonians—Con
stantine E. McGuire, treasurer of the
association, and Patty W. Washington,
assistant secretary-treasurer, also will
attend.
—
Joint Conference Group Asks
Unity for Removing Dis
criminations.
Br the Aieoeteted Preu.
A proposal for a women’s charter,
demanding full political and civil
rights, was Issued yesterday by tha
Joint Conference Group of Women in
the United States.
The charter, released from the office
of Elizabeth Christman, secretary,
called on women of this country to
"Join together in removing discrim
inations and in achieving full oppor
tunity in education and in work.”
"Women s organizations are expected
to work together for legislation mak
ing the charter effective in their own
nations and to join in submitting it to
the League of Nations and the Inter
national Labor Organization at their
1937 sessions,” Miss Christman said.
The Joint Conference Group, com
posed of 24 representatives of women s
civic and educational organizations,
asked that the charter be studied by -
women’s organizations for eventual ac
tion at a national conference in the *
Spring.
Rumors of its provisions recently
brought opposition from Elsie M. Hill. '
National Woman's Party leader, who
criticized what she termed the char
ter's "Inequality" in advocating differ
ent laws for men and women in a so
ciety where they "live and work side
by side.”
Attack by Camel Fatal.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., December 28
W).—John C. Hane, 58, park care
taker. attacked by a camel December
17, died last night. His physician
attributed death to pneumonia. The
camel, which Hane had attended eight
years, grabbed his head in its mouth,
shook him violently, then trampled
him.
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