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GROWING ANGLO-JAPAN TENSION
DIMS BRUSSELS PARLEY HOPES;
MANCHU BORDER STRENGTHENED
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British Await Full
Report on 3
Killings.
LONDON NEARS
PATIENCE END
Diplomatic Break
Is Anticipated
in Tokio.
BACKGROUND—
Anglo-Japanese tension over in
vasion of China by armies of Nip
pon sprang from wounding of
British Ambassador to China. Sir
Hughe Natchbvll-Hugessen. August
26 while traveling from Nanking
to Shanghai on mission of. peace-.
Subsequent, firing upon British
diplomatic cars and killing of
three British soldiers at outpost of
Shanghai International Settlement
Friday intensified ^bitterness in
London.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. <$ct. 30.—Tension between
Great Britain and Japan, arousejl by
a series of fatal incidents in the
Shanghai war zone, today narrowed
the possibilities for success of the
Brussels Conference to halt the Chi
nese-Japinese war.
As the London delegation, headed
by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
made ready to go to the Belgian capital
Monday night, the British foreign
office sought a full report on the kill
ing of three British soldiers by Japa
nese troops at Shanghai yesterday.
The latest incident in the series,
starting with the wounding of Sir
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British
Ambassador to China, stirred new
British feeling against Japan. It was
apparent in official quarters that the
repeated occurrences had strained
British patience with mere Japanese
regrets.
japannr uiun •
At the same time growing Japanese !
bitterness against Britain was reported
from Tokio. where the "Council on the j
Current Situation.” an unofficial body ,
including members of Parliament,!
army leaders and industrialists, sug
gested Japan might break ofr diplo
matic relations with Britain.
Reports from Shanghai indicated
Japanese resented British troops stop
ping Japanese troop launches from
going up Soochow Creek yesterday.
Dispatches said Japanese declared a
British soldier had touched a Japanese
machine gun, "thus insuiting the im- j
perial Japanese Navy.”
Indications in London were that
Britain would enter the Brussels talks
November 3 with a "much stiller back”
as the result of repeated‘attacks on
her troops and property in China.
Eden Answer Awaited.
Eden’s answer in the House of Com
mons Monday to opposition criticism
of the government’s foreign policy was
looked to for a possible indication of
British action in the Far East as well
as the deadlock among European pow
ers on getting foreign volunteers out
of the Spanish civil war.
Eden, reporting to Commons earlier
In the week on the Japanese machine j
gunning to death of a British soldier, j
declared to the cheers of members that
British retaliatory fire had been justi
fied and could be expected in the fu
ture.
The British delegation was believed
going to Brussels without definite plans
except to work closely with the Ameri
can delegates In an effort to find a
peace formula under the Washington
nine-power agreement to respect Chi
na's territorial integrity.
Japan’s Stand an Obstacle.
The refusal of Japan, a signatory,
to participate was recognized as a seri
ous obstacle. The chief hope for suc
cess of the conference was based on j
Chinese and Japanese expressions of
willingness to talk peace, but the wide
gap In their positions presented many
difficulties.
Belgium Prepares Palace.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 30 (jP).—Belgium
put the historic Palais des Academies
in shape today for the first nine-power
treaty conference meeting Wednesday
to seek solution of the Chinese-Jap
anese conflict.
The foreign office announcement
that Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff
would head Russia’s delegation brought
to four the number of foreign ministers
who are scheduled to attend the con
ference.
“Lost Battalion” Rum Gauntlet
Of Machine Guns to Sanctuary
377 Dash 20 Yards to British Outpost as
W arehouse-Fortress Crumbles—Three
More English Soldiers Wounded.
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Staff Correspondent.
SHANGHAI, Oct 31 (Sunday) .—China’s “lost battalion” escaped Its
besieged warehouse-citadel early today, running a blazing machine gun
gauntlet to sanctuary in Shanghai’s International Settlement.
At the height of a furious battle that sprayed shells over foreign-owned
areas of central Shanghai, 377 Chinese dashed down a 20-yard opening
to safety.
They were disarmed immediately by British troops and interned for
were gravely wounded.
Chinese said they had left behind
200 dead who fulfilled their pledge
to defend the warehouse until death
in the face of a Japanese "surrender
or die” ultimatum.
Ten minutes after the last survivor
fled the crumbling warehouse Japanese
hoisted the Rising Sun flag over the
site of one of the most dramatic epi
sodes in this conflict.
Later In the day three more Brit
ish soldiers were wounded by stray
shells in the Jessfield Park area of’
Shanghai, creating a new strain on
Anglo-Japanese relations.
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little and
Maj. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett.
commanders of Britain’s army and
navy forces, both made representa
tions to the Japanese. They urged
(See BATTALION. Page A-5.)
IL DllCE RECALLS
Cerruti’s Indefinite Leave
Aggravates Strained Dip
lomatic Rift.
BACKGROUND—
Franco-Italian relations strained
since start of Spanish civil war,
when France joined Britain in
establishing Non-Intervention Com
mittee for prevention of shipment
of arms and volunteers to either
faction in Spanish war. Rift
widened by refusal of France a
year ago to accredit new Ambas
sador to Italy to King Victor Eman
uel as Emperor rather than merely
King of Italy. Bitterness accentu
ated by recent Anglo-French de
mands that Italy withdraw her
troops from Spain.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 30.—Premier Miissolini
pf Italy recalled his Ambassador from
Paris in a move which diplomats
considered as aggravating France's
strained diplomatic relations with
Italy.
Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti will
return to Rome tomorrow night. Ital
ians said, for a leave of absence of
"more or less long duration." Baron
Angelo Scaduto Mendola, counsellor
of Embassy, is also leaving his post,
placing the delicate Italo-French re
lations in the hands of a minor official.
The sudden recall was made, a
usually well-informed diplomatic
source said, because France had
failed to send an Ambassador to Rome
and left a Charge d’Affaires in control
of Italian relations rather than recog
nize the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia.
Cerruti notified the foreign ministry
that he was leaving a Charge d’Affaires
to handle Italian relations with France
and after his visit the foreign office
issued a communique:
"The Italian Ambassador has made
known to the foreign ministry that he
has been invited by his government
to leave on vacation.”
Diplomatic sources said they be
lieved the rupture would not go any
further as the Ambassador's departure
was felt to be due entirely to Musso
lini's sense of prestige requiring Ital
ian representation at Paris to be on
the same basis as the French at Rome.
Edouard Daladier, minister of. na
tional defense, in a speech at the
Radical Socialist Congress at Lille,
made what observers interpreted as a
(See-PARIS'" Page A-5.)
TELEPHONE OFFICIAL
COLLAPSES AT GAME
By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Oct. 30.—Floyd
O. Hale, 54, president of the Illinois
Bell Telephone Co., collapsed during
the exciting closing minutes of the
Yale-Dartmouth game today and was
rushed by the field ambulance to the
New Haven ■ Hospital.
Dr. Wilder Tileston, who treated the
stricken executive, said it would be
impossible to determine what caused
the collapse until a more complete
diagnosis is made. The physician de
scribed Hale’s condition as "very fair.”
Recalled
j AMBASSADOR CERRUTI.
MRS. LAWES DIES
IN FALL FROM BRIDGE
Wife of Sing Sing Warden Fa
tally Injured in Drop From
Bear Mountain Span.
By the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y„ Oct. 30—Mrs.
Kathryn Lawes, wife of Warden Lewis
E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, died in
the Ossining Hospital tonight of in
juries received in a fall from
the Bear Mountain Bridge to the bank
of the Hudson River.
She was found at the base of a
precipice by State troopers at 8 o'clock
(E.S.T.) tonight, twelve hours after
she drove away from her home at the
prison. The car was parked on the
bridge.
Westchester County Medical Exam
iner Amos O. Squ.re said he would try
to determine the circumstances of the
fall after he had examined the site
tomorrow.
The troopers noticed the car, bear
ing a Sing Sing label, parked on the
bridge, and called the warden, who
joined in the search.
He said his wife had been ill for
several weeks. She was about 50.
Squire said Mrs. Lawes apparently
fell while going down a path down
the cliffside, because her injuries were
not as great as would be expected from
a fall the whole 150 feet from the
bridge level.
FLOODED AREA OF SYRIA
PATROLLED BY TROOPS
By the Associated Press.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 30.—Troops
tonight patrolled flood-destroyed vil
lages northeast of Damascus where
more than 1,000 persons were drowned
and 10,000 left homeless.
The troops were sent out following a
ministry of interior announcement
that a village on the Damascus
Baghdad road had been sacked by
thieves after inhabitants fled before
advancing flood waters.
The government recruited hundreds
of volunteers and sent them mto the
flood areas to work with troops in
feeding refugees and recovering bod
ies.
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the futl-size rotogravure
section is back again.
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this is an experiment to give
you a chance to tell us which
you prefer.
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Upsets Shake Grid World;
Navy and Auburn Victims
National football rankings again will
be drastically revised following yes
terday’s games, with Pennsylvania’s
victory over Navy and Rice's triumph
over Auburn by identical 14-7 scores
standing out in a list sprinkled freely,
with upsets.
Harvard recorded its first victory
over Princeton since 1923 by the
„ convincing figures of 34-6, while Yale
and Dartmouth struggled to a 9-9
tie. Notre Dame topped Minnesota,
'7-6. with Fordham whipping ’North
Carolina, 14-0; Georgia Tech trim
ming Vanderbilt, 14-0, and Nebraska
defeating Indiana, 7-0, in other out
standing games.
Ip the local realm Maryland con
tinued Its winning ways with a 13-7
decision 'over Florida, w'hile Manhat
tan rallied to trounce Georgetown,
30-.12; . Dickinson buried American
University, 41-0. and Howard .Uni
verslty and Miner Teachers battled
to • 7-7 tie
Glen Riddle Farm’s War Admiral
easily captured the twenty-third re
newal of the Washington Handicap,
closing feature of the Maryland State
Fair’s 25-day fall meeting at Laurel.
War Admiral, covering the 114 miles
in 2:04 4-5, finished more than a
length ahead of T. P. Morgan’s Heel
fly to earn $15,350. Shandon Farm’s
Burning Star was third.
Other leading football scores:
Army, 20: Virgingia Military In
stitute, 7.
Cornell, 14; Columbia, 0.
Holy Cross, 0; Temple, 0.
Baylor, 6; Texas Christian, 0.
Southern Methodist, 13; Texas, 2.
Arkansas, 26; Texas A. & M., 13.
Alabama, 41; Kentucky, 0.
Tulane, 14; Mississippi, 7.
Pittsburgh, 25; Carnegie Tech, 14.
N. Y. U., 14; Colgate, 7.
California, 27; U. C. L. A., 14.
Villanova, 7; Detroit, 0.
Stanford, 0; Oregon State, 0.
Washington State, 0; Southern Cali
fornia, 0.
Tokio Is Reported
Sending 40,000
From China.
ARMY IN CHOSEN
ALSO SHIFTED
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Soviet Movements
Declared Made
in Siberia.
By the Associateo Press.
PEIPING, Oct. 30.—Trustworthy
soiftces said today that both Japan
and Russia are rapidly increasing
their forces along the boundary be
tween Japan's protectorate of Man
chukuo and Soviet Siberia.
It was authoritatively estimated
40.000 Japanese troops who had taken
part in the conquest of North China
have been sent into North Manchukuo.
Foreign sources have reported the
movement of Japanese troop trains :
northeastward through Tientsin.
It was reported also that 20,000
Japanese troops had been sent re
cently from Chosen into Eastern
Manchukuo, rvhere border tension was
heightened by a Soviet-Manchukuo
clash on the Tumen River boundary
Friday.
Travelers Report Army Shifts.
According to Domei, Japan’s na
tional news agency, travelers whe
have come through Siberia recently
have told of large movements of the
Red Army along the Trans-Siberian
Railway into Siberian provinces ad
joining Manchukuo.
Domei also said that Soviet troops
had been sent into Outer Mongolia,
which is under Russian influence and
protection, because Russian leaders
feared an invasion from Manchukuo.
Informed observers pointed out that
the Japanese column which recently
conquered Suivuan and Chahar Prov
inces—and which came from Japan's
Manchukuan garrison—has hastened
to set up an independent "Inner Mon
golian nation" with capital at Kwei
sui, formerly capital of Suiyuan.
Base to Strike Outer Mongolia.
This, it is believed, is intended to
establish firmly a base from which
to strike at Outer Mongolia if the
need arises.
Authorities familiar with both Ja
1 pan and Russia said mat wnue
neither country wants to fight now—
knowing it would be a fight to the
; death—each is being impelled into
| large military preparations by fear of
attack.
The Japanese army, although fully
occupied with its conquests in China,
apparently is taking no chances with
its Manchukuan border defenses.
• Although many of the troops
who took part in the occupation of
Tientsin and Pciping came from Man
chukuo it was believed they were re
placed there by other troops from
Japan, so that the garrison of Man
chukuo never lias been weakened.
Yangchuan Captured.
A Japanese army communique said
three Japanese columns which have
been fighting their way into Shansi
Province from the East today cap- |
tured Yangchuan. 60 miles east of
Taiyuanfu, the provincial capital.
A Domei dispatch from Kweisui—re
named Hoho by the Mongols—said the j
new Mongol “nation” declared its au- !
thority extended not only over Suiyuan !
and most of Chahar but also over "all i
territory originally possessed by the
Mongols.”
Literally taken, this would mean
most of Asia and some of Europe but
experienced observers interpreted it as
a bid for support of Mongol tribes in
Sovietized Outer Mongolia and also
a hint its sway might be extended—
with Japanese army help—to Ning
hsia, Chinese province to the west of
Suiyuan.
Soviets Protest Border Fight.
MOSCOW, Oct. 30 I/P).—The Soviet
government protested today over an
alleged incursion of Japanese-Man
chukuan troops across the Russian
Manchukuo frontier where they were
said to have exchanged shots with
Soviet frontier guards.
The foreign office instructed the
consul general at Harbin to present
the protest to Japanese authorities and
the Manchukuo government and ask
them to take measures to prevent such
incidents in the future.
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FATHER KNICKERBOCKER—HALLOWEEN HAD NO TERRORS FOR ME!
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Two Merrymakers Hurt as
Vehicle Rolls Down Bank
Near Chain Bridge^
A crowd of young people on a Hal
loween party narrowly escaped serious
injury or death last night when a
truck taking them to Great Falls left
the road on a curve on Chain Bridge
Hill in Arlington County, plunged
down a 25-foot embankment and
turned over
Two of the approximately 40 occu
pants of the vehicle required hospital
attention and several others were given
first aid at the scene for cuts and
bruises.
William Staunton, jr., 18, of 4100 Ne
braska avenue N.W., was treated at
Emergency Hospital for a slight brain
concussion and Betty Mitchell. 18. of
3032 N street N.W. for brain concus
sion and contusion of the right shoul
der. • Both were discharged from the
hospital.
The accident happened at a point
where a Chesapeake & Potomac Tele
phone Co. crew was repairing a
cable. The workmen quickly Effected
the rescue of the occupants of the
vehicle, who were piled up against
the front wall as the truck nosed
down.
Driver Is Injured.
Lewis Du Base, colored, 34, 741
Kenyon street N.W., the driver, was
arrested by Arlington County police
and held for investigation, but offi- i
cers said he probably would be re
leased. Du Bose suffered a badly i
lacerated arm. He was forced to !
break his way out of the truck cab
to escape.
Officers quoted Du Bose as sayingj
that he "lost” the road and didn't
realize he had wrongly turned off the
curve until it was too late.
Miss Margaret Murray, 5430 North
Capitol street, one of the truck party,
said there were 36 or 48 persons in
the group and that they had met at
the home-of one to start for Great
Falls. She said the truck was not
speeding at the time of the accident.
The place where the truck left the
highway is about 300 feet from the
Virginia end of Chain Bridge on
Glebe road. The erade is steep and j
curves to the right into a short bridge
across Pimmet P„un.
•Benjamin F. Lusby. a telephone
workman residing at 745 Tenth street
S.E.. w'as standing by a pole near the
(See TRUCK, Page A^dT)
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Norris En Route Here.
ROCHESTER. Minn., Oct. 30 —
Senator George W. Norris, independ
ent, of Nebraska was en route to
Washington by automobile today after
being treated for several weeks by
clinic physicians here for an abscessed
tooth. He was also given a complete
physical check-up. The Senator
planned to reach Washington for the
start of the special session of Con
gress.
Wild Marxes,
Found Guilty,
Fear Jail Bars
Groucho ond Ghico
Convicted of Copy•
rig/iJ J iolation.
Zy the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.—Groucho
and Chico Marx, movie comedians,
were convicted in Federal Court today
of infringing on a copyright in a
radio broadcast—a verdict that
Groucho said in tragic tones "might
mean a jail jolt for us."
Groucho delivered that pessimistic
statement as the jury retired.
After the verdict, he and Chico,
equally serious, had notning to say.
The misdemeanor conviction carries
a maximum fine of $1,030, or maxi
mum Jail sentence of one year, or
both.
Judge George Cosgrove said sen
tence would be imposed next Monday.
Defense counsel declared they would
ask for a new trial. .
After only brief deliberation, a jury
convicted the high-salaried brothers
of using certain "gag" material which
Carroll and Garrett Graham sub
mitted to them previously, but which
they rejected.
In the trial, the Marx brothers
contended the late A1 Boasberg, screen
writer, prepared the script they used
in the broadcast last year. They
testified they did not recall the sub
stance of the skit. "Mr. Dibble and
Mr. Dabble," that the Grahams sub
mitted and did not realise it and
their broadcast script were similar.
(Picture on Page A-2.)
TRAINING SCHOOL
HEMMED
Kennedy to Push Move for
Congressional Inquiry
Into Institution.
BACKGROUND—
Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith was
appointed superintendent of the
National Training School for Girls
18 months ago, and an appropria
tion of $100,000 was made to im
prove conditions there generally.
Mrs. Roosevelt became interested in
the school, and entertained the in
mates at the White House. Riots
there in recent months resulted in
Dr. Smith's ouster.
A congressional investigation of
conditions at the National Training
School for Girls was demanded yes
terday as the District Commissioners
went forward with plans to get a suc
cessor for Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith,
ousted as superintendent, Friday, on
recommendation of the Board of Pub
lic Welfare.
Declaring a probe was called for,
Representative Kennedy. Democrat,
of Maryland, member of the House
District Committee, said he would
move for appointment of a special
sub-committee to conduct it as soon
as Congress goes into session No
vember 15.
At the same time. Dr. Smith an
nounced her intention of doing "every
thing in my power” to have the en
tire juvenile institution set-up here
investigated, while the Welfare Board
countered with the reply that a move
of that nature would be welcomed.
And while these developments were
in progress, police got a "lookout" for
three inmates of the school who were
said to have "walked off.” They were
identified as Nellie Turner, 17; Min
nie Morrison, 14, and Veronica Edelin,
16, all colored.
“Thorough” Inquiry Asked.
"As a member of the House Dis
trict Committee,” Mr. Kennedy de
clared, “1 feel that developments at
the National Training school for Girls,
which resulted in the removal of Dr.
Smith demand a thorough inquiry by
either the full committee or a spe
cial subcommittee. I intend to rec
ommend such an investigation at the
first meeting of the committee.
"I do not know Dr. Smith, and I
(See SCHOOL, Page A-3/)
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Radio Programs, Page F-7.
Complete In&qx, Page A-t.
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HALLOWEEN FETE
SEEN BY 100,000
Witches, Ghosts and Gob
lins Take Part in Parade
Deemed Best Yet.
Spooks, witches and assorted skele
tons who danced the “big apple” be
fore the rubbery stare of a 100-foot
dragon who solemnly came apart in
sections by way of protest, and 11
sheeted ghosts playing football were
among the prodigies which passed in
review before Queen Halloween V and
some 100,000 spectators last night in
the annual civic Halloween parade
on Constitution avenue.
Aided by the combination of an un
! seasonably mild, starlit night and a
Saturday evening observance, the pa
rade proved to be the most colorful of
the five annual community Halloween
j celebrations sponsored here by the
Greater National Capital Committee of
the Washington Board of Trade.
Despite the size of the crowd—police
estimated there were 10.000 spectators
crowded along the block between Fif
, teenth and Sixteenth streets alone—
I the parade went off without the re
i porting of an accident of any sort.
Queen on Glittering Throne.
Queen Halloween, impersonated by
Miss Betty Virginia Lewis, 18-year-old
Temple School student, established her
court on a glittering throne at Six
teenth street and Constitution avenue
N.W. and with the assistance of her
royal consort, Maurice Jarvis, the King
of Halloween; Dennis Connell, the
royal jester, and a large court of la
dies in waiting and local civic officials,
reviewed a parade in which 1,908 per
sons participated.
A police count showed 1,412 march
ers in costume, 40 floats and 12 bands.
There were 415 participants in vehicles
or on floats.
But these are very mundane, matter
of-fact figures, and there was nothing
mundane or matter-of-fact about the
parade. It was fantastic to a degree,
and cold statistics meant nothing
whatever to the thousands of gaily-cos
tumed youngsters who sat along the
curbs and shrieked their thrilled de
light as giant rubber alligators and
dragons poked their fearsome snouts
into the crowds.
And the children had generous
adult assistance in their applause
for such parade units as the oig
float representing a jail full of
goblins and ghosts who crowded the
barred windows, while a giant, in
flated policeman dogged by an es
caped ghost, swayed around atop
the prison, or the 25 beautifully uni
formed girls on roller skates who
skated through intricate evolutions
in the Georgetown Playground sec
tion, or All Baba and the 40 thieves
(See HALLOWEEN, Page A-3.)
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CORCORAN OPERATED ON
Co-Author of Holding Company
Bill in Baltimore Hospital.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30 Thomas
Corcoran, co-author of the adminis
tration’s holding company bill, was
reported “getting along very well”
after an operation in a Baltimore hos
pital today.
Dr. M. L. Breitstein said "a slight
nasal operation” was performed. Mr.
Corcoran, an attorney for the Recon
struction Finance Corp., entered the
hospital last night.
NEW YORK HIT
TOPS IN' ESTIN
TUESDAY’S MING
La Guardia Given Chance
to Win Over Mahoney
for Re-election.
RACES IN OTHER CITIES
MARKED BY BITTERNESS
New York State to Select Three
for Congress—Virginia and Jer
sey to Select Governors.
. By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Election day—Tuesday—will be a
mild affair compared to what may be
expected in 1938 and 1940. Never- -
theless it holds a set of municipal
elections that vie with other election
days in interest. New York. Detroit,
Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland are
all choosing mayors and other officials
after campaigns of varying degrees of
bitterness.
Two States, New Jersey and Vir
ginia, are electing Governors. Va
cancies in the National House of Rep
resentatives are to be filled, three in
New York State and one in Virginia.
The mayoralty campaign in New
York City has attracted the most na
tional attention. Mayor La Guardia
is seeking re-election on a Fusion
ticket—with the backing of the Re
publicans, the American Labor party
and other lesser political organizations.
Against him is running the regular
Democratic nominee, Jeremiah T. Ma
honey. with the blessing of Chair
man James A Farley of the Demo
cratic National Committee who also
is chairman of the Democratic State
Committee of New York.
La Guardia Conceded Chance.
It will be an amazing thing if La
Guardia wins re-election—and he is
given an excellent chance for victory
by many observers. Four years ago.
in a three-cornered race in which he
opposed two Democrats. La Guardia
won with a vote of 866.552. O'Brien,
the Democratic nominee and Tam
many candidate, received 586.672. and
McKee, a Democrat running as the
candidate of the "Recovery party."
with the backing of Mr, Farley, had
609,053 votes. The combined O'Brien
and McKee vote would have sunk
La Guardia had they been combined
aginst him. This year La Guardia
faces only one Democratic candidate,
Mahoney.
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York Is tremendous, when compared
to the enrollment of other parties.
It is something like 1,600,000 to 300.
000 for the Republicans. The enroll
ment of the American Labor party,
which was formed last year to sup
port President Roosevelt, is smaller.
It is quite apparent that La Guardia
must receive a very large number of
the votes of enrolled Democrats if
he is to win re-election. He is count
ing on strong support from labor and
the American Labor party is doing its
level best for him. On the other hand.
La Guardia is an anathema to some
of the Republicans, although he has
the Republican nomination. Many of
the anti-La Guardia Republicans
voted for Senator Copeland of New'
York in the primary, when the Sena
tor was running in both the Repub
lican and Democratic primaries. Sen
ator Copeland was regarded as the
Tammany candidate in the Democratic
primary, but he lost there, too.
. Supporter of New Deal.
La Guardia supported President
Roosevelt in both his campaigns for
the presidency. He has been a sup
porter of New Deal policies. Notwith
standing, Parley. Gov. Lehman. Sena
tor Wagner, author of the Wagner
Labor Relations Act. and all the Roose
velt Democratic leaders in the city
have turned in for Mahoney.
Although he was not the original
choice of Tammany and a majority
of its district leaders, Mahoney has
been labeled the "Tammany candi
date” by La Guardia. It is against
the organized machine, backing Ma
honey, which the Mayor is making his
campaign and on the plea that he has
given the city an honest government,
which, he says, it could never have
with a "machine Mayor.”
The Republicans in New York are
backing La Guardia in the hope they
will be able to destroy Tammany and
put a check to Democratic machine
control of the city. Dewey, "racket
(See ELECTIONS. Page A-18.)
FIGHT COLONIES SHIFT
French Radical Socialists Oppose
Demands of Germany.
LILLE, France, Oct. 30 (VP).—The
Radical-Socialist party, whose rolls
include Premier Camille Chautemps
and 16 members of his cabinet, today
went on record against the return to
Germany of her prewar colonies.
The party expressed confidence that
the government will maintain the ad
ministrative and legal set-up of the
colonies under French mandate.
New D.C. Hospital Will Provide
Comforts for Expectant Fathers
By HAROLD B. ROGERS.
Expectant fathers are to be given
special consideration in the new Doc
tors' Hospital, under plans just ap
proved for its construction on I street,
between two medical buildings at
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
These fathers are to be provided with
a waiting room all their own on the
maternity floor, and are to be made
comfortable during
that trying time
when so many
fathers wear out
shoe leather wait
ing for the stork.
On the blue
print plans, which
have been ap
proved by officials
of Doctors’ Hos
nitel After #»xten
sive consultation with physicians’
committees of every specialty, there is
a place set apart on the fifth floor
known, for construction purposes, as
“visitors’ waiting room." That’s for
the expectant fathers. It will be
equipped with comfortable chairs,
lounges, tables, magazines and other
up-to-date reading material. The
problem was discussed at some length
by physicians and representatives of
the architects and builders, according
to Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, secretary of
Doctors’ Hospital, Inc.
Rest Rooms for Doctors.
On the maternity floor will be pro
vided every modern scientific develop
ment for the proper care of mothers
and infants, under the plans, approved
by a committee of experts. Rest rooms
for doctors waiting
ior maternity pa
tients also are to
be constructed, on
both the fifth floor
and the sixth floor,
where there will be
a continuation of
the maternity
service.
Other features
of the new hospital
will be a flower and gift shop on the
first floor, I street front, adjoining the
lobby, for the convenience of visitors.
This will be rented to an outside firm.
The drug store of Maxwell & Tenny
son, now occupying the ground floor
at Eighteenth and I streets, will be
moved to the first floor, occupying part
of the hospital and part of the med- ■
(See HOSPITAL, Pace A-8.)
Winners of Snapshot Awards
Will Be Selected Tomorrow
The winner of the grand prize—
$1,500—in the 1937 third annual news
paper national snapshot awards will be
selected by a distinguished Jury to
morrow from 408 snapshots now hang
ing in the Explorers’ Hall of the Na
tional Geographic Society.
The snapshots were taken by ama
teur photographers from 40 States
and represent entries from The Eve
ning Star and 101 other leading news
papers throughout the country.
The 125 cash prizes, totaling $10,000,
range from 112 honorable mention
awards of $50 each up to four first
prize winners in as many classes, each
of whom will be awarded $500. A
grand prize of $1,000 will be awarded
for the picture adjudged to be the
most outstanding of all snapshots en
tered. This grand prise winner will
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be chosen from the four first prize
winners in each class, thus bringing
the winner of the grand prize $1,500.
Those who will judge the pictures
are: Margaret Bourke-White, na
tionally known photographer of indus
trial and news interest subjects:
Howard Chandler Christy, famous
portrait painter; Franklin L. Fisher, \
chief of illustrations division. National
Geographic Society; Ruth Alexander
Nichols, well known photographer of
babies and children, and Kenneth Wil
son Williams, photographer and editor
of amateur publications of Eastman
Kodak Co.
Each of the newspapers participat
ing in the 1937 competition entered
four grand prize winning pictures
from respective contests to compete
(See PRIZES, Page A-5.)
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