Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1935, Page 1

1 WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; continued cold, lowest temperature tonight about 8 degrees; fresh westerly winds. Temper- atures—Highest, 32, at 1 p.m. yesterday; '.I‘he only evening paper Washington with the ociated Press News and Wirephoto Services. lowest, 4, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 33,476. LAVAL HOLDS HOPE EFFORT FOR PEACE WILL AVERT WAR Premier Tells Cabinet Posi- tion Will Depend on Ital- ian Provocation. CONFIDENCE AT STAKE AT SESSION TOMORROW Mussolini and Selassie Bajtle Spies—Troops in Skirmishes Over Christmas Day. BACKGROUND— ) Indications of Italian-Ethiopian trouble were evident on Christmas, 1934, On Christmas, 1935, nearly three months of actual warfare had been concluded; two Italian armies had advanced into Ethiopia from both north and south. Making slow progress, Italian forces met little opposition at first, but have en- countered heavier fighting in re- cent weeks. 2 Meanwhile, League of Nations de= cided upon course of economic prese sure against aggressor Italy. Fail- ure of British-French peace efforts leave League members with no re- course but to continue policy. Brit- ain, prepared for war if necessary, is reported strengthening assur- ances of military co-operation from Mediterranean nations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 26.—Premier Pierre Laval told his cabinet today, it was reported, in the Chamber of Deputies lobbies, that France would refrain from making any military or naval move toward Italy unless Italy gave provocation. Details of the premier’s future policy | to keep out of war and to settle the Italo-Ethiopian conflict were not' yet decided upon, however, informed sources said after Laval met his min- isters to draft his defense for tomor=- row's Chamber of Deputies’ interpella- tion on foreign policy. Laval was reported anxious, never- theless, to continue his role of peace- maker at Geneva. Still Opposed to Sanctions. France is still firmly opposed to application of military sanctions, po- litical sources said, with Laval con- sidering Italian action, such as an attack on British ships, would require open military precautions, like mobilization of the French fleet or army. Edouard Herriot, influential minis- ter of state, kept silent at the cabinet meeting after Laval assured him of maintenance of a policy of fulfilling obligations under the League of Na- tions covenant, including mutual as- sistance. Herriot’s friends said he was leav- ing the question of confidence in Laval’'s pursuance of his policy for the Chamber to decide tomorrow in & possible vote, with the life of the | cabinet at stake, after the foreign | policy debate. Against Political Troops. In addition to the critical debate on FPrance's activities in the Italo-Ethi- opian conflict, Laval was expected to pose a question of confidence also in & Chamber vote on suppression of semi-military political leagues. A vote on the budget Laval has drawn up for defense of the franc will com- plete Parliament’s work until its new | session January 14. | The premier met with his ministers | today especially to prepare his Te- | sponse to attacks on the discarded plan for East African peace Laval drew up with the resigned British foreign | secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, in view of British repudiation of the proposals for granting to Italy of concessions in Ethiopia. The Leftist opposition criticized the discredited peace suggestions as a re- ward for Italian aggression in Ethio- pia and a betrayal of the League of Nations. The Rightist press, however, rang with warnings that any additional league sanctions against Italy, in an (See WAR, Page 4.) POISONING ATTEMPT GHARGE IS PROBED V. 8. Prosecutor in China Looks Into Accusation Doctor Tried to Kill Wife. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, December 26.—United States District Attorney Felthan Wat- son of St. Louis announced today he ‘would proceed to Tientsin Friday to investigate charges against Dr. John Colbert, accused of attempting to Ppoison his wife, Dr. Colbert, 50, a former student at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of St. Louis and past com- mander of the Tientsin Post of the American Legion, was arrested yester- day by British police at the request of United States consular officials. He was released under $25,000 bail and bound over to the United States Mrs. Colbert, the doctor’s third wife and & leading member of Tientsin society, has been a hospital patient for some time, being treated for a heart ailment. Pilot Is Beheaded When Ethiopians Shoot Plane Down By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABBABA, December 26.— The Ethiopian government reported today that the soldiers had shot down an Italian airplane at Daggah Bur. The airplane was flying in a re- connoitering expedition, in company ‘with another. It was brought to earth, according to the government, at 9 a.m. today. Officials from Harar that the pilot—not immediately identified— wes i that only some desperate | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Victim of Disease She4 Fought, She Is Sixth of Unit to Die. Miss Anna M. Pabst, 4622 Fifteenth street, bacteriologlst at the National | Institute of Health, gave her life to | science last night when she died in | Emergency Hosptal of a form of men- | ingitis contracted while trying to de- | velop & serum with which to combat the disease in others. Miss Pabst, an experienced tech- nician and co-author of several sci- entific articles, was inoculating an animal with meningitis culture on December 17 when the animal moved and some of the culture squirted into her eye. ‘Though all possible immediate steps | were taken to cleanse the eye from the | deadly injection, Miss Pabst con- tracted the disease. She became ill while Christmas shopping Decem- ber 21 and was taken to Emergency Hospital, where she died at 7:30 o'clock last night. The Public Health Service, in re- porting her death in line of duty ! today, paid highest tribute to the scientific service of Miss Pabst. Hers is the sixth death in the past 10 years | from diseases contracted in that laboratory by scientists. Many have suffered serious illnesses. Miss Pabst came here from Brook- | lyn, N. Y., some years ago. She re-| ceived her preliminary education in | New York City and later received a master's degree in bacteriology at George Washington University, where at the time of her death she was working toward her doctor’s degree in | the same subject, | ATLANTIC PLANE - SERVICE RUSHED Santa Maria Will Hop Off Next Summer to Open New Fields. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 26.—The Santa Maria will take wing next year. | Trans-Atlanti® transport service by | airplane will be in the making in the | next Summer flight of an airliner | across the ocean over which Christo- | | pher Columbus sailed his flag ship | | almost 450 years ago. With the projected voyage will| come fresh international races for | markets as the world'’s air routes be- | come trade routes. Next year, say air transport com- panies, will be the biggest in the his- tory of flying since the Wright broth- | ers lifted their Kkitelike, sprocketed contraption off the sands at Kitty Hawk, in 1903. A 25-ton flying boat of Pan-Ameri- can Airways will ease out over the Atlantic under the impetus of four roaring motors to plot the course of the future trans-Atlantic air voyager. American airplanes in the transport feld already are prepared to inaugu- rate airmail and passenger service. Keen Competition Expected. The routes are not the problem. It is competition. Supreme over the Pacific, American aviation on the At- lantic meets the challenge of those nations which will be America’s neigh- bors when the service gets under way. Over the Pacific, American engineer- ing ingenuity has shown its hand. With flying boats more efficient and faster than any in the world, the American counterpart of “nation- alized” aviation has outdistanced competition. To China, this Nation’s traders have an advantage of some 10 days over European competitors. In South America the United States—Govern- ment statistics show—has won out over the European rivalry on the South Atlantic. ‘The United States is the only Na- tion which does not “nationalize”— subsidize heavily—its commercial air fleets. In place of that American in- dustry and business men have effected a “commercial nationalization.” The one transocean air transport company of which this country boasts is financed jointly by widespread American industrial and business in- terests. Craft Secretly Constructed. Its flying boats were built behind locked doors. The secrets of their construction have not been divulged. Although thumbs were turned down on trading of patents with other na- tion's airlines, trans-Atlantic flights will be of necessity the result of co- operative effort, Otherwise ports of entry would be barred. Charting flights probably will start about midyear. Inauguration of air- mail service is likely before 1936 loses, and carrying of passengers soon will follow, aviation leaders predict. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 26— Strengthened evidence of Benedict Arnold’s resentment that “my charac- ter has been most cruelly and unjustly aspersed,” which culminated in the Revolutionary War general's deser- tion to the British cause, was believed uncovered today, It was in the form of an original letter to Gov. Greene of Rhode Island, secured by Western Reserve Univer- , Warren (Ohio) la ' hi8 sister, Mrs. Mary T-"m of Warren. Purchased from a Warren book- seller, it came from Maggs Bros., London collectors. ‘The writing of the letter, said Dr. Elbert J. Benton, dean of Reserve's Graduate School, is in two hands, but the portion which Arnold did not write was evidently dictated by him. Dr. Benton expressed the belief that similar letters were written by the famous American traitor to Govern- ors of the other 12 States. The latter was written nearly 156 | three sisters, Miss Bertha E. Pabst Benedict Arnold Letter Tells Resentment Before Desertion he WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1935 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. %#k* Woman Scientist Gives Life In Hunt for Meningitis Serum MISS ANNA M. PABST. —Harris-Ewing Photo. She was to have gone to New York to deliver a scientific paper before the American Society of Bacteriolo- gists, meeting there. When her ill- ness prevented the trip it was de- cided to have the paper read. Miss Pabst is survived by her mother, Mrs. Edward E. Pabst of this city, and and Mrs. John MacNab, both of this city, and Mrs. Sherwood Jeter, jr., of Hartford, Conn. Miss Pabst was a member of the American Society of Bacteriologists and of the Mount Pleasant Congrega- tional Church. Funeral arrangements are to be an- nounced later. C.C. C. FIRE FATAL T0 ARMY OFFIGERS Three Die, While Three More ' Are Burned Fleeing Ver- mont Blaze. By the Associated Press. bening Sfar ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SINO-JAPANESE CRISIS HINTED IN SLAYING OF TANG Dark Shadow on Future of Far East Relations, Say Militarists. GATHERINGS FORBIDDEN BY POLICE IN NANKING Martial Law Declared in Capital and Shanghai—Students Seize Locomotive. BACKGROUND— Since 1931 Japanese penetration of China has continued without ef- Jective check Guided from Tokio and milita= rized by Japanese troops, Manchu= kuo is “independent”; other North China provinces are following same course.. While central Chinese gov- ernment pursues policy of mnon- resistance, however, student groups are making vigorous protests, sup- plying occasional violence. Real obstacle to Japanese plans is Soviet government and its con- trolling influence in Mongolia. Re- peated “border incidents” during past few years have maintained tension between two countries. Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, December 26.—Maj. Gen. Rensuke Isogai, military at- tache of the Japanese embassy, pre- | dicted tonight that there would be | serious effects from the assassination yesterday of Tang Yu-jen, the pro- Japanese vice minister of Chinese raiiways. The Japanese general indicated that the serious effects would concern relations between China and Japan. Other Japanese military sources, earlier in the day, had declared the | assassination “throws a dark shadow over the future of Sino-Japanese rela- ticns.™ Gatherings Forbidden. The police at Nanking forbade all WATERBURY, Vt.,, December 26.— Three Army officers stationed at a Veterans' Civilian Conservation Corps ! camp here perished in roaring flames which leveled their wooden barracks in bitter cold at 3 o'clock this morning. | Three other officers were criticall burned as they jumped through win- | dows or forced doors and fled their quagters with 14 other officers when the fire, fed by tar paper roofing, swept | through the long L-shaped one-story | building. The dead: Capt. Roland D. Potter, 52, of Northfield, former foot ball and ath- letic coach and director of athletics at Norwich University. Capt. Edwin W. Boothby, 37, of Watertown, Mass., assistant inspector of C. C. C. camps in the sixth district of the 1st Corps (New England) Area of the United States Army. He was married only a month ago. Lieut. Leonard B. Bushey, 26, of Concord, N. H. All were Reserve officers in the Army. The camp's usual force numbers 2,100 veterans and 46 officers, but most of the men were away for the holidays. ‘Waterbury and Montpelier firemen were called but lack of water pre- vented them from fighting the blaze with any effectiveness. The cause of the fire was not imme- diately determined. TRAIN KILLS THREE. W. P. A. Workers Lose Lives When Truck Is Demolished. PARIS, Tenn., December 26 (#).— Three W. P. A. workers were instantly killed today when the truck carrying them to a farm-to-market road proj- ect was struck by a Louisville & Nash- ville passenger train here. Three other men were riding on the truck. They were injured, one seri- ously. The dead: Jim Snyder, 60; Dorris Owen, 23; Carl Collier, 49. The most seriously injured was Ver- gil Dowdy, 46, who suffered two brok- en legs, an arm fracture and internal injuries. INDIAN POTENTATE DIES Mir of Khairpur Was Advocate of British Control. KARACHI, Indla, December 26 (#)—Mir Ali Nawaz Khan, ruler of Khairpur State, died yesterday. The Mir somewhat past middle age, was the leader of the Shia sect of Mohammedans, estimated in 1930 to comprise some 2,000,000 persons. He controlled a state of 6,000 square miles on the Indus River. public gatherings and parades in an effort to stop student demonstrations against Japan. Chinese authorities immediately de- clared martial law throughout Shang- hai and the central government capi- tal at Nankiog. Severe military restrictions also were imposed at Hankow against anti- Japanese demonstrations. The Nanking governmeat ordered a section of its railway line torn up in a drastic measure to check the at- tempt by Shanghai students, pro- testing the movement for North China separation, to reach the capital in a commandeered train. Students Seize Locomotive. The demonstrating students seized a locomotive here when authorities refused to grant them free transporta- tion to Nanking, and reached Chang- chow, about 75 miles short of Nanking. The Nanking government sent an armored train carrying 500 troops eastward in an attempt to block the | students. A bridge was torn up in the path of the train which the students had seized. The demonstrators’ numbers were | swollen to 2,000. They held meetings | at railway points, urging the Chinese peasants to resist Japanese aggression and force suppression of the Norta China autonomy movement. Railway police intensified their pre- cautions in the capital. The Japa- nese Embassy at Nanking took a seri- ous attitude toward the assassination of Tang, as did the Japanese military in its statement at Shanghai. An embassy spokesman character- ized the killing of the vice minister by unidentified gunmen in the French concession here last night as “glaring evidence of anti-Japanese sentiment, leaving no doubt of the trend of Chinese sentiment toward Japan.” ‘The spokesman asserted the Tang assassination became doubly serious because of the fact that it followed closely a similar attempt to assassi- nate Wang Ching-Wei, who resigned as Chinese premier after being wound- ed at Nanking. ~ Chinese Sources Shocked. Chinese government sources ex- pressed profound shock at Tang's death. Recalling the charm and amia- bility.of their colleague, they said this precluded any likelihood that personal motives prompted the assassination. French police, in whose district the slaying occurred, insisted the motive probably was political. Japanese newspapers asserted edi- torially that repeated assassinations of pro-Japanese statesmen of the Chinese central government might force Nan- king to pursue an anti-Japanese pol- iey. . A detachment of bayonet-armed Jap- anese marines swarmed into the Hong- kew district here after a bomb ex- ploded in front of a Japanese hotel. They were withdrawn, however, when it was learned the blast was ac- cidental. Japanese reports said a bomb picked up in the Chapel one-time war zone by a Chinese ragpicker was dropped accidentally when the man collided years ago, less than two months after a second acquittal from charges of Pensylvania State authorities that he had used his high position to make illegal purchases and courted British loyalists at the expense of American patriots. ‘The president of the council pre- fering these and minor charges was Joseph Reid and it is against Reid that Arnold’s resentment takes its sharpest course in the communication, dated March 20, 1780. *“The president of the Council of the State of Pensylvania having pub- officially transmitted to the phia, February 3, 1779, containing heavy charge. ‘'ending to prejudice the minds of my fellow citizens against me, previous to a trial, which with much with a pedestrian. Two Chinese were injured by the explosion. Japanese Patrol Hongkew. Armed patrols of Japanese sailors marched the streets of the Hongkew area, however, as a precaution against any further incidents arising from the death of Tang. ‘The vice minister for railways fell dead under a blast of gunfire turned upon him just after he left his auto- mobile last night to enter a house in the French concession. His chauffeur, describing the shoot- ing to police, said Tang was killed by two men in Chinese dress who fired onhlmmenumunclw‘nn'% The killers escaped. Tang formerly served as vice min- ister of foreign affairs under Wang Ching-Wei, former premier, foreign minister and president of the Execu- tive Council, who was wounded No- vember 1 during a meeting of the Kuomintang (Chiness Nationalist PRESIDENT BEGHS WRITG MESSAGE Indicates Intention of Fol- lowing Custom of Holding to Brevity. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today began writing his annual message, to be sub- mitted to Congress shortly after it meets a week from tomorrow, as an and a catalogue of the legislation he wants enacted at this session. Mr. Roosevelt entered on this task after enjoying an old-fashioned Christ- mas with four generations of his family about him in the White House. To avoid interruptions, the Presi- dent is writing in his private study |on the second floor of the White | House. He said he would not go to his desk in the executive office before | tomorrow. Confers on Budget. with Daniel Bell, acting director of the Budget Bureau, on some of the unfinished details of the 1936-7 budget, which the President will transmit to Congress shortly after sending his annual message. The President will compose the budget message after he has finished his annual message. Mr. Roosevelt indicated today he intended to follow his custom of mak- ing his message as brief as possible. His first one, in December, 1933, con- tained only about 800 words. Most of the presidential messages in the past several decades had con- tained anywhere from two to seven thousand words. It has been the Roosevelt custom to mention only briefly the important legislative mat- ters and to send subsequent special messages dealing with each legislative subject in which he is interested. Program to Be Brief. Mr. Roosevelt has indicated his leg- islative program for the coming ses- sion will be brief, and that his aim will be to do everything possible to encourage & short session of Congress. His intimates venture to predict Con- gress will be in a position to close shop by the last of March or the first week in April. # While administration leaders will strive for a short and harmonious ses- sion, with major legisiation confined largely to a new neutrality bill and some relief and appropriation meas- ures, the Republicans are reported to favor breaking the whole fight over the New Deal in an aggressive attack on administration men and policies. Most plans, however, were con- tingent on what the Supreme Court does about the six major pieces of legislation now before it for review. If, for example, it should strike down the agricultural adjustment program, many legislators believe the resultant struggle would prolong the session at least & month beyond the adjourn- ment date which is now the aim of Democratic leaders. Notes Jotted for Weeks. For several weeks the Chief Execu- tive has been jotting down notes on his message to Congress, but today was his first opportunity for detailed work. There was no intimation at the ‘White House as to the contents of the message. It was regarded, however, as highly probable that much of it would be.devoted to the international situa- tion and recommendations for neutral- ity legislation. The recent neutrality law expires February 29 and the President already has said he would recommend new legislation early in the session. He might prefer, however, to make it the subject of a special message a few days later and devote his annual message to domestic affairs. Date of Message Uncertain. ‘Whether the President will deliver his message the day Congress opens, January 3, or walt for a day of two is still undecided. It would be quite possible for the message to be deliv- ered on the opening day, as Congress does not have to go through the ma- chinery of organizing. This will be the second session of the Seventy- fourth Congress which organized last session. Political observers have believed the President might send his annual mes- sage on the 3d, which is Friday, per- mitting Congress to recess over the week end and receive the budget mes- sage on Monday. EARNINGS ARE SHARED SPRINGFIELD, Mass, December per cent of his year's earnings was given to each employe of the Sample- Durick Co, manufacturing paper ' boxes, it was announced yesterday. accounting of the “state of the Union” | At noon Mr. Roosevelt conferred | Quake Razes Whole Villages; (Chinese Mountains Split Open BACKGROUND— China, land of famine, flood and | pestilence, also has suffered great- | est of recorded earthquakes. Foremost among these was that | of December, 1920, when 200,000 | lives and virtually all property in a 300-square-mile section of Kansu | Province, in North Central China, were wiped out by sudden contor- tions of the earth. News of Kansu's | tragedy did not reach rest of world for weeks. In region of light, wind-blown soil, inhabitants of Kansu lived in frail huts or cliff dwellings; had no opportunity for escape as moun- tains moved, rivers spilled and earth beneath them broke open. Szechuan Province is contiguous to Kansu, directly south; land for- maotions si-nilar. By the Associated Press. | CHENGTU, Szechuan Province, | China, December 26.—New reports of | an earthquake in Southern Szechuan | told today of whole villages being Thousands Believed Dead as Huts on Peaks Are Hurled Into Valleys. Landslides Dam Rivers Into Lakes. all their inhabitants to death. Details of the quake, which occurred however. Authorities said it was impossible to determine yet the exact extent of the disaster because of shattered com- munications and the remoteness of the afflicted area, but expressed belief | the number of deaths probably would mount to the thousands. Villages Hurled Off Peaks. ‘The Chinese advices said villages and forts of the primitive Lolo tribes- | people, perched near mountain tops for protection from attack, were pre- cipitated into the valleys. Communi- ties of 100 families and more were destroyed. The upheaval, which centered in the Mapien district of Southern Szechuan Province, also wrought strange changes in the landscape, the skeleton advices saying a mountain was split open by a 1-mile gash in one place, while landslides dammed (See QUAKE, Page 2.) DR, BROUGH DIES FUNERAL TONIGHT D. C. Boundary Probe Head | Suffers Heart Attack. Il Two Days. Dr. Charles H. Brough, war-time | Governor of Arkansas and, until re- | cently, chairman of the District of Co- lumbia-Virginia Boundary Commis- sion, died suddenly this morning in his | apartment at the Kenesaw, Sixteenth and Irving streets. He was 59 years old. Mrs. Brough said her husband had been ill for the last two days, but arose this morning with the remark that he was feeling much better. Shortly after commenting “what & fine Christmas we had,” he suffered a heart attack that ended in his death about 7 a.m. She heard him fall as she left the room to get him a newspaper. After a brief service tonight at Hines undertaking chapel, 2901 Fourteenth street, the body will be taken by train to Little Rock, Ark., where services will be held Sunday atternoon. Native of Mississippi. Dr. Brough served with William C. Gloth and Malcolm S. McConihe on the Boundary Commission during the long hearings authorized. by Congress in an effort to determire the proper dividing line between the District and Virginia. The commission in a final report made public several weeks ago held that the line should be fixed along the low-water mark on the Virginia shore. Life of the commission ex- pired December 1. A native of Mississippi, Dr. Brough adopted Arkansas as his home after teaching at that State’s university. “His students elected him Governor of Arkansas,” Mrs. Brough said today. He served from 1917 to 1921. Dr. Brough, who came to Washing- ton two years ago to serve as chair- man of the Boundary Commission, is (8ee BROUGH, Page 3.) 3 FAMILIES FLEE FIRE INNORTHEAST Three-Alarm Blaze Does $10,000 Damage to Fifth Street Homes. Five families were forced into the street early this afterncon by a three- | alarm fire which destroyed the roofs of frame houses at 10, 12, 14 and 16 Fifth street northeast. Damage was estimated at $10,000. Residents fled without attempting to save household articles, and Christmas trees and gifts were ruined by falling debris and water. The fire is thought to have started in the flue of the house at No. 10. Two firemen who answered the alarms were called away to give a blood transfusion to June Franks, 7, at Gallinger Hospital. They were James H. Gately and E. J. Brossnan of No. 8 Company. Fire Inspector S. N. Haller was rid- ing an East Capitol street car when he noticed ihe blaze. He had the car stopped and turned in an alarm. Nearly a dozen companies responded. Among those forced from their homes were Mrs. Alice O'Connor, Mrs. Blanche Carrick, and her children, Robert, 14; Wilmer, 9, and Clarence, 7, and Miss Annie Tresselt. They found refuge at the homes of neighbors. Mrs. Katherine Thompson and her two sons, who live at No. 16, were not home when the fire started. Firemen battled the flames more than half an hour before getting them under control. Ship Wrecked, Crew Missing. LORIENT, France, December 26 (#)—The wreck of a fishing schooner was found on the rocks off the coast here today. The crew of seven was missing, probably drowned in the Christmas storm. By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., December 26.—~An oversized “corn planter” has been put to work bufidipg “upside down"” roads for Missouri—the idea of an engineer inspired by Missouri’s cornfields. ¢ 5 .Engineers of other States have come Corn Planter Machine Builds Cheaper Roads ‘Upside Down’ In addition to predicting the slicing of roadbuilding costs, F V. Reagel, engineer for the State Highway De- partment, said results of experiments on this type of road were “decidedly favorable.” The roadway is graded and shaped; the scarrifying machines loosen the soil at least six inches down and simul- taneously inject the bituminous mate- rials at the bottom of the loosened earth. Traffic is allowed to pack the sofl and the oil soaks tc the surface. In three weeks, the roadway is re- . | shaped and completed. It injects asphaltic o1l into the ground, and this is said to establish a solid With about 25,000 gallons of as- phaltic oil used per mile of roadway, () Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,456 Some i.eturns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. FOUR ABOVE ZERD WEATHER COLDEST YULE IN 23 YEARS Two Washington Men Killed as Car Skids Into Pole Near Baltimore. MISSIONS ARE TAXED TO CARE FOR DESTITUTE Maryland and Virginia Digging Out of Blizzard as Mercury Drops to 12 Below at Altamont, Md. Temperatures— The temperature schedule from last midnight follows: 12 midnight.15| 8 The coldest Christmas in 29 years— which left streets and highways coated | with ice and snow—brought death to | two Capital men early today in an automobile crash on the slippery ‘Washington-Baltimore boulevard at St. Denis, a small town about eight miles this side of the Maryland city. A young woman resident of the District was critically injured in the | accident, which occurred when the car skidded into a telephone pole. The snowstorm which swept this vicinity late yesterday and early today was accompanied by a minimum | swept down mountainsides, carrying temperature of 4 degrees, the lowest | December recording since the frigid | war-time Winter of 1917. Weather | December 18, remained fragmentary, 'men turned back to 1906 to find an- | other Christmas day as cold in Wash- | ington. Extreme temperatures prevailed generally throughout the North. Ice on Pool Rough. The frozen surface of the Reflect- ing Pool at Lincoln Memorial was open to skaters today, but only a score or so of enthusiasts availed themselves of the opportunity because the ice was rough and covered with snow. | Efforts by park employes to clear | the ice for skating were thwarted by | the wind, which swept snow over the Reflecting Pool almost as rapidly as it could be removed. The coasters, however, fared better. Steep hills in Rock Creek Park were banned to motor traffic and offered ideal opportunity for the youngsters to try out new sleds. There was ski- ing, too, in the park, particularly in the vicinity of Taft Bridge. Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway was reserved for coasters from K to Calvert streets. Snow Plows Called Out. ‘While only two inches of snow fell here, a storm of near-blizzard pro- portions piled up drifts in the moun- tains of nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia and turned out scores of plows and sanding trucks. Subzero tem- peratures were recorded in the moun- tains. The cold wave was general East of the Rocky Mountains, extending far into the South. The forecast today was “fair tonight and tomor- row; continued céld, with a mil imum tonight of about 8 degrees.” The mercury reached the 4-degree mark at 4 am. today. The intense cold sent hundreds of | homeless men to missions here. More | than 200 found shelter at Central Union Mission, about half that many were cared for by the Volunteers of America and there was a capacity crowd at the mens’ quarters of the ; Salvation Army. | Sleigh Bells Tinkle. The “blizzard” swept icily over the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Tide- water Virginia, adding to a near-rec- ord December snowfall of about 10 inches. Temperatures dropped sharp- ly, but were moderating today undec a bright sun. Sleigh beils tinkled in the rural sec- tions of adjoining States, where many secondary roads were temporarily closed by drifts. Three inches of snow fell in Baltimore last night, sending the mercury down to 5 degrees there. ‘The all-night storm howled amang the Western Maryland mountains. Garrett County reported a total snow- fall of 30 inches so far this month. State Roads Commission forees cul (See WEATHER, Page 3. ON FINAL LAP Philippine Clipper Left Honolulu Yesterday Afternoon. HONOLULU, December 26 (#).— The Philippine Clipper rode a strong tailwind over the Pacific toward Ala- meda, Calif., today on the last lap of her first round trip to Manila. Radio reports from the giant air- mail carrier said everything was “going along nicely.” The flying boat left here yesterday at 5:37 p.m. (11:07 p.m. Eastern standard time) after being forced to return from & previous start because of spark-plug trouble. Readers’ Guide After Dark. Amusements Comics - Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Washington Wayside....B-10 Women'’s Features. ’ 4