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A—4 ¥» CHANG TOREGENE HSOLDEOMMAND Chiang Promises to Return Him to Sianfu and Mili- tary Post. By the 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's 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, Chhnz‘ canceled public engagements and | rested under medical supervision. The generalissimo, after Chang penitently released him and begged forgiveness, told the young mnrshllf 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. EXTENSION PLANNED IN SEAL CAMPAIGN: Drive to Lower Tuberculosis Death Rate 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. Ry 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 dllegal 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.” | | MRS. A. J. FREDERICK DIES AT AGE OF 63 Wife of Architectural Sculpture Firm Official Resident Here 30 Years. Mrs. Catherine F. Frederick, 63, wife of Arthur J. Frederick, vice presis dent of Lumbard & Ludwig, Inc., architectual sculpture firm, died late yesterday of a heart attack at her home, 1422 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. 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, THE EVENinug S1AR, WASHINGTON —A. P. Photos. PRESIDENT TOFIL TWOL.G. 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 Post 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 § of the 1. 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 Pebru- 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 is $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. Mahaffie, Democrat of the District. SCIENCE DEVELOPS NOW WHEAT PLANT Perennial Expected to Prove Im- portant Forage in Drought Sections. 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, has 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 s fleld 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, & perennial grass closely akin to the common couch grass of Eastern Canada and the crested wheat grass of Western Canada. ' About half an acré of cross-bred plants, representing many different crosses and varieties, will be sown in experimental plots next Spring. A black widow spider kept in a bot- tle at Beaumont, Tex., proved its hardiness. It lived nine weeks with- out food, and during that time spun & web and hatched several score young spiders. Origin of Lice Noted. Scientists believe lice originated about the time birds and reptiles dif- ferentiated into dlflu‘nt animals. Scientists assert they doubt if a perennial wheat suitable for bread- making can be atiained. 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- Mbhlmdnn‘lul. By the Associated Press, CORNING, Iowa, December 28.— 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. F. 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 | Prance said. Rev. Todd read Kokomo's war rec- ord, which siarted in 1893 when he | joined Company K as a cook, and ex- tended throughf the Spanish-Ameri- can, the Mexican border and the World Wars. ‘The only citation for “Private Frank Jones,” was the Army report that he| " Jones, 77, Army Cook, A.E.F.s Oldest, | country,” the minister said. Buried in Iowa was the oldest enlisted man in the American expeditionary force in France. Although his rolling soup 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 Towa 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 “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?” 'm 37, sir.”* ‘How old?” “I'm 58, sir.” “And the oldest man in this Army,” Gen. Pershing concluded. REICH CHURCHMEN WATCH NAZI ADES '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 “block- | 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 | mediary 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 loss 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. 2. 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, 8. Young people’s socleties con- ducted under church suspices are not permitted to operate their own Sum- mer camps. 9. The Wurtemberg government has nine echurch hymns that may be.sung in the schools. All others are forbidden. ’Quake Makes Workmen Il 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 becamalh. P STRIKING SEAMEN BEAT THREE MEN Norfolk Police Probe Victims’ Story They Were Ganged in Store. B3 the Assoclated Press. | NORFOLK, YV 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 | “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 Feagan, Portsmouth, and | | Warren Rumpf, 25, Milton, Mass. The | first two are firemen on the Eastern | | Steamship Line's George Washington, | and Rumpf is an oiler on the 8. 8. 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 | & 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 la 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 (#).—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 post 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 PFritsch. He was born April 22, 1866. Reichsfuehrer Hitler appointed commander of an infantry regiment on his 70th birthday anniversary last April 22, 10 MORE BODIES FOUND | | { which J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of D. C., INSURGENT PLANES BOMB SANTANDER 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 Usera 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 Appeals for Aid. With the capital's defense lines hold- ing in the eighth week of the siege, the Fascist commander, Gen. Franeisco Franco, is reported to have appealed | to Germany for reinforcements, creat- ing & new crisis for European neutral- ity in Spain. A Pascist serial 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 Forces Reported Firm Against | Bombardment. WITH FASCISTS, Outside Madrid, | December 28 (#).—Madrid forces launched a futile attack yesterday on the insurgents’ right flank, just scuth 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 & 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 Wiliam 8. Culbertson, supreme justice of the fraternity, will include a smoker to- morrow night, visits Wednesday afters noon to the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation and the Supreme Court, and a banquet Wednesday evening at the currency, will 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. o PLAN PARK PLANTINGS Bids to Be Opened Next Month for Trees and Shrubs. Prank T. Gartside, assistant su- perintendent of the National Capital | Parks, announced today that bids will | be opened aboui 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. Toll in Jamaica Boat Disaster 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. Maivin, president of George Wash- ington University, secretary. Yale Club Luncheon. The Church of the Good Success, on Mendizabal street in Madrid, where bombs and shel a mass of ruins. D. C. MEN TO ADDRESS HISTORY UNIT MEETING Twelve From Capital to Speak at Annual Conference in Provi- dence, R. I. Twelve prominent Washington men are included among those who - will speak at the fifty-first annual meet- ing of the American Historical Asso- ciation opening tomorrow in Provi- | dence, R. I. They are Prof. Guv A. Lee, Brook- ings Institution: Prof. Alfred V. Kid- assistant secretary-treasurer, also will | SPEC] der, Carnegie Institution; Prof. Leonid _MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936. 3 This Wgs a Madrid Church Is from the civil war have left —Wide World Photo. CHARTER DEMANDS WOMEN'S RIGHTS Joint Conference Group Asks Unity for Removing Dis- criminations, B the Associated Press. A proposal for a women's charter, demanding full political and - ecivil rights, was issued yesterday by the 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 owa 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 ° 8pring. 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 I. Strakhovsky, 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. Brasch, Library of ) Congress; Everett E. Edwards, Agri- cultural Historical Soclety; Lowell J. | Ragatz, 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, | attend. (P)—John C. Hane, 58, park care- taker, attacked by a camel December 17, died last night. His physician attributed death to pneumonia. 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