Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1937, Page 3

RICH ORE FOUND ALONG AMUR RIVER Boundary Between Siberia and Manchukuo Defined by Course. Frontier hostilities are again caus- & apprehension about Russo-Japa- Dess relations along the border be- tween Japanese-controlled Manchu- Kuo and the Far Eastern Republic of the U. S. S. R. in Siberia. “The boundary between Manchu- ko and Siberia is defined almost en- frely by the Amur River and its fributaries,” says a bulletin from the Ycal headquarters of the National graphic Society. “Manchukuo's gfwrn limits are outlined by the Argun, eastern by the Ussuri and Borthern by the Amur River itself, &to which the others flow. “Although these names may be un- $miliar to most Occidental ears, to she Asiatic their very sound is asso- fated with business and politics. The || Amur River is the most important artery of Eastern Asia north of China's | Jeeming Yangtze and Hwang Ho. It | das done boundary duty since 1858, | When China ceded to Russia its left | bank. For two and a half centuries defore that, it had been a channel for Russian eastward colonization of Eiberia, comparable to the Ohio-Mis- gssippt channel for westward migra- don in the United States. In lati- ude and continental positions it cor- Jesponds to the St. Lawrence. Compared to Ohio. “The Amur, like the Ohio, is a full- grown river from its very start, for | 4t is formed by the confluence of two eastward-flowing tributaries, the Skilka and the Argun. “Now the old Trans-Siberian Rail- ‘way route and a more recently estab- Yshed airline roughly parallel the | Amur's course, running about 50 or ¥5 miles north of it. The Trans- Biberian’s other route, a new section of double track a couple of hundred Lest We Great Britain. miles north of the original line, fol- lows the river valley north to its || mouth, bringing added importance to | | TH Forget on Independence Day There Is Still Taxation Without Representation in the United States of America! W ashington’s 500,000 Inhabitants Are as Voice- lessin the Nation’s Affairs as Were the Colonies Prior to the Declaration of Independence! One hundred and sixty-one years ago this Fourth of July, the Thirteen Original Colonies, resentful of taxation without representation, declared their inde TODAY—1937 A.D.—more than a century and a half later, here at the seat of the Federal Government, the same obnoxious, undemocratic situation prevails which produced the War of the Revolution. Washingtonians, disfranchised and de- Americanized, demand a voice in the levy- ing of the taxes they must pay, in the making of the laws they must obey and in declaring the wars in which they will have to fight. WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT? pendence of On this Independence Day the District of Columbia invites the Congress and the States to consider its voteless plight and pledge themselves to remedy it. CONGRESS must adopt the Constitutional Amendment now pending before it, empowering Congress to grant to the residents of the District of Columbia voting TRISEGTING SEEN FOR PALESTINE Britain’s League Report May Urge Jewish, Arab and British Areas, By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 3.~Informed Jewish sources asserted tonight the British Royal Commission’s report on Pales- tine, expected to be made public next week, will recommend division of the Holy Land into three parts—a Jewish state, a permanent British-mandated area, and an Arab state. The report will go to the League of Nations Mandates Commission for de- cision on the future status of Pales- tine, where Jews and Arabs have bat- tled periodically for years. || The commission investigated the sit- || uation after last year's Arab general strike, in opposition to continuance | of Jewish immigration to Palestine and ownership of land by Jews and the widespread disorders attending it. Britain, supervising Palestine under a League mandate, promised in the Bal- four declaration of 1917 to make it “a national home for the Jewish people.” Jewish informants outlined the commission’s plan as follows: The Jewish state will comprise the Upper and Lower Galilee Valley; the Esdraelon coastal plain from Rasel- nakura in the north to Beertuvia in the south; the greater part of the | Beisan area, and the towns of Haifa, Safad, Acre and Tiberias. || The British area will include Jeru- salem, Bethlehem and Nazareth as well as a corridor on either side of || the Jerusalem-Jaffa road by which Arabs would have access to the port of Jaffa, The remainder of the country will constitute an Arab state, to be joined |to Trans-Jordan, a British-mandated Arab nation to the west. 5 snap shots ntinued From First Page) JACKSON BACKED Powerful Ritchie Supporters By the Associated Press. Death Probed GEN. DENHARDT IS ACCUSED OF CAUSING DEATH. PATRICIA WILSON. Brig. Gen. Henry H. Den- hardt was accused yesterday in $70,000 civil suit at Louis- ville, Ky., of causing the death of Miss Wilson, 25, described as a “party girl,” in a Louis- ville hotel last year. Den- hardt is awaiting a second trial in the slaying of Verna Garr Taylor, his fiance. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. N MONTGOMERY Aid Baltimorean in Gov- ernor’s Race. BALTIMORE, July 3.—Mayor How- " | clash, E_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 4 1937—PART ONE. A3 e B e IAPANESE ARMY . * REMAING ALERT Warns Further “lllegal Acts” Against Manchukuo - Will Not Be Tolerated. B3 the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 3.—Japan's army in Manchuria, while hailing the prose - pective peaceful settlement of the crisis on the River Amur, today rea mained alert to see that Soviet promises to evacuate the trouble zone are carried out. Dispatches from Hsinking, Japaness military headquarters on the conti- nent, quoted army leaders as warning that further “illegal acts” against the Territory of Manchukuo, Japan's pro- tectorate, would not be tolerated. Evacuation of Soviet troops and about 20 Soviet river gunboats from the region of Sennufu and Bolshoi, disputed islands in the Amur, was promised by Moscow to begin this afternoon. It was expected to end for the time being Russo-Japanese tension that reached its height Wed« nesday when Japanese artillery sank one Russian gunboat, caused another to be beached and a third to flee. The Moscow pledge was given after the Japanese ambassador had assured the Soviet government there were no Japanese or Manchukuo warcraft in the disputed reach of the Amur, border of Manchukuo and Siberia. Some Japanese leaders insisted Ruse sia must give adequate guarantees against a repetition of Wednesday's which arose over differences as to where the river boundary runs:. and over possession of the islands. UNION PREFERENCE RULED OUT BY ELLIOTT U. 8. Must Give Job to Low Bid- der, Regardless, Controller Tells Bloom. The Government cannot make any distinctions between union and non- representation in the House of Representatives, Senate and Electoral College and access as citizens to the courts of the United States. HERE is the Amendment: the ports of Komsomolsk and Nik- | olaevsk. These are the most eastern | transportation links in a system which | crosses the longest political unit in the world, reaching more than half WAy acioss the Eastern Hemisphere “The Amur Valley is the most thick- 1y settled region in Eastern Siberia, yet the population centers are still | widely scattered, and transportation is 8 life-and-death matter. Siberia’s | ard W. Jackson, only announced can- didate for the Democratic guberna- | torial nomination next year, today | released @ petition promising him | support of prominent Montgomery County Democrats Included in the list were: E. Brooke Lee, former chief lieu- tenant of the late Gov. Albert C.| Ritchie. State be divided into four classes, covering the various types of subjects that may be photographed. Classes Listed. || These classes are: || 1. Children and babies—Any picture '}l | in which the principal interest ‘is a || child or children in everyday clothes || or in costume. | 2. Sports, hobbies, recreation, avo- || cations, action—Base ball, golf, tennis, union bidders when awarding con- tracts, but must be governed by the usual rules providing for acceptance of the low bid, Acting Controller Gen- eral Elliott told the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Come mission, in a decision yesterday. The commission, which is headed by Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York, raised the question in connection with the proposed award Resolved by the Semate and House of Represemtatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House comcurring therein), That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States be proposed for ratification by the Legislatures of the several States, Senator Stedman Prescott, | ‘Old Man er,’ Amur, plays a lead- | ing role in transport. During its seven | months of hibernation under many | which, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States, shall be valid as a part of said Constitution; namely, insert at the end of section | motor boating, canoeing, sailing, beach | fun, airplanes, fishing, animal pictures, pets, gardening, farming, carpenter- chairman of the Montgomery County | Democratic organization group of some printing The commission explained it had avoided giving business to any cone feet of ice, it is a frozen highway for | three, Article 1V, the following words: | ing, etc. | 3. Scenes and still life—Landscapes, #ledges. During its five flowing months w ~ i ata | ft is navigable for 2,000 of its 3000 The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a | marine views, city streets, travel or miles. The water communication it State the residents of the Dietrict constituting the seat of the Government of | country scenes, architecture, interiors, offers would be equivalent, in the the United States, created by Article I, section cight, for the purpose of repre. el i utesiior et Soiects g:nm States, to sailing nto_the sentation in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice D reral e et esapeake Bay and straight up a i i [ Pict Jengthened Potomas 1o Kaaen C. President and for the purpose of suing and being sued in the courts of the Sand Bars Handicap. I | Pictures of one or more persons (close United States under the provisions of Article 111, section two. “Control of this boundary river ||§ | up or full figure) in natural and ap- | parently unposed attitude, character | studies, genre (illustrative of every- #erves as a convenient exit from either || day life), and pictures in which charm Biberia or Manchukuo into the Pacific 1 Since the chief occupation of both countries is export of raw materials, Curtis Walker, chairman of the | cern “not fully organized as a union County Democratic State Central | shop,” and that in the present in- Committee. | stance it would cos? $274 to abide by Mrs. Charles E. Roach, member of | this principle, although the work the County Central Committee. | could be done for $247 elsewhere. Mrs. Jane Latimer, chairman of the | Elliott said the low offer must be Democratic Women's Clubs of the | accepted. county. The election district chairmen. The petition is another in the list which Jackson's office has announced daily for several days. His backers | now include a number of powerful Western Maryland Democrats. most of BROTHER BARNABY DIES Kinsman of Late Joe Humphreys Succumbs in Protectory. “When the Congress shall exercise this power the residents of such District shall be entitled to elect one or two Senators as determined by the Congress, or such other representative in the Senate as Congress may provide for, Representatives in the House, according to their numbers as determined | and personality of the subject are out- the importance of transportation standing. channels is obvious. The Amur value | is lessened by the northward trend of | the final fourth of its course, which | places its outlet to the sea as far north | as the upper tip of Sakhalin Island, || & location both remote and too addict- | ed to freczing over. Other drawbacks | to navigation on the Amur are sand ! bars across its mouth and a score of | dangerous rapids in its upper reaches. | “Despite the modern trend toward developing local industries, both Si- | beria and Manchukuo are valuable | mainly as nature’s storehouses for tim- | ber, coal and gold. For about five | months both countries can count also | on some agriculture and Manchukuo's | 80y bean crop has recently acquired in- ternational importance. Forests in- stead of farms, however, are the rule throughout most of the area drained by the Amur, dwarf oak and yellow pine reward lumbering activities around the middle Amur; and the lower basin, with an added wealth of cedar, larch | and spruce, is reputed to contain the finest timber in Siberia. Much of this s found in Taiga, or marshy forest dand, which is virtually untouched. Furs Lured Pioneers. Another forest product was what briginally lured Russian pioneers east- mward as early as the seventeenth cen- Sury: Furs, especially sable. Fish- Ing, to feed the crowded population ©of Japan and contribute to the diet of European Russia, now is an im- portant activity, especially during the salmon season. So plentiful are sal- mon that native tribes catch them by clubbing, and make clothing of Bish skins, “*Amur’ is a corruption of the Mon- golian word for ‘river.’ ‘Black Dragon River' is the Chinese nickname for 1t. This Asiatic dragon hoards wealth more fabulous than that of the dragon of the Nibelungs. In the highlands north of Nerchinsk there are scattered €old mines. Farther east are deposits of silver and lead, and in the river's lower basin are rich gold-bearing areas again. “Russian trading posts established & half-century ago have grown into cities along its banks. Siberian me- tropolises of the Amur Valley are Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk, commercial and cultural centers with their own theaters and clubs as well as banks and wharves. Russian colonists, intent on soldiering or farming or lumbering, once found it quite con- venient to have a little colony of Chinese traders just across on the opposite bank of the Amur, and con- sequently many Russian settlements have a corresponding Mongolian town immediately across the water border. This proximity, having contributed to commerce, both legal and illegal, is now promoting hostility.” Neutrality (Continued From F‘irfir Page.) Btates will not think me presumptious i I say we have the same confidence in their outlook upon great questions ‘which affect the minds of men and women as we have in that of the British people.” Britain counted on the support of @t least 20 European powers in a showdown next week between the conflicting Anglo-French and Italo- ‘German ideas as to how to prevent the Spanish war from becoming a general conflict. A full meeting of the 27-Nations Committee for isolating the Spanish war will likely convene at the call of the chairman, the Earl of Plym- outh, early in the week. The British cabinet was called to ‘meet Monday, and although minis- E —— s S, S | Information and Literature available at headquartérs of Citizens’ Joint Committee | on National Representation for the Distr Building. Phone National 5000, Br | by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggregate representation in the House and Senate, or as Congress may provide. “The Congress shall provide by law the qualification of voters and the time and manner of choosing the Senator or Senators, the Representative or Representatives, and the electors herein authorized. “The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be neces- sary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing power.” anch ict of Columbia, Room 425, 297, Evening Star l | e — ters scattered to the country for the week end, it was understood Royal Air Force planes were ready to rush them back to London if a crisis arose. MOVE ON SANTANDER. Only Small Bodies of Loyalist Troops Oppose Rebels. By the Associated Press. VALMASEDA, Spain, July 3.—At least 15,000 government soldiers have surrendered in Northern Spain within the last three weeks, insurgent officers declared tonight as their men pushed toward the city of Santander against only slight resistance. Already inside Santander Province, the insurgents found only small bodies of government trops who sought only to slow the advance and fled as the insurgents pressed on. The whole character of the civil war in Northern Spain has changed since Bilbao fell June 19. The once- proud Basque fighters, beaten on their own ground, appear willing to accept defeat and end war’s horrors. Although the insurgent drive east- ward ha been physically exhausting, its ardor has not diminished. Supplies and artillery are pouring forward and planes are soaring over the countryside ahead. Every threat- ening-looking position is shelled be- fore the troops move on. Meanwhile, at Santona, the Presi- dent of the Basque Republic, Jose Antonio Aguirre, driven from his homeland, declared today that “our territory has bean conquered, but not the spirit of the Basque people.” “It is never conquered,” the defeated leader proclaimed in a statement from new headquarters at this Biscayme Seaport in Santander province, whither he had fled with the remnants of his government and army. The statement disclosed that all the territory of Euzkadi—the Basques’ name for their autonomous state—had been yielded to the still advancing and victorious insurgents. It bitterly assailed the Valencia gov- ernment for failure to aid the desper- ate defense of the Basque region which collapsed with the fall of the capital, Bilbao, June 19. At Valencia, the defense ministry announced tonight a government air fleet bombed the insurgent general staff headquarters in Salamancas, striking their objective with several missiles. Twenty , insurgent pursuit planes took off to attack the raiders, it said, but failed to shoot down any. Febus, official news agency, earlier reported seven insurgent airplanes bombed Santander, main objective of the northern insurgent army advanc- ing west from Bilbao. . Grain exports from Argentina this year weighed twice as much as in the corresponding period of 1936. Forerunners Were BY the Associated Press. The personal holding company, which the Treasury contends has been used by wealthy persons to cut tax payments, is the newest addition to the big family of holding corpora- tions. Under the law a personal holding company is defined as one which receives 80 per cent or more of its gross income from royalties, dividends, interest, annuities and capital gains, and in which 50 per cent of the stock is owned by not more than five per- sons. In hearings before a Senate-House committee studying tax evasion and avoidance, Treasury officials have as- serted that such companies have been created by rich taxpayers for the pur- pose of avoiding income taxes. These “incoporated pocketbooks,” they contend, have enabled taxpayers to take advantage of deductions mnot permitted on individual income tax returns. . Developed Recently. The personal holding company largely has ben developed in the last dozen years. It may be created for & variety of reasons, often serving as an instrument through which an individual may centralize control over several properties. It may be used as an automatic income distributor for families or a group of business associates. If a man has a $100,000 annual income, for instance, he could create & personal holding company, assign it his income and distribute ownership among mem- bers of his family. When dividends were declared, each member would receive his pro rata share of the in- come. Personal holding compenies often are employed as devices for trading or investment. It would be possible for & small group of persons to organize ome, employ experts in se- curities and trading and share the profits that were paid out in divi- dends. In creating a personal holding com- Pany, & group of individuals sets up & new' legal entity. The corporation itself may be sued, but this liability does Mot extend to its individual owners. HolMing companies in general, in- cluding those formed to pyramid stock control in various companies or ¢ 'Personal Holding Companies Developed in Recent Years Made Possible by New Jersey Statutes—V ariety of Rea- sons Inspire Creation of Firms. to knit together a group of asso- ciated enterprises, have developed | largely since 1888. Restrictive Lines Broken. In that year, New Jersey authorized corporations to hold stocks in other corporations. Prior to this action, the holding company had been re- garded as an unusual corporate de- vice which might be employed only upon specific legislative authoriza- tion. Many legal authorities have said that in common law corporations had no power to hold stocks in other corporations, and, before 1888, no State granted this power except in specific cases. Among special legislative grants, one of the earliest—possibly the first— was that from Maryland to the Baltimore & Ohio Raiflway in 1832. The road was authorized to buy stock of the Washington branch road. It acquired two-thirds of the outstand- Ing securities and became a parent company. Other States also authorized Tail- roads to buy stock in companies, but most of those receiving this power were operating as well as holding corporations. One of the first agencies that was purely a holding company was the Continental Improvement Co., which in 1868 procured from the Pennsyl- vania Legislature a charter giving “full power and authority to hold and own securities of any form, either as collateral or otherwise, and to dispose of the same at pleasure.” The Legislature later granted a series of such charters, and because many were thought to have resulted from Legislative favoritism, the State constitution was amended in 1874 to deprive the lawmakers of power to pass special laws creating corpora- tions. Spread to Other Fields. From railroads, holding companies spread quickly to other fields, partic- ularly public utilities. The American Bell Telephone Co. was one of the first holding compa- nies for utilities, being created by a special Massachusetts charter in 1880. It was authorized to hold stocks in other corporations using its telephone patents. In 1900 all stock of this eorpors- 4 tion was acquired by the American | Telephone & Telegraph Co. which then became the parent holding cor- Pporation for the entire Bell system. Since the 80s holding company de- velopment has progressed on a broad front, with such corporations being widely used in industry. It was the latest stage of this de- velopment that brought the personal holding company. This type of cor- poration, however, often may bear little resemblance to the typical com- pany organized to procure and cen- tralize control over a number of other organizations. COUPLE DISCOVERED DEAD IN FARM HOUSE Deputy Believes Man Shot Wom- an, Then Killed Self, Near ‘Waynesboro. By the Associated Press. WAYNESBORO, Va., July 3.—Mrs. Estelle Bragg Strickler, about 35, of Ladd, and Lawrence Leyton, 32, em- ploye of the Du Pont plant here, were found shot to death at the Strickler farm house today. Deputy Sheriff William F. Coyner, jr., who investigated, said it appeared that Leyton shot Mrs. Strickler and then killed himself. Dr. Glenn C. Campbell, Augusta County coroner, was engaged in pre- paring an official report. Herman M. Strickler, an employe of the State Highway Department, and two friends were asleep in the house at the time of the shooting, but were not aroused by the shots. CAMP LETTS TO HOLD JULY FOURTH PROGRAM Athletic Events on Land and in Water to Mark Celebration Tomorrow. Athletic events on both land and water will feature an Independence day celebration tomorrow at Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. boys’ camp on the Rhode River, near Annapolis, Md. There will be a series of boating, swimming and diving contests and demonstrations under the direction of John Hain, in charge of water sports. Various athletic events wi4 be held on land. Tomorrow night there will be a fireworks display. Instruction is being given at Camp Letts in sailing, other forms of boat- ing, swimming and life saving. Be- At the end of The Star's weekly contests, the four pictures judged to be best of all submitted in each of the four classes will be picked for the $25 final prizes and entry in the national competition. Division of National Awards. ‘The $10,000 national awards will be divided as follows: Grand prize, $1,000; first prize winners in each of the four classes. $500 each: second prize winners, $250 each; third prize winners, $100 each, and 112 honorable | mention awards, from all classes, $50 | each. The grand prize winning pic- ture will be chosen from the four $300 class winners, the two prizes for this picture amounting to $1,500. ‘The national winners will be se- | lected by a distinguished board of judges composed of Howard Chandler Christy, portrait painter, illustrator and writer; Pranklin L. Fisher, chief | of illustrations division, National Geo- graphic Society; Margaret Bourke- White, famous photographer of in- dustrial and news-interest subjects; | Ruth Alexander Nichols, outstanding photographer of babies and children, | and Kenneth Wilson Williams, Pdltor: of amateur publications of Eastman Kodak Co. There is one thing about this con- test that has a strong appeal to every one. No special skill or experi- ence is required. Pictures will be | judged for their human-interest ap- peal—the interest they arouse, not technical photographic excellence. This does not mean that good com- position, contrast and pleasing lights and shadows will not help your pic- ture, but it's the appeal of the pic- ture that will count most. Have Camera Handy. ‘There is no limit to the oppor- tunities for making good snapshots if you keep your eyes open and your camera ready for action at any time. Carry it in the car over the week end. It's amazing how many good picture chances are encountered on a week end automobile trip or on a Sun- day afternoon drive. And bring your camera to work with you. There may be a picture at your elbow with prize- winning possibilities. Read through the classes listed here. They should give you some ideas for interesting pictures. Read the rules carefully, and remember with a single snapshot you may win fame and fortune. Government Must Pay Cash. All government institutions in China have been erdered by the Executive Yuan to pay cash for official long- distance telephone calls. SCHOOL Classes Start July 6-7 Tuesdoy—Wednesday SPECIAL 6-8 WEEK COURSES GREGG Shorthand, Principles with slow dictation, 8 Weeks BOOKKEEPING, single and double ey Brier and’ EANY course. With typing. 8 weeks. BOYD Shorthand. master principles first week. 80-100 word dictation. Thousands use it to learn, SAVE months of time, 8 weeks. :‘o:lke' )‘o:';:holnl late models. with typing, 6-8 weeks. Tis d Money. Attend AV OTh s Mheoredioad.” Large Employment Ageney Openings Daily. Boyd School it. 20 Yrs,) Opp. Capitol fore a boy is permitted to use row- boats he must have passed & swim- mer’s test. } (Est. 1 Theater 1833 F 8, NAt, 2318 whom were powers under Ritchie. week are “being accepted in some Democratic circles as conclusive evi- | dence of a Jackson-Tydings (United | cuor 2 : States Senator Millard B Tydings) | years ago in New York City, he had combine for the Democratic nomina- tions for Governor and United States Senator in 1938.” The 8un says developments of this FAIR CHOOSES DATE NEW YORK, July 3 (#).—Brother Barnaby of the Christian Brothers died last night in the Catholic Pro- tectory in East Tremont avenue, the Bronx. 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