Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 4

A—4 RUMORS OF PURGE ¥¥® FLLIN HOSEON Tension Is Most Apparent Among Government Officials. BY RICHARD MASSOCK. MOSCOW (#)—The newcomer to Moscow finds the undercurrent of conversation full of rumors about the Jatest supposed victims or victims-to- be of the purge which is rubbing out enemies of the Soviet regime. He hears it whispered, for instance, that an admiral of high rank is be- lieved to be on the skids He hears that 2.000 officers of the Red army are under arrest, that so- and-so, who was a dinner guest a few weeks ago; has disappeared. that new, sensational trials may be expected s00n Such rumors ma tion. They may of nervous preoccupation with the hunting down of “enemi of the people,” which is in full ¢ Their confirmation comes, if ever officials, but more li from some announcement of a shake-up in the Soviet hierarchy or some denuncia- tion in the newspapers have no founda- be the figment Tension Shown in Government, The tension i apparent government offices a in an’s post the better et he of- fers to the critics and enemy hunters | m administration. It has become virtua impossible to obtain official comment on any subject, even though it be non-political. If the censor passes an unofficial report, that is considered a sign of its accuracy Outside official circles there is less of tension ar nervousness. The tourist, who finds army officers danc- the crowded ole or having their hands man- n the hotel's institute of i1s unlikely to detect worry in s complain they are closely watched, but the surveillance is not obvious, except when they must show their credentials to the guards of the N. K. V. D,, formerly the Gaypayoo, at office door Even the line of itors to Lenin's tomb is Red Square is closely watched Customers Crowd Stores. The department stores are crowded with ing customers, the street cars are packed to the steps sengers who find them preferable or more convenient than the new sub- way, and people go about their busi- ness In the street with seeming uncon- cern Yet I saw an old woman twice make the sign of the cross immediately after passing an N. K. V. D. guard who was on duty outside a foreign legation, which might or might not have been jostl It to obtain the reaction of the Russian in the street to the purge and the streets are full of Rus- sians. Contacts between them and foreigners, long rare under the Soviet regime, now have been almost com- | pletely severed The foreigner is told that no Rus- sian dentist will treat him, so that even diplomats must go to Helsingfors for tooth pullings. Foreigners who were studying the Russian language say their teachers stopped coming to the lessons several weeks ago. The dentists, teachers and others are hold- ing aloof from contact with anybody whose foreign nationality might bring the spy chasers to the door. The newspapers remain virtually the only source of learning what goes on behind the Russian's stolid face. They indicate the drive against “spies wreckers and enemies of the people” | has had profound effect. The purge now is reaching the #maller fry in the provinces. Hun- dreds of comparatively little men have been arrested Izvestia, the government newspaper, and Pravda, the Communist party | mouthpiece, uncover case after case of | Trotsky-Bukharin, Japanese-German | spies, wreckers, diversionists and trait- | ors.” Three words almost always ap- pear together—"'spies, wreckers, diver- sionists.” “Spies” appears to apply not only to | foreign snoopers, but to supposed | agents of Leon Trotsky, exiled ultra- Communist. Diversionists have been described as those who willfully try to undermine the regime by acts of destruction and sabotage. Wreckers include those who, through negligence, inefficiency or incompetency, hinder the output of factories and farms. | They seemingly are the most numer- ous. Low Efficiency in Newspapers. With reports of Soviet Russia’s fur- ther technical progress in industry and agriculture, the newspapers also reveal low efficiency and wasteful pro- | duction. Much of this is blamed by | the Soviet leaders on.enemies who are | shot, imprisoned or exiled, Unlike earlier purges of Soviet | enemies, such as that in 1928, which put many bourgeois holdovers from | the old Czarist regime in prison, the | new wreckers are described as “hold- | ers of Communist party cards who | were trusted by the Soviets and were working for enemies of the Soviet Union.” Some appear in the records as bu- reaucratic, defuddled, careless or inept officials who were overwhelmed by their jobs. Others are accused of misusing their authority to embezzle funds, shake down workers and peasants within their power or in- dulge in profligate living.- Many are revealed in the accusations as too timid, frightened or indifferent to as- &gume responsibility. The diversity of misdeeds charged #gainst industrial and farm execu- tives include such examples as ex- plosions, accidents and fires in mines, factories and collective farms, manu- facture of defective tires of synthetic rubber by an untested formula and the emptying of factory waste into a river, causing an epidemic among drinkers of the water. Boasting of achievements which fail to show on the balance sheets has been condemned by Stalin and other leaders. Free State Imports Pigs. Irish Free State, once noted for its| 922 N. Y. Ave. National 8610 great number of pigs, is now buying porkers in other countries and im- porting them. | TAKE 'FALSE TEETH |OFF YOUR MIND! Now, with only 5 seconds’ attention | {once a day. you can make the loosest | plates hold fast all day—even longer. | Simply squeeze the new discovery STAZE onto your plate. and insert. No further ‘bother—no mess—no spiliing. Eat_and talk with confidence. No em- | barrassment= of food getting ~under plates. Get STAZE idrulih' ON EALE AT ALL PEOPLES DRUG STORES today at your not from | e the higher | estaurant of the | h pas- | | Dr. O. E. Black, Robert L. Blac Rozelle 1000, S, TROOPS BEGINTEST “WAR” Greatest Military Exercise | Since '18 to Try New Plan | of Military Operation. By the Associated Press CAMP RIPLEY, Minn,, August 16— | seven thousand troops. flanked | rumbling tanks and armored cars, marched in review before the Gover- nors of four States yesterday as a | prelude to four days of sham battle. | In sweltering heat and rolling |clouds of dust the 34th THE EVENING & & Senator Black of Alabama, Supreme Court nominee, hadn’t Jamily group was made in 1892. Sir-year-old Hugo is shown fourt . William L. Black, Hugo Black, Mrs. Martha Black, Mrs. Daisy Mrs. Ora Garrett, Vernon Black and Pelham Black. | by | National | | Guard Division, one of two “armies” | poised for the Tth Corps Area ma- | neuvers tomorrow morning, | m its review since that held at Camp | Cody, N. Mex, in 1918 | civilian crowds, estimated by the | Army Intelligence Service at 50,000, stood beside a wall of automoblies along the mile long, half mile wide | field. At attention stood Governors of four States represented in the troops— | Leshie Jensen of South Dakota, Nelson | G. Kraschel of Iowa, William Langer | of North Dakota and Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota. As dusk settled on the 2,000 tents | clustered in the camp, the 34th Divi- sion began moving from its base to positions afleld where it will become the “green” army. At dawn it will engage the “blue” forces comprising the 7th Provisional Division under Brig. Gen. Campbell B. Hodges. To Test New Organization. A major purpose of the hypothetical | war, which will be fought over 112 | | square miles. is to test the highly motorized and “streamlined” 7th Divi- | | sion, numbering 2,500 men and en- |camped at a separate base 15 mlies | | southwest, near Swanville. | The battle plan is this The green army, hypothetically Michigan, Wisconsin and Iilinois, in- vades the territory of the blue army which includes Iowa, North Dakota, | South Dakota and Minnesota. | two meet at Ripley. | Brig. Gen. Campbell B. Hodges of | Fort Snelling, Minn., is commanding the “blues, miles southwest of the Camp Ripley “green” concentration. Maj. Gen. | Arthur Tinley of Council Bluffs, Iowa, commands the latter. The 7th Provisional Division is modeled on a new military plan. Three brigades within it function directly under Gen. Hodges, minus the cus- tomary brigadier generals. This is calculated to speed operations. “Mystery” Tanks. Also in the “blue” division are new potent military weapons such as the Army's pocket-sized “mystery” tanks, armored scout cars replete with radio and high-powered machine motorized heavy and light artillery, and & ‘“pool” plan of swift troop transport by truck. The 34th National Guard Division, composed of Guardsmen from the four-State area, is largely Infantry. It has the present command system of brigadiers general under Maj. Gen. Tinley. “‘Hostilities” between the two armed camps were presaged when the 34th Division dispatched a declaration of battle. What next develops depends on the 80 especially selected maneuver umpires who will direct the bloodless encounter, & point near Camp DIES AT RESIDENCE Mrs. Emma B. Levi Was Native of Fredericksburg, Va. { Mrs. Emma B. Levi, 89, widow of | William T. Levi, former contractor, died yesterday at Webster street. She had been ill about three weeks. Mrs. Levi was a native of Freder- icksburg, Va. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Gardner, of the Webster street address; two grand- children and two great-grandchildren. Her husband died 16 years ago. Funeral services will be held at 9 |am. Wednesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, following brief serv- ices at the residence. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. her home, 1407 Nuns Leave for China. OSSINING, N. Y., August 16 (#).— Fifteen sisters of Saint Dominic left the Catholic Foreign Mission at the Maryknoll Seminary last night for as- signments in China and other parts of the Orient. Some of the sisters will g0 to Shanghai, Manchukuo and U. S. Gypsum Texolite U. S. Gypsum Cementico For quick relief of itching and burning use Resinel. Also combats irritotion end aids healing. RESINOL MAKES YOU COMIORTABLE The | encamped at Swanville, 15 | guns, | |INDIANS GO ON WARPATH | massed | % American expeditionary forces. identified. | Here he is shown in 1917 as a captain in the Field Artillery, P given law a wught when this from the left. Left to right: The girl in the picture is un- —A. P. Photo. PARLEY ONSUGAR | BLOCKED N HOLS Backers of Bill Say Special Step May Be Needed to Get Action. . Representative Lanzetta, Democrat, | of New York today blocked a move to | send new sugar-control legislation to | a conference committee proposed to | compose Senate and House differences | on the measure. The New Yorker objected to such & move when Chairman Jones of the Agriculture Committee asked unani- | mous consent of the House to send the | measure to conference. | Lanzetta was one of the leaders in | the House fight against the legislation. | Voicing administration views, he de- | clared it was “unfair” to Hawaii and Puerto Rico in that it limited refined sugar imports from those islands Backers of the bill said it might be necessary to bring in a special reso- | lution from the Rules Comimttee on | | the conference request before the mat- | ter could be brought before the Hous for action The Senate amended the House bill to place domestic as well as Hawaiian | and Puerto Rican refiners on a quota | | basis. The quotas would “freeze” re- | finery production at present levels. Jones previously had said it was| hoped administration objections to the | measure in its present form could be ! | met in a conference of Senate and | House committeemen. ALBUQUERQUE (#).—Life was dull | on the reservation. It was high time, six fierce braves decided, to conduct | a raid on Albuguerque i They sneaked through the brush, let fly a volley or arrows. Mrs. Minnie Bloom reported at| police headquarters with a broken | automobile window, a lump on her | head and a complaint. | Bluecoats surrounded the brush, closed in and captured the raiders— | all rather scared, as befits 8-year-old | boys in the hands of the law. | i | | SUITS Closed all day Saturday in August | Retired Agriculture Department \WHITE SLAV.E SUSPECT TROPICAL WORSTED PR FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR L. M. ESTABROOK | Expert Is Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Leon M. Esta- brook, 68, retired Agriculture Depart- ment expert, who died Saturday at his | home, Sunny Hill Farm, PFrederick, | Md., were held today in Rock Creek | Church, followed by burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Estabrook had held many im- portant positions with the depart- ment. His last work there Was as conservation specialist with the Agri- cultural Adjustment Administration | until October, 1934. During his long career he had been director of the World Agricultural Census, Interna- | tional Institute of Agriculture in Rome, where in 1920 he was delegate to the General Assembly of the in- stitute. He served as secretary-general of the Inter-American Conference on Agriculture, Forestry and Animal In- | dustry here in 1930. HELD IN $5,000 BOND Edward L. Bringley, 34, was ordered held under $5,000 bond pending extra- | dition proceedings when arraigned be- | fore Judge John P. McMahon in Police | Court today on a fugitive warrant from Baltimore, where he faces a | charge of pandering. Bringley was ar- | rested in a hotel here yesterday. He | demanded 30 days in which to con- test extradition and Judge McMahon continued the case until September 16. Already under $10.000 bond under a | Federal indictment charging conspir- | acy to violate the Mann act as the re- sult of an investigation by G-men of | vice conditions in Baltimore a few months ago, Bringley was charged with pandering in a presentment re- | turned last week by a Baltimore grand Jur Grace Gray DeLong Life Reader Adviser Consultations; $1 Hou, 1AM te 9 P.M. Telephone: MEt. 5234 PSYCHIC_MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. 14th and Eye Sts. $20 $25 $30 $35 1 ’ I Radio foe STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘- D. C., An Alabama Farm Lad Makes Good {and Senate CE MINGRITESSEE TIRDERFORWAR Reich Minister of Interior Calls for Respect of Rights Abroad. Br Radio to The Btar. BERLIN, Germany, August 16.— “The unsolved problem of national minorities provides dangerous tinder for international complications, es- pecially in Eastern Europe,” Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior, de- clared in a week end speech at the ceremonies in Stuttgart celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of “The German Foreign Institute.” It is the German minorities which Dr. Frick had in mind. The minister called upon foreign governments to respect the right of ‘“national mi- rorities”—he said nothing of racial minorities—in their territories; he promised German minorities abroad the sympathy and help of the Father- land, and he appealed to them to put aside the different things which still divide them, “here and there,’ and to unite in one with the Reich. Task for Those Abroad. German minorities abroad have the task, among others, of building connections between the Fatherland and other countries, Frick said. The minister said that there are 30,000,000 Germans living abroad, which means he includes 1,000,000 persons who are citizens of foreign countries, & matter of especial im- portance with reference to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Lithua- nia—and the United States. These “Germans” play an important part in Nazi foreign policy. In tactics, they are expected to make foreign governments think twice before be- coming involved in serious trouble with the Reich. In strategy, they constitute one of the principal bases for the Nazi much more territory Some of these “Germans” have been separated from the Fatherland as the result of the World War. Some left Germany on their own accord both before and since the war because they wanted to live elsewhere A minority fled from the Reich as the MONDAY, AUGUST 16, the feeling that they are | up | claims that Germany ! must have, and is entitled to have, | 1937. result of various upheavals during the past 100 years. Owe Loyailty to Fatherland. ‘To the Nazis, however, they are all “Germans” owing loyalty to the Fatherland as well—as the Nazis are careful to point out—as to their coun- tries of residence. And the fight to keep them German and retfin their loyalty to the Fatherland—even to de- fend their very existence—is certainly &t least as serious a problem in the world today as Dr. Frick said it was. It is a problem which is growing more serious rather than less partly because these “Germans” in some countries are being subjected to the most relentless pressure and discrimi- nation, partly because the Nazis have inspired them with new and more aggressive German patriotism, (Copyright, 1937.) P. S. C. WILL APPROVE GAS COMPANY’S PLEA Additional Pipes to Be Laid to Berve 400 Homes in Boule- vard Heights. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 16.—The Public Service Commission announced | today it would approve an application | | of the Washington Gas Light Co. of | Montgomery County for permission | to lay additional gas piping in Boule- vard Heights. The additional facilities will | will serve 400 homes. | be layed from existing mains in Crys- | tal Spring avenue in Greater Capital | Heights to the Marlboro pike, thence | to Southern avenue at the boundary | | line between the District of Columbia | and Prince Georges County. SMALLEST PARCEL | Plot Two Feet Square Is New i York's Tiniest. | NEW YORK (#)—The smallest parcel of real estate in this city, a | triangle only 2 feet on each side, | bears this inscription: “Property of | the Hess estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes.” | The triangle containing the in- | | seription is part of the sidewalk on a Greenwich Village corner. It fis necessary to “trespass” on it in order to enter the busy cigar store that stands there. The store tenant payvs | the Hess estate for the use of the triangle, and the estate pays the city a tax on the parcel of land. District Fund __tCoaninued From First Page “A for office purposes in the District of Columbia most careful planning and consideration should be given to their location, s0 as to avoid congestion in an area of the city already crowded with Federal structures and present- ing & continually increasing traffic | and parking problem.” Bureau of Engraving. The sum of $2325000 was recom- mended for completion of the addi- tional building for the Bureau of En- graving and Printing, now under con- tract with a limited cost of $6,325,000 Appropriation of $1,500,000 and authorization for an increase in the limit of cost by $1,615,000 were recom- mended for the Government Printing Office Annex, now nearing completion This would bring the total estimated cost of the building up to $7,500.000. For acquisition of the building, long occupied by the Government, at 1724 F street, an appropriation of $200,000 was recommended. Both the House previously had passed bills. but at different times, for pur- chasing this building. It was shown by the procurement division that by spending $50.000 for alterations, the investment on that building could be amortized in 11 years under an in- terest rate of 3!, per cent. Other Appropriations. For other Federal projects in Wash- ington, the following appropriations were recommended: $100,000 for re- 000 for settling claims in the Ana- costia-Potomac River dispute and "WE NEED USED CARS IN TRADE ON NEW b ] ~ D. J KAUFMAN, Inc. 1005 Pa. Ave. 1744 Pa. Ave. Tomorrow Only! At All 3 Stores Values____%](Q Values____$|250 Values____$|50 Values____$]750 3 AIR-COOLED STORES Free Parling L 410,000 for ‘eo-operative voetionsi [rehabllivalmn in the District. For general upkeep items in the District, a total of $68.244.27 was rec- ommended ‘This included for the Office of Weights, Measures and Mar- kets, $13.000; for repairing a bridge | on the grounds of the District Train- | ing School, near Laurel, $4500; mis- | cellaneous expenses of the District Supreme Court, $2,706.69; repairs at the Industrial Home School, $2,000; for support of indigent insane of the | District in St. Elizabeth's Hospital $39.000: assistance against old-age want, $75,000, to be transferred from GROUP SEEKS TO SAVE SHAFT TO RACE HORSE Veteran Horsemen Appeal ‘West Hartford, Conn., Officials. By the Associated Press. WEST HARTFORD, Conn., August “18.—Veteran horsemen appealed today to town cfficials to save a cement mon- ument to & famous race horse on the | old, historic Charter Oak Park racing | grounds here. The park was sold re- cently. The monument, erected befire.the | turn of the century, is to “Thomas | Jefferson, the greatest race horse of | his day,” which lived from 1863 to 1891 and which his trainer, Richard Wilson, said was the first horse in! the country to win a $10,000 purse, adding: “Thomas Jefferson walked away with the blue ribbon at the Philadel- | phia Centennial. He was owned by | James E. Smith.” | The monument is about 3 feet, high. | On it is engraved a brief history of the horse's career. to | PLAN IMPROVEMENTS The Maritime Commission an nounced today an effort to impro: crews’ quarters on merchant ships. A a first step, all of the 155 vessels re ceiving Federal operating subsidie will be inspected to ascertain wha improvements are necessary Later, the changes will be provide for in the subsidy contracts. HMEATIN CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS E.J. FEBREY & CO. | Fat. 1808 . IS YOUR FURNACE READY? Cool days will soon be hers Make sure NOW your furnace is right. Work guaranteed CALL NATIONAL 8680 Now Air Conditioned! CHECKERBOARD ROOM years of service as a club car porter on the Twentieth Century Limited, Matthew A. Pierson said he noted a | big be | habits of | constructed at a cost of $48,005 and | his early days of portering, Pierson | said, probably 90 per cent of the pas- The new conductors and pipes will | sengers whereas only dulge at the present time. COCKTAILS | Reasonably Priced ’ DINING ROOM Lafayette Hotel 16th & Eye Sts. N.W. . Less Drinking by Travelers. CHICAGO (#)—Rounding out 35 improvement the in the drinking traveling public. In used alcoholic about beverages, 10 per cent in- \ Important Notice ® Beginning today, our "F strect store closes for No expense is being spared to moke the new store one obout three weeks for extensive alterations. of the finest of Washington's retail shops. Seating capacity is being elmost doubled and every modern idea for customer comfort is being introduced. We regret the inconvenience this temporary closing will cause our patrons but assure you that you will be equally well served ot our only other Washington store, the address of which is listed below, another appropriation; for the pay- ment of final judgments against the District, two items, one $4.08882 and the second for $1.990.64, and other small sums for settlements of claims approved by the Commissioners, audited claims, refund of assessments. All of these District appropriation items are to be paid out of District funds in accordance with the provis- ions of the regular annual District ap- priation bill. Croshy Shoes 414 7th STREET N.W. AFTER-INVENTORY CLOSE OUTS! JODD LOTS pairs in the Treasury Building; $15- | | Seiling AUl Accumulated Odd Lots from entory . .. on sale only while quantities last! (5) $25 NATIONALLY KNOWN ACETATESUITS ____ Regular 139, 1 40; Short 1.37; Stout 1 /40; Long 1 '40. 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